2026 Stephen C. Jameson: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	92	992	902	541	483	250	39622

Overview

Stephen C. Jameson is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and specializes in the field of Immunology and Microbiology. Their research contributions primarily focus on Immunology, with additional work in Molecular Biology, Physiology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics covered by their work include:

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
CAR-T cell therapy research
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Immune cells in cancer

Jameson has frequently published in several respected scientific venues. These include:

The Journal of Immunology (25 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
Immunity (6 publications)
Nature Immunology (4 publications)
Immunology (4 publications)

Selected recent papers illustrate their research scope and include the following:

Senolytics reduce coronavirus-related mortality in old mice, 2021, Science
VISTA is a checkpoint regulator for naïve T cell quiescence and peripheral tolerance, 2020, Science
T Cell Memory: Understanding COVID-19, 2020, Immunity
ZipSeq: barcoding for real-time mapping of single cell transcriptomes, 2020, Nature Methods
Sensing of ATP via the Purinergic Receptor P2RX7 Promotes CD8+ Trm Cell Generation by Enhancing Their Sensitivity to the Cytokine TGF-β, 2020, Immunity

Frequent collaborators in research projects include:

Changwei Peng
Henrique Borges da Silva
Kelsey M. Wanhainen
Katharine E. Block
Nicholas N. Jarjour

Best Publications

T Cell Receptor Antagonist Peptides Induce Positive Selection

Kristin A Hogquist;Stephen C Jameson;William R Heath;Jane L Howard

4581
Citations
Positive and Negative Selection of T Cells

Timothy K. Starr;Stephen C. Jameson;Kristin A. Hogquist

2223
Citations
Interleukin-7 mediates the homeostasis of naïve and memory CD8 T cells in vivo.

Kimberly S. Schluns;William C Kieper;Stephen C. Jameson;Leo Lefrançois

2068
Citations
Naive CD4(+) T cell frequency varies for different epitopes and predicts repertoire diversity and response magnitude.

James J. Moon;H. Hamlet Chu;Marion Pepper;Stephen J. McSorley

1150
Citations
Normalizing the environment recapitulates adult human immune traits in laboratory mice

Lalit K. Beura;Sara E. Hamilton;Kevin Bi;Jason M. Schenkel

1101
Citations
Central tolerance: learning self-control in the thymus

Kristin A. Hogquist;Troy A. Baldwin;Stephen C. Jameson

927
Citations
Transcriptional downregulation of S1pr1 is required for the establishment of resident memory CD8+ T cells

Cara N. Skon;June Yong Lee;Kristin G. Anderson;David Masopust

854
Citations
T-cell-receptor affinity and thymocyte positive selection

S. M. Alam;P. J. Travers;J. L. Wung;W. Nasholds

829
Citations
Maintaining the norm: T-cell homeostasis.

Stephen C. Jameson

814
Citations
Positive selection of thymocytes.

Stephen C. Jameson;Kristin A. Hogquist;Michael J. Bevan

808
Citations
Selective development of CD4 + T cells in transgenic mice expressing a class II MHC-restricted antigen receptor

Jonathan Kaye;Mei Ling Hsu;Marie Elizabeth Sauron;Stephen C. Jameson

797
Citations
Kruppel-like factor 2 regulates thymocyte and T-cell migration

Corey M. Carlson;Bart T. Endrizzi;Jinghai Wu;Xiaojie Ding

686
Citations
Steady-state production of IL-4 modulates immunity in mouse strains and is determined by lineage diversity of iNKT cells

You Jeong Lee;Keli L Holzapfel;Jinfang Zhu;Stephen C Jameson

633
Citations
Understanding Subset Diversity in T Cell Memory

Stephen C. Jameson;David Masopust

590
Citations
T-cell selection

Stephen C Jameson;Michael J Bevan

539
Citations
Diversity in T Cell Memory: An Embarrassment of Riches

Stephen C. Jameson;David Masopust

478
Citations
Naive T cell homeostasis: From awareness of space to a sense of place

Kensuke Takada;Stephen C. Jameson

470
Citations
The antigen-specific CD8+ T cell repertoire in unimmunized mice includes memory phenotype cells bearing markers of homeostatic expansion.

Catherine Haluszczak;Adovi D. Akue;Sara E. Hamilton;Lisa D.S. Johnson

450
Citations
Homeostatic expansion and phenotypic conversion of naïve T cells in response to self peptide/MHC ligands.

William C. Kieper;Stephen C. Jameson

442
Citations
Critical role for CD8 in T cell receptor binding and activation by peptide/major histocompatibility complex multimers.

Mark A. Daniels;Stephen C. Jameson

404
Citations
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SELECTION OF TC ELLS

Timothy K. Starr;Stephen C. Jameson;Kristin A. Hogquist

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin A. Hogquist University of Minnesota

Michael J. Bevan University of Washington

David Masopust University of Minnesota

Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne National University of Singapore

Alexander Khoruts University of Minnesota

Stephen Naylor Mayo Clinic

Ross M. Kedl University of Colorado Boulder

Matthew F. Mescher University of Minnesota

Leo Lefrançois University of Connecticut Health Center

Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota

External Links

Personal website of Stephen C. Jameson

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