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Microbiology

D-Index
123
Citations
87115
World Ranking
117
National Ranking
58

Vojo Deretic publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vojo Deretic sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 318 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Vojo Deretic D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vojo Deretic sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 123 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Vojo Deretic is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Epidemiology, Physiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Immunology.

Deretic's work focuses on several main topics including:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways

The scientist has published extensively, with articles appearing frequently in venues such as:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Autophagy
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Autophagy in major human diseases," 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • "Autophagy in inflammation, infection, and immunometabolism," 2021, Immunity
  • "AMPK, a Regulator of Metabolism and Autophagy, Is Activated by Lysosomal Damage via a Novel Galectin-Directed Ubiquitin Signal Transduction System," 2020, Molecular Cell
  • "Mammalian hybrid pre-autophagosomal structure HyPAS generates autophagosomes," 2021, Cell
  • "Mammalian Atg8 proteins and the autophagy factor IRGM control mTOR and TFEB at a regulatory node critical for responses to pathogens," 2020, Nature Cell Biology

Deretic has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Michal Mudd, Lee Allers, Ruheena Javed, Jingyue Jia, and Michelle Salemi. These collaborations reflect ongoing research partnerships contributing to the breadth of studies in autophagy, immune regulation, and cellular responses to disease.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Autophagy is a defense mechanism inhibiting BCG and Mycobacterium tuberculosis survival in infected macrophages.

    Maximiliano G. Gutierrez;Sharon S. Master;Sudha B. Singh;Gregory A. Taylor

  • Microbial pathogenesis in cystic fibrosis: mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia.

    J. R.W. Govan;V. Deretic

  • Autophagy in infection, inflammation and immunity

    Vojo Deretic;Tatsuya Saitoh;Shizuo Akira

  • Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Eric H. Baehrecke;Andrea Ballabio;Patricia Boya

  • Autophagy in major human diseases

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Giulia Petroni;Ravi K. Amaravadi;Eric H. Baehrecke

  • Unveiling the roles of autophagy in innate and adaptive immunity

    Beth Levine;Vojo Deretic

  • Human IRGM induces autophagy to eliminate intracellular mycobacteria.

    Sudha B. Singh;Alexander S. Davis;Gregory A. Taylor;Gregory A. Taylor;Vojo Deretic

  • Autophagy-based unconventional secretory pathway for extracellular delivery of IL-1β

    Nicolas Dupont;Shanya Jiang;Manohar Pilli;Wojciech Ornatowski

  • Autophagy, Immunity, and Microbial Adaptations

    Vojo Deretic;Beth Levine

  • Lysosomal positioning coordinates cellular nutrient responses

    Viktor I. Korolchuk;Shinji Saiki;Maike Lichtenberg;Farah H. Siddiqi

  • Beclin1-binding UVRAG targets the class C Vps complex to coordinate autophagosome maturation and endocytic trafficking

    Chengyu Liang;Chengyu Liang;Jong-soo Lee;Jong-soo Lee;Kyung-Soo Inn;Kyung-Soo Inn;Michaela U. Gack;Michaela U. Gack

  • Toll-like receptors control autophagy

    Mónica A Delgado;Rasha A Elmaoued;Alexander S Davis;George Kyei

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Autophagy in inflammation, infection, and immunometabolism.

    Vojo Deretic

  • Arrest of mycobacterial phagosome maturation is caused by a block in vesicle fusion between stages controlled by rab5 and rab7

    Laura E. Via;Dusanka Deretic;Roseann J. Ulmer;Nina S. Hibler

  • Role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Rab5 effectors in phagosomal biogenesis and mycobacterial phagosome maturation arrest

    Rutilio A. Fratti;Jonathan M. Backer;Jean Gruenberg;Silvia Corvera

  • Mechanism of phagolysosome biogenesis block by viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Isabelle Vergne;Jennifer Chua;Hwang-Ho Lee;Megan Lucas

Frequent Co-Authors

Terje Johansen
Terje Johansen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Michael J. Schurr
Michael J. Schurr University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen University of Turku
James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University
Daniel J. Klionsky
Daniel J. Klionsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David C. Rubinsztein
David C. Rubinsztein University of Cambridge
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Sharon A. Tooze
Sharon A. Tooze The Francis Crick Institute
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité

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