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Waleed Al-Herz

Waleed Al-Herz

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
54
Citations
17690
World Ranking
3838
National Ranking
1

Waleed Al-Herz publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Waleed Al-Herz sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 159 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Waleed Al-Herz D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Waleed Al-Herz is affiliated with Kuwait University in Kuwait and has a significant research presence in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Immunology, Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology.

Their research focuses primarily on immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders, alongside contributions to blood disorders and treatments. Additional topics covered by their work include immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, parvovirus B19 infection studies, cystic fibrosis research advances, and tumors and oncological cases.

Waleed Al-Herz has collaborated frequently with notable coauthors including Raif S. Geha, Kathleen E. Sullivan, Mehdi Adeli, Salem Al-Tamemi, and Ghassan Dbaibo. These frequent collaborations have contributed to a diverse publication portfolio.

Publications by Waleed Al-Herz have appeared in a variety of scientific journals, prominently including:

  • Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • World Allergy Organization Journal
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Clinical Immunology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Waleed Al-Herz include:

  • Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2019 Update on the Classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee, 2020, Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2022 Update on the Classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee, 2022, Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2019 Update of the IUIS Phenotypical Classification, 2020, Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • The 2022 Update of IUIS Phenotypical Classification for Human Inborn Errors of Immunity, 2022, Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • The Ever-Increasing Array of Novel Inborn Errors of Immunity: an Interim Update by the IUIS Committee, 2021, Journal of Clinical Immunology

Best Publications

  • Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2019 Update on the Classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee

    Stuart G. Tangye;Waleed Al-Herz;Aziz Bousfiha;Talal Chatila

  • International Union of Immunological Societies: 2017 Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases Committee Report on Inborn Errors of Immunity

    Capucine Picard;H. Bobby Gaspar;Waleed Al-Herz;Aziz Bousfiha

  • Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: an Update on the Classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee for Primary Immunodeficiency 2015

    Capucine Picard;Waleed Al-Herz;Aziz Bousfiha;Jean Laurent Casanova

  • Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: An Update on the Classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee for Primary Immunodeficiency

    Waleed Al-Herz;Aziz Bousfiha;Jean-Laurent Casanova;Jean-Laurent Casanova;Helen Chapel

  • Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2019 Update of the IUIS Phenotypical Classification.

    Aziz Bousfiha;Leila Jeddane;Capucine Picard;Waleed Al-Herz

  • Gene Therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome—Long-Term Efficacy and Genotoxicity

    Christian Jörg Braun;Kaan Boztug;Anna Paruzynski;Maximilian Witzel

  • The 2017 IUIS Phenotypic Classification for Primary Immunodeficiencies.

    Aziz Bousfiha;Leïla Jeddane;Capucine Picard;Fatima Ailal

  • Loss of interleukin-10 signaling and infantile inflammatory bowel disease: implications for diagnosis and therapy.

    Daniel Kotlarz;Daniel Kotlarz;Rita Beier;Dhaarini Murugan;Dhaarini Murugan;Jana Diestelhorst;Jana Diestelhorst

  • DOCK8 Deficiency: Clinical and Immunological Phenotype and Treatment Options - a Review of 136 Patients

    Susanne E. Aydin;Sara Sebnem Kilic;Caner Aytekin;Ashish Kumar

  • The 2015 IUIS Phenotypic Classification for Primary Immunodeficiencies

    Aziz Bousfiha;Leïla Jeddane;Waleed Al-Herz;Fatima Ailal

  • BCG vaccination in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency: Complications, risks, and vaccination policies

    Beatriz E. Marciano;Chiung Yu Huang;Gyan Joshi;Nima Rezaei

  • Human HOIP and LUBAC deficiency underlies autoinflammation, immunodeficiency, amylopectinosis, and lymphangiectasia

    Bertrand Boisson;Emmanuel Laplantine;Kerry Dobbs;Aurélie Cobat

  • A missense mutation in TFRC, encoding transferrin receptor 1, causes combined immunodeficiency

    Haifa H. Jabara;Haifa H. Jabara;Steven E. Boyden;Steven E. Boyden;Janet Chou;Janet Chou;Narayanaswamy Ramesh;Narayanaswamy Ramesh

  • DOCK8 functions as an adaptor that links TLR-MyD88 signaling to B cell activation

    Haifa H. Jabara;Douglas R. McDonald;Erin Janssen;Michel J. Massaad

  • The extended clinical phenotype of 64 patients with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency.

    Karin R. Engelhardt;Karin R. Engelhardt;Karin R. Engelhardt;Michael E. Gertz;Sevgi Keles;Sevgi Keles;Alejandro A. Schäffer

  • Broad-spectrum antibodies against self-antigens and cytokines in RAG deficiency

    Jolan E. Walter;Lindsey B. Rosen;Krisztian Csomos;Jacob M. Rosenberg

  • The Ever-Increasing Array of Novel Inborn Errors of Immunity: an Interim Update by the IUIS Committee.

    Stuart G Tangye;Stuart G Tangye;Waleed Al-Herz;Aziz Bousfiha;Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles

  • Genetic and mechanistic diversity in pediatric hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

    Ivan K. Chinn;Ivan K. Chinn;Olive S. Eckstein;Olive S. Eckstein;Erin C. Peckham-Gregory;Erin C. Peckham-Gregory;Baruch R. Goldberg;Baruch R. Goldberg

  • Inherited DOCK2 Deficiency in Patients with Early-Onset Invasive Infections

    Kerry Dobbs;Cecilia Domínguez Conde;Shen-Ying Zhang;Silvia Parolini

  • The syndrome of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in primary immunodeficiencies: implications for differential diagnosis and pathogenesis

    Sebastian Fn Bode;Sandra Ammann;Waleed Al-Herz;Mihaela Bataneant

  • Human HOIP and LUBAC de!ciency underlies autoin"ammation, immunode!ciency, amylopectinosis, and lymphangiectasia

    Bertrand Boisson;Emmanuel Laplantine;Kerry Dobbs;Aurélie Cobat

Frequent Co-Authors

Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Andrew R. Gennery
Andrew R. Gennery Newcastle University
Talal A. Chatila
Talal A. Chatila Boston Children's Hospital
Sung-Yun Pai
Sung-Yun Pai National Institutes of Health
Sevgi Keles
Sevgi Keles Necmettin Erbakan University
Janet Chou
Janet Chou Boston Children's Hospital
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health
Jolan E. Walter
Jolan E. Walter University of South Florida
Jennifer M. Puck
Jennifer M. Puck University of California, San Francisco
Bodo Grimbacher
Bodo Grimbacher University of Freiburg

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