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Immunology

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103
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Weiping Zou 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 Weiping Zou sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 282 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Weiping Zou 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 Weiping Zou sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Weiping Zou is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans several intersecting fields, including Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The subfields notably include Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Cancer Research.

Their scientific contributions cover key topics such as:

  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis

Weiping Zou has published extensively in a range of journals with a focus on cancer and immunology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Digestive Diseases
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Cancer Cell
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Discovery

Among recent papers are:

  • "Liver metastasis restrains immunotherapy efficacy via macrophage-mediated T cell elimination," 2021, Nature Medicine
  • "CD8+ T cells and fatty acids orchestrate tumor ferroptosis and immunity via ACSL4," 2022, Cancer Cell
  • "Cancer SLC43A2 alters T cell methionine metabolism and histone methylation," 2020, Nature
  • "Multimodal mapping of the tumor and peripheral blood immune landscape in human pancreatic cancer," 2020, Nature Cancer
  • "Autophagy in tumour immunity and therapy," 2021, Nature Reviews Cancer

Frequent collaborators with Weiping Zou include:

  • Ilona Kryczek
  • Shuang Wei
  • Jiali Yu
  • Linda Vatan
  • Arul M. Chinnaiyan

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, Weiping Zou was awarded the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

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

  • Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survival.

    Tyler J Curiel;George Coukos;Linhua Zou;Xavier Alvarez

  • Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy.

    Mikhail Binnewies;Edward W. Roberts;Kelly Kersten;Vincent Chan

  • Regulatory T cells, tumour immunity and immunotherapy

    Weiping Zou

  • CD8+ T cells regulate tumour ferroptosis during cancer immunotherapy

    Weimin Wang;Michael Green;Jae Eun Choi;Miguel Gijón

  • Immunosuppressive networks in the tumour environment and their therapeutic relevance

    Weiping Zou

  • PD-L1 (B7-H1) and PD-1 pathway blockade for cancer therapy: Mechanisms, response biomarkers, and combinations

    Weiping Zou;Jedd D. Wolchok;Lieping Chen

  • Chemokines in the cancer microenvironment and their relevance in cancer immunotherapy

    Nisha Nagarsheth;Max S. Wicha;Weiping Zou

  • Fusobacterium nucleatum Promotes Chemoresistance to Colorectal Cancer by Modulating Autophagy.

    Ta Chung Yu;Fangfang Guo;Yanan Yu;Tiantian Sun

  • Inhibitory B7-family molecules in the tumour microenvironment

    Weiping Zou;Lieping Chen

  • Blockade of B7-H1 improves myeloid dendritic cell-mediated antitumor immunity.

    Tyler J Curiel;Shuang Wei;Haidong Dong;Xavier Alvarez

  • Epigenetic silencing of TH1-type chemokines shapes tumour immunity and immunotherapy.

    Dongjun Peng;Ilona Kryczek;Nisha Nagarsheth;Lili Zhao

  • Phenotype, distribution, generation, and functional and clinical relevance of Th17 cells in the human tumor environments

    Ilona Kryczek;Mousumi Banerjee;Pui Cheng;Linhua Vatan

  • Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy Promote Tumoral Lipid Oxidation and Ferroptosis via Synergistic Repression of SLC7A11

    Xueting Lang;Michael D. Green;Weimin Wang;Jiali Yu

  • CD8+ T cells and fatty acids orchestrate tumor ferroptosis and immunity via ACSL4.

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  • B7-H4 expression identifies a novel suppressive macrophage population in human ovarian carcinoma

    Ilona Kryczek;Ilona Kryczek;Linhua Zou;Linhua Zou;Paulo Rodriguez;Gefeng Zhu

  • Liver metastasis restrains immunotherapy efficacy via macrophage-mediated T cell elimination.

    Jiali Yu;Michael D. Green;Michael D. Green;Shasha Li;Yilun Sun

  • Cancer nanomedicine for combination cancer immunotherapy

    Jutaek Nam;Sejin Son;Kyung Soo Park;Weiping Zou

  • Stromal-derived factor-1 in human tumors recruits and alters the function of plasmacytoid precursor dendritic cells.

    Weiping Zou;Weiping Zou;Véronique Machelon;Aurore Coulomb-L'Hermin;Jozef Borvak

  • TH17 cells in tumour immunity and immunotherapy

    Weiping Zou;Nicholas P. Restifo

  • T cell anergy, exhaustion, senescence, and stemness in the tumor microenvironment.

    Joel Crespo;Haoyu Sun;Theodore H Welling;Zhigang Tian

  • Role of interleukin 10 in the B lymphocyte hyperactivity and autoantibody production of human systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Luis Llorente;Weiping Zou;Yves Levy;Yvonne Richaud-Patin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilona Kryczek
Ilona Kryczek University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tyler J. Curiel
Tyler J. Curiel The University of Texas at San Antonio
Jing-Yuan Fang
Jing-Yuan Fang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen Yale University
Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Arul M. Chinnaiyan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
George Coukos
George Coukos Cornell University
Theodore S. Lawrence
Theodore S. Lawrence University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marina Pasca di Magliano
Marina Pasca di Magliano University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Y. Kao
John Y. Kao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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