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D-Index
59
Citations
10172
World Ranking
3325
National Ranking
20

William W. Hall 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 William W. Hall sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 279 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William W. Hall 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 William W. Hall sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William W. Hall is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of medicine, with a considerable emphasis on infectious diseases.

The scientist's work addresses multiple subfields within medicine, including:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Virology
  • Animal Science and Zoology

Key research topics covered by William W. Hall include:

  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Their significant recent publications include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations at the S1/S2 cleavage site are generated in vitro during propagation in TMPRSS2-deficient cells," 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Host-directed editing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome," 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • "S-217622, a SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor, decreases viral load and ameliorates COVID-19 severity in hamsters," 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • "TMPRSS11D and TMPRSS13 Activate the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein," 2021, Viruses
  • "A genetic barcode of SARS-CoV-2 for monitoring global distribution of different clades during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, International Journal of Infectious Diseases

William W. Hall has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Yasuko Orba
  • Michihito Sasaki
  • Hirofumi Sawa
  • Koshiro Tabata
  • Akihiko Sato

They have published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Venues with multiple publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Viruses
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Thymus-derived leukemia-lymphoma in mice transgenic for the Tax gene of human T-lymphotropic virus type I

    Hideki Hasegawa;Hirofumi Sawa;Martha J Lewis;Martha J Lewis;Yasuko Orba

  • Proposal for diagnostic criteria of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM)

    Carlos M. De Castro-Costa;Abelardo Q. C. Araújo;Márcio M. Barreto;Osvaldo M. Takayanagui

  • CD4 T Helper Type 1 and Regulatory T Cells Induced against the Same Epitopes on the Core Protein in Hepatitis C Virus- Infected Persons

    Angus J. MacDonald;Margaret Duffy;Miriam T. Brady;Susan McKiernan

  • Deleted HTLV-I provirus in blood and cutaneous lesions of patients with mycosis fungoides.

    William W. Hall;Chunren R. Liu;Olaf Schneewind;Hidehiro Takahashi

  • Human T-lymphotropic virus type II and neurological disease.

    Abelardo Araujo;William W. Hall

  • Dating the common ancestor of SIVcpz and HIV-1 group M and the origin of HIV-1 subtypes by using a new method to uncover clock-like molecular evolution

    Marco Salemi;Korbinian Strimmer;William W. Hall;Margaret Duffy

  • Updated European recommendations for the clinical use of HIV drug resistance testing

    A. M. Vandamme;A. Sönnerborg;M. Ait-Khaled;J. Albert

  • The Human Polyoma JC Virus Agnoprotein Acts as a Viroporin

    Tadaki Suzuki;Yasuko Orba;Yuki Okada;Yuji Sunden

  • Identification of human T cell lymphotropic virus type IIa infection in the Kayapo, an indigenous population of Brazil.

    Ricardo Ishak;William J. Harrington;Vania N. Azevedo;Nobutaka Eiraku

  • Measles-virus proteins in the brain tissue of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: absence of the M protein.

    William W. Hall;Purnell W. Choppin

  • Deregulation of cell-signaling pathways in HTLV-1 infection

    William W Hall;Masahiro Fujii

  • Reducing the global burden of HTLV-1 infection: An agenda for research and action.

    Luc Willems;Hideki Hasegawa;Roberto Accolla;Charles Bangham

  • Identification of type-specific linear epitopes in the glycoproteins gp46 and gp21 of human T-cell leukemia viruses type I and type II using synthetic peptides.

    Peter Horal;William W. Hall;B. O. Svennerholm;Jan Lycke

  • A Strategy for Rapid, High-Confidence Protein Identification

    Jun Qin;David Fenyö;Yingming Zhao;William W. Hall

  • The polypeptides of canine distemper virus: Synthesis in infected cells and relatedness to the polypeptides of other morbilliviruses

    William W. Hall;Robert A. Lamb;Purnell W. Choppin

  • In vitro nuclear interactome of the HIV-1 Tat protein.

    Virginie W. Gautier;Lili Gu;Niaobh O'Donoghue;Stephen R. Pennington

  • Metabolomic profile of hepatitis C virus-infected hepatocytes.

    Barbara Roe;Elizabeth Kensicki;Robert Mohney;William W. Hall

  • Development of a real-time RT-PCR for the detection of swine-lineage influenza A (H1N1) virus infections.

    Michael J. Carr;Rory Gunson;Alasdair Maclean;Suzie Coughlan

  • Human T cell leukemia/lymphoma virus, type II (HTLV-II) : emergence of an important newly recognized pathogen

    William W. Hall;Takayuki Kubo;Shinji Ijichi;Hidehiro Takahashi

  • Endemic Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type II Infection in Southwestern US Indians Involves Two Prototype Variants of Virus

    Brian Hjelle;Shi Wei Zhu;Hidehiro Takahashi;Shinji Ijichi

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirofumi Sawa
Hirofumi Sawa Hokkaido University
Hideki Hasegawa
Hideki Hasegawa National Institutes of Health
Yasuko Orba
Yasuko Orba Hokkaido University
Kazuo Nagashima
Kazuo Nagashima Hokkaido University
Tetsutaro Sata
Tetsutaro Sata National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Takeshi Kurata
Takeshi Kurata Juntendo University
Ali Bazarbachi
Ali Bazarbachi American University of Beirut
Marco Salemi
Marco Salemi University of Florida
Olivier Hermine
Olivier Hermine Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital

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