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Yasmine Belkaid 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 Yasmine Belkaid sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 320 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yasmine Belkaid 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 Yasmine Belkaid sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 118 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2019 - Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Yasmine Belkaid is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable activity also in subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics including immune cell function and interaction, gut microbiota and health, T-cell and B-cell immunology, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, immunotherapy and immune responses, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and dermatology and skin diseases.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Journal of Immunology with 24 publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13, Science with 10, Nature Immunology with 7, and Nature with 6.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Yasmine Belkaid are:

  • Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients, 2021, Science
  • Host variables confound gut microbiota studies of human disease, 2020, Nature
  • Gut-educated IgA plasma cells defend the meningeal venous sinuses, 2020, Nature
  • Control of Immunity by the Microbiota, 2021, Annual Review of Immunology
  • Infection trains the host for microbiota-enhanced resistance to pathogens, 2021, Cell

Yasmine Belkaid has collaborated extensively with various researchers over time. Frequent coauthors include Verena M. Link, Nicolas Bouladoux, Liang Chi, Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, and Apollo Stacy.

The scientist has received several awards and recognitions, including membership in prestigious organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences (2017), the National Academy of Medicine (2018), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020), and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020. Additionally, they were awarded the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation

    Yasmine Belkaid;Timothy W. Hand

  • A functionally specialized population of mucosal CD103+ DCs induces Foxp3+ regulatory T cells via a TGF-β– and retinoic acid–dependent mechanism

    Janine L. Coombes;Karima R.R. Siddiqui;Carolina V. Arancibia-Cárcamo;Jason Hall

  • The human skin microbiome

    Allyson L. Byrd;Yasmine Belkaid;Julia A. Segre

  • Commensal Bacteria Control Cancer Response to Therapy by Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment

    Noriho Iida;Amiran Dzutsev;C. Andrew Stewart;Loretta Smith

  • Small intestine lamina propria dendritic cells promote de novo generation of Foxp3 T reg cells via retinoic acid

    Cheng-Ming Sun;Jason A. Hall;Jason A. Hall;Rebecca B. Blank;Nicolas Bouladoux

  • CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells control Leishmania major persistence and immunity

    Yasmine Belkaid;Yasmine Belkaid;Ciriaco A. Piccirillo;Susana Mendez;Ethan M. Shevach

  • Generation of pathogenic T H 17 cells in the absence of TGF-β signalling

    Kamran Ghoreschi;Arian Laurence;Xiang-Ping Yang;Cristina M Tato

  • Expression of Helios, an Ikaros Transcription Factor Family Member, Differentiates Thymic-Derived from Peripherally Induced Foxp3+ T Regulatory Cells

    Angela M. Thornton;Patricia E. Korty;Dat Q. Tran;Elizabeth A. Wohlfert

  • Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti–PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients

    Diwakar Davar;Amiran K. Dzutsev;John A. McCulloch;Richard R. Rodrigues

  • Natural regulatory T cells in infectious disease

    Yasmine Belkaid;Yasmine Belkaid;Barry T Rouse

  • Homeostatic Immunity and the Microbiota

    Yasmine Belkaid;Oliver J. Harrison

  • Compartmentalized Control of Skin Immunity by Resident Commensals

    Shruti Naik;Nicolas Bouladoux;Christoph Wilhelm;Michael J. Molloy

  • The alarmin IL-33 promotes regulatory T-cell function in the intestine

    Chris Schiering;Thomas Krausgruber;Agnieszka Chomka;Anja Fröhlich

  • Regulatory T cells and infection: a dangerous necessity

    Yasmine Belkaid

  • Minimal Differentiation of Classical Monocytes as They Survey Steady-State Tissues and Transport Antigen to Lymph Nodes

    Claudia Jakubzick;Claudia Jakubzick;Emmanuel L. Gautier;Sophie L. Gibbings;Dorothy K. Sojka

  • Microbiota-dependent crosstalk between macrophages and ILC3 promotes intestinal homeostasis.

    Arthur Mortha;Aleksey Chudnovskiy;Daigo Hashimoto;Milena Bogunovic

  • Commensal–dendritic-cell interaction specifies a unique protective skin immune signature

    Shruti Naik;Nicolas Bouladoux;Jonathan L. Linehan;Seong-Ji Han

  • The Role of Interleukin (IL)-10 in the Persistence of Leishmania major in the Skin after Healing and the Therapeutic Potential of Anti–IL-10 Receptor Antibody for Sterile Cure

    Yasmine Belkaid;Karl F. Hoffmann;Susana Mendez;Shaden Kamhawi

  • Dialogue between skin microbiota and immunity

    Yasmine Belkaid;Julia A. Segre

  • Skin microbiota–host interactions

    Y. Erin Chen;Y. Erin Chen;Michael A. Fischbach;Yasmine Belkaid

  • Decrease of Foxp3+ Treg Cell Number and Acquisition of Effector Cell Phenotype during Lethal Infection

    Guillaume Oldenhove;Nicolas Bouladoux;Elizabeth Ea Wohlfert;Jason A. Hall;Jason A. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Sacks
David L. Sacks National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Geneviève Milon
Geneviève Milon Institut Pasteur
Jason M. Brenchley
Jason M. Brenchley National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Christopher L. Karp
Christopher L. Karp Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mark C. Udey
Mark C. Udey Washington University in St. Louis
Giorgio Trinchieri
Giorgio Trinchieri National Institutes of Health
John J. O'Shea
John J. O'Shea National Institutes of Health
Nicholas P. Restifo
Nicholas P. Restifo National Institutes of Health
Ethan M. Shevach
Ethan M. Shevach National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Shaden Kamhawi
Shaden Kamhawi National Institutes of Health

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