Ari B. Molofsky

10.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
52 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Ari B. Molofsky is a scholar working on Immunology, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ari B. Molofsky has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Immunology, 17 papers in Surgery and 8 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ari B. Molofsky's work include IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways (28 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (23 papers) and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (13 papers). Ari B. Molofsky is often cited by papers focused on IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways (28 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (23 papers) and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (13 papers). Ari B. Molofsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Ari B. Molofsky's co-authors include Richard M. Locksley, Hong-Erh Liang, Ajay Chawla, Jesse C. Nussbaum, Michele S. Swanson, Steven J. Van Dyken, Alexander Mohapatra, Roberto R. Ricardo-González, Laurence E. Cheng and Adam K. Savage and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ari B. Molofsky

48 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Eosinophils Sustain Adipose Alternatively Activated Macrophages Associated with Glucose Homeostasis

2011 1.1k citations Ari B. Molofsky, Hong-Erh Liang et al. Science profile →
Type 2 innate lymphoid cells control eosinophil homeostasis

2013 831 citations Jesse C. Nussbaum, Steven J. Van Dyken et al. Nature profile →
Innate lymphoid type 2 cells sustain visceral adipose tissue eosinophils and alternatively activated macrophages

2013 712 citations Ari B. Molofsky, Jesse C. Nussbaum et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
Activated Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Regulate Beige Fat Biogenesis

2014 543 citations Ari B. Molofsky, Jesse C. Nussbaum et al. profile →
Interleukin-33 in Tissue Homeostasis, Injury, and Inflammation

2015 484 citations Ari B. Molofsky, Richard M. Locksley et al. Immunity profile →
Astrocyte-derived interleukin-33 promotes microglial synapse engulfment and neural circuit development

2018 464 citations Ilia D. Vainchtein, Gregory Chin et al. Science profile →
Microglial Remodeling of the Extracellular Matrix Promotes Synapse Plasticity

2020 423 citations Phi T. Nguyen, Leah C. Dorman et al. profile →
Tissue signals imprint ILC2 identity with anticipatory function

2018 327 citations Roberto R. Ricardo-González, Steven J. Van Dyken et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Sentinel p16 ^INK4a+ cells in the basement membrane form a reparative niche in the lung

2022 103 citations Nancy C. Allen, Jin Young Lee et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ari B. Molofsky United States	30	4.7k	2.2k	2.0k	1.4k	1.3k	52	7.7k
Nico Ghilardi United States	39	6.6k 1.4×	788 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	55	10.7k
Alex F. de Vos Netherlands	48	3.1k 0.7×	565 0.3×	568 0.3×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	188	7.5k
Charlotte L. Scott Belgium	31	4.8k 1.0×	764 0.4×	491 0.2×	1.9k 1.4×	922 0.7×	56	7.3k
John E. Sims United States	60	10.0k 2.1×	656 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	4.1k 3.0×	1.4k 1.1×	105	14.6k
Susan Gilfillan United States	60	11.7k 2.5×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	3.1k 2.3×	1.3k 1.0×	120	16.5k
Dirk E. Smith United States	33	5.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	502 0.4×	48	7.3k
Juan J. Lafaille United States	48	12.3k 2.6×	574 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	3.1k 2.3×	1.1k 0.8×	79	17.2k
Bao Lu United States	60	6.5k 1.4×	973 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.7×	1.6k 1.2×	126	12.4k
J. Vidya Sarma United States	46	4.3k 0.9×	460 0.2×	579 0.3×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	74	7.7k
Arthur Mortha Canada	21	4.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	531 0.3×	2.0k 1.4×	411 0.3×	43	7.0k

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Mickael, Claudia, Michael H. Lee, Biruk Kassa, et al.. (2025). Role of conventional dendritic cells in schistosomiasis-induced pulmonary hypertension. Clinical Science. 139(20). 1187–1198.

Mickael, Claudia, Linda Sanders, Michael H. Lee, et al.. (2024). Classical dendritic cells contribute to hypoxia‐induced pulmonary hypertension. The FASEB Journal. 38(16). e70015–e70015. 4 indexed citations

Kassa, Biruk, Claudia Mickael, Rahul Kumar, et al.. (2024). Intrapulmonary T Cells Are Sufficient for Schistosoma-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(17). 9202–9202. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Rahul, Sushil Kumar, Claudia Mickael, et al.. (2024). Interstitial macrophage phenotypes in Schistosoma-induced pulmonary hypertension. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1372957–1372957. 2 indexed citations

Siewiera, Johan, et al.. (2023). Circumvention of luteolysis reveals parturition pathways in mice dependent upon innate type 2 immunity. Immunity. 56(3). 606–619.e7. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Chaoqun, Nancy C. Allen, Kelly M. Cautivo, et al.. (2023). Dysregulated lung stroma drives emphysema exacerbation by potentiating resident lymphocytes to suppress an epithelial stem cell reservoir. Immunity. 56(3). 576–591.e10. 30 indexed citations

Allen, Nancy C., Jin Young Lee, Monica Cassandras, et al.. (2022). Sentinel p16 ^INK4a+ cells in the basement membrane form a reparative niche in the lung. Science. 378(6616). 192–201. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Han, Rafael Taeho, Ilia D. Vainchtein, Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, et al.. (2022). Microglial pattern recognition via IL-33 promotes synaptic refinement in developing corticothalamic circuits in mice. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(2). 28 indexed citations

Cautivo, Kelly M., Carlos O. Lizama, Madelene W. Dahlgren, et al.. (2022). Interferon gamma constrains type 2 lymphocyte niche boundaries during mixed inflammation. Immunity. 55(2). 254–271.e7. 37 indexed citations

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Boothby, Ian C., Elaine Kwan, Sean Clancy, et al.. (2021). Early-life inflammation primes a T helper 2 cell–fibroblast niche in skin. Nature. 599(7886). 667–672. 58 indexed citations

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Kuhn, Julia, Ilia D. Vainchtein, Joao Bráz, et al.. (2021). Regulatory T-cells inhibit microglia-induced pain hypersensitivity in female mice. eLife. 10. 65 indexed citations

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Cautivo, Kelly M., Catherine A. Steer, & Ari B. Molofsky. (2020). Immune outposts in the adventitia: One foot in sea and one on shore. Current Opinion in Immunology. 64. 34–41. 5 indexed citations

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Tan, Corey, James L. Mueller, Mark Noviski, et al.. (2019). Nur77 Links Chronic Antigen Stimulation to B Cell Tolerance by Restricting the Survival of Self-Reactive B Cells in the Periphery. The Journal of Immunology. 202(10). 2907–2923. 22 indexed citations

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Dahlgren, Madelene W., Stephen W. Jones, Kelly M. Cautivo, et al.. (2019). Adventitial Stromal Cells Define Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Tissue Niches. Immunity. 50(3). 707–722.e6. 232 indexed citations

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Vainchtein, Ilia D., Gregory Chin, Frances S. Cho, et al.. (2018). Astrocyte-derived interleukin-33 promotes microglial synapse engulfment and neural circuit development. Science. 359(6381). 1269–1273. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ricardo-González, Roberto R., Steven J. Van Dyken, Christoph Schneider, et al.. (2018). Tissue signals imprint ILC2 identity with anticipatory function. Nature Immunology. 19(10). 1093–1099. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dyken, Steven J. Van, Jesse C. Nussbaum, Jinwoo Lee, et al.. (2016). A tissue checkpoint regulates type 2 immunity. Nature Immunology. 17(12). 1381–1387. 192 indexed citations

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Guigas, Bruno & Ari B. Molofsky. (2015). A worm of one's own: how helminths modulate host adipose tissue function and metabolism. Trends in Parasitology. 31(9). 435–441. 33 indexed citations

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Rollins, Mark D., Ari B. Molofsky, Ashok Nambiar, et al.. (2012). Two septic transfusion reactions presenting as transfusion-related acute lung injury from a split plateletpheresis unit. Critical Care Medicine. 40(8). 2488–2491. 7 indexed citations

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Swanson, Michele S. & Ari B. Molofsky. (2005). Autophagy and Inflammatory Cell Death, Partners of Innate Immunity. Autophagy. 1(3). 174–176. 41 indexed citations

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