Ben Falk

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Ben Falk is a scholar working on Immunology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Falk has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Immunology, 13 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Ben Falk's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (14 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (13 papers). Ben Falk is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (14 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (13 papers). Ben Falk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Ben Falk's co-authors include Gerald T. Nepom, Craig A. Smith, Raymond G. Goodwin, Mark R. Alderson, Terri Davis‐Smith, Teresa W. Tough, Ken Schooley, Fred Ramsdell, David H. Lynch and Paul L. Bollyky and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Ben Falk

32 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fas ligand mediates activation-induced cell death in human T lymphocytes.

1995 812 citations Mark R. Alderson, Teresa W. Tough et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Falk United States	21	1.6k	838	654	458	353	32	3.0k
Bruce Gott United States	19	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	873 1.3×	507 1.1×	1.1k 3.0×	23	3.9k
Lisa Burzenski United States	22	1.4k 0.9×	925 1.1×	628 1.0×	369 0.8×	923 2.6×	41	3.1k
Luca Piali Switzerland	23	2.0k 1.2×	876 1.0×	316 0.5×	267 0.6×	1.3k 3.5×	32	3.5k
Bonnie Lyons United States	21	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	633 1.0×	409 0.9×	1.1k 3.3×	42	4.1k
Marília Cascalho United States	33	2.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.8×	1.5k 2.3×	1.5k 3.4×	520 1.5×	117	5.3k
Constantin A. Bona United States	40	3.1k 1.9×	1.5k 1.8×	727 1.1×	251 0.5×	326 0.9×	192	5.7k
John I. Bell United Kingdom	24	3.0k 1.9×	874 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	441 1.0×	601 1.7×	36	4.4k
Sophie M. Lehar United States	18	2.7k 1.7×	1.3k 1.6×	227 0.3×	232 0.5×	644 1.8×	22	3.9k
Dominique Bellet France	32	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	258 0.4×	293 0.6×	1.1k 3.2×	70	4.2k
G S Gray United States	29	3.6k 2.2×	865 1.0×	778 1.2×	381 0.8×	764 2.2×	37	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Falk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Falk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Falk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Falk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Falk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Falk. Ben Falk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Adam, Tyler M. Tomita, Jesús Arroyo, et al.. (2023). Manifold Oblique Random Forests: Towards Closing the Gap on Convolutional Deep Networks. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science. 5(1). 77–96. 1 indexed citations

Brown, R.W., Aabha Sharma, Ouma Onguka, et al.. (2022). Trypanosoma brucei Acyl-Protein Thioesterase-like (TbAPT-L) Is a Lipase with Esterase Activity for Short and Medium-Chain Fatty Acids but Has No Depalmitoylation Activity. Pathogens. 11(11). 1245–1245. 2 indexed citations

Yi, Sijia, Débora B. Scariot, Santiago Martínez, et al.. (2021). Nanocarrier-enhanced intracellular delivery of benznidazole for treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi infection. JCI Insight. 6(9). 9 indexed citations

Gebe, John A., Koshika Yadava, Shannon M. Ruppert, et al.. (2016). Modified High-Molecular-Weight Hyaluronan Promotes Allergen-Specific Immune Tolerance. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 56(1). 109–120. 22 indexed citations

Honeyman, Margo C., Natalie L. Stone, Ben Falk, Gerald T. Nepom, & Leonard C. Harrison. (2010). Evidence for Molecular Mimicry between Human T Cell Epitopes in Rotavirus and Pancreatic Islet Autoantigens. The Journal of Immunology. 184(4). 2204–2210. 87 indexed citations

Gebe, John A., et al.. (2009). Restricted Autoantigen Recognition Associated with Deletional and Adaptive Regulatory Mechanisms. The Journal of Immunology. 183(1). 59–65. 18 indexed citations

Orban, Tihamer, Klára Farkas, Heyam Jalahej, et al.. (2009). Autoantigen-specific regulatory T cells induced in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by insulin B-chain immunotherapy. Journal of Autoimmunity. 34(4). 408–415. 94 indexed citations

Bollyky, Paul L., Ian R. Sweet, Ben Falk, et al.. (2009). The Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Molecule Myd88 Contributes to Pancreatic Beta-Cell Homeostasis in Response to Injury. PLoS ONE. 4(4). e5063–e5063. 39 indexed citations

Laughlin, Elsa M., George W. Burke, Alberto Pugliese, Ben Falk, & Gerald T. Nepom. (2008). Recurrence of autoreactive antigen-specific CD4+ T cells in autoimmune diabetes after pancreas transplantation. Clinical Immunology. 128(1). 23–30. 59 indexed citations

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Gebe, John A., et al.. (2007). Autoreactive human T-cell receptor initiates insulitis and impaired glucose tolerance in HLA DR4 transgenic mice. Journal of Autoimmunity. 30(4). 197–206. 25 indexed citations

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Gebe, John A., et al.. (2007). Autoreactive T Cells in a Partially Humanized Murine Model of T1D. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1103(1). 69–76. 5 indexed citations

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Gebe, John A., Ben Falk, Kouichi Ito, et al.. (2006). Age-dependent loss of tolerance to an immunodominant epitope of glutamic acid decarboxylase in diabetic-prone RIP-B7/DR4 mice. Clinical Immunology. 121(3). 294–304. 13 indexed citations

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Steere, Allen C., William Klitz, Elise E. Drouin, et al.. (2006). Antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis is associated with HLA-DR molecules that bind aBorrelia burgdorferipeptide. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(4). 961–971. 147 indexed citations

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Mannering, Stuart I., Leonard C. Harrison, Nicholas A. Williamson, et al.. (2005). The insulin A-chain epitope recognized by human T cells is posttranslationally modified. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 202(9). 1191–1197. 191 indexed citations

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Gebe, John A., Ben Falk, Sharon A. Kochik, et al.. (2003). Low‐avidity recognition by CD4 ⁺ T cells directed to self‐antigens. European Journal of Immunology. 33(5). 1409–1417. 56 indexed citations

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Novak, Erik J., Andrew W. Liu, John A. Gebe, et al.. (2001). Tetramer-Guided Epitope Mapping: Rapid Identification and Characterization of Immunodominant CD4+ T Cell Epitopes from Complex Antigens. The Journal of Immunology. 166(11). 6665–6670. 118 indexed citations

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Kwok, William W., Helena Reijonen, Ben Falk, David M. Koelle, & Gerald T. Nepom. (1999). Peptide binding affinity and pH variation establish functional thresholds for activation of HLA-DQ-restricted T cell recognition. Human Immunology. 60(7). 619–626. 3 indexed citations

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Alderson, Mark R., Teresa W. Tough, Terri Davis‐Smith, et al.. (1995). Fas ligand mediates activation-induced cell death in human T lymphocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 181(1). 71–77. 812 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alderson, Mark R., Craig A. Smith, Teresa W. Tough, et al.. (1994). Moslecular and biological characterization of human 4‐1BB and its ligands. European Journal of Immunology. 24(9). 2219–2227. 203 indexed citations

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Goodwin, Raymond G., Mark R. Alderson, Craig A. Smith, et al.. (1993). Molecular and biological characterization of a ligand for CD27 defines a new family of cytokines with homology to tumor necrosis factor. Cell. 73(3). 447–456. 248 indexed citations

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