David M. Tobin

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

David M. Tobin is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Tobin has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Immunology, 25 papers in Infectious Diseases and 22 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in David M. Tobin's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (24 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (18 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (12 papers). David M. Tobin is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (24 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (18 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (12 papers). David M. Tobin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. David M. Tobin's co-authors include Lalita Ramakrishnan, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Mark R. Cronan, Rebecca W. Beerman, Stefan H. Oehlers, Wolfgang Liedtke, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Eric M. Walton, Erin L. Peckol and John Ray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David M. Tobin

62 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Host Genotype-Specific Therapies Can Optimize the Inflammatory Response to Mycobacterial Infections

2012 420 citations David M. Tobin, Francisco J. Roca et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David M. Tobin United States	34	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	644	65	4.5k
Daniel Kalman United States	42	876 0.5×	960 0.7×	638 0.5×	2.5k 2.2×	491 0.8×	80	5.2k
Mika Rämet Finland	40	466 0.3×	3.7k 2.6×	789 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	461 0.7×	121	6.7k
Lynda M. Stuart United States	35	571 0.4×	4.4k 3.1×	1.1k 0.8×	2.8k 2.5×	322 0.5×	54	7.5k
Eric J. Brown United States	43	1.0k 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	4.7k 4.1×	950 1.5×	60	8.6k
Andrea J. Wolf United States	27	1.6k 1.0×	2.8k 2.0×	1.4k 1.1×	3.1k 2.7×	240 0.4×	30	6.8k
Huaijun Zhou United States	44	635 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	769 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	305 0.5×	161	5.6k
Kelly A. Ruhn United States	25	466 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	417 0.3×	2.2k 1.9×	109 0.2×	32	4.7k
Robin J. Parks Canada	44	851 0.5×	937 0.7×	762 0.6×	5.5k 4.8×	292 0.5×	126	8.0k
Yasuhiro Yoshikawa Japan	35	799 0.5×	490 0.3×	796 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	221 0.3×	244	4.6k
Cory Teuscher United States	46	502 0.3×	3.0k 2.1×	464 0.4×	1.9k 1.7×	166 0.3×	189	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David M. Tobin

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Allen, Judith E., et al.. (2025). Infectious Disease: Evolution, Mechanism and Global Health. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 18(9).

Tobin, David M., et al.. (2025). Mycobacterium marinum as a model for understanding principles of mycobacterial pathogenesis. Journal of Bacteriology. 207(5). e0004725–e0004725. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Yuwei, et al.. (2024). The antagonistic transcription factors, EspM and EspN, regulate the ESX-1 secretion system in M. marinum. mBio. 15(4). e0335723–e0335723. 6 indexed citations

Britton, Warwick J., et al.. (2022). Inhibition of infection-induced vascular permeability modulates host leukocyte recruitment to Mycobacterium marinum granulomas in zebrafish. Pathogens and Disease. 80(1). 5 indexed citations

Whitworth, Laura, Antonio J. Pagán, Francisco J. Roca, et al.. (2021). Elevated cerebrospinal fluid cytokine levels in tuberculous meningitis predict survival in response to dexamethasone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 19 indexed citations

Ordoñez, Alvaro A., Elizabeth W. Tucker, Carolyn J. Anderson, et al.. (2021). Visualizing the dynamics of tuberculosis pathology using molecular imaging. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(5). 17 indexed citations

Wang, Yueyang, Alan Y. Hsu, Eric M. Walton, et al.. (2021). A robust and flexible CRISPR/Cas9-based system for neutrophil-specific gene inactivation in zebrafish. Journal of Cell Science. 134(8). 9 indexed citations

Cronan, Mark R. & David M. Tobin. (2019). Endogenous Tagging at the cdh1 Locus for Live Visualization of E-Cadherin Dynamics. Zebrafish. 16(3). 324–325. 10 indexed citations

Hortle, Elinor, Matt D. Johansen, Jordan A. Shavit, et al.. (2019). Thrombocyte Inhibition Restores Protective Immunity to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 220(3). 524–534. 23 indexed citations

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McClean, Colleen M. & David M. Tobin. (2016). Macrophage form, function, and phenotype in mycobacterial infection: lessons from tuberculosis and other diseases. Pathogens and Disease. 74(7). ftw068–ftw068. 100 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M.. (2015). Host-Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis: Figure 1.. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 5(10). a021196–a021196. 88 indexed citations

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Whipps, Christopher M., et al.. (2014). Detection of Autofluorescent Mycobacterium Chelonae in Living Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 11(1). 76–82. 8 indexed citations

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Furuse, Yuki, Ryan Finethy, Héctor A. Saka, et al.. (2014). Search for MicroRNAs Expressed by Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens in Infected Mammalian Cells. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e106434–e106434. 56 indexed citations

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Cambier, C.J., Kevin K. Takaki, Ryan Larson, et al.. (2013). Mycobacteria manipulate macrophage recruitment through coordinated use of membrane lipids. Nature. 505(7482). 218–222. 353 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M. & Lalita Ramakrishnan. (2013). TB: the Yin and Yang of lipid mediators. Current Opinion in Pharmacology. 13(4). 641–645. 44 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M., Francisco J. Roca, Sungwhan F. Oh, et al.. (2012). Host Genotype-Specific Therapies Can Optimize the Inflammatory Response to Mycobacterial Infections. Cell. 148(3). 434–446. 420 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tobin, David M., Robin C. May, & Robert T. Wheeler. (2012). Zebrafish: A See-Through Host and a Fluorescent Toolbox to Probe Host–Pathogen Interaction. PLoS Pathogens. 8(1). e1002349–e1002349. 78 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M., Jay C. Vary, John Ray, et al.. (2010). The lta4h Locus Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish and Humans. Cell. 140(5). 717–730. 404 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M. & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2004). Invertebrate nociception: Behaviors, neurons and molecules. Journal of Neurobiology. 61(1). 161–174. 64 indexed citations

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Tobin, David M., David M. Madsen, Amanda Kahn-Kirby, et al.. (2002). Combinatorial Expression of TRPV Channel Proteins Defines Their Sensory Functions and Subcellular Localization in C. elegans Neurons. Neuron. 35(2). 307–318. 349 indexed citations

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