Diane Mathis

68.7k total citations · 23 hit papers
382 papers, 51.6k citations indexed

About

Diane Mathis is a scholar working on Immunology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Diane Mathis has authored 382 papers receiving a total of 51.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 289 papers in Immunology, 97 papers in Genetics and 81 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Diane Mathis's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (215 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (211 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (84 papers). Diane Mathis is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (215 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (211 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (84 papers). Diane Mathis collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. Diane Mathis's co-authors include Christophe Benoıst, Markus Feuerer, Steven E. Shoelson, Jonathan D. Katz, Jonathan A. Hill, Daniela Cipolletta, Andrée Dierich, Esen Sefik, Caroline Waltzinger and Emily S. Venanzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Diane Mathis

381 papers receiving 50.7k citations

Hit Papers

Projection of an Immunological Self Shadow Within the... 1987 2026 2000 2013 2002 2009 2010 2006 2012 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Projection of an Immunological Self Shadow Within the Thymus by the Aire Protein
    2002 1.7k citations Mark S. Anderson, Emily S. Venanzi et al. Science profile →
  2. Lean, but not obese, fat is enriched for a unique population of regulatory T cells that affect metabolic parameters
    2009 1.7k citations Markus Feuerer, Jamie Wong et al. profile →
  3. Gut-Residing Segmented Filamentous Bacteria Drive Autoimmune Arthritis via T Helper 17 Cells
    2010 1.2k citations Jaime Darce, Christophe Benoıst et al. profile →
  4. FOXP3 Controls Regulatory T Cell Function through Cooperation with NFAT
    2006 937 citations Markus Feuerer, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  5. Gut Immune Maturation Depends on Colonization with a Host-Specific Microbiota
    2012 929 citations Jonathan A. Hill, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  6. PPAR-γ is a major driver of the accumulation and phenotype of adipose tissue Treg cells
    2012 915 citations Markus Feuerer, Steven E. Shoelson et al. profile →
  7. A Special Population of Regulatory T Cells Potentiates Muscle Repair
    2013 909 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  8. Microbial bile acid metabolites modulate gut RORγ+ regulatory T cell homeostasis
    2019 726 citations Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoıst et al. profile →
  9. β-Cell death during progression to diabetes
    2001 720 citations Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoıst et al. profile →
  10. Organ-Specific Disease Provoked by Systemic Autoimmunity
    1996 715 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  11. Treg Cells Expressing the Coinhibitory Molecule TIGIT Selectively Inhibit Proinflammatory Th1 and Th17 Cell Responses
    2014 714 citations Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoıst et al. profile →
  12. A multiplicity of CCAAT box-binding proteins
    1987 706 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  13. Individual intestinal symbionts induce a distinct population of RORγ + regulatory T cells
    2015 647 citations David Zemmour, Diane Mathis et al. Science profile →
  14. Mast Cells: A Cellular Link Between Autoantibodies and Inflammatory Arthritis
    2002 624 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Science profile →
  15. The AKT–mTOR axis regulates de novo differentiation of CD4+Foxp3+ cells
    2008 608 citations Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoıst et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  16. Following a diabetogenic T cell from genesis through pathogenesis
    1993 598 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Cell profile →
  17. From Systemic T Cell Self-Reactivity to Organ-Specific Autoimmune Disease via Immunoglobulins
    1999 571 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. profile →
  18. Arthritis Critically Dependent on Innate Immune System Players
    2002 563 citations Ralph Weissleder, Christophe Benoıst et al. profile →
  19. Stability of the Regulatory T Cell Lineage in Vivo
    2010 553 citations Yury P. Rubtsov, Rachel Niec et al. Science profile →
  20. Mining the Human Gut Microbiota for Immunomodulatory Organisms
    2017 519 citations Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoıst et al. Cell profile →
  21. Poor Repair of Skeletal Muscle in Aging Mice Reflects a Defect in Local, Interleukin-33-Dependent Accumulation of Regulatory T Cells
    2016 381 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. profile →
  22. Identifying species of symbiont bacteria from the human gut that, alone, can induce intestinal Th17 cells in mice
    2016 324 citations Christophe Benoıst, Diane Mathis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. A chemogenetic screen reveals that Trpv1-expressing neurons control regulatory T cells in the gut
    2024 42 citations Yangyang Zhu, Silvia Galván-Peña et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Diane Mathis United States 125 32.5k 13.5k 10.0k 6.0k 5.0k 382 51.6k
Christophe Benoıst United States 124 32.9k 1.0× 15.6k 1.2× 9.7k 1.0× 6.6k 1.1× 4.5k 0.9× 410 53.9k
Jeffrey A. Bluestone United States 140 47.5k 1.5× 11.2k 0.8× 14.4k 1.4× 13.4k 2.2× 10.1k 2.0× 499 69.0k
Nico van Rooijen Netherlands 146 38.1k 1.2× 21.4k 1.6× 5.5k 0.5× 10.0k 1.7× 8.1k 1.6× 838 80.5k
Bruce Beutler United States 112 38.1k 1.2× 17.2k 1.3× 3.9k 0.4× 5.6k 0.9× 3.1k 0.6× 406 64.5k
Yoichiro Iwakura Japan 126 32.8k 1.0× 18.2k 1.3× 3.9k 0.4× 7.8k 1.3× 4.5k 0.9× 694 61.6k
Warren Strober United States 114 26.2k 0.8× 11.6k 0.9× 11.0k 1.1× 5.0k 0.8× 6.6k 1.3× 437 49.5k
Shimon Sakaguchi Japan 109 53.8k 1.7× 9.0k 0.7× 5.3k 0.5× 15.6k 2.6× 3.3k 0.7× 308 68.3k
Emil R. Unanue United States 106 24.6k 0.8× 10.3k 0.8× 4.5k 0.5× 3.0k 0.5× 3.3k 0.7× 432 39.9k
David V. Goeddel United States 106 24.1k 0.7× 34.7k 2.6× 4.8k 0.5× 12.4k 2.1× 2.7k 0.5× 194 64.8k
Laurie H. Glimcher United States 101 23.4k 0.7× 13.1k 1.0× 3.5k 0.4× 4.9k 0.8× 5.1k 1.0× 235 45.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walker, Alec J., Teshika Jayewickreme, Felipe A. Pinho‐Ribeiro, et al.. (2025). The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis. Science Immunology. 10(104). eadu2910–eadu2910. 12 indexed citations
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Galván-Peña, Silvia, Yangyang Zhu, Bola S. Hanna, Diane Mathis, & Christophe Benoıst. (2024). A dynamic atlas of immunocyte migration from the gut. Science Immunology. 9(91). eadi0672–eadi0672. 28 indexed citations
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Ramanan, Deepshika, Kaitavjeet Chowdhary, Serge M. Candéias, et al.. (2023). Homeostatic, repertoire and transcriptional relationships between colon T regulatory cell subsets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(50). e2311566120–e2311566120. 11 indexed citations
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Bansal, Kushagra, Daniel A. Michelson, Ricardo N. Ramírez, et al.. (2021). Aire regulates chromatin looping by evicting CTCF from domain boundaries and favoring accumulation of cohesin on superenhancers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 16 indexed citations
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Reddy, Anita, Luiz H. M. Bozi, Omar Yaghi, et al.. (2020). pH-Gated Succinate Secretion Regulates Muscle Remodeling in Response to Exercise. Cell. 183(1). 62–75.e17. 166 indexed citations
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Zemmour, David, Alvin Pratama, Scott Loughhead, Diane Mathis, & Christophe Benoıst. (2017). Flicr , a long noncoding RNA, modulates Foxp3 expression and autoimmunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(17). E3472–E3480. 131 indexed citations
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Gaglia, Jason L., Mukesh G. Harisinghani, Iman Aganj, et al.. (2015). Noninvasive mapping of pancreatic inflammation in recent-onset type-1 diabetes patients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(7). 2139–2144. 100 indexed citations
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Mingueneau, Michaël, Smita Krishnaswamy, Matthew H. Spitzer, et al.. (2014). Single-cell mass cytometry of TCR signaling: Amplification of small initial differences results in low ERK activation in NOD mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(46). 16466–16471. 43 indexed citations
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Feuerer, Markus, Jonathan A. Hill, Karsten Kretschmer, et al.. (2010). Genomic definition of multiple ex vivo regulatory T cell subphenotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(13). 5919–5924. 173 indexed citations
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Nishio, Junko, Markus Feuerer, Jamie Wong, Diane Mathis, & Christophe Benoıst. (2010). Anti-CD3 therapy permits regulatory T cells to surmount T cell receptor–specified peripheral niche constraints. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 207(9). 1879–1889. 56 indexed citations
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Rubtsov, Yury P., Rachel Niec, Steven Z. Josefowicz, et al.. (2010). Stability of the Regulatory T Cell Lineage in Vivo. Science. 329(5999). 1667–1671. 553 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guerau‐de‐Arellano, Mireia, Marianne M. Martinic, Christophe Benoıst, & Diane Mathis. (2009). Neonatal tolerance revisited: a perinatal window for Aire control of autoimmunity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206(6). 1245–1252. 132 indexed citations
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D’Alise, Anna Morena, Vincent C. Auyeung, Markus Feuerer, et al.. (2008). The defect in T-cell regulation in NOD mice is an effect on the T-cell effectors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(50). 19857–19862. 164 indexed citations
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Besse, Whitney, et al.. (2008). Ectopic expression of peripheral-tissue antigens in the thymic epithelium: Probabilistic, monoallelic, misinitiated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(41). 15854–15859. 106 indexed citations
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Kuo, Alex, Peggie Cheung, Jakub Abramson, et al.. (2008). Aire employs a histone-binding module to mediate immunological tolerance, linking chromatin regulation with organ-specific autoimmunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(41). 15878–15883. 142 indexed citations
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Feuerer, Markus, Wenyu Jiang, Phillip D. Holler, et al.. (2007). Enhanced thymic selection of FoxP3 + regulatory T cells in the NOD mouse model of autoimmune diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(46). 18181–18186. 63 indexed citations
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Luckey, Chance John, Deepta Bhattacharya, Ananda W. Goldrath, et al.. (2006). Memory T and memory B cells share a transcriptional program of self-renewal with long-term hematopoietic stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(9). 3304–3309. 213 indexed citations
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Turley, Shannon J., et al.. (2005). Endocrine self and gut non-self intersect in the pancreatic lymph nodes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(49). 17729–17733. 142 indexed citations
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Poirot, Laurent, Christophe Benoıst, & Diane Mathis. (2004). Natural killer cells distinguish innocuous and destructive forms of pancreatic islet autoimmunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(21). 8102–8107. 134 indexed citations
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Anderson, Mark S., Emily S. Venanzi, Ludger Klein, et al.. (2002). Projection of an Immunological Self Shadow Within the Thymus by the Aire Protein. Science. 298(5597). 1395–1401. 1744 indexed citations breakdown →

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