Douglas S. Kwon

13.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Douglas S. Kwon is a scholar working on Virology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas S. Kwon has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Virology, 34 papers in Immunology and 31 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Douglas S. Kwon's work include HIV Research and Treatment (35 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (24 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (23 papers). Douglas S. Kwon is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (35 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (24 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (23 papers). Douglas S. Kwon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Africa. Douglas S. Kwon's co-authors include Dan R. Littman, Vineet N. KewalRamani, Jeena Middel, Gerard C.F. van Duijnhoven, Ruurd Torensma, Yvette van Kooyk, Hans S.L.M. Nottet, Sandra J. van Vliet, Carl G. Figdor and Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Douglas S. Kwon

79 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

DC-SIGN, a Dendritic Cell–Specific HIV-1-Binding Protein that Enhances trans-Infection of T Cells

2000 1.9k citations Douglas S. Kwon, Dan R. Littman et al. profile →
Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract

2015 520 citations Melis N. Anahtar, Elizabeth H. Byrne et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas S. Kwon United States	33	3.1k	2.5k	1.6k	1.5k	1.3k	82	6.3k
Mary E. Klotman United States	48	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.8×	131	7.3k
Gregory T. Spear United States	41	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	124	5.0k
Herman F. Staats United States	39	3.2k 1.0×	961 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	970 0.7×	109	5.5k
Myra O. McClure United Kingdom	44	1.3k 0.4×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	172	6.8k
Otto O. Yang United States	42	3.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	182	6.6k
Christopher J. Miller United States	52	4.2k 1.3×	5.3k 2.2×	1.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.8×	2.9k 2.2×	188	9.1k
Nichole R. Klatt United States	35	2.0k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	109	5.1k
Charles R. Wira United States	57	6.6k 2.1×	1.1k 0.4×	944 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	931 0.7×	204	9.9k
Karin Loré Sweden	42	3.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	108	5.8k
Melissa Pope United States	41	4.4k 1.4×	3.4k 1.4×	965 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	80	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas S. Kwon

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Jabbar, Karolina S., Sambhawa Priya, Jiawu Xu, et al.. (2025). Human immunodeficiency virus and antiretroviral therapies exert distinct influences across diverse gut microbiomes. Nature Microbiology. 10(11). 2720–2735.

Foessleitner, Philipp, Marvin M. Goldenberg, M.R.V. Murthy, et al.. (2025). Association between changes in genital immune markers and vaginal microbiome transitions in bacterial vaginosis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 3536–3536.

Hussain, Fatima A., Caroline A. Werlang, Benjamin M. Woolston, et al.. (2024). Prevotella are major contributors of sialidases in the human vaginal microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(36). 16 indexed citations

Symul, Laura, Pratheepa Jeganathan, Elizabeth K. Costello, et al.. (2023). Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2011). 20231461–20231461. 15 indexed citations

Corleis, Björn, Constantine N. Tzouanas, Marc H. Wadsworth, et al.. (2023). Tobacco smoke exposure recruits inflammatory airspace monocytes that establish permissive lung niches for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Science Translational Medicine. 15(725). eadg3451–eadg3451. 11 indexed citations

Anahtar, Melis N., Jiawu Xu, Jeffrey M. Paer, et al.. (2021). Prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance in Clinical Enterococcus faecium Isolates Using a Rules-Based Analysis of Whole-Genome Sequences. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(1). e0119621–e0119621. 5 indexed citations

Corleis, Björn, Amy K. Dickey, Abigail E. Schiff, et al.. (2021). Smoking and Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Infection Promote Retention of CD8+ T Cells in the Airway Mucosa. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 65(5). 513–520. 12 indexed citations

Hoang, Thuy, Kevin DeLong, Seth M. Bloom, et al.. (2020). The cervicovaginal mucus barrier to HIV-1 is diminished in bacterial vaginosis. PLoS Pathogens. 16(1). e1008236–e1008236. 52 indexed citations

Bryson, Bryan D., Tracy R. Rosebrock, Fikadu Tafesse, et al.. (2019). Heterogeneous GM-CSF signaling in macrophages is associated with control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2329–2329. 58 indexed citations

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McKinnon, Lyle R., Sharon L. Achilles, Catriona S. Bradshaw, et al.. (2019). The Evolving Facets of Bacterial Vaginosis: Implications for HIV Transmission. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 35(3). 219–228. 193 indexed citations

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Olson, Gregory S., James M. Richter, John J. Garber, et al.. (2018). Increased frequency of systemic pro-inflammatory Vδ1+ γδ T cells in HIV elite controllers correlates with gut viral load. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16471–16471. 21 indexed citations

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Shen, Shiqian, Grewo Lim, Zerong You, et al.. (2017). Gut microbiota is critical for the induction of chemotherapy-induced pain. Nature Neuroscience. 20(9). 1213–1216. 218 indexed citations

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Körner, Christian, Camille R. Simoneau, Philipp Schommers, et al.. (2017). HIV-1-Mediated Downmodulation of HLA-C Impacts Target Cell Recognition and Antiviral Activity of NK Cells. Cell Host & Microbe. 22(1). 111–119.e4. 30 indexed citations

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Corleis, Björn, Antonella Lisanti, Christian Körner, et al.. (2017). Early type I Interferon response induces upregulation of human β-defensin 1 during acute HIV-1 infection. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0173161–e0173161. 11 indexed citations

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Liebenberg, Lenine J. P., Derseree Archary, Aida Sivro, & Douglas S. Kwon. (2017). Bugs, drugs, and HIV: the role of the vaginal microbiome in HIV risk and antiretroviral efficacy for HIV prevention. Genome Medicine. 9(1). 74–74. 8 indexed citations

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Riou, Catherine, Andreia Soares, Björn Corleis, et al.. (2016). HIV Skews the Lineage-Defining Transcriptional Profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis–Specific CD4+ T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 196(7). 3006–3018. 17 indexed citations

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Byrne, Elizabeth H., Melis N. Anahtar, Gregory S. Olson, et al.. (2014). Injectable Contraceptive Use Correlates with Increased HIV Target Cells at the Cervix in Young South African Women. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30(S1). A54–A55. 1 indexed citations

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Varadarajan, Navin, Douglas S. Kwon, Kenneth Law, et al.. (2012). Rapid, efficient functional characterization and recovery of HIV-specific human CD8 ⁺ T cells using microengraving. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10). 3885–3890. 87 indexed citations

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Brockman, Mark A., Douglas S. Kwon, David F. Pavlik, et al.. (2009). IL-10 is up-regulated in multiple cell types during viremic HIV infection and reversibly inhibits virus-specific T cells. Blood. 114(2). 346–356. 225 indexed citations

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Kwon, Douglas S., Morris S. Jones, Craig B. Davis, et al.. (1998). The Amino Terminus of Human CCR5 Is Required for Its Function as a Receptor for Diverse Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Envelope Glycoproteins. Virology. 248(2). 357–371. 59 indexed citations

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