Hal Drakesmith

8.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Hal Drakesmith is a scholar working on Hematology, Genetics and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hal Drakesmith has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Hematology, 59 papers in Genetics and 44 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Hal Drakesmith's work include Iron Metabolism and Disorders (67 papers), Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (58 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (29 papers). Hal Drakesmith is often cited by papers focused on Iron Metabolism and Disorders (67 papers), Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (58 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (29 papers). Hal Drakesmith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Hal Drakesmith's co-authors include Andrew M. Prentice, A Prentice, Sant‐Rayn Pasricha, Andrew E. Armitage, Elizabeta Nemeth, Tomas Ganz, Alain Townsend, Natasha Spottiswoode, Judy Bastin and Beverley‐Ann Biggs and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hal Drakesmith

90 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Hepcidin and the Iron-Infection Axis

2012 518 citations Hal Drakesmith, Andrew M. Prentice profile →
Ironing out Ferroportin

2015 489 citations Hal Drakesmith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hal Drakesmith United Kingdom	40	3.4k	2.3k	2.1k	707	665	93	5.6k
Erika V. Valore United States	27	4.0k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	1.5k 2.3×	33	7.7k
Isabelle Devaux France	20	3.3k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	434 0.6×	117 0.2×	45	4.4k
Harold Tjalsma Netherlands	53	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	4.3k 6.1×	302 0.5×	103	9.6k
Ronald T. Acton United States	37	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	859 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	221	5.5k
Marcel E. Conrad United States	44	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	749 1.1×	248 0.4×	184	6.2k
Susanna Cunningham–Rundles United States	33	1.3k 0.4×	556 0.2×	655 0.3×	508 0.7×	1.6k 2.3×	76	5.7k
Andrew E. Armitage United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.4×	899 0.4×	713 0.3×	221 0.3×	137 0.2×	53	2.2k
Koji Kato Japan	43	1.6k 0.5×	426 0.2×	306 0.1×	993 1.4×	1.4k 2.1×	359	5.8k
Oscar D. Ratnoff United States	54	5.7k 1.7×	4.0k 1.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 2.0×	1.4k 2.1×	206	11.0k
Robert C. Tait United Kingdom	50	3.4k 1.0×	644 0.3×	212 0.1×	1.7k 2.4×	343 0.5×	168	8.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hal Drakesmith

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mohus, Randi Marie, Lise Tuset Gustad, Jan Kristian Damås, & Hal Drakesmith. (2025). Iron—sepsis associations in population health revealed by epidemiology. EBioMedicine. 120. 105927–105927.

Frost, Joe N., Megan R. Teh, Mohsin Badat, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomic linkage of α-globin and Nprl3 couples metabolism with erythropoiesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2749–2749.

Duarte, Tiago L., Ana Rita Pombo Antunes, Andreia Gonçalves, et al.. (2023). Iron overload induces dysplastic erythropoiesis and features of myelodysplasia in Nrf2-deficient mice. Leukemia. 38(1). 96–108. 3 indexed citations

Wideman, Sarah K., Joe N. Frost, Felix Clemens Richter, et al.. (2023). Cellular iron governs the host response to malaria. PLoS Pathogens. 19(10). e1011679–e1011679. 8 indexed citations

Aulicino, Anna, Agne Antanaviciute, Joe N. Frost, et al.. (2022). Dual RNA sequencing reveals dendritic cell reprogramming in response to typhoidal Salmonella invasion. Communications Biology. 5(1). 111–111. 8 indexed citations

Frost, Joe N., Sarah K. Wideman, Megan R. Teh, et al.. (2022). Plasma iron controls neutrophil production and function. Science Advances. 8(40). eabq5384–eabq5384. 45 indexed citations

James, Philip, Zakari Ali, Andrew E. Armitage, et al.. (2021). The Role of Nutrition in COVID-19 Susceptibility and Severity of Disease: A Systematic Review. Journal of Nutrition. 151(7). 1854–1878. 90 indexed citations

Chauveau, Lise, Anne Bridgeman, Tiong Kit Tan, et al.. (2021). Inclusion of cGAMP within virus‐like particle vaccines enhances their immunogenicity. EMBO Reports. 22(8). e52447–e52447. 29 indexed citations

Littwitz-Salomon, Elisabeth, Diana Moreira, Joe N. Frost, et al.. (2021). Metabolic requirements of NK cells during the acute response against retroviral infection. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5376–5376. 52 indexed citations

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James, Philip, Zakari Ali, Andrew E. Armitage, et al.. (2020). Could nutrition modulate COVID-19 susceptibility and severity of disease? A systematic review. medRxiv. 13 indexed citations

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Simmons, Alison, et al.. (2020). The battle for iron in enteric infections. Immunology. 161(3). 186–199. 32 indexed citations

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Denton, Nathan, Marijana Todorčević, Matt J. Neville, et al.. (2019). Bone morphogenetic protein 2 is a depot-specific regulator of human adipogenesis. International Journal of Obesity. 43(12). 2458–2468. 30 indexed citations

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Prentice, Andrew M., Momodou W. Jallow, Amadou T. Jallow, et al.. (2019). Respiratory infections drive hepcidin-mediated blockade of iron absorption leading to iron deficiency anemia in African children. Science Advances. 5(3). eaav9020–eaav9020. 29 indexed citations

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Harrington-Kandt, Rachel, Elena Stylianou, Lucy A. Eddowes, et al.. (2018). Hepcidin deficiency and iron deficiency do not alter tuberculosis susceptibility in a murine M.tb infection model. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191038–e0191038. 15 indexed citations

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Lim, Pei Jin, Tiago L. Duarte, Andrew E. Armitage, et al.. (2017). NRF2 CONTROLS SYSTEMIC IRON HOMEOSTASIS VIA BMP6 AND HEPCIDIN AND ALLEVIATES HEMOCHROMATOSIS. American Journal of Hematology. 92. 1 indexed citations

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Pasricha, Sant‐Rayn, Momodou W. Jallow, Rita Wegmüller, et al.. (2017). Serum Hepcidin Concentrations Decline during Pregnancy and May Identify Iron Deficiency: Analysis of a Longitudinal Pregnancy Cohort in The Gambia. Journal of Nutrition. 147(6). 1131–1137. 69 indexed citations

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Allen, Angela, Patricia Evans, Anuja Premawardhena, et al.. (2013). DIFFERENCES IN HEPCIDIN REGULATION DISTINGUISH MILD AND SEVERE PHENOTYPES OF E-BETA THALASSAEMIA. American Journal of Hematology. 88. 1 indexed citations

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Armitage, Andrew E., Andrew J. McMichael, & Hal Drakesmith. (2008). Reflecting on a quarter century of HIV research. Nature Immunology. 9(8). 823–826. 7 indexed citations

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Drakesmith, Hal, et al.. (2005). HIV-1 Nef down-regulates the hemochromatosis protein HFE, manipulating cellular iron homeostasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(31). 11017–11022. 69 indexed citations

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Chen, Nan, Corinna McCarthy, Hal Drakesmith, et al.. (2005). HIV‐1 down‐regulates the expression of CD1d via Nef. European Journal of Immunology. 36(2). 278–286. 104 indexed citations

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