Hugh A. Sampson

91.4k total citations · 20 hit papers
637 papers, 51.3k citations indexed

About

Hugh A. Sampson is a scholar working on Immunology and Allergy, Surgery and Dermatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugh A. Sampson has authored 637 papers receiving a total of 51.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 538 papers in Immunology and Allergy, 156 papers in Surgery and 150 papers in Dermatology. Recurrent topics in Hugh A. Sampson's work include Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research (512 papers), Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization (296 papers) and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (154 papers). Hugh A. Sampson is often cited by papers focused on Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research (512 papers), Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization (296 papers) and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (154 papers). Hugh A. Sampson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Hugh A. Sampson's co-authors include Scott H. Sicherer, A. Wesley Burks, Kirsten Beyer, Anna Nowak‐Węgrzyn, Anne Muñoz‐Furlong, Robert A. Wood, Ludmilla Bardina, Wayne G. Shreffler, Jan Bernhisel-Broadbent and Louis M. Mendelson and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Hugh A. Sampson

621 papers receiving 48.9k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Fatal and Near-Fatal Anaphylactic Reactions to Food in Children and Adolescents
    1992 1.2k citations Hugh A. Sampson et al. profile →
  2. Food allergy: A review and update on epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and management
    2017 1.1k citations Scott H. Sicherer, Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  3. Utility of food-specific IgE concentrations in predicting symptomatic food allergy
    2001 1.0k citations Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  4. Update on food allergy
    2004 983 citations Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  5. Food allergy: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment
    2014 966 citations Scott H. Sicherer, Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  6. Relationship between food-specific IgE concentrations and the risk of positive food challenges in children and adolescents
    1997 792 citations Hugh A. Sampson et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  7. Eosinophilic esophagitis attributed to gastroesophageal reflux: Improvement with an amino acid-based formula
    1995 780 citations Hugh A. Sampson et al. profile →
  8. Food allergy
    2009 747 citations Scott H. Sicherer, Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  9. US prevalence of self-reported peanut, tree nut, and sesame allergy: 11-year follow-up
    2010 711 citations Scott H. Sicherer, Hugh A. Sampson et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  10. Food allergy. Part 1: Immunopathogenesis and clinical disorders
    1999 614 citations Hugh A. Sampson Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  11. Food hypersensitivity and atopic dermatitis: Evaluation of 113 patients
    1985 569 citations Hugh A. Sampson et al. profile →
  12. Prevalence of peanut and tree nut allergy in the United States determined by means of a random digit dial telephone survey
    2003 565 citations Scott H. Sicherer, Hugh A. Sampson et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  13. Oral Immunotherapy for Treatment of Egg Allergy in Children
    2012 523 citations A. Wesley Burks, Stacie M. Jones et al. profile →
  14. Effect of Anti-IgE Therapy in Patients with Peanut Allergy
    2003 502 citations Donald Y.M. Leung, Hugh A. Sampson et al. profile →
  15. Standardizing double-blind, placebo-controlled oral food challenges: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology–European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology PRACTALL consensus report
    2012 493 citations Hugh A. Sampson, Carsten Bindslev‐Jensen et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  16. Comparison of results of skin tests, RAST, and double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges in children with atopic dermatitis
    1984 466 citations Hugh A. Sampson et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  17. ICON: Food allergy
    2012 434 citations A. Wesley Burks, Scott H. Sicherer et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  18. A global survey of changing patterns of food allergy burden in children
    2013 415 citations Hugh A. Sampson, Kirsten Beyer et al. profile →
  19. Early-life gut microbiome composition and milk allergy resolution
    2016 310 citations Supinda Bunyavanich, Alexander Grishin et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology profile →
  20. CD23 + IgG1 + memory B cells are poised to switch to pathogenic IgE production in food allergy
    2024 44 citations Carlos J. Aranda, Maria Suprun et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Hugh A. Sampson 42.5k 13.7k 13.7k 13.7k 4.3k 637 51.3k
Donald Y.M. Leung 20.1k 0.5× 23.4k 1.7× 15.1k 1.1× 4.6k 0.3× 11.1k 2.6× 583 48.2k
A. Wesley Burks 21.4k 0.5× 5.4k 0.4× 7.6k 0.6× 6.1k 0.4× 2.2k 0.5× 394 25.8k
Scott H. Sicherer 23.0k 0.5× 6.4k 0.5× 7.3k 0.5× 8.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 376 26.8k
Johannes Ring 17.2k 0.4× 15.1k 1.1× 8.0k 0.6× 2.8k 0.2× 5.0k 1.2× 719 31.4k
Stephen R. Durham 24.6k 0.6× 10.5k 0.8× 27.6k 2.0× 2.6k 0.2× 8.7k 2.0× 386 37.8k
Mimi L.K. Tang 8.7k 0.2× 2.8k 0.2× 4.9k 0.4× 3.3k 0.2× 4.4k 1.0× 403 19.6k
Gideon Lack 12.2k 0.3× 4.1k 0.3× 5.5k 0.4× 3.8k 0.3× 1.5k 0.3× 224 15.8k
Ronald van Ree 10.8k 0.3× 5.2k 0.4× 4.0k 0.3× 1.4k 0.1× 1.6k 0.4× 327 16.3k
Bengt Björkstén 7.8k 0.2× 3.9k 0.3× 9.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.1× 2.0k 0.5× 307 20.8k
Claus Bachert 18.9k 0.4× 2.6k 0.2× 18.9k 1.4× 6.6k 0.5× 4.0k 0.9× 702 33.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lack, Gideon, George Du Toit, Cezmi A. Akdiş, et al.. (2025). Food allergy: Update on prevention and tolerance. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations
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Sampson, Hugh A., et al.. (2024). Epicutaneous immunotherapy for the treatment of peanut allergy. Allergy. 80(1). 63–76. 4 indexed citations
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Suárez‐Fariñas, Mayte, Andrew Delgado, Galina Grishina, et al.. (2024). Utility of epitope-specific IgE, IgG4, and IgG1 antibodies for the diagnosis of wheat allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 154(5). 1249–1259. 4 indexed citations
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Turner, Paul, et al.. (2023). Impact of using less objective symptoms to define tolerated dose during food challenges: A data-driven approach. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 152(1). 145–154. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Nan, Kamal Srivastava, Zixi Wang, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of Pathologic Immunoglobulin E In Food Allergy by EBF2 and Active Compound Berberine Associated with Immunometabolism Regulation. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 151(2). AB228–AB228. 1 indexed citations
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Fleischer, David E., et al.. (2023). Efficacy and Safety of Epicutaneous Immunotherapy (EPIT) for Peanut Allergy in Subjects Aged 1-3 Years With and Without Concomitant Food Allergies in the EPITOPE Study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 151(2). AB27–AB27. 3 indexed citations
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Lozano‐Ojalvo, Daniel, Scott R. Tyler, Carlos J. Aranda, et al.. (2022). Allergen recognition by specific effector Th2 cells enables IL ‐2‐dependent activation of regulatory T‐cell responses in humans. Allergy. 78(3). 697–713. 19 indexed citations
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Suárez‐Fariñas, Mayte, Maria Suprun, Paul Kearney, et al.. (2021). Accurate and reproducible diagnosis of peanut allergy using epitope mapping. Allergy. 76(12). 3789–3797. 50 indexed citations
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Jones, Simon, Edwin Kim, Kari C. Nadeau, et al.. (2020). Tolerance Development Following Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) in 1-3 Year Old Children with Peanut Allergy: Findings from the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) IMPACT TRIAL. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 145(2). AB338–AB338. 3 indexed citations
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Sampson, Hugh A., Donald Y.M. Leung, Stacie M. Jones, et al.. (2019). Egg Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) Induces More Rapid Desensitization and Sustained Unresponsiveness (SU) in Egg-Allergic, Baked-egg Tolerant Children than the Addition of Daily Baked-egg Products. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 143(2). AB255–AB255. 1 indexed citations
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N., Anh, Corey T. Watson, Ariella Cohain, et al.. (2019). Dual transcriptomic and epigenomic study of reaction severity in peanut-allergic children. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 145(4). 1219–1230. 49 indexed citations
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Mondoulet, Lucie, Vincent Dioszeghy, Florence Busato, et al.. (2018). Gata3 hypermethylation and Foxp3 hypomethylation are associated with sustained protection and bystander effect following epicutaneous immunotherapy in peanut‐sensitized mice. Allergy. 74(1). 152–164. 54 indexed citations
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Burks, A. Wesley, Hugh A. Sampson, Marshall Plaut, Gideon Lack, & Cezmi A. Akdiş. (2018). Treatment for food allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 141(1). 1–9. 110 indexed citations
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Sampson, Hugh A., Laurent Martin, Gordon L. Sussman, et al.. (2016). Enhanced Efficacy and Confirmed Safety of a Two-Year Epicutaneous Immunotherapy (EPIT) Treatment of Peanut Allergy with Viaskin® Peanut: The Continuation of the Vipes Phase IIb Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 137(2). AB408–AB408. 6 indexed citations
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Nowak‐Węgrzyn, Anna, et al.. (2015). Increasing Tolerance to Less Extensively Heat-Denatured (baked) Milk Products in Milk-Allergic Children. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 135(2). AB234–AB234. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Nan, et al.. (2011). Bioactivities of Berberine, Palmatine, and Jatrorrhizine isolated from Food Allergy Herbal Formula 2 (FAHF-2). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 127(2). AB240–AB240. 2 indexed citations
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Patil, Sangita P., Paula J. Busse, Nan Yang, et al.. (2009). Safety and Tolerability of an Antiasthma Herbal Formula (ASHMI™) in Adult Subjects with Asthma: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, Dose-Escalation Phase I Study. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 15(7). 735–743. 63 indexed citations
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Cerecedo, Inmaculada, Javier Zamora, Wayne G. Shreffler, et al.. (2008). Mapping of the IgE and IgG4 sequential epitopes of milk allergens with a peptide microarray–based immunoassay. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 122(3). 589–594. 165 indexed citations
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Wang, Jun, Cynthia M. Visness, & Hugh A. Sampson. (2005). Food allergen sensitization in inner-city children with asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 115(5). 1076–1080. 109 indexed citations

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