Kendall A. Smith

24.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
143 papers, 18.6k citations indexed

About

Kendall A. Smith is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kendall A. Smith has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 18.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Immunology, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 26 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Kendall A. Smith's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (65 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (55 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (23 papers). Kendall A. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (65 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (55 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (23 papers). Kendall A. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Kendall A. Smith's co-authors include Steven Gillis, Doreen A. Cantrell, Gerald R. Crabtree, Robert H. Crabtree, Stefan Ehlers, Rafi Ahmed, Allan Munck, Francis W. Ruscetti, Warner C. Greene and Warren J. Leonard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kendall A. Smith

140 papers receiving 17.4k citations

Hit Papers

T Cell Growth Factor: Parameters of Production and a Quan... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 1988 1999 1984 1980 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. T Cell Growth Factor: Parameters of Production and a Quantitative Microassay for Activity
    1978 3.0k citations Steven Gillis, Kendall A. Smith et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →
  2. Interleukin-2: Inception, Impact, and Implications
    1988 1.8k citations Kendall A. Smith profile →
  3. Latent infection of CD4+ T cells provides a mechanism for lifelong persistence of HIV-1, even in patients on effective combination therapy
    1999 1.6k citations Kendall A. Smith et al. profile →
  4. The Interleukin-2 T-Cell System: A New Cell Growth Model
    1984 797 citations Kendall A. Smith et al. profile →
  5. T‐Cell Growth Factor
    1980 767 citations Kendall A. Smith profile →
  6. A monoclonal antibody that appears to recognize the receptor for human T-cell growth factor; partial characterization of the receptor
    1982 731 citations Kendall A. Smith et al. profile →
  7. Transient expression of interleukin 2 receptors. Consequences for T cell growth.
    1983 539 citations Kendall A. Smith et al. profile →
  8. Glucocorticoid-induced inhibition of T cell growth factor production. I. The effect on mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation.
    1979 490 citations Steven Gillis, Robert H. Crabtree et al. PubMed profile →
  9. Glucocorticoid-Induced Inhibition of T Cell Growth Factor Production
    1979 379 citations Steven Gillis, Kendall A. Smith et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kendall A. Smith United States 55 11.8k 3.9k 3.0k 2.2k 1.9k 143 18.6k
Melvyn F. Greaves United Kingdom 65 7.8k 0.7× 5.7k 1.5× 2.0k 0.7× 2.2k 1.0× 2.9k 1.5× 186 17.9k
Patrick W. Gray United States 55 7.8k 0.7× 4.3k 1.1× 3.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 95 14.5k
Herbert C. Morse United States 81 12.1k 1.0× 8.0k 2.1× 3.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 437 22.8k
Edgar G. Engleman United States 78 15.5k 1.3× 6.0k 1.5× 5.8k 1.9× 2.0k 0.9× 2.1k 1.1× 277 24.9k
Francis W. Ruscetti United States 55 11.0k 0.9× 4.6k 1.2× 2.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 863 0.5× 144 17.0k
Filippo Belardelli Italy 61 10.0k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 4.4k 1.5× 1.4k 0.6× 586 0.3× 258 14.9k
Jonathan Sprent United States 89 24.8k 2.1× 4.1k 1.1× 4.8k 1.6× 871 0.4× 1.8k 1.0× 291 29.9k
Hans Wigzell Sweden 80 17.8k 1.5× 6.2k 1.6× 3.6k 1.2× 1.7k 0.8× 5.0k 2.6× 489 28.6k
Mikael Jondal Sweden 55 6.4k 0.5× 3.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.9× 679 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 199 12.2k
Marc K. Jenkins United States 77 19.0k 1.6× 3.6k 0.9× 3.4k 1.1× 635 0.3× 1.4k 0.7× 207 23.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Kendall A., et al.. (2025). Streptococcal Cellulitis: A Potentially Life-Threatening Infection Beyond Skin Involvement. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A1608–A1608.
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Yang, Yi, et al.. (2022). Benchmarking Intersectional Biases in NLP. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 3598–3609. 30 indexed citations
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Owen, David L., Shawn A. Mahmud, Kieng B. Vang, et al.. (2018). Identification of Cellular Sources of IL-2 Needed for Regulatory T Cell Development and Homeostasis. The Journal of Immunology. 200(12). 3926–3933. 65 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A.. (2014). Toward a Molecular Understanding of Adaptive Immunity: A Chronology, Part III. Frontiers in Immunology. 5. 29–29. 13 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A.. (2013). Smallpox: can we still learn from the journey to eradication?. PubMed. 137(5). 895–9. 12 indexed citations
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Liou, Hsiou‐Chi & Kendall A. Smith. (2010). The roles of c‐rel and interleukin‐2 in tolerance: a molecular explanation of self–nonself discrimination. Immunology and Cell Biology. 89(1). 27–32. 16 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A. & James D. Griffin. (2008). Following the cytokine signaling pathway to leukemogenesis: a chronology. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 118(11). 3564–3573. 10 indexed citations
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Nacsa, János, Yvette Edghill‐Smith, Wen-Po Tsai, et al.. (2005). Contrasting Effects of Low-Dose IL-2 on Vaccine-Boosted Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells in Macaques Chronically Infected with SIVmac251. The Journal of Immunology. 174(4). 1913–1921. 26 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A.. (2004). The quantal theory of how the immune system discriminates between "self and non-self". PubMed. 3(1). 3–3. 27 indexed citations
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Tryniszewska, Elżbieta, János Nacsa, Mark G. Lewis, et al.. (2002). Vaccination of Macaques with Long-Standing SIVmac251 Infection Lowers the Viral Set Point After Cessation of Antiretroviral Therapy. The Journal of Immunology. 169(9). 5347–5357. 79 indexed citations
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Beadling, Carol, Anna Cereseto, Wen Fan, Mayumi Naramura, & Kendall A. Smith. (2001). Cytokine response gene 8 (CR8) regulates the cell cycle G1-S phase transition and promotes cellular survival. Oncogene. 20(14). 1771–1783. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wei, Insoo Bae, Kandasamy Krishnaraju, et al.. (1999). CR6: A third member in the MyD118 and Gadd45 gene family which functions in negative growth control. Oncogene. 18(35). 4899–4907. 133 indexed citations
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Teppler, Hedy, Gilla Kaplan, Kendall A. Smith, et al.. (1993). Efficacy of Low Doses of the Polyethylene Glycol Derivative of Interleukin-2 in Modulating the Immune Response of Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 167(2). 291–298. 44 indexed citations
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Mamon, Harvey J., et al.. (1991). Interleukin-2-Triggered Raf-1 Expression, Phosphorylation, and Associated Kinase Activity Increase through G 1 and S in CD3-Stimulated Primary Human T Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(5). 2794–2803. 73 indexed citations
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Johnson, Kirk W. & Kendall A. Smith. (1991). Molecular cloning of a novel human cdc2/CDC28-like protein kinase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 266(6). 3402–3407. 74 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A.. (1990). Interleukin-2. Scientific American. 262(3). 50–57. 30 indexed citations
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Smith, Kendall A. & Francis W. Ruscetti. (1981). T-Cell Growth Factor and the Culture of Cloned Functional T Cells. Advances in immunology. 31. 137–175. 157 indexed citations
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Crabtree, Robert H., Kendall A. Smith, & Allan Munck. (1978). Glucocorticoid receptors and sensitivity of isolated human leukemia and lymphoma cells.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 38(11 Pt 2). 4268–72. 77 indexed citations
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Baker, Paul E., et al.. (1978). The Effect of T Cell Growth Factor on the Generation of Cytolytic T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 121(6). 2168–2173. 105 indexed citations

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