Mohamed H. Sayegh

38.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
383 papers, 30.4k citations indexed

About

Mohamed H. Sayegh is a scholar working on Immunology, Surgery and Transplantation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohamed H. Sayegh has authored 383 papers receiving a total of 30.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 240 papers in Immunology, 118 papers in Surgery and 71 papers in Transplantation. Recurrent topics in Mohamed H. Sayegh's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (175 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (149 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (105 papers). Mohamed H. Sayegh is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (175 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (149 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (105 papers). Mohamed H. Sayegh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Mohamed H. Sayegh's co-authors include Laurence A. Turka, Wayne W. Hancock, Samia J. Khoury, Anil Chandraker, Nader Najafian, Alan D. Salama, Indira Guleria, Hideo Yagita∥, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Xueli Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mohamed H. Sayegh

381 papers receiving 29.9k citations

Hit Papers

Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition contributes t... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2007 2008 2006 2004 1994 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. Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition contributes to cardiac fibrosis
    2007 1.7k citations Mohamed H. Sayegh et al. profile →
  2. Identification of cells initiating human melanomas
    2008 1.1k citations Mohamed H. Sayegh et al. profile →
  3. Tissue expression of PD-L1 mediates peripheral T cell tolerance
    2006 1.0k citations Mary Keir, Spencer C. Liang et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  4. Delayed graft function in kidney transplantation
    2004 781 citations Mohamed H. Sayegh et al. profile →
  5. Oral Tolerance: Immunologic Mechanisms and Treatment of Animal and Human Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases by Oral Administration of Autoantigens
    1994 746 citations Howard L. Weiner, Samia J. Khoury et al. profile →
  6. The Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) Pathway Regulates Autoimmune Diabetes in Nonobese Diabetic (NOD) Mice
    2003 654 citations Mohammed Javeed Ansari, Alan D. Salama et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  7. Requirement for T-cell apoptosis in the induction of peripheral transplantation tolerance
    1999 512 citations Yongsheng Li, Mohamed H. Sayegh et al. profile →
  8. The Role of T-Cell Costimulatory Activation Pathways in Transplant Rejection
    1998 446 citations Mohamed H. Sayegh, Laurence A. Turka profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mohamed H. Sayegh United States 91 16.2k 7.3k 5.8k 5.3k 5.2k 383 30.4k
Wayne W. Hancock United States 94 15.1k 0.9× 6.8k 0.9× 5.5k 1.0× 7.1k 1.3× 3.4k 0.7× 434 29.8k
Laurence A. Turka United States 83 17.4k 1.1× 3.4k 0.5× 4.5k 0.8× 6.5k 1.2× 3.2k 0.6× 276 26.7k
Robert B. Colvin United States 91 8.3k 0.5× 9.6k 1.3× 2.4k 0.4× 4.8k 0.9× 8.4k 1.6× 423 28.8k
Angus W. Thomson United States 87 16.9k 1.0× 4.0k 0.5× 2.9k 0.5× 6.3k 1.2× 2.9k 0.6× 542 27.2k
Jonathan S. Bromberg United States 65 8.7k 0.5× 3.9k 0.5× 3.1k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.5× 348 17.1k
Christian P. Larsen United States 75 13.1k 0.8× 5.8k 0.8× 2.6k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 6.3k 1.2× 289 22.3k
Gerhard Opelz Germany 74 6.3k 0.4× 6.7k 0.9× 3.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 9.4k 1.8× 645 22.6k
Dominique Charron France 67 9.1k 0.6× 2.6k 0.3× 1.8k 0.3× 2.7k 0.5× 2.9k 0.5× 459 17.1k
Thomas C. Pearson United States 68 7.7k 0.5× 3.8k 0.5× 1.5k 0.3× 1.8k 0.3× 3.5k 0.7× 276 16.4k
Anthony J. Demetris United States 81 3.7k 0.2× 11.0k 1.5× 3.0k 0.5× 3.4k 0.6× 6.0k 1.1× 379 23.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moghnieh, Rima, et al.. (2025). Antimicrobial resistance surveillance and trends in armed conflict, fragile, and non-conflict countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 14(1). 14–14. 5 indexed citations
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Moghnieh, Rima, et al.. (2023). The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury during Colistin Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study from Lebanon. Antibiotics. 12(7). 1183–1183. 4 indexed citations
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Moore, Robert F., Dean A. Heathcote, Marwan Mounayar, et al.. (2011). The Novel Role of SERPINB9 in Cytotoxic Protection of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 187(5). 2252–2260. 28 indexed citations
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D’Addio, Francesca, Leonardo V. Riella, Bechara Mfarrej, et al.. (2011). The Link between the PDL1 Costimulatory Pathway and Th17 in Fetomaternal Tolerance. The Journal of Immunology. 187(9). 4530–4541. 143 indexed citations
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Boenisch, Olaf, Mohamed H. Sayegh, & Nader Najafian. (2008). Negative T-cell costimulatory pathways: their role in regulating alloimmune responses. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 13(4). 373–378. 13 indexed citations
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Fife, Brian T., Indira Guleria, Melanie Gubbels Bupp, et al.. (2006). Insulin-induced remission in new-onset NOD mice is maintained by the PD-1–PD-L1 pathway. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(12). 2737–2747. 265 indexed citations
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Keir, Mary, Spencer C. Liang, Indira Guleria, et al.. (2006). Tissue expression of PD-L1 mediates peripheral T cell tolerance. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(4). 883–895. 1010 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shoji, Tsuyoshi, John C. Wain, Stuart L. Houser, et al.. (2005). Indirect Recognition of MHC Class I Allopeptides Accelerates Lung Allograft Rejection in Miniature Swine. American Journal of Transplantation. 5(7). 1626–1634. 13 indexed citations
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Yamada, Akira, Toshiro Ito, Reza Abdi, et al.. (2003). Allorecognition and Effector Pathways of Islet Allograft Rejection in Normal versus Nonobese Diabetic Mice. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 14(8). 2168–2175. 41 indexed citations
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Harada, Hiroshi, Alan D. Salama, Masayuki Sho, et al.. (2003). The role of the ICOS-B7h T cell costimulatory pathway in transplantation immunity. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 112(2). 234–243. 117 indexed citations
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Kishimoto, Koji, Sigrid Sandner, Jaime Imitola, et al.. (2002). Th1 cytokines, programmed cell death, and alloreactive T cell clone size in transplant tolerance. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 109(11). 1471–1479. 57 indexed citations
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Donato, José L., Jeffery L. Kutok, Tao Cheng, et al.. (2002). Human HTm4 is a hematopoietic cell cycle regulator. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 109(1). 51–58. 6 indexed citations
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Donato, José L., Jeffery L. Kutok, Tao Cheng, et al.. (2002). Human HTm4 is a hematopoietic cell cycle regulator. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 109(1). 51–58. 48 indexed citations
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Rusche, J R, Lynn Cheatham, Kazuhiko Yamada, et al.. (2001). CTLA4Ig and donor-specific transfusion prolongs cardiac allograft survival in the miniature swine. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 20(2). 150–150. 3 indexed citations
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Kishimoto, Koji, Victor Dong, Shohreh Issazadeh‐Navikas, et al.. (2000). The role of CD154-CD40 versus CD28-B7 costimulatory pathways in regulating allogeneic Th1 and Th2 responses in vivo. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 106(1). 63–72. 114 indexed citations
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Dong, Victor, et al.. (2000). The role of costimulatory molecules as targets for new immunosuppressives in transplantation. Current Opinion in Urology. 10(2). 57–62. 27 indexed citations
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Sayegh, Mohamed H., et al.. (1995). Intact parathyroid hormone levels in renal insufficiency. Calcified Tissue International. 57(5). 329–335. 43 indexed citations
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Hancock, Wayne W., Samia J. Khoury, Charles B. Carpenter, & Mohamed H. Sayegh. (1994). Differential effects of oral versus intrathymic administration of polymorphic major histocompatibility complex class II peptides on mononuclear and endothelial cell activation and cytokine expression during a delayed-type hypersensitivity response.. PubMed Central. 144(6). 1149–58. 33 indexed citations
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Adams, David, Mary E. Russell, Wayne W. Hancock, et al.. (1993). Chronic Rejection in Experimental Cardiac Transplantation: Studies in the Lewis‐F344 Model. Immunological Reviews. 134(1). 5–19. 87 indexed citations
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Hancock, Wayne W., et al.. (1993). ORAL, BUT NOT INTRAVENOUS, ALLOANTIGEN PREVENTS ACCELERATED ALLOGRAFT REJECTION BY SELECTIVE INTRAGRAFT TH2 CELL ACTIVATION. Transplantation. 55(5). 1112–1117. 107 indexed citations

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