Nancy Ruffing

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Nancy Ruffing is a scholar working on Immunology, Virology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Ruffing has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Virology and 5 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Nancy Ruffing's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers). Nancy Ruffing is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers). Nancy Ruffing collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Belgium. Nancy Ruffing's co-authors include Lijun Wu, Joseph Sodroski, Hyeryun Choe, Walter Newman, Nasim Kassam, James B. Rottman, Norma P. Gerard, Craig Gérard, Richard T. Wyatt and Charles R. Mackay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Ruffing

15 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

CD4-induced interaction of primary HIV-1 gp120 glycoprote... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 1999 1997 250 500 750 1000
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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. CD4-induced interaction of primary HIV-1 gp120 glycoproteins with the chemokine receptor CCR-5
    1996 1.0k citations Lijun Wu, Norma P. Gerard et al. Nature profile →
  2. The chemokine receptor CCR4 in vascular recognition by cutaneous but not intestinal memory T cells
    1999 683 citations James J. Campbell, Guttorm Haraldsen et al. Nature profile →
  3. CCR5 Levels and Expression Pattern Correlate with Infectability by Macrophage-tropic HIV-1, In Vitro
    1997 631 citations Lijun Wu, William A. Paxton et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nancy Ruffing United States 11 2.4k 1.8k 740 665 550 15 3.6k
Reiko Namikawa United States 26 1.8k 0.8× 779 0.4× 549 0.7× 438 0.7× 661 1.2× 51 3.5k
R C Gallo United States 31 2.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.6× 539 0.7× 617 0.9× 1.1k 1.9× 54 4.3k
Claudia Cicala United States 32 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 311 0.4× 541 0.8× 725 1.3× 72 3.0k
Craig B. Davis United States 18 2.8k 1.2× 2.7k 1.5× 1.0k 1.4× 1.0k 1.6× 884 1.6× 38 4.5k
Timothy Paradis United States 17 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 675 0.9× 452 0.7× 363 0.7× 25 2.4k
David Camerini United States 23 939 0.4× 598 0.3× 382 0.5× 378 0.6× 546 1.0× 43 2.1k
Toshitada Takemori Japan 37 3.1k 1.3× 272 0.1× 423 0.6× 271 0.4× 871 1.6× 86 4.2k
Naoki Oyaizu Japan 33 2.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 365 0.5× 464 0.7× 881 1.6× 106 3.3k
Gregory F. Burton United States 27 1.7k 0.7× 836 0.5× 213 0.3× 426 0.6× 433 0.8× 44 2.7k
Aurelio Cafaro Italy 30 1.5k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 651 0.9× 606 0.9× 974 1.8× 91 3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Ruffing

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nancy Ruffing. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nancy Ruffing based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nancy Ruffing. Nancy Ruffing is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Ghia, Paolo, Giuliana Strola, Luisa Granziero, et al.. (2002). Chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells are endowed with the capacity to attract CD4+, CD40L+ T cells by producing CCL22. European Journal of Immunology. 32(5). 1403–1403. 199 indexed citations
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Andrew, David P., Nancy Ruffing, Chang H. Kim, et al.. (2001). C-C Chemokine Receptor 4 Expression Defines a Major Subset of Circulating Nonintestinal Memory T Cells of Both Th1 and Th2 Potential. The Journal of Immunology. 166(1). 103–111. 170 indexed citations
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Campbell, James J., Guttorm Haraldsen, Junliang Pan, et al.. (1999). The chemokine receptor CCR4 in vascular recognition by cutaneous but not intestinal memory T cells. Nature. 400(6746). 776–780. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ruffing, Nancy, Nancy Sullivan, L Sharmeen, Joseph Sodroski, & Lijun Wu. (1998). CCR5 Has an Expanded Ligand-Binding Repertoire and Is the Primary Receptor Used by MCP-2 on Activated T Cells. Cellular Immunology. 189(2). 160–168. 70 indexed citations
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Farzan, Michael, Hyeryun Choe, Luis Vaca, et al.. (1998). A Tyrosine-Rich Region in the N Terminus of CCR5 Is Important for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Entry and Mediates an Association between gp120 and CCR5. Journal of Virology. 72(2). 1160–1164. 166 indexed citations
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Wu, Lijun, William A. Paxton, Nasim Kassam, et al.. (1997). CCR5 Levels and Expression Pattern Correlate with Infectability by Macrophage-tropic HIV-1, In Vitro. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 185(9). 1681–1692. 631 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Lijun, Greg LaRosa, Nasim Kassam, et al.. (1997). Interaction of Chemokine Receptor CCR5 with its Ligands: Multiple Domains for HIV-1 gp120 Binding and a Single Domain for Chemokine Binding. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 186(8). 1373–1381. 314 indexed citations
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Wu, Lijun, Norma P. Gerard, Richard T. Wyatt, et al.. (1996). CD4-induced interaction of primary HIV-1 gp120 glycoproteins with the chemokine receptor CCR-5. Nature. 384(6605). 179–183. 1024 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Lijun, Nancy Ruffing, Xiaojie Shi, et al.. (1996). Discrete Steps in Binding and Signaling of Interleukin-8 with Its Receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(49). 31202–31209. 91 indexed citations
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Ruffing, Nancy, Peter L. Steponkus, R. E. Pitt, & J.E. Parks. (1993). Osmometric Behavior, Hydraulic Conductivity, and Incidence of Intracellular Ice Formation in Bovine Oocytes at Different Developmental Stages. Cryobiology. 30(6). 562–580. 90 indexed citations
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Ruffing, Nancy, G.B. Anderson, R.H. BonDurant, R.L. Pashen, & D Bernoco. (1993). Antibody Response of Ewes and does to Chimeric Sheep-Goat Pregnancy1. Biology of Reproduction. 49(6). 1260–1269. 10 indexed citations
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Ruffing, Nancy, G.B. Anderson, R.H. BonDurant, W. B. Currie, & R.L. Pashen. (1993). Effects of Chimerism in Sheep-Goat Concepti that Developed from Blastomere-Aggregation Embryos1. Biology of Reproduction. 48(4). 889–904. 10 indexed citations
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Parks, John E. & Nancy Ruffing. (1992). Factors affecting low temperature survival of mammalian oocytes. Theriogenology. 37(1). 59–73. 116 indexed citations
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Anderson, G.B., Nancy Ruffing, R.H. BonDurant, & R.L. Pashen. (1991). Preliminary observations on reproduction in a female sheep-goat chimaera. Veterinary Record. 129(21). 467–469. 3 indexed citations
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Noiles, E.E., Nancy Ruffing, F.W. Kleinhans, et al.. (1990). Critical tonicity determination of sperm using fluorescent staining and flow cytometry. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 18(6). 851–8. 2 indexed citations

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