Nicholas Collins

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
26 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Collins is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Collins has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Immunology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Collins's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (9 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (5 papers). Nicholas Collins is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (9 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (5 papers). Nicholas Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Nicholas Collins's co-authors include Thomas Gebhardt, Laura K. Mackay, Yasmine Belkaid, Scott N. Mueller, William R. Heath, Francis R. Carbone, Federico Carbone, Angus T. Stock, Javier Vega‐Ramos and Michael Inouye and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Collins

24 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The developmental pathway for CD103+CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells of skin

2013 955 citations Laura K. Mackay, Z. Joel et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Nutritional regulation of microbiota-derived metabolites: Implications for immunity and inflammation

2024 65 citations Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Nicholas Collins et al. Immunity profile →
Microbiota-derived bile acids antagonize the host androgen receptor and drive anti-tumor immunity

2025 18 citations Wen‐Bing Jin, Leyi Xiao et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Collins United States	18	2.0k	488	450	341	269	26	2.8k
Abhishek V. Garg United States	16	1.7k 0.9×	508 1.0×	381 0.8×	408 1.2×	353 1.3×	17	2.7k
Seong‐Ji Han United States	17	1.5k 0.7×	690 1.4×	278 0.6×	464 1.4×	425 1.6×	24	2.7k
Katharina Lahl Germany	27	2.6k 1.4×	399 0.8×	610 1.4×	295 0.9×	130 0.5×	42	3.3k
Pedro L. Vieira Netherlands	15	2.4k 1.2×	332 0.7×	368 0.8×	249 0.7×	124 0.5×	22	3.0k
Milica Vukmanovic‐Stejic United Kingdom	28	2.3k 1.2×	401 0.8×	350 0.8×	612 1.8×	438 1.6×	45	3.5k
Caroline E. Sutton Ireland	17	2.9k 1.5×	940 1.9×	394 0.9×	569 1.7×	331 1.2×	25	4.2k
Pushpa Pandiyan United States	21	1.6k 0.8×	490 1.0×	383 0.9×	278 0.8×	70 0.3×	37	2.4k
Samira Tamoutounour France	21	3.1k 1.6×	873 1.8×	380 0.8×	398 1.2×	682 2.5×	22	4.2k
Clare L. Bennett United Kingdom	24	2.0k 1.0×	449 0.9×	525 1.2×	317 0.9×	286 1.1×	49	2.8k
Pascale Alard United States	26	1.4k 0.7×	541 1.1×	292 0.6×	178 0.5×	163 0.6×	65	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Collins

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Collins

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20 of 20 papers shown

Iliev, Iliyan D., J. Magarian Blander, Nicholas Collins, et al.. (2025). Microbiota-mediated mechanisms of mucosal immunity across the lifespan. Nature Immunology. 26(10). 1645–1659.

Jin, Wen‐Bing, Leyi Xiao, Mingeum Jeong, et al.. (2025). Microbiota-derived bile acids antagonize the host androgen receptor and drive anti-tumor immunity. Cell. 188(9). 2336–2353.e38. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Jeong, Mingeum & Nicholas Collins. (2024). Nutritional modulation of antitumor immunity. Current Opinion in Immunology. 87. 102422–102422. 4 indexed citations

Arifuzzaman, Mohammad, Nicholas Collins, Chun‐Jun Guo, & David Artis. (2024). Nutritional regulation of microbiota-derived metabolites: Implications for immunity and inflammation. Immunity. 57(1). 14–27. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

Collins, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Acute Stent Thrombosis in an Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Patient. JACC Case Reports. 29(17). 102508–102508.

Chi, Liang, Can Liu, Inta Gribonika, et al.. (2024). Sexual dimorphism in skin immunity is mediated by an androgen-ILC2-dendritic cell axis. Science. 384(6692). eadk6200–eadk6200. 38 indexed citations

Han, Seong‐Ji, Apollo Stacy, Verena M. Link, et al.. (2023). Microbiota configuration determines nutritional immune optimization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(49). e2304905120–e2304905120. 7 indexed citations

Link, Verena M., Djalma S. Lima‐Junior, Nicolas Bouladoux, et al.. (2022). Immune checkpoint inhibitors unleash pathogenic immune responses against the microbiota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(26). e2200348119–e2200348119. 35 indexed citations

Drummond, Rebecca A., Jigar V. Desai, Emily Ricotta, et al.. (2022). Long-term antibiotic exposure promotes mortality after systemic fungal infection by driving lymphocyte dysfunction and systemic escape of commensal bacteria. Cell Host & Microbe. 30(7). 1020–1033.e6. 75 indexed citations

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Collins, Nicholas & Yasmine Belkaid. (2022). Control of immunity via nutritional interventions. Immunity. 55(2). 210–223. 72 indexed citations

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Lima‐Junior, Djalma S., Siddharth R. Krishnamurthy, Nicolas Bouladoux, et al.. (2021). Endogenous retroviruses promote homeostatic and inflammatory responses to the microbiota. Cell. 184(14). 3794–3811.e19. 120 indexed citations

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Pascutti, María Fernanda, Nicholas Collins, Giso Brasser, et al.. (2019). Peripheral and systemic antigens elicit an expandable pool of resident memory CD8 ⁺ T cells in the bone marrow. European Journal of Immunology. 49(6). 853–872. 20 indexed citations

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Collins, Nicholas, Seong‐Ji Han, Michel Enamorado, et al.. (2019). The Bone Marrow Protects and Optimizes Immunological Memory during Dietary Restriction. Cell. 178(5). 1088–1101.e15. 186 indexed citations

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Harrison, Oliver J., Jonathan L. Linehan, Han‐Yu Shih, et al.. (2018). Commensal-specific T cell plasticity promotes rapid tissue adaptation to injury. Science. 363(6422). 220 indexed citations

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Park, Chang Ook, Xiujun Fu, Xiaodong Jiang, et al.. (2018). Staged development of long-lived T-cell receptor alpha beta T(H)17 resident memory T-cell population to Candida albicans after skin infection. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 142(2). 5 indexed citations

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Collins, Nicholas & Yasmine Belkaid. (2017). Do the Microbiota Influence Vaccines and Protective Immunity to Pathogens?. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 10(2). a028860–a028860. 29 indexed citations

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Park, Chang Ook, Xiujun Fu, Xiaodong Jiang, et al.. (2017). Staged development of long-lived T-cell receptor αβ TH17 resident memory T-cell population to Candida albicans after skin infection. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 142(2). 647–662. 100 indexed citations

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Han, Seong‐Ji, Arielle Glatman Zaretsky, Vinícius Andrade‐Oliveira, et al.. (2017). White Adipose Tissue Is a Reservoir for Memory T Cells and Promotes Protective Memory Responses to Infection. Immunity. 47(6). 1154–1168.e6. 180 indexed citations

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Collins, Nicholas, Xiaodong Jiang, Ali Zaid, et al.. (2016). Skin CD4+ memory T cells exhibit combined cluster-mediated retention and equilibration with the circulation. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11514–11514. 146 indexed citations

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Mackay, Laura K., Z. Joel, Nicholas Collins, et al.. (2013). The developmental pathway for CD103+CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells of skin. Nature Immunology. 14(12). 1294–1301. 955 indexed citations breakdown →

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