Nikolina Bąbała

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nikolina Bąbała is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikolina Bąbała has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Immunology, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nikolina Bąbała's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (7 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Nikolina Bąbała is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (7 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Nikolina Bąbała collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Portugal. Nikolina Bąbała's co-authors include Jannie Borst, Tomasz Ahrends, Wolfgang Kastenmüller, Cornelis J.M. Melief, Yanling Xiao, Heinz Jacobs, Bas Pilzecker, Aldo Spanjaard, Hans van Eenennaam and Hideo Yagita∥ and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nikolina Bąbała

10 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

CD4+ T cell help in cancer immunology and immunotherapy 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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+ T cell help in cancer immunology and immunotherapy
    2018 1.1k citations Jannie Borst, Tomasz Ahrends et al. Nature reviews. 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
Nikolina Bąbała Netherlands 9 1.3k 1.0k 509 194 183 11 1.8k
Jai Rautela Australia 19 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 1.0× 648 1.3× 136 0.7× 226 1.2× 31 2.1k
Jesse M. Zaretsky United States 8 1.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 518 1.0× 278 1.4× 183 1.0× 16 2.1k
Haoyu Sun China 20 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 385 0.8× 162 0.8× 192 1.0× 44 2.2k
Paúl E. Clavijo United States 20 1.0k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 390 0.8× 245 1.3× 165 0.9× 33 1.6k
Natalie B. Collins United States 10 826 0.7× 963 1.0× 775 1.5× 162 0.8× 189 1.0× 21 1.7k
Takumi Maruhashi Japan 15 986 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 363 0.7× 142 0.7× 92 0.5× 23 1.7k
Grégory Verdeil Switzerland 22 1.2k 1.0× 957 1.0× 409 0.8× 177 0.9× 157 0.9× 40 1.8k
Kyle K. Payne United States 22 765 0.6× 699 0.7× 544 1.1× 120 0.6× 227 1.2× 42 1.5k
Rebecca Liu United States 15 1.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 854 1.7× 173 0.9× 250 1.4× 20 2.6k
Lynne Collins United States 16 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 741 1.5× 90 0.5× 199 1.1× 21 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikolina Bąbała

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikolina Bąbała

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nikolina Bąbała. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nikolina Bąbała 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 Nikolina Bąbała. Nikolina Bąbała is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Teun van den Brand, Bram van den Broek, et al.. (2025). Histone methyltransferase DOT1L maintains cell state and restricts cytotoxic potential of CD8 T cells. Science Advances. 11(50). eadw1289–eadw1289.
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Hoogenboezem, Mark, Nikolina Bąbała, Robin van Bruggen, et al.. (2023). Humanized MISTRG as a preclinical in vivo model to study human neutrophil-mediated immune processes. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1105103–1105103. 6 indexed citations
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Ahrends, Tomasz, Tesa Severson, Nikolina Bąbała, et al.. (2019). CD4+ T cell help creates memory CD8+ T cells with innate and help-independent recall capacities. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5531–5531. 96 indexed citations
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Bąbała, Nikolina, Evert de Vries, Tomasz Ahrends, et al.. (2018). Subcellular Localization of Antigen in Keratinocytes Dictates Delivery of CD4+ T-cell Help for the CTL Response upon Therapeutic DNA Vaccination into the Skin. Cancer Immunology Research. 6(7). 835–847. 10 indexed citations
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Borst, Jannie, Tomasz Ahrends, Nikolina Bąbała, Cornelis J.M. Melief, & Wolfgang Kastenmüller. (2018). CD4+ T cell help in cancer immunology and immunotherapy. Nature reviews. Immunology. 18(10). 635–647. 1093 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ahrends, Tomasz, Aldo Spanjaard, Bas Pilzecker, et al.. (2017). CD4+ T Cell Help Confers a Cytotoxic T Cell Effector Program Including Coinhibitory Receptor Downregulation and Increased Tissue Invasiveness. Immunity. 47(5). 848–861.e5. 273 indexed citations
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Ahrends, Tomasz, Nikolina Bąbała, Yanling Xiao, et al.. (2016). CD27 Agonism Plus PD-1 Blockade Recapitulates CD4+ T-cell Help in Therapeutic Anticancer Vaccination. Cancer Research. 76(10). 2921–2931. 100 indexed citations
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Coquet, Jonathan M., Julie C. Ribot, Nikolina Bąbała, et al.. (2013). Epithelial and dendritic cells in the thymic medulla promote CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cell development via the CD27–CD70 pathway. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210(4). 715–728. 116 indexed citations
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Basten, Sander, Erica E. Davis, Ad Gillis, et al.. (2013). Mutations in LRRC50 Predispose Zebrafish and Humans to Seminomas. PLoS Genetics. 9(4). e1003384–e1003384. 35 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yanling, Ji‐Ying Song, Teun J. de Vries, et al.. (2013). Osteoclast precursors in murine bone marrow express CD27 and are impeded in osteoclast development by CD70 on activated immune cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(30). 12385–12390. 26 indexed citations
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Peperzak, Victor, Elise A. M. Veraar, Yanling Xiao, et al.. (2013). CD8+ T Cells Produce the Chemokine CXCL10 in Response to CD27/CD70 Costimulation To Promote Generation of the CD8+ Effector T Cell Pool. The Journal of Immunology. 191(6). 3025–3036. 66 indexed citations

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