Ofer Levy

20.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
215 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Ofer Levy is a scholar working on Immunology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ofer Levy has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Immunology, 48 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 45 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ofer Levy's work include Immune Response and Inflammation (84 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (46 papers) and Immune responses and vaccinations (33 papers). Ofer Levy is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (84 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (46 papers) and Immune responses and vaccinations (33 papers). Ofer Levy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Italy. Ofer Levy's co-authors include David J. Dowling, Tobias R. Kollmann, Hagit Achdout, Ofer Mandelboim, Zurit Levine, Amir Toporik, Amit Novik, Liat Dassa, Noa Stanietsky and Hrvoje Šimić and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ofer Levy

208 papers receiving 12.8k 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 interaction of TIGIT with PVR and PVRL2 inhibits human NK cell cytotoxicity

2009 2.5k citations Ofer Levy, Zurit Levine et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Innate immunity of the newborn: basic mechanisms and clinical correlates

2007 905 citations Ofer Levy profile →
Innate Immune Function by Toll-like Receptors: Distinct Responses in Newborns and the Elderly

2012 418 citations Ofer Levy et al. profile →
Protecting the Newborn and Young Infant from Infectious Diseases: Lessons from Immune Ontogeny

2017 300 citations Ofer Levy et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ofer Levy	6.1k	2.7k	2.2k	2.1k	1.7k	215	13.2k
David M. Ojcius	4.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	8.8k 4.1×	785 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	299	19.8k
Robert A. Clark	8.7k 1.4×	1.7k 0.6×	5.7k 2.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	538	24.5k
William Cookson	3.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	7.3k 3.4×	3.6k 1.7×	845 0.5×	191	21.7k
Thomas Lehner	4.4k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	4.9k 2.3×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	377	20.1k
Li Liu	2.7k 0.4×	3.7k 1.4×	5.3k 2.4×	1.9k 0.9×	3.6k 2.2×	586	20.5k
Gil Mor	10.2k 1.7×	3.1k 1.2×	5.8k 2.7×	1.5k 0.7×	965 0.6×	342	22.7k
Sabra L. Klein	4.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	837 0.4×	5.3k 3.2×	204	20.7k
Hywel C Williams	2.5k 0.4×	3.7k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	630	36.2k
Dominic Kwiatkowski	6.3k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	4.3k 2.0×	841 0.4×	1.8k 1.1×	326	22.3k
H. Hugh Fudenberg	9.5k 1.5×	2.4k 0.9×	4.5k 2.1×	1.6k 0.8×	970 0.6×	653	22.1k

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Angelidou, Asimenia, Amy C Sherman, Cameron McLoughlin, et al.. (2025). Product and trial design considerations on the path towards a vaccine to combat opioid overdose. npj Vaccines. 10(1). 35–35. 2 indexed citations

Fouda, Genevieve G., Anjali Singh, Holly Janes, et al.. (2025). Integration of Preclinical and Clinical Vaccine Safety and Immunogenicity Testing for Development of a Pediatric HIV Vaccine to Achieve Protective HIV Immunity Prior to Adolescence. Current HIV Research. 23(6). 510–524.

Amodio, Donato, Asimenia Angelidou, Nicola Cotugno, et al.. (2024). Biomarkers of vaccine safety and efficacy in vulnerable populations: Lessons from the fourth international precision vaccines conference. Vaccine. 43(Pt 2). 126477–126477.

Brook, Byron, Valérie Duval, Soumik Barman, et al.. (2024). Adjuvantation of a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine with controlled tissue-specific expression of an mRNA encoding IL-12p70. Science Translational Medicine. 16(757). eadm8451–eadm8451. 19 indexed citations

Viodé, Arthur, Kinga K. Smolen, Patrick van Zalm, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal plasma proteomic analysis of 1117 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 identifies features associated with severity and outcomes. Science Advances. 10(21). eadl5762–eadl5762. 11 indexed citations

Nanishi, Etsuro, et al.. (2023). Precision Vaccinology Approaches for the Development of Adjuvanted Vaccines Targeted to Distinct Vulnerable Populations. Pharmaceutics. 15(6). 1766–1766. 8 indexed citations

Guise, Amanda J., Tojo Nakayama, Christoph N. Schlaffner, et al.. (2023). Integrative systems biology characterizes immune-mediated neurodevelopmental changes in murine Zika virus microcephaly. iScience. 26(7). 106909–106909. 3 indexed citations

Viodé, Arthur, Patrick van Zalm, Kinga K. Smolen, et al.. (2023). A simple, time- and cost-effective, high-throughput depletion strategy for deep plasma proteomics. Science Advances. 9(13). eadf9717–eadf9717. 48 indexed citations

Kelly, Rachel S., Su H. Chu, Priyadarshini Kachroo, et al.. (2023). Elevated third trimester corticosteroid levels are associated with fewer offspring infections. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10461–10461. 1 indexed citations

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Nanishi, Etsuro, Ofer Levy, & Al Ozonoff. (2022). Waning effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in older adults: a rapid review. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 18(5). 2045857–2045857. 24 indexed citations

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Top, Karina A., Robert T. Chen, Ofer Levy, et al.. (2022). Advancing the Science of Vaccine Safety During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic and Beyond: Launching an International Network of Special Immunization Services. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(Supplement_1). S11–S17. 12 indexed citations

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Gutcher, Ilona, Wolf‐Dietrich Doecke, Merlin V. Luetke-Eversloh, et al.. (2020). Characterization of BAY 1905254, an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Targeting the Immunoglobulin-Like Domain Containing Receptor 2 (ILDR2). Cancer Immunology Research. 8(7). 895–911. 7 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaoyu, Eran Ophir, Zoya Alteber, et al.. (2019). Mouse PVRIG Has CD8+ T Cell–Specific Coinhibitory Functions and Dampens Antitumor Immunity. Cancer Immunology Research. 7(2). 244–256. 45 indexed citations

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Whelan, Sarah, Eran Ophir, Maya F. Kotturi, et al.. (2019). PVRIG and PVRL2 Are Induced in Cancer and Inhibit CD8+ T-cell Function. Cancer Immunology Research. 7(2). 257–268. 125 indexed citations

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Cotugno, Nicola, Alessandra Ruggiero, Veronica Santilli, et al.. (2019). OMIC Technologies and Vaccine Development: From the Identification of Vulnerable Individuals to the Formulation of Invulnerable Vaccines. Journal of Immunology Research. 2019. 1–10. 24 indexed citations

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Dowling, David J., Evan A. Scott, Annette Scheid, et al.. (2017). Toll-like receptor 8 agonist nanoparticles mimic immunomodulating effects of the live BCG vaccine and enhance neonatal innate and adaptive immune responses. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 140(5). 1339–1350. 108 indexed citations

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Lapidot, Rotem, et al.. (2017). Hepatic Legionella pneumophila Infection in an Infant With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 37(4). 356–358. 2 indexed citations

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Levy, Ofer, et al.. (2006). The Adenosine System Selectively Inhibits TLR-Mediated TNF-α Production in the Human Newborn. The Journal of Immunology. 177(3). 1956–1966. 191 indexed citations

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Canny, G., Ofer Levy, Glenn T. Furuta, et al.. (2002). Lipid mediator-induced expression of bactericidal/ permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in human mucosal epithelia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3902–3907. 242 indexed citations

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Juran, Ilan, et al.. (1998). Recent developments in soil-nailing - Design & practice. 259–284. 1 indexed citations

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