Rustom Antia

14.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
122 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Rustom Antia is a scholar working on Immunology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Rustom Antia has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Immunology, 39 papers in Epidemiology and 28 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Rustom Antia's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (47 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (44 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (27 papers). Rustom Antia is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (47 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (44 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (27 papers). Rustom Antia collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Rustom Antia's co-authors include Rafi Ahmed, Susan M. Kaech, Todd C. Becker, E. John Wherry, Mark K. Slifka, Jason K. Whitmire, David Masopust, Andreas Handel, Carl T. Bergstrom and Roland R. Regoes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rustom Antia

117 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Lineage relationship and protective immunity of memory CD8 T cell subsets

2003 1.5k citations Rustom Antia, Rafi Ahmed et al. profile →
Humoral Immunity Due to Long-Lived Plasma Cells

1998 954 citations Mark K. Slifka, Rustom Antia et al. profile →
Interleukin 15 Is Required for Proliferative Renewal of Virus-specific Memory CD8 T Cells

2002 572 citations Rustom Antia, Rafi Ahmed et al. profile →
Emerging pathogens: the epidemiology and evolution of species jumps

2005 497 citations Rustom Antia et al. profile →
Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity

2021 221 citations Jennie S. Lavine, Ottar N. Bjørnstad et al. Science profile →
The changing epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2

2022 177 citations Katia Koelle, Michael A. Martin et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rustom Antia United States	43	4.9k	1.7k	1.7k	1.6k	1.6k	122	9.6k
Patrick C. Wilson United States	58	5.9k 1.2×	5.1k 2.9×	2.5k 1.4×	756 0.5×	790 0.5×	155	11.9k
Mark K. Slifka United States	53	6.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	654 0.4×	847 0.5×	140	10.4k
Miles P. Davenport Australia	54	4.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	4.3k 2.4×	527 0.3×	935 0.6×	256	10.8k
Patrick J. Blair United States	45	2.2k 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	467 0.3×	1.3k 0.8×	118	6.4k
Robert F. Garry United States	43	1.3k 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	3.2k 1.8×	568 0.4×	882 0.6×	227	7.1k
Jason Greenbaum United States	36	3.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	3.7k 2.1×	419 0.3×	867 0.6×	82	9.7k
Maria Rosaria Capobianchi Italy	49	1.9k 0.4×	2.8k 1.6×	4.6k 2.6×	527 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	396	9.5k
Sean P. J. Whelan United States	53	2.4k 0.5×	3.4k 2.0×	6.0k 3.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	125	11.9k
Sarah C. Gilbert United Kingdom	63	5.0k 1.0×	3.8k 2.2×	4.2k 2.4×	1.5k 0.9×	3.3k 2.1×	229	12.4k
Eric M. Leroy Gabon	59	2.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.4×	8.9k 5.1×	619 0.4×	4.1k 2.6×	199	13.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bull, James J., Katia Koelle, & Rustom Antia. (2025). Waning immunity drives respiratory virus evolution and reinfection. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 13(1). 101–110.

Bull, James J., Scott L. Nuismer, Christopher H. Remien, Megan E. Griffiths, & Rustom Antia. (2024). Recombinant transmissible vaccines will be intrinsically contained despite the ability to superinfect. Expert Review of Vaccines. 23(1). 294–302. 1 indexed citations

Moore, Mia, et al.. (2023). When does humoral memory enhance infection?. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011377–e1011377. 1 indexed citations

Mattingly, Cameron, M. Williams, Sakeenah L. Hicks, et al.. (2023). Prevention of respiratory virus transmission by resident memory CD8+ T cells. Nature. 626(7998). 392–400. 19 indexed citations

Williams, M., Anandi N. Sheth, Alexander N. Wein, et al.. (2023). The menstrual cycle regulates migratory CD4 T-cell surveillance in the female reproductive tract via CCR5 signaling. Mucosal Immunology. 17(1). 41–53. 3 indexed citations

Bull, James J. & Rustom Antia. (2022). Which ‘imperfect vaccines’ encourage the evolution of higher virulence?. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 10(1). 202–213. 13 indexed citations

Koelle, Katia, Michael A. Martin, Rustom Antia, Ben Lopman, & Natalie E. Dean. (2022). The changing epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 375(6585). 1116–1121. 177 indexed citations breakdown →

Lavine, Jennie S., Ottar N. Bjørnstad, & Rustom Antia. (2021). Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity. Science. 371(6530). 741–745. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

Antia, Rustom, Hasan Ahmed, & James J. Bull. (2021). Directed attenuation to enhance vaccine immunity. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1008602–e1008602. 5 indexed citations

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Zarnitsyna, Veronika I., Rama Akondy, Hasan Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Dynamics and turnover of memory CD8 T cell responses following yellow fever vaccination. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(10). e1009468–e1009468. 12 indexed citations

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Chang, Daniel Y., Andreas Wieland, Zheng-Rong Tiger Li, et al.. (2020). T Cell Receptor Diversity and Lineage Relationship between Virus-Specific CD8 T Cell Subsets during Chronic Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infection. Journal of Virology. 94(20). 12 indexed citations

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Matrajt, Laura, M. Elizabeth Halloran, & Rustom Antia. (2019). Successes and Failures of the Live-attenuated Influenza Vaccine: Can We Do Better?. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 70(6). 1029–1037. 12 indexed citations

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Antia, Rustom, et al.. (2019). A dynamical motif comprising the interactions between antigens and CD8 T cells may underlie the outcomes of viral infections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(35). 17393–17398. 31 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Nathan T., et al.. (2019). Incomplete influenza A virus genomes occur frequently but are readily complemented during localized viral spread. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3526–3526. 98 indexed citations

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Bull, James J., Scott L. Nuismer, & Rustom Antia. (2019). Recombinant vector vaccine evolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(7). e1006857–e1006857. 37 indexed citations

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Li, Zheng-Rong Tiger, Veronika I. Zarnitsyna, Anice C. Lowen, et al.. (2019). Why Are CD8 T Cell Epitopes of Human Influenza A Virus Conserved?. Journal of Virology. 93(6). 24 indexed citations

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Dale, Gordon, Caitlin Bohannon, Darío Dilernia, et al.. (2019). Clustered Mutations at the Murine and Human IgH Locus Exhibit Significant Linkage Consistent with Templated Mutagenesis. The Journal of Immunology. 203(5). 1252–1264. 2 indexed citations

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Handel, Andreas, et al.. (2018). Exploring the impact of inoculum dose on host immunity and morbidity to inform model-based vaccine design. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(10). e1006505–e1006505. 34 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Hasan, Andreas Handel, Nichole E. Carlson, et al.. (2018). Heterogeneity and longevity of antibody memory to viruses and vaccines. PLoS Biology. 16(8). e2006601–e2006601. 84 indexed citations

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Handel, Andreas, Ira M. Longini, & Rustom Antia. (2006). What is the best control strategy for multiple infectious disease outbreaks?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1611). 833–837. 63 indexed citations

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