Sonia Sharma

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sonia Sharma is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia Sharma has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Immunology, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sonia Sharma's work include interferon and immune responses (10 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and T-cell and Retrovirus Studies (4 papers). Sonia Sharma is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (10 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and T-cell and Retrovirus Studies (4 papers). Sonia Sharma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Sonia Sharma's co-authors include John Hiscott, Nathalie Grandvaux, Rongtuan Lin, Benjamin R. tenOever, Guoping Zhou, Mohit Jain, Anjana Rao, Roland Nilsson, Patrick G. Hogan and Toshimori Kitami and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sonia Sharma

39 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Triggering the Interferon Antiviral Response Through an IKK-Related Pathway

2003 1.4k citations Sonia Sharma, Nathalie Grandvaux et al. Science profile →
Metabolite Profiling Identifies a Key Role for Glycine in Rapid Cancer Cell Proliferation

2012 1.1k citations Mohit Jain, Roland Nilsson 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
Sonia Sharma United States	28	2.6k	2.4k	1.3k	783	668	42	5.3k
João P. B. Viola Brazil	33	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	825 0.6×	611 0.8×	284 0.4×	73	4.2k
Xin Hu United States	28	1.5k 0.6×	743 0.3×	383 0.3×	272 0.3×	490 0.7×	109	3.5k
Gottfried Baier Austria	49	4.2k 1.6×	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	416 0.6×	163	7.9k
John C. Reed United States	12	3.5k 1.3×	640 0.3×	488 0.4×	876 1.1×	503 0.8×	12	5.2k
Guido Wabnitz Germany	31	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	210 0.2×	421 0.5×	263 0.4×	66	3.8k
Pinaki Datta United States	19	5.5k 2.1×	3.0k 1.2×	336 0.3×	409 0.5×	803 1.2×	26	6.6k
Jugnu Jain United States	21	2.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	856 0.6×	722 0.9×	319 0.5×	38	4.2k
Katja Wiegmann Germany	32	3.8k 1.4×	2.6k 1.1×	960 0.7×	678 0.9×	946 1.4×	42	6.6k
Sudan He China	25	4.8k 1.8×	2.4k 1.0×	777 0.6×	780 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	59	6.2k
Hubert Hug Germany	28	4.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.6×	710 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	505 0.8×	42	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia Sharma

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McArdle, Sara, et al.. (2026). Unmasking early microglial remodeling in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 19. 1720382–1720382.

Sharma, Sonia, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in tissue-specific immunity and immunology. Science. 389(6760). 599–603. 3 indexed citations

Kwan, Alan C., Hongwei Ji, Brian Claggett, et al.. (2025). Sex-Divergent Blood Pressure Associations With Multiorgan System Metabolic Stress—Brief Report. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 45(4). 557–561. 1 indexed citations

Mathews, Ian T., Kiyokazu Kakugawa, Leo A. B. Joosten, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in adenosine deaminase activity associate with disparities in SARS-CoV-2 innate immunity. iScience. 28(5). 112418–112418. 2 indexed citations

Reina‐Campos, Miguel, Maximilian Heeg, Ian T. Mathews, et al.. (2023). Metabolic programs of T cell tissue residency empower tumour immunity. Nature. 621(7977). 179–187. 73 indexed citations

Miyauchi, Sayuri, Sangwoo S. Kim, Sonia Sharma, et al.. (2023). Human papillomavirus E5 suppresses immunity via inhibition of the immunoproteasome and STING pathway. Cell Reports. 42(5). 112508–112508. 34 indexed citations

Nallamshetty, Shriram, Jeramie D. Watrous, Tao Long, et al.. (2021). Nontargeted mass spectrometry of dried blood spots for interrogation of the human circulating metabolome. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 56(8). e4772–e4772. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Xiao, Jun Xu, Sara Brin Rosenthal, et al.. (2020). Identification of Lineage-Specific Transcription Factors That Prevent Activation of Hepatic Stellate Cells and Promote Fibrosis Resolution. Gastroenterology. 158(6). 1728–1744.e14. 136 indexed citations

Dhanwani, Rekha, Mariko Takahashi, Ian T. Mathews, et al.. (2020). Cellular sensing of extracellular purine nucleosides triggers an innate IFN-β response. Science Advances. 6(30). eaba3688–eaba3688. 25 indexed citations

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Rehage, Nina, Gesine Behrens, Andreas Maiser, et al.. (2018). Binding of NUFIP2 to Roquin promotes recognition and regulation of ICOS mRNA. Nature Communications. 9(1). 299–299. 28 indexed citations

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Loureiro, María Eugenia, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Xiǎolì Chī, et al.. (2018). DDX3 suppresses type I interferons and favors viral replication during Arenavirus infection. PLoS Pathogens. 14(7). e1007125–e1007125. 39 indexed citations

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Chandra, Shilpi, James Gray, William B. Kiosses, et al.. (2018). Mrp1 is involved in lipid presentation and iNKT cell activation by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4279–4279. 11 indexed citations

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Dhanwani, Rekha, Mariko Takahashi, & Sonia Sharma. (2017). Cytosolic sensing of immuno-stimulatory DNA, the enemy within. Current Opinion in Immunology. 50. 82–87. 86 indexed citations

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Chen, Runqiang, Simon Bélanger, Megan A. Frederick, et al.. (2014). In Vivo RNA Interference Screens Identify Regulators of Antiviral CD4+ and CD8+ T Cell Differentiation. Immunity. 41(2). 325–338. 85 indexed citations

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Jain, Mohit, Roland Nilsson, Sonia Sharma, et al.. (2012). Metabolite Profiling Identifies a Key Role for Glycine in Rapid Cancer Cell Proliferation. Science. 336(6084). 1040–1044. 1101 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gwack, Yousang, Sonia Sharma, Julie Nardone, et al.. (2006). A genome-wide Drosophila RNAi screen identifies DYRK-family kinases as regulators of NFAT. Nature. 441(7093). 646–650. 305 indexed citations

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Mamane, Yaël, Sonia Sharma, Nathalie Grandvaux, Eduardo Osorio-Hernández, & John Hiscott. (2002). Review: IRF-4 Activities in HTLV-I-Induced T Cell Leukemogenesis. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 22(1). 135–143. 27 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonia, Nathalie Grandvaux, Yaël Mamane, et al.. (2002). Regulation of IFN Regulatory Factor 4 Expression in Human T Cell Leukemia Virus-I-Transformed T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 169(6). 3120–3130. 50 indexed citations

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Baetu, Tudor M., Hakju Kwon, Sonia Sharma, Nathalie Grandvaux, & John Hiscott. (2001). Disruption of NF-κB Signaling Reveals a Novel Role for NF-κB in the Regulation of TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand Expression. The Journal of Immunology. 167(6). 3164–3173. 93 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonia, et al.. (2000). Activation and Regulation of Interferon Regulatory Factor 4 in HTLV Type 1-Infected T Lymphocytes. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 16(16). 1613–1622. 38 indexed citations

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