Sue Tsai

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Sue Tsai is a scholar working on Immunology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sue Tsai has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Immunology, 18 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sue Tsai's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (20 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (18 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (16 papers). Sue Tsai is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (20 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (18 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (16 papers). Sue Tsai collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Spain. Sue Tsai's co-authors include Pere Santamaría, Xavier Clemente‐Casares, Daniel A. Winer, Shawn Winer, Helen Luck, Afshin Shameli, Yang Yang, Santiswarup Singha, Kun Shao and Jinguo Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sue Tsai

49 papers receiving 3.4k 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 Intestinal Immune System in Obesity and Insulin Resistance

2016 371 citations Daniel A. Winer, Helen Luck et al. Cell Metabolism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sue Tsai Canada	26	1.4k	977	720	576	457	51	3.4k
Hubert M. Tse United States	36	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	964 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	611 1.3×	80	3.6k
Jeff Reese United States	36	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	830 1.2×	416 0.7×	125 0.3×	128	5.4k
Jon D. Piganelli United States	42	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 2.0×	1.6k 2.8×	781 1.7×	90	4.9k
Lev Becker United States	26	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	280 0.4×	429 0.7×	220 0.5×	47	3.6k
Min Luo China	36	665 0.5×	2.3k 2.4×	289 0.4×	450 0.8×	394 0.9×	206	4.9k
Zu‐Xi Yu United States	36	1.2k 0.8×	2.3k 2.3×	298 0.4×	467 0.8×	130 0.3×	70	4.8k
Paula M. Oliver United States	22	918 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	278 0.4×	328 0.6×	390 0.9×	28	3.7k
Claudio Mauro United Kingdom	35	1.8k 1.3×	2.1k 2.1×	281 0.4×	248 0.4×	158 0.3×	74	5.0k
Stefania Morrone Italy	36	1.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.7×	245 0.3×	1.0k 1.8×	255 0.6×	126	5.0k
Stefano Bruscoli Italy	31	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	516 0.7×	229 0.4×	432 0.9×	73	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sue Tsai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sue Tsai

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

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Khan, Shehnaz, Mainak Chakraborty, Nan Chen, et al.. (2026). B cells drive CD4 T cell immunosenescence and age-associated health decline. Science Immunology. 11(115). eadv7615–eadv7615.

Basso, Paulo José, et al.. (2025). Weight Loss‐Associated Remodeling of Adipose Tissue Immunometabolism. Obesity Reviews. 26(12). e13975–e13975. 1 indexed citations

Goruk, Susan, et al.. (2023). Maternal diet supplementation with high-docosahexaenoic-acid canola oil, along with arachidonic acid, promotes immune system development in allergy-prone BALB/c mouse offspring at 3 weeks of age. European Journal of Nutrition. 62(6). 2399–2413. 4 indexed citations

Yu, Pei, Hisham M. Ibrahim, Corey A. Scipione, et al.. (2023). Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Accumulation Suppresses Glycolysis and Attenuates the Macrophage Inflammatory Response by Diverting Transcription from the HIF-1α to the Nrf2 Pathway. The Journal of Immunology. 211(10). 1561–1577. 15 indexed citations

Makhijani, Priya, Paulo José Basso, Yi Tao Chan, et al.. (2023). Regulation of the immune system by the insulin receptor in health and disease. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1128622–1128622. 33 indexed citations

Lucchinetti, Eliana, Phing‐How Lou, Paulina Wawrzyniak, et al.. (2022). Novel lipid emulsion for total parenteral nutrition based on 18-carbon n–3 fatty acids elicits a superior immunometabolic phenotype in a murine model compared with standard lipid emulsions. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 116(6). 1805–1819. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Kun, Rabban Mangat, Sue Tsai, et al.. (2022). Effect of High-Fat and Low-Fat Dairy Products on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Immune Function in a Low Birthweight Swine Model of Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance. Frontiers in Nutrition. 9. 923120–923120. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Megan, Kevin Y. Chu, Mainak Chakraborty, et al.. (2022). PDMS hydrogel-coated tissue culture plates for studying the impact of substrate stiffness on dendritic cell function. STAR Protocols. 3(2). 101233–101233. 9 indexed citations

Lee, Megan, Huixun Du, Daniel A. Winer, Xavier Clemente‐Casares, & Sue Tsai. (2022). Mechanosensing in macrophages and dendritic cells in steady-state and disease. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 1044729–1044729. 53 indexed citations

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Mangat, Rabban, et al.. (2022). The Interplay of Obesity, Dyslipidemia and Immune Dysfunction: A Brief Overview on Pathophysiology, Animal Models, and Nutritional Modulation. Frontiers in Nutrition. 9. 840209–840209. 24 indexed citations

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Tsai, Sue, Xavier Clemente‐Casares, Angela Zhou, et al.. (2018). Insulin Receptor-Mediated Stimulation Boosts T Cell Immunity during Inflammation and Infection. Cell Metabolism. 28(6). 922–934.e4. 203 indexed citations

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Clemente‐Casares, Xavier, Jesús Blanco, Jun Yamanouchi, et al.. (2016). Expanding antigen-specific regulatory networks to treat autoimmunity. Nature. 530(7591). 434–440. 396 indexed citations

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Tsai, Sue & Pere Santamaría. (2013). MHC Class II Polymorphisms, Autoreactive T-Cells, and Autoimmunity. Frontiers in Immunology. 4. 321–321. 123 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinguo, Sue Tsai, Bingye Han, Pankaj Tailor, & Pere Santamaría. (2012). Autoantigen Recognition Is Required for Recruitment of IGRP206–214-Autoreactive CD8+ T Cells but Is Dispensable for Tolerance. The Journal of Immunology. 189(6). 2975–2984. 6 indexed citations

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Clemente‐Casares, Xavier, et al.. (2011). Antigen-Specific Therapeutic Approaches in Type 1 Diabetes. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 2(2). a007773–a007773. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinguo, et al.. (2010). In situ recognition of autoantigen as an essential gatekeeper in autoimmune CD8 ⁺ T cell inflammation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(20). 9317–9322. 47 indexed citations

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Tsai, Sue, Afshin Shameli, & Pere Santamaría. (2008). Chapter 4 CD8+ T Cells in Type 1 Diabetes. Advances in immunology. 100. 79–124. 105 indexed citations

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Tailor, Pankaj, Sue Tsai, Afshin Shameli, et al.. (2008). The Proline-Rich Sequence of CD3ε as an Amplifier of Low-Avidity TCR Signaling. The Journal of Immunology. 181(1). 243–255. 48 indexed citations

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Zang, Qun S., David L. Maass, Sue Tsai, & Jureta W. Horton. (2007). Cardiac Mitochondrial Damage And Inflammation Responses in Sepsis. Surgical Infections. 8(1). 41–54. 66 indexed citations

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Crider, Bill P., et al.. (1999). Identification and Reconstitution of an Isoform of the 116-kDa Subunit of the Vacuolar Proton Translocating ATPase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(4). 2549–2555. 46 indexed citations

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