Tasfia Rakib

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 835 citations indexed

About

Tasfia Rakib is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tasfia Rakib has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 835 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Tasfia Rakib's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), interferon and immune responses (2 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (2 papers). Tasfia Rakib is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), interferon and immune responses (2 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (2 papers). Tasfia Rakib collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Tasfia Rakib's co-authors include Akiko Iwasaki, Laura J. Yockey, Tamás L. Horváth, Patrick Wong, Eriko Kudo, Eric Song, Robert Homer, William Khoury-Hanold, Bernardo Stutz and Klara Szigeti‐Buck and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tasfia Rakib

9 papers receiving 821 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.

Vaginal Exposure to Zika Virus during Pregnancy Leads to Fetal Brain Infection

2016 292 citations Laura J. Yockey, Luis Varela et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tasfia Rakib United States	7	449	367	242	172	133	9	835
Laura J. Yockey United States	12	652 1.5×	737 2.0×	379 1.6×	438 2.5×	146 1.1×	16	1.6k
Shahab Falahi Iran	13	317 0.7×	83 0.2×	129 0.5×	56 0.3×	81 0.6×	42	638
Alessandro Mancon Italy	9	452 1.0×	146 0.4×	141 0.6×	50 0.3×	44 0.3×	23	853
Davide Mileto Italy	10	440 1.0×	147 0.4×	196 0.8×	52 0.3×	44 0.3×	29	937
Patrick Wong United States	10	290 0.6×	133 0.4×	162 0.7×	287 1.7×	119 0.9×	15	843
Jila Yavarian Iran	14	333 0.7×	72 0.2×	306 1.3×	32 0.2×	112 0.8×	75	774
Nazanin Zahra Shafiei Jandaghi Iran	11	257 0.6×	115 0.3×	119 0.5×	21 0.1×	106 0.8×	48	575
Connor Bamford United Kingdom	11	330 0.7×	54 0.1×	230 1.0×	140 0.8×	38 0.3×	26	699
Angkana T. Huang United States	10	817 1.8×	181 0.5×	83 0.3×	52 0.3×	191 1.4×	22	986
De‐Zhong Xu China	13	136 0.3×	110 0.3×	457 1.9×	29 0.2×	79 0.6×	28	717

Countries citing papers authored by Tasfia Rakib

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tasfia Rakib

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tasfia Rakib

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Rakib, Tasfia, et al.. (2025). CD226 identifies effector CD8+ T cells during tuberculosis and costimulates recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected macrophages. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116184–116184. 1 indexed citations

2.

Lai, Rocky, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneity in lung macrophage control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is modulated by T cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5710–5710. 11 indexed citations

3.

Lai, Rocky, et al.. (2023). Key advances in vaccine development for tuberculosis—success and challenges. npj Vaccines. 8(1). 158–158. 30 indexed citations

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Mao, Tianyang, William M. Philbrick, Yong Kong, et al.. (2022). Endogenous Retroviruses Provide Protection Against Vaginal HSV-2 Disease. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 758721–758721. 2 indexed citations

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Tokuyama, Maria, Bronwyn M. Gunn, Arvind Venkataraman, et al.. (2021). Antibodies against human endogenous retrovirus K102 envelope activate neutrophils in systemic lupus erythematosus. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(7). 37 indexed citations

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Kudo, Eriko, Eric Song, Laura J. Yockey, et al.. (2019). Low ambient humidity impairs barrier function and innate resistance against influenza infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(22). 10905–10910. 228 indexed citations

7.

Gopinath, Smita, Myoungjoo V. Kim, Tasfia Rakib, et al.. (2018). Topical application of aminoglycoside antibiotics enhances host resistance to viral infections in a microbiota-independent manner. Nature Microbiology. 3(5). 611–621. 59 indexed citations

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Yockey, Laura J., Kellie A. Jurado, Nitin Arora, et al.. (2018). Type I interferons instigate fetal demise after Zika virus infection. Science Immunology. 3(19). 175 indexed citations

9.

Yockey, Laura J., Luis Varela, Tasfia Rakib, et al.. (2016). Vaginal Exposure to Zika Virus during Pregnancy Leads to Fetal Brain Infection. Cell. 166(5). 1247–1256.e4. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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