Thomas B. Kepler

19.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
137 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas B. Kepler is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas B. Kepler has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Immunology, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Thomas B. Kepler's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (44 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (36 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (32 papers). Thomas B. Kepler is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (44 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (36 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (32 papers). Thomas B. Kepler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. Thomas B. Kepler's co-authors include Timothy C. Elston, Garnett Kelsoe, Alan S. Perelson, Eric S. Loker, Coen M. Adema, Si‐Ming Zhang, Stephen C. Harrison, Barton F. Haynes, John K. Tomfohr and Hua‐Xin Liao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Thomas B. Kepler

136 papers receiving 9.5k citations

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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.

Stochasticity in Transcriptional Regulation: Origins, Consequences, and Mathematical Representations

2001 688 citations Thomas B. Kepler et al. profile →
Invertebrate immune systems – not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood

2004 567 citations Eric S. Loker, Coen M. Adema et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas B. Kepler United States	51	4.3k	3.3k	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	137	9.7k
Robert Blumenthal United States	62	2.2k 0.5×	8.9k 2.7×	4.0k 2.8×	2.1k 1.6×	789 0.6×	278	15.1k
Rob J. de Boer Netherlands	61	6.9k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	3.6k 2.5×	1.3k 1.0×	596 0.5×	269	13.7k
Natalia L. Komarova United States	42	1.1k 0.3×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	489 0.4×	469 0.4×	167	7.3k
Stipan Jonjić Croatia	61	8.2k 1.9×	2.6k 0.8×	675 0.5×	6.8k 5.0×	353 0.3×	227	15.8k
Charles DeLisi United States	54	2.0k 0.5×	8.0k 2.4×	617 0.4×	517 0.4×	1.8k 1.4×	244	11.2k
Denise E. Kirschner United States	53	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.9×	290 0.2×	170	11.3k
Benes L. Trus United States	55	971 0.2×	3.2k 1.0×	385 0.3×	2.9k 2.1×	619 0.5×	166	9.2k
O. Fackler Germany	54	2.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	4.5k 3.1×	1.5k 1.1×	304 0.2×	194	8.8k
Wolfgang Weninger Australia	61	8.1k 1.9×	4.4k 1.3×	225 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	389 0.3×	178	17.1k
Hanah Margalit Israel	45	1.3k 0.3×	6.7k 2.0×	288 0.2×	623 0.5×	634 0.5×	111	8.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Feng, Feng, et al.. (2023). Characterizing adjuvants’ effects at murine immunoglobulin repertoire level. iScience. 27(1). 108749–108749. 3 indexed citations

Watanabe, Akiko, Kevin R. McCarthy, Masayuki Kuraoka, et al.. (2019). Antibodies to a Conserved Influenza Head Interface Epitope Protect by an IgG Subtype-Dependent Mechanism. Cell. 177(5). 1124–1135.e16. 123 indexed citations

McCarthy, Kevin R., Akiko Watanabe, Masayuki Kuraoka, et al.. (2018). Memory B Cells that Cross-React with Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses Are Abundant in Adult Human Repertoires. Immunity. 48(1). 174–184.e9. 104 indexed citations

Ip, Blanche C., Anna C. Belkina, Jason DeFuria, et al.. (2015). Th17 cytokines differentiate obesity from obesity-associated type 2 diabetes and promote TNFα production. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 38 indexed citations

Yeap, Leng-Siew, Joyce K. Hwang, Zhou Du, et al.. (2015). Sequence-Intrinsic Mechanisms that Target AID Mutational Outcomes on Antibody Genes. Cell. 163(5). 1124–1137. 115 indexed citations

Kepler, Thomas B., Supriya Munshaw, Kevin Wiehe, et al.. (2014). Reconstructing a B-Cell Clonal Lineage. II. Mutation, Selection, and Affinity Maturation. Frontiers in Immunology. 5. 170–170. 58 indexed citations

Nair, Smita K., Georgia D. Tomaras, Ana Paula Sales, et al.. (2014). High-throughput identification and dendritic cell-based functional validation of MHC class I-restricted Mycobacterium tuberculosis epitopes. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 4632–4632. 8 indexed citations

Lynch, Heather E., Shelley Stewart, Thomas B. Kepler, Gregory D. Sempowski, & S. Munir Alam. (2013). Surface plasmon resonance measurements of plasma antibody avidity during primary and secondary responses to anthrax protective antigen. Journal of Immunological Methods. 404. 1–12. 32 indexed citations

Li, Li, Qiuming He, Alaina L. Garland, et al.. (2009). β Cell-Specific CD4+ T Cell Clonotypes in Peripheral Blood and the Pancreatic Islets Are Distinct. The Journal of Immunology. 183(11). 7585–7591. 27 indexed citations

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Kepler, Thomas B., et al.. (2008). Large-scale analysis of human heavy chain V(D)J recombination patterns. PubMed. 4(1). 3–3. 35 indexed citations

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Bauer, Douglas C., David J. Hunter, Steven B. Abramson, et al.. (2006). Classification of osteoarthritis biomarkers: a proposed approach. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 14(8). 723–727. 297 indexed citations

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Tomfohr, John K., Jun Lü, & Thomas B. Kepler. (2005). Pathway level analysis of gene expression using singular value decomposition. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 225–225. 275 indexed citations

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Zhang, Si‐Ming, Coen M. Adema, Thomas B. Kepler, & Eric S. Loker. (2004). Diversification of Ig Superfamily Genes in an Invertebrate. Science. 305(5681). 251–254. 306 indexed citations

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Kepler, Thomas B., et al.. (2004). Interdependence of N Nucleotide Addition and Recombination Site Choice in V(D)J Rearrangement. The Journal of Immunology. 172(2). 1311–1311. 18 indexed citations

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Oprea, Mihaela, Lindsay G. Cowell, & Thomas B. Kepler. (2001). The Targeting of Somatic Hypermutation Closely Resembles That of Meiotic Mutation. The Journal of Immunology. 166(2). 892–899. 27 indexed citations

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Cowell, Lindsay G. & Thomas B. Kepler. (2000). The Nucleotide-Replacement Spectrum Under Somatic Hypermutation Exhibits Microsequence Dependence That Is Strand-Symmetric and Distinct from That Under Germline Mutation. The Journal of Immunology. 164(4). 1971–1976. 32 indexed citations

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Kepler, Thomas B., et al.. (1996). Interdependence of N nucleotide addition and recombination site choice in V(D)J rearrangement. The Journal of Immunology. 157(10). 4451–4457. 28 indexed citations

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Kepler, Thomas B. & Eve Marder. (1993). Spike initiation and propagation on axons with slow inward currents. Biological Cybernetics. 68(3). 209–214. 13 indexed citations

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Kepler, Thomas B., L. F. Abbott, & Eve Marder. (1990). Order Reduction for Dynamical Systems Describing the Behavior of Complex Neurons. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 55–61. 1 indexed citations

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Abbott, L. F. & Thomas B. Kepler. (1990). Model neurons: From Hodgkin-Huxley to Hopfield. Presented at. 5 indexed citations

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