Virginia Pascual

22.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
98 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Virginia Pascual is a scholar working on Immunology, Rheumatology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia Pascual has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Immunology, 21 papers in Rheumatology and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Virginia Pascual's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (36 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (32 papers) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (21 papers). Virginia Pascual is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (36 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (32 papers) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (21 papers). Virginia Pascual collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Virginia Pascual's co-authors include Jacques Banchereau, Damien Chaussabel, Karolina Palucka, Marilynn Punaro, Hideki Ueno, Lynda Bennett, Florence Allantaz, Zhaohui Xu, Simone Caielli and Nathalie Schmitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Virginia Pascual

96 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

Human Blood CXCR5+CD4+ T ... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2011 2011 2006 1994 2013 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Human Blood CXCR5+CD4+ T Cells Are Counterparts of T Follicular Cells and Contain Specific Subsets that Differentially Support Antibody Secretion
    2011 1.2k citations Nathalie Schmitt, Salah-Eddine Bentebibel et al. Immunity profile →
  2. Netting Neutrophils Are Major Inducers of Type I IFN Production in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
    2011 1.1k citations Gina Stella García-Romo, Simone Caielli et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  3. Type I Interferon in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Other Autoimmune Diseases
    2006 733 citations Jacques Banchereau, Virginia Pascual Immunity profile →
  4. Analysis of somatic mutation in five B cell subsets of human tonsil.
    1994 570 citations Virginia Pascual, Jacques Banchereau et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  5. Induction of ICOS + CXCR3 + CXCR5 + T H Cells Correlates with Antibody Responses to Influenza Vaccination
    2013 443 citations Salah-Eddine Bentebibel, Santiago M. C. Lopez et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  6. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Pathogenesis: Interferon and Beyond
    2023 110 citations Simone Caielli, Zurong Wan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Virginia Pascual United States 46 7.2k 2.3k 2.3k 1.3k 1.1k 98 10.7k
Marina Botto United Kingdom 67 10.0k 1.4× 2.9k 1.3× 2.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 869 0.8× 193 14.8k
Carola G. Vinuesa Australia 54 11.2k 1.6× 2.9k 1.2× 1.3k 0.6× 992 0.7× 1.7k 1.6× 117 14.8k
Franck J. Barrat United States 41 7.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 66 11.0k
Paolo Casali United States 59 6.7k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 1.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 958 0.9× 184 11.1k
Falk Hiepe Germany 54 7.2k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 4.8k 2.1× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 250 11.8k
Peter D. Katsikis United States 46 4.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 136 7.8k
Brian L. Kotzin United States 59 8.5k 1.2× 1.7k 0.7× 3.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 175 13.5k
Hiroshi Nakajima Japan 60 6.2k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 934 0.7× 2.1k 2.0× 356 11.6k
Hans Yssel France 60 8.8k 1.2× 1.7k 0.8× 809 0.3× 1.4k 1.0× 2.3k 2.1× 154 13.5k
David A. Horwitz United States 57 7.5k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 706 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 129 10.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Deep, Deeksha, Herman Gudjonson, Chrysothemis C. Brown, et al.. (2024). Precursor central memory versus effector cell fate and naïve CD4+ T cell heterogeneity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(10). 3 indexed citations
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Díaz, Fernando Erra, Emin Onur Karakaslar, Radu Marcheş, et al.. (2024). Distinct baseline immune characteristics associated with responses to conjugated and unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines in older adults. Nature Immunology. 25(2). 316–329. 12 indexed citations
3.
Caielli, Simone, Preetha Balasubramanian, Juan F. Rodríguez-Alcázar, et al.. (2024). Type I IFN drives unconventional IL-1β secretion in lupus monocytes. Immunity. 57(11). 2497–2513.e12. 15 indexed citations
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Caielli, Simone, Jacob Cardenas, Adriana A. de Jesus, et al.. (2021). Erythroid mitochondrial retention triggers myeloid-dependent type I interferon in human SLE. Cell. 184(17). 4464–4479.e19. 141 indexed citations
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Jacquemin, C., Jean‐François Augusto, Marc Scherlinger, et al.. (2018). OX40L/OX40 axis impairs follicular and natural Treg function in human SLE. JCI Insight. 3(24). 62 indexed citations
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López‐Palacios, Natalia, Virginia Pascual, Laura Espino‐Paisán, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of T cells in blood after a short gluten challenge for coeliac disease diagnosis. Digestive and Liver Disease. 50(11). 1183–1188. 15 indexed citations
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Heinonen, Santtu, Tuomas Jartti, Carla García, et al.. (2015). Rhinovirus Detection in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children: Value of Host Transcriptome Analysis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 193(7). 772–782. 74 indexed citations
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Medrano, Luz María, Carlos Taxonera, Virginia Pascual, et al.. (2015). Response to Infliximab in Crohn’s Disease: Genetic Analysis Supporting Expression Profile. Mediators of Inflammation. 2015(1). 318207–318207. 18 indexed citations
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Schmitt, Nathalie, Jacinta Bustamante, Laure Bourdery, et al.. (2013). IL-12 receptor β1 deficiency alters in vivo T follicular helper cell response in humans. Blood. 121(17). 3375–3385. 124 indexed citations
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Bentebibel, Salah-Eddine, Santiago M. C. Lopez, Gerlinde Obermoser, et al.. (2013). Induction of ICOS + CXCR3 + CXCR5 + T H Cells Correlates with Antibody Responses to Influenza Vaccination. Science Translational Medicine. 5(176). 176ra32–176ra32. 443 indexed citations breakdown →
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Park, Joon, Hui Xu, Derek Blankenship, et al.. (2013). Interferon Signature in the Blood in Inflammatory Common Variable Immune Deficiency. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74893–e74893. 64 indexed citations
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Chiche, Laurent, Noémie Jourde‐Chiche, Virginia Pascual, & Damien Chaussabel. (2013). Disease Mechanisms in Rheumatology—Tools and Pathways: Current Perspectives on Systems Immunology Approaches to Rheumatic Diseases. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 65(6). 1407–1417. 13 indexed citations
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García-Romo, Gina Stella, Simone Caielli, John E. Connolly, et al.. (2011). Netting Neutrophils Are Major Inducers of Type I IFN Production in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Science Translational Medicine. 3(73). 73ra20–73ra20. 1063 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allantaz, Florence, Lynda Bennett, Dongping Zhang, et al.. (2010). Clinical, Molecular, and Genetic Characteristics of PAPA Syndrome: A Review. Current Genomics. 11(7). 519–527. 117 indexed citations
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Allantaz, Florence, Damien Chaussabel, Dorothee Stichweh, et al.. (2007). Blood leukocyte microarrays to diagnose systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis and follow the response to IL-1 blockade. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204(9). 2131–2144. 158 indexed citations
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Palucka, Karolina, et al.. (2005). Cross-regulation of TNF and IFN-α in autoimmune diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(9). 3372–3377. 402 indexed citations
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Chaussabel, Damien, Asunción Mejías, Wendy K. Chung, et al.. (2005). Analysis of Significance Patterns Identifies Ubiquitous and Disease‐Specific Gene‐Expression Signatures in Patient Peripheral Blood Leukocytes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1062(1). 146–154. 34 indexed citations
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Zheng, Nai‐Ying, Kenneth J. Wilson, Xiaojian Wang, et al.. (2004). Human immunoglobulin selection associated with class switch and possible tolerogenic origins for Cδ class-switched B cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113(8). 1188–1201. 74 indexed citations
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Gill, Michelle A., et al.. (2001). Increased Frequency of Pre-germinal Center B Cells and Plasma Cell Precursors in the Blood of Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. The Journal of Immunology. 167(4). 2361–2369. 214 indexed citations
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Pascual, Virginia, et al.. (1990). Heavy Chain Variable Region Gene Utilization in Human Antibodies. International Reviews of Immunology. 5(3-4). 231–238. 12 indexed citations

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