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Alex Loukas

Active 1994–2025

159
Papers
22,602
Citations
89
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Citations

Citations per year for Alex Loukas1982: 1 citations1994: 2 citations1995: 1 citations1996: 3 citations1997: 2 citations1998: 1 citations1999: 2 citations2000: 27 citations2001: 21 citations2002: 14 citations2003: 32 citations2004: 72 citations2005: 56 citations2006: 88 citations2007: 73 citations2008: 112 citations2009: 132 citations2010: 168 citations2011: 128 citations2012: 146 citations2013: 147 citations2014: 184 citations2015: 154 citations2016: 182 citations2017: 139 citations2018: 186 citations2019: 621 citations2020: 806 citations2021: 696 citations2022: 500 citations2023: 352 citations2024: 620 citations2025: 248 citations2026: 3 citations1983–1993: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,047 citing papers, 17.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 628 citing papers, 10.3% of this breakdownChina: 567 citing papers, 9.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 508 citing papers, 8.3% of this breakdownGermany: 226 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownThailand: 223 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 213 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownBrazil: 158 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownCanada: 155 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownFrance: 128 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSpain: 125 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownNetherlands: 124 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
0%17.1%Other 32.8%

Institutions

Fields

  • Immunology and Microbiology44.2%
  • Medicine24.1%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology17.9%
  • Veterinary3.8%
  • Environmental Science3.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences2%
  • Other4.5%

Topics

  • Parasites and Host Interactions16.2%
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions9.3%
  • Helminth infection and control5.2%
  • Gut microbiota and health2.8%
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics2.7%
  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies2.6%
  • Other61.2%

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  1. Cholangiocarcinoma

    Authors: Paul J. Brindley, Melinda Bachini, Sumera I. Ilyas, Shahid A. Khan, Alex Loukas, Alphonse E. Sirica, Bin Tean Teh, Sopit Wongkham, Gregory J. Gores - Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2021 cited by 841

  2. The NK cell granule protein NKG7 regulates cytotoxic granule exocytosis and inflammation

    Authors: Susanna S. Ng, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, Juming Yan, Dillon Corvino, Indrajit Das, Ping Zhang, Rachel D. Kuns, Shashi Bhushan Chauhan, Jiajie Hou, Xian-Yang Li, Teija Frame, Benjamin A. McEnroe, Eilish Moore, Jinrui Na, Jessica A. Engel, Megan S. F. Soon, Bhawana Singh, Andrew J. Kueh, Marco J. Herold, Marcela Montes de, Siddharth Singh, Patrick T. Bunn, Amy Roman Aguilera, Mika Casey, Matthias Braun, Nazanin Ghazanfari, Shivangi Wani, Yulin Wang, Fiona H. Amante, Chelsea L. Edwards, Ashraful Haque, William C. Dougall, Om Prakash Singh, Alan G. Baxter, Michele W.L. Teng, Alex Loukas, Norelle L. Daly, Nicole Cloonan, Mariapia A. Degli‐Esposti, Jude E. Uzonna, William R. Heath, Tobias Bald, Siok‐Keen Tey, Kyohei Nakamura, Geoffrey R. Hill, Rajiv Kumar, Shyam Sundar, Mark J. Smyth, Christian Engwerda - Nature Immunology 2020 cited by 221

  3. Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm

    Authors: Jeffrey M. Bethony, Simon Brooker, Marco Albonico, Stefan Michael Geiger, Alex Loukas, David Diemert, Peter J. Hotez - The Lancet 2006 cited by 2,516

  4. Revisiting Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Pathology, Treatments, Challenges and Emerging Therapeutics Including Drug Leads from Natural Products

    Authors: Karma Yeshi, Roland Ruscher, Luke Hunter, Norelle L. Daly, Alex Loukas, Phurpa Wangchuk - Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020 cited by 181

  5. Liver Fluke Induces Cholangiocarcinoma

    Authors: Banchob Sripa, Sasithorn Kaewkes, Paiboon Sithithaworn, Eimorn Mairiang, Thewarach Laha, Michael J. Smout, Chawalit Pairojkul, Vajaraphongsa Bhudhisawasdi, Smarn Tesana, Bandit Thinkamrop, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Alex Loukas, Paul J. Brindley - PLoS Medicine 2007 cited by 768

  6. The Intestinal Microbiota Contributes to the Ability of Helminths to Modulate Allergic Inflammation

    Authors: Mario M. Zaiss, Alexis Rapin, Luc Lebon, Lalit Kumar Dubey, Ilaria Mosconi, Kerstin Sarter, Alessandra Piersigilli, Laure Menin, Alan W. Walker, Jacques Rougemont, Oonagh Paerewijck, Peter Geldhof, Kathleen McCoy, Andrew J. Macpherson, John Croese, Paul Giacomin, Alex Loukas, Tobias Junt, Benjamin J. Marsland, Nicola Harris - Immunity 2015 cited by 441

  7. Ulcerative colitis: clinical biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and emerging treatments

    Authors: Phurpa Wangchuk, Karma Yeshi, Alex Loukas - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 2024 cited by 267

  8. Hookworm infection

    Authors: Alex Loukas, Peter J. Hotez, David Diemert, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, James McCarthy, Rodrigo Corrêa‐Oliveira, John Croese, Jeffrey M. Bethony - Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2016 cited by 331

  9. Hookworm Secreted Extracellular Vesicles Interact With Host Cells and Prevent Inducible Colitis in Mice

    Authors: Ramon M. Eichenberger, Stephanie Ryan, Linda Jones, Geraldine Buitrago, Ramona Polster, Marcela Montes de, Jennifer Zuvelek, Paul Giacomin, Lindsay A. Dent, Christian Engwerda, Matthew A. Field, Javier Sotillo, Alex Loukas - Frontiers in Immunology 2018 cited by 198

  10. International Journal for Parasitology

    Authors: Alex Loukas, Brian M. Cooke, Jan Šlapeta, Maria Meuleman - International Journal for Parasitology 2014 cited by 1,159

  11. Harnessing helminth-driven immunoregulation in the search for novel therapeutic modalities

    Authors: Stephanie Ryan, Ramon M. Eichenberger, Roland Ruscher, Paul Giacomin, Alex Loukas - PLoS Pathogens 2020 cited by 121

  12. The yin and yang of human soil-transmitted helminth infections

    Authors: Alex Loukas, Rick M. Maizels, Peter J. Hotez - International Journal for Parasitology 2021 cited by 101

  13. Hookworm Infection

    Authors: Peter J. Hotez, Simon Brooker, Jeffrey M. Bethony, María Elena Bottazzi, Alex Loukas, Xiao Shuhua - New England Journal of Medicine 2004 cited by 586

  14. Special considerations for studies of extracellular vesicles from parasitic helminths: A community‐led roadmap to increase rigour and reproducibility

    Authors: Ruby White, Javier Sotillo, María Eugenia Ancarola, Anne Borup, Anders T. Boysen, Paul J. Brindley, Edit I. Buzás, Serena Cavallero, Sujittra Chaiyadet, Iain W. Chalmers, Marcela Cucher, Maude Dagenais, Chelsea N. Davis, Eileen Devaney, Maria A. Duque‐Correa, Ramon M. Eichenberger, Santiago Fontenla, Thomas A. Gasan, Cornelis H. Hokke, Maja Kosanović, Marije E. Kuipers, Thewarach Laha, Alex Loukas, Rick M. Maizels, Antonio Marcilla, Hynek Mazanec, Russell M. Morphew, Kyriaki Neophytou, Linh Thuy Nguyen, Esther Nolte‐‘t Hoen, Michael Povelones, Mark W. Robinson, Alicia Rojas, Irma Schabussová, Hermelijn H. Smits, Sivapong Sungpradit, Lucienne Tritten, Bradley Whitehead, Amin Zakeri, Peter Nejsum, Amy H. Buck, Karl F. Hoffmann - Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 2023 cited by 57

  15. Carcinogenic Liver Fluke Secretes Extracellular Vesicles That Promote Cholangiocytes to Adopt a Tumorigenic Phenotype

    Authors: Sujittra Chaiyadet, Javier Sotillo, Michael J. Smout, Cinzia Cantacessi, Malcolm K. Jones, Michael Johnson, Lynne Turnbull, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Jeremy Potriquet, Marut Laohaviroj, Jason Mulvenna, Paul J. Brindley, Jeffrey Bethony, Thewarach Laha, Banchob Sripa, Alex Loukas - The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2015 cited by 162

  16. Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial of Experimental Hookworm Infection for Improving Gluten Tolerance in Celiac Disease

    Authors: John Croese, Gregory Miller, Louise Marquart, Stacey Llewellyn, Rohit Gupta, Luke Becker, Andrew D. Clouston, Christine Welch, Julia Sidorenko, Leanne Wallace, Peter M. Visscher, Matthew Remedios, James McCarthy, Peter O’Rourke, Graham Radford‐Smith, Alex Loukas, Mark Norrie, John Masson, Richard B. Gearry, Tony Rahman, Paul Giacomin - Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology 2020 cited by 50

  17. The genome and developmental transcriptome of the strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus

    Authors: Erich M. Schwarz, Pasi K. Korhonen, Bronwyn E. Campbell, Neil D. Young, Aaron R. Jex, Abdul Jabbar, Ross S. Hall, Alinda Mondal, Adina Howe, Jason Pell, Andreas Hofmann, Peter R. Boag, Xing‐Quan Zhu, T. Ryan Gregory, Alex Loukas, Brian A. Williams, Igor Antoshechkin, C. Titus Brown, Paul W. Sternberg, Robin B. Gasser - Genome biology 2013 cited by 256

  18. Opisthorchiasis and Opisthorchis-associated cholangiocarcinoma in Thailand and Laos

    Authors: Banchob Sripa, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Paiboon Sithithaworn, Sasithorn Kaewkes, Eimorn Mairiang, Alex Loukas, Jason Mulvenna, Thewarach Laha, Peter J. Hotez, Paul J. Brindley - Acta Tropica 2010 cited by 355

  19. Helminth Immunomodulation in Autoimmune Disease

    Authors: Taylor B. Smallwood, Paul Giacomin, Alex Loukas, Jason Mulvenna, Richard J. Clark, John J. Miles - Frontiers in Immunology 2017 cited by 240

  20. Extracellular vesicles secreted by Schistosoma mansoni contain protein vaccine candidates

    Authors: Javier Sotillo, Mark S. Pearson, Jeremy Potriquet, Luke Becker, Darren Pickering, Jason Mulvenna, Alex Loukas - International Journal for Parasitology 2015 cited by 175

  21. Uptake of Schistosoma mansoni extracellular vesicles by human endothelial and monocytic cell lines and impact on vascular endothelial cell gene expression

    Authors: Desalegn Woldeyohannes Kifle, Sujittra Chaiyadet, Ashley J. Waardenberg, Ingrid Wise, Martha M. Cooper, Luke Becker, Denise L. Doolan, Thewarach Laha, Javier Sotillo, Mark S. Pearson, Alex Loukas - International Journal for Parasitology 2020 cited by 44

  22. Effect of Hookworm Infection on Wheat Challenge in Celiac Disease – A Randomised Double-Blinded Placebo Controlled Trial

    Authors: A. James M. Daveson, Dianne M. Jones, Soraya Gaze, Henry J. McSorley, Andrew D. Clouston, Andrew Pascoe, Sharon E. Cooke, Rick Speare, Graeme A. Macdonald, Robert P. Anderson, James McCarthy, Alex Loukas, John Croese - PLoS ONE 2011 cited by 229

  23. Experimental hookworm infection and gluten microchallenge promote tolerance in celiac disease

    Authors: John Croese, Paul Giacomin, Séverine Navarro, Andrew D. Clouston, Leisa McCann, Annette Dougall, Ivana Ferreira, Atik Susianto, Peter O’Rourke, M. Howlett, James McCarthy, Christian Engwerda, Dianne Jones, Alex Loukas - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2014 cited by 184

  24. Generalized urticaria induced by the Na-ASP-2 hookworm vaccine: Implications for the development of vaccines against helminths

    Authors: David Diemert, A.G.S. Pinto, Janaína de Moura Freire, Amar Jariwala, Helton C. Santiago, Robert G. Hamilton, María Victoria Periago, Alex Loukas, Leon Tribolet, Jason Mulvenna, Rodrigo Corrêa‐Oliveira, Peter J. Hotez, Jeffrey M. Bethony - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2012 cited by 181