Jean-Philippe Girard is Highly Cited Researcher 2023 in the Immunology category

Jean-Philippe Girard, Senior Research Director at Inserm, ranks among the world’s most cited scientists in the prestigious ‘Highly Cited Researchers 2023’ list.

Jean-Philippe Girard, Director of Research of Exceptional Class at Inserm and head of the team ‘Vascular Biology: Endothelial cells in Immunity, Inflammation and Cancer’ at IPBS-Toulouse (CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier), is one of the most influential researchers in Immunology, thanks to his pioneering work on the role of HEV blood vessels in cancer, and the discovery of interleukin-33, twenty years ago at IPBS.

Specialist in the analysis of scientific production, Clarivate identifies each year the most influential researchers in the world. The “Highly Cited Researchers” are thus the researchers whose work is the most cited, typically those having several articles in the top 1% of citations in their field during the last decade in the “Web of science ™”. This list is used in the famous ranking of universities in Shanghai.