Afrah Shafquat

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 871 citations indexed

About

Afrah Shafquat is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Afrah Shafquat has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 871 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Afrah Shafquat's work include Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers) and Ethics in Clinical Research (2 papers). Afrah Shafquat is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers) and Ethics in Clinical Research (2 papers). Afrah Shafquat collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Afrah Shafquat's co-authors include Curtis Huttenhower, Xochitl C. Morgan, Tiffany Hsu, Galeb Abu-Ali, Eric A. Franzosa, Alexandra Sirota‐Madi, Regina Joice Cordy, Sheri L. Simmons, Koji Yasuda and Erica M. Hartmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Afrah Shafquat

12 papers receiving 863 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular 'omics' for microbial community profiling

2015 483 citations Eric A. Franzosa, Tiffany Hsu et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Afrah Shafquat United States	7	588	192	118	105	99	13	871
Ye Peng China	17	549 0.9×	125 0.7×	88 0.7×	67 0.6×	148 1.5×	54	1.0k
Doug Wendel United States	4	657 1.1×	291 1.5×	97 0.8×	109 1.0×	110 1.1×	5	1.0k
Christopher A. Gaulke United States	15	500 0.9×	119 0.6×	126 1.1×	112 1.1×	129 1.3×	35	867
Thomas A McMurrough Canada	4	553 0.9×	159 0.8×	60 0.5×	110 1.0×	71 0.7×	5	887
Ravi Ranjan United States	13	714 1.2×	150 0.8×	98 0.8×	137 1.3×	129 1.3×	25	1.1k
Arne Materna United States	10	751 1.3×	192 1.0×	94 0.8×	186 1.8×	150 1.5×	11	1.1k
Renato Alves Portugal	11	770 1.3×	231 1.2×	78 0.7×	130 1.2×	181 1.8×	17	1.1k
Matthew Blackburn United States	4	654 1.1×	144 0.8×	87 0.7×	186 1.8×	144 1.5×	8	852
Lindsey De Commer Belgium	4	689 1.2×	120 0.6×	135 1.1×	172 1.6×	169 1.7×	5	956
Sébastien Raguideau United Kingdom	10	500 0.9×	196 1.0×	99 0.8×	62 0.6×	107 1.1×	15	669

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Afrah Shafquat

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13 of 13 papers shown

Shafquat, Afrah, et al.. (2025). SECRET: Semi-supervised Clinical Trial Document Similarity Search. 5278–5291.

Schpero, William L., Samuel U Takvorian, Afrah Shafquat, et al.. (2024). Association Between State Medicaid Policies and Accrual of Black or Hispanic Patients to Cancer Clinical Trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(27). 3238–3246. 4 indexed citations

Korytowsky, Beata, et al.. (2024). Brain metastases in clinical trial participants with KRAS-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving docetaxel: Pooled data analysis. Lung Cancer. 193. 107854–107854. 1 indexed citations

Shafquat, Afrah, et al.. (2024). Using Synthetic Data Produced By Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Generate Insights for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T-Cell) Clinical Trials. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 7484–7484. 2 indexed citations

Beigi, Mandis, et al.. (2023). Simulants: Synthetic Clinical Trial Data via Subject-Level Privacy-Preserving Synthesis. PubMed Central. 2 indexed citations

Shafquat, Afrah, Ronald G. Crystal, & Jason G. Mezey. (2020). Identifying novel associations in GWAS by hierarchical Bayesian latent variable detection of differentially misclassified phenotypes. BMC Bioinformatics. 21(1). 178–178. 5 indexed citations

Ogawa, Fumihiro, Matthew S. Walters, Afrah Shafquat, et al.. (2019). Role of KRAS in regulating normal human airway basal cell differentiation. Respiratory Research. 20(1). 181–181. 6 indexed citations

Meyers-Wallen, Vicki N., Adam R. Boyko, Charles G. Danko, et al.. (2017). XX Disorder of Sex Development is associated with an insertion on chromosome 9 and downregulation of RSPO1 in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0186331–e0186331. 13 indexed citations

Hsu, Tiffany, Regina Joice Cordy, Jose Vallarino, et al.. (2016). Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment. mSystems. 1(3). 111 indexed citations

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Börnigen, Daniela, Yo Sup Moon, Ali Rahnavard, et al.. (2015). A reproducible approach to high-throughput biological data acquisition and integration. PeerJ. 3. e791–e791. 10 indexed citations

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Franzosa, Eric A., Tiffany Hsu, Alexandra Sirota‐Madi, et al.. (2015). Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular 'omics' for microbial community profiling. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 13(6). 360–372. 483 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cordy, Regina Joice, Koji Yasuda, Afrah Shafquat, Xochitl C. Morgan, & Curtis Huttenhower. (2014). Determining Microbial Products and Identifying Molecular Targets in the Human Microbiome. Cell Metabolism. 20(5). 731–741. 76 indexed citations

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Shafquat, Afrah, Regina Joice Cordy, Sheri L. Simmons, & Curtis Huttenhower. (2014). Functional and phylogenetic assembly of microbial communities in the human microbiome. Trends in Microbiology. 22(5). 261–266. 158 indexed citations

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