Charaf Benarafa

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Charaf Benarafa is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Charaf Benarafa has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Immunology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Charaf Benarafa's work include Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (15 papers), Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (9 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (7 papers). Charaf Benarafa is often cited by papers focused on Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (15 papers), Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (9 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (7 papers). Charaf Benarafa collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Charaf Benarafa's co-authors include Eileen Remold‐O’Donnell, Hans‐Uwe Simon, Shída Yousefi, Mona Saffarzadeh, Horst von Bernuth, Philipp Krüger, Dirk Roos, Markus P. Radsak, Julia Skokowa and Dominik Hartl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Charaf Benarafa

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Neutrophils: Between Host Defence, Immune Modulation, and Tissue Injury

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charaf Benarafa Switzerland	27	1.2k	903	312	297	283	56	2.6k
Laurien H. Ulfman Netherlands	28	1.2k 1.0×	878 1.0×	406 1.3×	276 0.9×	288 1.0×	58	3.0k
Steven K. Lundy United States	33	1.8k 1.5×	786 0.9×	323 1.0×	220 0.7×	177 0.6×	59	3.5k
Oliver A. Garden United Kingdom	29	1.2k 1.0×	888 1.0×	273 0.9×	209 0.7×	529 1.9×	102	3.1k
Francisco A. Bonilla United States	24	1.7k 1.4×	491 0.5×	426 1.4×	275 0.9×	185 0.7×	60	2.5k
Sean Stevens United States	20	1.7k 1.3×	903 1.0×	211 0.7×	166 0.6×	214 0.8×	53	3.3k
Thomas Hehlgans Germany	29	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.3×	313 1.0×	238 0.8×	168 0.6×	71	3.4k
Mirta Schattner Argentina	36	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	283 0.9×	905 3.0×	308 1.1×	106	3.8k
Janice Chen United States	20	1.3k 1.0×	982 1.1×	243 0.8×	317 1.1×	205 0.7×	52	2.7k
Kenji Akita Japan	11	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	395 1.3×	250 0.8×	185 0.7×	31	2.8k
Ewan A. Ross United Kingdom	26	1.5k 1.2×	979 1.1×	185 0.6×	268 0.9×	135 0.5×	39	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charaf Benarafa

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Brito, Francisco, Obdulio García-Nicolás, Matthias Liniger, et al.. (2025). Correlates of protection against African swine fever virus identified by a systems immunology approach.

Hilty, Markus, et al.. (2025). Development of protective immunity against African swine fever depends on host-environment interactions. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 12. 1553310–1553310. 1 indexed citations

Grin, Peter M., Kaushal Baid, Hugo César Ramos de Jesus, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro (main protease) regulates caspase activation of gasdermin-D/E pores leading to secretion and extracellular activity of 3CLpro. Cell Reports. 43(12). 115080–115080. 6 indexed citations

Taddeo, Adriano, Inês Berenguer Veiga, R. Boss, et al.. (2022). Optimized intramuscular immunization with VSV-vectored spike protein triggers a superior immune response to SARS-CoV-2. npj Vaccines. 7(1). 82–82. 13 indexed citations

Germič, Nina, Aref Hosseini, Darko Stojkov, et al.. (2021). ATG5 promotes eosinopoiesis but inhibits eosinophil effector functions. Blood. 137(21). 2958–2969. 21 indexed citations

Burgener, Sabrina Sofia, et al.. (2021). Granule Leakage Induces Cell-Intrinsic, Granzyme B-Mediated Apoptosis in Mast Cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 630166–630166. 5 indexed citations

Georgiev, Hristo, Inga Ravens, Charaf Benarafa, Reinhold Förster, & Günter Bernhardt. (2016). Distinct gene expression patterns correlate with developmental and functional traits of iNKT subsets. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13116–13116. 71 indexed citations

Stoeckle, Christina, Barbara Geering, Shída Yousefi, et al.. (2016). RhoH is a negative regulator of eosinophilopoiesis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 23(12). 1961–1972. 18 indexed citations

Modregger, Peter, Tiziana P. Cremona, Charaf Benarafa, et al.. (2016). Small angle x-ray scattering with edge-illumination. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30940–30940. 32 indexed citations

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Basilico, Paola, Tiziana P. Cremona, Anna Oevermann, Alessandra Piersigilli, & Charaf Benarafa. (2015). Increased Myeloid Cell Production and Lung Bacterial Clearance in Mice Exposed to Cigarette Smoke. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 54(3). 424–435. 14 indexed citations

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Yousefi, Shída, et al.. (2014). The generation of neutrophils in the bone marrow is controlled by autophagy. Cell Death and Differentiation. 22(3). 445–456. 91 indexed citations

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Stolley, J. Michael, Dapeng Gong, Kalamo Farley, et al.. (2012). Increased Surfactant Protein D Fails to Improve Bacterial Clearance and Inflammation in serpinB1−/− Mice. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 47(6). 792–799. 5 indexed citations

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Benarafa, Charaf. (2011). The SerpinB1 Knockout Mouse. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 499. 135–148. 13 indexed citations

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Simarro, Marı́a, Alfredo Giménez-Cassina, Nancy Kedersha, et al.. (2010). Fast kinase domain-containing protein 3 is a mitochondrial protein essential for cellular respiration. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 401(3). 440–446. 55 indexed citations

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Gong, Dapeng, Charaf Benarafa, Kevan L. Hartshorn, & Eileen Remold‐O’Donnell. (2009). The neutrophil serine protease inhibitor SerpinB1 protects against inflammatory lung injury and morbidity in influenza virus infection (43.10). The Journal of Immunology. 182(Supplement_1). 43.10–43.10. 1 indexed citations

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Shcherbina, Anna, et al.. (2009). WASP plays a novel role in regulating platelet responses dependent on αIIbβ3 integrin outside‐in signalling. British Journal of Haematology. 148(3). 416–427. 31 indexed citations

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Benarafa, Charaf, Gregory P. Priebe, & Eileen Remold‐O’Donnell. (2007). The neutrophil serine protease inhibitor serpinb1 preserves lung defense functions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204(8). 1901–1909. 95 indexed citations

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Yasumatsu, Ryuji, et al.. (2006). SERPINB1 upregulation is associated with in vivo complex formation with neutrophil elastase and cathepsin G in a baboon model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 291(4). L619–L627. 45 indexed citations

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Benarafa, Charaf, Margaret E. Collins, Anne S. Hamblin, Ian Sabroe, & Fiona Cunningham. (2002). CHARACTERISATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF RECOMBINANT EQUINE EOTAXIN IN VITRO. Cytokine. 19(1). 27–30. 11 indexed citations

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Vanderplasschen, Alain, Michael Goltz, Japhet Lyaku, et al.. (1995). The Replicationin Vitroof the Gammaherpesvirus Bovine Herpesvirus 4 Is Restricted by Its DNA Synthesis Dependence on the S Phase of the Cell Cycle. Virology. 213(2). 328–340. 29 indexed citations

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