Karima Drareni

455 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 312 citations indexed

About

Karima Drareni is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karima Drareni has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 312 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karima Drareni's work include Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (3 papers), Immune cells in cancer (3 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (2 papers). Karima Drareni is often cited by papers focused on Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (3 papers), Immune cells in cancer (3 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (2 papers). Karima Drareni collaborates with scholars based in France, Sweden and United States. Karima Drareni's co-authors include Fawaz Alzaïd, Nicolas Venteclef, Élise Dalmas, Lucie Orliaguet, Jean–François Gautier, Eckardt Treuter, Raphaëlle Ballaire, Rongrong Fan, Zhiqiang Huang and Fabienne Foufelle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Cell Reports and Cells.

In The Last Decade

Karima Drareni

8 papers receiving 305 citations

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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.

Antibody blockade of activin type II receptors preserves skeletal muscle mass and enhances fat loss during GLP-1 receptor agonism

2024 56 citations Natasha Jaiswal, Kahealani Uehara et al. Molecular Metabolism profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karima Drareni France	6	131	98	92	81	49	8	312
Gavin Fredrickson United States	6	106 0.8×	62 0.6×	163 1.8×	93 1.1×	32 0.7×	8	309
Raphaëlle Ballaire France	10	162 1.2×	56 0.6×	101 1.1×	81 1.0×	24 0.5×	11	316
Joselyn Natasha Allen United States	7	88 0.7×	63 0.6×	110 1.2×	188 2.3×	36 0.7×	10	369
Geneviève Lavallée Canada	4	101 0.8×	44 0.4×	60 0.7×	84 1.0×	39 0.8×	6	271
Dag Fadnes Norway	6	84 0.6×	91 0.9×	73 0.8×	137 1.7×	13 0.3×	6	325
Adhideb Ghosh Switzerland	10	149 1.1×	105 1.1×	47 0.5×	45 0.6×	15 0.3×	39	367
Zhisheng Xu China	9	201 1.5×	100 1.0×	88 1.0×	36 0.4×	14 0.3×	12	346
Erika Fiorino Italy	9	137 1.0×	108 1.1×	70 0.8×	70 0.9×	12 0.2×	15	330
Patricia Ramos‐Ramírez Sweden	12	73 0.6×	147 1.5×	54 0.6×	167 2.1×	21 0.4×	23	384
Roshini Sathiaseelan United States	11	173 1.3×	50 0.5×	43 0.5×	59 0.7×	30 0.6×	14	381

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karima Drareni

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karima Drareni. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karima Drareni based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Karima Drareni. Karima Drareni is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Weller, Angela H., Karima Drareni, Shirley S.M. Fong, et al.. (2025). PRDM16 regulates smooth muscle cell identity and atherosclerotic plaque composition. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 4(11). 1573–1588. 1 indexed citations

2.

Jaiswal, Natasha, Kahealani Uehara, Karima Drareni, et al.. (2024). Antibody blockade of activin type II receptors preserves skeletal muscle mass and enhances fat loss during GLP-1 receptor agonism. Molecular Metabolism. 80. 101880–101880. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

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Secco, Blandine, Karima Drareni, Antoine Soprani, et al.. (2022). Loss of Human Beta Cell Identity in a Reconstructed Omental Stromal Cell Environment. Cells. 11(6). 924–924. 1 indexed citations

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Drareni, Karima, Raphaëlle Ballaire, Fawaz Alzaïd, et al.. (2020). Adipocyte Reprogramming by the Transcriptional Coregulator GPS2 Impacts Beta Cell Insulin Secretion. Cell Reports. 32(11). 108141–108141. 12 indexed citations

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Orliaguet, Lucie, Élise Dalmas, Karima Drareni, Nicolas Venteclef, & Fawaz Alzaïd. (2020). Mechanisms of Macrophage Polarization in Insulin Signaling and Sensitivity. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 11. 62–62. 109 indexed citations

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Drareni, Karima, Jean–François Gautier, Nicolas Venteclef, & Fawaz Alzaïd. (2019). Transcriptional control of macrophage polarisation in type 2 diabetes. Seminars in Immunopathology. 41(4). 515–529. 25 indexed citations

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Drareni, Karima, Raphaëlle Ballaire, Amine Toubal, et al.. (2018). GPS2 Deficiency Triggers Maladaptive White Adipose Tissue Expansion in Obesity via HIF1A Activation. Cell Reports. 24(11). 2957–2971.e6. 39 indexed citations

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Fan, Rongrong, Amine Toubal, Saioa Goñi, et al.. (2016). Loss of the co-repressor GPS2 sensitizes macrophage activation upon metabolic stress induced by obesity and type 2 diabetes. Nature Medicine. 22(7). 780–791. 69 indexed citations

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