Moustafa Attar

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Moustafa Attar is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moustafa Attar has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Immunology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Moustafa Attar's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Moustafa Attar is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Moustafa Attar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Switzerland. Moustafa Attar's co-authors include Rory Bowden, David Buck, Alison Simmons, James Kinchen, Eshita Sharma, Laura Cubitt, Neil Ashley, David Ahern, Marta Jagielowicz and Kaushal Parikh and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Moustafa Attar

23 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Structural Remodeling of the Human Colonic Mesenchyme in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2018 450 citations James Kinchen, Hannah H. Chen et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moustafa Attar United Kingdom	14	572	419	263	243	187	26	1.3k
Kevin D. Pavelko United States	23	437 0.8×	770 1.8×	136 0.5×	434 1.8×	358 1.9×	71	2.0k
Show‐Li Chen Taiwan	26	799 1.4×	272 0.6×	224 0.9×	153 0.6×	282 1.5×	66	1.5k
Carine Bonnard Singapore	18	461 0.8×	204 0.5×	208 0.8×	72 0.3×	188 1.0×	40	1.2k
Stéphanie Humblet‐Baron Belgium	29	527 0.9×	1.2k 2.8×	290 1.1×	379 1.6×	169 0.9×	85	2.2k
Carmen Blum Germany	19	654 1.1×	1.1k 2.7×	166 0.6×	320 1.3×	164 0.9×	21	2.1k
Oskar Laur United States	21	843 1.5×	525 1.3×	228 0.9×	130 0.5×	89 0.5×	32	1.5k
Xiaofeng Yang China	15	454 0.8×	124 0.3×	265 1.0×	151 0.6×	290 1.6×	48	1.4k
Melanie Laschinger Germany	20	534 0.9×	1.2k 2.9×	123 0.5×	622 2.6×	159 0.9×	37	2.4k
Said Hashemolhosseini Germany	21	1.1k 1.9×	145 0.3×	227 0.9×	156 0.6×	82 0.4×	49	1.5k
Silke Appenzeller Germany	22	550 1.0×	127 0.3×	168 0.6×	133 0.5×	87 0.5×	56	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moustafa Attar

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Clark, Kristina E N, Shiwen Xu, Moustafa Attar, et al.. (2025). Characterization of a pathogenic nonmigratory fibroblast population in systemic sclerosis skin. JCI Insight. 10(10).

Kandasamy, Matheswaran, Robert J. Mitchell, Mariana Borsa, et al.. (2025). Glycogen synthase kinase-3 is essential for Treg development and function. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116256–116256. 1 indexed citations

Simone, Davide, Moustafa Attar, Liying Jin, et al.. (2025). Healthy human enthesis stromal cells mediate immunoregulation via the CD39/CD73 adenosine ectonucleotidase pathway. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 84(12). 1995–2007.

Fergusson, Joannah R., Jacqueline H. Y. Siu, Edward Jenkins, et al.. (2025). Ex vivo model of functioning human lymph node reveals role for innate lymphocytes and stroma in response to vaccine adjuvant. Cell Reports. 44(7). 115938–115938.

Tong, Orion, Robert Watson, Ana Victoria Lechuga‐Vieco, et al.. (2023). IFNγ signaling in cytotoxic T cells restricts anti-tumor responses by inhibiting the maintenance and diversity of intra-tumoral stem-like T cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 321–321. 36 indexed citations

Zec, Kristina, Erinke van Grinsven, Hayley L. Eames, et al.. (2023). Macrophages in the synovial lining niche initiate neutrophil recruitment and articular inflammation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(8). 17 indexed citations

Dib, Lea, Lada A. Koneva, Andreas Edsfeldt, et al.. (2023). Lipid-associated macrophages transition to an inflammatory state in human atherosclerosis, increasing the risk of cerebrovascular complications. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 2(7). 656–672. 61 indexed citations

Galiani, Silvia, Mohammad Ali, Barbara Kronsteiner, et al.. (2023). Dynamic mitochondrial transcription and translation in B cells control germinal center entry and lymphomagenesis. Nature Immunology. 24(6). 991–1006. 32 indexed citations

Aulicino, Anna, Agne Antanaviciute, Joe N. Frost, et al.. (2022). Dual RNA sequencing reveals dendritic cell reprogramming in response to typhoidal Salmonella invasion. Communications Biology. 5(1). 111–111. 8 indexed citations

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Koneva, Lada A., Moustafa Attar, Cesar A. Prada‐Medina, et al.. (2022). Secondary influenza challenge triggers resident memory B cell migration and rapid relocation to boost antibody secretion at infected sites. Immunity. 55(4). 718–733.e8. 76 indexed citations

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Jansen, Kathrin, Moustafa Attar, Stefano Maio, et al.. (2021). RBFOX splicing factors contribute to a broad but selective recapitulation of peripheral tissue splicing patterns in the thymus. Genome Research. 31(11). 2022–2034. 6 indexed citations

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Curion, Fabiola, Adam E. Handel, Moustafa Attar, et al.. (2020). Targeted RNA sequencing enhances gene expression profiling of ultra-low input samples. RNA Biology. 17(12). 1741–1753. 13 indexed citations

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Sheerin, Dylan, Daniel O’Connor, Christina Dold, et al.. (2019). Comparative transcriptomics between species attributes reactogenicity pathways induced by the capsular group B meningococcal vaccine, 4CMenB, to the membrane-bound endotoxin of its outer membrane vesicle component. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13797–13797. 10 indexed citations

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Lynch, Kate, Fabiola Curion, Hing‐Yuen Yeung, et al.. (2019). PS-127-Analysis of liver infiltrating lymphocytes in primary sclerosing cholangitis by surface antigen and single cell RNAseq. Journal of Hepatology. 70(1). e78–e79. 1 indexed citations

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Attar, Moustafa, Eshita Sharma, Shuqiang Li, et al.. (2018). A practical solution for preserving single cells for RNA sequencing. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2151–2151. 47 indexed citations

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Kinchen, James, Hannah H. Chen, Kaushal Parikh, et al.. (2018). Structural Remodeling of the Human Colonic Mesenchyme in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cell. 175(2). 372–386.e17. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Charmaine, Kieran R. Campbell, Brent J. Ryan, et al.. (2018). Single-Cell Sequencing of iPSC-Dopamine Neurons Reconstructs Disease Progression and Identifies HDAC4 as a Regulator of Parkinson Cell Phenotypes. Cell stem cell. 24(1). 93–106.e6. 106 indexed citations

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Lamble, Sarah, Elizabeth M. Batty, Moustafa Attar, et al.. (2013). Improved workflows for high throughput library preparation using the transposome-based nextera system. BMC Biotechnology. 13(1). 104–104. 94 indexed citations

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Batty, Elizabeth M., Ted Wong, Amy Trebes, et al.. (2013). A Modified RNA-Seq Approach for Whole Genome Sequencing of RNA Viruses from Faecal and Blood Samples. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66129–e66129. 42 indexed citations

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Newey, Paul, M. Andrew Nesbit, Andrew J. Rimmer, et al.. (2012). Whole-Exome Sequencing Studies of Nonhereditary (Sporadic) Parathyroid Adenomas. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 97(10). E1995–E2005. 95 indexed citations

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