Nima Rafati

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 800 citations indexed

About

Nima Rafati is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nima Rafati has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 800 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Nima Rafati's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (5 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (4 papers). Nima Rafati is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (5 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (4 papers). Nima Rafati collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Spain. Nima Rafati's co-authors include Leif Andersson, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Carl‐Johan Rubin, Nils Ryman, Álvaro Martínez Barrio, Manfred Grabherr, Linda Laikre, Anna Wetterbom, Elizabeth R. Gilbert and Jonas Berglund and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Nima Rafati

24 papers receiving 783 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.

Optimizing Xenium In Situ data utility by quality assessment and best-practice analysis workflows

2025 25 citations Sergio Marco Salas, Louis B. Kuemmerle et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers

Nima Rafati

GENET

NLC

GPC

ECOLO

Oriol Vidal Spain

Xuming Zhou China

Cédric Cabau France

Junko Ando Japan

Mats E. Pettersson Sweden

Zining Meng China

Luis Miguel Pastor Spain

Krzysztof P. Lubieniecki Canada

Hajime Kitano Japan

Magali SanCristobal France

Oriol Vidal Spain

Nima Rafati

583 ×1.5

GENET

273 ×0.9

263 ×2.1

NLC

154 ×1.4

GPC

237 ×2.2

ECOLO

Citations per year, relative to Nima Rafati Nima Rafati (= 1×) peers Oriol Vidal

Countries citing papers authored by Nima Rafati

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nima Rafati

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nima Rafati

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nima Rafati. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nima Rafati 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 Nima Rafati. Nima Rafati is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Salas, Sergio Marco, Louis B. Kuemmerle, Christophe Avenel, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Xenium In Situ data utility by quality assessment and best-practice analysis workflows. Nature Methods. 22(4). 813–823. 25 indexed citations breakdown →

Harder, Lisbeth, Sergio Marco Salas, Clara Muñoz‐Castro, et al.. (2025). Oligodendroglia vulnerability in the human dorsal striatum in Parkinson’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 149(1). 46–46. 1 indexed citations

Rafati, Nima, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of high level E2F in a RB1 proficient MYCN overexpressing chicken retinoblastoma model normalizes neoplastic behaviour. Cellular Oncology. 47(1). 209–227. 2 indexed citations

Li, Zhiwei, Valeria Lo Faro, Mathias Rask‐Andersen, et al.. (2023). Copy number variations and their effect on the plasma proteome. Genetics. 225(4). 1 indexed citations

Ament‐Velásquez, S. Lorena, et al.. (2022). The Dynamics of Adaptation to Stress from Standing Genetic Variation and de novo Mutations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(11). 12 indexed citations

Åkesson, Mikael, et al.. (2022). MYCN induces cell-specific tumorigenic growth in RB1-proficient human retinal organoid and chicken retina models of retinoblastoma. Oncogenesis. 11(1). 34–34. 10 indexed citations

Kierczak, Marcin, Nima Rafati, Julia Höglund, et al.. (2022). Contribution of rare whole-genome sequencing variants to plasma protein levels and the missing heritability. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2532–2532. 13 indexed citations

Kurland, Sara, Nima Rafati, Nils Ryman, & Linda Laikre. (2022). Genomic dynamics of brown trout populations released to a novel environment. Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). e9050–e9050. 4 indexed citations

Raclariu-Manolică, Ancuța Cristina, et al.. (2021). DNA Metabarcoding for Quality Control of Basil, Oregano, and Paprika. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 665618–665618. 20 indexed citations

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Rafati, Nima, Shady Younis, Chungang Feng, et al.. (2020). Brain Transcriptomics of Wild and Domestic Rabbits Suggests That Changes in Dopamine Signaling and Ciliary Function Contributed to Evolution of Tameness. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(10). 1918–1928. 16 indexed citations

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Bianchi, Matteo, Nima Rafati, Åsa Karlsson, et al.. (2020). Whole-genome genotyping and resequencing reveal the association of a deletion in the complex interferon alpha gene cluster with hypothyroidism in dogs. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 307–307. 8 indexed citations

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Höglund, Julia, Nima Rafati, Mathias Rask‐Andersen, et al.. (2019). Improved power and precision with whole genome sequencing data in genome-wide association studies of inflammatory biomarkers. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16844–16844. 35 indexed citations

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Carneiro, Miguel, Chunliang Wang, Carl‐Johan Rubin, et al.. (2018). Changes in brain architecture are consistent with altered fear processing in domestic rabbits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(28). 7380–7385. 45 indexed citations

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Bornelöv, Susanne, Eyal Seroussi, Sara Yosefi, et al.. (2018). Comparative omics and feeding manipulations in chicken indicate a shift of the endocrine role of visceral fat towards reproduction. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 295–295. 39 indexed citations

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Feng, Chungang, Mats E. Pettersson, Sangeet Lamichhaney, et al.. (2017). Moderate nucleotide diversity in the Atlantic herring is associated with a low mutation rate. eLife. 6. 52 indexed citations

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Lamichhaney, Sangeet, Angela P. Fuentes‐Pardo, Nima Rafati, et al.. (2017). Parallel adaptive evolution of geographically distant herring populations on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(17). E3452–E3461. 95 indexed citations

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Rafati, Nima, Lisa Andersson, Sofia Mikko, et al.. (2016). Large Deletions at the SHOX Locus in the Pseudoautosomal Region Are Associated with Skeletal Atavism in Shetland Ponies. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(7). 2213–2223. 28 indexed citations

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Saenko, Suzanne V., Sangeet Lamichhaney, Álvaro Martínez Barrio, et al.. (2015). Amelanism in the corn snake is associated with the insertion of an LTR-retrotransposon in the OCA2 gene. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17118–17118. 35 indexed citations

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Seroussi, Eyal, Yuval Cinnamon, Sara Yosefi, et al.. (2015). Identification of the Long-Sought Leptin in Chicken and Duck: Expression Pattern of the Highly GC-Rich Avian leptin Fits an Autocrine/Paracrine Rather Than Endocrine Function. Endocrinology. 157(2). 737–751. 83 indexed citations

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Rafati, Nima, Hassan Mehrabani-Yeganeh, & Timothy Hanson. (2010). Risk factors for abortion in dairy cows from commercial Holstein dairy herds in the Tehran region. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 96(3-4). 170–178. 20 indexed citations

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