Rafika Athman

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Rafika Athman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafika Athman has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Epidemiology and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Rafika Athman's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (4 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (2 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (2 papers). Rafika Athman is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (4 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (2 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (2 papers). Rafika Athman collaborates with scholars based in France, Australia and Ireland. Rafika Athman's co-authors include Sylvie Robine, Daniel Louvard, Dana J. Philpott, Michel Huerre, Philippe Sansonetti, Céline Revenu, Sylvie Mémet, Agnès Labigne, Richard L. Ferrero and Peter S. DiStefano and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rafika Athman

14 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Nod1 responds to peptidoglycan delivered by the Helicobacter pylori cag pathogenicity island

2004 971 citations Jérôme Viala, Catherine Chaput et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafika Athman France	12	811	625	571	287	178	14	1.8k
Mohammed Benghezal Australia	26	447 0.6×	501 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	620 2.2×	203 1.1×	58	2.3k
Silvia Rossi Paccani Italy	24	651 0.8×	260 0.4×	952 1.7×	135 0.5×	53 0.3×	42	1.9k
Rosella Mollicone France	34	863 1.1×	349 0.6×	2.3k 4.0×	205 0.7×	30 0.2×	89	3.3k
Takuya Mizuno Japan	26	508 0.6×	162 0.3×	775 1.4×	74 0.3×	141 0.8×	169	2.4k
John P. Donahue United States	23	426 0.5×	441 0.7×	806 1.4×	34 0.1×	101 0.6×	50	1.9k
Florian Winau Germany	24	1.5k 1.8×	340 0.5×	669 1.2×	102 0.4×	42 0.2×	29	2.6k
Alexander Karlas Germany	21	617 0.8×	580 0.9×	928 1.6×	139 0.5×	21 0.1×	35	2.2k
B.A. Macher United States	18	747 0.9×	1.5k 2.4×	1.4k 2.5×	167 0.6×	70 0.4×	28	3.1k
Minka Breloer Germany	27	973 1.2×	118 0.2×	669 1.2×	130 0.5×	129 0.7×	67	2.0k
Leopoldo Santos‐Argumedo Mexico	27	1.3k 1.6×	84 0.1×	692 1.2×	188 0.7×	43 0.2×	129	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafika Athman

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Ménasché, Gaël, Mickaël Ménager, Juliette M. Lefebvre, et al.. (2008). A newly identified isoform of Slp2a associates with Rab27a in cytotoxic T cells and participates to cytotoxic granule secretion. Blood. 112(13). 5052–5062. 55 indexed citations

Dubourdeau, Marc, Rafika Athman, Viviane Balloy, et al.. (2006). Interaction ofAspergillus fumigatuswith the alveolar macrophage. Medical Mycology. 44(s1). 213–217. 11 indexed citations

Dubourdeau, Marc, Rafika Athman, Viviane Balloy, et al.. (2006). Aspergillus fumigatus Induces Innate Immune Responses in Alveolar Macrophages through the MAPK Pathway Independently of TLR2 and TLR4. The Journal of Immunology. 177(6). 3994–4001. 88 indexed citations

Athman, Rafika, Pierre Gounon, Philippe Sansonetti, et al.. (2005). Shigella flexneri infection is dependent on villin in the mouse intestine and in primary cultures of intestinal epithelial cells. Cellular Microbiology. 7(8). 1109–1116. 30 indexed citations

Amsellem, Valérie, Marie-Hélène Kryszke, Frédéric Subra, et al.. (2004). The actin cytoskeleton-associated protein zyxin acts as a tumor suppressor in Ewing tumor cells. Experimental Cell Research. 304(2). 443–456. 52 indexed citations

Athman, Rafika. (2004). Innate immunity via Toll-like receptors and Nod proteins. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 7(1). 25–32. 107 indexed citations

Ouvrard‐Pascaud, Antoine, Stefania Puttini, Yannis Sainte–Marie, et al.. (2004). Conditional gene expression in renal collecting duct epithelial cells: use of the inducible Cre-lox system. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 286(1). F180–F187. 17 indexed citations

Revenu, Céline, Rafika Athman, Sylvie Robine, & Daniel Louvard. (2004). The co-workers of actin filaments: from cell structures to signals. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 5(8). 635–646. 253 indexed citations

Six, Emmanuelle, Delphine Ndiaye, Guido Sauer, et al.. (2004). The Notch Ligand Delta1 Recruits Dlg1 at Cell-Cell Contacts and Regulates Cell Migration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(53). 55818–55826. 49 indexed citations

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Viala, Jérôme, Catherine Chaput, Ivo G. Boneca, et al.. (2004). Nod1 responds to peptidoglycan delivered by the Helicobacter pylori cag pathogenicity island. Nature Immunology. 5(11). 1166–1174. 971 indexed citations breakdown →

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Athman, Rafika, Daniel Louvard, & Sylvie Robine. (2003). Villin Enhances Hepatocyte Growth Factor-induced Actin Cytoskeleton Remodeling in Epithelial Cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(11). 4641–4653. 34 indexed citations

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Athman, Rafika, et al.. (2002). In vivo absorption of water and electrolytes in mouse intestine. Application to villin −/− mice. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 282(4). G634–G639. 5 indexed citations

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Athman, Rafika, Daniel Louvard, & Sylvie Robine. (2002). III. How is villin involved in the actin cytoskeleton dynamics in intestinal cells?. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 283(3). G496–G502. 47 indexed citations

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Ferrary, Évelyne, Michel Cohen‐Tannoudji, Gérard Péhau‐Arnaudet, et al.. (1999). In Vivo, Villin Is Required for Ca2+-Dependent F-Actin Disruption in Intestinal Brush Borders. The Journal of Cell Biology. 146(4). 819–830. 127 indexed citations

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