Robert Lafyatis

26.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
236 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Robert Lafyatis is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Lafyatis has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 91 papers in Molecular Biology and 60 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Robert Lafyatis's work include Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases (126 papers), Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (40 papers) and Connective Tissue Growth Factor Research (20 papers). Robert Lafyatis is often cited by papers focused on Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases (126 papers), Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (40 papers) and Connective Tissue Growth Factor Research (20 papers). Robert Lafyatis collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Robert Lafyatis's co-authors include Tracy Tabib, Michael B. Sporn, Raphaël Lemaire, Anita B. Roberts, Michael L. Whitfield, Giuseppina Farina, Wei Chen, R L Wilder, Elaine F. Remmers and Michael York and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Robert Lafyatis

230 papers receiving 14.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Proliferating SPP1/MERTK-expressing macrophages in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

2019 461 citations Christina Morse, Tracy Tabib et al. profile →
Immune Landscape of Viral- and Carcinogen-Driven Head and Neck Cancer

2020 452 citations Tracy Tabib, Wei Chen et al. profile →
Shared and distinct mechanisms of fibrosis

2019 433 citations Jörg H. W. Distler, Michael L. Whitfield et al. profile →
Adaptive plasticity of IL-10+ and IL-35+ Treg cells cooperatively promotes tumor T cell exhaustion

2019 388 citations Tracy Tabib, Robert Lafyatis et al. profile →
Fresolimumab treatment decreases biomarkers and improves clinical symptoms in systemic sclerosis patients

2015 265 citations Lisa Rice, Cristina M. Padilla et al. profile →
B cell signatures and tertiary lymphoid structures contribute to outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

2021 230 citations Tracy Tabib, Robert Lafyatis et al. profile →
Single-cell analysis reveals fibroblast heterogeneity and myofibroblasts in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease

2019 218 citations Eleanor Valenzi, Melissa Bulik et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Lafyatis United States	66	5.3k	4.6k	4.1k	2.9k	2.1k	236	14.2k
Hironobu Ihn Japan	58	4.5k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	384	11.8k
Kazuhiko Takehara Japan	69	4.3k 0.8×	6.8k 1.5×	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	375	15.9k
Maria Trojanowska United States	61	4.6k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	952 0.5×	171	10.0k
Marvin J. Fritzler Canada	64	6.0k 1.1×	5.6k 1.2×	4.5k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	682 0.3×	410	18.6k
Andrew Leask Canada	63	8.7k 1.6×	3.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	230	14.7k
Tadashi Yoshino Japan	54	2.4k 0.5×	4.4k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	3.5k 1.7×	524	12.6k
Ritsuro Suzuki Japan	59	2.1k 0.4×	5.4k 1.2×	3.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	5.3k 2.5×	381	13.2k
Renate E. Gay Switzerland	65	5.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.4×	3.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	2.1k 1.0×	174	13.4k
Jochen Zwerina Austria	64	4.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	229	12.2k
Maurilio Ponzoni Italy	65	4.7k 0.9×	6.6k 1.4×	3.8k 0.9×	973 0.3×	6.6k 3.1×	296	16.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Lafyatis

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Yablonska, Svitlana, Peng Xi, Duah Alkam, et al.. (2025). IP-to-MS: An Unbiased Workflow for Antigen Profiling. Journal of Proteome Research. 24(2). 795–812.

Tabib, Tracy, et al.. (2025). Unique and shared transcriptomic signatures underlying localized scleroderma pathogenesis identified using interpretable machine learning. JCI Insight. 10(7).

Padilla, Cristina M., et al.. (2025). Effects of Audio‐Guided Imagery on Raynaud Phenomenon in Connective Tissue Disease. ACR Open Rheumatology. 7(8). e70074–e70074.

Shehabeldin, Mostafa, Jin Gao, Rong Chong, et al.. (2024). Local Controlled Delivery of IL-4 Decreases Inflammatory Bone Loss in a Murine Model of Periodontal Disease. The Journal of Immunology. 213(11). 1635–1643. 6 indexed citations

Tabib, Tracy, Hanxi Xiao, Dinesh Khanna, et al.. (2023). Cell Type–Specific Biomarkers of Systemic Sclerosis Disease Severity Capture Cell‐Intrinsic and Cell‐Extrinsic Circuits. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 75(10). 1819–1830. 8 indexed citations

Tabib, Tracy, et al.. (2023). Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Subclusters with Inflammatory Fibroblast Responses in Localized Scleroderma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(12). 9796–9796. 28 indexed citations

Wang, Xinjun, Zhongli Xu, Haoran Hu, et al.. (2022). SECANT: a biology-guided semi-supervised method for clustering, classification, and annotation of single-cell multi-omics. PNAS Nexus. 1(4). pgac165–pgac165. 1 indexed citations

Bulik, Melissa, Travis Lear, Yanwen Chen, et al.. (2022). Fibronectin-EDA accumulates via reduced ubiquitination downstream of Toll-like receptor 9 activation in SSc-ILD fibroblasts. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 323(4). L484–L494. 5 indexed citations

Hamburg‐Shields, Emily, John P. Lydon, Ying Yan, et al.. (2021). Skin Fibrosis and Recovery Is Dependent on Wnt Activation via DPP4. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(6). 1597–1606.e9. 25 indexed citations

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Spiera, Robert, Laura K. Hummers, Leland W.K. Chung, et al.. (2020). Safety and Efficacy of Lenabasum in a Phase II, Randomized, Placebo‐Controlled Trial in Adults With Systemic Sclerosis. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 72(8). 1350–1360. 72 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Debomita, Honglin Zhu, Astrid Jüngel, et al.. (2020). Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 activates a network of profibrotic signaling pathways to promote fibrosis in systemic sclerosis. Science Translational Medicine. 12(563). 36 indexed citations

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Tabib, Tracy, Xinjun Wang, Wei Chen, et al.. (2020). Single-cell transcriptome conservation in a comparative analysis of fresh and cryopreserved human skin tissue: pilot in localized scleroderma. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 22(1). 101–101. 31 indexed citations

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Saygın, Didem, Tracy Tabib, Humberto E. Trejo Bittar, et al.. (2020). Transcriptional profiling of lung cell populations in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary Circulation. 10(1). 1–15. 67 indexed citations

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Tabib, Tracy, et al.. (2019). Single-Cell Lymphocyte Heterogeneity in Advanced Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Skin Tumors. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(14). 4443–4454. 85 indexed citations

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Moll, Matthew, Romy Christmann, Yuqing Zhang, et al.. (2018). Patients with systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension express a genomic signature distinct from patients with interstitial lung disease. Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders. 3(3). 242–248. 11 indexed citations

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Christmann, Romy, Percival D. Sampaio‐Barros, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro de Carvalho, et al.. (2016). miR-155 in the progression of lung fibrosis in systemic sclerosis. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 18(1). 155–155. 85 indexed citations

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Bhattacharyya, Swati, Kathleen Kelley, Denisa S. Melichian, et al.. (2012). Toll-Like Receptor 4 Signaling Augments Transforming Growth Factor-β Responses. American Journal Of Pathology. 182(1). 192–205. 209 indexed citations

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Radstake, Timothy R. D. J., Lenny van Bon, Jasper Broen, et al.. (2009). Increased Frequency and Compromised Function of T Regulatory Cells in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) Is Related to a Diminished CD69 and TGFβ Expression. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e5981–e5981. 131 indexed citations

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Lafyatis, Robert & Michael York. (2009). Innate immunity and inflammation in systemic sclerosis. Current Opinion in Rheumatology. 21(6). 617–622. 60 indexed citations

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Horan, Gerald, Susan Wood, Victor Ona, et al.. (2007). Partial Inhibition of Integrin αvβ6 Prevents Pulmonary Fibrosis without Exacerbating Inflammation. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 177(1). 56–65. 331 indexed citations

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