2026 Andrea Ballabio: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	136	209	204	108	106	484	103398
Medicine	136	1937	1806	1101	1015	517	104408

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Andrea Ballabio is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. The research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions to Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, Cell Biology, and Immunology.

The scientific work focuses on several key topics, including:

Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Cellular transport and secretion
Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Pancreatic function and diabetes

Ballabio's recent publications include:

"Autophagy in major human diseases," 2021, The EMBO Journal
"A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome," 2020, Nature
"LC3 lipidation is essential for TFEB activation during the lysosomal damage response to kidney injury," 2020, Nature Cell Biology
"The rapidly evolving view of lysosomal storage diseases," 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine
"Structure of the lysosomal mTORC1-TFEB-Rag-Ragulator megacomplex," 2023, Nature

Collaborations have been frequent with several coauthors, including:

Gennaro Napolitano (15 papers)
Jlenia Monfregola (13 papers)
Diego L. Medina (11 papers)
Daniel Chrastina (11 papers)
Giovanni Isella (11 papers)

Key publication venues where research has been reported extensively are:

Nature Communications (12 publications)
The EMBO Journal (6 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
Nature (4 publications)
EMBO Molecular Medicine (4 publications)

Best Publications

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

10661
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

8665
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

8488
Citations
TFEB links autophagy to lysosomal biogenesis.

Carmine Settembre;Chiara Di Malta;Vinicia Assunta Polito;Vinicia Assunta Polito;Moises Garcia Arencibia

3072
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

2934
Citations
A Gene Network Regulating Lysosomal Biogenesis and Function

Marco Sardiello;Michela Palmieri;Alberto di Ronza;Diego Luis Medina

2465
Citations
A lysosome-to-nucleus signalling mechanism senses and regulates the lysosome via mTOR and TFEB

Carmine Settembre;Carmine Settembre;Roberto Zoncu;Diego L Medina;Francesco Vetrini;Francesco Vetrini

1924
Citations
A gene from the region of the human X inactivation centre is expressed exclusively from the inactive X chromosome

Carolyn J. Brown;Andrea Ballabio;James L. Rupert;Ronald G. Lafreniere

1779
Citations
Signals from the lysosome: a control centre for cellular clearance and energy metabolism.

Carmine Settembre;Alessandro Fraldi;Diego L. Medina;Andrea Ballabio

1714
Citations
Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Eric H. Baehrecke;Andrea Ballabio;Patricia Boya

1670
Citations
The tripartite motif family identifies cell compartments.

Alexandre Reymond;Germana Meroni;Anna Fantozzi;Giuseppe Merla

1616
Citations
Autophagy in major human diseases

Daniel J. Klionsky;Giulia Petroni;Ravi K. Amaravadi;Eric H. Baehrecke

1449
Citations
The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

1405
Citations
Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB

Diego L. Medina;Simone Di Paola;Ivana Peluso;Andrea Armani

1257
Citations
Haploinsufficiency of ATP1A2 encoding the Na+/K+ pump alpha2 subunit associated with familial hemiplegic migraine type 2.

Maurizio De Fusco;Roberto Marconi;Laura Silvestri;Luigia Atorino

1166
Citations
Characterization of the CLEAR network reveals an integrated control of cellular clearance pathways

Michela Palmieri;Soren Impey;Hyojin Kang;Alberto di Ronza

995
Citations
Lysosomes as dynamic regulators of cell and organismal homeostasis

Andrea Ballabio;Juan S. Bonifacino

988
Citations
Spastic Paraplegia and OXPHOS Impairment Caused by Mutations in Paraplegin, a Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Metalloprotease

Giorgio Casari;Maurizio De Fusco;Sonia Ciarmatori;Massimo Zeviani

980
Citations
TFEB controls cellular lipid metabolism through a starvation-induced autoregulatory loop

Carmine Settembre;Rossella De Cegli;Gelsomina Mansueto;Pradip K. Saha

966
Citations
A gene deleted in Kallmann's syndrome shares homology with neural cell adhesion and axonal path-finding molecules.

Brunella Franco;Silvana Guioli;Antonella Pragliola;Antonella Pragliola;Barbara Incerti

965
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brunella Franco University of Naples Federico II

Giuseppe Borsani University of Brescia

Generoso Andria University of Naples Federico II

Sandro Banfi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Giancarlo Parenti University of Naples Federico II

Maria Teresa Bassi MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Giorgio Casari Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Elena I. Rugarli University of Cologne

Nicola Brunetti-Pierri University of Naples Federico II

Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

External Links

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