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Andrea Ballabio publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Ballabio sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 484 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Andrea Ballabio D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Ballabio sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 136 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

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

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

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

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

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

  • TFEB links autophagy to lysosomal biogenesis.

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

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

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

  • A Gene Network Regulating Lysosomal Biogenesis and Function

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

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

  • The tripartite motif family identifies cell compartments.

    Alexandre Reymond;Germana Meroni;Anna Fantozzi;Giuseppe Merla

  • Autophagy in major human diseases

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

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

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

  • Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Lysosomes as dynamic regulators of cell and organismal homeostasis

    Andrea Ballabio;Juan S. Bonifacino

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

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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Brunella Franco
Brunella Franco University of Naples Federico II
Giuseppe Borsani
Giuseppe Borsani University of Brescia
Generoso Andria
Generoso Andria University of Naples Federico II
Sandro Banfi
Sandro Banfi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Giancarlo Parenti
Giancarlo Parenti University of Naples Federico II
Maria Teresa Bassi
Maria Teresa Bassi MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Giorgio Casari
Giorgio Casari Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Elena I. Rugarli
Elena I. Rugarli University of Cologne
Nicola Brunetti-Pierri
Nicola Brunetti-Pierri University of Naples Federico II
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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