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Babak Razani

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
38780
World Ranking
11079
National Ranking
4788

Babak Razani publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Babak Razani sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 136 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Babak Razani D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Babak Razani sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Babak Razani is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Physiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their scholarly work has contributed to the understanding of various biomedical topics, especially in areas related to autophagy, metabolism, cardiovascular diseases, and immune regulation.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Long COVID, a comprehensive systematic scoping review (2021) published in Infection
  • Acetyl-CoA Derived from Hepatic Peroxisomal β-Oxidation Inhibits Autophagy and Promotes Steatosis via mTORC1 Activation (2020) published in Molecular Cell
  • High-protein diets increase cardiovascular risk by activating macrophage mTOR to suppress mitophagy (2020) published in Nature Metabolism
  • Selective loss of resident macrophage-derived insulin-like growth factor-1 abolishes adaptive cardiac growth to stress (2021) published in Immunity
  • Trehalose causes low-grade lysosomal stress to activate TFEB and the autophagy-lysosome biogenesis response (2021) published in Autophagy

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Yu-Sheng Yeh, Se-Jin Jeong, Ali Javaheri, Irfan J. Lodhi, and Astrid Rodríguez-Vélez.

Babak Razani's work has been published extensively in several prominent venues including:

  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Circulation Research

The main topics covered by Razani's research encompass:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

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 (3rd edition)

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

  • Embryonic and adult-derived resident cardiac macrophages are maintained through distinct mechanisms at steady state and during inflammation.

    Slava Epelman;Kory J. Lavine;Anna E. Beaudin;Dorothy K. Sojka

  • Caveolin-1 Null Mice Are Viable but Show Evidence of Hyperproliferative and Vascular Abnormalities

    Babak Razani;Jeffery A. Engelman;Xiao Bo Wang;William Schubert

  • Caveolae: From Cell Biology to Animal Physiology

    Babak Razani;Scott E. Woodman;Michael P. Lisanti

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

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

  • Emerging Themes in Lipid Rafts and Caveolae

    Ferruccio Galbiati;Babak Razani;Michael P. Lisanti

  • Caveolin-1-deficient Mice Are Lean, Resistant to Diet-induced Obesity, and Show Hypertriglyceridemia with Adipocyte Abnormalities

    Babak Razani;Terry P. Combs;Xiao Bo Wang;Philippe G. Frank

  • Self-renewing resident cardiac macrophages limit adverse remodeling following myocardial infarction

    Sarah A. Dick;Jillian A. Macklin;Sara Nejat;Abdul Momen

  • Autophagy Links Inflammasomes to Atherosclerotic Progression

    Babak Razani;Chu Feng;Trey Coleman;Roy Emanuel

  • Caveolin-1 Regulates Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-β/SMAD Signaling through an Interaction with the TGF-β Type I Receptor

    Babak Razani;Xiao Lan Zhang;Markus Bitzer;Gero von Gersdorff

  • Caveolin-2-Deficient Mice Show Evidence of Severe Pulmonary Dysfunction without Disruption of Caveolae

    Babak Razani;Xiao Bo Wang;Jeffery A. Engelman;Michela Battista

  • Caveolin-1-deficient mice show insulin resistance and defective insulin receptor protein expression in adipose tissue.

    Alex W. Cohen;Babak Razani;Xiao Bo Wang;Terry P. Combs

  • Caveolae-deficient endothelial cells show defects in the uptake and transport of albumin in vivo.

    William Schubert;Philippe G. Frank;Babak Razani;David S. Park

  • Role of Caveolin-1 in the Modulation of Lipolysis and Lipid Droplet Formation

    Alex W. Cohen;Babak Razani;William Schubert;Terence M. Williams

  • Long COVID, a comprehensive systematic scoping review.

    Hossein Akbarialiabad;Mohammad Hossein Taghrir;Ashkan Abdollahi;Nasrollah Ghahramani

  • The Mitochondrial Proteins NLRX1 and TUFM Form a Complex that Regulates Type I Interferon and Autophagy

    Yu Lei;Haitao Wen;Yanbao Yu;Debra J. Taxman

  • Exploiting macrophage autophagy-lysosomal biogenesis as a therapy for atherosclerosis.

    Ismail Sergin;Trent D. Evans;Xiangyu Zhang;Somashubhra Bhattacharya

  • Caveolin-deficient mice: insights into caveolar function human disease

    Babak Razani;Michael P. Lisanti

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Lisanti
Michael P. Lisanti University of Salford
Clay F. Semenkovich
Clay F. Semenkovich Washington University in St. Louis
David S. Park
David S. Park New York University
Conrad C. Weihl
Conrad C. Weihl Washington University in St. Louis
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Richard G. Pestell
Richard G. Pestell Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Guido Kroemer

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