2026 Charles Auffray: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	87	1204	1137	43	38	343	30644
Medicine	88	13039	12273	408	387	378	32681

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Charles Auffray is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans fields related to medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Auffray's work involves various subfields, including molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, infectious diseases, and computational theory and mathematics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, notably asthma and respiratory diseases, bioinformatics and genomic networks, computational drug discovery methods, respiratory and cough-related research, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Frequent publication venues for Auffray include the European Respiratory Journal, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Nature Reviews Urology, Scientific Data, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among recent papers, Auffray is connected to research including:

"COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms" (2020) published in Scientific Data
"Urinary Leukotriene E₄ and Prostaglandin D₂ Metabolites Increase in Adult and Childhood Severe Asthma Characterized by Type 2 Inflammation. A Clinical Observational Study" (2020) published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
"Towards a European health research and innovation cloud (HRIC)" (2020) published in Genome Medicine
"Newt: a comprehensive web-based tool for viewing, constructing and analyzing biological maps" (2020) published in Bioinformatics
"Introducing PIONEER: a project to harness big data in prostate cancer research" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Urology

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Auffray's scholarly output. Frequent co-authors include Bertrand De Meulder, Ian M. Adcock, Ratko Djukanović, Kian Fan Chung, and Peter J. Sterk. These collaborations indicate active engagement within a network of researchers focused on respiratory and medical sciences.

Best Publications

Purification of mouse immunoglobulin heavy-chain messenger RNAs from total myeloma tumor RNA.

Charles Auffray;François Rougeon

3056
Citations
The I.M.A.G.E. Consortium: an integrated molecular analysis of genomes and their expression.

Greg Lennon;Charles Auffray;Mihael Polymeropoulos;Marcelo Bento Soares

1840
Citations
A gene map of the human genome

G. D. Schuler;M. S. Boguski;E. A. Stewart;L. D. Stein

1364
Citations
DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

962
Citations
A Physical Map of 30,000 Human Genes

P. Deloukas;G. D. Schuler;G. Gyapay;E. M. Beasley

836
Citations
The class II molecules of the human and murine major histocompatibility complex.

James F. Kaufman;Charles Auffray;Alan J. Korman;Deborah A. Shackelford

830
Citations
The chicken B locus is a minimal essential major histocompatibility complex

Jim Kaufman;Sarah Milne;Thomas W. F. Göbel;Brian A. Walker

751
Citations
Towards standardization of RNA quality assessment using user-independent classifiers of microcapillary electrophoresis traces

Sandrine Imbeaud;Esther Graudens;Virginie Boulanger;Xavier Barlet

695
Citations
Clinical and inflammatory characteristics of the European U-BIOPRED adult severe asthma cohort

Dominick E. Shaw;Ana R. Sousa;Stephen J. Fowler;Louise J. Fleming

613
Citations
A Radiation Hybrid Map of the Human Genome

Gabor Gyapay;Karin Schmitt;Cécile Fizames;Hywel Jones

536
Citations
Systems medicine: the future of medical genomics and healthcare

Charles Auffray;Zhu Chen;Leroy Hood

506
Citations
Characterization of the lymphocyte activation gene 3-encoded protein. A new ligand for human leukocyte antigen class II antigens.

E Baixeras;B Huard;C Miossec;S Jitsukawa

467
Citations
Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

431
Citations
T-helper cell type 2 (Th2) and non-Th2 molecular phenotypes of asthma using sputum transcriptomics in U-BIOPRED

Chih-Hsi Scott Kuo;Chih-Hsi Scott Kuo;Stelios Pavlidis;Matthew Loza;Fred Baribaud

358
Citations
Systems medicine and integrated care to combat chronic noncommunicable diseases

Jean Bousquet;Josep M. Anto;Peter J. Sterk;Ian M. Adcock

330
Citations
A molecular map of the chicken major histocompatibility complex: the class II beta genes are closely linked to the class I genes and the nucleolar organizer.

F. Guillemot;A. Billault;O. Pourquié;G. Béhar

318
Citations
Application of 'omics technologies to biomarker discovery in inflammatory lung diseases.

Craig E. Wheelock;Victoria M. Goss;David Balgoma;Ben Nicholas

314
Citations
Systems analysis of transcriptome and proteome in retinoic acid/arsenic trioxide-induced cell differentiation/apoptosis of promyelocytic leukemia

Pei Zheng Zheng;Kan Kan Wang;Qun Ye Zhang;Qiu Hua Huang

301
Citations
Making sense of big data in health research: Towards an EU action plan

Charles Auffray;Charles Auffray;Rudi Balling;Inês Barroso;László Bencze

299
Citations
Revolutionizing medicine in the 21st century through systems approaches

Leroy Hood;Rudi Balling;Charles Auffray

298
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Adcock Imperial College London

Peter J. Sterk University of Amsterdam

Ratko Djukanovic University of Southampton

Kian Fan Chung Imperial College London

Sven-Erik Dahlén Karolinska Institute

Yike Guo Hong Kong Baptist University

Thomas Sandström Umeå University

Peter H. Howarth University of Southampton

Norbert Krug Fraunhofer Society

Anthony Rowe Carnegie Mellon University

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