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Marie-Aline Charles

Marie-Aline Charles

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
33598
World Ranking
11244
National Ranking
345

Marie-Aline Charles publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marie-Aline Charles sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 443 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Marie-Aline Charles D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marie-Aline Charles is affiliated with Inserm in France and specializes in medical research with a primary focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their scholarly output includes 331 publications in medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, nutrition and dietetics, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The main topics of Marie-Aline Charles's research encompass birth, development, and health, obesity, physical activity, and diet, gestational diabetes research and management, child nutrition and feeding issues, breastfeeding practices and influences, infant development and preterm care, as well as broader nutritional studies and diet.

Recent papers by Marie-Aline Charles include:

  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 5 among children born preterm: EPIPAGE-2 cohort study (2021), BMJ
  • Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology (2021), Nature Biotechnology
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits (2020), PLoS Genetics
  • The LifeCycle Project-EU Child Cohort Network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents (2020), European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Antibody status and cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults in three regions of France following the first lockdown and associated risk factors: a multicohort study (2021), International Journal of Epidemiology

Marie-Aline Charles has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Barbara Heude, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, Sandrine Lioret, Jonathan Y. Bernard, and Marie-Noëlle Dufourg.

Their work has appeared in numerous publication venues, with a total of 10 papers each in Scientific Reports and SSRN Electronic Journal, 9 in Nutrients, 7 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and 6 in Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme.

Best Publications

  • Comment on the provisional report from the WHO consultation. European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR)

    B Balkau;M A Charles

  • Frequency of the WHO metabolic syndrome in European cohorts, and an alternative definition of an insulin resistance syndrome

    Beverley Balkau;Marie-Aline Charles;Thomas Drivsholm;Knut Borch-Johnsen

  • 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

  • Childhood obesity and metabolic imprinting: the ongoing effects of maternal hyperglycemia.

    Teresa A. Hillier;Kathryn L. Pedula;Mark M. Schmidt;Judith A. Mullen

  • The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 Is Able to Distinguish among Different Eating Patterns in a General Population

    Blandine de Lauzon;Monique Romon;Valérie Deschamps;Lionel Lafay

  • Comparison of tests for glycated haemoglobin and fasting and two hour plasma glucose concentrations as diagnostic methods for diabetes

    D. R. Mccance;R. L. Hanson;M.-A. Charles;L. T. H. Jacobsson

  • Hyperinsulinaemia as a predictor of coronary heart disease mortality in a healthy population: the Paris Prospective Study, 15-year follow-up.

    A. Fontbonne;M. A. Charles;N. Thibult;J. L. Richard

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity;Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Susana Santos

  • The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes on fall induced injuries in community dwelling older adults

    Fabienne El-Khoury;Bernard Cassou;Marie-Aline Charles;Patricia Dargent-Molina

  • Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Pilar Amiano

  • Association between Plasma Total Testosterone and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Healthy Adult Men: The Telecom Study*

    Dominique Simon;Marie-Aline Charles;Khalil Nahoul;Genevieve Orssaud

  • Exposure to Phthalates and Phenols during Pregnancy and Offspring Size at Birth

    Claire Philippat;Marion Mortamais;Cécile Chevrier;Claire Petit

  • Obesity in the Pima Indians: its magnitude and relationship with diabetes.

    W C Knowler;D J Pettitt;M F Saad;M A Charles

  • Variants of ENPP1 are associated with childhood and adult obesity and increase the risk of glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes

    David Meyre;David Meyre;Nabila Bouatia-Naji;Agnès Tounian;Chantal Samson

  • The Effect of Metformin on the Metabolic Abnormalities Associated With Upper-Body Fat Distribution. BIGPRO Study Group

    A Fontbonne;M A Charles;I Juhan-Vague;J M Bard

  • Involvement of tissue bacteria in the onset of diabetes in humans: evidence for a concept

    J. Amar;M. Serino;C. Lange;C. Chabo

  • The role of non-esterified fatty acids in the deterioration of glucose tolerance in Caucasian subjects: results of the Paris Prospective Study

    M A Charles;E Eschwège;N Thibult;J R Claude

  • Circulating Nonesterified Fatty Acid Level as a Predictive Risk Factor for Sudden Death in the Population

    Xavier Jouven;Marie-Aline Charles;Michel Desnos;Pierre Ducimetière

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Hazel Inskip;Pilar Amiano

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Ducimetière
Pierre Ducimetière Université Paris Cité
Hazel Inskip
Hazel Inskip University of Southampton
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
David J. Pettitt
David J. Pettitt Kaiser Permanente
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Henrique Barros
Henrique Barros University of Porto
Keith M. Godfrey
Keith M. Godfrey University of Southampton
Valérie Siroux
Valérie Siroux Grenoble Alpes University

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