Aime T. Franco

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Aime T. Franco is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aime T. Franco has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 14 papers in Surgery and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Aime T. Franco's work include Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery (6 papers) and Head and Neck Anomalies (5 papers). Aime T. Franco is often cited by papers focused on Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery (6 papers) and Head and Neck Anomalies (5 papers). Aime T. Franco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Aime T. Franco's co-authors include Jerry Ware, Adam Corken, Richard M. Peek, Uma Krishna, Dawn A. Israel, Judith Romero–Gallo, M. Kay Washington, Toni A. Nagy, Lauren S. Collier-Hyams and Andrew S. Neish and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Aime T. Franco

42 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Platelets at the interface of thrombosis, inflammation, and cancer

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aime T. Franco United States	18	822	773	565	550	371	44	2.2k
J.M. Fernández Gómez Spain	27	1.5k 1.8×	577 0.7×	538 1.0×	470 0.9×	149 0.4×	195	3.0k
Massimo Mascolo Italy	35	448 0.5×	996 1.3×	336 0.6×	695 1.3×	120 0.3×	161	3.1k
Chang Suk Kang South Korea	24	355 0.4×	691 0.9×	236 0.4×	443 0.8×	154 0.4×	107	1.7k
Poonam Mannan United States	17	635 0.8×	442 0.6×	523 0.9×	298 0.5×	124 0.3×	22	2.0k
James P. Grenert United States	27	474 0.6×	986 1.3×	257 0.5×	521 0.9×	240 0.6×	58	2.5k
Pei Hui United States	36	584 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	233 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	394 1.1×	193	4.4k
Pantaleo Bufo Italy	33	621 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	260 0.5×	784 1.4×	140 0.4×	110	2.9k
Kyo Young Lee South Korea	31	649 0.8×	759 1.0×	165 0.3×	748 1.4×	221 0.6×	181	3.0k
Patrick Adam Germany	29	514 0.6×	522 0.7×	238 0.4×	705 1.3×	136 0.4×	88	2.2k
Taro Takami Japan	28	616 0.7×	729 0.9×	282 0.5×	490 0.9×	83 0.2×	157	2.5k

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Ricarte‐Filho, Julio C., et al.. (2026). Afirma genomic sequencing classifier performance in young patients with cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 1 indexed citations

Laetsch, Theodore W., Tricia Bhatti, Zubair Baloch, et al.. (2025). Molecular Landscape and Therapeutic Strategies in Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma. Endocrine Reviews. 46(3). 397–417. 3 indexed citations

Ricarte‐Filho, Julio C., Amber Isaza, Aime T. Franco, et al.. (2024). Low-invasive somatic oncogenes and lymph node metastasis in pediatric papillary thyroid cancer: implications for prophylactic central neck dissection. European Thyroid Journal. 13(4). 1 indexed citations

Ricarte‐Filho, Julio C., et al.. (2024). TG-IGF1R : A Novel Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Fusion Oncogene in Pediatric Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid. 34(10). 1308–1313.

Ricarte‐Filho, Julio C. & Aime T. Franco. (2023). The evolving genomic landscape of pediatric papillary thyroid cancer. Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research. 33. 100483–100483. 2 indexed citations

Casado‐Medrano, Victoria, A. O’Neill, Julio C. Ricarte‐Filho, et al.. (2023). Development of Novel Murine BRAFV600E-Driven Papillary Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines for Modeling of Disease Progression and Preclinical Evaluation of Therapeutics. Cancers. 15(3). 879–879. 2 indexed citations

Campbell, Ian M., T. Blaine Crowley, Chintan Jobaliya, et al.. (2022). Platelet findings in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome correlate with disease manifestations but do not correlate with GPIb surface expression. Clinical Genetics. 103(1). 109–113. 4 indexed citations

Bauer, Andrew J., Julio C. Ricarte‐Filho, Amber Isaza, et al.. (2022). Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Pediatric Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Subtypes: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Thyroid. 32(11). 1353–1361. 10 indexed citations

Bauer, Andrew J., Julio C. Ricarte‐Filho, Amber Isaza, et al.. (2022). Indeterminate Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspirations in Pediatrics: Exploring Clinicopathologic Features and Utility of Molecular Profiling. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 95(5). 430–441. 14 indexed citations

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Casado‐Medrano, Victoria, et al.. (2022). NTRK-fusions in pediatric thyroid tumors: Current state and future perspectives. Cancer Genetics. 264-265. 23–28. 4 indexed citations

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Chehab, Leena, Andrew J. Bauer, Amber Isaza, et al.. (2022). Surgical outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer undergoing thyroidectomy: A single‐institution experience. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 69(6). e29674–e29674.

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Bauer, Andrew J., Sogol Mostoufi‐Moab, Amber Isaza, et al.. (2021). Clinical Course of Early Postoperative Hypothyroidism Following Thyroid Lobectomy in Pediatrics. Thyroid. 31(12). 1786–1793. 3 indexed citations

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Bauer, Andrew J., Amber Isaza, Lea F. Surrey, et al.. (2021). Utility of Fine-Needle Aspirations to Diagnose Pediatric Thyroid Nodules. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 94(7-8). 263–274. 14 indexed citations

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Franco, Aime T., Emmanuel Labourier, Lea F. Surrey, et al.. (2020). miRNA expression can classify pediatric thyroid lesions and increases the diagnostic yield of mutation testing. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 67(6). e28276–e28276. 16 indexed citations

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Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Thidathip Wongsurawat, Trudy M. Wassenaar, et al.. (2020). Decoding the epitranscriptional landscape from native RNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(2). e7–e7. 186 indexed citations

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Isaza, Amber, Garrett M. Brodeur, Suzanne P. MacFarland, et al.. (2020). The Clinical Spectrum of PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome: Exploring the Value of Thyroid Surveillance. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 93(11-12). 634–642. 10 indexed citations

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Novitskiy, Sergey V., Philip Owens, Nicole Massoll, et al.. (2016). Fibroblast-Mediated Collagen Remodeling Within the Tumor Microenvironment Facilitates Progression of Thyroid Cancers Driven by BrafV600E and Pten Loss. Cancer Research. 76(7). 1804–1813. 100 indexed citations

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Franco, Aime T., Roberta Malaguarnera, Samuel Refetoff, et al.. (2011). Thyrotrophin receptor signaling dependence of Braf-induced thyroid tumor initiation in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1615–1620. 177 indexed citations

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Bronte-Tinkew, Dana M., Mauricio R. Terebiznik, Aime T. Franco, et al.. (2009). Helicobacter pylori Cytotoxin-Associated Gene A Activates the Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 Pathway In vitro and In vivo. Cancer Research. 69(2). 632–639. 110 indexed citations

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Franco, Aime T., Dawn A. Israel, M. Kay Washington, et al.. (2005). Activation of β-catenin by carcinogenic Helicobacter pylori. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(30). 10646–10651. 389 indexed citations

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