Alessandra Esposito

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 636 citations indexed

About

Alessandra Esposito is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Esposito has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 636 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Epidemiology and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Esposito's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (3 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (2 papers). Alessandra Esposito is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (3 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (2 papers). Alessandra Esposito collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Austria. Alessandra Esposito's co-authors include Gennaro Napolitano, Andrea Ballabio, Jlenia Monfregola, Valerio Benedetti, Maria Matarese, Chiara Di Malta, Diego L. Medina, Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz, Lukas A. Huber and Mariana E. G. de Araújo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Esposito

7 papers receiving 633 citations

Hit Papers

A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–D... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2023 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome
    2020 208 citations Gennaro Napolitano, Chiara Di Malta et al. Nature profile →
  2. Structure of the lysosomal mTORC1–TFEB–Rag–Ragulator megacomplex
    2023 104 citations Zhicheng Cui, Gennaro Napolitano et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandra Esposito Italy 6 351 306 129 117 114 7 636
Maria Matarese Italy 4 282 0.8× 252 0.8× 109 0.8× 99 0.8× 87 0.8× 5 524
Yingyu Chen China 9 349 1.0× 362 1.2× 113 0.9× 55 0.5× 56 0.5× 14 687
Salwa Sebti United States 9 413 1.2× 507 1.7× 121 0.9× 53 0.5× 124 1.1× 12 854
Matthew Yoke Wui Ng Norway 8 377 1.1× 249 0.8× 110 0.9× 42 0.4× 85 0.7× 9 602
Qiuhong Shen China 9 406 1.2× 280 0.9× 80 0.6× 55 0.5× 55 0.5× 13 672
Aleck W.E. Jones United Kingdom 9 509 1.5× 234 0.8× 183 1.4× 68 0.6× 88 0.8× 9 762
Kirsten Welkenhuyzen Belgium 14 451 1.3× 214 0.7× 174 1.3× 141 1.2× 60 0.5× 18 687
Giulio Morozzi Italy 6 284 0.8× 258 0.8× 222 1.7× 38 0.3× 86 0.8× 7 595
Shinya Honda Japan 11 320 0.9× 460 1.5× 142 1.1× 67 0.6× 64 0.6× 19 629
Arindam Chaudhury United States 10 382 1.1× 279 0.9× 121 0.9× 91 0.8× 197 1.7× 16 820

Countries citing papers authored by Alessandra Esposito

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandra Esposito

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandra Esposito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alessandra Esposito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alessandra Esposito based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alessandra Esposito. Alessandra Esposito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Cui, Zhicheng, Alessandra Esposito, Gennaro Napolitano, Andrea Ballabio, & James H. Hurley. (2025). Structural basis for mTORC1 activation on the lysosomal membrane. Nature. 647(8089). 536–543. 2 indexed citations
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Giamogante, Flavia, Lucia Barazzuol, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2024). A SPLICS reporter reveals $${{{{{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}}}}$$-synuclein regulation of lysosome-mitochondria contacts which affects TFEB nuclear translocation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1516–1516. 8 indexed citations
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Pasquier, Adrien, Nunzia Pastore, Luca D’Orsi, et al.. (2023). TFEB and TFE3 control glucose homeostasis by regulating insulin gene expression. The EMBO Journal. 42(21). 10 indexed citations
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Cui, Zhicheng, Gennaro Napolitano, Mariana E. G. de Araújo, et al.. (2023). Structure of the lysosomal mTORC1–TFEB–Rag–Ragulator megacomplex. Nature. 614(7948). 572–579. 104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Capuozzo, Antonella, Sandro Montefusco, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2022). Fluoxetine ameliorates mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA. Molecular Therapy. 30(4). 1432–1450. 17 indexed citations
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Napolitano, Gennaro, Chiara Di Malta, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2020). A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome. Nature. 585(7826). 597–602. 208 indexed citations breakdown →
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Napolitano, Gennaro, Alessandra Esposito, Maria Matarese, et al.. (2018). mTOR-dependent phosphorylation controls TFEB nuclear export. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3312–3312. 287 indexed citations

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