Alessandra Vitali

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alessandra Vitali is a scholar working on Physiology, Cell Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Vitali has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Physiology, 4 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Vitali's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (7 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (3 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (2 papers). Alessandra Vitali is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (7 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (3 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (2 papers). Alessandra Vitali collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Alessandra Vitali's co-authors include Saverio Cinti, Andrea Frontini, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, Daniel Ricquier, Francesca Crosta, Barbara Cannon, Jan Nedergaard, I. Murano, Incoronata Murano and Jessica Perugini and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell Metabolism, Scientific Reports and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Vitali

10 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue

2009 589 citations Maria Cristina Zingaretti, Francesca Crosta et al. The FASEB Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandra Vitali Italy	7	1.2k	649	384	281	232	10	1.4k
I. Murano Italy	10	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	436 1.1×	307 1.1×	335 1.4×	11	1.9k
Naja Zenius Jespersen Denmark	11	1.1k 0.9×	496 0.8×	271 0.7×	234 0.8×	380 1.6×	15	1.4k
Nicholas M. Hurren United States	9	933 0.8×	415 0.6×	268 0.7×	236 0.8×	231 1.0×	12	1.1k
Jeffrey English United States	5	996 0.8×	423 0.7×	263 0.7×	291 1.0×	150 0.6×	6	1.2k
Palam Annamalai United States	4	912 0.7×	398 0.6×	268 0.7×	233 0.8×	178 0.8×	7	999
Marica Bordicchia Italy	17	826 0.7×	440 0.7×	545 1.4×	125 0.4×	299 1.3×	26	1.5k
Takashi Kayahara Japan	11	728 0.6×	295 0.5×	213 0.6×	241 0.9×	196 0.8×	14	1.0k
Mueez U-Din Finland	13	692 0.6×	200 0.3×	192 0.5×	192 0.7×	108 0.5×	22	841
Francesca Crosta Italy	10	586 0.5×	253 0.4×	179 0.5×	146 0.5×	97 0.4×	14	781
Olga Sereda United States	8	749 0.6×	374 0.6×	232 0.6×	51 0.2×	307 1.3×	8	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandra Vitali

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10 of 10 papers shown

Camastra, Stefania, Alessandra Vitali, Marco Anselmino, et al.. (2017). Muscle and adipose tissue morphology, insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function in diabetic and nondiabetic obese patients: effects of bariatric surgery. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9007–9007. 66 indexed citations

Frontini, Andrea, et al.. (2014). WAT to BAT transdifferentiation of omental fat in adult humans affected by pheochromocytomas. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology. 118(2). 94. 1 indexed citations

Frontini, Andrea, Alessandra Vitali, Jessica Perugini, et al.. (2013). White-to-brown transdifferentiation of omental adipocytes in patients affected by pheochromocytoma. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1831(5). 950–959. 172 indexed citations

Vitali, Alessandra, I. Murano, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2012). The adipose organ of obesity-prone C57BL/6J mice is composed of mixed white and brown adipocytes. Journal of Lipid Research. 53(4). 619–629. 377 indexed citations

Berney, Xavier, Marc Uldry, Alessandra Vitali, et al.. (2011). Plac8 Is an Inducer of C/EBPβ Required for Brown Fat Differentiation, Thermoregulation, and Control of Body Weight. Cell Metabolism. 14(5). 658–670. 87 indexed citations

Lorenzi, Teresa, Angelo Turi, Manrico Morroni, et al.. (2011). Modulation of syndecans in the uterus throughout the menstrual cycle: comparison between endometrium and myometrium. Fertility and Sterility. 95(8). 2608–2611.e1. 3 indexed citations

Rossi, Andrea P., Elena Zoico, Bret H. Goodpaster, et al.. (2010). Quantification of Intermuscular Adipose Tissue in the Erector Spinae Muscle by MRI: Agreement With Histological Evaluation. Obesity. 18(12). 2379–2384. 46 indexed citations

Zingaretti, Maria Cristina, Francesca Crosta, Alessandra Vitali, et al.. (2009). The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue. The FASEB Journal. 23(9). 3113–3120. 589 indexed citations breakdown →

Matteis, Rita De, Incoronata Murano, Alessandra Vitali, et al.. (2009). In Vivo Physiological Transdifferentiation of Adult Adipose Cells. Stem Cells. 27(11). 2761–2768. 65 indexed citations

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Foppiani, Luca, Giuliana Lando, Maria Cristina Patrosso, et al.. (2004). Bilateral carcinoma in situ of the testis and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation in an azoospermic patient with late-onset 21β-hydroxylase deficiency. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 27(4). 370–374. 1 indexed citations

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