Amanda Sierra

14.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
59 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Amanda Sierra is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda Sierra has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Neurology, 23 papers in Immunology and 22 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Amanda Sierra's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (39 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (22 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (16 papers). Amanda Sierra is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (39 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (22 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (16 papers). Amanda Sierra collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Canada. Amanda Sierra's co-authors include Íñigo Azcoitia, Juan Manuel Encinas, Luis Miguel García‐Segura, Mirjana Maletić‐Savatić, Karen Bulloch, Andres Gottfried‐Blackmore, Bruce S. McEwen, Marie‐Ève Tremblay, Juan J. P. Deudero and Grigori Enikolopov and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Amanda Sierra

59 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Microglia Shape Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis through Apoptosis-Coupled Phagocytosis

2010 1.2k citations Amanda Sierra, Juan Manuel Encinas et al. Cell stem cell profile →
The Role of Microglia in the Healthy Brain: Figure 1.

2011 798 citations Marie‐Ève Tremblay, Amanda Sierra et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Microglia derived from aging mice exhibit an altered inflammatory profile

2007 522 citations Amanda Sierra, Andres Gottfried‐Blackmore et al. Glia profile →
Coupled Proliferation and Apoptosis Maintain the Rapid Turnover of Microglia in the Adult Brain

2017 504 citations Katharine E. Askew, Kaizhen Li et al. Cell Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amanda Sierra Spain	35	4.4k	2.0k	1.8k	1.4k	1.3k	59	7.4k
Bart J. L. Eggen Netherlands	46	3.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	984 0.5×	917 0.6×	2.3k 1.8×	144	7.5k
John A. Olschowka United States	48	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	716 0.4×	1.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	106	7.8k
Mami Noda Japan	39	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	752 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	124	6.9k
Íñigo Azcoitia Spain	55	1.2k 0.3×	709 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	105	8.1k
U. Otten Switzerland	55	1.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	5.9k 4.1×	2.8k 2.2×	156	10.3k
Alejandro F. De Nicola Argentina	47	1.1k 0.2×	494 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	219	7.5k
Knut Biber Netherlands	53	4.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.3×	972 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	96	8.5k
Dorothy P. Schafer United States	32	4.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	51	7.6k
Christine T. Ekdahl Sweden	27	2.6k 0.6×	669 0.3×	2.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	42	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Amanda Sierra

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Amanda Sierra's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Amanda Sierra with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Amanda Sierra more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Amanda Sierra

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Amanda Sierra. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Amanda Sierra. The network helps show where Amanda Sierra may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amanda Sierra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amanda Sierra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amanda Sierra 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 Amanda Sierra. Amanda Sierra is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Rodríguez-Iglesias, Noelia, Iñaki Paris, Jorge Valero, et al.. (2024). A bottom‐up approach identifies the antipsychotic and antineoplastic trifluoperazine and the ribose derivative deoxytubercidin as novel microglial phagocytosis inhibitors. Glia. 73(2). 330–351. 1 indexed citations

Sierra, Amanda, et al.. (2024). Interferons: Invited guests at the brain’s gala banquet. Neuron. 112(8). 1205–1207. 1 indexed citations

Piriz, Joaquín, et al.. (2024). Microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses. Nature Neuroscience. 28(1). 15–23. 22 indexed citations

Ivanov, Andranik, Gwenaël Labouèbe, Loredana Leggio, et al.. (2024). Microglial lipid phosphatase SHIP1 limits complement-mediated synaptic pruning in the healthy developing hippocampus. Immunity. 58(1). 197–217.e13. 8 indexed citations

Rissiek, Björn, Tim Magnus, Noelia Rodríguez-Iglesias, et al.. (2023). Microglia and meningeal macrophages depletion delays the onset of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Cell Death and Disease. 14(1). 16–16. 45 indexed citations

Díaz‐Aparicio, Irune, Iñaki Paris, Virginia Sierra‐Torre, et al.. (2020). Microglia Actively Remodel Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis through the Phagocytosis Secretome. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(7). 1453–1482. 240 indexed citations

Sierra‐Torre, Virginia, Ainhoa Plaza‐Zabala, P. Bonifazi, et al.. (2020). Microglial phagocytosis dysfunction in the dentate gyrus is related to local neuronal activity in a genetic model of epilepsy. Epilepsia. 61(11). 2593–2608. 9 indexed citations

Beccari, Sol, Jorge Valero, Mirjana Maletić‐Savatić, & Amanda Sierra. (2017). A simulation model of neuroprogenitor proliferation dynamics predicts age-related loss of hippocampal neurogenesis but not astrogenesis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16528–16528. 21 indexed citations

López‐Atalaya, José P., Katharine E. Askew, Amanda Sierra, & Diego Gómez‐Nicola. (2017). Development and maintenance of the brain's immune toolkit: Microglia and non‐parenchymal brain macrophages. Developmental Neurobiology. 78(6). 561–579. 38 indexed citations

10.

Paris, Iñaki, Julie C. Savage, Laura Escobar, et al.. (2017). ProMoIJ: A new tool for automatic three‐dimensional analysis of microglial process motility. Glia. 66(4). 828–845. 18 indexed citations

11.

Askew, Katharine E., Kaizhen Li, Adrián Olmos‐Alonso, et al.. (2017). Coupled Proliferation and Apoptosis Maintain the Rapid Turnover of Microglia in the Adult Brain. Cell Reports. 18(2). 391–405. 504 indexed citations breakdown →

12.

Tremblay, Marie‐Ève, et al.. (2015). From the Cajal alumni Achúcarro and Río-Hortega to the rediscovery of never-resting microglia. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 9. 45–45. 63 indexed citations

13.

Sierra, Amanda, et al.. (2014). Never-resting microglia: physiological roles in the healthy brain and pathological implications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 8. 240–240. 64 indexed citations

14.

Sierra, Amanda, Oihane Abiega, Anahita Shahraz, & Harald Neumann. (2013). Janus-faced microglia: beneficial and detrimental consequences of microglial phagocytosis. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 7. 6–6. 462 indexed citations

15.

Encinas, Juan Manuel & Amanda Sierra. (2011). Neural stem cell deforestation as the main force driving the age-related decline in adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Behavioural Brain Research. 227(2). 433–439. 70 indexed citations

16.

Gottfried‐Blackmore, Andres, Amanda Sierra, Bruce S. McEwen, Ren‐Shan Ge, & Karen Bulloch. (2010). Microglia express functional 11β‐hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1. Glia. 58(10). 1257–1266. 22 indexed citations

17.

Sierra, Amanda, Juan Manuel Encinas, Juan J. P. Deudero, et al.. (2010). Microglia Shape Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis through Apoptosis-Coupled Phagocytosis. Cell stem cell. 7(4). 483–495. 1231 indexed citations breakdown →

18.

Sierra, Amanda. (2004). Neurosteroids: The StAR Protein in the Brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 16(9). 787–793. 77 indexed citations

19.

García‐Segura, Luis Miguel, Sergio Veiga, Amanda Sierra, Roberto Cosimo Melcangi, & Íñigo Azcoitia. (2003). Aromatase: a neuroprotective enzyme. Progress in Neurobiology. 71(1). 31–41. 156 indexed citations

20.

Azcoitia, Íñigo, Amanda Sierra, Sergio Veiga, & Luis Miguel García‐Segura. (2003). Aromatase Expression by Reactive Astroglia Is Neuroprotective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1007(1). 298–305. 119 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact