Angelo Fontana

16.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
376 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Angelo Fontana is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Angelo Fontana has authored 376 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 193 papers in Molecular Biology, 98 papers in Biotechnology and 69 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Angelo Fontana's work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products (88 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (51 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (46 papers). Angelo Fontana is often cited by papers focused on Marine Sponges and Natural Products (88 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (51 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (46 papers). Angelo Fontana collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Angelo Fontana's co-authors include Guido Cimino, Patrizia Polverino de Laureto, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Marcello Zambonin, Erica Frare, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Adele Cutignano, Vincenzo De Filippis, Barbara Spolaore and Hugues Cadas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Angelo Fontana

371 papers receiving 12.6k 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.

Formation and inactivation of endogenous cannabinoid anandamide in central neurons

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Angelo Fontana Italy	54	6.0k	2.5k	1.9k	1.3k	1.2k	376	13.1k
Bradley J. S. C. Olson United States	25	9.4k 1.6×	681 0.3×	811 0.4×	736 0.6×	618 0.5×	35	18.5k
Jagannathan Netherlands	3	13.4k 2.3×	783 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	4	24.3k
Luís M. Botana Spain	47	4.2k 0.7×	694 0.3×	696 0.4×	286 0.2×	928 0.8×	421	9.6k
Xuemin Wang China	87	14.7k 2.5×	764 0.3×	466 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	798 0.6×	472	27.5k
Naoshi Dohmae Japan	68	14.1k 2.4×	648 0.3×	436 0.2×	594 0.5×	719 0.6×	352	20.6k
R. Michael Garavito United States	50	6.0k 1.0×	4.9k 2.0×	234 0.1×	736 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	105	13.0k
M. Rosário Domingues Portugal	54	4.5k 0.8×	793 0.3×	393 0.2×	590 0.5×	607 0.5×	461	11.7k
Kazuei Igarashi Japan	69	13.9k 2.3×	2.1k 0.8×	524 0.3×	790 0.6×	564 0.5×	518	18.8k
Hirota Fujiki Japan	64	6.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	792 0.4×	193 0.1×	865 0.7×	319	14.7k
Hermann Schägger Germany	62	21.6k 3.6×	491 0.2×	897 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	360 0.3×	122	28.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Angelo Fontana

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vitale, Giovanni Andrea, Giusi Barra, Genoveffa Nuzzo, et al.. (2025). Innovative Application of a Multifunctional Sucrose–Gelatin Hydrogel Matrix in Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 97(45). 25087–25098.

Dell’Anno, Antonio, Néstor Etxebarría, Belén González-Gaya, et al.. (2024). High microbiome and metabolome diversification in coexisting sponges with different bio-ecological traits. Communications Biology. 7(1). 422–422. 7 indexed citations

Reveglia, Pierluigi, Maria Luisa Raimondo, Marco Masi, et al.. (2022). Untargeted and Targeted LC-MS/MS Based Metabolomics Study on In Vitro Culture of Phaeoacremonium Species. Journal of Fungi. 8(1). 55–55. 10 indexed citations

Vastano, Marco, Simone Landi, Zhaohui Xu, et al.. (2021). Fermentation of Biodegradable Organic Waste by the Family Thermotogaceae. Resources. 10(4). 34–34. 14 indexed citations

Ruocco, Nadia, Roberta Esposito, Marco Bertolino, et al.. (2021). A Metataxonomic Approach Reveals Diversified Bacterial Communities in Antarctic Sponges. Marine Drugs. 19(3). 173–173. 18 indexed citations

Lauritano, Chiara, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Angelo Fontana, et al.. (2020). RNA-Seq and differential gene expression analysis in Temora stylifera copepod females with contrasting non-feeding nauplii survival rates: an environmental transcriptomics study. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 693–693. 19 indexed citations

Ruocco, Nadia, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.. (2020). Lipoxygenase Pathways in Diatoms: Occurrence and Correlation with Grazer Toxicity in Four Benthic Species. Marine Drugs. 18(1). 66–66. 13 indexed citations

Squadrito, Gaetano, Pierangela Cristiani, Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.. (2020). Hyperthermiphile biofilms of Thermotoga neapolitana on different materials and electrostimulated: SEM micrographs and chemical data of the glucose fermentation in electrochemical reactors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 33. 106403–106403. 3 indexed citations

Manzo, Emiliano, Carmela Gallo, Rossella Sartorius, et al.. (2019). Immunostimulatory Phosphatidylmonogalactosyldiacylglycerols (PGDG) from the Marine Diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii: Inspiration for a Novel Synthetic Toll-Like Receptor 4 Agonist. Marine Drugs. 17(2). 103–103. 12 indexed citations

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Nuzzo, Genoveffa, Carmela Gallo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.. (2018). UPLC–MS/MS Identification of Sterol Sulfates in Marine Diatoms. Marine Drugs. 17(1). 10–10. 23 indexed citations

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Pradhan, Nirakar, Eldon R. Rene, Piet N.L. Lens, et al.. (2017). Adsorption Behaviour of Lactic Acid on Granular Activated Carbon and Anionic Resins: Thermodynamics, Isotherms and Kinetic Studies. Energies. 10(5). 665–665. 59 indexed citations

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Nuzzo, Genoveffa, Bruno Alexandre Quadros Gomes, Pietro Amodeo, et al.. (2017). Isolation of Chamigrene Sesquiterpenes and Absolute Configuration of Isoobtusadiene from the Brittle Star Ophionereis reticulata. Journal of Natural Products. 80(11). 3049–3053. 7 indexed citations

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Ianora, Adrianna, Mauro Bastianini, Ylenia Carotenuto, et al.. (2015). Non-volatile oxylipins can render some diatom blooms more toxic for copepod reproduction. Harmful Algae. 44. 1–7. 29 indexed citations

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Lamari, Nadia, Maria Valeria Ruggiero, Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.. (2013). Specificity of Lipoxygenase Pathways Supports Species Delineation in the Marine Diatom Genus Pseudo-nitzschia. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e73281–e73281. 39 indexed citations

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Gerecht, Andrea, Ylenia Carotenuto, Adrianna Ianora, et al.. (2013). Oxylipin production during a mesocosm bloom of Skeletonema marinoi. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 446. 159–165. 14 indexed citations

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Nuzzo, Genoveffa, Carmela Gallo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.. (2013). Composition and Quantitation of Microalgal Lipids by ERETIC 1H NMR Method. Marine Drugs. 11(10). 3742–3753. 50 indexed citations

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Barreiro, Aldo, Ylenia Carotenuto, Nadia Lamari, et al.. (2011). Diatom induction of reproductive failure in copepods: The effect of PUAs versus non volatile oxylipins. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 401(1-2). 13–19. 39 indexed citations

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Filippis, Vincenzo De, Roberta Frasson, & Angelo Fontana. (2006). 3‐Nitrotyrosine as a spectroscopic probe for investigating protein–protein interactions. Protein Science. 15(5). 976–986. 62 indexed citations

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Bernard, Marina de, Emanuele Papini, Vincenzo De Filippis, et al.. (1995). Low pH Activates the Vacuolating Toxin of Helicobacter pylori, Which Becomes Acid and Pepsin Resistant. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(41). 23937–23940. 184 indexed citations

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Azuaga, Ana I., Francisco Conejero‐Lara, Germán Rivas, et al.. (1995). The thermodynamics of association and unfolding of the 205–316 C-terminal fragment of thermolysin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1252(1). 95–102. 8 indexed citations

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