Antonina Benfante

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Antonina Benfante is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonina Benfante has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Oncology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Antonina Benfante's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers) and Digestive system and related health (2 papers). Antonina Benfante is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers) and Digestive system and related health (2 papers). Antonina Benfante collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Netherlands and Malaysia. Antonina Benfante's co-authors include Giorgio Stassi, Matilde Todaro, Francesco Dieli, Tiziana Apuzzo, Veronica Catalano, Miriam Gaggianesi, Isabella Sperduti, Silvia Volpe, Flora Iovino and Ruggero De Maria and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, PLoS ONE and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Antonina Benfante

12 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

CD44v6 Is a Marker of Constitutive and Reprogrammed Cancer Stem Cells Driving Colon Cancer Metastasis

2014 570 citations Matilde Todaro, Miriam Gaggianesi et al. Cell stem cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Antonina Benfante Italy	10	561	494	314	150	94	12	1.0k
Victoria da Silva-Diz United States	9	691 1.2×	616 1.2×	345 1.1×	87 0.6×	104 1.1×	16	1.1k
Veronica Catalano Italy	11	657 1.2×	694 1.4×	337 1.1×	152 1.0×	239 2.5×	11	1.3k
Ariel Ka-Man Chow Hong Kong	16	672 1.2×	624 1.3×	440 1.4×	74 0.5×	97 1.0×	27	1.2k
Eloïse M. Grasset France	8	478 0.9×	454 0.9×	282 0.9×	231 1.5×	146 1.6×	10	952
Michael S. Nakazawa United States	10	649 1.2×	340 0.7×	539 1.7×	142 0.9×	92 1.0×	17	1.2k
Miranda van Amersfoort Netherlands	11	483 0.9×	389 0.8×	242 0.8×	121 0.8×	84 0.9×	14	832
Taru Muranen United States	13	555 1.0×	383 0.8×	177 0.6×	290 1.9×	110 1.2×	25	1.1k
Vittoria Cioce United States	10	842 1.5×	337 0.7×	275 0.9×	280 1.9×	169 1.8×	11	1.3k
Dai Nakashima Japan	22	832 1.5×	346 0.7×	328 1.0×	178 1.2×	145 1.5×	49	1.2k
Hong Wei China	12	771 1.4×	303 0.6×	601 1.9×	84 0.6×	168 1.8×	23	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Antonina Benfante

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Fields of papers citing papers by Antonina Benfante

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antonina Benfante

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

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Arpino, Grazia, Giampaolo Bianchini, Luca Malorni, et al.. (2022). Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and serum thymidine kinase 1 activity (TKa) matched dynamics in patients (pts) with hormone receptor–positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor 2–negative (HER2-) advanced breast cancer (ABC) treated in first-line (1L) with ribociclib (RIB) and letrozole (LET) in the BioItaLEE trial.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 40(16_suppl). 1012–1012. 4 indexed citations

Gaggianesi, Miriam, Alice Turdo, Aurora Chinnici, et al.. (2017). IL4 Primes the Dynamics of Breast Cancer Progression via DUSP4 Inhibition. Cancer Research. 77(12). 3268–3279. 48 indexed citations

Bianca, Paola, Tiziana Apuzzo, Simone Di Franco, et al.. (2017). Combined platelet-rich plasma and lipofilling treatment provides great improvement in facial skin-induced lesion regeneration for scleroderma patients. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 8(1). 236–236. 43 indexed citations

Mangiapane, Laura Rosa, et al.. (2017). Innovative Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports. 13(2). 91–100. 2 indexed citations

Franco, Simone Di, Alice Turdo, Antonina Benfante, et al.. (2016). ΔNp63 drives metastasis in breast cancer cellsviaPI3K/CD44v6 axis. Oncotarget. 7(34). 54157–54173. 25 indexed citations

Catalano, Veronica, Monica Dentice, Raffaele Ambrosio, et al.. (2015). Activated Thyroid Hormone Promotes Differentiation and Chemotherapeutic Sensitization of Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells by Regulating Wnt and BMP4 Signaling. Cancer Research. 76(5). 1237–1244. 67 indexed citations

D’Arcangelo, M., Matilde Todaro, Jessica Salvini, et al.. (2015). Cancer Stem Cells Sensitivity Assay (STELLA) in Patients with Advanced Lung and Colorectal Cancer: A Feasibility Study. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0125037–e0125037. 13 indexed citations

Tate, Courtney M., Roberto Pallini, Eliza Vakana, et al.. (2015). A BMP7 Variant Inhibits Tumor Angiogenesis In Vitro and In Vivo through Direct Modulation of Endothelial Cell Biology. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0125697–e0125697. 14 indexed citations

Prasetyanti, Pramudita R., Emily Capone, Daniela Barcaroli, et al.. (2015). ErbB-3 activation by NRG-1β sustains growth and promotes vemurafenib resistance in BRAF-V600E colon cancer stem cells (CSCs). Oncotarget. 6(19). 16902–16911. 34 indexed citations

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Todaro, Matilde, Miriam Gaggianesi, Veronica Catalano, et al.. (2014). CD44v6 Is a Marker of Constitutive and Reprogrammed Cancer Stem Cells Driving Colon Cancer Metastasis. Cell stem cell. 14(3). 342–356. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tirinato, Luca, Carlo Liberale, Simone Di Franco, et al.. (2014). Lipid Droplets: A New Player in Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells Unveiled by Spectroscopic Imaging. Stem Cells. 33(1). 35–44. 182 indexed citations

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Franco, Simone Di, Pietro Mancuso, Antonina Benfante, et al.. (2011). Colon Cancer Stem Cells: Bench-to-Bedside—New Therapeutical Approaches in Clinical Oncology for Disease Breakdown. Cancers. 3(2). 1957–1974. 10 indexed citations

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