Barbara Stella

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Barbara Stella is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Stella has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Biomaterials and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Barbara Stella's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (41 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (25 papers) and Advanced Drug Delivery Systems (10 papers). Barbara Stella is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (41 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (25 papers) and Advanced Drug Delivery Systems (10 papers). Barbara Stella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Belgium. Barbara Stella's co-authors include Silvia Arpicco, Franco Dosio, Luigi Cattel, Elias Fattal, Patrick Couvreur, Didier Desmaële, Paola Brusa, Véronique Marsaud, Jack‐Michel Renoir and Flavio Rocco and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Stella

84 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Hyaluronic acid for anticancer drug and nucleic acid delivery

2015 494 citations Franco Dosio, Silvia Arpicco et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Stella Italy	31	1.8k	1.6k	1.1k	565	430	86	3.9k
Silvia Arpicco Italy	36	2.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	730 1.3×	648 1.5×	115	4.8k
Marianne Ashford United Kingdom	31	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	995 1.8×	460 1.1×	73	4.2k
Stefano Salmaso Italy	34	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	635 1.1×	307 0.7×	110	3.8k
Serguei V. Vinogradov United States	30	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	724 1.3×	381 0.9×	49	4.5k
Thiruganesh Ramasamy South Korea	38	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	871 1.5×	386 0.9×	60	3.6k
Mingxi Qiao China	36	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	602 1.1×	414 1.0×	105	3.8k
Hervé Hillaireau France	28	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	866 0.8×	652 1.2×	219 0.5×	50	3.5k
Daria Y. Alakhova United States	12	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	810 0.8×	336 0.6×	367 0.9×	20	2.9k
Catherine Passirani France	39	2.5k 1.4×	2.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	845 1.5×	500 1.2×	89	5.5k
Seung Young Lee South Korea	34	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	301 0.5×	394 0.9×	129	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Stella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Stella

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20 of 20 papers shown

Scicchitano, Stefania, Cinzia Garofalo, Barbara Stella, et al.. (2025). Overcoming BET ‐inhibitor JQ1 resistance in aggressive non‐small cell lung cancer by inducing ferroptosis via inhibition of the BRD2 – FTH1 axis. FEBS Journal. 292(23). 6345–6364.

Andreana, Ilaria, Nicole Zoratto, Chiara Di Meo, et al.. (2025). An overview of hyaluronic-acid nanoparticles for cancer cell targeted drug delivery. Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery. 22(9). 1257–1274. 2 indexed citations

Andreana, Ilaria, Caterina Ricci, Iris C. Salaroglio, et al.. (2024). Smart hyaluronated micelles to enhance a gemcitabine prodrug efficacy. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. 104. 106518–106518. 3 indexed citations

Andreana, Ilaria, Joanna Kopecka, Lorenzo Mino, et al.. (2024). Designing functionalized nanodiamonds with hyaluronic acid–phospholipid conjugates for enhanced cancer cell targeting and fluorescence imaging capabilities. Nanoscale. 16(24). 11610–11622. 9 indexed citations

Andreana, Ilaria, et al.. (2023). Freeze Drying of Polymer Nanoparticles and Liposomes Exploiting Different Saccharide-Based Approaches. Materials. 16(3). 1212–1212. 34 indexed citations

Calderan, Laura, Flavia Carton, Ilaria Andreana, et al.. (2022). An <em>ex vivo</em> experimental system to track fluorescent nanoparticles inside skeletal muscle. European Journal of Histochemistry. 67(1). 3 indexed citations

Andreana, Ilaria, Flavia Carton, David Kryza, et al.. (2021). Nanomedicine for Gene Delivery and Drug Repurposing in the Treatment of Muscular Dystrophies. Pharmaceutics. 13(2). 278–278. 18 indexed citations

Stella, Barbara, Ilaria Andreana, Daniele Zonari, & Silvia Arpicco. (2019). Pentamidine-Loaded Lipid and Polymer Nanocarriers as Tunable Anticancer Drug Delivery Systems. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 109(3). 1297–1302. 15 indexed citations

Mougin, Julie, Semen Yesylevskyy, Claudie Bourgaux, et al.. (2019). Stacking as a Key Property for Creating Nanoparticles with Tunable Shape: The Case of Squalenoyl-Doxorubicin. ACS Nano. 13(11). 12870–12879. 10 indexed citations

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Gazzano, Elena, Ilaria Buondonno, Alessandro Marengo, et al.. (2019). Hyaluronated liposomes containing H2S-releasing doxorubicin are effective against P-glycoprotein-positive/doxorubicin-resistant osteosarcoma cells and xenografts. Cancer Letters. 456. 29–39. 54 indexed citations

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Marengo, Alessandro, Stefania Forciniti, Ilaria Dando, et al.. (2018). Pancreatic cancer stem cell proliferation is strongly inhibited by diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex loaded into hyaluronic acid decorated liposomes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1863(1). 61–72. 52 indexed citations

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Arpicco, Silvia, Alessandro Marengo, & Barbara Stella. (2017). STRATEGIES AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES DEVELOPED FOR THE ACTIVE TARGETING OF DRUGS. INFM-OAR (INFN Catania). 2 indexed citations

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Stella, Barbara, Alessandro Marengo, & Silvia Arpicco. (2017). NANOPARTICLES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PREPARATION METHODS FROM PREFORMED POLYMERS. 7 indexed citations

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Mura, Simona, Julie Mougin, Sabrina Valetti, et al.. (2016). In vitro investigation of multidrug nanoparticles for combined therapy with gemcitabine and a tyrosine kinase inhibitor: Together is not better. Biochimie. 130. 4–13. 8 indexed citations

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Lince, Federica, S. Bolognesi, Daniele Marchisio, et al.. (2011). Preparation of Poly(MePEGCA-co-HDCA) Nanoparticles with Confined Impinging Jets Reactor: Experimental and Modeling Study. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 100(6). 2391–2405. 24 indexed citations

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Lince, Federica, Emmanuela Gavi, Daniele Marchisio, et al.. (2008). Reactors and strategies to control the particle size distribution of polymeric nanoparticles for pharmaceutical applications. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 1 indexed citations

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Stella, Barbara, Silvia Arpicco, Flavio Rocco, et al.. (2007). Encapsulation of gemcitabine lipophilic derivatives into polycyanoacrylate nanospheres and nanocapsules. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 344(1-2). 71–77. 88 indexed citations

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Radanyi, Christine, Jean‐François Peyrat, Jean‐Daniel Brion, et al.. (2007). New Novobiocin Analogues as Antiproliferative Agents in Breast Cancer Cells and Potential Inhibitors of Heat Shock Protein 90. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 50(24). 6189–6200. 128 indexed citations

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Arpicco, Silvia, Franco Dosio, Andrea Bolognesi, et al.. (2002). Novel Poly(ethylene glycol) Derivatives for Preparation of Ribosome-Inactivating Protein Conjugates. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 13(4). 757–765. 19 indexed citations

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Stella, Barbara. (1997). TRANSPLANTS AND NEUROTROPHINS INCREASE REGENERATION AND RECOVERY OF FUNCTION AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY. The Keio Journal of Medicine. 46. 1 indexed citations

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