Benedetto Grimaldi

10.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Benedetto Grimaldi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benedetto Grimaldi has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Benedetto Grimaldi's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (11 papers), Light effects on plants (6 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers). Benedetto Grimaldi is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (11 papers), Light effects on plants (6 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers). Benedetto Grimaldi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Benedetto Grimaldi's co-authors include Paolo Sassone‐Corsi, Jun Hirayama, Yasukazu Nakahata, Saurabh Sahar, Milota Kaluzová, Danica Chen, Leonard Guarente, Ken Takamatsu, Teruya Tamaru and Marina Maria Bellet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benedetto Grimaldi

33 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

The NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase SIRT1 Modulates CLOCK-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling and Circadian Control

2008 1.1k citations Yasukazu Nakahata, Milota Kaluzová et al. Cell profile →
Autophagy and cancer drug resistance in dialogue: Pre-clinical and clinical evidence

2023 152 citations Benedetto Grimaldi, Francesco Crea et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benedetto Grimaldi Italy	24	1.9k	1.2k	859	621	548	34	3.3k
Hans Reinke Germany	18	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	679 1.1×	634 1.2×	23	3.7k
Vivek Kumar United States	22	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.6×	955 1.5×	647 1.2×	58	4.0k
Anna A. Kondratova United States	17	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	574 0.7×	424 0.7×	736 1.3×	21	2.7k
Kyungjin Kim South Korea	31	1.9k 1.0×	888 0.7×	852 1.0×	401 0.6×	325 0.6×	86	3.5k
Tsuyoshi Hirota Japan	31	2.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	864 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	633 1.2×	63	4.0k
Javier Apfeld United States	17	831 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	107 0.2×	2.0k 3.7×	23	3.9k
Nirinjini Naidoo United States	33	1.3k 0.7×	618 0.5×	756 0.9×	275 0.4×	299 0.5×	56	3.8k
Holly M. Brown‐Borg United States	38	282 0.1×	1.7k 1.4×	1.7k 2.0×	103 0.2×	909 1.7×	111	4.4k
Nicholas F. Lahens United States	22	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	421 0.7×	415 0.8×	38	3.6k
Samuel T. Henderson United States	23	531 0.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.8k 2.2×	225 0.4×	1.3k 2.5×	32	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Benedetto Grimaldi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benedetto Grimaldi

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

All Works

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Eccleston, Mark, Massimiliano Manzo, Ilaria Alborelli, et al.. (2025). EZH2 inhibition enhances the activity of Carboplatin in aggressive-variant prostate cancer cell lines. Epigenomics. 17(3). 145–154.

Spanò, Raffaele, et al.. (2024). Human Multi-Lineage Liver Organoid Model Reveals Impairment of CYP3A4 Expression upon Repeated Exposure to Graphene Oxide. Cells. 13(18). 1542–1542. 1 indexed citations

Grimaldi, Benedetto, et al.. (2024). Small molecule approaches to targeting RNA. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 8(2). 120–135. 45 indexed citations

Palomba, Martina, et al.. (2023). Identification of a Dual Autophagy and REV-ERB Inhibitor with in Vivo Anticancer Efficacy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(1). 349–379. 4 indexed citations

Cristo, Luisana Di, Benedetto Grimaldi, Tiziano Catelani, et al.. (2020). Repeated exposure to aerosolized graphene oxide mediates autophagy inhibition and inflammation in a three-dimensional human airway model. Materials Today Bio. 6. 100050–100050. 27 indexed citations

Astarita, Giuseppe, Agnesa Avanesian, Benedetto Grimaldi, et al.. (2015). Methamphetamine Accelerates Cellular Senescence through Stimulation of De Novo Ceramide Biosynthesis. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0116961–e0116961. 37 indexed citations

Hardman, J., Desmond J. Tobin, Iain S. Haslam, et al.. (2014). The Peripheral Clock Regulates Human Pigmentation. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 135(4). 1053–1064. 71 indexed citations

Sahar, Saurabh, Satoru Masubuchi, Kristin Eckel‐Mahan, et al.. (2014). Circadian Control of Fatty Acid Elongation by SIRT1 Protein-mediated Deacetylation of Acetyl-coenzyme A Synthetase 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(9). 6091–6097. 58 indexed citations

Bellet, Marina Maria, Elisa Deriu, Janet Z. Liu, et al.. (2013). Circadian clock regulates the host response to Salmonella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(24). 9897–9902. 205 indexed citations

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Al‐Nuaimi, Yusur, J. Hardman, Tamás Bı́ró, et al.. (2013). A Meeting of Two Chronobiological Systems: Circadian Proteins Period1 and BMAL1 Modulate the Human Hair Cycle Clock. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 134(3). 610–619. 85 indexed citations

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Brenna, Andrea, Benedetto Grimaldi, Patrizia Filetici, & Paola Ballario. (2012). Physical association of the WC-1 photoreceptor and the histone acetyltransferase NGF-1 is required for blue light signal transduction in Neurospora crassa. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23(19). 3863–3872. 35 indexed citations

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Grimaldi, Benedetto, Marina Maria Bellet, Sayako Katada, et al.. (2010). PER2 Controls Lipid Metabolism by Direct Regulation of PPARγ. Cell Metabolism. 12(5). 509–520. 401 indexed citations

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Grimaldi, Benedetto, Yasukazu Nakahata, Milota Kaluzová, Satoru Masubuchi, & Paolo Sassone‐Corsi. (2008). Chromatin remodeling, metabolism and circadian clocks: The interplay of CLOCK and SIRT1. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 41(1). 81–86. 94 indexed citations

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Nakahata, Yasukazu, Milota Kaluzová, Benedetto Grimaldi, et al.. (2008). The NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase SIRT1 Modulates CLOCK-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling and Circadian Control. Cell. 134(2). 329–340. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Grimaldi, Benedetto, Yasukazu Nakahata, Milota Kaluzová, et al.. (2007). Chromatin Remodeling and Circadian Control: Master Regulator CLOCK Is an Enzyme. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 72(1). 105–112. 32 indexed citations

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Nakahata, Yasukazu, Benedetto Grimaldi, Saurabh Sahar, Jun Hirayama, & Paolo Sassone‐Corsi. (2007). Signaling to the circadian clock: plasticity by chromatin remodeling. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 19(2). 230–237. 69 indexed citations

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Grimaldi, Benedetto, Patrizia Filetici, Joseph R. Dobosy, et al.. (2006). TheNeurospora crassaWhite Collar-1 dependent Blue Light Response Requires Acetylation of Histone H3 Lysine 14 by NGF-1. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(10). 4576–4583. 69 indexed citations

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Grimaldi, Benedetto, Michiel Alexander de Raaf, Patrizia Filetici, Simone Ottonello, & Paola Ballario. (2005). Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer and enhanced green fluorescent protein visualization in the mycorrhizal ascomycete Tuber borchii: a first step towards truffle genetics. Current Genetics. 48(1). 69–74. 36 indexed citations

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Ambra, Roberto, Benedetto Grimaldi, S Zamboni, et al.. (2004). Photomorphogenesis in the hypogeous fungus Tuber borchii: isolation and characterization of Tbwc-1, the homologue of the blue-light photoreceptor of Neurospora crassa. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 41(7). 688–697. 64 indexed citations

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Krol, Silke, Alberto Diaspro, Raffaella Magrassi, et al.. (2004). Nanocapsules: Coating for Living Cells. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 3(1). 32–38. 29 indexed citations

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