Candace Castagna

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 933 citations indexed

About

Candace Castagna is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Candace Castagna has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 933 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 2 papers in Epidemiology and 1 paper in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Candace Castagna's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (2 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (1 paper). Candace Castagna is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (2 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (1 paper). Candace Castagna collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Japan. Candace Castagna's co-authors include David Sulzer, Ottavio Arancio, James E. Goldman, Alexander A. Sosunov, Frances A. Champagne, Gorazd Rosoklija, Ai Yamamoto, Andrew J. Dwork, Zhenyu Yue and Bradley S. Peterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Candace Castagna

5 papers receiving 924 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.

Loss of mTOR-Dependent Macroautophagy Causes Autistic-like Synaptic Pruning Deficits

2014 827 citations Guomei Tang, Kathryn Gudsnuk et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Candace Castagna United States	5	332	305	289	223	181	5	933
Amanda L. Yonan United States	7	482 1.5×	332 1.1×	458 1.6×	186 0.8×	118 0.7×	7	904
Maria T. Acosta United States	20	333 1.0×	386 1.3×	253 0.9×	163 0.7×	174 1.0×	63	1.3k
María Dolores Rubio Spain	13	178 0.5×	593 1.9×	259 0.9×	367 1.6×	94 0.5×	20	1.1k
Tzyy‐Nan Huang Taiwan	18	291 0.9×	565 1.9×	380 1.3×	250 1.1×	35 0.2×	34	1.0k
Fred H. Gage United States	9	159 0.5×	561 1.8×	128 0.4×	277 1.2×	95 0.5×	10	975
Sander Markx United States	14	194 0.6×	558 1.8×	417 1.4×	280 1.3×	72 0.4×	22	1.3k
Ralph Roeth Germany	11	253 0.8×	545 1.8×	573 2.0×	102 0.5×	77 0.4×	19	1.2k
Anthony Simone United States	6	158 0.5×	944 3.1×	236 0.8×	339 1.5×	173 1.0×	9	1.4k
Congyi Lu United States	18	301 0.9×	619 2.0×	263 0.9×	518 2.3×	37 0.2×	25	1.3k
Constance Smith‐Hicks United States	15	275 0.8×	555 1.8×	411 1.4×	413 1.9×	36 0.2×	31	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Candace Castagna

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Fields of papers citing papers by Candace Castagna

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Candace Castagna. 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 Candace Castagna. The network helps show where Candace Castagna may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Candace Castagna

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Qiu, Baiyu, Fereshteh Zandkarimi, Anjali Saqi, et al.. (2024). Fatal COVID-19 pulmonary disease involves ferroptosis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3816–3816. 31 indexed citations

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Tsuji, Moriya, Manoj S. Nair, Candace Castagna, et al.. (2023). An immunostimulatory glycolipid that blocks SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and influenza infections in vivo. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3959–3959. 20 indexed citations

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Tang, Guping, Kathryn Gudsnuk, Sheng‐Han Kuo, et al.. (2014). Loss of mTOR-Dependent Macroautophagy Causes Autistic-like Synaptic Pruning Deficits. Neuron. 83(6). 1482–1482. 30 indexed citations

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Tang, Guomei, Kathryn Gudsnuk, Sheng‐Han Kuo, et al.. (2014). Loss of mTOR-Dependent Macroautophagy Causes Autistic-like Synaptic Pruning Deficits. Neuron. 83(5). 1131–1143. 827 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmitz, Yvonne, Candace Castagna, Ana Mrejeru, et al.. (2013). Glycine Transporter-1 Inhibition Promotes Striatal Axon Sprouting via NMDA Receptors in Dopamine Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(42). 16778–16789. 25 indexed citations

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