Déborah Naón

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Déborah Naón is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Déborah Naón has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Déborah Naón's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (10 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (4 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (3 papers). Déborah Naón is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (10 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (4 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (3 papers). Déborah Naón collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Déborah Naón's co-authors include Luca Scorrano, António Zorzano, María Isabel Hernández‐Álvarez, Martina Semenzato, Stéphanie Herkenne, Francesca Grespi, Marta Zaninello, Geltrude Mingrone, Melania Manco and Gerald W. Dorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Déborah Naón

12 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Critical reappraisal confirms that Mitofusin 2 is an endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria tether

2016 400 citations Déborah Naón, Marta Zaninello et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Déborah Naón Italy	11	1.1k	433	327	297	235	12	1.4k
Martina Semenzato Italy	9	955 0.8×	199 0.5×	186 0.6×	217 0.7×	200 0.9×	15	1.2k
José C. Paz Spain	11	854 0.7×	371 0.9×	170 0.5×	218 0.7×	126 0.5×	13	1.1k
Pierre Theurey France	11	827 0.7×	313 0.7×	394 1.2×	306 1.0×	108 0.5×	14	1.1k
Pascaline Clerc United States	8	789 0.7×	214 0.5×	97 0.3×	129 0.4×	199 0.8×	10	1.0k
Valentina Debattisti United States	12	797 0.7×	173 0.4×	137 0.4×	227 0.8×	126 0.5×	14	966
Beatriz Dorado Spain	17	657 0.6×	342 0.8×	98 0.3×	162 0.5×	149 0.6×	34	1.3k
Gaia Pedriali Italy	16	839 0.7×	146 0.3×	194 0.6×	218 0.7×	72 0.3×	25	1.2k
Kahori Shiba Japan	5	997 0.9×	304 0.7×	223 0.7×	1.0k 3.5×	105 0.4×	5	1.7k
Cristina Cerqua Italy	12	863 0.8×	289 0.7×	152 0.5×	115 0.4×	94 0.4×	14	1.1k
Denis Vecellio Reane Italy	14	932 0.8×	195 0.5×	122 0.4×	119 0.4×	100 0.4×	23	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Déborah Naón

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12 of 12 papers shown

Semenzato, Martina & Déborah Naón. (2025). Mitochondria for Cardiovascular Therapy: A Deep Dive into Drug Targets and Therapeutic Approaches. Current Pharmacology Reports. 11(1). 2 indexed citations

Naón, Déborah, María Isabel Hernández‐Álvarez, Satoko Shinjo, et al.. (2023). Splice variants of mitofusin 2 shape the endoplasmic reticulum and tether it to mitochondria. Science. 380(6651). eadh9351–eadh9351. 86 indexed citations

Zaninello, Marta, Konstantinos Palikaras, Déborah Naón, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of autophagy curtails visual loss in a model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4029–4029. 66 indexed citations

Naón, Déborah, Marta Zaninello, Marta Giacomello, et al.. (2016). Critical reappraisal confirms that Mitofusin 2 is an endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria tether. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(40). 11249–11254. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

Naón, Déborah & Luca Scorrano. (2014). At the right distance: ER-mitochondria juxtaposition in cell life and death. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1843(10). 2184–2194. 148 indexed citations

Sorianello, Eleonora, Francesc X. Soriano, Ana Sancho, et al.. (2012). The promoter activity of human Mfn2 depends on Sp1 in vascular smooth muscle cells. Cardiovascular Research. 94(1). 38–47. 27 indexed citations

Ortega, Francisco, Josep M. Mercader, José María Moreno‐Navarrete, et al.. (2012). Targeting the association of calgranulin B (S100A9) with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 91(4). 523–534. 15 indexed citations

Cerqua, Cristina, Aswin Pyakurel, Dan Liu, et al.. (2010). Trichoplein/mitostatin regulates endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria juxtaposition. EMBO Reports. 11(11). 854–860. 109 indexed citations

Hernández‐Álvarez, María Isabel, Chiara Chiellini, Melania Manco, et al.. (2009). Genes involved in mitochondrial biogenesis/function are induced in response to bilio-pancreatic diversion in morbidly obese individuals with normal glucose tolerance but not in type 2 diabetic patients. Diabetologia. 52(8). 1618–1627. 21 indexed citations

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Hernández‐Álvarez, María Isabel, Hood Thabit, Nicole Burns, et al.. (2009). Subjects With Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Show Defective Activation of the Skeletal Muscle PGC-1α/Mitofusin-2 Regulatory Pathway in Response to Physical Activity. Diabetes Care. 33(3). 645–651. 157 indexed citations

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Mingrone, Geltrude, Melania Manco, Menotti Calvani, et al.. (2005). Could the low level of expression of the gene encoding skeletal muscle mitofusin-2 account for the metabolic inflexibility of obesity?. Diabetologia. 48(10). 2108–2114. 61 indexed citations

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Bach, Daniel Q., Déborah Naón, Sara Pich, et al.. (2005). Expression of Mfn2, the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy Type 2A Gene, in Human Skeletal Muscle. Diabetes. 54(9). 2685–2693. 310 indexed citations

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