Diego L. Medina

23.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
78 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Diego L. Medina is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego L. Medina has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Epidemiology and 27 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Diego L. Medina's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (27 papers), Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (26 papers) and Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (21 papers). Diego L. Medina is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (27 papers), Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (26 papers) and Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (21 papers). Diego L. Medina collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Diego L. Medina's co-authors include Andrea Ballabio, Carmine Settembre, Alessandro Fraldi, Marco Sardiello, Chiara Di Malta, Serkan Erdin, Francesco Vetrini, Tuong Huynh, David C. Rubinsztein and Roman Polishchuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Diego L. Medina

75 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

TFEB Links Autophagy to Lysosomal Biogenesis

2011 2.5k citations Carmine Settembre, Chiara Di Malta et al. Science profile →
A Gene Network Regulating Lysosomal Biogenesis and Function

2009 1.9k citations Marco Sardiello, Michela Palmieri et al. Science profile →
A lysosome-to-nucleus signalling mechanism senses and regulates the lysosome via mTOR and TFEB

2012 1.5k citations Carmine Settembre, Diego L. Medina et al. profile →
Signals from the lysosome: a control centre for cellular clearance and energy metabolism

2013 1.3k citations Carmine Settembre, Alessandro Fraldi et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB

2015 1.1k citations Diego L. Medina, Simone Di Paola et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Transcriptional Activation of Lysosomal Exocytosis Promotes Cellular Clearance

2011 570 citations Diego L. Medina, Alessandro Fraldi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego L. Medina Italy	34	6.5k	5.5k	3.2k	3.1k	3.0k	78	13.1k
Carmine Settembre Italy	38	6.5k 1.0×	5.4k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	61	12.4k
Marco Sardiello United States	31	4.5k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	47	8.9k
Sovan Sarkar United Kingdom	49	6.0k 0.9×	6.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	91	13.2k
Susmita Kaushik United States	43	8.7k 1.4×	5.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	4.0k 1.3×	987 0.3×	62	14.8k
Viktor I. Korolchuk United Kingdom	42	4.4k 0.7×	4.7k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	905 0.3×	84	9.8k
Satoshi Waguri Japan	47	8.5k 1.3×	8.8k 1.6×	2.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.4×	134	16.7k
Zvulun Elazar Israel	42	7.0k 1.1×	5.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	81	11.7k
Joungmok Kim South Korea	27	6.7k 1.0×	8.7k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	4.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.4×	50	15.2k
Francesco Cecconi Italy	57	6.5k 1.0×	10.2k 1.9×	2.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	802 0.3×	176	17.3k
Naotada Ishihara Japan	37	4.8k 0.7×	8.2k 1.5×	1.4k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	574 0.2×	68	11.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego L. Medina

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Pirone, Daniele, M. Di Summa, Nicola Mosca, et al.. (2025). Stain-free intracellular specificity via nesting-based strategy in immersive holo-tomographic flow cytometry. Journal of Physics Photonics. 8(1). 15046–15046.

Medina, Diego L., et al.. (2025). The use of egg quality parameters to evaluate the effect of a diet supplemented with algae and antioxidants in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus). Aquaculture. 601. 742306–742306.

Montefusco, Sandro, Edoardo Nusco, Antonella Capuozzo, et al.. (2024). TRPML-1 Dysfunction and Renal Tubulopathy in Mucolipidosis Type IV. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 36(4). 587–601. 1 indexed citations

Pirone, Daniele, Vittorio Bianco, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2024). Investigation on lysosomal accumulation by a quantitative analysis of 2D phase‐maps in digital holography microscopy. Cytometry Part A. 105(5). 323–331. 2 indexed citations

Capuozzo, Antonella, Sandro Montefusco, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2022). Fluoxetine ameliorates mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA. Molecular Therapy. 30(4). 1432–1450. 17 indexed citations

Bellomo, Francesco, Anna Taranta, Laura Giaquinto, et al.. (2021). Drug Repurposing in Rare Diseases: An Integrative Study of Drug Screening and Transcriptomic Analysis in Nephropathic Cystinosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(23). 12829–12829. 15 indexed citations

Y, Hu, Sovan Sarkar, Wei‐Xing Zong, et al.. (2019). Autophagy modulator scoring system: a user-friendly tool for quantitative analysis of methodological integrity of chemical autophagy modulator studies. Autophagy. 16(2). 195–202. 15 indexed citations

Rosato, Anna Scotto, Sandro Montefusco, Chiara Soldati, et al.. (2019). TRPML1 links lysosomal calcium to autophagosome biogenesis through the activation of the CaMKKβ/VPS34 pathway. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5630–5630. 139 indexed citations

Chen, Cheng‐Chang, Elisabeth Butz, Anna Scotto Rosato, et al.. (2018). Selective agonist of TRPML2 reveals direct role in chemokine release from innate immune cells. eLife. 7. 77 indexed citations

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Calamita, Piera, Annarita Miluzio, Elisa Pesce, et al.. (2017). SBDS-Deficient Cells Have an Altered Homeostatic Equilibrium due to Translational Inefficiency Which Explains their Reduced Fitness and Provides a Logical Framework for Intervention. PLoS Genetics. 13(1). e1006552–e1006552. 30 indexed citations

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Napolitano, Francesco, Diego Carrella, Barbara Mandriani, et al.. (2017). gene2drug: a computational tool for pathway-based rational drug repositioning. Bioinformatics. 34(9). 1498–1505. 54 indexed citations

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Paola, Simone Di, Anna Scotto Rosato, & Diego L. Medina. (2017). TRPML1: The Ca(2+)retaker of the lysosome. Cell Calcium. 69. 112–121. 107 indexed citations

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Medina, Diego L., Simone Di Paola, Ivana Peluso, et al.. (2015). Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB. Nature Cell Biology. 17(3). 288–299. 1060 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gambardella, Gennaro, Ivana Peluso, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2015). A reverse-engineering approach to dissect post-translational modulators of transcription factor’s activity from transcriptional data. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 279–279. 6 indexed citations

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Moskot, Marta, Sandro Montefusco, Joanna Jakóbkiewicz‐Banecka, et al.. (2014). The Phytoestrogen Genistein Modulates Lysosomal Metabolism and Transcription Factor EB (TFEB) Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(24). 17054–17069. 110 indexed citations

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Settembre, Carmine, Alessandro Fraldi, Diego L. Medina, & Andrea Ballabio. (2013). Signals from the lysosome: a control centre for cellular clearance and energy metabolism. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 14(5). 283–296. 1269 indexed citations breakdown →

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Settembre, Carmine, Chiara Di Malta, Vinicia Assunta Polito, et al.. (2011). TFEB Links Autophagy to Lysosomal Biogenesis. Science. 332(6036). 1429–1433. 2496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sardiello, Marco, Michela Palmieri, Alberto di Ronza, et al.. (2009). A Gene Network Regulating Lysosomal Biogenesis and Function. Science. 325(5939). 473–477. 1885 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Xi, et al.. (2007). High throughput multiplexing phosphor retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (Rb) and cell cycle analysis using acuman technology.. Cancer Research. 67. 4372–4372. 1 indexed citations

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Dilla, Tatiana, et al.. (2000). The MDM2 Oncoprotein Promotes Apoptosis in p53-Deficient Human Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Cells1. Endocrinology. 141(1). 420–429. 14 indexed citations

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