Ester Papa

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Ester Papa is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ester Papa has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 26 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 19 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ester Papa's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (47 papers), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (14 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (12 papers). Ester Papa is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (47 papers), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (14 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (12 papers). Ester Papa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Sweden. Ester Papa's co-authors include Paola Gramatica, Simona Kovarich, Stefano Cassani, Nicola Chirico, Pamela Pilutti, Elisa Giani, Tomas Öberg, Igor V. Tetko, Alexander Tropsha and Alexandre Varnek and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Ester Papa

78 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.

QSARINS: A new software for the development, analysis, and validation of QSAR MLR models

2013 589 citations Paola Gramatica, Nicola Chirico et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ester Papa Italy	33	2.2k	939	827	768	622	79	3.9k
Joanna Jaworska Poland	30	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	607 0.7×	990 1.3×	364 0.6×	76	4.7k
Supratik Kar United States	36	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	593 0.8×	931 1.5×	118	5.0k
Romualdo Benigni Italy	37	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.8×	835 1.0×	950 1.2×	632 1.0×	148	5.5k
Yuan H. Zhao China	32	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	891 1.1×	703 0.9×	439 0.7×	86	4.3k
Ovanes Mekenyan Bulgaria	39	2.2k 1.0×	702 0.7×	759 0.9×	1.6k 2.1×	235 0.4×	173	4.6k
Alla P. Toropova Italy	38	4.1k 1.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	465 0.6×	1.4k 2.3×	316	5.5k
Grace Patlewicz United States	46	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	617 0.7×	2.4k 3.1×	359 0.6×	172	7.7k
Andrew Worth Italy	46	2.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.5×	792 1.0×	2.3k 3.0×	1.1k 1.7×	198	8.1k
David W. Roberts United Kingdom	48	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	1.7k 2.0×	1.1k 1.4×	277 0.4×	243	7.6k
Tomasz Puzyn Poland	42	1.8k 0.8×	623 0.7×	640 0.8×	901 1.2×	2.2k 3.6×	175	5.5k

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Evangelista, Marco, Nicola Chirico, & Ester Papa. (2025). New QSAR Models to Predict Human Transthyretin Disruption by Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Development and Application. Toxics. 13(7). 590–590. 1 indexed citations

Chirico, Nicola, Alessandro Sangion, Marco Evangelista, et al.. (2024). Global Assessment of Emerging Contaminant Removal in Wastewater Treatment Plants: In Silico Hazard Screening and Risk Evaluation. Toxics. 13(1). 6–6. 4 indexed citations

Chirico, Nicola, Michael S. McLachlan, Zhe Li, & Ester Papa. (2024). In silico approaches for the prediction of the breakthrough of organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(2). 400–410. 3 indexed citations

Singh, Jagadish, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the interspecies correlation and sensitivity factor analysis of rat and mouse acute oral toxicity of antimicrobial agents: first QSTR and QTTR Modeling report. Toxicology Research. 13(6). tfae191–tfae191. 1 indexed citations

Chirico, Nicola, et al.. (2023). QSAR Models for the Prediction of Dietary Biomagnification Factor in Fish. Toxics. 11(3). 209–209. 8 indexed citations

Taboureau, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Classification-based QSARs for predicting dietary biomagnification in fish. SAR and QSAR in environmental research. 33(4). 259–271. 6 indexed citations

Chirico, Nicola, et al.. (2021). QSARINS‐Chem standalone version: A new platform‐independent software to profile chemicals for physico‐chemical properties, fate, and toxicity. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 42(20). 1452–1460. 22 indexed citations

Li, Zhe, Emma Undeman, Ester Papa, & Michael S. McLachlan. (2018). High-throughput evaluation of organic contaminant removal efficiency in a wastewater treatment plant using direct injection UHPLC-Orbitrap-MS/MS. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 20(3). 561–571. 36 indexed citations

Gramatica, Paola, Ester Papa, & Alessandro Sangion. (2017). QSAR modeling of cumulative environmental end-points for the prioritization of hazardous chemicals. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 20(1). 38–47. 37 indexed citations

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Papa, Ester, Alessandro Sangion, Jon A. Arnot, & Paola Gramatica. (2017). Development of human biotransformation QSARs and application for PBT assessment refinement. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 112. 535–543. 30 indexed citations

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Trulli, Ettore, et al.. (2014). Modeling for use of water in agriculture.. INMATEH Agricultural Engineering. 44(3). 121–128. 1 indexed citations

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Sangiorgi, G, Luca Ferrero, M Perrone, Ester Papa, & Ezio Bolzacchini. (2014). Semivolatile PAH and n-alkane gas/particle partitioning using the dual model: up-to-date coefficients and comparison with experimental data. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21(17). 10163–10173. 18 indexed citations

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Cassani, Stefano, Simona Kovarich, Ester Papa, et al.. (2013). Daphnia and fish toxicity of (benzo)triazoles: Validated QSAR models, and interspecies quantitative activity–activity modelling. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 258-259. 50–60. 92 indexed citations

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Gramatica, Paola, Stefano Cassani, Partha Pratim Roy, et al.. (2012). QSAR Modeling is not “Push a Button and Find a Correlation”: A Case Study of Toxicity of (Benzo‐)triazoles on Algae. Molecular Informatics. 31(11-12). 817–835. 198 indexed citations

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Liu, Huanxiang, Ester Papa, John D. Walker, & Paola Gramatica. (2007). In silico screening of estrogen-like chemicals based on different nonlinear classification models. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 26(1). 135–144. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Huanxiang, Ester Papa, & Paola Gramatica. (2007). Evaluation and QSAR modeling on multiple endpoints of estrogen activity based on different bioassays. Chemosphere. 70(10). 1889–1897. 32 indexed citations

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Gramatica, Paola, Ester Papa, Assunta Marrocchi, Lucio Minuti, & Aldo Taticchi. (2006). Quantitative structure–activity relationship modeling of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mutagenicity by classification methods based on holistic theoretical molecular descriptors. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 66(3). 353–361. 14 indexed citations

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Chiarabelli, Cristiano, Jan W. Vrijbloed, Davide De Lucrezia, et al.. (2006). Investigation ofde novo Totally Random Biosequences, Part II. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 3(8). 840–859. 47 indexed citations

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Gramatica, Paola, Elisa Giani, & Ester Papa. (2006). Statistical external validation and consensus modeling: A QSPR case study for Koc prediction. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 25(6). 755–766. 214 indexed citations

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Gramatica, Paola, Pamela Pilutti, & Ester Papa. (2005). Ranking of Phenols for Abiotic Oxidation in Aqueous Environment: a QSPR Approach. Annali di Chimica. 95(3-4). 199–209. 3 indexed citations

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