Fabiana Bigi

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Fabiana Bigi is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabiana Bigi has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Infectious Diseases, 88 papers in Epidemiology and 32 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fabiana Bigi's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (89 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (86 papers) and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches (14 papers). Fabiana Bigi is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (89 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (86 papers) and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches (14 papers). Fabiana Bigi collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United Kingdom and Brazil. Fabiana Bigi's co-authors include Angel Cataldi, Laura Inés Klepp, Marı́a de la Paz Santangelo, Federico Carlos Blanco, Marina Andrea Forrellad, Andrea Gioffré, Maria Romanò, A. Alito, Julia Sabio y García and María Verónica Bianco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fabiana Bigi

104 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Virulence factors of theMycobacterium tuberculosiscomplex 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Virulence factors of theMycobacterium tuberculosiscomplex
    2013 430 citations Marina Andrea Forrellad, Laura Inés Klepp et al. Virulence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fabiana Bigi Argentina 27 2.0k 1.7k 843 450 403 107 2.5k
Roxane Siméone France 24 2.1k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 833 1.0× 369 0.8× 667 1.7× 29 3.0k
Roberto Colangeli United States 25 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 738 0.9× 364 0.8× 268 0.7× 30 2.2k
Thierry Garnier France 21 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 776 0.9× 421 0.9× 666 1.7× 31 2.7k
Pilar Domenech Canada 21 1.7k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 623 0.7× 518 1.2× 221 0.5× 31 2.2k
Angel Cataldi Argentina 33 2.7k 1.4× 2.5k 1.4× 884 1.0× 831 1.8× 323 0.8× 100 3.3k
Michael B. Reed Canada 25 2.3k 1.2× 2.1k 1.2× 975 1.2× 771 1.7× 665 1.7× 37 4.1k
Michelle H. Larsen United States 30 2.0k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 937 1.1× 310 0.7× 771 1.9× 63 3.0k
Abdallah M. Abdallah Netherlands 21 1.8k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 630 0.7× 238 0.5× 523 1.3× 40 2.5k
Clara Espitia Mexico 25 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 696 0.8× 398 0.9× 381 0.9× 76 2.1k
Tsungda Hsu United States 23 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 725 0.9× 289 0.6× 829 2.1× 28 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Fabiana Bigi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabiana Bigi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabiana Bigi

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

All Works

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Morelli, María Paula, Joaquín Miguel Pellegrini, Federico Carlos Blanco, et al.. (2025). Neutrophils from tuberculosis patients are polarized toward pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory phenotypes according to the disease severity. The Journal of Immunology. 214(6). 1173–1186. 1 indexed citations
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Klepp, Laura Inés, et al.. (2023). Assessment of tuberculosis biomarkers in paratuberculosis-infected cattle. Journal of Veterinary Research. 67(1). 55–60. 1 indexed citations
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Blanco, Federico Carlos, Julia Sabio y García, & Fabiana Bigi. (2021). Recent advances in non-specific immune memory against bovine tuberculosis. Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 75. 101615–101615. 6 indexed citations
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Lima, Analı́a, Qi Zhang, Federico Carlos Blanco, et al.. (2020). A Phenotypic Characterization of Two Isolates of a Multidrug‐Resistant Outbreak Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Opposite Epidemiological Fitness. BioMed Research International. 2020(1). 4741237–4741237. 1 indexed citations
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Blanco, Federico Carlos, et al.. (2020). Role of PhoPR in the response to stress of Mycobacterium bovis. Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 74. 101593–101593. 7 indexed citations
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Blanco, Federico Carlos, Cristina Lourdes Vázquez, Marina Andrea Forrellad, et al.. (2018). Characterization of the two component regulatory system PhoPR in Mycobacterium bovis. Veterinary Microbiology. 222. 30–38. 12 indexed citations
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López, Beatriz, Federico Carlos Blanco, Marı́a del Carmen Sasiain, et al.. (2017). Single nucleotide polymorphisms may explain the contrasting phenotypes of two variants of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain. Tuberculosis. 103. 28–36. 10 indexed citations
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Patané, José Salvatore Leister, Joaquim Martins, Fabiana Bigi, et al.. (2017). Patterns and Processes of Mycobacterium bovis Evolution Revealed by Phylogenomic Analyses. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(3). 521–535. 18 indexed citations
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Santangelo, Marı́a de la Paz, Adam L. Heuberger, Federico Carlos Blanco, et al.. (2016). Metabolic profile of Mycobacterium smegmatis reveals Mce4 proteins are relevant for cell wall lipid homeostasis. Metabolomics. 12(6). 14 indexed citations
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Bianco, María Verónica, et al.. (2016). Mycobacterium bovis deleted in mce2 and phoP loci protects C57BL/6 mice against tuberculosis. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 10(8). 892–894. 5 indexed citations
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Bianco, María Verónica, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of Mycobacterium bovis double knockout mce2-phoP as candidate vaccine against bovine tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 95(2). 186–189. 13 indexed citations
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Bianco, María Verónica, Federico Carlos Blanco, Marina Andrea Forrellad, et al.. (2011). Knockout mutation ofp27-p55operon severely reduces replication ofMycobacterium bovisin a macrophagic cell line and survival in a mouse model of infection. Virulence. 2(3). 233–237. 15 indexed citations
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Meikle, Virginia, María Verónica Bianco, Federico Carlos Blanco, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of pathogenesis caused in cattle and guinea pig by a Mycobacterium bovisstrain isolated from wild boar. BMC Veterinary Research. 7(1). 37–37. 19 indexed citations
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Klepp, Laura Inés, Marcelo Soria, Federico Carlos Blanco, et al.. (2009). Identification of two proteins that interact with the Erp virulence factor from Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using the bacterial two-hybrid system. BMC Molecular Biology. 10(1). 3–3. 21 indexed citations
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García, Julia Sabio y, Marisa Farber, Silvio Cravero, et al.. (2008). Expression of Babesia bovis rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP1) in Brucella abortus S19. Microbes and Infection. 10(6). 635–641. 6 indexed citations
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García‐Pelayo, M. Carmen, Karina Caimi, Jacqueline Inwald, et al.. (2004). Microarray analysis of Mycobacterium microti reveals deletion of genes encoding PE-PPE proteins and ESAT-6 family antigens. Tuberculosis. 84(3-4). 159–166. 25 indexed citations

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