Federica Ungaro

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Federica Ungaro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Federica Ungaro has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Federica Ungaro's work include Inflammatory Bowel Disease (12 papers), Eosinophilic Esophagitis (7 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (7 papers). Federica Ungaro is often cited by papers focused on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (12 papers), Eosinophilic Esophagitis (7 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (7 papers). Federica Ungaro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United States. Federica Ungaro's co-authors include Silvio Danese, Silvia D’Alessio, Luca Massimino, Laurent Peyrin‐Biroulet, Sara Lovisa, Vania Broccoli, Daniele Noviello, Federica Rubbino, Francesco Vito Mandarino and Stefania Vetrano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Nature Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Federica Ungaro

49 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Revisiting fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease: the gut thickens

2021 155 citations Silvia D’Alessio, Federica Ungaro et al. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federica Ungaro Italy	19	646	392	226	163	134	52	1.3k
Andres Hurtado‐Lorenzo United States	13	677 1.0×	340 0.9×	137 0.6×	137 0.8×	72 0.5×	27	1.2k
Christina L. Hirota Canada	16	295 0.5×	248 0.6×	178 0.8×	285 1.7×	99 0.7×	23	1.1k
Nadia A. Ameen United States	27	870 1.3×	225 0.6×	347 1.5×	87 0.5×	130 1.0×	53	1.8k
Ishita Chatterjee United States	20	717 1.1×	163 0.4×	165 0.7×	105 0.6×	123 0.9×	43	1.2k
Rafael Valdés‐Mas Spain	15	1.1k 1.6×	233 0.6×	76 0.3×	175 1.1×	197 1.5×	23	1.8k
Anne Cornet Belgium	17	268 0.4×	402 1.0×	202 0.9×	237 1.5×	70 0.5×	39	1.2k
Lijuan Xu China	25	1.0k 1.6×	88 0.2×	306 1.4×	211 1.3×	100 0.7×	68	1.7k
Badal C. Roy United States	18	652 1.0×	165 0.4×	78 0.3×	87 0.5×	158 1.2×	31	1.0k
Doris Gundersen Norway	24	653 1.0×	240 0.6×	388 1.7×	132 0.8×	77 0.6×	34	1.7k
Amy Lewis United Kingdom	18	371 0.6×	216 0.6×	86 0.4×	253 1.6×	81 0.6×	44	965

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federica Ungaro

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Solitano, Virginia, María Manuela Estevinho, Federica Ungaro, et al.. (2025). TL1A Inhibition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pipeline Review. BioDrugs. 39(2). 171–183. 1 indexed citations

Solitano, Virginia, Jurij Hanžel, María Manuela Estevinho, et al.. (2025). Reaching the therapeutic ceiling in IBD: Can Advanced Combination Treatment (ACT) offer a solution?. Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology. 77. 101981–101981. 8 indexed citations

Bernardi, F, Federica Ungaro, Ferdinando D’Amico, et al.. (2024). The Role of Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Immune-Mediated Gastro-Intestinal Diseases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(15). 8301–8301. 3 indexed citations

Barchi, Alberto, Luca Massimino, Francesco Vito Mandarino, et al.. (2024). Clinical, Histologic, and Safety Outcomes With Long-term Maintenance Therapies for Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 23(11). 1890–1904.e7. 5 indexed citations

Massimino, Luca, et al.. (2024). P057 Caudovirales may trigger molecular mimicry mechanisms in Crohn’s Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 18(Supplement_1). i321–i321. 1 indexed citations

Parigi, Tommaso Lorenzo, Luca Massimino, Roberto Gabbiadini, et al.. (2024). Prevalence, Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Difficult-to-Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 19(3). 5 indexed citations

Tun, Hein M., Ye Peng, Luca Massimino, et al.. (2023). Gut virome in inflammatory bowel disease and beyond. Gut. 73(2). 350–360. 39 indexed citations

Salmeri, Noemi, Emanuele Sinagra, Giovanni Buzzaccarini, et al.. (2023). Microbiota in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Endometriosis: Birds of a Feather Flock Together—A Review. Microorganisms. 11(8). 2089–2089. 23 indexed citations

Conte, Marta Lo, Marynka Ulaszewska, Ilaria Cosorich, et al.. (2023). A diet enriched in omega-3 PUFA and inulin prevents type 1 diabetes by restoring gut barrier integrity and immune homeostasis in NOD mice. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 1089987–1089987. 19 indexed citations

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Napolitano, Maria, Federica Ungaro, Luca Massimino, et al.. (2023). Gut Dysbiosis in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Narrative Review on Correlation with Disease Subtypes and Novel Therapeutic Implications. Microorganisms. 11(10). 2369–2369. 45 indexed citations

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Brusco, Simone, Alessia Salamone, Mirko Luoni, et al.. (2022). Scn1a gene reactivation after symptom onset rescues pathological phenotypes in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 161–161. 36 indexed citations

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Massimino, Luca, Silvia D’Alessio, Laurent Peyrin‐Biroulet, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Transcriptome and Metatranscriptome Meta-Analysis (IBD TaMMA) framework. Nature Computational Science. 1(10). 703–703.

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D’Alessio, Silvia, Federica Ungaro, Daniele Noviello, et al.. (2021). Revisiting fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease: the gut thickens. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 19(3). 169–184. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tacconi, Carlotta, Federica Ungaro, Carmen Correale, et al.. (2019). Activation of the VEGFC/VEGFR3 Pathway Induces Tumor Immune Escape in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 79(16). 4196–4210. 65 indexed citations

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Ungaro, Federica, Piergiuseppe Colombo, Luca Massimino, et al.. (2019). Lymphatic endothelium contributes to colorectal cancer growth via the soluble matrisome component GDF11. International Journal of Cancer. 145(7). 1913–1920. 17 indexed citations

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Petti, Luciana, Giulia Roda, Vincenzo Arena, et al.. (2019). Hyaluronan Accelerates Intestinal Mucosal Healing through Interaction with TSG-6. Cells. 8(9). 1074–1074. 14 indexed citations

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Ungaro, Federica, Luca Massimino, Silvia D’Alessio, & Silvio Danese. (2019). The gut virome in inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis: From metagenomics to novel therapeutic approaches. United European Gastroenterology Journal. 7(8). 999–1007. 47 indexed citations

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Ungaro, Federica, Luca Massimino, Federica Furfaro, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic analysis of intestinal mucosa revealed a specific eukaryotic gut virome signature in early-diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease. Gut Microbes. 10(2). 149–158. 80 indexed citations

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Pellegrini, Silvia, Federica Ungaro, Alessia Mercalli, et al.. (2015). Human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiate into insulin-producing cells able to engraft in vivo. Acta Diabetologica. 52(6). 1025–1035. 30 indexed citations

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Stefano, Bruno Di, Christa Buecker, Federica Ungaro, et al.. (2010). An ES-Like Pluripotent State in FGF-Dependent Murine iPS cells. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e16092–e16092. 15 indexed citations

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