Francesca Luca

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Francesca Luca is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Luca has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Luca's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Francesca Luca is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Francesca Luca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Francesca Luca's co-authors include Roger Piqué-Regi, Xiaoquan Wen, Anna Di Rienzo, Adnan Alazizi, George H. Perry, Adi L. Tarca, Yaozhu Leng, Nardhy Gomez‐Lopez, Yi Xu and Roberto Romero and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Luca

61 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Single cell transcriptional signatures of the human placenta in term and preterm parturition

2019 228 citations Roger Piqué-Regi, Francesca Luca et al. eLife profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Luca United States	26	1.1k	846	408	344	204	63	2.5k
Nadereh Jafari United States	22	1.9k 1.7×	625 0.7×	398 1.0×	224 0.7×	346 1.7×	32	3.0k
M. Geoffrey Hayes United States	33	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	202 0.5×	314 0.9×	132 0.6×	95	3.9k
Janet P. Hapgood South Africa	33	786 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	683 1.7×	107 0.3×	236 1.2×	81	3.1k
Maris Laan Estonia	32	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	432 1.1×	439 1.3×	285 1.4×	108	3.3k
Joshua Starmer United States	28	1.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	359 0.9×	59 0.2×	356 1.7×	43	3.1k
Fabian Müller Germany	22	3.1k 2.7×	873 1.0×	260 0.6×	114 0.3×	436 2.1×	28	4.0k
Tuuli Lappalainen United States	32	2.3k 2.1×	2.1k 2.4×	411 1.0×	85 0.2×	449 2.2×	60	4.5k
Asta Laiho Finland	25	1.8k 1.6×	476 0.6×	136 0.3×	76 0.2×	295 1.4×	65	2.7k
Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom	29	1.3k 1.2×	1.9k 2.2×	149 0.4×	79 0.2×	209 1.0×	74	3.9k
Yvette Huet United States	25	572 0.5×	474 0.6×	1.2k 2.9×	314 0.9×	79 0.4×	50	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesca Luca

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Luca

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ferrero, Giulio, Maria Dafne Cardamone, Francesca Luca, et al.. (2025). Nonproteolytic ubiquitination regulates chromatin occupancy by the NCoR/SMRT/HDAC3 corepressor complex in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(18). e2502805122–e2502805122. 1 indexed citations

Witonsky, David, Adnan Alazizi, Nicole Noren Hooten, et al.. (2025). Living in poverty is associated with gene expression changes in immune cells. Genetics. 230(3). 1 indexed citations

Chiou, Joshua, Francesca Luca, Roger Piqué-Regi, et al.. (2025). Multi-INTACT: integrative analysis of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome identifies causal mechanisms of complex traits. Genome biology. 26(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

Luca, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Genotype × environment interactions in gene regulation and complex traits. Nature Genetics. 56(6). 1057–1068. 14 indexed citations

Richards, Allison L., Katherine Rhodes, Michelle C. Ward, et al.. (2021). Functional dynamic genetic effects on gene regulation are specific to particular cell types and environmental conditions. eLife. 10. 34 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinjun, Yen‐Lung Lin, Cynthia A. Kalita, et al.. (2021). A signature of Neanderthal introgression on molecular mechanisms of environmental responses. PLoS Genetics. 17(9). e1009493–e1009493. 9 indexed citations

Muehlbauer, Amanda L., Allison L. Richards, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2021). Interspecies variation in hominid gut microbiota controls host gene regulation. Cell Reports. 37(8). 110057–110057. 10 indexed citations

Richards, Allison L., Adnan Alazizi, N. Hauff, et al.. (2019). Interpreting Coronary Artery Disease Risk Through Gene–Environment Interactions in Gene Regulation. Genetics. 213(2). 651–663. 16 indexed citations

Quick, Corbin, et al.. (2019). BAGSE: a Bayesian hierarchical model approach for gene set enrichment analysis. Bioinformatics. 36(6). 1689–1695. 6 indexed citations

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Jaster, Alaina M., Philip D. Olson, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2019). Differentially expressed gene networks, biomarkers, long noncoding RNAs, and shared responses with cocaine identified in the midbrains of human opioid abusers. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1534–1534. 29 indexed citations

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Farrell, Allison K., et al.. (2018). Socioeconomic status, family negative emotional climate, and anti-inflammatory gene expression among youth with asthma. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 91. 62–67. 22 indexed citations

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Kalita, Cynthia A., Gregory A. Moyerbrailean, Andrew Brown, et al.. (2017). QuASAR-MPRA: accurate allele-specific analysis for massively parallel reporter assays. Bioinformatics. 34(5). 787–794. 18 indexed citations

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Richards, Allison L., Donovan Watza, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2017). Environmental perturbations lead to extensive directional shifts in RNA processing. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1006995–e1006995. 27 indexed citations

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Richards, Allison L., Michael B. Burns, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2016). Genetic and Transcriptional Analysis of Human Host Response to Healthy Gut Microbiota. mSystems. 1(4). 35 indexed citations

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Moyerbrailean, Gregory A., Allison L. Richards, Daniel Kurtz, et al.. (2016). High-throughput allele-specific expression across 250 environmental conditions. Genome Research. 26(12). 1627–1638. 71 indexed citations

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Harvey, Chris T., et al.. (2014). QuASAR: quantitative allele-specific analysis of reads. Bioinformatics. 31(8). 1235–1242. 54 indexed citations

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Maranville, Joseph, Francesca Luca, Allison L. Richards, et al.. (2011). Interactions between Glucocorticoid Treatment and Cis-Regulatory Polymorphisms Contribute to Cellular Response Phenotypes. PLoS Genetics. 7(7). e1002162–e1002162. 83 indexed citations

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Luca, Francesca, Richard R. Hudson, David Witonsky, & Anna Di Rienzo. (2011). A reduced representation approach to population genetic analyses and applications to human evolution. Genome Research. 21(7). 1087–1098. 41 indexed citations

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Molinari, S., Francesca Luca, F. Lamberti, & Claudia Giorgi. (1997). MOLECULAR METHODS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF LONGIDORID NEMATODES. Nematologia mediterranea. 25(1). 55–61. 11 indexed citations

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Giorgi, Claudia, Francesca Luca, M. Finetti‐Sialer, M. Di Vito, & F. Lamberti. (1991). DNA FRAGMENTS AS MOLECULAR PROBES FOR TRE DIAGNOSIS OF PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES. Nematologia mediterranea. 19(1). 131–134. 1 indexed citations

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