Francesca M. Buffa

14.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
177 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Francesca M. Buffa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca M. Buffa has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Molecular Biology, 86 papers in Cancer Research and 36 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Francesca M. Buffa's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (50 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (30 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (29 papers). Francesca M. Buffa is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (50 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (30 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (29 papers). Francesca M. Buffa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Francesca M. Buffa's co-authors include Adrian L. Harris, Jiannis Ragoussis, Catharine West, Helen Sheldon, Crispin Miller, Carme Camps, Elena Favaro, Harriet E. Gee, Laura Winchester and Adrian M. Jubb and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Francesca M. Buffa

170 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

hsa-miR-210 Is Induced by Hypoxia and Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Breast Cancer

2008 540 citations Francesca M. Buffa, Helen Sheldon et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
Fatty Acid Uptake and Lipid Storage Induced by HIF-1α Contribute to Cell Growth and Survival after Hypoxia-Reoxygenation

2014 525 citations Simon Lord, Simon Wigfield et al. profile →
Direct targeting of Sec23a by miR-200s influences cancer cell secretome and promotes metastatic colonization

2011 508 citations Francesca M. Buffa, Jiannis Ragoussis et al. profile →
Tumor hypoxia induces nuclear paraspeckle formation through HIF-2α dependent transcriptional activation of NEAT1 leading to cancer cell survival

2014 261 citations Hani Choudhry, Matteo Morotti et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca M. Buffa United Kingdom	46	6.1k	5.1k	1.8k	1.1k	679	177	9.3k
Rob A. Cairns Canada	24	6.1k 1.0×	5.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	697 0.6×	430 0.6×	34	9.9k
Patrick S. Ward United States	20	8.4k 1.4×	6.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	963 0.9×	314 0.5×	26	12.4k
Kounosuke Watabe United States	56	6.8k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	552 0.8×	166	10.0k
Fan Fan United States	53	6.3k 1.0×	3.4k 0.7×	3.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	491 0.7×	150	10.1k
Efthimios Sivridis Greece	55	5.2k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	586 0.9×	245	10.2k
Alberto Villanueva Spain	49	6.6k 1.1×	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	468 0.7×	138	9.9k
Valeria R. Fantin United States	32	6.9k 1.1×	4.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	882 0.8×	250 0.4×	55	11.0k
Feng Jiang United States	50	5.7k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	284 0.4×	134	8.4k
Yulei Wang United States	34	7.7k 1.3×	5.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	853 0.8×	245 0.4×	82	10.6k
Ja Seung Koo South Korea	43	2.7k 0.4×	2.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	807 0.7×	460 0.7×	231	6.3k

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Macaulay, Valentine M., et al.. (2025). GeneFEAST: the pivotal, gene-centric step in functional enrichment analysis interpretation. Bioinformatics. 41(3). 1 indexed citations

Barberis, Alessandro, D. R. Hudson, David A. Harris, et al.. (2025). Defining hypoxia in cancer: A landmark evaluation of hypoxia gene expression signatures. Cell Genomics. 5(2). 100764–100764. 1 indexed citations

Pasqualetti, Francesco, Alessandro Barberis, Nicola Montemurro, et al.. (2023). The impact of survivorship bias in glioblastoma research. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 188. 104065–104065. 14 indexed citations

Pai, Chen‐Chun, Wei‐Chen Cheng, Carol Walker, et al.. (2023). Homologous recombination suppresses transgenerational DNA end resection and chromosomal instability in fission yeast. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(7). 3205–3222. 3 indexed citations

Kaeppler, Jakob, Jianzhou Chen, Mario Buono, et al.. (2022). Endothelial cell death after ionizing radiation does not impair vascular structure in mouse tumor models. EMBO Reports. 23(9). e53221–e53221. 9 indexed citations

Sheldon, Helen, Esther Bridges, Ildefonso Silva, et al.. (2021). ADGRL4/ELTD1 Expression in Breast Cancer Cells Induces Vascular Normalization and Immune Suppression. Molecular Cancer Research. 19(11). 1957–1969. 7 indexed citations

Dhawan, Andrew, Alessandro Barberis, Enric Domingo, et al.. (2019). Guidelines for using sigQC for systematic evaluation of gene signatures. Nature Protocols. 14(5). 1377–1400. 20 indexed citations

Burdová, Kamila, Hongbin Yang, Samuel Hume, et al.. (2019). E2F1 proteolysis via SCF ‐cyclin F underlies synthetic lethality between cyclin F loss and Chk1 inhibition. The EMBO Journal. 38(20). e101443–e101443. 42 indexed citations

Morotti, Matteo, Esther Bridges, Alessandro Valli, et al.. (2019). Hypoxia-induced switch in SNAT2/SLC38A2 regulation generates endocrine resistance in breast cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(25). 12452–12461. 105 indexed citations

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Pajic, Marina, Danielle Froio, Sheridan Daly, et al.. (2017). miR-139-5p Modulates Radiotherapy Resistance in Breast Cancer by Repressing Multiple Gene Networks of DNA Repair and ROS Defense. Cancer Research. 78(2). 501–515. 110 indexed citations

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D’Costa, Zenobia, Keaton Jones, Abul Kalam Azad, et al.. (2017). Gemcitabine-Induced TIMP1 Attenuates Therapy Response and Promotes Tumor Growth and Liver Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Research. 77(21). 5952–5962. 51 indexed citations

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Yang, Lingjian, Janet Taylor, Amanda Eustace, et al.. (2017). A Gene Signature for Selecting Benefit from Hypoxia Modification of Radiotherapy for High-Risk Bladder Cancer Patients. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(16). 4761–4768. 89 indexed citations

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Serres, Sébastien, Paola Infante, Alessandro Barberis, et al.. (2016). SCF (Fbxl17) ubiquitylation of Sufu regulates Hedgehog signaling and medulloblastoma development. The EMBO Journal. 35(13). 1400–1416. 50 indexed citations

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Roxanis, Ioannis, Helen Sheldon, Francesca M. Buffa, et al.. (2015). Combining lapatinib and pertuzumab to overcome lapatinib resistance due to NRG1-mediated signalling in HER2-amplified breast cancer. Oncotarget. 6(8). 5678–5694. 31 indexed citations

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Kumar, Krishan, Simon Wigfield, Harriet E. Gee, et al.. (2013). Dichloroacetate reverses the hypoxic adaptation to bevacizumab and enhances its antitumor effects in mouse xenografts. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 91(6). 749–758. 63 indexed citations

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Eustace, Amanda, Navin Mani, Paul N. Span, et al.. (2013). A 26-Gene Hypoxia Signature Predicts Benefit from Hypoxia-Modifying Therapy in Laryngeal Cancer but Not Bladder Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 19(17). 4879–4888. 167 indexed citations

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Ghazoui, Zara, Francesca M. Buffa, Anita K. Dunbier, et al.. (2011). Close and Stable Relationship between Proliferation and a Hypoxia Metagene in Aromatase Inhibitor–Treated ER-Positive Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 17(9). 3005–3012. 26 indexed citations

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Buffa, Francesca M., Carlos Camps, Laura Winchester, et al.. (2011). microRNA-Associated Progression Pathways and Potential Therapeutic Targets Identified by Integrated mRNA and microRNA Expression Profiling in Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 71(17). 5635–5645. 251 indexed citations

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Winter, Stuart C., Francesca M. Buffa, Craig Miller, et al.. (2009). Relation of a hypoxia metagene derived from head and neck cancer to prognosis of multiple cancers (vol 67, pg 3441, 2007). Cancer Research. 69. 1695–1695.

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Winter, Stuart C., Francesca M. Buffa, Priyamal Silva, et al.. (2007). Relation of a Hypoxia Metagene Derived from Head and Neck Cancer to Prognosis of Multiple Cancers. Cancer Research. 67(7). 3441–3449. 275 indexed citations

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