Francesco Pampaloni

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Francesco Pampaloni is a scholar working on Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Pampaloni has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Biophysics, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Pampaloni's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (19 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (15 papers). Francesco Pampaloni is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (19 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (15 papers). Francesco Pampaloni collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Francesco Pampaloni's co-authors include Ernst H. K. Stelzer, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, Nariman Ansari, Erwin Frey, Jim Swoger, Gianluca Lattanzi, Alexandr Jonáš, Marco Marcello and Thomas Surrey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Pampaloni

54 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

The third dimension bridges the gap between cell culture and live tissue

2007 2.2k citations Francesco Pampaloni, Emmanuel G. Reynaud et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Pampaloni Germany	26	2.2k	1.5k	943	887	879	54	4.7k
Adrian F. Pegoraro Canada	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	549 0.6×	467 0.5×	49	3.8k
Tatiana B. Krasieva United States	36	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	722 0.8×	571 0.6×	453 0.5×	108	4.3k
Yingxiao Wang United States	43	1.6k 0.7×	2.9k 1.9×	2.4k 2.5×	588 0.7×	839 1.0×	159	6.2k
Wesley R. Legant United States	27	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	2.2k 2.3×	1.1k 1.3×	294 0.3×	47	6.2k
Elliot L. Botvinick United States	32	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	222 0.3×	370 0.4×	78	3.8k
Emad Moeendarbary United Kingdom	31	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	2.3k 2.4×	220 0.2×	889 1.0×	73	4.5k
Irene Georgakoudi United States	47	3.6k 1.6×	2.3k 1.5×	430 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	555 0.6×	161	8.0k
Nancy L. Allbritton United States	49	4.7k 2.1×	3.5k 2.3×	643 0.7×	363 0.4×	999 1.1×	224	8.9k
Ming Guo United States	34	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	170 0.2×	596 0.7×	92	4.6k
Danijela Matic Vignjevic France	38	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	3.5k 3.7×	291 0.3×	1.8k 2.1×	73	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Pampaloni

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Tóth, Tímea, Mária Harmati, István Grexa, et al.. (2025). HCS-3DX, a next-generation AI-driven automated 3D-oid high-content screening system. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8897–8897. 1 indexed citations

Stelzer, Ernst H. K., et al.. (2025). Gravitational forces and matrix stiffness modulate the invasiveness of breast cancer cells in bioprinted spheroids. Materials Today Bio. 31. 101640–101640. 2 indexed citations

Herold‐Mende, Christel, et al.. (2023). Combining organotypic tissue culture with light‐sheet microscopy ( OTCxLSFM ) to study glioma invasion. EMBO Reports. 24(12). e56964–e56964. 7 indexed citations

Torras, Núria, et al.. (2023). Light Sheet‐Based Laser Patterning Bioprinting Produces Long‐Term Viable Full‐Thickness Skin Constructs. Advanced Materials. 36(8). e2306258–e2306258. 17 indexed citations

Tasnádi, Ervin, Tímea Tóth, Mária Kovács, et al.. (2020). 3D-Cell-Annotator: an open-source active surface tool for single-cell segmentation in 3D microscopy images. Bioinformatics. 36(9). 2948–2949. 16 indexed citations

Gebel, Jakob, Marcel Tuppi, A. Chaikuad, et al.. (2020). p63 uses a switch-like mechanism to set the threshold for induction of apoptosis. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(10). 1078–1086. 35 indexed citations

Hötte, Katharina, Michael Koch, Marcel Tuppi, et al.. (2019). Ultra-thin fluorocarbon foils optimise multiscale imaging of three-dimensional native and optically cleared specimens. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17292–17292. 13 indexed citations

Wijk, Sjoerd J. L. van, Franziska Fricke, Lina Herhaus, et al.. (2017). Linear ubiquitination of cytosolic Salmonella Typhimurium activates NF-κB and restricts bacterial proliferation. Nature Microbiology. 2(7). 17066–17066. 138 indexed citations

Pampaloni, Francesco, et al.. (2014). Live Spheroid Formation Recorded with Light Sheet-Based Fluorescence Microscopy. Methods in molecular biology. 1251. 43–57. 19 indexed citations

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Swoger, Jim, Francesco Pampaloni, & Ernst H. K. Stelzer. (2013). Imaging Cellular Spheroids with a Single (Selective) Plane Illumination Microscope. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2014(1). pdb.prot080176–pdb.prot080176. 10 indexed citations

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Wijk, Sjoerd J. L. van, Evgenij Fiškin, Mateusz Putyrski, et al.. (2012). Fluorescence-Based Sensors to Monitor Localization and Functions of Linear and K63-Linked Ubiquitin Chains in Cells. Molecular Cell. 47(5). 797–809. 132 indexed citations

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Pampaloni, Francesco, et al.. (2011). Light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) reduces phototoxic effects and provides new means for the modern life sciences. 80860Y–80860Y. 4 indexed citations

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Pampaloni, Francesco & Ernst H. K. Stelzer. (2009). Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures in Toxicology. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. 26(1). 117–138. 69 indexed citations

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Keller, Philipp, Francesco Pampaloni, Gianluca Lattanzi, & Ernst H. K. Stelzer. (2008). Three-Dimensional Microtubule Behavior in Xenopus Egg Extracts Reveals Four Dynamic States and State-Dependent Elastic Properties. Biophysical Journal. 95(3). 1474–1486. 22 indexed citations

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Pampaloni, Francesco & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2008). Microtubule architecture: inspiration for novel carbon nanotube-based biomimetic materials. Trends in biotechnology. 26(6). 302–310. 95 indexed citations

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Pampaloni, Francesco, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, & Ernst H. K. Stelzer. (2007). The third dimension bridges the gap between cell culture and live tissue. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 8(10). 839–845. 2152 indexed citations breakdown →

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Verveer, Peter J., Jim Swoger, Francesco Pampaloni, et al.. (2007). High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of large specimens with light sheet–based microscopy. Nature Methods. 4(4). 311–313. 273 indexed citations

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Keller, Philipp, Francesco Pampaloni, & Ernst H. K. Stelzer. (2006). Life sciences require the third dimension. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 18(1). 117–124. 76 indexed citations

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Enderlein, Jörg & Francesco Pampaloni. (2004). Unified operator approach for deriving Hermite–Gaussian and Laguerre–Gaussian laser modes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 21(8). 1553–1553. 62 indexed citations

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Kaupp, U. Benjamin, Johannes Solzin, Eilo Hildebrand, et al.. (2003). The signal flow and motor response controling chemotaxis of sea urchin sperm. Nature Cell Biology. 5(2). 109–117. 173 indexed citations

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