Giovanni Palla

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
10 papers, 765 citations indexed

About

Giovanni Palla is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanni Palla has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 765 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Rheumatology and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Giovanni Palla's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (3 papers). Giovanni Palla is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (3 papers). Giovanni Palla collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Giovanni Palla's co-authors include Fabian J. Theis, David S. Fischer, Aviv Regev, Michal Klein, Sabrina Richter, Mohammad Lotfollahi, Sergei Rybakov, Ignacio L. Ibarra, Isaac Virshup and Hannah Spitzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Palla

10 papers receiving 758 citations

Hit Papers

Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2022 2025 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. Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis
    2022 417 citations Giovanni Palla, Hannah Spitzer et al. Nature Methods profile →
  2. Spatial components of molecular tissue biology
    2022 174 citations Giovanni Palla, David S. Fischer et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  3. Mapping cells through time and space with moscot
    2025 24 citations Dominik Klein, Giovanni Palla et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Giovanni Palla
Luli S. Zou United States
Sergei Rybakov United States
Mingyu Yang China
Andrew Earl United States
Anna C. Schaar Germany
Michaela Asp Sweden
Lambda Moses United States
Olle Holmberg Germany
Helena L. Crowell Switzerland
Luli S. Zou United States
Giovanni Palla
Citations per year, relative to Giovanni Palla Giovanni Palla (= 1×) peers Luli S. Zou

Countries citing papers authored by Giovanni Palla

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giovanni Palla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giovanni Palla

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Schaar, Anna C., Robert M. Gutgesell, Giovanni Palla, et al.. (2025). Nicheformer: a foundation model for single-cell and spatial omics. Nature Methods. 22(12). 2525–2538. 2 indexed citations
2.
Klein, Dominik, Giovanni Palla, Marius Lange, et al.. (2025). Mapping cells through time and space with moscot. Nature. 638(8052). 1065–1075. 24 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hediyeh-zadeh, Soroor, Tim Treis, Karin Hrovatin, et al.. (2024). GraphCompass: spatial metrics for differential analyses of cell organization across conditions. Bioinformatics. 40(Supplement_1). i548–i557. 1 indexed citations
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Aizarani, Nadim, Ilya Lukonin, Raphaël Ortiz, et al.. (2023). Multimodal characterization of murine gastruloid development. Cell stem cell. 30(6). 867–884.e11. 36 indexed citations
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Arnold, Christian, Annique Claringbould, Nila H. Servaas, et al.. (2023). GRaNIE and GRaNPA : inference and evaluation of enhancer‐mediated gene regulatory networks. Molecular Systems Biology. 19(6). e11627–e11627. 31 indexed citations
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Palla, Giovanni, Hannah Spitzer, Michal Klein, et al.. (2022). Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis. Nature Methods. 19(2). 171–178. 417 indexed citations breakdown →
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Palla, Giovanni, David S. Fischer, Aviv Regev, & Fabian J. Theis. (2022). Spatial components of molecular tissue biology. Nature Biotechnology. 40(3). 308–318. 174 indexed citations breakdown →
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Palla, Giovanni & Enrico Ferrero. (2020). Latent Factor Modeling of scRNA-Seq Data Uncovers Dysregulated Pathways in Autoimmune Disease Patients. iScience. 23(9). 101451–101451. 4 indexed citations
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Berest, Ivan, Christian Arnold, Armando Reyes‐Palomares, et al.. (2019). Quantification of Differential Transcription Factor Activity and Multiomics-Based Classification into Activators and Repressors: diffTF. Cell Reports. 29(10). 3147–3159.e12. 59 indexed citations
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Hoogen, Lucas L. van den, Giovanni Palla, Cornelis P. J. Bekker, et al.. (2018). Increased B-cell activating factor (BAFF)/B-lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) in primary antiphospholipid syndrome is associated with higher adjusted global antiphospholipid syndrome scores. RMD Open. 4(2). e000693–e000693. 17 indexed citations

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