Ilaria Secco

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 791 citations indexed

About

Ilaria Secco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilaria Secco has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 791 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Surgery and 3 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ilaria Secco's work include Congenital heart defects research (6 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (4 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (3 papers). Ilaria Secco is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (6 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (4 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (3 papers). Ilaria Secco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Ilaria Secco's co-authors include Mauro Giacca, Hashim Ali, Luca Braga, Chiara Collesi, Rossana Bussani, Lorena Zentilin, Lucia Carlucci, Silvia Burchielli, Fabio A. Recchia and Khatia Gabisonia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cardiovascular Research and Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Ilaria Secco

10 papers receiving 785 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

MicroRNA therapy stimulates uncontrolled cardiac repair after myocardial infarction in pigs

2019 355 citations Khatia Gabisonia, Giovanni Donato Aquaro et al. Nature profile →
Drugs that inhibit TMEM16 proteins block SARS-CoV-2 spike-induced syncytia

2021 281 citations Luca Braga, Hashim Ali et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ilaria Secco Italy	7	464	196	167	141	135	10	791
Vikas A. Tillu Australia	15	513 1.1×	50 0.3×	50 0.3×	61 0.4×	66 0.5×	24	819
Zhiqiang Xu China	14	366 0.8×	42 0.2×	56 0.3×	52 0.4×	104 0.8×	46	744
Jianguo Qu China	17	252 0.5×	206 1.1×	42 0.3×	90 0.6×	71 0.5×	50	621
Pertteli Salmenperä Finland	17	250 0.5×	36 0.2×	86 0.5×	123 0.9×	61 0.5×	25	758
Sandip Kumar Patel United States	13	554 1.2×	35 0.2×	59 0.4×	29 0.2×	327 2.4×	24	843
Naif A. M. Almontashiri Saudi Arabia	14	444 1.0×	160 0.8×	125 0.7×	52 0.4×	81 0.6×	43	746
Yumi Itoh Japan	14	265 0.6×	155 0.8×	47 0.3×	28 0.2×	60 0.4×	30	592
Yingji Jin Japan	13	201 0.4×	80 0.4×	52 0.3×	36 0.3×	89 0.7×	30	762
Sam L. Stephen United Kingdom	10	446 1.0×	60 0.3×	77 0.5×	30 0.2×	71 0.5×	14	757
Sai V. Chitti Australia	10	1.0k 2.2×	62 0.3×	31 0.2×	33 0.2×	554 4.1×	18	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilaria Secco

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Gorgodze, Nikoloz, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Khatia Gabisonia, et al.. (2025). Delayed miR-199a Administration After Myocardial Infarction Precludes Pro-Regenerative Effects. JACC Basic to Translational Science. 10(5). 634–649. 1 indexed citations

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Allan, Harriet E., Marilena Crescente, Edoardo Schneider, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein activates TMEM16F-mediated platelet procoagulant activity. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 9. 1013262–1013262. 9 indexed citations

3.

Secco, Ilaria & Mauro Giacca. (2023). Regulation of endogenous cardiomyocyte proliferation: The known unknowns. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 179. 80–89. 23 indexed citations

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Núñez-Toldrà, Raquel, et al.. (2023). Living myocardial slices for the study of nucleic acid-based therapies. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 11. 1275945–1275945. 5 indexed citations

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Ahamad, Shahzaib, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, Mauro Giacca, & Dinesh Gupta. (2022). Anti-Fungal Drug Anidulafungin Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Induced Syncytia Formation by Targeting ACE2-Spike Protein Interaction. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 866474–866474. 16 indexed citations

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Braga, Luca, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, et al.. (2021). Drugs that inhibit TMEM16 proteins block SARS-CoV-2 spike-induced syncytia. Nature. 594(7861). 88–93. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Braga, Luca, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, & Mauro Giacca. (2020). Non-coding RNA therapeutics for cardiac regeneration. Cardiovascular Research. 117(3). 674–693. 68 indexed citations

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Gabisonia, Khatia, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Lucia Carlucci, et al.. (2019). MicroRNA therapy stimulates uncontrolled cardiac repair after myocardial infarction in pigs. Nature. 569(7756). 418–422. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Secco, Ilaria, Lucio Barile, Consuelo Torrini, et al.. (2018). Notch pathway activation enhances cardiosphere in vitro expansion. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 22(11). 5583–5595. 5 indexed citations

10.

Collesi, Chiara, Ilaria Secco, María Inés Gutiérrez, et al.. (2017). Reversible Notch1 acetylation tunes proliferative signalling in cardiomyocytes. Cardiovascular Research. 114(1). 103–122. 28 indexed citations

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