Ligia Craciun

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ligia Craciun is a scholar working on Oncology, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ligia Craciun has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Oncology, 17 papers in Immunology and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ligia Craciun's work include Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (14 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (12 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Ligia Craciun is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (14 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (12 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Ligia Craciun collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and United States. Ligia Craciun's co-authors include Lionel Franz Poulin, Denis Larsimont, Soizic Garaud, Karen Willard‐Gallo, Anaïs Boisson, Vincent Donckier, Alexandre de Wind, Cinzia Solinas, Martine Piccart and Michel Goldman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Ligia Craciun

47 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Characterization of human DNGR-1+ BDCA3+ leukocytes as pu... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Characterization of human DNGR-1+ BDCA3+ leukocytes as putative equivalents of mouse CD8α+ dendritic cells
    2010 531 citations Lionel Franz Poulin, Ligia Craciun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ligia Craciun Belgium 20 1.1k 865 457 224 220 49 2.0k
Sandy Der Canada 15 782 0.7× 626 0.7× 809 1.8× 359 1.6× 342 1.6× 25 2.0k
Alfredo Perales‐Puchalt United States 26 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 999 2.2× 282 1.3× 287 1.3× 71 2.9k
Constantinos P. Zambirinis United States 16 720 0.6× 685 0.8× 466 1.0× 193 0.9× 84 0.4× 26 1.6k
Meijuan Zheng China 20 785 0.7× 435 0.5× 390 0.9× 209 0.9× 123 0.6× 58 1.6k
Katia Beider Israel 26 1.1k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 667 1.5× 176 0.8× 110 0.5× 62 2.2k
Anupam M. Desai United States 7 870 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 357 0.8× 112 0.5× 311 1.4× 11 1.9k
Olga I. Isaeva Netherlands 9 516 0.4× 750 0.9× 773 1.7× 274 1.2× 341 1.6× 12 1.6k
Jonathan S. Maltzman United States 25 1.8k 1.6× 789 0.9× 765 1.7× 137 0.6× 108 0.5× 60 3.0k
Shirley Zhu United States 7 2.3k 2.0× 479 0.6× 478 1.0× 212 0.9× 58 0.3× 8 3.0k
Elie Marcheteau France 12 1.0k 0.9× 1.5k 1.8× 594 1.3× 345 1.5× 466 2.1× 20 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ligia Craciun

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Henry, Nicolás, et al.. (2025). HMGA2 Overexpression in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Promotes Thyroid Cell Dedifferentiation and Invasion, and These Effects Are Counteracted by Suramin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(4). 1643–1643.
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Garaud, Soizic, Anaïs Boisson, Alexandre de Wind, et al.. (2024). Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Scoring in Neoadjuvant-Treated Breast Cancer. Cancers. 16(16). 2895–2895. 2 indexed citations
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Bohlok, Ali, Sophie Vankerckhove, Ligia Craciun, et al.. (2023). Association between primary tumor characteristics and histopathological growth pattern of liver metastases in colorectal cancer. Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. 27(1). S68–S68. 1 indexed citations
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Bohlok, Ali, François Richard, Valério Lucidi, et al.. (2023). Histopathological growth pattern of liver metastases as an independent marker of metastatic behavior in different primary cancers. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1260880–1260880. 4 indexed citations
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Bohlok, Ali, Sophie Vankerckhove, Ligia Craciun, et al.. (2023). Association between primary tumor characteristics and histopathological growth pattern of liver metastases in colorectal cancer. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. 40(5). 431–440. 2 indexed citations
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Craciun, Ligia, Agnieszka Woźniak, Pieter Demetter, et al.. (2022). Ferroptosis Induction and YAP Inhibition as New Therapeutic Targets in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs). Cancers. 14(20). 5050–5050. 14 indexed citations
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Bohlok, Ali, Valério Lucidi, Sophie Vankerckhove, et al.. (2022). Tumor biology reflected by histological growth pattern is more important than surgical margin for the prognosis of patients undergoing resection of colorectal liver metastases. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 49(1). 217–224. 6 indexed citations
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Noel, G. R., Soizic Garaud, Pushpamali De Silva, et al.. (2021). Functional Th1-oriented T follicular helper cells that infiltrate human breast cancer promote effective adaptive immunity. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(19). 115 indexed citations
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Demetter, Pieter, María Gómez Galdón, Ligia Craciun, et al.. (2020). Infiltrative tumour growth pattern correlates with poor outcome in oesophageal cancer. BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 7(1). e000431–e000431. 4 indexed citations
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Corbet, Cyril, Ligia Craciun, Geert Dom, et al.. (2019). Reprogramming of Energy Metabolism: Increased Expression and Roles of Pyruvate Carboxylase in Papillary Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid. 29(6). 845–857. 37 indexed citations
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Garaud, Soizic, Laurence Buisseret, Cinzia Solinas, et al.. (2019). Tumor-infiltrating B cells signal functional humoral immune responses in breast cancer. JCI Insight. 4(18). 229 indexed citations
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Tarabichi, Maxime, Aline Antoniou, David Gacquer, et al.. (2018). Distinctive Desmoplastic 3D Morphology Associated With BRAFV600E in Papillary Thyroid Cancers. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 103(3). 1102–1111. 10 indexed citations
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Saiselet, Manuel, David Gacquer, Ligia Craciun, et al.. (2015). New global analysis of the microRNA transcriptome of primary tumors and lymph node metastases of papillary thyroid cancer. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 828–828. 57 indexed citations
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Garaud, Soizic, Laurence Buisseret, Chunyan Gu‐Trantien, et al.. (2014). Characterization of B Cells Infiltrating Human Breast Cancer. Annals of Oncology. 25. i17–i17. 1 indexed citations
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Craciun, Ligia, Patrick Stordeur, Roberto Troisi, et al.. (2007). A Rapid Test of Alloreactivity Based on Interleukin-2 mRNA Expression Might Identify Liver Transplant Recipients With Donor-Specific Hyporesponsiveness. Transplantation Proceedings. 39(8). 2665–2667. 5 indexed citations
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Craciun, Ligia, et al.. (2007). Apoptosis: A target for potentiation of UV-induced IL-1Ra synthesis by IVIg. Immunology Letters. 110(1). 36–41. 6 indexed citations
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Craciun, Ligia, et al.. (2005). Anti-inflammatory effects of UV-irradiated lymphocytes: induction of IL-1Ra upon phagocytosis by monocyte/macrophages. Clinical Immunology. 114(3). 320–326. 12 indexed citations
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Stordeur, Patrick, Lionel Franz Poulin, Ligia Craciun, et al.. (2002). Cytokine mRNA quantification by real-time PCR. Journal of Immunological Methods. 259(1-2). 55–64. 188 indexed citations

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