Luana Licata

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Luana Licata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luana Licata has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Luana Licata's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (23 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (10 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (7 papers). Luana Licata is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (23 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (10 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (7 papers). Luana Licata collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Luana Licata's co-authors include Gianni Cesareni, Luisa Castagnoli, Livia Perfetto, Daniele Peluso, Leonardo Briganti, Marta Iannuccelli, Elena Santonico, Alberto Calderone, Francesca Sacco and Anita Palma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Luana Licata

47 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

MINT, the molecular interaction database: 2012 update

2011 792 citations Luana Licata, Leonardo Briganti et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luana Licata Italy	17	1.9k	464	183	162	157	49	2.3k
Nurcan Tunçbağ Türkiye	22	1.9k 1.0×	530 1.1×	204 1.1×	128 0.8×	196 1.2×	50	2.4k
Livia Perfetto Italy	17	2.0k 1.1×	452 1.0×	146 0.8×	142 0.9×	133 0.8×	43	2.3k
Kristina Hanspers United States	19	2.3k 1.3×	255 0.5×	450 2.5×	274 1.7×	210 1.3×	25	3.1k
Michael Livstone United States	9	2.2k 1.2×	380 0.8×	168 0.9×	295 1.8×	94 0.6×	10	2.8k
Thomas Kelder Netherlands	18	1.6k 0.9×	225 0.5×	236 1.3×	199 1.2×	126 0.8×	30	2.3k
Jasmin Coulombe‐Huntington Canada	17	2.2k 1.2×	270 0.6×	233 1.3×	228 1.4×	259 1.6×	28	2.7k
Christie Chang United States	11	2.9k 1.6×	505 1.1×	279 1.5×	315 1.9×	223 1.4×	13	3.5k
Martina Kutmon Netherlands	17	1.4k 0.8×	176 0.4×	325 1.8×	218 1.3×	138 0.9×	51	2.1k
Jérôme Wojcik Switzerland	18	1.8k 1.0×	238 0.5×	68 0.4×	222 1.4×	109 0.7×	41	2.6k
Lara O’Donnell Canada	6	2.5k 1.3×	381 0.8×	259 1.4×	254 1.6×	344 2.2×	7	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luana Licata

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20 of 20 papers shown

Surdo, Prisca Lo, Marta Iannuccelli, Klas Karis, et al.. (2025). SIGNOR 4.0: the 2025 update with focus on phosphorylation data. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D682–D690. 1 indexed citations

Panneerselvam, Kalpana, Krishna Kumar Tiwari, Luana Licata, et al.. (2025). Mining Alzheimer's Interactomes, Macromolecular Complexes and Pathways for Drug Discovery. PROTEOMICS. 25(21-22). 102–150.

Oostrum, Marc van, Danish Memon, Fabian Frommelt, et al.. (2025). A tissue-specific atlas of protein–protein associations enables prioritization of candidate disease genes. Nature Biotechnology. 4 indexed citations

Licata, Luana, et al.. (2024). Lipoleiomyosarcoma with pleomorphic liposarcoma of the uterus: Computed tomography findings with pathological correlation. A case report and review of literature. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19(11). 5474–5480.

Panneerselvam, Kalpana, Pablo Porras, Margaret Duesbury, et al.. (2023). The landscape of microRNA interaction annotation: analysis of three rare disorders as a case study. Database. 2023. 3 indexed citations

Perfetto, Livia, Elisa Micarelli, Marta Iannuccelli, et al.. (2021). A Resource for the Network Representation of Cell Perturbations Caused by SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Genes. 12(3). 450–450. 4 indexed citations

Palma, Alessandro, Marta Iannuccelli, Luana Licata, et al.. (2021). Integrating Patient-Specific Information into Logic Models of Complex Diseases: Application to Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 11(2). 117–117. 5 indexed citations

Perfetto, Livia, Chiara Pastrello, Noemí del‐Toro, et al.. (2020). The IMEx coronavirus interactome: an evolving map of Coronaviridae –host molecular interactions. Database. 2020. 25 indexed citations

Perfetto, Livia, Márcio Luís Acencio, Glyn Bradley, et al.. (2019). CausalTAB: the PSI-MITAB 2.8 updated format for signalling data representation and dissemination. Bioinformatics. 35(19). 3779–3785. 20 indexed citations

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Palma, Alessandro, Andrea Cerquone Perpetuini, Claudia Fuoco, et al.. (2019). Myo-REG: A Portal for Signaling Interactions in Muscle Regeneration. Frontiers in Physiology. 10. 1216–1216. 9 indexed citations

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Surdo, Prisca Lo, Alberto Calderone, Marta Iannuccelli, et al.. (2017). DISNOR: a disease network open resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D527–D534. 31 indexed citations

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Famà, Fausto, et al.. (2016). Late recurrent cutaneous breast angiosarcoma in an elderly woman: A case report. Oncology Letters. 11(5). 3247–3250. 1 indexed citations

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Licata, Luana & Sandra Orchard. (2016). The MIntAct Project and Molecular Interaction Databases. Methods in molecular biology. 1415. 55–69. 13 indexed citations

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Ieni, Antonio, Valeria Barresi, Luana Licata, et al.. (2016). The micropapillary/hobnail variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: A review of series described in the literature compared to a series from one southern Italy pathology institution. Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. 17(4). 521–527. 32 indexed citations

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Marino, Fabio, et al.. (2016). Angioleiomyoma in a conger (Conger conger). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 119(1). 85–89. 16 indexed citations

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Licata, Luana, et al.. (2014). Clear Cell Sarcoma Of Metatarsus. Folia Medica. 56(4). 271–274. 5 indexed citations

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Licata, Luana, Leonardo Briganti, Daniele Peluso, et al.. (2011). MINT, the molecular interaction database: 2012 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D857–D861. 792 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carducci, Martina, Luana Licata, Daniele Peluso, Luisa Castagnoli, & Gianni Cesareni. (2009). Enriching the viral–host interactomes with interactions mediated by SH3 domains. Amino Acids. 38(5). 1541–1547. 6 indexed citations

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Savettieri, Giovanni, Italia Di Liegro, Caterina Catania, et al.. (2000). Neurons and ECM regulate occludin localization in brain endothelial cells. Neuroreport. 11(5). 1081–1084. 95 indexed citations

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Gadducci, Angiolo, M Ferdeghini, Luana Licata, et al.. (1990). The combined evaluation of ultrasound, serum CA125 assay and serum CA19-9 assay in discriminating a benign from a malignant ovarian mass.. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 3(5). 252–257. 1 indexed citations

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