Luca Gianfranceschi

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Luca Gianfranceschi is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Gianfranceschi has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Plant Science, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 19 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Luca Gianfranceschi's work include Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (14 papers), Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (14 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (14 papers). Luca Gianfranceschi is often cited by papers focused on Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (14 papers), Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (14 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (14 papers). Luca Gianfranceschi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and United States. Luca Gianfranceschi's co-authors include C. Gessler, Andrea Patocchi, Bernhard Koller, Renato Tarchini, R. Liebhard, Stefano Tartarini, N. Seglias, Eric van de Weg, Boris A. Vinatzer and C. Ryder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luca Gianfranceschi

69 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Pangenome graphs and their applications in biodiversity genomics

2025 18 citations Simona Secomandi, Guido Roberto Gallo et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Luca Gianfranceschi	2.8k	1.1k	1.1k	1.1k	664	71	3.6k
Roberta J. Mason‐Gamer	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	501 0.4×	980 0.9×	451 0.7×	44	2.6k
Paul Arens	2.2k 0.8×	622 0.5×	350 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	125	3.2k
Xiaohong Yao	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	275 0.2×	1.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	67	3.0k
Brian J. Knaus	983 0.3×	390 0.3×	443 0.4×	769 0.7×	760 1.1×	48	2.1k
Norman J. Wickett	3.3k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	244 0.2×	3.0k 2.8×	846 1.3×	61	5.1k
Rick Kesseli	4.7k 1.7×	959 0.8×	440 0.4×	1.8k 1.7×	1.9k 2.9×	52	6.1k
David S. Gernandt	799 0.3×	919 0.8×	572 0.5×	984 0.9×	595 0.9×	62	2.3k
Andrea D. Wolfe	2.1k 0.8×	2.2k 2.0×	198 0.2×	1.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.5×	61	3.8k
Stephan Greiner	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	458 0.4×	3.9k 3.6×	1.0k 1.5×	30	5.0k
Matthew A. Gitzendanner	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	277 0.2×	2.0k 1.8×	1.4k 2.1×	66	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Gianfranceschi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Gianfranceschi

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Secomandi, Simona, Guido Roberto Gallo, Carlos Fernandes, et al.. (2025). Pangenome graphs and their applications in biodiversity genomics. Nature Genetics. 57(1). 13–26. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Onelli, Elisabetta, Lilly Maneta‐Peyret, Patrick Moreau, et al.. (2025). Inhibition of Sterol Biosynthesis Alters Tubulin Association with Detergent-Insoluble Membranes and Affects Microtubule Organization in Pollen Tubes of Nicotiana tabacum L.. Plants. 14(24). 3845–3845.

Gallo, Guido Roberto, et al.. (2024). Campanula bergomensis (Campanulaceae), a new species from Bergamo Prealps (Northern Italy). Phytotaxa. 637(2). 120–132.

Bazzi, Gaia, Jacopo G. Cecere, Luca Gianfranceschi, et al.. (2023). Time trees and clock genes: a systematic review and comparative analysis of contemporary avian migration genetics. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 98(4). 1051–1080. 10 indexed citations

Bonelli, M., Andrea Melotto, Luca Gianfranceschi, et al.. (2020). Manual Sampling and Video Observations: An Integrated Approach to Studying Flower-Visiting Arthropods in High-Mountain Environments. Insects. 11(12). 881–881. 12 indexed citations

Tremolada, Paolo, Emanuele Gatti, Luca Gianfranceschi, et al.. (2020). The otter population of the River Ticino (N Italy) 20 years after its reintroduction. Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano). 13. 51–62. 1 indexed citations

Lelio, Ilaria Di, Anna Illiano, Luca Gianfranceschi, et al.. (2019). Evolution of an insect immune barrier through horizontal gene transfer mediated by a parasitic wasp. PLoS Genetics. 15(3). e1007998–e1007998. 28 indexed citations

Giani, Alice Maria, Guido Roberto Gallo, Luca Gianfranceschi, & Giulio Formenti. (2019). Long walk to genomics: History and current approaches to genome sequencing and assembly. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 18. 9–19. 161 indexed citations

Saino, Nicola, Benedetta Albetti, Roberto Ambrosini, et al.. (2019). Inter-generational resemblance of methylation levels at circadian genes and associations with phenology in the barn swallow. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6505–6505. 8 indexed citations

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Formenti, Giulio, Matteo Chiara, Lucy Poveda, et al.. (2018). SMRT long reads and Direct Label and Stain optical maps allow the generation of a high-quality genome assembly for the European barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica rustica ). GigaScience. 8(1). 27 indexed citations

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Saino, Nicola, Roberto Ambrosini, Benedetta Albetti, et al.. (2017). Migration phenology and breeding success are predicted by methylation of a photoperiodic gene in the barn swallow. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45412–45412. 42 indexed citations

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Bazzi, Gaia, Andrea Galimberti, Ilaria Bruni, et al.. (2016). Adcyap1 polymorphism covaries with breeding latitude in a Nearctic migratory songbird, the Wilson's warbler (Cardellina pusilla). Ecology and Evolution. 6(10). 3226–3239. 14 indexed citations

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Romanò, Andrea, Marco Parolini, Chiara Favero, et al.. (2016). Methylation of the circadian Clock gene in the offspring of a free-living passerine bird increases with maternal and individual exposure to PM10. Environmental Pollution. 220(Pt A). 29–37. 19 indexed citations

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Dell’Acqua, Matteo, Andrea Zuccolo, Metin Tuna, Luca Gianfranceschi, & Mario Enrico Pè. (2014). Targeting environmental adaptation in the monocot model Brachypodium distachyon: a multi-faceted approach. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 801–801. 27 indexed citations

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Caprioli, Manuela, Roberto Ambrosini, Giuseppe Boncoraglio, et al.. (2012). Clock Gene Variation Is Associated with Breeding Phenology and Maybe under Directional Selection in the Migratory Barn Swallow. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35140–e35140. 59 indexed citations

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Costa, Fabrizio, Rob Alba, Henk J. Schouten, et al.. (2010). Use of homologous and heterologous gene expression profiling tools to characterize transcription dynamics during apple fruit maturation and ripening. BMC Plant Biology. 10(1). 229–229. 82 indexed citations

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Silfverberg-Dilworth, E., C. Matasci, Eric van de Weg, et al.. (2006). Microsatellite markers spanning the apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) genome. Tree Genetics & Genomes. 2(4). 202–224. 262 indexed citations

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Silfverberg-Dilworth, E., Stefano Tartarini, Andrea Patocchi, et al.. (2004). The HcrVf2 gene from a wild apple confers scab resistance to a transgenic cultivated variety. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(3). 886–890. 189 indexed citations

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Sansavini, S., Matteo Barbieri, Stefano Tartarini, et al.. (2004). Trasformazione genetica del melo Gala con un gene di resistenza a ticchiolatura. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 66(1). 54–58. 1 indexed citations

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Binelli, Giorgio, Luca Gianfranceschi, Mario Enrico Pè, et al.. (1992). Similarity of maize and sorghum genomes as revealed by maize RFLP probes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 84(1-2). 10–16. 56 indexed citations

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