Luca Pandolfini

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Luca Pandolfini is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Pandolfini has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Luca Pandolfini's work include RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (9 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Luca Pandolfini is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (9 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Luca Pandolfini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Luca Pandolfini's co-authors include Tony Kouzarides, Isaia Barbieri, Valentina Migliori, Samuel C. Robson, Alan G. Hendrick, Andrew J. Bannister, Konstantinos Tzelepis, Namshik Han, Gonzalo Millán-Zambrano and Demetrios Aspris and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Luca Pandolfini

22 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Promoter-bound METTL3 maintains myeloid leukaemia by m6A-dependent translation control

2017 815 citations Isaia Barbieri, Konstantinos Tzelepis et al. Nature profile →
METTL1 Promotes let-7 MicroRNA Processing via m7G Methylation

2019 349 citations Luca Pandolfini, Isaia Barbieri et al. Molecular Cell profile →
RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing

2021 246 citations Adrien Léger, Paulo Amaral et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Pandolfini Italy	13	1.7k	862	160	88	50	24	1.9k
Irmgard U. Haussmann United Kingdom	16	1.3k 0.8×	511 0.6×	235 1.5×	68 0.8×	38 0.8×	29	1.5k
Joachim A.F. Oude Vrielink Netherlands	7	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	65 0.4×	170 1.9×	68 1.4×	9	2.5k
Bastian Linder Germany	9	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	282 1.8×	117 1.3×	59 1.2×	10	2.4k
Oren Ram Israel	13	1.5k 0.8×	226 0.3×	42 0.3×	101 1.1×	27 0.5×	23	1.7k
Kathleen R. Nevis United States	16	947 0.5×	189 0.2×	66 0.4×	149 1.7×	46 0.9×	18	1.1k
Gabriel A. Pratt United States	19	3.0k 1.7×	624 0.7×	20 0.1×	67 0.8×	69 1.4×	21	3.2k
Amy Pandya‐Jones United States	12	2.1k 1.2×	952 1.1×	85 0.5×	57 0.6×	31 0.6×	13	2.3k
Kyu‐Hyeon Yeom United States	12	1.4k 0.8×	969 1.1×	11 0.1×	31 0.4×	22 0.4×	14	1.6k
Alexa Burger Switzerland	17	902 0.5×	132 0.2×	16 0.1×	109 1.2×	49 1.0×	30	1.2k
Sopheak Sim United States	7	1.1k 0.7×	236 0.3×	14 0.1×	224 2.5×	75 1.5×	10	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Pandolfini

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Santos-Rosa, Helena, Martina Palomba, Stefania Girotto, et al.. (2025). METTL9 sustains vertebrate neural development primarily via non-catalytic functions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7051–7051.

Gustincich, Stefano, et al.. (2025). Dual inhibition of MAPK/ERK and BMP signaling induces entorhinal-like identity in mouse ESC-derived pallial progenitors. Stem Cell Reports. 20(2). 102387–102387. 1 indexed citations

Crocco, Elizabeth, Luca Pandolfini, Marcello Ferro, et al.. (2025). A proper excitatory/inhibitory ratio is required to develop synchronized network activity in mouse cortical cultures. Stem Cell Reports. 20(10). 102646–102646.

Mangoni, Damiano, Anna P. Mazzetti, Alessandro Simi, et al.. (2024). From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs. BioEssays. 47(2). e2400125–e2400125. 2 indexed citations

Pandolfini, Luca, Tom Brown, Andrei Rozanski, et al.. (2024). A comparative analysis of planarian genomes reveals regulatory conservation in the face of rapid structural divergence. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8215–8215. 10 indexed citations

Mangoni, Damiano, Alessandro Simi, Pierre Lau, et al.. (2023). LINE-1 regulates cortical development by acting as long non-coding RNAs. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4974–4974. 22 indexed citations

Alendar, Andrej, Gloria Ros, Francesca Persichetti, et al.. (2023). SINEUP non-coding RNA activity depends on specific N6-methyladenosine nucleotides. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 32. 402–414. 4 indexed citations

Valentini, Paola, Elsa Zacco, Damiano Mangoni, et al.. (2022). Towards SINEUP-based therapeutics: Design of an in vitro synthesized SINEUP RNA. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 27. 1092–1102. 7 indexed citations

Santos-Rosa, Helena, Gonzalo Millán-Zambrano, Namshik Han, et al.. (2021). Methylation of histone H3 at lysine 37 by Set1 and Set2 prevents spurious DNA replication. Molecular Cell. 81(13). 2793–2807.e8. 19 indexed citations

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Pandolfini, Luca, Irene Appolloni, Keagan Dunville, et al.. (2021). A eutherian-specific microRNA controls the translation of Satb2 in a model of cortical differentiation. Stem Cell Reports. 16(6). 1496–1509. 7 indexed citations

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Léger, Adrien, Paulo Amaral, Luca Pandolfini, et al.. (2021). RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7198–7198. 246 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pandolfini, Luca, Isaia Barbieri, Andrew J. Bannister, et al.. (2019). METTL1 Promotes let-7 MicroRNA Processing via m7G Methylation. Molecular Cell. 74(6). 1278–1290.e9. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amaral, Paulo, Tommaso Leonardi, Namshik Han, et al.. (2018). Genomic positional conservation identifies topological anchor point RNAs linked to developmental loci. Genome biology. 19(1). 32–32. 93 indexed citations

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Bertacchi, Michele, Luca Pandolfini, Mario Baumgart, et al.. (2018). The microRNA miR-21 Is a Mediator of FGF8 Action on Cortical COUP-TFI Translation. Stem Cell Reports. 11(3). 756–769. 9 indexed citations

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Barbieri, Isaia, Konstantinos Tzelepis, Luca Pandolfini, et al.. (2017). Promoter-bound METTL3 maintains myeloid leukaemia by m6A-dependent translation control. Nature. 552(7683). 126–131. 815 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fantini, Marco, Luca Pandolfini, Simonetta Lisi, et al.. (2017). Assessment of antibody library diversity through next generation sequencing and technical error compensation. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177574–e0177574. 17 indexed citations

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Pandolfini, Luca, Ettore Luzi, Dario Bressan, et al.. (2016). RISC-mediated control of selected chromatin regulators stabilizes ground state pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem cells. Genome biology. 17(1). 94–94. 8 indexed citations

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Baumgart, Mario, Stefan Priebe, Marco Groth, et al.. (2016). Longitudinal RNA-Seq Analysis of Vertebrate Aging Identifies Mitochondrial Complex I as a Small-Molecule-Sensitive Modifier of Lifespan. Cell Systems. 2(2). 122–132. 98 indexed citations

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Bertacchi, Michele, Giuseppe Lupo, Luca Pandolfini, et al.. (2015). Activin/Nodal Signaling Supports Retinal Progenitor Specification in a Narrow Time Window during Pluripotent Stem Cell Neuralization. Stem Cell Reports. 5(4). 532–545. 16 indexed citations

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Bertacchi, Michele, Luca Pandolfini, Elisa Murenu, et al.. (2012). The positional identity of mouse ES cell-generated neurons is affected by BMP signaling. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 70(6). 1095–1111. 25 indexed citations

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