Luca Simula

1.1k total citations
28 papers, 782 citations indexed

About

Luca Simula is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Simula has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 782 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cancer Research and 8 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Luca Simula's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (9 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Luca Simula is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (9 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Luca Simula collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Denmark. Luca Simula's co-authors include Silvia Campello, Philippe Icard, Francesca Nazio, Marco Alifano, Antoine Coquerel, Hubert Lincet, Michelangelo Campanella, Zherui Wu, Francesco Cecconi and Anthea Di Rita and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luca Simula

28 papers receiving 777 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Simula France 17 466 231 177 154 142 28 782
Houjie Liang China 19 459 1.0× 215 0.9× 115 0.6× 238 1.5× 108 0.8× 36 862
Sun Mi Hong South Korea 13 391 0.8× 139 0.6× 115 0.6× 115 0.7× 129 0.9× 21 619
Shamir Cassim France 14 407 0.9× 281 1.2× 116 0.7× 149 1.0× 78 0.5× 17 696
Daniel M. Kremer United States 8 706 1.5× 465 2.0× 147 0.8× 337 2.2× 216 1.5× 9 1.1k
Lin Cai China 18 557 1.2× 376 1.6× 100 0.6× 97 0.6× 156 1.1× 39 1.0k
Xiphias Ge Zhu United States 7 516 1.1× 307 1.3× 65 0.4× 90 0.6× 69 0.5× 7 719
Trang Nguyen United States 19 786 1.7× 284 1.2× 84 0.5× 162 1.1× 110 0.8× 42 1.2k
Georg Gdynia Germany 14 510 1.1× 206 0.9× 147 0.8× 224 1.5× 97 0.7× 22 860
Xiaohui Pan China 16 517 1.1× 306 1.3× 188 1.1× 217 1.4× 50 0.4× 27 853

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Simula

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Simula

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Simula

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Icard, Philippe, Marco Alifano, & Luca Simula. (2025). Citrate oscillations during cell cycle are a targetable vulnerability in cancer cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1880(3). 189313–189313. 1 indexed citations
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Trinath, Jamma, Luca Simula, Franck Letourneur, et al.. (2025). Inhibition of Atg7 in intestinal epithelial cells drives resistance against Citrobacter rodentium. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 112–112. 1 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, et al.. (2024). Hyaluronan-based hydrogel delivering glucose to mesenchymal stem cells intended to treat osteoarthritis. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 657. 124139–124139. 4 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe, Antoine Coquerel, Ludovic Fournel, et al.. (2024). Why and how citrate may sensitize malignant tumors to immunotherapy. Drug Resistance Updates. 78. 101177–101177. 6 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe, Marco Alifano, & Luca Simula. (2023). The potential for citrate to reinforce epigenetic therapy by promoting apoptosis. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 34(10). 586–589. 4 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Fathia Mami‐Chouaib, Georges Bismuth, et al.. (2023). FOXO1 Inhibition Generates Potent Nonactivated CAR T Cells against Solid Tumors. Cancer Immunology Research. 11(11). 1508–1523. 8 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe, Luca Simula, Grit Zahn, Marco Alifano, & Maria E. Mycielska. (2023). The dual role of citrate in cancer. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1878(6). 188987–188987. 14 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe & Luca Simula. (2022). Metabolic oscillations during cell-cycle progression. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 33(7). 447–450. 17 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe, Luca Simula, Ludovic Fournel, et al.. (2022). The strategic roles of four enzymes in the interconnection between metabolism and oncogene activation in non-small cell lung cancer: Therapeutic implications. Drug Resistance Updates. 63. 100852–100852. 43 indexed citations
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Icard, Philippe, Marco Alifano, Emmanuel Donnadieu, & Luca Simula. (2021). Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate promotes PI3K and glycolysis in T cells?. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 32(8). 540–543. 19 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Valeria Cancila, Alessandra Colamatteo, et al.. (2021). PD‐1‐induced T cell exhaustion is controlled by a Drp1‐dependent mechanism. Molecular Oncology. 16(1). 188–205. 31 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Mauro Corrado, Benedetta Accordi, et al.. (2020). JNK1 and ERK1/2 modulate lymphocyte homeostasis via BIM and DRP1 upon AICD induction. Cell Death and Differentiation. 27(10). 2749–2767. 25 indexed citations
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D’Acunzo, Pasquale, Flavie Strappazzon, Ignazio Caruana, et al.. (2019). Reversible induction of mitophagy by an optogenetic bimodular system. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1533–1533. 32 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Michelangelo Campanella, & Silvia Campello. (2019). Targeting Drp1 and mitochondrial fission for therapeutic immune modulation. Pharmacological Research. 146. 104317–104317. 49 indexed citations
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Caruana, Ignazio, Luca Simula, Franco Locatelli, & Silvia Campello. (2018). T lymphocytes against solid malignancies: winning ways to defeat tumours. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(8). 200–212. 21 indexed citations
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Zampini, Matteo, Claudia Tregnago, Valéria Bisio, et al.. (2018). Epigenetic heterogeneity affects the risk of relapse in children with t(8;21)RUNX1-RUNX1T1-rearranged AML. Leukemia. 32(5). 1124–1134. 17 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca & Silvia Campello. (2018). Monitoring the Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mammalian Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 1782. 267–285. 16 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Ilenia Pacella, Alessandra Colamatteo, et al.. (2018). Drp1 Controls Effective T Cell Immune-Surveillance by Regulating T Cell Migration, Proliferation, and cMyc-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming. Cell Reports. 25(11). 3059–3073.e10. 98 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Francesca Nazio, & Silvia Campello. (2017). The mitochondrial dynamics in cancer and immune-surveillance. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 47. 29–42. 85 indexed citations
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Simula, Luca, Ilenia Pellarin, Silvia Pegoraro, et al.. (2016). Hmga2 is required for neural crest cell specification in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Biology. 411(1). 25–37. 19 indexed citations

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