Luigi Franchi

111 total papers · 22.2k total citations
75 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Luigi Franchi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luigi Franchi has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Immunology and 10 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Luigi Franchi's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (45 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (26 papers) and interferon and immune responses (7 papers). Luigi Franchi is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (45 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (26 papers) and interferon and immune responses (7 papers). Luigi Franchi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Luigi Franchi's co-authors include Gabriel Núñez, Raúl Muñoz-Planillo, Tatjana Eigenbrod, Thirumala‐Devi Kanneganti, Veit Hornung, Franz Bauernfeind, Amal O. Amer, Mathilde Body–Malapel, Jong‐Hwan Park and Naohiro Inohara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luigi Franchi

74 papers receiving 16.8k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. NLRP3 inflammasomes are required for atherogenesis and activated by cholesterol crystals
    2010 3.0k citations Peter Duewell, Hajime Kono et al. Nature profile →
  2. The inflammasome: a caspase-1-activation platform that regulates immune responses and disease pathogenesis
    2009 1.5k citations Luigi Franchi, Tatjana Eigenbrod et al. Nature Immunology profile →
  3. Cytosolic flagellin requires Ipaf for activation of caspase-1 and interleukin 1β in salmonella-infected macrophages
    2006 949 citations Luigi Franchi, Amal O. Amer et al. Nature Immunology profile →
  4. Bacterial RNA and small antiviral compounds activate caspase-1 through cryopyrin/Nalp3
    2006 933 citations Thirumala‐Devi Kanneganti, Nesrin Özören et al. Nature profile →
  5. Sensing and reacting to microbes through the inflammasomes
    2012 853 citations Luigi Franchi, Raúl Muñoz-Planillo et al. Nature Immunology profile →
  6. Function of Nod‐like receptors in microbial recognition and host defense
    2008 676 citations Luigi Franchi, Neil Warner et al. Immunological Reviews profile →
  7. Critical Role for Cryopyrin/Nalp3 in Activation of Caspase-1 in Response to Viral Infection and Double-stranded RNA
    2006 568 citations Thirumala‐Devi Kanneganti, Mathilde Body–Malapel et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  8. Cutting Edge: Reactive Oxygen Species Inhibitors Block Priming, but Not Activation, of the NLRP3 Inflammasome
    2011 529 citations Franz Bauernfeind, Eva Bartok et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →
  9. Cutting Edge: TNF-α Mediates Sensitization to ATP and Silica via the NLRP3 Inflammasome in the Absence of Microbial Stimulation
    2009 487 citations Luigi Franchi, Tatjana Eigenbrod et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Luigi Franchi 11.5k 8.7k 2.3k 1.9k 1.2k 75 17.0k
John Bertin 14.0k 1.2× 11.0k 1.3× 2.7k 1.2× 1.9k 1.0× 893 0.8× 127 21.3k
Mohamed Lamkanfi 16.7k 1.5× 10.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.3× 2.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 108 22.4k
Fayyaz S. Sutterwala 8.8k 0.8× 7.3k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 118 15.4k
Kim Newton 11.9k 1.0× 7.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 787 0.7× 77 15.8k
Petr Brož 10.9k 1.0× 6.0k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 92 14.3k
Edward A. Miao 9.4k 0.8× 5.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 967 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 86 13.5k
Egil Lien 7.1k 0.6× 11.5k 1.3× 4.1k 1.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 132 19.7k
Kate Schroder 14.3k 1.2× 9.8k 1.1× 3.6k 1.5× 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 143 23.5k
Vijay Rathinam 8.1k 0.7× 5.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 967 0.5× 796 0.7× 73 12.0k
Brian G. Monks 7.0k 0.6× 8.5k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 865 0.4× 867 0.7× 53 14.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luigi Franchi

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

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