Malin Åkerfelt

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Malin Åkerfelt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Malin Åkerfelt has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Malin Åkerfelt's work include Heat shock proteins research (10 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (6 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (5 papers). Malin Åkerfelt is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (10 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (6 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (5 papers). Malin Åkerfelt collaborates with scholars based in Finland, France and Poland. Malin Åkerfelt's co-authors include Lea Sistonen, Richard I. Morimoto, Matthias Nees, Elisabeth Christians, Anniina Vihervaara, Eva Henriksson, Mikael C. Puustinen, Asta Laiho, Johanna Björk and Caroline Jolly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Malin Åkerfelt

25 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

Heat shock factors: integrators of cell stress, development and lifespan

2010 1.1k citations Malin Åkerfelt, Richard I. Morimoto et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malin Åkerfelt Finland	17	1.7k	525	316	208	186	25	2.3k
Carina I. Holmberg Finland	21	1.6k 0.9×	558 1.1×	373 1.2×	198 1.0×	154 0.8×	42	2.1k
Toumy Guettouche United States	12	1.7k 1.0×	429 0.8×	180 0.6×	147 0.7×	307 1.7×	20	2.0k
Ayesha Murshid United States	26	1.5k 0.9×	563 1.1×	145 0.5×	238 1.1×	136 0.7×	43	2.1k
Antoine W. Caron Canada	17	2.2k 1.3×	507 1.0×	106 0.3×	261 1.3×	144 0.8×	21	2.7k
Shawn P. Murphy United States	21	1.8k 1.1×	434 0.8×	232 0.7×	187 0.9×	512 2.8×	28	2.3k
Nadinath B. Nillegoda Germany	21	2.6k 1.5×	928 1.8×	194 0.6×	354 1.7×	128 0.7×	29	3.0k
Jurre Hageman Netherlands	12	1.8k 1.1×	588 1.1×	118 0.4×	231 1.1×	147 0.8×	17	2.3k
Kenzo Ohtsuka Japan	31	2.6k 1.5×	659 1.3×	141 0.4×	251 1.2×	435 2.3×	66	3.1k
Andrei Laszlo United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	383 0.7×	101 0.3×	220 1.1×	319 1.7×	48	2.3k
José M. Barral United States	26	2.6k 1.5×	527 1.0×	292 0.9×	232 1.1×	60 0.3×	47	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malin Åkerfelt

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Prabhakar, Neeraj, Ezgi Özliseli, Ilida Suleymanova, et al.. (2024). Surface Modification of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as a Means to Introduce Inherent Cancer‐Targeting Ability in a 3D Tumor Microenvironment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). 2400084–2400084. 8 indexed citations

Åkerfelt, Malin, et al.. (2024). Targeting the cancer cells and cancer‐associated fibroblasts with next‐generation FGFR inhibitors in prostate cancer co‐culture models. Cancer Medicine. 13(18). e70240–e70240. 4 indexed citations

Åkerfelt, Malin, Jouko Sandholm, Matthias Nees, et al.. (2021). CD73 facilitates EMT progression and promotes lung metastases in triple-negative breast cancer. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 6035–6035. 52 indexed citations

Nassa, Giovanni, Annamaria Salvati, Roberta Tarallo, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of histone methyltransferase DOT1L silences ERα gene and blocks proliferation of antiestrogen-resistant breast cancer cells. Science Advances. 5(2). eaav5590–eaav5590. 68 indexed citations

Gorroño‐Etxebarria, Irantzu, Malin Åkerfelt, Mikael C. Puustinen, et al.. (2018). Frizzled-8 integrates Wnt-11 and transforming growth factor-β signaling in prostate cancer. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1747–1747. 84 indexed citations

Desai, Diti, Malin Åkerfelt, Neeraj Prabhakar, et al.. (2018). Factors Affecting Intracellular Delivery and Release of Hydrophilic Versus Hydrophobic Cargo from Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles on 2D and 3D Cell Cultures. Pharmaceutics. 10(4). 237–237. 8 indexed citations

Åkerfelt, Malin, Mervi Toriseva, & Matthias Nees. (2017). Quantitative Phenotypic Image Analysis of Three-Dimensional Organotypic Cultures. Methods in molecular biology. 1612. 433–445. 3 indexed citations

Ahonen, Ilmari, Malin Åkerfelt, Mervi Toriseva, et al.. (2017). A high-content image analysis approach for quantitative measurements of chemosensitivity in patient-derived tumor microtissues. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6600–6600. 14 indexed citations

Chruściel, Marcin, Milena Doroszko, Malin Åkerfelt, et al.. (2016). Revisiting the expression and function of follicle-stimulation hormone receptor in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37095–37095. 32 indexed citations

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Li, Yifeng, Anders Bjartell, Malin Åkerfelt, et al.. (2016). Validation of Novel Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Progression by the Combination of Bioinformatics, Clinical and Functional Studies. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155901–e0155901. 48 indexed citations

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Robinson, Sean M., Laurent Guyon, Jaakko Nevalainen, et al.. (2015). Segmentation of Image Data from Complex Organotypic 3D Models of Cancer Tissues with Markov Random Fields. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0143798–e0143798. 11 indexed citations

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Åkerfelt, Malin, Jenny Joutsen, Mikael C. Puustinen, et al.. (2015). Heat-shock factor 2 is a suppressor of prostate cancer invasion. Oncogene. 35(14). 1770–1784. 51 indexed citations

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Åkerfelt, Malin, Neslihan Bayramoğlu, Sean M. Robinson, et al.. (2015). Automated tracking of tumor-stroma morphology in microtissues identifies functional targets within the tumor microenvironment for therapeutic intervention. Oncotarget. 6(30). 30035–30056. 33 indexed citations

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Härmä, Ville, Antti P. Happonen, Ilmari Ahonen, et al.. (2014). Quantification of Dynamic Morphological Drug Responses in 3D Organotypic Cell Cultures by Automated Image Analysis. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96426–e96426. 70 indexed citations

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Åkerfelt, Malin, Richard I. Morimoto, & Lea Sistonen. (2010). Heat shock factors: integrators of cell stress, development and lifespan. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 11(8). 545–555. 1103 indexed citations breakdown →

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Åkerfelt, Malin, Anniina Vihervaara, Asta Laiho, et al.. (2010). Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 Localizes to Sex Chromatin during Meiotic Repression. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(45). 34469–34476. 58 indexed citations

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Björk, Johanna, Malin Åkerfelt, Alexeï Grichine, et al.. (2009). Heterotrimerization of Heat-Shock Factors 1 and 2 Provides a Transcriptional Switch in Response to Distinct Stimuli. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(5). 1340–1347. 124 indexed citations

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Åkerfelt, Malin, et al.. (2009). Mammalian Heat Shock Factor 1 Is Essential for Oocyte Meiosis and Directly Regulates Hsp90α Expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(14). 9521–9528. 85 indexed citations

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Åkerfelt, Malin, et al.. (2007). Heat Shock Factors at a Crossroad between Stress and Development. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1113(1). 15–27. 156 indexed citations

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Chang, Yunhua, Päivi Östling, Malin Åkerfelt, et al.. (2006). Role of heat-shock factor 2 in cerebral cortex formation and as a regulatorof p35 expression. Genes & Development. 20(7). 836–847. 73 indexed citations

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