Marcella Cesana

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Marcella Cesana is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcella Cesana has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Marcella Cesana's work include RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Renal and related cancers (4 papers). Marcella Cesana is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Renal and related cancers (4 papers). Marcella Cesana collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Marcella Cesana's co-authors include Davide Cacchiarelli, Irene Bozzoni, Tiziana Santini, Olga Sthandier, Ivano Legnini, Mauro Chinappi, Anna Tramontano, George Q. Daley, Tania Incitti and Julie Martone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Marcella Cesana

21 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

A Long Noncoding RNA Controls Muscle Differentiation by Functioning as a Competing Endogenous RNA

2011 2.1k citations Marcella Cesana, Davide Cacchiarelli et al. Cell profile →
A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome

2020 208 citations Gennaro Napolitano, Chiara Di Malta et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcella Cesana Italy	14	3.0k	2.4k	221	161	145	21	3.5k
Shi-Lung Lin United States	23	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	68 0.3×	166 1.0×	106 0.7×	55	2.7k
Dana Ridzon United States	6	3.2k 1.1×	3.0k 1.3×	105 0.5×	133 0.8×	107 0.7×	7	3.9k
Heeyoung Seok South Korea	15	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	101 0.5×	52 0.3×	85 0.6×	27	2.4k
Vickram Srinivas United States	21	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	340 1.5×	300 1.9×	266 1.8×	25	2.1k
Yi Tie China	21	2.5k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	121 0.5×	62 0.4×	39 0.3×	30	2.9k
Alejandro P. Ugalde Spain	19	2.1k 0.7×	588 0.2×	95 0.4×	154 1.0×	227 1.6×	26	2.5k
Anna Maria Lena Italy	26	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	115 0.5×	138 0.9×	144 1.0×	50	2.7k
Christian Guelly Austria	19	1.3k 0.4×	812 0.3×	300 1.4×	78 0.5×	81 0.6×	31	2.0k
Giuseppina Caretti Italy	27	2.4k 0.8×	555 0.2×	115 0.5×	286 1.8×	260 1.8×	42	2.8k
Daniel Muth Germany	9	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	61 0.3×	99 0.6×	51 0.4×	10	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcella Cesana

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcella Cesana

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Montefusco, Sandro, Edoardo Nusco, Antonella Capuozzo, et al.. (2024). TRPML-1 Dysfunction and Renal Tubulopathy in Mucolipidosis Type IV. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 36(4). 587–601. 1 indexed citations

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Carbognin, Elena, Francesco Panariello, Elena Guerzoni, et al.. (2023). Esrrb guides naive pluripotent cells through the formative transcriptional programme. Nature Cell Biology. 25(5). 643–657. 11 indexed citations

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Pasquier, Adrien, Nunzia Pastore, Luca D’Orsi, et al.. (2023). TFEB and TFE3 control glucose homeostasis by regulating insulin gene expression. The EMBO Journal. 42(21). 10 indexed citations

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Cesana, Marcella, Francesco Panariello, Susanna Ambrosio, et al.. (2023). EGR1 drives cell proliferation by directly stimulating TFEB transcription in response to starvation. PLoS Biology. 21(3). e3002034–e3002034. 8 indexed citations

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Cesana, Marcella, Martin J. Larsen, Maria Kibæk, et al.. (2022). Integrated exome and transcriptome analysis prioritizes MAP4K4 de novo frameshift variants in autism spectrum disorder as a novel disease–gene association. Human Genetics. 142(3). 343–350. 3 indexed citations

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Arigoni, Maddalena, Silvia Benvenuti, Davide Cacchiarelli, et al.. (2021). MET Exon 14 Skipping: A Case Study for the Detection of Genetic Variants in Cancer Driver Genes by Deep Learning. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(8). 4217–4217. 6 indexed citations

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Napolitano, Gennaro, Chiara Di Malta, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2020). A substrate-specific mTORC1 pathway underlies Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome. Nature. 585(7826). 597–602. 208 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carbognin, Elena, Francesco Panariello, Valentina Perrera, et al.. (2020). Esrrb Conveys Naïve Pluripotent Cells Through The Formative Transcriptional Program. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Vo, Linda T., Melissa A. Kinney, Xin Liu, et al.. (2018). Regulation of embryonic haematopoietic multipotency by EZH1. Nature. 553(7689). 506–510. 61 indexed citations

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Tammaro, Roberta, Miguel A. Prado, Marcella Cesana, et al.. (2018). The deubiquitinating enzyme Usp14 controls ciliogenesis and Hedgehog signaling. Human Molecular Genetics. 28(5). 764–777. 26 indexed citations

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Aguilar, Carlos A., Ramona Pop, Anna Shcherbina, et al.. (2016). Transcriptional and Chromatin Dynamics of Muscle Regeneration after Severe Trauma. Stem Cell Reports. 7(5). 983–997. 36 indexed citations

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Powers, John T., Kaloyan M. Tsanov, Daniel S. Pearson, et al.. (2016). Multiple mechanisms disrupt the let-7 microRNA family in neuroblastoma. Nature. 535(7611). 246–251. 138 indexed citations

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Cacchiarelli, Davide, Cole Trapnell, Michael J. Ziller, et al.. (2015). Integrative Analyses of Human Reprogramming Reveal Dynamic Nature of Induced Pluripotency. Cell. 162(2). 412–424. 151 indexed citations

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Unternaehrer, Juli, Rui Zhao, Kitai Kim, et al.. (2014). The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Factor SNAIL Paradoxically Enhances Reprogramming. Stem Cell Reports. 3(5). 691–698. 66 indexed citations

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Lu, Yu, Yuin‐Han Loh, Hu Li, et al.. (2014). Alternative Splicing of MBD2 Supports Self-Renewal in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 15(1). 92–101. 87 indexed citations

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Legnini, Ivano, et al.. (2013). Biogenesis and function of non-coding RNAs in muscle differentiation and in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Biochemical Society Transactions. 41(4). 844–849. 28 indexed citations

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Cesana, Marcella, Davide Cacchiarelli, Ivano Legnini, et al.. (2011). A Long Noncoding RNA Controls Muscle Differentiation by Functioning as a Competing Endogenous RNA. Cell. 147(2). 358–369. 2150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cesana, Marcella, Davide Cacchiarelli, Ivano Legnini, et al.. (2011). A Long Noncoding RNA Controls Muscle Differentiation by Functioning as a Competing Endogenous RNA. Cell. 147(4). 947–947. 134 indexed citations

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Cacchiarelli, Davide, Tania Incitti, Julie Martone, et al.. (2011). miR‐31 modulates dystrophin expression: new implications for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy. EMBO Reports. 12(2). 136–141. 119 indexed citations

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Cacchiarelli, Davide, Julie Martone, Erika Girardi, et al.. (2010). MicroRNAs Involved in Molecular Circuitries Relevant for the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pathogenesis Are Controlled by the Dystrophin/nNOS Pathway. Cell Metabolism. 12(4). 341–351. 196 indexed citations

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