Marco Durante

22.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
475 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Marco Durante is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiation and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Durante has authored 475 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 337 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 192 papers in Radiation and 151 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Marco Durante's work include Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (334 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (141 papers) and Effects of Radiation Exposure (117 papers). Marco Durante is often cited by papers focused on Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (334 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (141 papers) and Effects of Radiation Exposure (117 papers). Marco Durante collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Marco Durante's co-authors include Francis A. Cucinotta, Jay S. Loeffler, Christoph Bert, Thomas Friedrich, M. Scholz, Emanuele Scifoni, K. George, Walter Tinganelli, G. Taucher-Scholz and Francesco Tommasino and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Marco Durante

452 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

Charged particles in radi... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2006 2008 2015 2017 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Charged particles in radiation oncology
    2009 524 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  2. Cancer risk from exposure to galactic cosmic rays: implications for space exploration by human beings
    2006 509 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  3. Heavy ion carcinogenesis and human space exploration
    2008 431 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  4. Carbon ion radiotherapy in Japan: an assessment of 20 years of clinical experience
    2015 416 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  5. Charged-particle therapy in cancer: clinical uses and future perspectives
    2017 335 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  6. Charged particle therapy—optimization, challenges and future directions
    2013 318 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →
  7. Towards clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy
    2022 203 citations Marco Durante et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Marco Durante 10.2k 6.1k 5.1k 3.7k 1.9k 475 15.9k
Kevin M. Prise 8.1k 0.8× 3.7k 0.6× 6.8k 1.3× 4.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 340 13.9k
Francis A. Cucinotta 7.3k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 4.2k 0.8× 2.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 374 11.8k
Yoshiya Furusawa 5.6k 0.6× 3.1k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 245 8.6k
Masahiro Hiraoka 7.6k 0.7× 5.5k 0.9× 5.5k 1.1× 3.2k 0.9× 2.5k 1.4× 653 19.5k
D.T. Goodhead 4.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.3× 4.4k 0.9× 4.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.2× 146 10.3k
Brian W. Pogue 7.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.4× 12.7k 2.5× 1.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 764 24.1k
Jürgen Debus 19.8k 1.9× 10.2k 1.7× 12.6k 2.5× 5.0k 1.3× 5.6k 3.0× 1.3k 43.7k
Jay S. Loeffler 11.8k 1.2× 3.7k 0.6× 4.0k 0.8× 4.6k 1.2× 2.5k 1.4× 368 27.0k
Alexander Gottschalk 3.0k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 4.0k 0.8× 4.0k 1.1× 858 0.5× 350 16.7k
Claus Belka 6.0k 0.6× 3.6k 0.6× 4.7k 0.9× 4.7k 1.3× 2.4k 1.3× 644 16.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Durante

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Durante

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Averbeck, Nicole, et al.. (2025). Induction of Cytoplasmic dsDNA and cGAS-STING Immune Signaling After Exposure of Breast Cancer Cells to X-ray or High-Energetic Carbon Ions. Advances in Radiation Oncology. 10(6). 101783–101783. 3 indexed citations
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Graeff, Christian, Lennart Volz, Guangru Li, et al.. (2024). FIRST EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF A MIXED CARBON/HELIUM BEAM FOR ONLINE RANGE MONITORING AND IMAGE GUIDANCE. International Journal of Particle Therapy. 12. 100185–100185.
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Franciosini, Gaia, A. Schiavi, Lennart Volz, et al.. (2024). AN AI DOSE ENGINE FOR FAST CARBON ION TREATMENT PLANNING. International Journal of Particle Therapy. 12. 100222–100222. 1 indexed citations
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Heuskin, Anne‐Catherine, Sébastien Penninckx, Sylvia Ritter, et al.. (2024). Ionizing radiation responses appear incidental to desiccation responses in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga. BMC Biology. 22(1). 11–11. 6 indexed citations
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Donetti, M., Félix Más Milián, R. Sacchi, et al.. (2024). Real-time delivered dose assessment in carbon ion therapy of moving targets. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 69(20). 205001–205001. 3 indexed citations
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Durante, Marco, et al.. (2023). The role of hypoxia and radiation in developing a CTCs-like phenotype in murine osteosarcoma cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1222809–1222809. 2 indexed citations
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Durante, Marco. (2022). Physical Challenges of FLASH Radiotherapy. Nuclear Physics News. 32(4). 28–31. 1 indexed citations
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Alía, Rubén García, Kacper Biłko, F. Cerutti, et al.. (2022). Fragmented High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beams for Electronics Testing. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 70(4). 486–495. 5 indexed citations
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Sokol, Olga, Chutima Talabnin, C. Kobdaj, et al.. (2022). 3D high resolution clonogenic survival measurement of xrs-5 cells in low-dose region of carbon ion plans. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 99(3). 488–498.
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Horst, Felix, D. Schardt, Hiroshi Iwase, et al.. (2021). Physical characterization of 3He ion beams for radiotherapy and comparison with 4He. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 66(9). 95009–95009. 12 indexed citations
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Grzanka, L., A. Attili, Francesco Tommasino, et al.. (2021). Biological Impact of Target Fragments on Proton Treatment Plans: An Analysis Based on the Current Cross-Section Data and a Full Mixed Field Approach. Cancers. 13(19). 4768–4768. 6 indexed citations
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Rovituso, Marta, Emanuele Scifoni, Christoph Schuy, et al.. (2021). Interaction of therapeutic 12 C ions with bone-like targets: physical characterization and dosimetric effect at material interfaces. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 66(18). 185003–185003. 2 indexed citations
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Schuy, Christoph, C. Finck, Felix Horst, et al.. (2021). Response of the Mimosa-28 pixel sensor to a wide range of ion species and energies. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 1017. 165807–165807. 4 indexed citations
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Tinganelli, Walter & Marco Durante. (2020). Carbon Ion Radiobiology. Cancers. 12(10). 3022–3022. 165 indexed citations
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Simoniello, Palma, Julia Wiedemann, Marco Durante, et al.. (2019). Biological Cardiac Tissue Effects of High-Energy Heavy Ions – Investigation for Myocardial Ablation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5000–5000. 28 indexed citations
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Rovituso, Marta, Chiara La Tessa, Giada Petringa, et al.. (2019). A new facility for proton radiobiology at the Trento proton therapy centre: Design and implementation. Physica Medica. 58. 99–106. 29 indexed citations
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Wisdom, Amy J., Katherine D. Castle, Yvonne M. Mowery, et al.. (2018). Characterizing the Potency and Impact of Carbon Ion Therapy in a Primary Mouse Model of Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 17(4). 858–868. 23 indexed citations
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Cornforth, Michael N. & Marco Durante. (2018). Radiation quality and intra-chromosomal aberrations: Size matters. Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 836(Pt A). 28–35. 13 indexed citations
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Richter, Daniel, H. Immo Lehmann, Robert Kaderka, et al.. (2017). ECG-based 4D-dose reconstruction of cardiac arrhythmia ablation with carbon ion beams: application in a porcine model. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 62(17). 6869–6883. 16 indexed citations
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Durante, Marco, et al.. (2013). First experiments using human embryonic stem cells as a model to examine radiation effects on early embryonic development: emphasis on gene expression. GSI Repository (German Federal Government).

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