Maria Francesca Viola

2.0k total citations
14 papers, 575 citations indexed

About

Maria Francesca Viola is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Gastroenterology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Francesca Viola has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 575 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Immunology and 4 papers in Gastroenterology. Recurrent topics in Maria Francesca Viola's work include Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (3 papers). Maria Francesca Viola is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (3 papers). Maria Francesca Viola collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and Ireland. Maria Francesca Viola's co-authors include Guy E. Boeckxstaens, Nathalie Stakenborg, Marcello Delfini, Timothy G. Dinan, John F. Cryan, Fergus Shanahan, Pauline Luczynski, Siobhain M. O’Mahony, Mónica Tramullas and Gerard Clarke and has published in prestigious journals such as Immunity, Nature Immunology and Gut.

In The Last Decade

Maria Francesca Viola

12 papers receiving 566 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maria Francesca Viola Belgium 9 244 148 126 106 74 14 575
Song Hui Chng United Kingdom 6 232 1.0× 71 0.5× 220 1.7× 100 0.9× 148 2.0× 6 515
Zachary Kerner United States 9 435 1.8× 116 0.8× 143 1.1× 158 1.5× 109 1.5× 10 853
Catherine Blanpied France 18 299 1.2× 100 0.7× 103 0.8× 220 2.1× 77 1.0× 30 745
Tanguy Chaumette France 13 260 1.1× 180 1.2× 113 0.9× 150 1.4× 59 0.8× 16 1.1k
Linda Feighery Ireland 10 261 1.1× 189 1.3× 151 1.2× 89 0.8× 117 1.6× 12 780
Ana Carina Bon‐Frauches Netherlands 10 273 1.1× 60 0.4× 270 2.1× 122 1.2× 208 2.8× 11 669
Jérôme Boué France 14 226 0.9× 72 0.5× 111 0.9× 193 1.8× 80 1.1× 15 658
Raphaël Moriez France 10 151 0.6× 75 0.5× 165 1.3× 97 0.9× 126 1.7× 13 515
Daniele Braga Italy 13 287 1.2× 118 0.8× 26 0.2× 69 0.7× 83 1.1× 21 628

Countries citing papers authored by Maria Francesca Viola

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Francesca Viola

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Francesca Viola

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Ashraf, Azhaar, et al.. (2025). Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease. Journal of Cell Science. 138(20).
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Stakenborg, Nathalie, Maria Francesca Viola, & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2025). Intestinal neuron-associated macrophages in health and disease. Nature Immunology. 26(7). 1004–1013.
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Viola, Maria Francesca, et al.. (2024). Developmental programming of tissue-resident macrophages. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1475369–1475369. 8 indexed citations
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Viola, Maria Francesca & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2023). Isolation and Flow Cytometry Analysis of Intestinal Macrophages. Methods in molecular biology. 2713. 183–197. 1 indexed citations
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Delfini, Marcello, Nathalie Stakenborg, Maria Francesca Viola, & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2022). Macrophages in the gut: Masters in multitasking. Immunity. 55(9). 1530–1548. 108 indexed citations
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Viola, Maria Francesca, Iris Appeltans, Willy Gsell, et al.. (2022). Magnetic resonance imaging as a non‐invasive tool to assess gastric emptying in mice. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 35(2). e14490–e14490. 5 indexed citations
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Viola, Maria Francesca & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2020). Niche-specific functional heterogeneity of intestinal resident macrophages. Gut. 70(7). 1383–1395. 82 indexed citations
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Viola, Maria Francesca & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2020). Intestinal resident macrophages: Multitaskers of the gut. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 32(8). e13843–e13843. 56 indexed citations
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Stakenborg, Nathalie, Maria Francesca Viola, & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2019). Intestinal neuro-immune interactions: focus on macrophages, mast cells and innate lymphoid cells. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 62. 68–75. 37 indexed citations
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Balemans, Dafne, Javier Aguilera‐Lizarraga, Morgane Florens, et al.. (2019). Histamine-mediated potentiation of transient receptor potential (TRP) ankyrin 1 and TRP vanilloid 4 signaling in submucosal neurons in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 316(3). G338–G349. 46 indexed citations
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Meroni, Elisa, Nathalie Stakenborg, Maria Francesca Viola, & Guy E. Boeckxstaens. (2018). Intestinal macrophages and their interaction with the enteric nervous system in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Acta Physiologica. 225(3). e13163–e13163. 48 indexed citations
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Viola, Maria Francesca, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of a sicilian black broccoli extract on in vitro cell models. Acta Horticulturae. 135–142. 6 indexed citations
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Luczynski, Pauline, Mónica Tramullas, Maria Francesca Viola, et al.. (2017). Microbiota regulates visceral pain in the mouse. eLife. 6. 128 indexed citations
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Moloney, Gerard M., Maria Francesca Viola, Alan E. Hoban, Timothy G. Dinan, & John F. Cryan. (2017). Faecal microRNAs: indicators of imbalance at the host-microbe interface?. Beneficial Microbes. 9(2). 175–184. 50 indexed citations

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