Marta Kovatcheva

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 547 citations indexed

About

Marta Kovatcheva is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Kovatcheva has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 547 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Marta Kovatcheva's work include Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (4 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (3 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers). Marta Kovatcheva is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (4 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (3 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers). Marta Kovatcheva collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Italy. Marta Kovatcheva's co-authors include Mary E. Klein, Andrew Koff, William D. Tap, Lara E. Davis, Aimeé M. Crago, Mark A. Dickson, Samuel Singer, Manuel Serrano, Gary K. Schwartz and Rachael O’Connor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The EMBO Journal and Cancer Cell.

In The Last Decade

Marta Kovatcheva

11 papers receiving 545 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.

CDK4/6 Inhibitors: The Mechanism of Action May Not Be as Simple as Once Thought

2018 274 citations Mary E. Klein, Marta Kovatcheva et al. Cancer Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marta Kovatcheva Spain	8	286	266	205	81	78	12	547
Rebecca Watters United States	12	217 0.8×	211 0.8×	232 1.1×	53 0.7×	16 0.2×	25	519
Young-Hyuck Im South Korea	5	168 0.6×	188 0.7×	220 1.1×	30 0.4×	80 1.0×	7	425
Vidya Bodempudi United States	13	94 0.3×	181 0.7×	212 1.0×	45 0.6×	22 0.3×	14	466
Yongjun Cha South Korea	15	340 1.2×	157 0.6×	168 0.8×	36 0.4×	21 0.3×	39	562
James Dean United Kingdom	8	111 0.4×	134 0.5×	212 1.0×	61 0.8×	229 2.9×	24	505
Sara Koenig McLaughlin United States	4	141 0.5×	87 0.3×	337 1.6×	39 0.5×	32 0.4×	4	491
Ceren Gönen Korkmaz Norway	10	84 0.3×	142 0.5×	226 1.1×	45 0.6×	17 0.2×	14	450
Susan M. Kitchen-Goosen United States	12	125 0.4×	153 0.6×	230 1.1×	17 0.2×	24 0.3×	18	466
Teresa Corral Spain	8	164 0.6×	64 0.2×	237 1.2×	34 0.4×	47 0.6×	15	434
Guetchyn Millien United States	9	160 0.6×	143 0.5×	214 1.0×	13 0.2×	26 0.3×	10	421

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Kovatcheva

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Kovatcheva, Marta, et al.. (2025). Vitamin B12 in Cell Plasticity and Repair. DNA and Cell Biology. 44(5). 209–213.

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Kovatcheva, Marta, Susana Puig, Albert Lu, et al.. (2024). HRK downregulation and augmented BCL-xL binding to BAK confer apoptotic protection to therapy-induced senescent melanoma cells. Cell Death and Differentiation. 32(4). 646–656. 5 indexed citations

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Richart, Laia, Marta Kovatcheva, Camille Stephan‐Otto Attolini, et al.. (2024). H4K20me3-Mediated Repression of Inflammatory Genes Is a Characteristic and Targetable Vulnerability of Persister Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 85(1). 32–51. 6 indexed citations

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Maus, Máté, Emmanouil Zacharioudakis, Miguel Lafarga, et al.. (2024). Release of mitochondrial dsRNA into the cytosol is a key driver of the inflammatory phenotype of senescent cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7378–7378. 24 indexed citations

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Protasoni, Margherita, Camille Stephan‐Otto Attolini, Nicolás Herranz, et al.. (2024). Cyclophilin D plays a critical role in the survival of senescent cells. The EMBO Journal. 43(23). 5972–6000. 12 indexed citations

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Kovatcheva, Marta, Dafni Chondronasiou, Federico Pietrocola, et al.. (2023). Vitamin B12 is a limiting factor for induced cellular plasticity and tissue repair. Nature Metabolism. 5(11). 1911–1930. 27 indexed citations

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Domínguez‐López, Inés, Marta Kovatcheva, Rosa Casas, et al.. (2023). Higher circulating vitamin B12 is associated with lower levels of inflammatory markers in individuals at high cardiovascular risk and in naturally aged mice. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 104(2). 875–882. 12 indexed citations

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Chondronasiou, Dafni, Jaime Martínez de Villarreal, Cian J. Lynch, et al.. (2022). Deciphering the roadmap of in vivo reprogramming toward pluripotency. Stem Cell Reports. 17(11). 2501–2517. 18 indexed citations

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Klein, Mary E., Marta Kovatcheva, Lara E. Davis, William D. Tap, & Andrew Koff. (2018). CDK4/6 Inhibitors: The Mechanism of Action May Not Be as Simple as Once Thought. Cancer Cell. 34(1). 9–20. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kovatcheva, Marta, Will Liao, Mary E. Klein, et al.. (2017). ATRX is a regulator of therapy induced senescence in human cells. Nature Communications. 8(1). 386–386. 62 indexed citations

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Kovatcheva, Marta, Mary E. Klein, William D. Tap, & Andrew Koff. (2017). Mechanistic understanding of the role of ATRX in senescence provides new insight for combinatorial therapies with CDK4 inhibitors.. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 5(1). e1384882–e1384882. 5 indexed citations

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Kovatcheva, Marta, Mark A. Dickson, Mary E. Klein, et al.. (2015). MDM2 turnover and expression of ATRX determine the choice between quiescence and senescence in response to CDK4 inhibition. Oncotarget. 6(10). 8226–8243. 102 indexed citations

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