Massimo Sandal

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Massimo Sandal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Sandal has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Massimo Sandal's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (3 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (2 papers). Massimo Sandal is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (3 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (2 papers). Massimo Sandal collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Netherlands. Massimo Sandal's co-authors include Andrey Y. Abramov, Richard W. Clarke, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Nunilo Cremades, Paul Dunne, Carlos W. Bertoncini, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Christopher M. Dobson, Ángel Orte and Emma Deas and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Sandal

11 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Direct Observation of the Interconversion of Normal and Toxic Forms of α-Synuclein

2012 709 citations Nunilo Cremades, Samuel I. A. Cohen et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Sandal Italy	10	524	506	497	175	117	11	1.1k
Ine Segers‐Nolten Netherlands	17	482 0.9×	461 0.9×	755 1.5×	171 1.0×	126 1.1×	31	1.3k
Laura Tosatto Italy	17	563 1.1×	481 1.0×	528 1.1×	209 1.2×	134 1.1×	24	1.2k
Kathryn D. Kloepper United States	12	474 0.9×	619 1.2×	613 1.2×	168 1.0×	68 0.6×	16	1.3k
Yue‐De Yang China	15	777 1.5×	650 1.3×	882 1.8×	258 1.5×	116 1.0×	33	1.8k
Dorothea Pinotsi Switzerland	18	601 1.1×	303 0.6×	479 1.0×	242 1.4×	100 0.9×	32	1.5k
Marija Iljina United Kingdom	12	333 0.6×	213 0.4×	344 0.7×	72 0.4×	78 0.7×	18	755
Gudrun Heim Germany	8	546 1.0×	391 0.8×	374 0.8×	112 0.6×	81 0.7×	8	1.0k
Carla C. Rospigliosi United States	9	504 1.0×	817 1.6×	515 1.0×	298 1.7×	134 1.1×	10	1.4k
Mark D. Shtilerman United States	5	750 1.4×	500 1.0×	396 0.8×	216 1.2×	202 1.7×	5	1.3k
Isabella Tessari Italy	24	863 1.6×	1.0k 2.0×	608 1.2×	408 2.3×	282 2.4×	38	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Sandal

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Sandal, Massimo, Maik Behrens, Anne Brockhoff, et al.. (2015). Evidence for a Transient Additional Ligand Binding Site in the TAS2R46 Bitter Taste Receptor. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11(9). 4439–4449. 61 indexed citations

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Sandal, Massimo, Duy Phuoc Tran, Hoang Zung, et al.. (2013). GOMoDo: A GPCRs Online Modeling and Docking Webserver. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74092–e74092. 66 indexed citations

3.

Sandal, Massimo, et al.. (2013). Structure/Function Relationships of Phospholipases C Beta. Current Protein and Peptide Science. 14(8). 650–657. 12 indexed citations

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Cremades, Nunilo, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Emma Deas, et al.. (2012). Direct Observation of the Interconversion of Normal and Toxic Forms of α-Synuclein. Cell. 149(5). 1048–1059. 709 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sorce, Barbara, Stefania Sabella, Massimo Sandal, et al.. (2009). Single‐Molecule Mechanical Unfolding of Amyloidogenic β₂‐Microglobulin: The Force‐Spectroscopy Approach. ChemPhysChem. 10(9-10). 1471–1477. 3 indexed citations

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Sandal, Massimo, Fabrizio Benedetti, Marco Brucale, Alberto Gómez-Casado, & Bruno Samorı̀. (2009). Hooke: an open software platform for force spectroscopy. Bioinformatics. 25(11). 1428–1430. 25 indexed citations

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Brucale, Marco, Massimo Sandal, Selena Di Maio, et al.. (2008). Pathogenic Mutations Shift the Equilibria of α‐Synuclein Single Molecules towards Structured Conformers. ChemBioChem. 10(1). 176–183. 62 indexed citations

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Sandal, Massimo, Francesco Valle, Isabella Tessari, et al.. (2008). Conformational Equilibria in Monomeric α-Synuclein at the Single-Molecule Level. PLoS Biology. 6(1). e6–e6. 165 indexed citations

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Valle, Francesco, Massimo Sandal, & Bruno Samorı̀. (2007). The interplay between chemistry and mechanics in the transduction of a mechanical signal into a biochemical function. Physics of Life Reviews. 4(3). 157–188. 18 indexed citations

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Grandi, Fábio, et al.. (2006). Hierarchical Mechanochemical Switches in Angiostatin. ChemBioChem. 7(11). 1774–1782. 13 indexed citations

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Sandal, Massimo, Fábio Grandi, & Bruno Samorı̀. (2006). Single molecule force spectroscopy discovers mechanochemical switches in biology: The case of the disulfide bond. Polymer. 47(7). 2571–2579. 11 indexed citations

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