Melania Cusimano

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 966 citations indexed

About

Melania Cusimano is a scholar working on Immunology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melania Cusimano has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 966 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Immunology, 3 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 3 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Melania Cusimano's work include Immune cells in cancer (3 papers), Spinal Cord Injury Research (3 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (3 papers). Melania Cusimano is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (3 papers), Spinal Cord Injury Research (3 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (3 papers). Melania Cusimano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Israel. Melania Cusimano's co-authors include Gianvito Martino, Stefano Pluchino, Asya Rolls, Michal Schwartz, Matthias Mack, Ravid Shechter, Catarina Rapôso, Steffen Jung, Chen Varol and Anat London and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, PLoS Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Melania Cusimano

8 papers receiving 959 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.

Infiltrating Blood-Derived Macrophages Are Vital Cells Playing an Anti-inflammatory Role in Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury in Mice

2009 608 citations Ravid Shechter, Anat London et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melania Cusimano Italy	7	425	311	262	262	246	8	966
Cory M. Willis United States	16	449 1.1×	235 0.8×	163 0.6×	286 1.1×	179 0.7×	19	1.1k
Kevin Carbajal United States	9	225 0.5×	221 0.7×	117 0.4×	244 0.9×	228 0.9×	15	767
Benoit Mailhot Canada	7	390 0.9×	259 0.8×	326 1.2×	116 0.4×	189 0.8×	8	841
Nicolas Vallières Canada	12	507 1.2×	215 0.7×	387 1.5×	345 1.3×	700 2.8×	14	1.4k
Hila Avidan Israel	8	351 0.8×	203 0.7×	124 0.5×	156 0.6×	220 0.9×	8	777
Matthew J. Fraidakis France	8	241 0.6×	111 0.4×	357 1.4×	208 0.8×	364 1.5×	14	808
Ursula Graumann Switzerland	8	194 0.5×	139 0.4×	243 0.9×	138 0.5×	286 1.2×	8	790
Narman Puvanachandra United Kingdom	8	398 0.9×	101 0.3×	155 0.6×	286 1.1×	368 1.5×	21	1.0k
Taitea Dykstra United States	11	564 1.3×	254 0.8×	85 0.3×	110 0.4×	270 1.1×	12	1.1k
Yukio Takeshita Japan	20	399 0.9×	215 0.7×	299 1.1×	93 0.4×	226 0.9×	49	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Melania Cusimano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melania Cusimano

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Rossari, Federico, Giorgia Alvisi, Melania Cusimano, et al.. (2025). A cross-talk established by tumor-targeted cytokines rescues CAR T cell activity and engages host T cells against glioblastoma in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 17(805). eado9511–eado9511. 1 indexed citations

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Cusimano, Melania, Federico Rossari, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2022). Targeted inducible delivery of immunoactivating cytokines reprograms glioblastoma microenvironment and inhibits growth in mouse models. Science Translational Medicine. 14(653). eabl4106–eabl4106. 54 indexed citations

3.

Costa, Barbara, Michael Fletcher, Ekaterina Ivanova, et al.. (2021). A Set of Cell Lines Derived from a Genetic Murine Glioblastoma Model Recapitulates Molecular and Morphological Characteristics of Human Tumors. Cancers. 13(2). 230–230. 15 indexed citations

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Rossi, Chiara, Melania Cusimano, Annamaria Finardi, et al.. (2018). Interleukin 4 modulates microglia homeostasis and attenuates the early slowly progressive phase of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cell Death and Disease. 9(2). 250–250. 58 indexed citations

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Cusimano, Melania, Elena Brambilla, Alessia Capotondo, et al.. (2018). Selective killing of spinal cord neural stem cells impairs locomotor recovery in a mouse model of spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 15(1). 58–58. 17 indexed citations

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Butti, Erica, Melania Cusimano, Marco Bacigaluppi, & Gianvito Martino. (2014). Neurogenic and non-neurogenic functions of endogenous neural stem cells. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 92–92. 44 indexed citations

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Cusimano, Melania, Daniela Biziato, Elena Brambilla, et al.. (2012). Transplanted neural stem/precursor cells instruct phagocytes and reduce secondary tissue damage in the injured spinal cord. Brain. 135(2). 447–460. 169 indexed citations

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Shechter, Ravid, Anat London, Chen Varol, et al.. (2009). Infiltrating Blood-Derived Macrophages Are Vital Cells Playing an Anti-inflammatory Role in Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury in Mice. PLoS Medicine. 6(7). e1000113–e1000113. 608 indexed citations breakdown →

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