Melissa Cipolla

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 853 citations indexed

About

Melissa Cipolla is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Cipolla has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 853 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Immunology, 4 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Melissa Cipolla's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Melissa Cipolla is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Melissa Cipolla collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Melissa Cipolla's co-authors include Michel C. Nussenzweig, Anna Gazumyan, Charlotte Viant, Thiago Y. Oliveira, Spencer T. Chen, Víctor Ramos, Julio C. C. Lorenzi, Harald Hartweger, Frauke Muecksch and Théodora Hatziioannou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Cipolla

13 papers receiving 846 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.

Enhanced SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by dimeric IgA

2020 294 citations Zijun Wang, Julio C. C. Lorenzi et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Cipolla United States	10	446	419	150	105	84	13	853
Víctor Ramos United States	12	453 1.0×	316 0.8×	122 0.8×	44 0.4×	106 1.3×	21	805
Jérémie Prévost Canada	22	660 1.5×	522 1.2×	183 1.2×	190 1.8×	193 2.3×	57	1.2k
Phillip Pymm Australia	13	259 0.6×	523 1.2×	151 1.0×	56 0.5×	47 0.6×	20	805
Kanika Vanshylla Germany	11	462 1.0×	133 0.3×	119 0.8×	64 0.6×	38 0.5×	20	600
Tongjin Wu China	9	515 1.2×	148 0.4×	166 1.1×	40 0.4×	62 0.7×	10	760
Angelique Hœlzemer Germany	6	620 1.4×	144 0.3×	151 1.0×	33 0.3×	43 0.5×	7	734
Alison Tarke United States	9	813 1.8×	320 0.8×	320 2.1×	27 0.3×	118 1.4×	17	1.0k
Rowa Y. Alhabbab Saudi Arabia	13	266 0.6×	193 0.5×	138 0.9×	27 0.3×	40 0.5×	32	556
Alyse D. Portnoff United States	10	360 0.8×	102 0.2×	231 1.5×	74 0.7×	75 0.9×	12	817
Nathaniel I. Bloom United States	6	732 1.6×	271 0.6×	254 1.7×	19 0.2×	90 1.1×	6	895

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Cipolla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Cipolla

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Merkenschlager, Julia, Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, Melissa Cipolla, et al.. (2025). Regulated somatic hypermutation enhances antibody affinity maturation. Nature. 641(8062). 495–502. 6 indexed citations

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ElTanbouly, Mohamed, Víctor Ramos, Spencer T. Chen, et al.. (2023). Role of affinity in plasma cell development in the germinal center light zone. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(1). 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Spencer T., Thiago Y. Oliveira, Anna Gazumyan, Melissa Cipolla, & Michel C. Nussenzweig. (2023). B cell receptor signaling in germinal centers prolongs survival and primes B cells for selection. Immunity. 56(3). 547–561.e7. 42 indexed citations

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Jurczyszak, Denise, Lara Manganaro, Sofija Buta, et al.. (2022). ISG15 deficiency restricts HIV-1 infection. PLoS Pathogens. 18(3). e1010405–e1010405. 20 indexed citations

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Hägglöf, Thomas, Melissa Cipolla, Spencer T. Chen, et al.. (2022). Continuous germinal center invasion contributes to the diversity of the immune response. Cell. 186(1). 147–161.e15. 41 indexed citations

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Viant, Charlotte, Mohamed ElTanbouly, Spencer T. Chen, et al.. (2021). Germinal center–dependent and –independent memory B cells produced throughout the immune response. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(8). 66 indexed citations

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Merkenschlager, Julia, Shlomo Finkin, Víctor Ramos, et al.. (2021). Dynamic regulation of TFH selection during the germinal centre reaction. Nature. 591(7850). 458–463. 63 indexed citations

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Schäfer, Alexandra, Frauke Muecksch, Julio C. C. Lorenzi, et al.. (2020). Antibody potency, effector function, and combinations in protection and therapy for SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(3). 157 indexed citations

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Mayer, Christian T., Anna Gazumyan, Melissa Cipolla, et al.. (2020). An apoptosis-dependent checkpoint for autoimmunity in memory B and plasma cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(40). 24957–24963. 12 indexed citations

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Viant, Charlotte, Amelia Escolano, Spencer T. Chen, et al.. (2020). Antibody Affinity Shapes the Choice between Memory and Germinal Center B Cell Fates. Cell. 183(5). 1298–1311.e11. 130 indexed citations

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Cipolla, Melissa, et al.. (2020). The VivaDiag COVID-19 lgM/IgG Rapid Test for the Screening and Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Patients with No Clinical Signs of the Disease. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Zijun, Christopher O. Barnes, Rajeev Gautam, et al.. (2020). A broadly neutralizing macaque monoclonal antibody against the HIV-1 V3-Glycan patch. eLife. 9. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Zijun, Julio C. C. Lorenzi, Frauke Muecksch, et al.. (2020). Enhanced SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by dimeric IgA. Science Translational Medicine. 13(577). 294 indexed citations breakdown →

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