Mirela Berisa

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Mirela Berisa is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirela Berisa has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cancer Research, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Mirela Berisa's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Mirela Berisa is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Mirela Berisa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. Mirela Berisa's co-authors include Justin R. Cross, Craig B. Thompson, Jiajun Zhu, Simon Schwörer, Ronald C. Hendrickson, Bryan H. King, Pamela S. Herrera, Madeline A. Hwee, Marcel R.M. van den Brink and Ansuman T. Satpathy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mirela Berisa

8 papers receiving 993 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Impaired mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation limits the self-renewal of T cells exposed to persistent antigen

2020 343 citations Santosha A. Vardhana, Madeline A. Hwee et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Copper depletion modulates mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to impair triple negative breast cancer metastasis

2021 204 citations Divya Ramchandani, Mirela Berisa et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mirela Berisa United States	7	482	281	270	267	173	9	1.0k
Tejaswitha Jairaj Naik United States	6	561 1.2×	158 0.6×	416 1.5×	240 0.9×	174 1.0×	6	1.4k
Aimin Huang China	17	448 0.9×	207 0.7×	194 0.7×	151 0.6×	83 0.5×	61	856
Jiaming Xie China	13	515 1.1×	291 1.0×	170 0.6×	117 0.4×	186 1.1×	35	977
Xiaoshan Zhang United States	18	988 2.0×	336 1.2×	312 1.2×	96 0.4×	272 1.6×	32	1.3k
Sung‐Gil Chi South Korea	19	732 1.5×	214 0.8×	234 0.9×	88 0.3×	122 0.7×	32	1.1k
Wantong Yao China	21	770 1.6×	382 1.4×	540 2.0×	171 0.6×	86 0.5×	29	1.5k
Asmaa El-Kenawi Egypt	12	562 1.2×	431 1.5×	349 1.3×	380 1.4×	135 0.8×	23	1.2k
Ronald C. Hendrickson United States	15	919 1.9×	265 0.9×	280 1.0×	83 0.3×	190 1.1×	17	1.4k
Yanyan Shen China	21	824 1.7×	293 1.0×	219 0.8×	120 0.4×	138 0.8×	63	1.2k
Iris C. Salaroglio Italy	22	791 1.6×	345 1.2×	408 1.5×	153 0.6×	174 1.0×	41	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mirela Berisa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mirela Berisa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mirela Berisa. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mirela Berisa. The network helps show where Mirela Berisa may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mirela Berisa

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Sen, Utsav, Charles Coleman, Nishant Gandhi, et al.. (2025). SCD1 Inhibition Blocks the AKT–NRF2–SLC7A11 Pathway to Induce Lipid Metabolism Remodeling and Ferroptosis Priming in Lung Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Research. 85(13). 2485–2503. 11 indexed citations

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Tang, Stephen, Rimantė Žedaveinytė, Javier Mancilla-Ramı́rez, et al.. (2025). Protein-primed homopolymer synthesis by an antiviral reverse transcriptase. Nature. 643(8074). 1352–1362.

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Gelles, Jesse D., Andrew Trotta, Juan Henao, et al.. (2025). Metabolic adaptations to acute glucose uptake inhibition converge upon mitochondrial respiration for leukemia cell survival. Cell Communication and Signaling. 23(1). 47–47. 2 indexed citations

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Ramchandani, Divya, Mirela Berisa, Zhuoning Li, et al.. (2021). Copper depletion modulates mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to impair triple negative breast cancer metastasis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7311–7311. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Jiajun, Simon Schwörer, Mirela Berisa, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial NADP(H) generation is essential for proline biosynthesis. Science. 372(6545). 968–972. 114 indexed citations

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Vardhana, Santosha A., Madeline A. Hwee, Mirela Berisa, et al.. (2020). Impaired mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation limits the self-renewal of T cells exposed to persistent antigen. Nature Immunology. 21(9). 1022–1033. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schwörer, Simon, Mirela Berisa, Sara Violante, et al.. (2020). Proline biosynthesis is a vent for TGFβ‐induced mitochondrial redox stress. The EMBO Journal. 39(8). e103334–e103334. 131 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiajun, et al.. (2019). Transsulfuration Activity Can Support Cell Growth upon Extracellular Cysteine Limitation. Cell Metabolism. 30(5). 865–876.e5. 190 indexed citations

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Violante, Sara, et al.. (2019). Stable Isotope Tracers for Metabolic Pathway Analysis. Methods in molecular biology. 1978. 269–283. 6 indexed citations

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