Olga M. Pena

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Olga M. Pena is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olga M. Pena has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Immunology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Olga M. Pena's work include Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (4 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (2 papers). Olga M. Pena is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (4 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (2 papers). Olga M. Pena collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and United Kingdom. Olga M. Pena's co-authors include Robert E. W. Hancock, Sarah Mansour, Christopher D. Fjell, Nicole Afacan, Jelena Pistolic, Jianguo Xia, Amy Yeung, Matthew L. Mayer, Reza Falsafi and John H. Boyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Olga M. Pena

15 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Host defense peptides: front-line immunomodulators

2014 400 citations Sarah Mansour, Olga M. Pena et al. Trends in Immunology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olga M. Pena Canada	14	634	609	574	154	126	15	1.5k
Dennis K. Ninaber Netherlands	19	519 0.8×	555 0.9×	608 1.1×	167 1.1×	256 2.0×	39	1.6k
Anne M. van der Does Netherlands	25	673 1.1×	588 1.0×	550 1.0×	183 1.2×	335 2.7×	54	1.8k
Jelena Pistolic Canada	14	676 1.1×	843 1.4×	795 1.4×	140 0.9×	85 0.7×	22	1.8k
Antonio Di Grazia Italy	25	734 1.2×	405 0.7×	418 0.7×	130 0.8×	89 0.7×	54	1.6k
Christian Draing Germany	19	348 0.5×	195 0.3×	653 1.1×	284 1.8×	114 0.9×	26	1.5k
Sharon A. McClellan United States	29	479 0.8×	232 0.4×	884 1.5×	104 0.7×	81 0.6×	72	1.9k
Un‐Hwan Ha South Korea	23	806 1.3×	132 0.2×	327 0.6×	152 1.0×	108 0.9×	77	1.5k
Philippe Dje N’Guessan Germany	23	696 1.1×	191 0.3×	707 1.2×	306 2.0×	138 1.1×	35	1.6k
Jun‐Pyo Choi South Korea	19	515 0.8×	260 0.4×	236 0.4×	118 0.8×	157 1.2×	33	1.0k
A.J. Ulmer Germany	27	736 1.2×	209 0.3×	1.3k 2.2×	410 2.7×	121 1.0×	69	2.5k

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Wooding, Denise J., Min Hyung Ryu, Hang Li, et al.. (2019). Acute air pollution exposure alters neutrophils in never-smokers and at-risk humans. European Respiratory Journal. 55(4). 1901495–1901495. 44 indexed citations

Pena, Olga M., et al.. (2018). Dibutyl phthalate modulates phenotype of granulocytes in human blood in response to inflammatory stimuli. Toxicology Letters. 296. 23–30. 30 indexed citations

Pena, Olga M., Hendrik J. Nel, Stephanie T. Yerkovich, et al.. (2018). Airway cells from protracted bacterial bronchitis and bronchiectasis share similar gene expression profiles. Pediatric Pulmonology. 53(5). 575–582. 15 indexed citations

Pena, Olga M., Jeremy A. Hirota, Christopher F. Rider, et al.. (2017). Novel flow cytometry approach to identify bronchial epithelial cells from healthy human airways. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42214–42214. 18 indexed citations

Troy, Niamh, Denise Anderson, Olga M. Pena, et al.. (2017). Critical Role of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Regulating Gene Expression and Innate Immune Responses to Human Rhinovirus-16. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 1351–1351. 11 indexed citations

Mansour, Sarah, Olga M. Pena, & Robert E. W. Hancock. (2014). Host defense peptides: front-line immunomodulators. Trends in Immunology. 35(9). 443–450. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

Pena, Olga M., David G. Hancock, Adam Linder, et al.. (2014). An Endotoxin Tolerance Signature Predicts Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction at Initial Clinical Presentation. EBioMedicine. 1(1). 64–71. 107 indexed citations

Pena, Olga M., et al.. (2014). Barriers to the effective treatment of sepsis: antimicrobial agents, sepsis definitions, and host‐directed therapies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1323(1). 101–114. 47 indexed citations

Pena, Olga M., Nicole Afacan, Jelena Pistolic, et al.. (2013). Synthetic Cationic Peptide IDR-1018 Modulates Human Macrophage Differentiation. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e52449–e52449. 77 indexed citations

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Xia, Jianguo, Christopher D. Fjell, Matthew L. Mayer, et al.. (2013). INMEX—a web-based tool for integrative meta-analysis of expression data. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(W1). W63–W70. 135 indexed citations

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Yeung, Amy, Laure Janot, Olga M. Pena, et al.. (2013). Requirement of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa CbrA Sensor Kinase for Full Virulence in a Murine Acute Lung Infection Model. Infection and Immunity. 82(3). 1256–1267. 22 indexed citations

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Xia, Jianguo, et al.. (2013). INVEX—a web-based tool for integrative visualization of expression data. Bioinformatics. 29(24). 3232–3234. 52 indexed citations

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Afacan, Nicole, Amy Yeung, Olga M. Pena, & Robert E. W. Hancock. (2012). Therapeutic Potential of Host Defense Peptides in Antibiotic-resistant Infections. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 18(6). 807–819. 163 indexed citations

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Brown, Kelly L., Grace F. T. Poon, Olga M. Pena, et al.. (2011). Host Defense Peptide LL-37 Selectively Reduces Proinflammatory Macrophage Responses. The Journal of Immunology. 186(9). 5497–5505. 139 indexed citations

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Pena, Olga M., et al.. (2011). Endotoxin Tolerance Represents a Distinctive State of Alternative Polarization (M2) in Human Mononuclear Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 186(12). 7243–7254. 191 indexed citations

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