Perla Cota

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 859 citations indexed

About

Perla Cota is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Perla Cota has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 859 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Surgery, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Perla Cota's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (5 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (4 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (4 papers). Perla Cota is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (5 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (4 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (4 papers). Perla Cota collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Switzerland. Perla Cota's co-authors include Hui Kang, André Fischer, Farahnaz Sananbenesi, Jessica L. Wittnam, Lennart Opitz, Wei Chen, Susanne Burkhardt, Laurent Farinelli, Athanasios Zovoilis and Sanaz Bahari‐Javan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Perla Cota

8 papers receiving 851 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.

Altered Histone Acetylation Is Associated with Age-Dependent Memory Impairment in Mice

2010 721 citations Shahaf Peleg, Farahnaz Sananbenesi et al. Science profile →
Mapping cells through time and space with moscot

2025 24 citations Dominik Klein, Giovanni Palla et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Perla Cota Germany	6	576	267	155	126	98	8	859
Shahaf Peleg Germany	11	839 1.5×	241 0.9×	342 2.2×	163 1.3×	31 0.3×	19	1.3k
Susanne C. Bleckmann Germany	8	581 1.0×	139 0.5×	106 0.7×	423 3.4×	48 0.5×	8	955
Christine Laliberté Canada	16	435 0.8×	130 0.5×	122 0.8×	278 2.2×	28 0.3×	20	930
Mark J. Zylka United States	9	388 0.7×	144 0.5×	191 1.2×	165 1.3×	24 0.2×	11	733
Vidar M. Steen Norway	12	358 0.6×	97 0.4×	185 1.2×	165 1.3×	41 0.4×	15	767
Kelly A. Aromolaran United States	13	555 1.0×	112 0.4×	126 0.8×	234 1.9×	20 0.2×	23	882
Franck Dufour France	11	377 0.7×	94 0.4×	222 1.4×	316 2.5×	49 0.5×	15	916
Viktoriya D. Nikolova United States	17	613 1.1×	242 0.9×	58 0.4×	210 1.7×	27 0.3×	29	1.1k
Daniel Gau Germany	5	418 0.7×	131 0.5×	138 0.9×	425 3.4×	36 0.4×	6	913

Countries citing papers authored by Perla Cota

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Fields of papers citing papers by Perla Cota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Perla Cota

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Perla Cota. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Perla Cota 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 Perla Cota. Perla Cota 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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Klein, Dominik, Giovanni Palla, Marius Lange, et al.. (2025). Mapping cells through time and space with moscot. Nature. 638(8052). 1065–1075. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cota, Perla, Özüm Şehnaz Çalışkan, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, et al.. (2023). Insulin regulates human pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation in vitro. Molecular Metabolism. 79. 101853–101853. 2 indexed citations

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Cota, Perla, Changying Jing, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, et al.. (2023). NEUROD2 function is dispensable for human pancreatic β cell specification. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1286590–1286590. 1 indexed citations

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Bakhti, Mostafa, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, Sophie Tritschler, et al.. (2022). Synaptotagmin-13 orchestrates pancreatic endocrine cell egression and islet morphogenesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4540–4540. 13 indexed citations

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Salinno, Ciro, Maren Büttner, Perla Cota, et al.. (2021). CD81 marks immature and dedifferentiated pancreatic β-cells. Molecular Metabolism. 49. 101188–101188. 32 indexed citations

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Cota, Perla, et al.. (2020). Cytokine Directed Chondroblast Trans-Differentiation: JAK Inhibition Facilitates Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts to Chondroblasts. Cells. 9(1). 191–191. 10 indexed citations

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Salinno, Ciro, Perla Cota, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, et al.. (2019). β-Cell Maturation and Identity in Health and Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(21). 5417–5417. 56 indexed citations

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Peleg, Shahaf, Farahnaz Sananbenesi, Athanasios Zovoilis, et al.. (2010). Altered Histone Acetylation Is Associated with Age-Dependent Memory Impairment in Mice. Science. 328(5979). 753–756. 721 indexed citations breakdown →

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