Rita Lopes

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 860 citations indexed

About

Rita Lopes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Lopes has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 860 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Rita Lopes's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Rita Lopes is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Rita Lopes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland. Rita Lopes's co-authors include Nicholas R. Lemoine, Vassilis Pachnis, Iain A. McNeish, Julian Downward, Yaohe Wang, Rathi Gangeswaran, Tencho Tenev, Nicoletta Kessaris, Apostolia Fragkouli and Masanori Akada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rita Lopes

11 papers receiving 855 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.

Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology

2020 250 citations Yuuki Obata, Stefan Boeing et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Lopes United Kingdom	9	622	181	106	101	97	11	860
Michael S. Cuoco United States	9	285 0.5×	207 1.1×	143 1.3×	141 1.4×	110 1.1×	11	745
Masato Nagahama Japan	17	258 0.4×	100 0.6×	61 0.6×	44 0.4×	75 0.8×	40	685
Magnus Ljungström Sweden	13	420 0.7×	89 0.5×	51 0.5×	54 0.5×	47 0.5×	19	698
Catherine S. Chew United States	20	692 1.1×	137 0.8×	48 0.5×	42 0.4×	83 0.9×	28	1.1k
Takeshi Kondo Japan	14	429 0.7×	114 0.6×	22 0.2×	141 1.4×	127 1.3×	25	763
Tomoko Tsuruta Japan	14	343 0.6×	195 1.1×	19 0.2×	75 0.7×	52 0.5×	26	925
Erik Jansen Belgium	19	570 0.9×	69 0.4×	21 0.2×	83 0.8×	70 0.7×	20	1.3k
Eileen C. Hoyt United States	15	485 0.8×	106 0.6×	16 0.2×	71 0.7×	32 0.3×	16	989
Lucas Trevizani Rasmussen Brazil	18	323 0.5×	44 0.2×	49 0.5×	118 1.2×	111 1.1×	46	751
Keunmyoung Lee United States	11	638 1.0×	171 0.9×	14 0.1×	64 0.6×	44 0.5×	11	1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rita Lopes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rita Lopes

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Obata, Yuuki, Stefan Boeing, Ana Carina Bon‐Frauches, et al.. (2020). Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology. Nature. 578(7794). 284–289. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lopes, Rita, et al.. (2012). Transcription factor LIM homeobox 7 (Lhx7) maintains subtype identity of cholinergic interneurons in the mammalian striatum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(8). 3119–3124. 35 indexed citations

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Fragkouli, Apostolia, et al.. (2009). LIM homeodomain transcription factor-dependent specification of bipotential MGE progenitors into cholinergic and GABAergic striatal interneurons. Development. 136(22). 3841–3851. 87 indexed citations

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Lopes, Rita, Rathi Gangeswaran, Iain A. McNeish, Yaohe Wang, & Nicholas R. Lemoine. (2007). Expression of the IAP protein family is dysregulated in pancreatic cancer cells and is important for resistance to chemotherapy. International Journal of Cancer. 120(11). 2344–2352. 117 indexed citations

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Martín‐Duque, Pilar, Miguel Quintanilla, Iain A. McNeish, et al.. (2006). Caspase-1 as a radio- and chemo-sensitiser in vitro and in vivo. International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 17(5). 841–7. 4 indexed citations

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Arencibia, José M., M. Del Rı́o, Ana Bonnin, et al.. (2005). Doxazosin induces apoptosis in LNCaP prostate cancer cell line through DNA binding and DNA-dependent protein kinase down-regulation.. PubMed. 27(6). 1617–23. 18 indexed citations

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Akada, Masanori, Tatjana Crnogorac‐Jurcevic, Patrick C. Mahon, et al.. (2005). Intrinsic Chemoresistance to Gemcitabine Is Associated with Decreased Expression of BNIP3 in Pancreatic Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 11(8). 3094–3101. 125 indexed citations

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Pardo, Olivier E., Alexandre Arcaro, Rita Lopes, et al.. (2004). Fibroblast Growth Factor 2-Mediated Translational Control of IAPs Blocks Mitochondrial Release of Smac/DIABLO and Apoptosis in Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 24(15). 6887–6887. 8 indexed citations

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Marani, Michela, David C. Hancock, Rita Lopes, et al.. (2003). Role of Bim in the survival pathway induced by Raf in epithelial cells. Oncogene. 23(14). 2431–2441. 91 indexed citations

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McKay, Tristan R., et al.. (2003). Procaspase 3 expression in ovarian carcinoma cells increases survivin transcription which can be countered with a dominant-negative mutant, survivin T34A; a combination gene therapy strategy. Oncogene. 22(23). 3539–3547. 36 indexed citations

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Pardo, Olivier E., Alexandre Arcaro, Rita Lopes, et al.. (2003). Fibroblast Growth Factor 2-Mediated Translational Control of IAPs Blocks Mitochondrial Release of Smac/DIABLO and Apoptosis in Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(21). 7600–7610. 89 indexed citations

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