Roberta Spaccapelo

4.3k total citations
66 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Roberta Spaccapelo is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberta Spaccapelo has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Immunology, 21 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Roberta Spaccapelo's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (17 papers), Malaria Research and Control (14 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers). Roberta Spaccapelo is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (17 papers), Malaria Research and Control (14 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers). Roberta Spaccapelo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Roberta Spaccapelo's co-authors include Luigina Romani, Antonella Mencacci, Paolo Puccetti, Elio Cenci, Francesco Bistoni, Francesco Bistoni, Andrea Crisanti, Laura Tonnetti, Paolo Mosci and Manlio Di Cristina and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Roberta Spaccapelo

65 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Roberta Spaccapelo 1.2k 1.1k 985 766 645 66 3.3k
André Báfica 1.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 432 0.6× 613 1.0× 58 3.5k
N Nogueira 821 0.7× 432 0.4× 1.4k 1.4× 1.1k 1.4× 847 1.3× 72 3.7k
Michinaga Ogawa 1.1k 1.0× 820 0.7× 1.5k 1.5× 460 0.6× 2.1k 3.2× 57 4.8k
Scott D. Kobayashi 1.8k 1.6× 2.0k 1.7× 706 0.7× 706 0.9× 2.2k 3.4× 76 5.4k
Timothy J. Sellati 2.0k 1.7× 1.2k 1.1× 663 0.7× 286 0.4× 1.2k 1.8× 49 4.2k
Darren E. Higgins 1.3k 1.1× 719 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 249 0.3× 2.0k 3.1× 59 5.3k
Nigel Bourne 665 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.8× 1.0k 1.3× 628 1.0× 110 3.8k
Hitomi Mimuro 2.0k 1.7× 712 0.6× 904 0.9× 326 0.4× 2.3k 3.5× 75 5.4k
Mariam Quiñones 942 0.8× 560 0.5× 413 0.4× 332 0.4× 1.3k 2.0× 32 3.2k
Thuy T. Le 783 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 609 0.6× 1.1k 1.5× 652 1.0× 54 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberta Spaccapelo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberta Spaccapelo

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

All Works

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Wong, Alicia Y. W., et al.. (2025). Microbial Signatures in Breast Cancer: Exploring New Potentials Across Body Niches. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(17). 8654–8654. 1 indexed citations
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Ciurnelli, Raffaella, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Evolution: A Focus on Omicron Variants in Umbria, Italy. Microorganisms. 12(7). 1330–1330.
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Damiani, Claudia, Emilia Nunzi, Alessia Cappelli, et al.. (2023). Anopheline mosquito saliva contains bacteria that are transferred to a mammalian host through blood feeding. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1157613–1157613. 12 indexed citations
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Cappelli, Alessia, Claudia Damiani, Aida Capone, et al.. (2023). Tripartite interactions comprising yeast-endobacteria systems in the gut of vector mosquitoes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1157299–1157299. 2 indexed citations
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Cavagna, Andrea, Irene Giardina, Stefania Melillo, et al.. (2023). Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8745–8745. 7 indexed citations
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Somers, Jason, Matthew P. Su, Judit Bagi, et al.. (2022). Hitting the right note at the right time: Circadian control of audibility in Anopheles mosquito mating swarms is mediated by flight tones. Science Advances. 8(2). eabl4844–eabl4844. 35 indexed citations
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Zuani, Marco De, Marcela Hortová Kohoutková, Giancarlo Forte, et al.. (2020). Comparison of two human organoid models of lung and intestinal inflammation reveals Toll‐like receptor signalling activation and monocyte recruitment. Clinical & Translational Immunology. 9(5). e1131–e1131. 35 indexed citations
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Cristiano, Maria Chiara, Francesca Froiio, Roberta Spaccapelo, et al.. (2019). Sulforaphane-Loaded Ultradeformable Vesicles as A Potential Natural Nanomedicine for the Treatment of Skin Cancer Diseases. Pharmaceutics. 12(1). 6–6. 82 indexed citations
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Facchinelli, Luca, Ace North, C. Matilda Collins, et al.. (2019). Large-cage assessment of a transgenic sex-ratio distortion strain on populations of an African malaria vector. Parasites & Vectors. 12(1). 70–70. 17 indexed citations
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Mancini, Maria Vittoria, Claudia Damiani, E. Nunzi, et al.. (2018). Estimating bacteria diversity in different organs of nine species of mosquito by next generation sequencing. BMC Microbiology. 18(1). 126–126. 83 indexed citations
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Facchinelli, Luca, Laura Valerio, Rosemary Susan Lees, et al.. (2015). Stimulating Anopheles gambiae swarms in the laboratory: application for behavioural and fitness studies. Malaria Journal. 14(1). 271–271. 26 indexed citations
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Braks, Joanna A. M., et al.. (2012). Bioluminescence Imaging of P. berghei Schizont Sequestration in Rodents. Methods in molecular biology. 923. 353–368. 7 indexed citations
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Pasini, Erica M., Joanna A. M. Braks, Jannik Fonager, et al.. (2012). Proteomic and Genetic Analyses Demonstrate that Plasmodium berghei Blood Stages Export a Large and Diverse Repertoire of Proteins. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 12(2). 426–448. 52 indexed citations
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Spaccapelo, Roberta, Sara Caterbi, Manlio Di Cristina, et al.. (2011). Disruption of plasmepsin-4 and merozoites surface protein-7 genes in Plasmodium berghei induces combined virulence-attenuated phenotype. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 39–39. 20 indexed citations
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Enjalbert, Brice, Anna Rachini, Govindsamy Vediyappan, et al.. (2009). A Multifunctional, Synthetic Gaussia princeps Luciferase Reporter for Live Imaging of Candida albicans Infections. Infection and Immunity. 77(11). 4847–4858. 93 indexed citations
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Romani, Luigina, Antonella Mencacci, Elio Cenci, et al.. (1996). Impaired neutrophil response and CD4+ T helper cell 1 development in interleukin 6-deficient mice infected with Candida albicans.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 183(4). 1345–1355. 277 indexed citations
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Tonnetti, Laura, Roberta Spaccapelo, Elio Cenci, et al.. (1995). Interleukin‐4 and ‐10 exacerbate candidiasis in mice. European Journal of Immunology. 25(6). 1559–1565. 115 indexed citations
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Romani, Luigina, Francesco Bistoni, Antonella Mencacci, et al.. (1995). IL12 in Candida albicans infections. Research in Immunology. 146(7-8). 532–538. 37 indexed citations

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