Roberto Plebani

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 463 citations indexed

About

Roberto Plebani is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Plebani has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 463 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Roberto Plebani's work include Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (7 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (6 papers) and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (4 papers). Roberto Plebani is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (7 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (6 papers) and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (4 papers). Roberto Plebani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and China. Roberto Plebani's co-authors include Mario Romano, Donald E. Ingber, Rachelle Prantil‐Baun, Haiqing Bai, Chaitra Belgur, Amanda Jiang, Sarah E. Gilpin, Girija Goyal, Longlong Si and Zohreh Izadifar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Plebani

19 papers receiving 459 citations

Hit Papers

Mechanical control of innate immune responses against vir... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 25 50 75 100
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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.

  1. Mechanical control of innate immune responses against viral infection revealed in a human lung alveolus chip
    2022 107 citations Haiqing Bai, Longlong Si et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Roberto Plebani
Stelvio Tonello Italy
Fabiana Saccheri Italy
Hongming Du China
Rianne M. J. P. Gerritsen Netherlands
Csaba I. Tímár Hungary
Aaron I. Weiner United States
Zoe Drymoussi United Kingdom
Verena Schmitt Germany
E. Ashley Dozier United States
Klemens J. Wassermann Austria
Stelvio Tonello Italy
Roberto Plebani
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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Plebani

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Plebani

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mattoscio, Domenico, Haiqing Bai, Tommaso Colangelo, et al.. (2025). Inflammation and epithelial–mesenchymal transition in a CFTR ‐depleted human bronchial epithelial cell line revealed by proteomics and human organ‐on‐a‐chip. FEBS Journal. 292(19). 5086–5104. 1 indexed citations
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Bai, Haiqing, Melissa Rodas, Longlong Si, et al.. (2025). Host Serine Proteases and Antiviral Innate Immunity as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Influenza A Virus Infection-Induced COPD Exacerbations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(6). 2549–2549. 1 indexed citations
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Man, Yuncheng, Haiqing Bai, Amanda Jiang, et al.. (2025). Preclinical assessment of pan-influenza A virus CRISPR RNA therapeutics in a human lung alveolus chip. Lab on a Chip. 25(20). 5240–5254. 3 indexed citations
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Prete, Alessandro, Antonio Matrone, & Roberto Plebani. (2024). State of the Art in 3D Culture Models Applied to Thyroid Cancer. Medicina. 60(4). 520–520. 3 indexed citations
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Petrini, Morena, Mario Romano, Camillo D’Arcangelo, et al.. (2024). A Systematic Review on Organ-on-a-Chip in PDMS or Hydrogel in Dentistry: An Update of the Literature. Gels. 10(2). 102–102. 7 indexed citations
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Merigo, Flavia, Federico Boschi, Paolo Bernardi, et al.. (2024). Loss of CFTR Reverses Senescence Hallmarks in SARS-CoV-2 Infected Bronchial Epithelial Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(11). 6185–6185.
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Plebani, Roberto, Alessandra D’Alessandro, Paola Lanuti, et al.. (2023). Microvascular and Macrovascular Endothelial Cell Isolation and Purification from Lung-Derived Samples. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations
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Bai, Haiqing, Longlong Si, Amanda Jiang, et al.. (2022). Mechanical control of innate immune responses against viral infection revealed in a human lung alveolus chip. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1928–1928. 107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lotti, Virginia, Flavia Merigo, Marco Ligozzi, et al.. (2022). CFTR Modulation Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells. Cells. 11(8). 1347–1347. 22 indexed citations
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Mahajan, Gautam, Jennifer Grant, Abidemi Junaid, et al.. (2022). Vaginal microbiome-host interactions modeled in a human vagina-on-a-chip. Microbiome. 10(1). 201–201. 80 indexed citations
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Plebani, Roberto, Haiqing Bai, Longlong Si, et al.. (2022). 3D Lung Tissue Models for Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Pathophysiology and Therapeutics. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(17). 10071–10071. 14 indexed citations
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Plebani, Roberto, Ratnakar Potla, Haiqing Bai, et al.. (2021). Modeling pulmonary cystic fibrosis in a human lung airway-on-a-chip. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 21(4). 606–615. 91 indexed citations
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Totani, Licia, Concetta Amore, Antônio Piccoli, et al.. (2021). Type-4 Phosphodiesterase (PDE4) Blockade Reduces NETosis in Cystic Fibrosis. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12. 702677–702677. 18 indexed citations
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Recchiuti, Antonio, Sara Patruno, Roberto Plebani, & Mario Romano. (2020). The Resolution Approach to Cystic Fibrosis Inflammation. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 11. 1129–1129. 7 indexed citations
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Plebani, Roberto, Romina Tripaldi, Paola Lanuti, et al.. (2017). Establishment and long-term culture of human cystic fibrosis endothelial cells. Laboratory Investigation. 97(11). 1375–1384. 10 indexed citations
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Pierdomenico, Anna M., Sara Patruno, Marilina Codagnone, et al.. (2017). microRNA-181b is increased in cystic fibrosis cells and impairs lipoxin A4 receptor-dependent mechanisms of inflammation resolution and antimicrobial defense. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13519–13519. 25 indexed citations
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Micaroni, Massimo, Gilberta Giacchetti, Roberto Plebani, Guishan Xiao, & Luca Federici. (2016). ATP2C1 gene mutations in Hailey–Hailey disease and possible roles of SPCA1 isoforms in membrane trafficking. Cell Death and Disease. 7(6). e2259–e2259. 39 indexed citations
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Simiele, Felice, Antonio Recchiuti, Sara Patruno, et al.. (2016). Epigenetic regulation of the formyl peptide receptor 2 gene. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1859(10). 1252–1258. 14 indexed citations
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Plebani, Roberto, Gavin R. Oliver, Marco Trerotola, et al.. (2012). Long-range Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Cancer Cell Growth Regulatory Chimeric mRNA. Neoplasia. 14(11). 1087–49. 17 indexed citations

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