Sam Scanga

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sam Scanga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Scanga has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sam Scanga's work include 14-3-3 protein interactions (2 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (2 papers) and Selenium in Biological Systems (1 paper). Sam Scanga is often cited by papers focused on 14-3-3 protein interactions (2 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (2 papers) and Selenium in Biological Systems (1 paper). Sam Scanga collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Austria. Sam Scanga's co-authors include Armen S. Manoukian, Mark C. Chappell, Peter H. Backx, Gavin Y. Oudit, I. Kozieradzki, Chana Yagil, Antonio J. Oliveira-dos-Santos, Yoram Yagil, Carlos M. Ferrario and York Pei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Blood and Oncogene.

In The Last Decade

Sam Scanga

7 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is an essential regulator of heart function

2002 1.3k citations Michael A. Crackower, Renu Sarao et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Scanga Canada	5	796	501	457	447	250	7	1.6k
James M. Gavin United States	6	743 0.9×	509 1.0×	419 0.9×	304 0.7×	402 1.6×	6	1.4k
Elizabeth Pereira Mendes Brazil	10	1.3k 1.6×	783 1.6×	646 1.4×	152 0.3×	345 1.4×	25	1.8k
Sayaka Nagata Japan	16	566 0.7×	315 0.6×	440 1.0×	44 0.1×	96 0.4×	49	1.0k
Richard van Veghel Netherlands	24	779 1.0×	419 0.8×	633 1.4×	101 0.2×	81 0.3×	50	1.5k
Devorah Gurantz United States	21	476 0.6×	175 0.3×	547 1.2×	54 0.1×	103 0.4×	24	1.6k
Itsuro Kazama Japan	19	184 0.2×	101 0.2×	487 1.1×	79 0.2×	92 0.4×	89	1.1k
Jocelyne Bidault France	16	109 0.1×	110 0.2×	198 0.4×	59 0.1×	80 0.3×	28	884
Preethi Cherian Kuwait	21	508 0.6×	412 0.8×	324 0.7×	77 0.2×	61 0.2×	58	1.3k
Yasukazu Yamada Japan	25	78 0.1×	74 0.1×	1.4k 3.0×	241 0.5×	48 0.2×	111	2.3k
Kenneth E. Bernstein United States	17	187 0.2×	91 0.2×	253 0.6×	93 0.2×	49 0.2×	32	762

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Scanga

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Scanga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sam Scanga. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sam Scanga. The network helps show where Sam Scanga may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Scanga

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Trudel, Suzanne, Sam Scanga, Fabrizio G. Mastronardi, et al.. (2012). GSK-3 Spatial Regulation Has an Essential Role in Lenalidomide Activity and Represents a Biomarker of Clinical Response in CLL. Blood. 120(21). 1793–1793. 3 indexed citations

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Stewart, A. Keith, et al.. (2004). Inhibition of Wnt Pathway Signaling by Thalidomide and Revlimid: Studies in a Drosophila Model System.. Blood. 104(11). 3356–3356. 3 indexed citations

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Crackower, Michael A., Renu Sarao, Gavin Y. Oudit, et al.. (2002). Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is an essential regulator of heart function. Nature. 417(6891). 822–828. 1340 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scanga, Sam, Laurent Ruel, Richard Binari, et al.. (2000). The conserved PI3′K/PTEN/Akt signaling pathway regulates both cell size and survival in Drosophila. Oncogene. 19(35). 3971–3977. 160 indexed citations

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Russell, M. A. H., et al.. (1998). Lethal P-lacZinsertion lines expressed during pattern respecification in the imaginal discs ofDrosophila. Genome. 41(1). 7–13. 10 indexed citations

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Scanga, Sam, et al.. (1995). Time- and Concentration-Dependent Response of the Drosophila Antenna Imaginal Disc to Antennapedia. Developmental Biology. 169(2). 673–682. 8 indexed citations

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Purcell, Laura N., et al.. (1993). Developmental anomalies of Xenopus embryos following microinjection of SPARC antibodies. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 265(2). 153–164. 32 indexed citations

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