Samantha Alvarez

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Samantha Alvarez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Samantha Alvarez has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 1 paper in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Samantha Alvarez's work include RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Samantha Alvarez is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Samantha Alvarez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Argentina. Samantha Alvarez's co-authors include Richard Possemato, Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, Erdem M. Terzi, Thales Papagiannakopoulos, Kıvanç Birsoy, David M. Sabatini, Sylvia Adams, André L. Moreira, Minwoo Nam and Daniel J. McLaughlin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Molecular Cell and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Samantha Alvarez

10 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumours and protects cells from ferroptosis

2017 587 citations Samantha Alvarez, Vladislav O. Sviderskiy et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samantha Alvarez United States	7	919	666	595	116	81	11	1.2k
Tal Hirschhorn United States	10	781 0.8×	722 1.1×	506 0.9×	118 1.0×	98 1.2×	15	1.3k
Erdem M. Terzi United States	5	648 0.7×	641 1.0×	485 0.8×	88 0.8×	78 1.0×	7	916
Joel Schick Germany	11	864 0.9×	873 1.3×	706 1.2×	146 1.3×	78 1.0×	20	1.3k
Nen C. Pagano United States	5	840 0.9×	575 0.9×	457 0.8×	245 2.1×	74 0.9×	8	1.1k
Feimei Kuang China	8	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	880 1.5×	176 1.5×	76 0.9×	10	1.7k
Naiara Santana-Codina United States	11	659 0.7×	360 0.5×	403 0.7×	169 1.5×	85 1.0×	14	1.1k
Amber D. Horbath United States	7	806 0.9×	776 1.2×	566 1.0×	149 1.3×	27 0.3×	8	1.3k
Li Zhuang United States	3	540 0.6×	469 0.7×	380 0.6×	89 0.8×	34 0.4×	5	814
Ge Gao China	10	434 0.5×	375 0.6×	293 0.5×	68 0.6×	69 0.9×	26	741
Misty S. Martin-Sandoval United States	7	579 0.6×	339 0.5×	417 0.7×	170 1.5×	22 0.3×	8	870

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samantha Alvarez

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Rodríguez, C., et al.. (2024). Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Cardiovascular Disease: An Integrative Review With a Focus on the Gut Microbiome. Cureus. 16(7). e65136–e65136. 9 indexed citations

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Encalada, Rusely, et al.. (2023). Metabolic control analysis of the transsulfuration pathway and the compensatory role of the cysteine transport in Trypanosoma cruzi. Biosystems. 234. 105066–105066. 1 indexed citations

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Terzi, Erdem M., et al.. (2021). Iron-sulfur cluster deficiency can be sensed by IRP2 and regulates iron homeostasis and sensitivity to ferroptosis independent of IRP1 and FBXL5. Science Advances. 7(22). 128 indexed citations

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Sviderskiy, Vladislav O., Lili M. Blumenberg, Triantafyllia Karakousi, et al.. (2020). Hyperactive CDK2 Activity in Basal-like Breast Cancer Imposes a Genome Integrity Liability that Can Be Exploited by Targeting DNA Polymerase ε. Molecular Cell. 80(4). 682–698.e7. 31 indexed citations

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Minton, Denise R., Minwoo Nam, Daniel J. McLaughlin, et al.. (2018). Serine Catabolism by SHMT2 Is Required for Proper Mitochondrial Translation Initiation and Maintenance of Formylmethionyl-tRNAs. Molecular Cell. 69(4). 610–621.e5. 146 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Samantha, Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, Erdem M. Terzi, et al.. (2018). Abstract NG02: NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumors and protects cells from ferroptosis. Cancer Research. 78(13_Supplement). NG02–NG02.

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Alvarez, Samantha, Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, Erdem M. Terzi, et al.. (2017). NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumours and protects cells from ferroptosis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 150 indexed citations

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Sayin, Volkan I., Sarah E. LeBoeuf, Simranjit X. Singh, et al.. (2017). Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program generates an imbalance in central carbon metabolism in cancer. eLife. 6. 175 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Samantha, Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, Erdem M. Terzi, et al.. (2017). NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumours and protects cells from ferroptosis. Nature. 551(7682). 639–643. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Magnani, Natalia, Timoteo Marchini, Deborah R. Tasat, Samantha Alvarez, & Pablo Evelson. (2012). Analysis of the reactive oxygen species sources involved in lung oxidative metabolism after acute exposure to ambient particulate matter. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 53. S231–S231. 1 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Samantha, et al.. (2004). Statistical analysis of the distribution of amino acids in Borrelia burgdorferi genome under different genetic codes. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 342(1-2). 288–293. 4 indexed citations

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