Sandra Maday

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sandra Maday is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Maday has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Epidemiology, 13 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sandra Maday's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (16 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (8 papers). Sandra Maday is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (16 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (8 papers). Sandra Maday collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Belgium. Sandra Maday's co-authors include Erika L.F. Holzbaur, Armen J. Moughamian, Karen E. Wallace, Alison E. Twelvetrees, Meng‐meng Fu, Eran Perlson, Ira Mellman, Heike Fölsch, Marc Pypaert and Jessica Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Maday

24 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

  1. Autophagosomes initiate distally and mature during transport toward the cell soma in primary neurons
    2012 490 citations Sandra Maday, Erika L.F. Holzbaur et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
  2. Axonal Transport: Cargo-Specific Mechanisms of Motility and Regulation
    2014 483 citations Sandra Maday, Alison E. Twelvetrees et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandra Maday United States 18 1.1k 1.1k 1.0k 602 530 24 2.6k
Abraham Acevedo‐Arozena United Kingdom 20 413 0.4× 759 0.7× 870 0.9× 497 0.8× 452 0.9× 42 2.2k
Mala V. Rao United States 26 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 240 0.2× 817 1.4× 434 0.8× 37 2.7k
Takahiro Gotow Japan 24 604 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 238 0.2× 632 1.0× 272 0.5× 56 2.1k
Natalia V. Gounko Belgium 23 324 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 308 0.3× 495 0.8× 205 0.4× 43 1.9k
Oleg S. Gorbatyuk United States 24 576 0.5× 1.4k 1.3× 317 0.3× 892 1.5× 304 0.6× 41 2.6k
Tiemo J. Klisch United States 21 291 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 757 0.7× 128 0.2× 272 0.5× 35 2.2k
Lynnette J. Cook United Kingdom 12 216 0.2× 624 0.6× 499 0.5× 409 0.7× 210 0.4× 12 1.4k
Liviu Aron United States 14 189 0.2× 1.3k 1.2× 271 0.3× 504 0.8× 626 1.2× 20 2.4k
Ning Huang China 21 371 0.3× 913 0.8× 262 0.3× 331 0.5× 206 0.4× 54 1.8k
Francesca Navone Italy 17 1.5k 1.4× 1.5k 1.4× 141 0.1× 868 1.4× 284 0.5× 26 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandra Maday

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandra Maday

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sandra Maday. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sandra Maday 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 Sandra Maday. Sandra Maday 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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Smith, Erin, Maeve Coughlan, & Sandra Maday. (2024). Turning garbage into gold: Autophagy in synaptic function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 90. 102937–102937. 1 indexed citations
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Coughlan, Maeve & Sandra Maday. (2023). Beyond housekeeping: autophagy regulates PKA signaling at synapses. Trends in Neurosciences. 46(3). 167–169. 2 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Organization of the autophagy pathway in neurons. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 75. 102554–102554. 19 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor stimulates the retrograde pathway for axonal autophagy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(12). 102673–102673. 11 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Retrograde Axonal Autophagy and Endocytic Pathways Are Parallel and Separate in Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(45). 8524–8541. 13 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2021). Synaptic activity controls autophagic vacuole motility and function in dendrites. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(6). 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Jessica, et al.. (2019). Differential regulation of autophagy during metabolic stress in astrocytes and neurons. Autophagy. 16(9). 1651–1667. 52 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2019). Methods for Imaging Autophagosome Dynamics in Primary Neurons. Methods in molecular biology. 243–256. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Jessica, et al.. (2018). Neuronal autophagy and intercellular regulation of homeostasis in the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 51. 29–36. 88 indexed citations
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Winckler, Bettina, et al.. (2018). The Endolysosomal System and Proteostasis: From Development to Degeneration. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(44). 9364–9374. 74 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, et al.. (2017). Compartment‐specific dynamics and functions of autophagy in neurons. Developmental Neurobiology. 78(3). 298–310. 58 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2016). Compartment-Specific Regulation of Autophagy in Primary Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(22). 5933–5945. 222 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra. (2016). Mechanisms of neuronal homeostasis: Autophagy in the axon. Brain Research. 1649(Pt B). 143–150. 92 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2014). Autophagosome Biogenesis in Primary Neurons Follows an Ordered and Spatially Regulated Pathway. Developmental Cell. 30(1). 71–85. 272 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, Alison E. Twelvetrees, Armen J. Moughamian, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2014). Axonal Transport: Cargo-Specific Mechanisms of Motility and Regulation. Neuron. 84(2). 292–309. 483 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maday, Sandra & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2012). Autophagosome assembly and cargo capture in the distal axon. Autophagy. 8(5). 858–860. 61 indexed citations
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Perlson, Eran, Sandra Maday, Meng‐meng Fu, Armen J. Moughamian, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2010). Retrograde axonal transport: pathways to cell death?. Trends in Neurosciences. 33(7). 335–344. 259 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, Eric Anderson, Henry C. Chang, et al.. (2008). A PDZ‐Binding Motif Controls Basolateral Targeting of Syndecan‐1 Along the Biosynthetic Pathway in Polarized Epithelial Cells. Traffic. 9(11). 1915–1924. 34 indexed citations
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Togawa, Akashi, Sandra Maday, Marc Pypaert, et al.. (2007). Par3 functions in the biogenesis of the primary cilium in polarized epithelial cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 179(6). 1133–1140. 74 indexed citations
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Maday, Sandra, Krystyna Rybicka, James Thomas Ward, et al.. (2004). Disruption of Caenorhabditis elegans Muscle Structure and Function Caused by Mutation of Troponin I. Biophysical Journal. 86(2). 991–1001. 21 indexed citations

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