Sara Quercia

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sara Quercia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Quercia has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sara Quercia's work include Gut microbiota and health (15 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (6 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Sara Quercia is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (15 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (6 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Sara Quercia collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Sara Quercia's co-authors include Patrizia Brigidi, Simone Rampelli, Marco Candela, Silvia Turroni, Elena Biagi, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Claudio Franceschi, Matteo Soverini and Rita Ostan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sara Quercia

23 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Gut Microbiota and Extreme Longevity

2016 698 citations Elena Biagi, Claudio Franceschi et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Quercia Italy	16	1.3k	640	251	229	213	23	1.8k
Tian Hao Zhu United States	12	1.3k 1.0×	729 1.1×	209 0.8×	206 0.9×	213 1.0×	25	2.3k
Giulia Gibiino Italy	12	1.3k 1.0×	404 0.6×	208 0.8×	232 1.0×	252 1.2×	41	2.1k
Kristina M. Lee United States	8	1.3k 1.0×	680 1.1×	215 0.9×	191 0.8×	213 1.0×	12	2.1k
Di Yan China	12	1.5k 1.2×	709 1.1×	222 0.9×	214 0.9×	255 1.2×	22	2.3k
Richard R. Rodrigues United States	13	1.5k 1.2×	667 1.0×	149 0.6×	259 1.1×	184 0.9×	23	2.4k
Gianenrico Rizzatti Italy	16	1.4k 1.1×	490 0.8×	239 1.0×	327 1.4×	307 1.4×	47	2.5k
Benjamin Farahnik United States	18	1.3k 1.0×	779 1.2×	215 0.9×	208 0.9×	219 1.0×	38	2.7k
Zhengsheng Xue China	8	1.6k 1.2×	622 1.0×	154 0.6×	275 1.2×	237 1.1×	9	1.9k
Derya Uçmak Türkiye	13	1.4k 1.1×	733 1.1×	213 0.8×	222 1.0×	222 1.0×	53	2.6k
Hsin-Wen Chang Taiwan	7	1.3k 1.0×	672 1.1×	190 0.8×	205 0.9×	213 1.0×	7	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Quercia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Quercia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Quercia

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Viciani, Elisa, Monica Barone, Tindaro Bongiovanni, et al.. (2022). Fecal Microbiota Monitoring in Elite Soccer Players Along the 2019–2020 Competitive Season. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 43(13). 1137–1147. 3 indexed citations

Lanci, Aliai, Jole Mariella, Elisa Viciani, et al.. (2021). Changes in the Fecal Microbiota Associated with a Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Administration in Hospitalized Neonatal Foals with Probiotics Supplementation. Animals. 11(8). 2283–2283. 5 indexed citations

Biagi, Elena, Arianna Aceti, Sara Quercia, et al.. (2018). Microbial Community Dynamics in Mother’s Milk and Infant’s Mouth and Gut in Moderately Preterm Infants. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2512–2512. 67 indexed citations

Quercia, Sara, Carolina Castagnetti, Matteo Soverini, et al.. (2018). Early colonisation and temporal dynamics of the gut microbial ecosystem in Standardbred foals. Equine Veterinary Journal. 51(2). 231–237. 43 indexed citations

Quercia, Sara, Silvia Turroni, Jessica Fiori, et al.. (2017). Gut microbiome response to short‐term dietary interventions in reactive hypoglycemia subjects. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 33(8). 20 indexed citations

Turroni, Silvia, Simone Rampelli, Elena Biagi, et al.. (2017). Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota in people sharing a confined environment, a 520-day ground-based space simulation, MARS500. Microbiome. 5(1). 39–39. 86 indexed citations

Soverini, Matteo, Silvia Turroni, Elena Biagi, et al.. (2017). Variation of Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Patterns in the Gut Microbiota of Italian Healthy Subjects and Type 2 Diabetes Patients. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 2079–2079. 20 indexed citations

Costabile, Adele, Sofía Kolida, Sara Quercia, et al.. (2017). An in vivo assessment of the cholesterol-lowering efficacy of Lactobacillus plantarum ECGC 13110402 in normal to mildly hypercholesterolaemic adults. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0187964–e0187964. 122 indexed citations

Biagi, Elena, Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni, et al.. (2017). The gut microbiota of centenarians: Signatures of longevity in the gut microbiota profile. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 165(Pt B). 180–184. 120 indexed citations

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Minichillo, Santino, Ilaria Gallelli, Daniela Rubino, et al.. (2017). Trastuzumab resumption after extremely severe cardiotoxicity in metastatic breast cancer patient: a case report. BMC Cancer. 17(1). 722–722. 5 indexed citations

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Biagi, Elena, Sara Quercia, Arianna Aceti, et al.. (2017). The Bacterial Ecosystem of Mother’s Milk and Infant’s Mouth and Gut. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1214–1214. 122 indexed citations

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Rampelli, Simone, Silvia Turroni, Stephanie L. Schnorr, et al.. (2017). Characterization of the human DNA gut virome across populations with different subsistence strategies and geographical origin. Environmental Microbiology. 19(11). 4728–4735. 26 indexed citations

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Soverini, Matteo, Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni, et al.. (2016). Variations in the Post-weaning Human Gut Metagenome Profile As Result of Bifidobacterium Acquisition in the Western Microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1058–1058. 16 indexed citations

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Candela, Marco, Elena Biagi, Matteo Soverini, et al.. (2016). Modulation of gut microbiota dysbioses in type 2 diabetic patients by macrobiotic Ma-Pi 2 diet. British Journal Of Nutrition. 116(1). 80–93. 187 indexed citations

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Soverini, Matteo, Sara Quercia, Silvia Turroni, et al.. (2016). The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) faecal microbiota. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(4). fiw055–fiw055. 72 indexed citations

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Rampelli, Simone, Matteo Soverini, Silvia Turroni, et al.. (2016). ViromeScan: a new tool for metagenomic viral community profiling. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 165–165. 93 indexed citations

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Biagi, Elena, Claudio Franceschi, Simone Rampelli, et al.. (2016). Gut Microbiota and Extreme Longevity. Current Biology. 26(11). 1480–1485. 698 indexed citations breakdown →

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Diemberger, Igor, Giulia Massaro, Daniela Rubino, et al.. (2015). Repolarization effects of multiple-cycle chemotherapy and predictors of QTc prolongation: a prospective female cohort study on >2000 ECGs. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 71(8). 1001–1009. 7 indexed citations

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Quercia, Sara, Marco Candela, Cristina Giuliani, et al.. (2014). From lifetime to evolution: timescales of human gut microbiota adaptation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 587–587. 82 indexed citations

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Zamagni, Claudio, Ralph M. Wirtz, Pierandrea De Iaco, et al.. (2009). Oestrogen receptor 1 mRNA is a prognostic factor in ovarian cancer patients treated with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy: determination by array and kinetic PCR in fresh tissue biopsies. Endocrine Related Cancer. 16(4). 1241–1249. 15 indexed citations

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