Sara Zaccara

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
22 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Sara Zaccara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Zaccara has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sara Zaccara's work include RNA modifications and cancer (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (6 papers). Sara Zaccara is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (6 papers). Sara Zaccara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Poland. Sara Zaccara's co-authors include Samie R. Jaffrey, Ryan J. Ries, Brian F. Pickering, Anthony O. Olarerin-George, Hojoong Kwak, Pierre Klein, Deepak P. Patil, Sim Namkoong, Jun Hee Lee and Virginia M. Klimek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sara Zaccara

22 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Reading, writing and erasing mRNA methylation

2019 1.7k citations Sara Zaccara, Ryan J. Ries et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
The N6-methyladenosine (m6A)-forming enzyme METTL3 controls myeloid differentiation of normal hematopoietic and leukemia cells

2017 932 citations Ly Vu, Brian F. Pickering et al. Nature Medicine profile →
A Unified Model for the Function of YTHDF Proteins in Regulating m6A-Modified mRNA

2020 538 citations Sara Zaccara, Samie R. Jaffrey Cell profile →
m6A enhances the phase separation potential of mRNA

2019 517 citations Ryan J. Ries, Sara Zaccara 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
Sara Zaccara United States	14	4.2k	1.9k	588	440	154	22	4.3k
Junho Choe South Korea	21	3.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	393 0.7×	211 0.5×	107 0.7×	28	3.5k
Brian F. Pickering United States	14	4.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	670 1.1×	289 0.7×	147 1.0×	16	4.8k
Bryan T. Harada United States	17	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	323 0.5×	205 0.5×	109 0.7×	19	2.7k
Isaia Barbieri United Kingdom	9	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	196 0.3×	274 0.6×	59 0.4×	12	2.5k
Joseph A. Bokar United States	17	1.6k 0.4×	674 0.4×	240 0.4×	297 0.7×	110 0.7×	39	2.0k
Wanqiang Sheng United States	11	1.3k 0.3×	477 0.3×	113 0.2×	333 0.8×	40 0.3×	13	1.7k
Konstantinos Tzelepis United Kingdom	18	1.6k 0.4×	639 0.3×	177 0.3×	137 0.3×	31 0.2×	35	1.8k
Aldema Sas‐Chen Israel	17	1.7k 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	43 0.1×	110 0.3×	37 0.2×	22	1.8k
Amélie Rodrigue Canada	19	1.6k 0.4×	261 0.1×	76 0.1×	913 2.1×	31 0.2×	30	2.0k
Alexander Federation United States	13	1.3k 0.3×	308 0.2×	51 0.1×	216 0.5×	41 0.3×	15	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Zaccara

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Murakami, Shino, Anthony O. Olarerin-George, Jianheng Liu, et al.. (2025). m6A alters ribosome dynamics to initiate mRNA degradation. Cell. 188(14). 3728–3743.e20. 6 indexed citations

Arcas, Aída, Luisa Statello, Enrique Goñi, et al.. (2024). YTHDC1 m6A-dependent and m6A-independent functions converge to preserve the DNA damage response. The EMBO Journal. 43(16). 3494–3522. 3 indexed citations

Zaccara, Sara & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2024). Understanding the redundant functions of the m⁶A-binding YTHDF proteins. RNA. 30(5). 468–481. 13 indexed citations

Zaccara, Sara, Ryan J. Ries, & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2023). Publisher Correction: Reading, writing and erasing mRNA methylation. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 24(10). 770–770. 13 indexed citations

Bisio, Alessandra, et al.. (2021). TranSNPs: A class of functional SNPs affecting mRNA translation potential revealed by fraction-based allelic imbalance. iScience. 24(12). 103531–103531. 2 indexed citations

Zaccara, Sara, Annalisa Rossi, Matthew D. Galbraith, et al.. (2020). Nutlin-Induced Apoptosis Is Specified by a Translation Program Regulated by PCBP2 and DHX30. Cell Reports. 30(13). 4355–4369.e6. 21 indexed citations

Zaccara, Sara & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2020). A Unified Model for the Function of YTHDF Proteins in Regulating m6A-Modified mRNA. Cell. 181(7). 1582–1595.e18. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

Zaccara, Sara, et al.. (2020). Translation control can shape TP53-dependent cell fate. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 7(5). 1767483–1767483. 2 indexed citations

Zaccara, Sara, Ryan J. Ries, & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2019). Reading, writing and erasing mRNA methylation. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 20(10). 608–624. 1700 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ries, Ryan J., Sara Zaccara, Pierre Klein, et al.. (2019). m6A enhances the phase separation potential of mRNA. Nature. 571(7765). 424–428. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Boulias, Konstantinos, Ben R Hawley, Noa Liberman, et al.. (2019). Identification of the m6Am Methyltransferase PCIF1 Reveals the Location and Functions of m6Am in the Transcriptome. Molecular Cell. 75(3). 631–643.e8. 202 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiahui, Sara Zaccara, Deepak Khuperkar, et al.. (2019). Live imaging of mRNA using RNA-stabilized fluorogenic proteins. Nature Methods. 16(9). 862–865. 89 indexed citations

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Andrysík, Zdeněk, Matthew D. Galbraith, Anna L. Guarnieri, et al.. (2017). Identification of a core TP53 transcriptional program with highly distributed tumor suppressive activity. Genome Research. 27(10). 1645–1657. 108 indexed citations

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Vu, Ly, Brian F. Pickering, Yuanming Cheng, et al.. (2017). The N6-methyladenosine (m6A)-forming enzyme METTL3 controls myeloid differentiation of normal hematopoietic and leukemia cells. Nature Medicine. 23(11). 1369–1376. 932 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tebaldi, Toma, Sara Zaccara, Federica Alessandrini, et al.. (2015). Whole-genome cartography of p53 response elements ranked on transactivation potential. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 464–464. 52 indexed citations

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Zaccara, Sara, et al.. (2014). p53-directed translational control can shape and expand the universe of p53 target genes. Cell Death and Differentiation. 21(10). 1522–1534. 50 indexed citations

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Zaccara, Sara, et al.. (2014). 282: p53-directed translational control can shape and expand the universe of p53 target genes. European Journal of Cancer. 50. S66–S67. 2 indexed citations

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Bisio, Alessandra, Judit Zámborszky, Sara Zaccara, et al.. (2014). Cooperative interactions between p53 and NFκB enhance cell plasticity. Oncotarget. 5(23). 12111–12125. 26 indexed citations

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Bisio, Alessandra, Judit Zámborszky, Sara Zaccara, et al.. (2013). Abstract 746: Functional crosstalk between the p53 and NF-kB transcription factors.. Cancer Research. 73(8_Supplement). 746–746. 1 indexed citations

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Pinzani, Pamela, Francesca Salvianti, Sara Zaccara, et al.. (2011). Circulating cell-free DNA in plasma of melanoma patients: Qualitative and quantitative considerations. Clinica Chimica Acta. 412(23-24). 2141–2145. 61 indexed citations

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