Sergio Cocozza

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sergio Cocozza is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Cocozza has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Sergio Cocozza's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (34 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (27 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers). Sergio Cocozza is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (34 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (27 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers). Sergio Cocozza collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Sergio Cocozza's co-authors include Antonella Monticelli, Alessandro Filla, Giuseppe De Michele, Francesca Cavalcanti, Luigi Pianese, G Campanella, Giorgio Casari, Andrea Ballabio, Maurizio De Fusco and R. Marconi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Cocozza

99 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Spastic Paraplegia and OXPHOS Impairment Caused by Mutations in Paraplegin, a Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Metalloprotease

1998 586 citations Giuseppe De Michele, Alessandro Filla et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sergio Cocozza Italy	30	2.4k	1.7k	526	379	370	101	3.3k
Roman Chrast Switzerland	35	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	356 0.7×	538 1.4×	275 0.7×	70	3.3k
Hitoshi Okazawa Japan	34	3.1k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	303 0.6×	364 1.0×	693 1.9×	116	4.5k
Bing‐Wen Soong Taiwan	35	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 2.9×	208 0.5×	337 0.9×	146	3.9k
Patrı́cia Maciel Portugal	35	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	687 1.3×	187 0.5×	851 2.3×	134	3.7k
Ning Wang China	21	1.2k 0.5×	727 0.4×	406 0.8×	225 0.6×	350 0.9×	137	2.5k
Maria K. Lehtinen United States	30	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	313 0.6×	642 1.7×	715 1.9×	63	4.5k
Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari United States	26	999 0.4×	779 0.5×	953 1.8×	432 1.1×	493 1.3×	85	2.9k
Yuwu Jiang China	30	1.6k 0.7×	905 0.5×	222 0.4×	150 0.4×	869 2.3×	227	3.2k
Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance United States	34	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	650 1.2×	643 1.7×	928 2.5×	71	5.2k
Stéphanie Baulac France	34	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	475 0.9×	466 1.2×	1.8k 4.9×	81	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sergio Cocozza

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Cocozza

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Ferrara, Nicola, Carlo Pietro Campobasso, Sergio Cocozza, et al.. (2022). Relationship between COVID-19 Mortality, Hospital Beds, and Primary Care by Italian Regions: A Lesson for the Future. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(14). 4196–4196. 10 indexed citations

Cuomo, Mariella, Luca Borrelli, Rosa Della Monica, et al.. (2021). DNA Methylation Profiles of Tph1A and BDNF in Gut and Brain of L. Rhamnosus-Treated Zebrafish. Biomolecules. 11(2). 142–142. 21 indexed citations

Riso, Giulia De & Sergio Cocozza. (2020). Artificial Intelligence for Epigenetics: Towards Personalized Medicine. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 28(32). 6654–6674. 8 indexed citations

Riso, Giulia De, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Annalisa Fierro, et al.. (2020). Modeling DNA Methylation Profiles through a Dynamic Equilibrium between Methylation and Demethylation. Biomolecules. 10(9). 1271–1271. 10 indexed citations

Russo, Camilla, Sirio Cocozza, Eleonora Riccio, et al.. (2020). Prevalence of GLA gene mutations and polymorphisms in patients with multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 412. 116782–116782. 2 indexed citations

Scala, Giovanni, Antonio Federico, Domenico Palumbo, Sergio Cocozza, & Dario Greco. (2020). DNA sequence context as a marker of CpG methylation instability in normal and cancer tissues. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1721–1721. 11 indexed citations

Cuomo, Mariella, Simona Keller, Daniela Punzo, et al.. (2019). Selective demethylation of two CpG sites causes postnatal activation of the Dao gene and consequent removal of d-serine within the mouse cerebellum. Clinical Epigenetics. 11(1). 149–149. 21 indexed citations

Akhtar, Most Mauluda, Giovanni Scala, Sergio Cocozza, Gennaro Miele, & Antonella Monticelli. (2013). CpG islands under selective pressure are enriched with H3K4me3, H3K27ac and H3K36me3 histone modifications. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 145–145. 5 indexed citations

Saccà, Francesco, Giuseppe De Michele, Fabio Acquaviva, et al.. (2010). Epoetin alfa increases frataxin production in Friedreich's ataxia without affecting hematocrit. Movement Disorders. 26(4). 739–742. 38 indexed citations

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Coppola, Giovanni, Daniele Marmolino, Daning Lu, et al.. (2009). Functional genomic analysis of frataxin deficiency reveals tissue-specific alterations and identifies the PPARγ pathway as a therapeutic target in Friedreich’s ataxia. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(13). 2452–2461. 100 indexed citations

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Pizzi, C., Massimo Di Maïo, P. Mastranzo, et al.. (2007). Triplet repeat instability correlates with dinucleotide instability in primary breast cancer. Oncology Reports. 17(1). 193–9. 10 indexed citations

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Postiglione, Loredana, Stefania Montagnani, Clotilde Castaldo, et al.. (2006). Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor Receptor Expression on Human Cardiomyocytes from End-Stage Heart Failure Patients. European Journal of Heart Failure. 8(6). 564–570. 14 indexed citations

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Cocozza, Sergio. (2006). Methodological aspects of the assessment of gene–nutrient interactions at the population level. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 17(2). 82–88. 3 indexed citations

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Pizzi, C., Luigi Panico, Laura De Marchis, et al.. (2002). p53 Expression is Decreased in Primary Breast Carcinomas with Microsatellite Instability. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 73(3). 257–266. 7 indexed citations

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Pianese, Luigi, Angela Tammaro, Mimmo Turano, et al.. (2002). Identification of a novel transcript of X25, the human gene involved in Friedreich ataxia. Neuroscience Letters. 320(3). 137–140. 18 indexed citations

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Albano, Lílian Maria José, Mayana Zatz, Chong Ae Kim, et al.. (2001). Friedreich's ataxia: clinical and molecular study of 25 Brazilian cases. Revista do Hospital das Clínicas. 56(5). 143–148. 6 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Ida Vanessa Döederlein, et al.. (1999). Clinical and molecular studies in five Brazilian cases of Friedreich ataxia. Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria. 57(1). 1–5. 3 indexed citations

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Rizzi, Romana, Valério Carelli, L. Monari, et al.. (1998). Cerebellar ataxia, hypogonadism and chorioretinopathy: molecular analysis of an Italian family. The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 19(1). 41–44. 3 indexed citations

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Cocozza, Sergio, A. Antonelli, G Campanella, et al.. (1993). Evidence of a genetic marker associated with early onset in Friedreich's ataxia. Journal of Neurology. 240(4). 254–256. 2 indexed citations

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Cocozza, Sergio, Gabriele Riccardi, Antonella Monticelli, et al.. (1988). Polymorphism at the 5‘ end flanking region of the insulin gene is associated with reduced insulin secretion in healthy individuals. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 18(6). 582–586. 28 indexed citations

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