Silvia Fré

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Silvia Fré is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvia Fré has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Silvia Fré's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (20 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (9 papers) and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (7 papers). Silvia Fré is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (20 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (9 papers) and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (7 papers). Silvia Fré collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Silvia Fré's co-authors include Mathilde Huyghe, Daniel Louvard, Sylvie Robine, Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas, Philippos Mourikis, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Pietro De Camilli, Vladimir I. Slepnev, Margaret H. Butler and Kohji Takei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Silvia Fré

25 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Notch signals control the fate of immature progenitor cells in the intestine

2005 708 citations Silvia Fré, Mathilde Huyghe et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silvia Fré France	14	1.6k	696	571	348	234	30	2.2k
Pierre Roux France	27	1.6k 1.0×	656 0.9×	454 0.8×	258 0.7×	332 1.4×	49	2.4k
Fatima El Marjou France	17	1.5k 1.0×	769 1.1×	400 0.7×	499 1.4×	312 1.3×	23	2.5k
Theo van Laar Netherlands	29	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	390 0.7×	417 1.2×	446 1.9×	47	2.9k
Stefan Gaubatz Germany	28	2.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.9×	462 0.8×	343 1.0×	305 1.3×	45	3.4k
Andrea C. Carrano United States	15	2.5k 1.6×	1.5k 2.1×	576 1.0×	269 0.8×	297 1.3×	17	3.1k
Zoi Lygerou Greece	32	3.5k 2.2×	708 1.0×	757 1.3×	527 1.5×	352 1.5×	85	4.0k
Wang L. Cheung United States	18	2.5k 1.6×	356 0.5×	315 0.6×	275 0.8×	161 0.7×	36	3.1k
Julia K. Pagan United States	17	1.7k 1.1×	510 0.7×	404 0.7×	152 0.4×	183 0.8×	23	2.1k
David Micklem Norway	21	1.8k 1.1×	623 0.9×	271 0.5×	181 0.5×	227 1.0×	59	2.7k
Sally P. Wheatley United Kingdom	28	2.2k 1.4×	689 1.0×	1.3k 2.4×	197 0.6×	188 0.8×	48	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvia Fré

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Huyghe, Mathilde, et al.. (2025). Conserved signals control self-organization and symmetry breaking of murine bilayered epithelia during development and regeneration. Developmental Cell. 60(19). 2576–2593.e6.

Faraldo, Marisa M., et al.. (2025). Contractile fibroblasts form a transient niche for the branching mammary epithelium. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8576–8576.

Fré, Silvia, et al.. (2024). Fibroblast-induced mammary epithelial branching depends on fibroblast contractility. PLoS Biology. 22(1). e3002093–e3002093. 8 indexed citations

Faraldo, Marisa M., et al.. (2024). Alpha-6 integrin deletion delays the formation of Brca1/p53-deficient basal-like breast tumors by restricting luminal progenitor cell expansion. Breast Cancer Research. 26(1). 91–91. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Wenjie, et al.. (2024). Spatially distinct epithelial and mesenchymal cell subsets along progressive lineage restriction in the branching embryonic mammary gland. The EMBO Journal. 43(12). 2308–2336. 6 indexed citations

Fré, Silvia, et al.. (2023). Fourteenth Annual ENBDC Workshop: Methods in Mammary Gland Biology and Breast Cancer. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. 28(1). 22–22.

Amerongen, Renée van, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj, Antonius L. van Boxtel, et al.. (2023). Imagine beyond: recent breakthroughs and next challenges in mammary gland biology and breast cancer research. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. 28(1). 17–17. 3 indexed citations

Urbanus, Jos, Jason Cosgrove, Joost B. Beltman, et al.. (2023). DRAG in situ barcoding reveals an increased number of HSPCs contributing to myelopoiesis with age. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2184–2184. 11 indexed citations

Lloyd‐Lewis, Bethan, et al.. (2022). In vivo imaging of mammary epithelial cell dynamics in response to lineage-biased Wnt/β-catenin activation. Cell Reports. 38(10). 110461–110461. 9 indexed citations

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Lloyd‐Lewis, Bethan, Philippos Mourikis, & Silvia Fré. (2019). Notch signalling: sensor and instructor of the microenvironment to coordinate cell fate and organ morphogenesis. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 61. 16–23. 39 indexed citations

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Jacquemin, Guillaume, et al.. (2019). Lineage tracing of Notch1-expressing cells in intestinal tumours reveals a distinct population of cancer stem cells. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 888–888. 12 indexed citations

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Lilja, Anna M., Verónica Rodilla, Mathilde Huyghe, et al.. (2018). Clonal analysis of Notch1-expressing cells reveals the existence of unipotent stem cells that retain long-term plasticity in the embryonic mammary gland. Nature Cell Biology. 20(6). 677–687. 99 indexed citations

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Rodilla, Verónica & Silvia Fré. (2018). Cellular Plasticity of Mammary Epithelial Cells Underlies Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer. Biomedicines. 6(4). 103–103. 14 indexed citations

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Fré, Silvia, Allison J. Bardin, Sylvie Robine, & Daniel Louvard. (2011). Notch signaling in intestinal homeostasis across species: the cases of Drosophila, Zebrafish and the mouse. Experimental Cell Research. 317(19). 2740–2747. 41 indexed citations

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Fré, Silvia, Édouard Hannezo, Sanja Šale, et al.. (2011). Notch Lineages and Activity in Intestinal Stem Cells Determined by a New Set of Knock-In Mice. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25785–e25785. 107 indexed citations

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Fré, Silvia, Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Marie Schoumacher, et al.. (2008). Epithelial Morphogenesis and Intestinal Cancer: New Insights in Signaling Mechanisms. Advances in cancer research. 100. 85–111. 15 indexed citations

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Vignjevic, Danijela Matic, Silvia Fré, Daniel Louvard, & Sylvie Robine. (2007). Conditional Mouse Models of Cancer. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. 263–287. 5 indexed citations

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Fré, Silvia, Mathilde Huyghe, Philippos Mourikis, et al.. (2005). Notch signals control the fate of immature progenitor cells in the intestine. Nature. 435(7044). 964–968. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

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Robine, Sylvie, Silvia Fré, Mathilde Huyghe, Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas, & Daniel Louvard. (2005). Notch, un gène clé de l’équilibre entre prolifération et différenciation des cellules épithéliales de l’intestin. médecine/sciences. 21(8-9). 780–782. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Hong, Silvia Fré, Vladimir I. Slepnev, et al.. (1998). Epsin is an EH-domain-binding protein implicated in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Nature. 394(6695). 793–797. 479 indexed citations

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