Silvia Velasco

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Silvia Velasco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvia Velasco has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Silvia Velasco's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers). Silvia Velasco is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers). Silvia Velasco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Silvia Velasco's co-authors include Paola Arlotta, Bruna Paulsen, Aviv Regev, Xian Adiconis, Amanda J. Kedaigle, Joshua Z. Levin, Sean Simmons, Giorgia Quadrato, Marina Pereira Rocha and Lan Nguyễn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Silvia Velasco

17 papers receiving 1.3k 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. Individual brain organoids reproducibly form cell diversity of the human cerebral cortex
    2019 672 citations Silvia Velasco, Amanda J. Kedaigle et al. Nature profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Silvia Velasco United States 12 944 279 222 197 127 18 1.3k
Amanda J. Kedaigle United States 11 865 0.9× 269 1.0× 241 1.1× 243 1.2× 45 0.4× 14 1.3k
Joe Shuga United States 11 1.1k 1.2× 385 1.4× 342 1.5× 124 0.6× 110 0.9× 12 1.7k
Yuejun Chen China 20 968 1.0× 203 0.7× 207 0.9× 520 2.6× 49 0.4× 45 1.4k
Bruna Paulsen Brazil 9 823 0.9× 283 1.0× 221 1.0× 207 1.1× 27 0.2× 15 1.1k
Devon S. Svoboda Canada 9 784 0.8× 99 0.4× 205 0.9× 120 0.6× 92 0.7× 13 1.2k
Mariangela Amenduni Italy 11 861 0.9× 205 0.7× 164 0.7× 161 0.8× 63 0.5× 16 1.3k
Emma J. van Bodegraven Netherlands 15 518 0.5× 117 0.4× 197 0.9× 128 0.6× 116 0.9× 19 875
Thomas H. Hutson United Kingdom 17 790 0.8× 84 0.3× 178 0.8× 404 2.1× 195 1.5× 26 1.5k
Maria Ribecco‐Lutkiewicz Canada 12 639 0.7× 80 0.3× 194 0.9× 233 1.2× 50 0.4× 22 1.1k
Francesco Paolo Di Giorgio Italy 14 1.5k 1.6× 214 0.8× 233 1.0× 486 2.5× 36 0.3× 26 2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvia Velasco

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Velasco, Silvia. (2024). Targeting RNA opens therapeutic avenues for Timothy syndrome. Nature. 628(8009). 730–732. 1 indexed citations
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Rollo, Ben, Silvia Velasco, Jin‐Kuk Kim, et al.. (2024). TRAPPopathies: Severe Multisystem Disorders Caused by Variants in Genes of the Transport Protein Particle (TRAPP) Complexes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(24). 13329–13329. 2 indexed citations
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Payne, Jonathan M., Kiymet Bozaoglu, Paul J. Lockhart, et al.. (2024). Brain volumes in genetic syndromes associated with mTOR dysregulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(4). 1676–1688.
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Pigoni, Martina, Ana Uzquiano, Bruna Paulsen, et al.. (2023). Cell-type specific defects inPTEN-mutant cortical organoids converge on abnormal circuit activity. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(18). 2773–2786. 13 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia. (2022). Modeling brain disorders using transplanted organoids: Beyond the short circuit. Cell stem cell. 29(12). 1617–1618. 3 indexed citations
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Uzquiano, Ana, Amanda J. Kedaigle, Martina Pigoni, et al.. (2022). Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex. Cell. 185(20). 3770–3788.e27. 114 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, et al.. (2021). Comparison two blood culture bottles for the recovery of Enterobacteriaceae. Revista Española de Quimioterapia. 34(6). 651–654. 1 indexed citations
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Albanese, Alexandre, Justin Swaney, Dae Hee Yun, et al.. (2020). Multiscale 3D phenotyping of human cerebral organoids. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 21487–21487. 56 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, Bruna Paulsen, & Paola Arlotta. (2020). 3D Brain Organoids: Studying Brain Development and Disease Outside the Embryo. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 43(1). 375–389. 63 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, Amanda J. Kedaigle, Sean Simmons, et al.. (2019). Individual brain organoids reproducibly form cell diversity of the human cerebral cortex. Nature. 570(7762). 523–527. 672 indexed citations breakdown →
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Higuero, Alonso M., et al.. (2017). Neurons define non-myelinated axon segments by the regulation of galectin-4-containing axon membrane domains. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 12246–12246. 26 indexed citations
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Kakumanu, Akshay, Silvia Velasco, Esteban O. Mazzoni, & Shaun Mahony. (2017). Deconvolving sequence features that discriminate between overlapping regulatory annotations. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(10). e1005795–e1005795. 8 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, Mahmoud M. Ibrahim, Akshay Kakumanu, et al.. (2016). A Multi-step Transcriptional and Chromatin State Cascade Underlies Motor Neuron Programming from Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 20(2). 205–217.e8. 77 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, Teresa Hernández‐Iglesias, Herbert Kaltner, et al.. (2013). Neuronal Galectin‐4 is required for axon growth and for the organization of axonal membrane L1 delivery and clustering. Journal of Neurochemistry. 125(1). 49–62. 61 indexed citations
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Sbroggió, Mauro, Alessandro Bertero, Silvia Velasco, et al.. (2011). ERK1/2 activation in heart is controlled by melusin, focal adhesion kinase and the scaffold protein IQGAP1. Journal of Cell Science. 124(20). 3515–3524. 49 indexed citations
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Velasco, Silvia, Sabine André, Herbert Kaltner, et al.. (2010). Phosphorylation of adhesion- and growth-regulatory human galectin-3 leads to the induction of axonal branching by local membrane L1 and ERM redistribution. Journal of Cell Science. 123(5). 671–681. 36 indexed citations
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Ferretti, Roberta, Silvia Velasco, Mauro Sbroggió, et al.. (2010). Morgana/chp-1, a ROCK Inhibitor Involved in Centrosome Duplication and Tumorigenesis. Developmental Cell. 18(3). 486–495. 45 indexed citations
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Alfonso, Salvatore, Luisa Cigliano, Enrico Bucci, et al.. (2007). Haptoglobin Binding to Apolipoprotein A-I Prevents Damage from Hydroxyl Radicals on Its Stimulatory Activity of the Enzyme Lecithin-Cholesterol Acyl-Transferase. Biochemistry. 46(39). 11158–11168. 46 indexed citations

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