Simona Chera

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Simona Chera is a scholar working on Surgery, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Chera has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Surgery, 28 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Simona Chera's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (32 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (15 papers). Simona Chera is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (32 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (15 papers). Simona Chera collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Switzerland and United States. Simona Chera's co-authors include Pedro L. Herrera, Brigitte Galliot, Fabrizio Thorel, Luiza Ghila, Isabelle Avril, Virginie Népote, Kenji Kohno, Renaud Desgraz, Marijana Miljkovic‐Licina and Wanda Buzgariu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Simona Chera

49 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Conversion of adult pancreatic α-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss

2010 866 citations Fabrizio Thorel, Virginie Népote et al. Nature profile →
Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

2014 308 citations Simona Chera, Luiza Ghila 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
Simona Chera Norway	23	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	955	522	53	3.1k
Luiza Ghila Norway	14	661 0.4×	842 0.6×	477 0.4×	333 0.3×	381 0.7×	38	1.6k
Oliver Wessely United States	30	203 0.1×	2.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.0×	365 0.4×	43 0.1×	71	4.3k
Rachid Safi United States	23	234 0.1×	1.2k 0.9×	567 0.5×	211 0.2×	28 0.1×	31	2.6k
Francesco Argenton Italy	39	746 0.4×	3.1k 2.2×	859 0.7×	208 0.2×	20 0.0×	113	4.8k
Lucie Jeannotte Canada	34	343 0.2×	2.3k 1.6×	554 0.5×	196 0.2×	59 0.1×	73	3.4k
José R. Bayascas Spain	27	211 0.1×	1.8k 1.3×	137 0.1×	72 0.1×	76 0.1×	46	2.4k
Josephine A. Wright Australia	19	121 0.1×	1.2k 0.9×	313 0.3×	198 0.2×	55 0.1×	44	2.2k
Daniel Hesselson Australia	21	488 0.3×	887 0.6×	368 0.3×	113 0.1×	24 0.0×	48	1.7k
Claudia Kappen United States	27	212 0.1×	1.7k 1.2×	559 0.5×	54 0.1×	46 0.1×	75	2.6k
Matias Simons Germany	25	231 0.1×	2.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	115 0.1×	30 0.1×	39	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Chera

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sinturel, Flore, Simona Chera, Marie‐Claude Brulhart‐Meynet, et al.. (2024). Alterations of lipid homeostasis in morbid obese patients are partly reversed by bariatric surgery. iScience. 27(9). 110820–110820.

Chera, Simona, et al.. (2024). The GLI code controls HNF1A levels during foregut differentiation. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 68(4). 223–230. 2 indexed citations

Vacaru, Andrei M., et al.. (2024). Molecular profiling of NOD mouse islets reveals a novel regulator of insulitis onset. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14669–14669. 2 indexed citations

Paulo, João A., et al.. (2023). Global proteomics reveals insulin abundance as a marker of human islet homeostasis alterations. Acta Physiologica. 239(2). e14037–e14037. 2 indexed citations

Sinturel, Flore, Simona Chera, Marie‐Claude Brulhart‐Meynet, et al.. (2023). Circadian organization of lipid landscape is perturbed in type 2 diabetic patients. Cell Reports Medicine. 4(12). 101299–101299. 6 indexed citations

Vacaru, Andrei M., et al.. (2023). Modulation of Unfolded Protein Response Restores Survival and Function of β-Cells Exposed to the Endocrine Disruptor Bisphenol A. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(3). 2023–2023. 11 indexed citations

Petrenko, Volodymyr, Flore Sinturel, Ursula Loizides‐Mangold, et al.. (2022). Type 2 diabetes disrupts circadian orchestration of lipid metabolism and membrane fluidity in human pancreatic islets. PLoS Biology. 20(8). e3001725–e3001725. 15 indexed citations

Chang, Charles, et al.. (2022). Islet cell replacement and transplantation immunology in a mouse strain with inducible diabetes. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 9033–9033. 2 indexed citations

Ghila, Luiza, et al.. (2021). Chronically Elevated Exogenous Glucose Elicits Antipodal Effects on the Proteome Signature of Differentiating Human iPSC-Derived Pancreatic Progenitors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(7). 3698–3698. 3 indexed citations

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Vethe, Heidrun, João A. Paulo, Hanne Scholz, et al.. (2020). In vivo Environment Swiftly Restricts Human Pancreatic Progenitors Toward Mono-Hormonal Identity via a HNF1A/HNF4A Mechanism. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 109–109. 18 indexed citations

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Furuyama, Kenichiro, Simona Chera, Léon van Gurp, et al.. (2019). Diabetes relief in mice by glucose-sensing insulin-secreting human α-cells. Nature. 567(7746). 43–48. 180 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Luiza Ghila, Fabrizio Thorel, et al.. (2018). Pancreatic islet-autonomous insulin and smoothened-mediated signalling modulate identity changes of glucagon+ α-cells. Nature Cell Biology. 20(11). 1267–1277. 45 indexed citations

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Vethe, Heidrun, Luiza Ghila, João A. Paulo, et al.. (2017). Probing the missing mature β-cell proteomic landscape in differentiating patient iPSC-derived cells. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4780–4780. 45 indexed citations

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Chakravarthy, Harini, Xueying Gu, Martin Enge, et al.. (2017). Converting Adult Pancreatic Islet α Cells into β Cells by Targeting Both Dnmt1 and Arx. Cell Metabolism. 25(3). 622–634. 161 indexed citations

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Galliot, Brigitte & Simona Chera. (2010). The Hydra model: disclosing an apoptosis-driven generator of Wnt-based regeneration. Trends in Cell Biology. 20(9). 514–523. 71 indexed citations

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Thorel, Fabrizio, Virginie Népote, Isabelle Avril, et al.. (2010). Conversion of adult pancreatic α-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss. Nature. 464(7292). 1149–1154. 866 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chera, Simona, Luiza Ghila, Kevin Dobretz, et al.. (2009). Apoptotic Cells Provide an Unexpected Source of Wnt3 Signaling to Drive Hydra Head Regeneration. Developmental Cell. 17(2). 279–289. 324 indexed citations

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Galliot, Brigitte, et al.. (2009). Origins of neurogenesis, a cnidarian view. Developmental Biology. 332(1). 2–24. 117 indexed citations

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Chera, Simona, Kostas Kaloulis, & Brigitte Galliot. (2006). The cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) as an integrative HUB selector in metazoans: Clues from the hydra model system. Biosystems. 87(2-3). 191–203. 29 indexed citations

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Gauchat, Dominique, Héctor Escrivá, Marijana Miljkovic‐Licina, et al.. (2004). The orphan COUP-TF nuclear receptors are markers for neurogenesis from cnidarians to vertebrates. Developmental Biology. 275(1). 104–123. 49 indexed citations

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