Simona Cristea

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 699 citations indexed

About

Simona Cristea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Cristea has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 699 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cancer Research and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Simona Cristea's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (4 papers). Simona Cristea is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (4 papers). Simona Cristea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Simona Cristea's co-authors include Franziska Michor, Michelle C. Specht, Christina C. Luo, B Bernstein, Shawn Gillespie, Leif W. Ellisen, Mihriban Karaayvaz, Anoop P. Patel, Ravindra Mylvaganam and Niko Beerenwinkel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simona Cristea

21 papers receiving 696 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology

2025 22 citations Haotian Cui, Maria Brbić 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 Cristea United States	14	476	303	214	90	76	21	699
Nicola Fenderico Netherlands	10	550 1.2×	254 0.8×	191 0.9×	75 0.8×	46 0.6×	13	737
Duanchen Sun China	11	468 1.0×	189 0.6×	137 0.6×	112 1.2×	113 1.5×	21	647
Fabiana Lüönd Switzerland	7	380 0.8×	237 0.8×	330 1.5×	95 1.1×	69 0.9×	9	683
Gangxiong Huang United States	11	341 0.7×	178 0.6×	211 1.0×	73 0.8×	126 1.7×	21	576
Verónica Torrano Spain	15	645 1.4×	233 0.8×	117 0.5×	84 0.9×	47 0.6×	20	772
Anja Deutzmann United States	9	608 1.3×	189 0.6×	230 1.1×	76 0.8×	143 1.9×	15	860
Wayne Miles United States	15	582 1.2×	190 0.6×	151 0.7×	52 0.6×	86 1.1×	34	767
Kaisa R. Luoto Canada	8	478 1.0×	212 0.7×	295 1.4×	113 1.3×	47 0.6×	8	694
Rebecca A. Dagg Australia	12	707 1.5×	126 0.4×	259 1.2×	54 0.6×	65 0.9×	17	1.0k
Guoyu Yu United States	16	408 0.9×	193 0.6×	315 1.5×	195 2.2×	73 1.0×	39	779

Countries citing papers authored by Simona Cristea

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Simona Cristea's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Simona Cristea with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Simona Cristea more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Simona Cristea

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Simona Cristea. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Simona Cristea. The network helps show where Simona Cristea may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Cristea

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simona Cristea. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simona Cristea based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simona Cristea. Simona Cristea is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Cui, Haotian, Maria Brbić, Julio Sáez-Rodríguez, et al.. (2025). Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology. Nature. 640(8059). 623–633. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

Cui, Haotian, Kimberly Perez, Andressa Dias Costa, et al.. (2024). Abstract A029: Evaluating and interpreting scGPT: A foundation model for single-cell biology in real-world cancer clinical trial data. Cancer Research. 84(17_Supplement_2). A029–A029. 1 indexed citations

Spring, Laura M., Bogang Wu, Simona Cristea, et al.. (2024). Abstract PR08: Intratumoral heterogeneity drives resistance to Antibody Drug Conjugate therapy: Analysis of the NeoSTAR trial of neoadjuvant Sacituzumab govitecan for localized TNBC. Cancer Research. 84(3_Supplement_1). PR08–PR08. 1 indexed citations

Cristea, Simona, Mengran Zhang, Siang‐Boon Koh, et al.. (2023). Abstract 4353: Utilizing scRNA sequencing to understand biomarkers of response and resistance to Sacitizumab Govetican in localized TNBC. Cancer Research. 83(7_Supplement). 4353–4353. 1 indexed citations

Yagi, Masaki, Bruno Di Stefano, Justin Langerman, et al.. (2023). H3K36 methylation maintains cell identity by regulating opposing lineage programmes. Nature Cell Biology. 25(8). 1121–1134. 19 indexed citations

Altreuter, Jennifer, et al.. (2023). Predicting patient outcomes after treatment with immune checkpoint blockade: A review of biomarkers derived from diverse data modalities. Cell Genomics. 4(1). 100444–100444. 14 indexed citations

Nishida, Jun, Simona Cristea, Melissa E. Hughes, et al.. (2023). Peripheral blood TCR clonotype diversity as an age-associated marker of breast cancer progression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(49). e2316763120–e2316763120. 6 indexed citations

Walentynowicz, Kacper A., Simona Cristea, Aashna Jhaveri, et al.. (2023). Single-cell heterogeneity of EGFR and CDK4 co-amplification is linked to immune infiltration in glioblastoma. Cell Reports. 42(3). 112235–112235. 14 indexed citations

Guarducci, Cristina, Simona Cristea, Avery Feit, et al.. (2023). Abstract GS3-07: GS3-07 Clonal evolution and mechanisms of acquired resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in ER-wild type and ER-mutant breast cancer. Cancer Research. 83(5_Supplement). GS3–7. 3 indexed citations

10.

Boonen, Rick A.C.M., Wouter W. Wiegant, Bas Vroling, et al.. (2021). Functional Analysis Identifies Damaging CHEK2 Missense Variants Associated with Increased Cancer Risk. Cancer Research. 82(4). 615–631. 33 indexed citations

11.

Koh, Siang‐Boon, Brian N. Dontchos, Veerle Bossuyt, et al.. (2021). Systematic tissue collection during clinical breast biopsy is feasible, safe and enables high-content translational analyses. npj Precision Oncology. 5(1). 85–85. 4 indexed citations

12.

Yagi, Masaki, Fei Ji, Jocelyn Charlton, et al.. (2021). Dissecting dual roles of MyoD during lineage conversion to mature myocytes and myogenic stem cells. Genes & Development. 35(17-18). 1209–1228. 27 indexed citations

13.

Großmann, Patrick, Simona Cristea, & Niko Beerenwinkel. (2020). Clonal evolution driven by superdriver mutations. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 89–89. 4 indexed citations

14.

Silverbush, Dana, Simona Cristea, Gali Arad, et al.. (2019). Simultaneous Integration of Multi-omics Data Improves the Identification of Cancer Driver Modules. Cell Systems. 8(5). 456–466.e5. 37 indexed citations

15.

Navarrete-Perea, José, Ala Jo, Simona Cristea, et al.. (2019). Physical and Molecular Landscapes of Mouse Glioma Extracellular Vesicles Define Heterogeneity. Cell Reports. 27(13). 3972–3987.e6. 54 indexed citations

16.

Karaayvaz, Mihriban, Simona Cristea, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2018). Unravelling subclonal heterogeneity and aggressive disease states in TNBC through single-cell RNA-seq. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3588–3588. 315 indexed citations

17.

Cristea, Simona & Kornélia Polyák. (2018). Dissecting the mammary gland one cell at a time. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2473–2473. 29 indexed citations

18.

Cristea, Simona, et al.. (2017). Recurring Amplification at 11q22.1-q22.2 Locus Plays an Important Role in Lymph Node Metastasis and Radioresistance in OSCC. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16051–16051. 14 indexed citations

19.

Cristea, Simona, Srikant Ambatipudi, Rajiv S. Desai, et al.. (2017). Chromosomal Alterations and Gene Expression Changes Associated with the Progression of Leukoplakia to Advanced Gingivobuccal Cancer. Translational Oncology. 10(3). 396–409. 57 indexed citations

20.

Bovet, Cédric, Katrin Hecht, Simona Cristea, et al.. (2016). Sulforaphane Preconditioning Sensitizes Human Colon Cancer Cells towards the Bioreductive Anticancer Prodrug PR-104A. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150219–e0150219. 21 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact