Simona Lodato

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Simona Lodato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Lodato has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Simona Lodato's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Simona Lodato is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Simona Lodato collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Simona Lodato's co-authors include Paola Arlotta, Feng Zhang, Sriram Kosuri, George M. Church, Le Cong, Michèle Studer, Ashwin S. Shetty, Sara Mancinelli, Caroline Rouaux and Kathleen B. Quast and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Simona Lodato

19 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Efficient construction of sequence-specific TAL effectors for modulating mammalian transcription

2011 609 citations Feng Zhang, Le Cong et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simona Lodato Italy	15	1.3k	423	335	301	200	23	1.9k
Apuã C.M. Paquola United States	18	1.6k 1.2×	375 0.9×	263 0.8×	298 1.0×	183 0.9×	27	2.0k
Sara B. Linker United States	14	854 0.7×	253 0.6×	362 1.1×	213 0.7×	219 1.1×	26	1.5k
Cleber A. Trujillo United States	25	1.3k 1.0×	581 1.4×	355 1.1×	375 1.2×	89 0.4×	47	2.1k
Priscilla D. Negraes Brazil	19	910 0.7×	409 1.0×	246 0.7×	255 0.8×	61 0.3×	34	1.5k
Anne Schaefer United States	7	1.5k 1.2×	535 1.3×	162 0.5×	313 1.0×	136 0.7×	11	2.1k
Narendrakumar Ramanan United States	17	955 0.7×	602 1.4×	164 0.5×	186 0.6×	91 0.5×	30	2.0k
Siniša Hrvatin United States	19	1.4k 1.1×	269 0.6×	136 0.4×	520 1.7×	199 1.0×	23	2.2k
Dilek Colak United States	15	1.5k 1.1×	569 1.3×	882 2.6×	379 1.3×	341 1.7×	20	2.3k
Yong Tao China	29	1.4k 1.1×	151 0.4×	154 0.5×	336 1.1×	174 0.9×	81	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Lodato

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Gawęda-Walerych, Katarzyna, et al.. (2025). Progranulin deficiency in the brain: the interplay between neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Translational Neurodegeneration. 14(1). 18–18. 4 indexed citations

Mancinelli, Sara, Sebastiano Bariselli, & Simona Lodato. (2025). The emergence of electrical activity in human brain organoids. Stem Cell Reports. 20(9). 102632–102632.

Mancinelli, Sara, Antonella Borreca, M. Cremonesi, et al.. (2025). Neurodevelopmental origins of structural and psychomotor defects in CXCR4-linked primary immunodeficiency. Neuron. 113(16). 2636–2655.e9. 1 indexed citations

Beatrice, Fabio, et al.. (2024). 149VP 3D stem cell-derived spinal cord/muscle organoid model for studying and treating neuromuscular diseases. Neuromuscular Disorders. 43. 104441.584–104441.584.

Tagliatti, Erica, Genni Desiato, Sara Mancinelli, et al.. (2023). Trem2 expression in microglia is required to maintain normal neuronal bioenergetics during development. Immunity. 57(1). 86–105.e9. 49 indexed citations

Morosi, Lavinia, Sara Carloni, Eleonora Bruno, et al.. (2023). MSIpixel: a fully automated pipeline for compound annotation and quantitation in mass spectrometry imaging experiments. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(1). 4 indexed citations

Yuan, Wen, Sai Ma, Juliana Brown, et al.. (2022). Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1049–1058. 20 indexed citations

Fontana, Camilla, Sara Mancinelli, Nicola Pesenti, et al.. (2021). Early maternal care restores LINE-1 methylation and enhances neurodevelopment in preterm infants. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 14 indexed citations

Carloni, Sara, Alice Bertocchi, Sara Mancinelli, et al.. (2021). Identification of a choroid plexus vascular barrier closing during intestinal inflammation. Science. 374(6566). 439–448. 185 indexed citations

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Desiato, Genni, Sara Mancinelli, G Fossati, et al.. (2021). Prenatal interleukin 6 elevation increases glutamatergic synapse density and disrupts hippocampal connectivity in offspring. Immunity. 54(11). 2611–2631.e8. 85 indexed citations

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Jin, Xin, Sean Simmons, Ashwin S. Shetty, et al.. (2020). In vivo Perturb-Seq reveals neuronal and glial abnormalities associated with autism risk genes. Science. 370(6520). 177 indexed citations

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Tambalo, Monica & Simona Lodato. (2020). Brain organoids: Human 3D models to investigate neuronal circuits assembly, function and dysfunction. Brain Research. 1746. 147028–147028. 27 indexed citations

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Mancinelli, Sara & Simona Lodato. (2018). Decoding neuronal diversity in the developing cerebral cortex: from single cells to functional networks. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 53. 146–155. 21 indexed citations

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Lodato, Simona & Paola Arlotta. (2015). Generating Neuronal Diversity in the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 31(1). 699–720. 239 indexed citations

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Lodato, Simona, Bradley J. Molyneaux, Emanuela Zuccaro, et al.. (2014). Gene co-regulation by Fezf2 selects neurotransmitter identity and connectivity of corticospinal neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 17(8). 1046–1054. 87 indexed citations

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Lodato, Simona, Ashwin S. Shetty, & Paola Arlotta. (2014). Cerebral cortex assembly: generating and reprogramming projection neuron diversity. Trends in Neurosciences. 38(2). 117–125. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, Feng, Le Cong, Simona Lodato, et al.. (2011). Efficient construction of sequence-specific TAL effectors for modulating mammalian transcription. Nature Biotechnology. 29(2). 149–153. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lodato, Simona, Giulio Srubek Tomassy, Elvira De Leonibus, et al.. (2011). Loss of COUP-TFI Alters the Balance between Caudal Ganglionic Eminence- and Medial Ganglionic Eminence-Derived Cortical Interneurons and Results in Resistance to Epilepsy. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(12). 4650–4662. 81 indexed citations

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Lodato, Simona, Caroline Rouaux, Kathleen B. Quast, et al.. (2011). Excitatory Projection Neuron Subtypes Control the Distribution of Local Inhibitory Interneurons in the Cerebral Cortex. Neuron. 69(4). 763–779. 160 indexed citations

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Tomassy, Giulio Srubek, Elvira De Leonibus, Denis Jabaudon, et al.. (2010). Area-specific temporal control of corticospinal motor neuron differentiation by COUP-TFI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(8). 3576–3581. 93 indexed citations

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