Simona Santoro

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Simona Santoro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Santoro has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Simona Santoro's work include Nutrition and Health in Aging (5 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (4 papers) and Frailty in Older Adults (3 papers). Simona Santoro is often cited by papers focused on Nutrition and Health in Aging (5 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (4 papers) and Frailty in Older Adults (3 papers). Simona Santoro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Simona Santoro's co-authors include Nadia Felli, Antonio Sorrentino, Ornella Morsilli, C Peschle, Elvira Pelosi, Rosanna Botta, Valentina Lulli, Francesco Facchiano, Désirée Bonci and Francesca Liuzzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simona Santoro

24 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

MicroRNAs 221 and 222 inhibit normal erythropoiesis and erythroleukemic cell growth via kit receptor down-modulation

2005 606 citations Nadia Felli, Laura Fontana et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simona Santoro Italy	12	758	678	114	83	80	25	1.1k
Xinjun Ji United States	14	887 1.2×	379 0.6×	55 0.5×	146 1.8×	80 1.0×	23	1.1k
Rolf Thermann Germany	11	1.3k 1.8×	600 0.9×	141 1.2×	43 0.5×	32 0.4×	12	1.6k
Philip Olsen United States	9	971 1.3×	624 0.9×	141 1.2×	29 0.3×	28 0.3×	10	1.3k
Natalya A. Goloviznina United States	11	718 0.9×	374 0.6×	197 1.7×	63 0.8×	121 1.5×	17	944
Vamsi K. Gangaraju United States	13	1.2k 1.6×	664 1.0×	139 1.2×	49 0.6×	18 0.2×	18	1.5k
Luigi Grassi Italy	14	559 0.7×	237 0.3×	34 0.3×	41 0.5×	115 1.4×	41	859
Nicola Manfrini Italy	18	905 1.2×	354 0.5×	55 0.5×	18 0.2×	22 0.3×	32	1.1k
Zi‐jun Xu China	16	632 0.8×	283 0.4×	59 0.5×	71 0.9×	360 4.5×	75	1.0k
F. Apiou France	15	517 0.7×	158 0.2×	61 0.5×	76 0.9×	44 0.6×	31	835
Amel Benammar Elgaaïed Tunisia	19	417 0.6×	246 0.4×	37 0.3×	34 0.4×	45 0.6×	49	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Santoro

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20 of 20 papers shown

Damanti, Sarah, Simona Santoro, Marco S. Messina, et al.. (2025). Molecular constraints of sarcopenia in the ageing muscle. Frontiers in Aging. 6. 1588014–1588014. 1 indexed citations

Santoro, Simona, Audrey Cras, Didier Serteyn, et al.. (2025). Repair of infarcted myocardium by skeletal muscle-derived mesenchymal stromal cells delivered by a bioprinted collagen patch. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 16(1). 427–427. 1 indexed citations

Damanti, Sarah, Rebecca De Lorenzo, Lorena Citterio, et al.. (2025). Frailty index, frailty phenotype and 6-year mortality trends in the FRASNET cohort. Frontiers in Medicine. 11. 1465066–1465066. 1 indexed citations

Damanti, Sarah, Lorena Citterio, Laura Zagato, et al.. (2024). DNA polymorphisms in inflammatory and endocrine signals linked to frailty are also associated with obesity: data from the FRASNET cohort. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 15. 1412160–1412160.

Damanti, Sarah, Lorena Citterio, Laura Zagato, et al.. (2024). Sarcopenic obesity and pre-sarcopenia contribute to frailty in community-dwelling Italian older people: data from the FRASNET study. BMC Geriatrics. 24(1). 638–638. 3 indexed citations

Uygur, Meliha Melin, et al.. (2024). Modern approach to bone comorbidity in prolactinoma. Pituitary. 27(6). 802–812. 3 indexed citations

Damanti, Sarah, Rebecca De Lorenzo, Simona Santoro, et al.. (2024). Acute Sarcopenia: Mechanisms and Management. Nutrients. 16(20). 3428–3428. 13 indexed citations

Filippo, Luigi di, et al.. (2024). Long COVID and pituitary dysfunctions: a bidirectional relationship?. Pituitary. 27(6). 955–969. 2 indexed citations

Fanelli, Elena, et al.. (2019). Integrative diagnosis, biological observations, and histopathology of the fig cyst nematode Heterodera fici Kirjanova (1954) associated with Ficus carica L. in southern Italy. ZooKeys. 824(824). 1–19. 3 indexed citations

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Vian, Laura, Elvira Pelosi, Francesco Fazi, et al.. (2013). Transcriptional fine-tuning of microRNA-223 levels directs lineage choice of human hematopoietic progenitors. Cell Death and Differentiation. 21(2). 290–301. 51 indexed citations

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Pelosi, Elvira, Germana Castelli, Inés Martín-Padura, et al.. (2012). Human Haemato-Endothelial Precursors: Cord Blood CD34+ Cells Produce Haemogenic Endothelium. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e51109–e51109. 26 indexed citations

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Petronelli, Alessia, Elvira Pelosi, Simona Santoro, et al.. (2010). CDDO-Im is a stimulator of megakaryocytic differentiation. Leukemia Research. 35(4). 534–544. 5 indexed citations

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Guarino, Carmine, et al.. (2010). Molecular characterisation of ancientPrunus aviumL. germplasm using sweet cherry SSR markers. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 85(4). 295–305. 4 indexed citations

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Felli, Nadia, Francesca Pedini, Paolo Romania, et al.. (2009). MicroRNA 223-dependent expression of LMO2 regulates normal erythropoiesis. Haematologica. 94(4). 479–486. 117 indexed citations

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Starnes, Linda M., Antonio Sorrentino, Elvira Pelosi, et al.. (2009). NFI-A directs the fate of hematopoietic progenitors to the erythroid or granulocytic lineage and controls β-globin and G-CSF receptor expression. Blood. 114(9). 1753–1763. 45 indexed citations

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Guarino, Carmine, et al.. (2008). Differentiation in DNA fingerprinting among species of the genus Acer L. in Campania (Italy). Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 142(3). 454–461. 11 indexed citations

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Guarino, Carmine, Simona Arena, Chiara DˈAmbrosio, et al.. (2007). Proteomic analysis of the major soluble components in Annurca apple flesh. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 51(2). 255–262. 37 indexed citations

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Guarino, Carmine, et al.. (2006). Genetic diversity in a collection of ancient cultivars of apple (Malus×domesticaBorkh.) as revealed by SSR-based fingerprinting. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 81(1). 39–44. 46 indexed citations

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Felli, Nadia, Laura Fontana, Elvira Pelosi, et al.. (2005). MicroRNAs 221 and 222 inhibit normal erythropoiesis and erythroleukemic cell growth via kit receptor down-modulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(50). 18081–18086. 606 indexed citations breakdown →

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Felli, Nadia, Laura Fontana, Elvira Pelosi, et al.. (2005). MicroRNAs 221 and 222 Inhibit Normal Erythropoiesis and Erythroleukemic Cell Growth Via Kit Receptor Downmodulation.. Blood. 106(11). 830–830. 23 indexed citations

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