Sofia Bertacca

632 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 405 citations indexed

About

Sofia Bertacca is a scholar working on Plant Science, Insect Science and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofia Bertacca has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 405 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Plant Science, 8 papers in Insect Science and 4 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Sofia Bertacca's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (14 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (7 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (4 papers). Sofia Bertacca is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (14 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (7 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (4 papers). Sofia Bertacca collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sofia Bertacca's co-authors include A. Caruso, Salvatore Davino, Stefano Panno, Slavica Matić, Emanuela Noris, Ana Mandić, Stefano Barone, Giuseppe Parrella, Roberto Rizzo and Mauricio Marín Montoya and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Plant Science, Plants and Agronomy.

In The Last Decade

Sofia Bertacca

14 papers receiving 388 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.

A Review of the Most Common and Economically Important Diseases That Undermine the Cultivation of Tomato Crop in the Mediterranean Basin

2021 216 citations Stefano Panno, Salvatore Davino et al. Agronomy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofia Bertacca Italy	8	359	72	54	41	39	14	405
Martina Bandte Germany	11	343 1.0×	79 1.1×	69 1.3×	54 1.3×	60 1.5×	45	389
D. Alice India	11	319 0.9×	40 0.6×	70 1.3×	36 0.9×	43 1.1×	39	351
Nighat Sarwar Pakistan	14	560 1.6×	81 1.1×	68 1.3×	41 1.0×	51 1.3×	43	590
Nathaniel Westrick United States	10	341 0.9×	46 0.6×	44 0.8×	70 1.7×	106 2.7×	17	373
J. Montealegre Chile	12	446 1.2×	61 0.8×	154 2.9×	102 2.5×	34 0.9×	37	521
Mitsuhiro Sugiyama Japan	12	396 1.1×	46 0.6×	19 0.4×	39 1.0×	39 1.0×	31	458
Shree Prasad Thapa United States	12	360 1.0×	74 1.0×	53 1.0×	75 1.8×	9 0.2×	24	413
Leonardo de B. Giordano Brazil	11	360 1.0×	81 1.1×	15 0.3×	49 1.2×	42 1.1×	30	398
Cheol Choi South Korea	13	352 1.0×	14 0.2×	76 1.4×	140 3.4×	13 0.3×	45	406
Edgloris Marys Venezuela	10	257 0.7×	43 0.6×	37 0.7×	45 1.1×	19 0.5×	29	281

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofia Bertacca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sofia Bertacca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sofia Bertacca 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 Sofia Bertacca. Sofia Bertacca is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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14 of 14 papers shown

Caruso, A., Sofia Bertacca, Luis Galipienso, et al.. (2024). Rapid detection of tomato spotted wilt virus by real-time RT-LAMP and in-field application. Journal of Plant Pathology. 106(2). 697–712. 11 indexed citations

Caruso, A., Salvatore Davino, Sofia Bertacca, et al.. (2024). The invasive tomato pest Tuta absoluta can transmit the emergent tomato brown rugose fruit virus. Entomologia Generalis. 44(2). 289–296. 7 indexed citations

Panno, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Outbreak of tomato fruit blotch virus in the most relevant tomato greenhouse production area of Sicily. Journal of Plant Pathology. 106(2). 789–792. 1 indexed citations

Caruso, A., Sofia Bertacca, I. Font, et al.. (2023). Detection by Sensitive Real-Time Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification of Olive Leaf Yellowing Associated Virus and Its Incidence in Italy and Spain. Horticulturae. 9(6). 702–702. 2 indexed citations

Larregla, Santiago, Sofia Bertacca, A. Alfaro‐Fernández, et al.. (2023). Molecular analysis of a Spanish isolate of chili pepper mild mottle virus and evaluation of seed transmission and resistance genes. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 168(2). 401–418. 3 indexed citations

Caruso, A., et al.. (2023). Development of an In-Field Real-Time LAMP Assay for Rapid Detection of Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus. Plants. 12(7). 1487–1487. 9 indexed citations

Caruso, A., Sofia Bertacca, Giuseppe Parrella, et al.. (2022). Tomato brown rugose fruit virus: A pathogen that is changing the tomato production worldwide. Annals of Applied Biology. 181(3). 258–274. 36 indexed citations

Bertacca, Sofia, A. Caruso, Annalisa Marchese, et al.. (2022). Development of a Real-Time Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for the Rapid Detection of Olea Europaea Geminivirus. Plants. 11(5). 660–660. 12 indexed citations

Caruso, A., et al.. (2022). Epidemiological Survey of Grapevine Leafroll-Associated Virus 1 and 3 in Sicily (Italy): Genetic Structure and Molecular Variability. Agriculture. 12(5). 647–647. 5 indexed citations

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Caruso, A., et al.. (2022). Evolutionary Analysis of Grapevine Virus A: Insights into the Dispersion in Sicily (Italy). Agriculture. 12(6). 835–835. 2 indexed citations

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Panno, Stefano, A. Caruso, Sofia Bertacca, et al.. (2021). Detection of Parietaria Mottle Virus by RT-qPCR: An Emerging Virus Native of Mediterranean Area That Undermine Tomato and Pepper Production in Southern Italy. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 698573–698573. 10 indexed citations

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Panno, Stefano, Salvatore Davino, A. Caruso, et al.. (2021). A Review of the Most Common and Economically Important Diseases That Undermine the Cultivation of Tomato Crop in the Mediterranean Basin. Agronomy. 11(11). 2188–2188. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panno, Stefano, A. Caruso, Sofia Bertacca, et al.. (2021). Genetic Structure and Molecular Variability of Grapevine Fanleaf Virus in Sicily. Agriculture. 11(6). 496–496. 8 indexed citations

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Davino, Salvatore, A. Caruso, Sofia Bertacca, Stefano Barone, & Stefano Panno. (2020). Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus: Seed Transmission Rate and Efficacy of Different Seed Disinfection Treatments. Plants. 9(11). 1615–1615. 83 indexed citations

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