Sofia Farkona

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 983 citations indexed

About

Sofia Farkona is a scholar working on Surgery, Transplantation and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofia Farkona has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 983 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Surgery, 4 papers in Transplantation and 3 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sofia Farkona's work include Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (4 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (4 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (3 papers). Sofia Farkona is often cited by papers focused on Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (4 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (4 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (3 papers). Sofia Farkona collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Slovakia and Germany. Sofia Farkona's co-authors include Eleftherios P. Diamandis, Ivan M. Blasutig, Ioannis Prassas, Davor Brinc, Panagiota S. Filippou, Randall E. Brand, Caitlin C Chrystoja, Apostolos Dimitromanolakis, Vathany Kulasingam and Felix Leung and has published in prestigious journals such as Biochemical Journal, Clinical Chemistry and Frontiers in Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Sofia Farkona

13 papers receiving 968 citations

Hit Papers

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Cancer immunotherapy: the beginning of the end of cancer?

2016 882 citations Sofia Farkona, Eleftherios P. Diamandis et al. BMC Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofia Farkona Canada	8	517	444	284	151	119	13	983
Khashayar Esfahani Canada	11	741 1.4×	430 1.0×	374 1.3×	152 1.0×	203 1.7×	37	1.3k
Simone Gaedicke Germany	18	497 1.0×	354 0.8×	362 1.3×	141 0.9×	107 0.9×	27	1.0k
Neha Papneja Canada	2	370 0.7×	271 0.6×	237 0.8×	129 0.9×	101 0.8×	4	723
Bo Zhu China	19	522 1.0×	423 1.0×	398 1.4×	167 1.1×	197 1.7×	50	1.1k
Colby S. Shemesh United States	15	373 0.7×	268 0.6×	343 1.2×	174 1.2×	145 1.2×	33	899
Denarda Dangaj Laniti Switzerland	15	703 1.4×	544 1.2×	367 1.3×	128 0.8×	78 0.7×	31	1.1k
Aixa Soyano United States	9	713 1.4×	482 1.1×	234 0.8×	86 0.6×	229 1.9×	30	1.1k
Agnes S. Lo United States	20	505 1.0×	599 1.3×	418 1.5×	125 0.8×	109 0.9×	28	1.4k
Lucy Boyce Kennedy United States	8	715 1.4×	478 1.1×	343 1.2×	192 1.3×	235 2.0×	20	1.3k
Tao Shi China	16	548 1.1×	490 1.1×	419 1.5×	170 1.1×	170 1.4×	39	1.2k

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Abovsky, Mark, et al.. (2024). Molecular landscape of kidney allograft tissues data integration portal (NephroDIP): a curated database to improve integration of high-throughput kidney transplant datasets. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1469500–1469500. 1 indexed citations

Farkona, Sofia, Chiara Pastrello, & Ana Konvalinka. (2023). Proteomics: Its Promise and Pitfalls in Shaping Precision Medicine in Solid Organ Transplantation. Transplantation. 107(10). 2126–2142. 4 indexed citations

Clotet‐Freixas, Sergi, Max Kotlyar, Caitríona M. McEvoy, et al.. (2021). Increased Autoantibodies Against Ro/SS-A, CENP-B, and La/SS-B in Patients With Kidney Allograft Antibody-mediated Rejection. Transplantation Direct. 7(10). e768–e768. 9 indexed citations

McEvoy, Caitríona M., Sergi Clotet‐Freixas, Tomáš Tokár, et al.. (2021). Normothermic Ex-vivo Kidney Perfusion in a Porcine Auto-Transplantation Model Preserves the Expression of Key Mitochondrial Proteins: An Unbiased Proteomics Analysis. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 20. 100101–100101. 10 indexed citations

Farkona, Sofia, Zahraa Mohammed‐Ali, Max Kotlyar, et al.. (2021). Association between the renin–angiotensin system and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. European Respiratory Journal. 58(4). 2002975–2002975. 8 indexed citations

Farkona, Sofia, Zahraa Mohammed‐Ali, Penh Sun Ly, et al.. (2020). Role for Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in CLAD. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 39(4). S106–S107. 1 indexed citations

Filippou, Panagiota S., et al.. (2017). A new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for human free and bound kallikrein 9. Clinical Proteomics. 14(1). 4–4. 11 indexed citations

Farkona, Sofia, Antoninus Soosaipillai, Panagiota S. Filippou, et al.. (2017). Generation of monoclonal antibodies and development of an immunofluorometric assay for the detection of CUZD1 in tissues and biological fluids. Clinical Biochemistry. 50(18). 1168–1174. 1 indexed citations

Farkona, Sofia, Antoninus Soosaipillai, Panagiota S. Filippou, et al.. (2017). Novel immunoassays for detection of CUZD1 autoantibodies in serum of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 55(10). 1574–1581. 9 indexed citations

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Filippou, Panagiota S., Sofia Farkona, Davor Brinc, et al.. (2017). Biochemical and functional characterization of the human tissue kallikrein 9. Biochemical Journal. 474(14). 2417–2433. 9 indexed citations

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Blasutig, Ivan M., Sofia Farkona, Elizabeth I. Buchbinder, et al.. (2017). The Phoenix Rises: The Rebirth of Cancer Immunotherapy. Clinical Chemistry. 63(7). 1190–1195. 2 indexed citations

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Farkona, Sofia, Eleftherios P. Diamandis, & Ivan M. Blasutig. (2016). Cancer immunotherapy: the beginning of the end of cancer?. BMC Medicine. 14(1). 73–73. 882 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prassas, Ioannis, Davor Brinc, Sofia Farkona, et al.. (2013). False Biomarker Discovery due to Reactivity of a Commercial ELISA for CUZD1 with Cancer Antigen CA125. Clinical Chemistry. 60(2). 381–388. 36 indexed citations

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