Sofia Gkountela

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sofia Gkountela is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofia Gkountela has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sofia Gkountela's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). Sofia Gkountela is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). Sofia Gkountela collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Sofia Gkountela's co-authors include Nicola Aceto, Francesc Castro-Giner, Barbara M. Szczerba, Ilona Krol, Ramona Scherrer, Marcus Vetter, Christoph Rochlitz, Viola Heinzelmann‐Schwarz, Julia Landin and Christian Kurzeder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sofia Gkountela

16 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression

2019 886 citations Barbara M. Szczerba, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. Nature profile →
Circulating Tumor Cell Clustering Shapes DNA Methylation to Enable Metastasis Seeding

2019 608 citations Sofia Gkountela, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofia Gkountela Switzerland	15	1.2k	1.1k	821	402	327	16	2.3k
Timour Baslan United States	20	761 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	932 1.1×	303 0.8×	133 0.4×	37	2.3k
Sanaz Memarzadeh United States	23	918 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	424 0.5×	345 0.9×	125 0.4×	60	2.3k
Jared K. Burks United States	28	905 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	480 0.6×	677 1.7×	158 0.5×	85	2.5k
Barbara M. Szczerba Switzerland	15	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	992 1.2×	552 1.4×	472 1.4×	23	2.8k
Andrea Flesken‐Nikitin United States	22	841 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.4×	235 0.6×	147 0.4×	43	3.1k
Claire M. Connell United Kingdom	13	1.7k 1.4×	773 0.7×	360 0.4×	877 2.2×	143 0.4×	19	2.4k
Gouri J. Nanjangud United States	22	743 0.6×	986 0.9×	365 0.4×	424 1.1×	148 0.5×	48	2.2k
Dong‐Joo Cheon United States	17	615 0.5×	806 0.7×	430 0.5×	171 0.4×	203 0.6×	30	1.6k
Kate Lawrenson United States	27	486 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	530 0.6×	237 0.6×	207 0.6×	62	1.9k
Dominic G. Rothwell United Kingdom	25	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	863 1.1×	317 0.8×	327 1.0×	63	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sofia Gkountela

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16 of 16 papers shown

Scheidmann, Manuel C., Francesc Castro-Giner, Karin Strittmatter, et al.. (2021). An In Vivo CRISPR Screen Identifies Stepwise Genetic Dependencies of Metastatic Progression. Cancer Research. 82(4). 681–694. 18 indexed citations

Szczerba, Barbara M., Francesc Castro-Giner, Marcus Vetter, et al.. (2019). Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression. Nature. 566(7745). 553–557. 886 indexed citations breakdown →

Gkountela, Sofia, Francesc Castro-Giner, Barbara M. Szczerba, et al.. (2019). Circulating Tumor Cell Clustering Shapes DNA Methylation to Enable Metastasis Seeding. Cell. 176(1-2). 98–112.e14. 608 indexed citations breakdown →

Krol, Ilona, Francesc Castro-Giner, Martina Maurer, et al.. (2018). Detection of circulating tumour cell clusters in human glioblastoma. British Journal of Cancer. 119(4). 487–491. 102 indexed citations

Vetter, Marcus, Julia Landin, Barbara M. Szczerba, et al.. (2018). Denosumab treatment is associated with the absence of circulating tumor cells in patients with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research. 20(1). 141–141. 25 indexed citations

Castro-Giner, Francesc, Sofia Gkountela, Cinzia Donato, et al.. (2018). Cancer Diagnosis Using a Liquid Biopsy: Challenges and Expectations. Diagnostics. 8(2). 31–31. 103 indexed citations

Clark, Amander T., Sofia Gkountela, Di Chen, et al.. (2017). Primate Primordial Germ Cells Acquire Transplantation Potential by Carnegie Stage 23. Stem Cell Reports. 9(1). 329–341. 14 indexed citations

Gkountela, Sofia & Nicola Aceto. (2016). Stem-like features of cancer cells on their way to metastasis. Biology Direct. 11(1). 33–33. 34 indexed citations

Gkountela, Sofia, Barbara M. Szczerba, Cinzia Donato, & Nicola Aceto. (2016). Recent advances in the biology of human circulating tumour cells and metastasis. ESMO Open. 1(4). e000078–e000078. 35 indexed citations

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Gkountela, Sofia, et al.. (2015). DNA Demethylation Dynamics in the Human Prenatal Germline. Cell. 161(6). 1425–1436. 254 indexed citations

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Gkountela, Sofia, Ziwei Li, Chee Jia Chin, Serena A. Lee, & Amander T. Clark. (2014). PRMT5 is Required for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Proliferation But Not Pluripotency. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 10(2). 230–239. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Ziwei, Juehua Yu, Kevin Nee, et al.. (2014). The Sm protein methyltransferase PRMT 5 is not required for primordial germ cell specification in mice. The EMBO Journal. 34(6). 748–758. 32 indexed citations

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Gkountela, Sofia & Amander T. Clark. (2013). RNA-Seq Library Generation from Rare Human Cells Isolated by FACS. BIO-PROTOCOL. 3(12). 1 indexed citations

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Gkountela, Sofia, Ziwei Li, John J. Vincent, et al.. (2012). The ontogeny of cKIT+ human primordial germ cells proves to be a resource for human germ line reprogramming, imprint erasure and in vitro differentiation. Nature Cell Biology. 15(1). 113–122. 143 indexed citations

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Vincent, John J., Ziwei Li, Serena A. Lee, et al.. (2011). Single Cell Analysis Facilitates Staging of Blimp1-Dependent Primordial Germ Cells Derived from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28960–e28960. 24 indexed citations

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Xu, Ning, Sofia Gkountela, Khalid Saeed, & Göran Akusjärvi. (2009). The 5′-end heterogeneity of adenovirus virus-associated RNAI contributes to the asymmetric guide strand incorporation into the RNA-induced silencing complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(20). 6950–6959. 17 indexed citations

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