Sonia Levi

12.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
161 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Sonia Levi is a scholar working on Hematology, Molecular Biology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia Levi has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Hematology, 85 papers in Molecular Biology and 67 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Sonia Levi's work include Iron Metabolism and Disorders (106 papers), Trace Elements in Health (66 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (33 papers). Sonia Levi is often cited by papers focused on Iron Metabolism and Disorders (106 papers), Trace Elements in Health (66 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (33 papers). Sonia Levi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Sonia Levi's co-authors include Paolo Arosio, Paolo Santambrogio, Anna Cozzi, Alberto Albertini, Barbara Corsi, Ermanna Rovida, Alessandra Luzzago, S J Yewdall, Pauline M. Harrison and Giorgio Biasiotto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sonia Levi

159 papers receiving 10.1k 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.

Solving the structure of human H ferritin by genetically engineering intermolecular crystal contacts

1991 639 citations David M. Lawson, Peter J. Artymiuk et al. Nature profile →
Iron imbalance in neurodegeneration

2024 84 citations Sonia Levi, Maddalena Ripamonti et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonia Levi Italy	60	5.8k	4.7k	4.2k	2.0k	1.2k	161	10.4k
Prem Ponka Canada	52	4.5k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	415 0.3×	147	11.2k
Jane Gitschier United States	40	4.2k 0.7×	4.9k 1.0×	3.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	68	10.6k
Tracey A. Rouault United States	87	8.3k 1.4×	11.2k 2.4×	6.5k 1.5×	4.5k 2.2×	1.1k 0.9×	240	22.9k
Paolo Santambrogio Italy	43	2.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	715 0.6×	95	5.6k
Jonathan D. Gitlin United States	53	1.8k 0.3×	3.1k 0.7×	5.9k 1.4×	624 0.3×	830 0.7×	87	10.2k
Diane M. Ward United States	46	5.6k 1.0×	3.7k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	3.4k 1.7×	194 0.2×	96	11.6k
Michael F. Romero United States	50	1.8k 0.3×	5.6k 1.2×	2.6k 0.6×	878 0.4×	254 0.2×	165	11.7k
Evan H. Morgan Australia	49	4.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	552 0.5×	209	8.0k
Kazuhiro Iwaï Japan	67	1.5k 0.3×	10.9k 2.3×	1.1k 0.3×	803 0.4×	562 0.5×	218	16.5k
Ross T. A. MacGillivray Canada	43	2.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	144 0.1×	161	6.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Levi, Sonia, et al.. (2024). CoA synthase plays a critical role in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 1458475–1458475. 3 indexed citations

Ripamonti, Maddalena, Paolo Santambrogio, Gabriella Racchetti, et al.. (2022). PKAN hiPS-Derived Astrocytes Show Impairment of Endosomal Trafficking: A Potential Mechanism Underlying Iron Accumulation. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 16. 878103–878103. 8 indexed citations

Cozzi, Anna, Paolo Santambrogio, Maddalena Ripamonti, Ermanna Rovida, & Sonia Levi. (2021). Pathogenic mechanism and modeling of neuroferritinopathy. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 78(7). 3355–3367. 14 indexed citations

Palombo, Flavia, Leonardo Caporali, Angelo Iannielli, et al.. (2021). The relevance of mitochondrial DNA variants fluctuation during reprogramming and neuronal differentiation of human iPSCs. Stem Cell Reports. 16(8). 1953–1967. 8 indexed citations

Fargion, Silvia, et al.. (2015). Characteristics of the Membrane Receptor for Human H-Ferritin. Current studies in hematology and blood transfusion. 164–170.

Levi, Sonia & Ermanna Rovida. (2015). Neuroferritinopathy: From ferritin structure modification to pathogenetic mechanism. Neurobiology of Disease. 81. 134–143. 47 indexed citations

Koeppen, Arnulf H., R. Liane Ramirez, Alyssa B. Becker, et al.. (2015). The Pathogenesis of Cardiomyopathy in Friedreich Ataxia. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0116396–e0116396. 98 indexed citations

Levi, Sonia & Carla Taveggia. (2014). Iron Homeostasis in Peripheral Nervous System, Still a Black Box?. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 21(4). 634–648. 27 indexed citations

Sánchez, Ana M., Enrico Papaleo, Laura Corti, et al.. (2014). Iron availability is increased in individual human ovarian follicles in close proximity to an endometrioma compared with distal ones. Human Reproduction. 29(3). 577–583. 70 indexed citations

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Finazzi, Dario, Stefano Goldwurm, Sonia Levi, et al.. (2010). Sequence Variations in Mitochondrial Ferritin: Distribution in Healthy Controls and Different Types of Patients. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 14(6). 793–796. 10 indexed citations

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Neely, Elizabeth, et al.. (2010). Regional and cellular distribution of mitochondrial ferritin in the mouse brain. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 88(14). 3133–3143. 17 indexed citations

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Foglieni, Barbara, Francesca Ferrari, Stefano Goldwurm, et al.. (2007). Analysis of ferritin genes in Parkinson disease. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 45(11). 1450–6. 19 indexed citations

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Girelli, Domenico, Claudia Bozzini, Gabriella Zecchina, et al.. (2001). Clinical, biochemical and molecular findings in a series of families with hereditary hyperferritinaemia–cataract syndrome. British Journal of Haematology. 115(2). 334–340. 56 indexed citations

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Arosio, Paolo, Günter Weiß, Luca Valenti, et al.. (2000). Relationship between TNFa and iron metabolism in differentiating human monocytic THP-1 cells. Blood. 96. 1 indexed citations

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Santambrogio, Paolo, Anna Cozzi, Sonia Levi, et al.. (2000). Functional and Immunological Analysis of Recombinant Mouse H- and L-Ferritins from Escherichia coli. Protein Expression and Purification. 19(1). 212–218. 89 indexed citations

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Arosio, Paolo, Alberto Albertini, Sonia Levi, et al.. (1994). Chemico-Physical and Functional Differences Between H and L Chains of Human Ferritin. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 356. 13–21. 2 indexed citations

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Lawson, David M., Peter J. Artymiuk, S J Yewdall, et al.. (1991). Solving the structure of human H ferritin by genetically engineering intermolecular crystal contacts. Nature. 349(6309). 541–544. 639 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arosio, Paolo, Anna Cozzi, Rosaria Ingrassia, et al.. (1990). A mutational analysis of the epitopes of recombinant human H-ferritin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1039(2). 197–203. 16 indexed citations

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Levi, Sonia, et al.. (1990). Increased energy expenditure in Parkinson's disease.. BMJ. 301(6763). 1256–1257. 89 indexed citations

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Cozzi, Anna, Sonia Levi, Elena Bazzigaluppi, Giuseppina Ruggeri, & Paolo Arosio. (1989). Development of an immunoassay for all human isoferritins, and its application to serum ferritin evaluation. Clinica Chimica Acta. 184(3). 197–206. 33 indexed citations

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