Stefano Pluchino

17.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
122 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Pluchino is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Pluchino has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 38 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Stefano Pluchino's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (51 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (35 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (26 papers) Stefano Pluchino is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (51 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (35 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (26 papers) Stefano Pluchino collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States Stefano Pluchino's co-authors include Gianvito Martino, Luca Peruzzotti‐Jametti, Michal Schwartz, Bianca Marchetti, Gıancarlo Comı, Elena Brambilla, Giuliana Salani, Chiara Cossetti, Nunzio Iraci and Roberto Furlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Pluchino

119 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

  1. Injection of adult neurospheres induces recovery in a chronic model of multiple sclerosis
    2003 838 citations Stefano Pluchino, Elena Brambilla et al. profile →
  2. Microglia activated by IL-4 or IFN-γ differentially induce neurogenesis and oligodendrogenesis from adult stem/progenitor cells
    2005 728 citations Yaniv Ziv, Stefano Pluchino et al. profile →
  3. Infiltrating Blood-Derived Macrophages Are Vital Cells Playing an Anti-inflammatory Role in Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury in Mice
    2009 608 citations Stefano Pluchino, Gianvito Martino et al. profile →
  4. Neurosphere-derived multipotent precursors promote neuroprotection by an immunomodulatory mechanism
    2005 606 citations Stefano Pluchino, Lucia Zanotti et al. profile →
  5. The therapeutic potential of neural stem cells
    2006 586 citations Gianvito Martino, Stefano Pluchino profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefano Pluchino United Kingdom 51 4.4k 3.8k 2.8k 2.6k 1.8k 122 10.1k
Akiko Nishiyama United States 61 4.4k 1.0× 5.8k 1.5× 3.0k 1.1× 3.5k 1.3× 1.6k 0.9× 114 11.4k
Tamir Ben‐Hur Israel 44 3.6k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 182 9.4k
Samuel David Canada 59 3.6k 0.8× 3.4k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 5.4k 2.0× 947 0.5× 126 13.0k
Charles ffrench‐Constant United Kingdom 77 7.7k 1.7× 7.7k 2.0× 4.2k 1.5× 5.2k 2.0× 1.1k 0.6× 178 18.3k
Gianvito Martino Italy 69 5.3k 1.2× 4.5k 1.2× 5.1k 1.8× 3.4k 1.3× 1.8k 1.0× 261 16.8k
Toshihide Yamashita Japan 55 4.5k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 4.8k 1.8× 380 0.2× 329 11.9k
Milos Pekny Sweden 58 6.4k 1.4× 2.7k 0.7× 5.2k 1.9× 4.0k 1.5× 592 0.3× 125 15.1k
Jonah R. Chan United States 49 2.9k 0.7× 4.0k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 3.2k 1.2× 351 0.2× 86 8.2k
Steven W. Levison United States 47 2.9k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 551 0.3× 134 8.7k
Albee Messing United States 65 8.8k 2.0× 2.2k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 4.8k 1.8× 762 0.4× 174 14.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moretti, Eugene, Amy Lin, Luca Peruzzotti‐Jametti, Stefano Pluchino, & Sabah Mozafari. (2025). Neural Stem Cell‐Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Advanced Neural Repair. Journal of Neurochemistry. 169(8). e70170–e70170. 1 indexed citations
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Pluchino, Stefano, et al.. (2025). The metabolic engine of cognition: microglia–neuron interactions in health, ageing and disease. Nature Metabolism. 7(12). 2395–2413.
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Pluchino, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Crossing species boundaries in regenerative neuroscience with rat–mouse brain chimeras. Lab Animal. 53(7). 179–180.
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Nicaise, Alexandra M., et al.. (2024). Brain organoid methodologies to explore mechanisms of disease in progressive multiple sclerosis. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 1488691–1488691. 4 indexed citations
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Mottahedin, Amin, Hiran A. Prag, Christina Schmidt, et al.. (2023). Targeting succinate metabolism to decrease brain injury upon mechanical thrombectomy treatment of ischemic stroke. Redox Biology. 59. 102600–102600. 33 indexed citations
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Wang, Yueming, Cong Meng, Wenjin Wang, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporally deciphering peripheral nerve regeneration in vivo after extracellular vesicle therapy under NIR-II fluorescence imaging. Nanoscale. 15(17). 7991–8005. 12 indexed citations
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Yao, Xinqiang, Jiaying Chen, Jiaying Chen, et al.. (2022). Bioinformatics analysis identified apolipoprotein E as a hub gene regulating neuroinflammation in macrophages and microglia following spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 964138–964138. 9 indexed citations
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Mauri, Emanuele, Alessandro Sacchetti, Nunzio Vicario, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of RGD functionalization in hybrid hydrogels as 3D neural stem cell culture systems. Biomaterials Science. 6(3). 501–510. 41 indexed citations
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Smith, Jayden A., Alice Braga, Clara Alfaro‐Cervelló, et al.. (2017). RNA Nanotherapeutics for the Amelioration of Astroglial Reactivity. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 10. 103–121. 18 indexed citations
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Ossola, Bernardino, Chao Zhao, Alastair Compston, et al.. (2015). Neuronal expression of pathological tau accelerates oligodendrocyte progenitor cell differentiation. Glia. 64(3). 457–471. 20 indexed citations
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Herz, Josephine, Raluca Reitmeir, Barbara S. Reinboth, et al.. (2011). Intracerebroventricularly delivered VEGF promotes contralesional corticorubral plasticity after focal cerebral ischemia via mechanisms involving anti-inflammatory actions. Neurobiology of Disease. 45(3). 1077–1085. 51 indexed citations
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Cimadamore, Flavio, Katherine Fishwick, Elena Giusto, et al.. (2011). Human ESC-Derived Neural Crest Model Reveals a Key Role for SOX2 in Sensory Neurogenesis. Cell stem cell. 8(5). 538–551. 74 indexed citations
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L’Episcopo, Francesca, Maria Francesca Serapide, Cataldo Tirolo, et al.. (2011). A Wnt1 regulated Frizzled-1/β-Cateninsignaling pathway as a candidate regulatory circuit controlling mesencephalic dopaminergic neuron-astrocyte crosstalk: Therapeutical relevance for neuron survival and neuroprotection. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 6(1). 49–49. 168 indexed citations
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Reitmeir, Raluca, Ertuğrul Kılıç, Ülkan Kılıç, et al.. (2010). Post-acute delivery of erythropoietin induces stroke recovery by promoting perilesional tissue remodelling and contralesional pyramidal tract plasticity. Brain. 134(1). 84–99. 120 indexed citations
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Pluchino, Stefano, Lucia Zanotti, Elena Brambilla, et al.. (2009). Immune Regulatory Neural Stem/Precursor Cells Protect from Central Nervous System Autoimmunity by Restraining Dendritic Cell Function. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e5959–e5959. 107 indexed citations
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Pluchino, Stefano, Luca Muzio, Jaime Imitola, et al.. (2008). Persistent inflammation alters the function of the endogenous brain stem cell compartment. Brain. 131(10). 2564–2578. 178 indexed citations
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Ziv, Yaniv, Hila Avidan, Stefano Pluchino, Gianvito Martino, & Michal Schwartz. (2006). Synergy between immune cells and adult neural stem/progenitor cells promotes functional recovery from spinal cord injury. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(35). 13174–13179. 221 indexed citations
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Pluchino, Stefano, Roberto Furlan, & Gianvito Martino. (2004). Cell-based remyelinating therapies in multiple sclerosis: evidence from experimental studies. Current Opinion in Neurology. 17(3). 247–255. 53 indexed citations
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Furlan, Roberto, Stefano Pluchino, & Gianvito Martino. (2003). The therapeutic use of gene therapy in inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. Current Opinion in Neurology. 16(3). 385–392. 12 indexed citations
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Furlan, Roberto, Stefano Pluchino, & Gianvito Martino. (2003). The therapeutic use of gene therapy in inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. Current Opinion in Neurology. 16(3). 385–392. 5 indexed citations

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