Tito Panciera

7.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
22 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Tito Panciera is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tito Panciera has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cell Biology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tito Panciera's work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (17 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (11 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers). Tito Panciera is often cited by papers focused on Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (17 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (11 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers). Tito Panciera collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Hungary. Tito Panciera's co-authors include Stefano Piccolo, Michelangelo Cordenonsi, Luca Azzolin, Antonio Totaro, Sirio Dupont, Stefano Giulitti, Mariaceleste Aragona, Nicola Elvassore, Andrea Manfrin and Federica Michielin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tito Panciera

20 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 Mechanical Checkpoint Controls Multicellular Growth through YAP/TAZ Regulation by Actin-Processing Factors

2013 1.3k citations Mariaceleste Aragona, Tito Panciera et al. Cell profile →
Mechanobiology of YAP and TAZ in physiology and disease

2017 978 citations Tito Panciera, Luca Azzolin et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
YAP/TAZ Incorporation in the β-Catenin Destruction Complex Orchestrates the Wnt Response

2014 850 citations Luca Azzolin, Tito Panciera et al. Cell profile →
YAP/TAZ upstream signals and downstream responses

2018 709 citations Antonio Totaro, Tito Panciera et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
YAP/TAZ activity in stromal cells prevents ageing by controlling cGAS–STING

2022 184 citations Francesca Zanconato, Giusy Battilana et al. Nature profile →
YAP/TAZ as master regulators in cancer: modulation, function and therapeutic approaches

2022 145 citations Stefano Piccolo, Tito Panciera et al. Nature Cancer profile →

Peers

Tito Panciera

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Mariaceleste Aragona Italy

Jimmy Le Digabel France

Stefano Giulitti Italy

Elena Enzo Italy

Sara A. Wickström Germany

Andrea Manfrin Italy

Kazue Matsumoto United States

Francesca Zanconato Italy

Tudorita Tumbar United States

Michele A. Wozniak United States

Mariaceleste Aragona Italy

Tito Panciera

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369 ×1.3

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Citations per year, relative to Tito Panciera Tito Panciera (= 1×) peers Mariaceleste Aragona

Countries citing papers authored by Tito Panciera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tito Panciera

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Citron, Anna, Paolo Contessotto, Alessandro Gandin, et al.. (2025). Microtubule architecture connects AMOT stability to YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction and Hippo signalling. Nature Cell Biology. 27(10). 1725–1738.

Gandin, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). A Scalable Method to Fabricate 2D Hydrogel Substrates for Mechanobiology Studies with Independent Tuning of Adhesiveness and Stiffness. Methods and Protocols. 7(5). 75–75. 2 indexed citations

Santi, Spartaco, Tito Panciera, Enea Ferlizza, et al.. (2023). Aberrant MET activation impairs perinuclear actin cap organization with YAP1 cytosolic relocation. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1044–1044. 3 indexed citations

Zanconato, Francesca, Giusy Battilana, Tito Panciera, et al.. (2022). YAP/TAZ activity in stromal cells prevents ageing by controlling cGAS–STING. Nature. 607(7920). 790–798. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

Piccolo, Stefano, Tito Panciera, Paolo Contessotto, & Michelangelo Cordenonsi. (2022). YAP/TAZ as master regulators in cancer: modulation, function and therapeutic approaches. Nature Cancer. 4(1). 9–26. 145 indexed citations breakdown →

Gandin, Alessandro, Tito Panciera, Paolo Contessotto, et al.. (2021). Broadly Applicable Hydrogel Fabrication Procedures Guided by YAP/TAZ‐Activity Reveal Stiffness, Adhesiveness, and Nuclear Projected Area as Checkpoints for Mechanosensing. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 11(3). e2102276–e2102276. 10 indexed citations

Gandin, Alessandro, Anna Citron, Paolo Contessotto, et al.. (2021). Simple yet effective methods to probe hydrogel stiffness for mechanobiology. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22668–22668. 25 indexed citations

Panciera, Tito, Anna Citron, Daniele Di Biagio, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Reprogramming normal cells into tumour precursors requires ECM stiffness and oncogene-mediated changes of cell mechanical properties. Nature Materials. 19(4). 475–475. 3 indexed citations

Castellan, Martina, Atsushi Fujimura, Francesca Zanconato, et al.. (2020). Single-cell analyses reveal YAP/TAZ as regulators of stemness and cell plasticity in glioblastoma. Nature Cancer. 2(2). 174–188. 88 indexed citations

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Panciera, Tito, Anna Citron, Daniele Di Biagio, et al.. (2020). Reprogramming normal cells into tumour precursors requires ECM stiffness and oncogene-mediated changes of cell mechanical properties. Nature Materials. 19(7). 797–806. 166 indexed citations

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Giustina, Gioia Della, Alessandro Gandin, Laura Brigo, et al.. (2019). Polysaccharide hydrogels for multiscale 3D printing of pullulan scaffolds. Materials & Design. 165. 107566–107566. 50 indexed citations

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Totaro, Antonio, Qiuyu Zhuang, Tito Panciera, et al.. (2019). Cell phenotypic plasticity requires autophagic flux driven by YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(36). 17848–17857. 102 indexed citations

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Brusatin, Giovanna, Tito Panciera, Alessandro Gandin, Anna Citron, & Stefano Piccolo. (2018). Biomaterials and engineered microenvironments to control YAP/TAZ-dependent cell behaviour. Nature Materials. 17(12). 1063–1075. 219 indexed citations

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Totaro, Antonio, Tito Panciera, & Stefano Piccolo. (2018). YAP/TAZ upstream signals and downstream responses. Nature Cell Biology. 20(8). 888–899. 709 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panciera, Tito, Luca Azzolin, Daniele Di Biagio, et al.. (2018). <em>De Novo</em> Generation of Somatic Stem Cells by YAP/TAZ. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Chang, Lei, Luca Azzolin, Daniele Di Biagio, et al.. (2018). The SWI/SNF complex is a mechanoregulated inhibitor of YAP and TAZ. Nature. 563(7730). 265–269. 239 indexed citations

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Panciera, Tito, Luca Azzolin, Michelangelo Cordenonsi, & Stefano Piccolo. (2017). Mechanobiology of YAP and TAZ in physiology and disease. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 18(12). 758–770. 978 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panciera, Tito, Luca Azzolin, Atsushi Fujimura, et al.. (2016). Induction of Expandable Tissue-Specific Stem/Progenitor Cells through Transient Expression of YAP/TAZ. Cell stem cell. 19(6). 725–737. 197 indexed citations

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Azzolin, Luca, Tito Panciera, Sandra Soligo, et al.. (2014). YAP/TAZ Incorporation in the β-Catenin Destruction Complex Orchestrates the Wnt Response. Cell. 158(1). 157–170. 850 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aragona, Mariaceleste, Tito Panciera, Andrea Manfrin, et al.. (2013). A Mechanical Checkpoint Controls Multicellular Growth through YAP/TAZ Regulation by Actin-Processing Factors. Cell. 154(5). 1047–1059. 1270 indexed citations breakdown →

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