Valbona Luga

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Valbona Luga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Valbona Luga has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Valbona Luga's work include Extracellular vesicles in disease (5 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (3 papers) and Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (2 papers). Valbona Luga is often cited by papers focused on Extracellular vesicles in disease (5 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (3 papers) and Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (2 papers). Valbona Luga collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Japan and France. Valbona Luga's co-authors include Jeffrey L. Wrana, Liang Zhang, Abdel Hosein, Elaine Chiu, Marguerite Buchanan, Abiodun A. Ogunjimi, Alicia Viloria‐Petit, Mark Basik, Rohit Bose and Kevin R. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Valbona Luga

9 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Exosomes Mediate Stromal Mobilization of Autocrine Wnt-PCP Signaling in Breast Cancer Cell Migration

2012 1.1k citations Valbona Luga, Liang Zhang et al. Cell profile →
High-Throughput Mapping of a Dynamic Signaling Network in Mammalian Cells

2005 553 citations Miriam Barrios‐Rodiles, Kevin R. Brown et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valbona Luga Canada	9	2.1k	929	412	349	211	9	2.4k
Vandhana Muralidharan-Chari United States	12	1.9k 0.9×	994 1.1×	236 0.6×	266 0.8×	328 1.6×	17	2.2k
Martin Hagedorn France	28	1.5k 0.7×	468 0.5×	442 1.1×	250 0.7×	221 1.0×	42	2.2k
Maria Francesca Baietti Belgium	14	1.7k 0.8×	869 0.9×	208 0.5×	290 0.8×	244 1.2×	19	2.0k
Guo-fu Hu United States	18	1.6k 0.8×	692 0.7×	456 1.1×	188 0.5×	185 0.9×	18	2.2k
Saskia I. J. Ellenbroek Netherlands	16	1.6k 0.8×	624 0.7×	671 1.6×	455 1.3×	287 1.4×	18	2.5k
Steffen Runz Germany	9	1.4k 0.7×	644 0.7×	297 0.7×	254 0.7×	338 1.6×	9	1.8k
Sebastian Hoersch United States	16	1.6k 0.8×	503 0.5×	672 1.6×	350 1.0×	180 0.9×	23	2.6k
Daniela Tosoni Italy	16	1.8k 0.9×	531 0.6×	1.2k 2.9×	585 1.7×	191 0.9×	24	2.7k
Matthew Holderfield United States	17	1.7k 0.8×	266 0.3×	564 1.4×	281 0.8×	219 1.0×	25	2.2k
Bodour Salhia United States	26	914 0.4×	483 0.5×	580 1.4×	304 0.9×	139 0.7×	69	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Valbona Luga

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valbona Luga

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Li, Zhongchi, Vivien Low, Valbona Luga, et al.. (2022). Tumor-produced and aging-associated oncometabolite methylmalonic acid promotes cancer-associated fibroblast activation to drive metastatic progression. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6239–6239. 44 indexed citations

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Tassew, Nardos G., Jason Charish, Alireza P. Shabanzadeh, et al.. (2017). Exosomes Mediate Mobilization of Autocrine Wnt10b to Promote Axonal Regeneration in the Injured CNS. Cell Reports. 20(1). 99–111. 88 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liang, Valbona Luga, Amy Won, et al.. (2016). A lateral signalling pathway coordinates shape volatility during cell migration. Nature Communications. 7(1). 45 indexed citations

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Shimoda, Masayuki, Simona Principe, Hartland W. Jackson, et al.. (2014). Loss of the Timp gene family is sufficient for the acquisition of the CAF-like cell state. Nature Cell Biology. 16(9). 889–901. 167 indexed citations

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Luga, Valbona & Jeffrey L. Wrana. (2013). Tumor–Stroma Interaction: Revealing Fibroblast-Secreted Exosomes as Potent Regulators of Wnt-Planar Cell Polarity Signaling in Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Research. 73(23). 6843–6847. 152 indexed citations

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Luga, Valbona, Liang Zhang, Alicia Viloria‐Petit, et al.. (2012). Exosomes Mediate Stromal Mobilization of Autocrine Wnt-PCP Signaling in Breast Cancer Cell Migration. Cell. 151(7). 1542–1556. 1089 indexed citations breakdown →

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Narimatsu, Masahiro, Rohit Bose, Melanie Pye, et al.. (2009). Regulation of Planar Cell Polarity by Smurf Ubiquitin Ligases. Cell. 137(2). 295–307. 268 indexed citations

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Luga, Valbona, Sarah McLean, Christine Le Roy, et al.. (2009). The extracellular domain of the TGFβ type II receptor regulates membrane raft partitioning. Biochemical Journal. 421(1). 119–131. 26 indexed citations

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Barrios‐Rodiles, Miriam, Kevin R. Brown, Barish Ozdamar, et al.. (2005). High-Throughput Mapping of a Dynamic Signaling Network in Mammalian Cells. Science. 307(5715). 1621–1625. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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