Valentina Cigliola

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 786 citations indexed

About

Valentina Cigliola is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Valentina Cigliola has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 786 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Surgery and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Valentina Cigliola's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (10 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (6 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (5 papers). Valentina Cigliola is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (10 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (6 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (5 papers). Valentina Cigliola collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Valentina Cigliola's co-authors include Pedro L. Herrera, Simona Chera, Fabrizio Thorel, Kenichiro Furuyama, Luiza Ghila, Kenneth D. Poss, Frank Reimann, Fiona M. Gribble, Guoqiang Gu and Jan Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Valentina Cigliola

19 papers receiving 779 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.

Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

2014 308 citations Simona Chera, Luiza Ghila et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valentina Cigliola United States	13	472	353	327	244	77	20	786
Michaela Iberl United Kingdom	9	332 0.7×	246 0.7×	169 0.5×	215 0.9×	48 0.6×	11	666
Virginie Népote France	10	969 2.1×	538 1.5×	641 2.0×	477 2.0×	46 0.6×	12	1.3k
Sébastien Dussaud France	7	480 1.0×	308 0.9×	307 0.9×	259 1.1×	35 0.5×	14	893
Patrizia Ronchetto Italy	11	347 0.7×	344 1.0×	297 0.9×	54 0.2×	34 0.4×	28	841
Anthony Beucher France	9	276 0.6×	269 0.8×	176 0.5×	92 0.4×	23 0.3×	11	569
Jonathan Weitz United States	14	426 0.9×	197 0.6×	225 0.7×	252 1.0×	20 0.3×	22	713
Courtney Ackeifi United States	7	214 0.5×	281 0.8×	163 0.5×	126 0.5×	17 0.2×	9	534
Travis D. Webber Canada	12	347 0.7×	282 0.8×	113 0.3×	303 1.2×	44 0.6×	16	840
Jennifer L. Plank United States	8	352 0.7×	348 1.0×	171 0.5×	120 0.5×	35 0.5×	8	616
Catherine Lee May United States	17	849 1.8×	566 1.6×	606 1.9×	367 1.5×	43 0.6×	28	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valentina Cigliola

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cigliola, Valentina, et al.. (2025). Blueprints for healing: central nervous system regeneration in zebrafish and neonatal mice. BMC Biology. 23(1). 115–115. 2 indexed citations

Wolfson, David, Joshua A. Hull, Yongwu Li, et al.. (2025). Spatial and longitudinal tracking of enhancer-AAV vectors that target transgene expression to injured mouse myocardium. eLife. 14.

Cigliola, Valentina, Ashley Rich, Alessandro De Simone, et al.. (2023). In toto imaging of glial JNK signaling during larval zebrafish spinal cord regeneration. Development. 150(24). 2 indexed citations

Cigliola, Valentina, Adam R. Shoffner, Jianhong Ou, et al.. (2023). Spinal cord repair is modulated by the neurogenic factor Hb-egf under direction of a regeneration-associated enhancer. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4857–4857. 24 indexed citations

Gurp, Léon van, Valentina Cigliola, Kenichiro Furuyama, et al.. (2021). Pancreatic Ppy-expressing γ-cells display mixed phenotypic traits and the adaptive plasticity to engage insulin production. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4458–4458. 47 indexed citations

Oropeza, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Stage-specific transcriptomic changes in pancreatic α-cells after massive β-cell loss. BMC Genomics. 22(1). 585–585. 12 indexed citations

Cigliola, Valentina, et al.. (2020). Building bridges, not walls: spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 13(5). 42 indexed citations

Thompson, John, Jianhong Ou, Valentina Cigliola, et al.. (2020). Identification and requirements of enhancers that direct gene expression during zebrafish fin regeneration. Development. 147(14). 35 indexed citations

Shoffner, Adam R., et al.. (2020). Tp53 Suppression Promotes Cardiomyocyte Proliferation during Zebrafish Heart Regeneration. Cell Reports. 32(9). 108089–108089. 23 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Luiza Ghila, Simona Chera, & Pedro L. Herrera. (2019). Tissue repair brakes: A common paradigm in the biology of regeneration. Stem Cells. 38(3). 330–339. 11 indexed citations

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Han, Yanchao, Kfir Baruch Umansky, Wen-Yee Choi, et al.. (2019). Vitamin D Stimulates Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Controls Organ Size and Regeneration in Zebrafish. Developmental Cell. 48(6). 853–863.e5. 84 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Luiza Ghila, Fabrizio Thorel, et al.. (2018). Pancreatic islet-autonomous insulin and smoothened-mediated signalling modulate identity changes of glucagon+ α-cells. Nature Cell Biology. 20(11). 1267–1277. 45 indexed citations

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Berchtold, Lukas Adrian, Michela Miani, Thi Ai Diep, et al.. (2017). Pannexin-2-deficiency sensitizes pancreatic β-cells to cytokine-induced apoptosis in vitro and impairs glucose tolerance in vivo. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 448. 108–121. 12 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Fabrizio Thorel, Simona Chera, & Pedro L. Herrera. (2016). Stress‐induced adaptive islet cell identity changes. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 18(S1). 87–96. 35 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Céline Populaire, Ciro Leonardo Pierri, et al.. (2016). A Variant of GJD2, Encoding for Connexin 36, Alters the Function of Insulin Producing β-Cells. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150880–e0150880. 16 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Florent Allagnat, Lukas Adrian Berchtold, et al.. (2015). Role of Connexins and Pannexins in the Pancreas. Pancreas. 44(8). 1234–1244. 18 indexed citations

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Chera, Simona, Luiza Ghila, Valentina Cigliola, et al.. (2014). Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers. Nature. 514(7523). 503–507. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cigliola, Valentina, et al.. (2012). Connexins and β-cell functions. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 99(3). 250–259. 40 indexed citations

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Ait‐Lounis, Aouatef, Florent Allagnat, Valentina Cigliola, et al.. (2012). Cx36 Is a Target of Beta2/NeuroD1, Which Associates with Prenatal Differentiation of Insulin-producing β Cells. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 245(5-6). 263–273. 11 indexed citations

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Potolicchio, Ilaria, Valentina Cigliola, Silvia Velázquez-García, et al.. (2011). Connexin-dependent signaling in neuro-hormonal systems. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1818(8). 1919–1936. 19 indexed citations

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