Virginia Plá

2.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
16 papers, 979 citations indexed

About

Virginia Plá is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia Plá has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 979 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 8 papers in Neurology and 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Virginia Plá's work include Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (10 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (8 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (3 papers). Virginia Plá is often cited by papers focused on Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (10 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (8 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (3 papers). Virginia Plá collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Spain. Virginia Plá's co-authors include Maiken Nedergaard, Michael Giannetto, Lauren M. Hablitz, Hanna S. Vinitsky, Rebecca Nguyen, Frederik Filip Stæger, Fernando Aguado, Felix R. M. Beinlich, Kjeld Møllgård and Yuki Mori and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Virginia Plá

16 papers receiving 970 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.

Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow

2020 441 citations Lauren M. Hablitz, Virginia Plá et al. Nature Communications profile →
A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments

2023 145 citations Kjeld Møllgård, Felix R. M. Beinlich et al. Science profile →
Potentiating glymphatic drainage minimizes post-traumatic cerebral oedema

2023 86 citations Rashad Hussain, Jeffrey Tithof et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia Plá United States	12	614	312	192	152	135	16	979
Simon Sanggaard United States	9	795 1.3×	436 1.4×	128 0.7×	240 1.6×	152 1.1×	12	1.3k
Hanna S. Vinitsky Denmark	4	697 1.1×	381 1.2×	243 1.3×	192 1.3×	165 1.2×	4	979
Jason Liew United States	7	776 1.3×	551 1.8×	126 0.7×	244 1.6×	178 1.3×	14	1.2k
Sunil Koundal United States	13	495 0.8×	335 1.1×	93 0.5×	163 1.1×	111 0.8×	21	733
Emi Hitomi United States	10	741 1.2×	608 1.9×	148 0.8×	214 1.4×	162 1.2×	16	1.3k
Rune Enger Norway	20	712 1.2×	261 0.8×	143 0.7×	155 1.0×	60 0.4×	30	1.2k
Davide Boido Italy	14	643 1.0×	310 1.0×	48 0.3×	150 1.0×	91 0.7×	17	1.1k
S. Meftah United Kingdom	8	359 0.6×	174 0.6×	70 0.4×	81 0.5×	82 0.6×	18	662
Alexander S. Thrane Norway	12	865 1.4×	310 1.0×	123 0.6×	123 0.8×	59 0.4×	17	1.6k
Na Xiao China	11	312 0.5×	137 0.4×	52 0.3×	65 0.4×	99 0.7×	23	752

Countries citing papers authored by Virginia Plá

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Fields of papers citing papers by Virginia Plá

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginia Plá

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Virginia Plá. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Virginia Plá based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Virginia Plá. Virginia Plá is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Giannetto, Michael, et al.. (2025). Chronic Intraventricular Cannulation for the Study of Glymphatic Transport. eNeuro. 12(6). ENEURO.0537–24.2025. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Ting, Humberto Mestre, Virginia Plá, et al.. (2024). Restoration of cervical lymphatic vessel function in aging rescues cerebrospinal fluid drainage. Nature Aging. 4(10). 1418–1431. 23 indexed citations

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Beinlich, Felix R. M., Antonis Asiminas, Verena Untiet, et al.. (2024). Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex. Science. 383(6690). 1471–1478. 37 indexed citations

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Hussain, Rashad, Jeffrey Tithof, Wei Wang, et al.. (2023). Potentiating glymphatic drainage minimizes post-traumatic cerebral oedema. Nature. 623(7989). 992–1000. 86 indexed citations breakdown →

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Møllgård, Kjeld, Felix R. M. Beinlich, Peter Kusk, et al.. (2023). A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments. Science. 379(6627). 84–88. 145 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plá, Virginia, Michael Giannetto, Antonio Ladrón-de-Guevara, et al.. (2023). Structural characterization of SLYM—a 4th meningeal membrane. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 20(1). 93–93. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaowei, Christine Delle, Weiguo Peng, et al.. (2023). Age- and glaucoma-induced changes to the ocular glymphatic system. Neurobiology of Disease. 188. 106322–106322. 11 indexed citations

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Plá, Virginia, Peter A. R. Bork, Genaro E. Olveda, et al.. (2022). A real-time in vivo clearance assay for quantification of glymphatic efflux. Cell Reports. 40(11). 111320–111320. 40 indexed citations

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Plá, Virginia, Daniel Alcolea, Reiner Fischer‐Colbrie, et al.. (2021). Dense core vesicle markers in CSF and cortical tissues of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Translational Neurodegeneration. 10(1). 37–37. 11 indexed citations

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Hablitz, Lauren M., Virginia Plá, Michael Giannetto, et al.. (2020). Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4411–4411. 441 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sweeney, Amanda M., Virginia Plá, Ting Du, et al.. (2019). In Vivo Imaging of Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport through the Intact Mouse Skull using Fluorescence Macroscopy. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 22 indexed citations

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Sweeney, Amanda M., Virginia Plá, Ting Du, et al.. (2019). In Vivo Imaging of Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport through the Intact Mouse Skull using Fluorescence Macroscopy. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 9 indexed citations

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Plá, Virginia, et al.. (2017). Amyloid-β Impairs Vesicular Secretion in Neuronal and Astrocyte Peptidergic Transmission. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 10. 202–202. 9 indexed citations

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Griñán‐Ferré, Christian, Verónica Palomera‐Ávalos, Dolors Puigoriol‐Illamola, et al.. (2016). Behaviour and cognitive changes correlated with hippocampal neuroinflammaging and neuronal markers in female SAMP8, a model of accelerated senescence. Experimental Gerontology. 80. 57–69. 48 indexed citations

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Paco, Sonia, Manuela Hummel, Virginia Plá, Lauro Sumoy, & Fernando Aguado. (2016). Cyclic AMP signaling restricts activation and promotes maturation and antioxidant defenses in astrocytes. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 304–304. 36 indexed citations

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Plá, Virginia, Sonia Paco, Grégory Ghézali, et al.. (2012). Secretory Sorting Receptors Carboxypeptidase E and Secretogranin III in Amyloid β‐Associated Neural Degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease. Brain Pathology. 23(3). 274–284. 40 indexed citations

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