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

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.

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

Countries citing papers authored by Virginia Plá

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Virginia Plá's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Virginia Plá with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Virginia Plá more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Virginia Plá

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Virginia Plá. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Virginia Plá. The network helps show where Virginia Plá may publish in the future.

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

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

16 of 16 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chronic Intraventricular Cannulation for the Study of Glymphatic Transport 2025 ·eNeuro ·(unknown), Michael Giannetto, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Virginia Plá, Maiken Nedergaard	1
2	Restoration of cervical lymphatic vessel function in aging rescues cerebrospinal fluid drainage 2024 ·Nature Aging ·Ting Du, (unknown), Humberto Mestre, Virginia Plá, Guojun Liu, Antonio Ladrón-de-Guevara, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weiguo Peng, Maiken Nedergaard, Douglas H. Kelley	23
3	Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex 2024 ·Science ·Felix R. M. Beinlich, Antonis Asiminas, Verena Untiet, (unknown), Virginia Plá, Björn Sigurðsson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hajime Hirase, Maiken Nedergaard	37
4	Potentiating glymphatic drainage minimizes post-traumatic cerebral oedema breakdown → 2023 ·Nature ·Rashad Hussain, Jeffrey Tithof, Wei Wang, (unknown), Wei Song, Weiguo Peng, Björn Sigurðsson, Dae‐Hyun Kim, Qian Sun, Sisi Peng, Virginia Plá, Douglas H. Kelley, Hajime Hirase, Jorge A. Castorena‐Gonzalez, Pia Weikop, Steven A. Goldman, Michael J. Davis, Maiken Nedergaard	86
5	A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments breakdown → 2023 ·Science ·Kjeld Møllgård, Felix R. M. Beinlich, Peter Kusk, (unknown), Christine Delle, Virginia Plá, Natalie Hauglund, (unknown), Martin Kaag Rasmussen, Ryszard S. Gomolka, Yuki Mori, Maiken Nedergaard	145
6	Structural characterization of SLYM—a 4th meningeal membrane 2023 ·Fluids and Barriers of the CNS ·Virginia Plá, (unknown), Michael Giannetto, Antonio Ladrón-de-Guevara, (unknown), Yuki Mori, Maiken Nedergaard, Kjeld Møllgård	20
7	Age- and glaucoma-induced changes to the ocular glymphatic system 2023 ·Neurobiology of Disease ·Xiaowei Wang, Christine Delle, Weiguo Peng, Virginia Plá, Michael Giannetto, Peter Kusk, Björn Sigurðsson, Shinya Sakurai, Amanda M. Sweeney, Qian Sun, Ting Du, Richard T. Libby, Maiken Nedergaard	11
8	A real-time in vivo clearance assay for quantification of glymphatic efflux 2022 ·Cell Reports ·Virginia Plá, Peter A. R. Bork, (unknown), Genaro E. Olveda, Antonio Ladrón-de-Guevara, Michael Giannetto, Rashad Hussain, Wei Wang, Douglas H. Kelley, Lauren M. Hablitz, Maiken Nedergaard	40
9	Dense core vesicle markers in CSF and cortical tissues of patients with Alzheimer’s disease 2021 ·Translational Neurodegeneration ·(unknown), Virginia Plá, Daniel Alcolea, (unknown), Reiner Fischer‐Colbrie, Isidró Ferrer, Alberto Lleó, Fernando Aguado	11
10	Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Lauren M. Hablitz, Virginia Plá, Michael Giannetto, Hanna S. Vinitsky, Frederik Filip Stæger, (unknown), Rebecca Nguyen, (unknown), Maiken Nedergaard	441
11	In Vivo Imaging of Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport through the Intact Mouse Skull using Fluorescence Macroscopy 2019 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Amanda M. Sweeney, Virginia Plá, Ting Du, Guojun Liu, Qian Sun, Sisi Peng, Benjamin A. Plog, Benjamin T. Kress, Xiaowei Wang, Humberto Mestre, Maiken Nedergaard	22
12	In Vivo Imaging of Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport through the Intact Mouse Skull using Fluorescence Macroscopy 2019 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Amanda M. Sweeney, Virginia Plá, Ting Du, Guojun Liu, Qian Sun, Sisi Peng, Benjamin A. Plog, Benjamin T. Kress, Xiaowei Wang, Humberto Mestre, Maiken Nedergaard	9
13	Amyloid-β Impairs Vesicular Secretion in Neuronal and Astrocyte Peptidergic Transmission 2017 ·Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience ·Virginia Plá, (unknown), Esther Pozas, Fernando Aguado	9
14	Behaviour and cognitive changes correlated with hippocampal neuroinflammaging and neuronal markers in female SAMP8, a model of accelerated senescence 2016 ·Experimental Gerontology ·Christian Griñán‐Ferré, Verónica Palomera‐Ávalos, Dolors Puigoriol‐Illamola, Antoni Camins, David Porquet, Virginia Plá, Fernando Aguado, Mercè Pallàs	48
15	Cyclic AMP signaling restricts activation and promotes maturation and antioxidant defenses in astrocytes 2016 ·BMC Genomics ·Sonia Paco, Manuela Hummel, Virginia Plá, Lauro Sumoy, Fernando Aguado	36
16	Secretory Sorting Receptors Carboxypeptidase E and Secretogranin III in Amyloid β‐Associated Neural Degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease 2012 ·Brain Pathology ·Virginia Plá, Sonia Paco, Grégory Ghézali, (unknown), Esther Pozas, Isidró Ferrer, Fernando Aguado	40

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact