Viviana Piccolo

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Viviana Piccolo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Viviana Piccolo has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Viviana Piccolo's work include RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Viviana Piccolo is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Viviana Piccolo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Viviana Piccolo's co-authors include Gioacchino Natoli, Serena Ghisletti, Renato Ostuni, Elena Prosperini, Iros Barozzi, Alberto Termanini, Sara Polletti, Marta Simonatto, Marco Genua and Arianna Sabò and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Genes & Development and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Viviana Piccolo

9 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Latent Enhancers Activated by Stimulation in Differentiated Cells

2013 602 citations Renato Ostuni, Viviana Piccolo et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Viviana Piccolo Italy	9	707	545	163	129	119	11	1.2k
Laurent Vanhille France	16	732 1.0×	418 0.8×	56 0.3×	146 1.1×	139 1.2×	19	1.2k
Claudia Ribeiro de Almeida Netherlands	13	900 1.3×	467 0.9×	83 0.5×	55 0.4×	136 1.1×	15	1.2k
R. Nicholas Laribee United States	18	899 1.3×	276 0.5×	66 0.4×	140 1.1×	76 0.6×	29	1.3k
Meromit Singer United States	13	470 0.7×	526 1.0×	59 0.4×	388 3.0×	118 1.0×	23	1.1k
Linhong Li United States	16	571 0.8×	251 0.5×	103 0.6×	261 2.0×	86 0.7×	35	924
Zhuqiang Zhang China	20	1.4k 1.9×	219 0.4×	149 0.9×	100 0.8×	178 1.5×	35	1.7k
Jason L. Petersen United States	14	399 0.6×	200 0.4×	81 0.5×	100 0.8×	204 1.7×	22	842
Dongyuan Ma China	20	1.0k 1.4×	308 0.6×	183 1.1×	65 0.5×	299 2.5×	30	1.5k
Klaus Schwamborn France	14	751 1.1×	190 0.3×	41 0.3×	141 1.1×	132 1.1×	20	1.0k
Sara Ballester Spain	16	413 0.6×	273 0.5×	31 0.2×	125 1.0×	73 0.6×	26	817

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Viviana Piccolo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Viviana Piccolo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Viviana Piccolo 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 Viviana Piccolo. Viviana Piccolo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Russo, Marta, Sara Polletti, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2026). Sequence-specific RNA recognition drives Restrictor-mediated termination of extragenic transcription. Molecular Cell. 86(6). 1046–1060.e10.

Polletti, Sara, Clément Léna, Viviana Piccolo, et al.. (2025). Control of myeloid lineage fidelity and response to stimuli by ISWI-enforced nucleosome phasing. Immunity. 58(10). 2402–2418.e8.

Russo, Marta, Viviana Piccolo, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2023). Restrictor synergizes with Symplekin and PNUTS to terminate extragenic transcription. Genes & Development. 37(21-24). 1017–1040. 15 indexed citations

Austenaa, Liv, Viviana Piccolo, Marta Russo, et al.. (2021). A first exon termination checkpoint preferentially suppresses extragenic transcription. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(4). 337–346. 39 indexed citations

Caprara, Greta, Elena Prosperini, Viviana Piccolo, et al.. (2018). PARP14 Controls the Nuclear Accumulation of a Subset of Type I IFN–Inducible Proteins. The Journal of Immunology. 200(7). 2439–2454. 61 indexed citations

Piccolo, Viviana, Marco Genua, Serena Ghisletti, et al.. (2017). Opposing macrophage polarization programs show extensive epigenomic and transcriptional cross-talk. Nature Immunology. 18(5). 530–540. 156 indexed citations

Montagner, Sara, Cristina Leoni, Giulia Della Chiara, et al.. (2016). TET2 Regulates Mast Cell Differentiation and Proliferation through Catalytic and Non-catalytic Activities. Cell Reports. 15(7). 1566–1579. 73 indexed citations

Austenaa, Liv, Iros Barozzi, Marta Simonatto, et al.. (2015). Transcription of Mammalian cis-Regulatory Elements Is Restrained by Actively Enforced Early Termination. Molecular Cell. 60(3). 460–474. 79 indexed citations

Ostuni, Renato, Viviana Piccolo, Iros Barozzi, et al.. (2013). Latent Enhancers Activated by Stimulation in Differentiated Cells. Cell. 152(1-2). 157–171. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bertolini, Edoardo, Wim Verelst, David S. Horner, et al.. (2012). Addressing the Role of microRNAs in Reprogramming Leaf Growth during Drought Stress in Brachypodium distachyon. Molecular Plant. 6(2). 423–443. 71 indexed citations

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Mica, Erica, Viviana Piccolo, Massimo Delledonne, et al.. (2009). High throughput approaches reveal splicing of primary microRNA transcripts and tissue specific expression of mature microRNAs in Vitis vinifera. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 558–558. 81 indexed citations

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