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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
82
Citations
72874
World Ranking
3598
National Ranking
70

Francesco Cecconi publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Cecconi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 244 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Francesco Cecconi D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Cecconi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesco Cecconi is affiliated with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Their research predominantly spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work also intersecting medicine. Their focus includes molecular biology, epidemiology, cell biology, immunology, and genetics as core subfields of study.

The scientist's work engages deeply with multiple topics, particularly autophagy in disease and therapy, epigenetics and DNA methylation, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, cancer-related molecular pathways, melanoma and MAPK pathways, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Francesco Cecconi include:

  • Francesca Nazio
  • Giacomo Milletti
  • Matteo Bordi
  • Valentina Cianfanelli
  • Daniela De Zio

They have published in several scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Nature

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesco Cecconi include:

  • Autophagy in major human diseases, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023, 2023, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • CRL4AMBRA1 is a master regulator of D-type cyclins, 2021, Nature
  • AMBRA1 regulates cyclin D to guard S-phase entry and genomic integrity, 2021, Nature
  • A gene toolbox for monitoring autophagy transcription, 2021, Cell Death and Disease

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Oxidative stress and autophagy: the clash between damage and metabolic needs

    G Filomeni;D De Zio;F Cecconi

  • Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Eric H. Baehrecke;Andrea Ballabio;Patricia Boya

  • Autophagy in major human diseases

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Giulia Petroni;Ravi K. Amaravadi;Eric H. Baehrecke

  • Regulation of autophagy by cytoplasmic p53

    Ezgi Tasdemir;M. Chiara Maiuri;M. Chiara Maiuri;M. Chiara Maiuri;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale

  • Autophagy in malignant transformation and cancer progression

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Federico Pietrocola;Federico Pietrocola;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;Ravi K. Amaravadi

  • Ambra1 regulates autophagy and development of the nervous system

    Gian Maria Fimia;Anastassia Stoykova;Alessandra Romagnoli;Luigi Giunta

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • Apaf1 (CED-4 homolog) regulates programmed cell death in mammalian development.

    Francesco Cecconi;Gonzalo Alvarez-Bolado;Barbara I Meyer;Kevin A Roth

  • Glial cells generate neurons: the role of the transcription factor Pax6

    Nico Heins;Paolo Malatesta;Francesco Cecconi;Masato Nakafuku

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • mTOR inhibits autophagy by controlling ULK1 ubiquitylation, self-association and function through AMBRA1 and TRAF6

    Francesca Nazio;Flavie Strappazzon;Manuela Antonioli;Pamela Bielli

  • Cannabinoid action induces autophagy-mediated cell death through stimulation of ER stress in human glioma cells

    María Salazar;Arkaitz Carracedo;Íñigo J. Salanueva;Sonia Hernández-Tiedra

  • Apaf-1 is a transcriptional target for E2F and p53

    M. Cristina Moroni;Emma S. Hickman;Eros Lazzerini Denchi;Greta Caprara

  • Apoptosis initiated by Bcl-2-regulated caspase activation independently of the cytochrome c/Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome

    Vanessa S. Marsden;Liam O'Connor;Liam O'Connor;Lorraine A. O'Reilly;John Silke

  • Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF): key to the conserved caspase-independent pathways of cell death?

    Céline Candé;Francesco Cecconi;Philippe Dessen;Guido Kroemer

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcello D'Amelio
Marcello D'Amelio University of Rome Tor Vergata
Gian Maria Fimia
Gian Maria Fimia Sapienza University of Rome
Mauro Piacentini
Mauro Piacentini University of Rome Tor Vergata
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Nektarios Tavernarakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Paolo Bonaldo
Paolo Bonaldo University of Padua
Eric H. Baehrecke
Eric H. Baehrecke University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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