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2023

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World Ranking
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103

Gian Maria Fimia 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 Gian Maria Fimia sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 200 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gian Maria Fimia 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 Gian Maria Fimia sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 316 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 899 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,025 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,149 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,235 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,162 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,130 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,031 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 714 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 71 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Gian Maria Fimia is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans various subfields, including epidemiology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, immunology, and cell biology.

Fimia's work focuses on several main topics, such as autophagy in disease and therapy, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, COVID-19 clinical research studies, mosquito-borne diseases and control, interferon and immune responses, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fimia include Mauro Piacentini, Fabiola Ciccosanti, Manuela Antonioli, Chiara Agrati, and Giuseppe Ippolito.

The scientist has published papers in a number of journals, with common venues being Autophagy, Cell Death and Differentiation, Cell Death and Disease, Cells, and the Journal of Translational Medicine.

Notable recent papers by Fimia 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
  • Expansion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 2020, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • TRIM proteins in autophagy: selective sensors in cell damage and innate immune responses, 2020, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • COVID-19: viral-host interactome analyzed by network based-approach model to study pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 2020, Journal of Translational Medicine

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

  • Calreticulin exposure dictates the immunogenicity of cancer cell death

    Michel Obeid;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;François Ghiringhelli;François Ghiringhelli;François Ghiringhelli;Gian Maria Fimia

  • 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

  • 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

  • Impairing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) signaling in vivo: Targeted disruption of the FSH receptor leads to aberrant gametogenesis and hormonal imbalance

    Andrée Dierich;M. Ram Sairam;Lucia Monaco;Gian Maria Fimia

  • 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

  • Mitotic phosphorylation of histone H3: spatio-temporal regulation by mammalian Aurora kinases.

    Claudia Crosio;Gian Maria Fimia;Romain Loury;Masashi Kimura

  • Impaired autophagic flux is associated with increased endoplasmic reticulum stress during the development of NAFLD

    A. González-Rodríguez;Raúl Mayoral;N. Agra;M. P. Valdecantos

  • The dynamic interaction of AMBRA1 with the dynein motor complex regulates mammalian autophagy

    Sabrina Di Bartolomeo;Marco Corazzari;Francesca Nazio;Serafina Oliverio

  • An immunosurveillance mechanism controls cancer cell ploidy

    Laura Senovilla;Laura Senovilla;Laura Senovilla;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale;Isabelle Martins;Isabelle Martins;Isabelle Martins;Maximilien Tailler;Maximilien Tailler;Maximilien Tailler

  • The co-translocation of ERp57 and calreticulin determines the immunogenicity of cell death.

    T Panaretakis;N. Joza;N. Joza;N. Joza;Nazanine Modjtahedi;Nazanine Modjtahedi;Nazanine Modjtahedi;A Tesniere;A Tesniere;A Tesniere

  • Signaling routes to CREM and CREB: Plasticity in transcriptional activation

    Dario De Cesare;Gian Maria Fimia;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • AMBRA1 is able to induce mitophagy via LC3 binding, regardless of PARKIN and p62/SQSTM1

    F Strappazzon;F Nazio;M Corrado;V Cianfanelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauro Piacentini
Mauro Piacentini University of Rome Tor Vergata
Francesco Cecconi
Francesco Cecconi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy
Giuseppe Ippolito
Giuseppe Ippolito Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani
Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Paolo Sassone-Corsi University of California, Irvine
Marco Tripodi
Marco Tripodi Sapienza University of Rome
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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