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Patrizia Agostinis

Patrizia Agostinis

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2025
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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Best Female Scientists

D-Index
107
Citations
78540
World Ranking
991
National Ranking
10

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
110
Citations
84656
World Ranking
956
National Ranking
16

Patrizia Agostinis 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 Patrizia Agostinis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 356 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrizia Agostinis 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 Patrizia Agostinis sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 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: 72 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: 110 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Patrizia Agostinis is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, cell biology, and genetics. The research primarily focuses on topics such as autophagy in disease and therapy, immune cells in cancer, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, mitochondrial function and pathology, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and cellular transport and secretion.

The scientist has published in numerous venues, with frequent publications in Biological Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Death and Disease, Nature Communications, and Autophagy.

  • Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Nature Communications
  • Autophagy

Some of the recent papers associated with their work include:

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition), 2021, Autophagy
  • Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death, 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023, 2023, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export, 2020, Nature
  • Lipid availability determines fate of skeletal progenitor cells via SOX9, 2020, Nature

Frequent collaborators include Johannes V. Swinnen, Friedrich Miescher, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Johannes Büchner, and Maria Livia Sassano, with the number of joint publications ranging from 13 to 18.

  • Johannes V. Swinnen
  • Friedrich Miescher
  • Felix Hoppe-Seyler
  • Johannes Büchner
  • Maria Livia Sassano

Agostinis's research contributes to a broad understanding of cellular processes relevant to disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches, particularly through the study of autophagy and immune-related functions in cancer and other pathologies.

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

  • Photodynamic therapy of cancer: An update†‡

    Patrizia Agostinis;Kristian Berg;Keith A. Cengel;Thomas H. Foster

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

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

  • Immunogenic cell death and DAMPs in cancer therapy.

    Dmitri V. Krysko;Abhishek D. Garg;Agnieszka Kaczmarek;Olga Krysko

  • EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research

    Jan Van Deun;Pieter Mestdagh;Patrizia Agostinis;Özden Akay

  • Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Sarah Warren;Sandy Adjemian

  • Molecular effectors of multiple cell death pathways initiated by photodynamic therapy

    Esther Buytaert;Michael Dewaele;Patrizia Agostinis

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

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

  • Consensus guidelines for the detection of immunogenic cell death

    Oliver Kepp;Laura Senovilla;Ilio Vitale;Erika Vacchelli

  • A novel pathway combining calreticulin exposure and ATP secretion in immunogenic cancer cell death.

    Abhishek D Garg;Dmitri V Krysko;Tom Verfaillie;Agnieszka Kaczmarek

  • Emerging role of damage-associated molecular patterns derived from mitochondria in inflammation.

    Dmitri V. Krysko;Patrizia Agostinis;Olga Krysko;Abhishek D. Garg

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress signalling - from basic mechanisms to clinical applications

    Aitor Almanza;Antonio Carlesso;Chetan Chintha;Stuart Creedican

  • PERK is required at the ER-mitochondrial contact sites to convey apoptosis after ROS-based ER stress

    Verfaillie T;Rubio N;Rubio N;Garg Ad;Bultynck G

  • Caspase-mediated cleavage of Beclin-1 inactivates Beclin-1-induced autophagy and enhances apoptosis by promoting the release of proapoptotic factors from mitochondria

    E Wirawan;L Vande Walle;K Kersse;S Cornelis;S Cornelis

  • Hypericin in cancer treatment: more light on the way.

    Patrizia Agostinis;Annelies Vantieghem;Wilfried Merlevede;Peter A.M. de Witte

  • Classification of current anticancer immunotherapies

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Erika Vacchelli;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;Aitziber Buqué

  • Immunogenic cell death, DAMPs and anticancer therapeutics: an emerging amalgamation.

    Abhishek D. Garg;Dominika Nowis;Jakub Golab;Peter Vandenabeele

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele Ghent University
Dmitri V. Krysko
Dmitri V. Krysko Ghent University
Jakub Golab
Jakub Golab Medical University of Warsaw
Wim Martinet
Wim Martinet University of Antwerp
Jacques Piette
Jacques Piette University of Liège
Afshin Samali
Afshin Samali University of Galway

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