2026 Sonia Levi: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	71	6761	6234	159	152	168	15374

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Current World Ranking

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Biology and Biochemistry

6761

6234

159

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168

15374

Biology and Biochemistry

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Citations

15374

World Ranking

6761

National Ranking

159

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Sonia Levi is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with a notable focus on Neurology, Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Hematology as subfields.

The scientist's main topics of interest include:

Neurological diseases and metabolism
RNA regulation and disease
Trace Elements in Health
Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
Hereditary Neurological Disorders
Iron Metabolism and Disorders
Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis

Recent significant publications by Sonia Levi include:

Iron imbalance in neurodegeneration, 2024, Molecular Psychiatry
Mitochondrial Ferritin: Its Role in Physiological and Pathological Conditions, 2021, Cells

Other related works from frequent collaborators contributing to similar research themes are:

Iron Administration Overcomes Resistance to Erastin-Mediated Ferroptosis in Ovarian Cancer Cells, 2022, Frontiers in Oncology
Massive iron accumulation in PKAN-derived neurons and astrocytes: light on the human pathological phenotype, 2022, Cell Death and Disease
Harmful Iron-Calcium Relationship in Pantothenate kinase Associated Neurodegeneration, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors working alongside Sonia Levi include Paolo Santambrogio, Anna Cozzi, Maddalena Ripamonti, Ivano Di Meo, and Valeria Tiranti.

The scientist has published multiple papers in these venues most often:

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Cell Death and Disease
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Molecular Psychiatry
Frontiers in Oncology

Best Publications

Solving the structure of human H ferritin by genetically engineering intermolecular crystal contacts.

D. M. Lawson;P. J. Artymiuk;S. J. Yewdall;J. M. A. Smith

929
Citations
Ferritin, iron homeostasis, and oxidative damage.

Paolo Arosio;Sonia Levi

648
Citations
Mechanism of ferritin iron uptake: activity of the H-chain and deletion mapping of the ferro-oxidase site. A study of iron uptake and ferro-oxidase activity of human liver, recombinant H-chain ferritins, and of two H-chain deletion mutants.

S Levi;A Luzzago;G Cesareni;A Cozzi

506
Citations
A human mitochondrial ferritin encoded by an intronless gene.

Sonia Levi;Barbara Corsi;Marta Bosisio;Rosangela Invernizzi

466
Citations
Structure, function, and evolution of ferritins

S. C. Andrews;Paolo Arosio;W. Bottke;J. F. Briat

435
Citations
Identification of the ferroxidase centre in ferritin

David M. Lawson;Amyra Treffry;Peter J. Artymiuk;Pauline M. Harrison

385
Citations
The human counterpart of zebrafish shiraz shows sideroblastic-like microcytic anemia and iron overload.

Clara Camaschella;Alessandro Campanella;Luigia De Falco;Loredana Boschetto

381
Citations
Evidence of H- and L-chains have co-operative roles in the iron-uptake mechanism of human ferritin.

S Levi;S J Yewdall;P M Harrison;P Santambrogio

364
Citations
Cytosolic and mitochondrial ferritins in the regulation of cellular iron homeostasis and oxidative damage

Paolo Arosio;Sonia Levi

351
Citations
Early embryonic lethality of H ferritin gene deletion in mice.

Chrystophe Ferreira;Danièle Bucchini;Marie Elise Martin;Sonia Levi

349
Citations
Overexpression of wild type and mutated human ferritin H-chain in HeLa cells: in vivo role of ferritin ferroxidase activity.

Anna Cozzi;Barbara Corsi;Sonia Levi;Paolo Santambrogio

315
Citations
Mitochondrial ferritin expression in erythroid cells from patients with sideroblastic anemia

Mario Cazzola;Rosangela Invernizzi;Gaetano Bergamaschi;Sonia Levi

250
Citations
Reconstitution of manganese oxide cores in horse spleen and recombinant ferritins

Fiona C. Meldrum;Trevor Douglas;Sonia Levi;Paolo Arosio

246
Citations
The role of iron in mitochondrial function.

Sonia Levi;Ermanna Rovida

232
Citations
Mitochondrial ferritin: a new player in iron metabolism.

Jim Drysdale;Paolo Arosio;Rosangela Invernizzi;Mario Cazzola

218
Citations
The role of the L-chain in ferritin iron incorporation. Studies of homo and heteropolymers.

Sonia Levi;Paolo Santambrogio;Anna Cozzi;Ermanna Rovida

212
Citations
Production and characterization of recombinant heteropolymers of human ferritin H and L chains.

P. Santambrogio;S. Levi;A. Cozzi;E. Rovida

207
Citations
Influence of site-directed modifications on the formation of iron cores in ferritin

Vanessa J. Wade;Sonia Levi;Paolo Arosio;Amyra Treffry

205
Citations
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: update on pathogenic mechanisms.

Sonia Levi;Dario Finazzi

189
Citations
Human Mitochondrial Ferritin Expressed in HeLa Cells Incorporates Iron and Affects Cellular Iron Metabolism

Barbara Corsi;Anna Cozzi;Paolo Arosio;Jim Drysdale

183
Citations