Alessandro Sciarra

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
250 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Sciarra is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Urology and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Sciarra has authored 250 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 51 papers in Urology and 46 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Sciarra's work include Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (109 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (108 papers) and Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (39 papers). Alessandro Sciarra is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (109 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (108 papers) and Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (39 papers). Alessandro Sciarra collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Alessandro Sciarra's co-authors include Vincenzo Gentile, Stefano Salciccia, F. Di Silverio, Valeria Panebianco, Alessandro Gentilucci, Gianna Mariotti, Francesco Del Giudice, Martina Maggi, Carlo Catalano and Ettore De Berardinis and has published in prestigious journals such as Blood, Analytical Chemistry and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Sciarra

236 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

The Controversial Relationship Between Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Prostate Cancer: The Role of Inflammation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandro Sciarra Italy	41	3.5k	1.3k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	250	6.6k
Byung Ha Chung South Korea	36	3.5k 1.0×	917 0.7×	578 0.4×	821 0.7×	778 0.7×	282	5.2k
Nicolas Mottet France	36	6.8k 1.9×	698 0.5×	983 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	147	8.6k
Antonio Alcaraz Spain	43	3.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	531 0.4×	518 0.5×	398	7.2k
Cary N. Robertson United States	42	3.1k 0.9×	426 0.3×	1.8k 1.4×	646 0.5×	773 0.7×	132	8.1k
Armen Aprikian Canada	48	4.2k 1.2×	946 0.7×	2.2k 1.7×	930 0.8×	456 0.4×	279	8.7k
Thomas Herrmann Germany	46	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.9×	941 0.7×	999 0.8×	232 0.2×	203	6.4k
Ziya Kırkalı Türkiye	40	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.8×	974 0.8×	374 0.4×	248	7.3k
J. Brantley Thrasher United States	44	3.2k 0.9×	950 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	844 0.7×	345 0.3×	134	6.6k
Chikara Οhyama Japan	43	2.6k 0.7×	809 0.6×	3.5k 2.7×	505 0.4×	643 0.6×	524	9.3k
Yoshiyuki Kakehi Japan	44	2.7k 0.8×	677 0.5×	2.7k 2.1×	547 0.5×	281 0.3×	262	7.0k

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All Works

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Conti, Bárbara, Giulio Bevilacqua, Giorgio Franco, et al.. (2025). Da Vinci Single-Port Robotic Surgery in Europe: Where Do We Stand? A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(23). 8317–8317.

Bottillo, Irene, Alessandro Sciarra, Giulio Bevilacqua, et al.. (2025). Early Detection of the Pathogenetic Variants of Homologous Recombination Repair Genes in Prostate Cancer: Critical Analysis and Experimental Design. Biology. 14(2). 117–117. 1 indexed citations

Bevilacqua, Giulio, Anna Laura Capriotti, Carmela Maria Montone, et al.. (2024). The Protein Corona on Nanoparticles for Tumor Targeting in Prostate Cancer—A Review of the Literature and Experimental Trial Protocol. Biology. 13(12). 1024–1024. 2 indexed citations

Tufano, Antonio, Davide Rosati, Stefano Salciccia, et al.. (2024). Diagnostic Accuracy of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Detection of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Meta-Analysis. Current Oncology. 31(2). 818–827. 8 indexed citations

Giudice, Francesco Del, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Tanja Hüsch, et al.. (2024). VI‐RADS followed by Photodynamic Transurethral Resection of Non‐Muscle‐Invasive Bladder Cancer vs White‐Light Conventional and Second‐resection: the ‘CUT‐ less ’ Randomised Trial Protocol. British Journal of Urology. 135(2). 346–354. 1 indexed citations

Salciccia, Stefano, Giulio Bevilacqua, Luca Gobbi, et al.. (2023). Exosome Analysis in Prostate Cancer: How They Can Improve Biomarkers’ Performance. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 45(7). 6085–6096. 13 indexed citations

Sciarra, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). AR and PI3K/AKT in Prostate Cancer: A Tale of Two Interconnected Pathways. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(3). 2046–2046. 43 indexed citations

Barone, Biagio, Francesco Del Giudice, Ettore De Berardinis, et al.. (2023). Bladder Cancer and Risk Factors: Data from a Multi-Institutional Long-Term Analysis on Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Incidence. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 13(3). 512–512. 28 indexed citations

Pecoraro, Martina, Giuseppina Catanzaro, Federica Conte, et al.. (2023). Prospective Validation Study of a Novel Integrated Pathway Based on Clinical Features, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers, and MicroRNAs for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer. European Urology Oncology. 7(1). 73–82. 3 indexed citations

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Salciccia, Stefano, Michael L. Eisenberg, Martina Maggi, et al.. (2021). Modeling the Contribution of Male Testosterone Levels to the Duration of Positive COVID Testing among Hospitalized Male COVID-19 Patients. Diagnostics. 11(4). 581–581. 10 indexed citations

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Ferro, Matteo, Ottavio De Cobelli, Mihai Dorin Vartolomei, et al.. (2021). Prostate Cancer Radiogenomics—From Imaging to Molecular Characterization. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(18). 9971–9971. 63 indexed citations

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Pirola, Giacomo Maria, Martina Maggi, Daniele Castellani, et al.. (2021). A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Bipolar TURP for the Treatment of Bladder Outflow Obstruction. Research and Reports in Urology. Volume 13. 487–494. 3 indexed citations

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Cerrato, Andrea, Carmen Bedia, Anna Laura Capriotti, et al.. (2021). Untargeted metabolomics of prostate cancer zwitterionic and positively charged compounds in urine. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1158. 338381–338381. 33 indexed citations

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Salciccia, Stefano, Anna Laura Capriotti, Aldo Laganà, et al.. (2021). Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: From Current Knowledge to the Role of Metabolomics and Exosomes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(9). 4367–4367. 68 indexed citations

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Sciarra, Alessandro, Stefano Salciccia, Martina Maggi, et al.. (2020). Elective procedures for prostate cancer in the time of Covid-19: a multidisciplinary team experience. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 23(3). 407–409. 14 indexed citations

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Anastasi, Emanuela, Martina Maggi, Antonio Angeloni, et al.. (2020). Predictive value of MCM5 (ADXBLADDER) analysis in urine of men evaluated for the initial diagnosis of bladder cancer: A comparative prospective study. Diagnostic Cytopathology. 48(11). 1034–1040. 13 indexed citations

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Logozzi, Mariantonia, Daniela F. Angelini, Alessandro Giuliani, et al.. (2019). Increased Plasmatic Levels of PSA-Expressing Exosomes Distinguish Prostate Cancer Patients from Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Prospective Study. Cancers. 11(10). 1449–1449. 84 indexed citations

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Salciccia, Stefano, Alessandro Sciarra, Martina Maggi, et al.. (2018). Loss of Renal Function After Retrograde Ureteral Placement of an Allium Stent for Severe Ureteral Stricture. Journal of Endourology Case Reports. 4(1). 9–11.

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Sciarra, Alessandro, C. Cristini, Alessandro Gentilucci, et al.. (2006). Ipertrofia prostatica benigna: una patologia in progressione. Ipotesi per una terapia preventiva. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 1 indexed citations

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Sciarra, Alessandro, et al.. (1993). Plant extracts in BPH.. PubMed. 45(4). 143–9. 21 indexed citations

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