Alex Pizzini

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alex Pizzini is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Pizzini has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 10 papers in Infectious Diseases and 10 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Alex Pizzini's work include COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (10 papers), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (9 papers) and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (9 papers). Alex Pizzini is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (10 papers), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (9 papers) and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (9 papers). Alex Pizzini collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Slovakia. Alex Pizzini's co-authors include Günter Weiß, Ivan Tancevski, Thomas Sonnweber, Manfred Nairz, Judith Löffler‐Ragg, Rosa Bellmann‐Weiler, Sabina Sahanic, Wojciech Filipiak, Lukas Lunger and Magdalena Aichner and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Radiology and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alex Pizzini

34 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Arachidonic Acid Metabolites in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

2018 329 citations Thomas Sonnweber, Alex Pizzini et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Pizzini Austria	17	300	285	254	245	227	36	1.4k
Elizabeth L. Frank United States	21	68 0.2×	293 1.0×	318 1.3×	67 0.3×	224 1.0×	43	1.2k
Gaetano Corso Italy	28	190 0.6×	810 2.8×	63 0.2×	132 0.5×	185 0.8×	108	2.4k
Grzegorz Buszewicz Poland	19	62 0.2×	217 0.8×	146 0.6×	187 0.8×	104 0.5×	74	1.2k
Jos P.M. Wielders Netherlands	25	57 0.2×	306 1.1×	115 0.5×	69 0.3×	218 1.0×	59	1.6k
Arik Eisenkraft Israel	22	193 0.6×	171 0.6×	67 0.3×	72 0.3×	27 0.1×	95	1.4k
Yang Shen China	18	51 0.2×	730 2.6×	86 0.3×	85 0.3×	65 0.3×	136	1.5k
Warren F. Diven United States	28	100 0.3×	619 2.2×	139 0.5×	61 0.2×	113 0.5×	96	2.1k
T G Rosano United States	24	66 0.2×	479 1.7×	46 0.2×	80 0.3×	42 0.2×	71	1.8k
Weijie Zhang China	16	53 0.2×	155 0.5×	123 0.5×	211 0.9×	48 0.2×	51	975
Beloborodova Nv Russia	18	83 0.3×	565 2.0×	34 0.1×	94 0.4×	74 0.3×	97	1.0k

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Widmann, Gerlig, Anna Luger, Thomas Sonnweber, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Based Multi-Parameter Modeling for Prediction of Post-Inflammatory Lung Changes. Diagnostics. 15(6). 783–783. 1 indexed citations

Hofer, Stefanie, Johanna M. Gostner, Sabina Sahanic, et al.. (2023). Persistent Symptoms and IFN-γ-Mediated Pathways after COVID-19. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 13(7). 1055–1055. 3 indexed citations

Sonnweber, Thomas, Alex Pizzini, Anna Boehm, et al.. (2023). Pulmonary recovery from COVID-19 in patients with metabolic diseases: a longitudinal prospective cohort study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2599–2599. 3 indexed citations

Burkert, Francesco, Lukas Lanser, Alex Pizzini, Rosa Bellmann‐Weiler, & Günter Weiß. (2022). Markers of Infection-Mediated Cardiac Damage in Influenza and COVID-19. Pathogens. 11(10). 1191–1191. 3 indexed citations

Sonnweber, Thomas, Piotr Tymoszuk, Sabina Sahanic, et al.. (2022). Investigating phenotypes of pulmonary COVID-19 recovery: A longitudinal observational prospective multicenter trial. eLife. 11. 27 indexed citations

Sonnweber, Thomas, Sabina Sahanic, Alex Pizzini, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Iron Dyshomeostasis and Anaemia on Long-Term Pulmonary Recovery and Persisting Symptom Burden after COVID-19: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study. Metabolites. 12(6). 546–546. 17 indexed citations

Luger, Anna, Thomas Sonnweber, Leonhard Gruber, et al.. (2022). Chest CT of Lung Injury 1 Year after COVID-19 Pneumonia: The CovILD Study. Radiology. 304(2). 462–470. 57 indexed citations

Fink, Julia, Alex Pizzini, Mario Sarcletti, et al.. (2022). Sarcoid-like lesions obfuscating the diagnosis of disseminated Mycobacterium genavense infection in a patient with IL-12Rβ1-associated immunodeficiency. BMC Infectious Diseases. 22(1). 770–770. 2 indexed citations

Egger, Alexander, Wolfgang Prokop, Manfred Nairz, et al.. (2021). Clinical validation of the Siemens quantitative SARS-CoV-2 spike IgG assay (sCOVG) reveals improved sensitivity and a good correlation with virus neutralization titers. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 59(8). 1453–1462. 36 indexed citations

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Egger, Alexander, Wolfgang Prokop, Manfred Nairz, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of four commercial, fully automated SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests suggests a revision of the Siemens SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 59(6). 1143–1154. 16 indexed citations

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Pizzini, Alex, Magdalena Aichner, Ivan Tancevski, et al.. (2021). High expression of mTOR signaling in granulomatous lesions is not predictive for the clinical course of sarcoidosis. Respiratory Medicine. 177. 106294–106294. 11 indexed citations

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Boehm, Anna, Magdalena Aichner, Thomas Sonnweber, et al.. (2021). COPD exacerbations are related to poor air quality in Innsbruck: A retrospective pilot study. Heart & Lung. 50(4). 499–503. 5 indexed citations

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Sonnweber, Thomas, Alex Pizzini, Ivan Tancevski, Judith Löffler‐Ragg, & Günter Weiß. (2020). Anaemia, iron homeostasis and pulmonary hypertension: a review. Internal and Emergency Medicine. 15(4). 573–585. 44 indexed citations

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Sahanic, Sabina, Anna Boehm, Alex Pizzini, et al.. (2020). Assessing self-medication for obstructive airway disease during COVID-19 usingGoogle Trends. European Respiratory Journal. 56(5). 2002851–2002851. 9 indexed citations

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Beyer, Christoph, Alex Pizzini, Anna Boehm, et al.. (2020). Current symptom-based risk scores for stable coronary artery disease evaluation are not applicable in COPD patients. ERJ Open Research. 6(4). 492–2020. 2 indexed citations

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Pizzini, Alex, Magdalena Aichner, Thomas Sonnweber, et al.. (2020). The Significance of iron deficiency and anemia in a real-life COPD cohort. International Journal of Medical Sciences. 17(14). 2232–2239. 22 indexed citations

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Sonnweber, Thomas, Alex Pizzini, Manfred Nairz, Günter Weiß, & Ivan Tancevski. (2018). Arachidonic Acid Metabolites in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(11). 3285–3285. 329 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pizzini, Alex, Lukas Lunger, Thomas Sonnweber, Günter Weiß, & Ivan Tancevski. (2018). The Role of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in the Setting of Coronary Artery Disease and COPD: A Review. Nutrients. 10(12). 1864–1864. 27 indexed citations

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Putzer, David, et al.. (2018). Platelet concentrate as an additive to bone allografts: a laboratory study using an uniaxial compression test. Cell and Tissue Banking. 19(4). 559–567. 2 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Konrad, Alex Pizzini, Barbora Arendacká, et al.. (2009). Breath acetone—aspects of normal physiology related to age and gender as determined in a PTR-MS study. Journal of Breath Research. 3(2). 27003–27003. 125 indexed citations

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