Antonio Giordano

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Antonio Giordano is a scholar working on Physiology, Epidemiology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Giordano has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Physiology, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 23 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Antonio Giordano's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (41 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (25 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (20 papers). Antonio Giordano is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (41 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (25 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (20 papers). Antonio Giordano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Antonio Giordano's co-authors include Saverio Cinti, Andrea Frontini, Arianna Smorlesi, Jessica Perugini, Enzo Nisoli, Giorgio Barbatelli, Cristina Tonello, Ilenia Severi, Manrico Morroni and Michele O. Carruba and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Giordano

92 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

snRNA-seq reveals a subpopulation of adipocytes that regulates thermogenesis

2020 232 citations Georgia Colleluori, Antonio Giordano et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Antonio Giordano Italy	37	2.5k	1.7k	1.0k	743	650	93	4.5k
Chia‐Hua Kuo Taiwan	37	1.4k 0.5×	494 0.3×	2.0k 2.0×	750 1.0×	136 0.2×	294	5.3k
Laura Herrero Spain	33	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	2.0k 2.0×	568 0.8×	417 0.6×	80	6.6k
José Barreto Campello Carvalheira Brazil	46	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	2.1k 2.1×	391 0.5×	1.6k 2.5×	141	6.8k
I. Stuart Wood United Kingdom	29	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	874 1.2×	616 0.9×	48	6.0k
Karen Inouye United States	24	2.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	2.5k 2.5×	425 0.6×	489 0.8×	39	6.2k
Cristóforo Scavone Brazil	42	1.2k 0.5×	338 0.2×	1.5k 1.4×	444 0.6×	370 0.6×	153	5.2k
Adrian Chabowski Poland	43	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.2k 3.1×	654 0.9×	275 0.4×	266	6.9k
Yong Qi China	28	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	744 0.7×	351 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	86	3.5k
Jennifer Parker United States	7	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	786 0.8×	733 1.0×	386 0.6×	8	4.1k
Yun‐Hee Youm United States	26	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	2.9k 2.8×	489 0.7×	433 0.7×	39	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Antonio Giordano

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antonio Giordano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Antonio Giordano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Antonio Giordano based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Antonio Giordano. Antonio Giordano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Michelini, Sandro, Stefania Greco, Valeria Puleo, et al.. (2025). Endothelial cell alterations in capillaries of adipose tissue from patients affected by lipedema. Obesity. 33(4). 695–708. 4 indexed citations

Carletti, Erminia, Antonella De Luca, Antonio Giordano, et al.. (2025). The dual nature of KLHL proteins: From cellular regulators to disease drivers. European Journal of Cell Biology. 104(2). 151483–151483.

Perugini, Jessica, Arianna Smorlesi, Eleonora Mondini, et al.. (2024). Adipo-Epithelial Transdifferentiation in In Vitro Models of the Mammary Gland. Cells. 13(11). 943–943. 4 indexed citations

Ragni, Maurizio, Carolina M. Greco, Shuxun Ren, et al.. (2023). Dietary essential amino acids for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Cardiovascular Research. 119(4). 982–997. 16 indexed citations

Colleluori, Georgia, Laura Graciotti, Mauro Pesaresi, et al.. (2022). Visceral fat inflammation and fat embolism are associated with lung’s lipidic hyaline membranes in subjects with COVID-19. International Journal of Obesity. 46(5). 1009–1017. 22 indexed citations

Catanesi, Mariano, Michele d’Angelo, Maria Grazia Tupone, et al.. (2020). MicroRNAs Dysregulation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(17). 5986–5986. 73 indexed citations

Castelli, Vanessa, Claudio Ferri, Michele d’Angelo, et al.. (2020). Neuroprotective activities of bacopa, lycopene, astaxanthin, and vitamin B12 combination on oxidative stress‐dependent neuronal death. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 121(12). 4862–4869. 16 indexed citations

Severi, Ilenia, Jessica Perugini, Marco Mainardi, et al.. (2020). Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Acts on Distinctive Hypothalamic Arcuate Neurons and Promotes Leptin Entry Into and Action on the Mouse Hypothalamus. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 14. 140–140. 12 indexed citations

Castorina, Sergio, Vincenza Barresi, Tonia Luca, et al.. (2020). Gastric ghrelin cells in obese patients are hyperactive. International Journal of Obesity. 45(1). 184–194. 20 indexed citations

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Falcone, Marco, Alessandro Russo, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, et al.. (2016). Predictors of outcome in ICU patients with septic shock caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing K. pneumoniae. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22(5). 444–450. 109 indexed citations

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Maurizi, Giulia, Antonella Poloni, Domenico Mattiucci, et al.. (2016). Human White Adipocytes Convert Into “Rainbow” Adipocytes In Vitro. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 232(10). 2887–2899. 33 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Michele, Federica Altieri, & Antonio Giordano. (2015). Mirror imaging of impacted and supernumerary teeth in dizygotic twins: A case report. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry. 7(1). e167–e169. 2 indexed citations

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Severi, Ilenia, Martina Senzacqua, Eleonora Mondini, et al.. (2015). Activation of transcription factors STAT1 and STAT5 in the mouse median eminence after systemic ciliary neurotrophic factor administration. Brain Research. 1622. 217–229. 14 indexed citations

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Tran, Khanh‐Van, Olga Gealekman, Andrea Frontini, et al.. (2012). The Vascular Endothelium of the Adipose Tissue Gives Rise to Both White and Brown Fat Cells. Cell Metabolism. 15(2). 222–229. 292 indexed citations

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Giordano, Antonio, Andrea Frontini, & Saverio Cinti. (2008). Adipose Organ Nerves Revealed by Immunohistochemistry#. Methods in molecular biology. 456. 83–95. 24 indexed citations

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Giordano, Antonio, C. Kay Song, Robert R. Bowers, et al.. (2006). White adipose tissue lacks significant vagal innervation and immunohistochemical evidence of parasympathetic innervation. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 291(5). R1243–R1255. 139 indexed citations

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Morroni, Manrico, Antonio Giordano, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2004). Reversible transdifferentiation of secretory epithelial cells into adipocytes in the mammary gland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(48). 16801–16806. 120 indexed citations

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Giordano, Antonio, et al.. (2003). Sema3A and neuropilin-1 expression and distribution in rat white adipose tissue. Journal of Neurocytology. 32(4). 345–352. 20 indexed citations

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Cinti, Saverio, Raffaella Cancello, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2002). CL316,243 and Cold Stress Induce Heterogeneous Expression of UCP1 mRNA and Protein in Rodent Brown Adipocytes. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 50(1). 21–31. 65 indexed citations

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Santone, Giovanni, et al.. (1992). NALTREXONE IN CHRONIC NEGATIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA. Clinical Neuropharmacology. 15. 56A–57A. 13 indexed citations

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