Barbara Borroni

32.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
361 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Barbara Borroni is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Borroni has authored 361 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Neurology, 152 papers in Physiology and 114 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Barbara Borroni's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (142 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (93 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (92 papers). Barbara Borroni is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (142 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (93 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (92 papers). Barbara Borroni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Barbara Borroni's co-authors include Alessandro Padovani, Mónica Di Luca, Antonella Alberici, Alberto Benussi, Enrico Premi, Silvana Archetti, Flaminio Cattabeni, Maria Cotelli, Maura Cosseddu and Elena Marcello and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Borroni

352 papers receiving 12.9k citations

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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.

Criteria for the diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration

2013 1.2k citations Thomas H. Bak, Barbara Borroni et al. Neurology profile →
Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease-type neurodegeneration

2022 134 citations Enrico Premi, Roberta Ghidoni et al. Brain profile →
Establishment of reference values for plasma neurofilament light based on healthy individuals aged 5–90 years

2022 111 citations Barbara Borroni, Roberta Ghidoni et al. Brain Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Borroni Italy	60	5.0k	4.8k	3.4k	3.3k	2.8k	361	13.1k
Adam L. Boxer United States	56	4.6k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	213	11.4k
Eileen H. Bigio United States	47	6.7k 1.3×	4.6k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	144	12.6k
Jillian J. Kril Australia	59	3.6k 0.7×	4.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	195	11.9k
Melissa E. Murray United States	56	6.2k 1.2×	3.7k 0.8×	4.1k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	232	10.5k
Richard J. Caselli United States	59	6.7k 1.3×	2.7k 0.6×	5.0k 1.5×	2.2k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	207	13.8k
Jonathan D. Rohrer United Kingdom	59	5.4k 1.1×	5.5k 1.2×	5.1k 1.5×	2.9k 0.9×	5.3k 1.9×	258	15.0k
Lucilla Parnetti Italy	61	5.4k 1.1×	5.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	350	14.0k
Neill R. Graff‐Radford United States	70	7.2k 1.4×	6.3k 1.3×	5.8k 1.7×	2.8k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	275	17.2k
Sebastiaan Engelborghs Belgium	61	5.0k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	3.5k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	326	11.2k
Gregory A. Jicha United States	55	6.9k 1.4×	2.3k 0.5×	5.8k 1.7×	2.7k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	255	14.3k

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Saraceno, Claudia, Assunta Ingannato, Silvia Bagnoli, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing for the Study of DNA Methylation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(9). 4198–4198. 3 indexed citations

Goljanek‐Whysall, Katarzyna, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Role of microRNAs as Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(7). 3399–3399. 2 indexed citations

Squitti, Rosanna, Alberto Benussi, Silvia Fostinelli, et al.. (2025). Zinc Therapy in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Cognitive Stabilization in Pharmacodynamically Responsive Patients in the ZINCAiD Trial. Biomolecules. 15(9). 1268–1268.

Borroni, Barbara, Ilenia Libri, Matteo Rota, et al.. (2024). Incidence of young‐onset dementia in Italy: The Brescia register study. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 16(1). e12544–e12544. 3 indexed citations

Benussi, Alberto, Valentina Cantoni, Jasmine Rivolta, et al.. (2024). Alpha tACS Improves Cognition and Modulates Neurotransmission in Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Movement Disorders. 39(11). 1993–2003. 2 indexed citations

Costa, Tommaso, Enrico Premi, Barbara Borroni, et al.. (2024). Local functional connectivity abnormalities in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A meta-analytic investigation using minimum Bayes factor activation likelihood estimation. NeuroImage. 298. 120798–120798. 4 indexed citations

Libri, Ilenia, Maura Cosseddu, Rosanna Turrone, et al.. (2024). Sex Differences in the Severity and Progression of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Across Different Dementia Types. Neurology Clinical Practice. 14(3). e200299–e200299. 7 indexed citations

Pilotto, Andrea, Ilenia Libri, Claudia Saraceno, et al.. (2024). Unveiling New Genetic Variants Associated with Age at Onset in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Due to C9orf72 Repeat Expansions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(13). 7457–7457. 1 indexed citations

Premi, Enrico, Maria Sofia Cotelli, Anna Micheli, et al.. (2024). Loss of Insight in Syndromes Associated with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Clinical and Imaging Features. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 33(4). 450–462. 1 indexed citations

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Benussi, Alberto, Valentina Cantoni, Mario Grassi, et al.. (2023). Cortico-spinal tDCS in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial followed by an open-label phase. Brain stimulation. 16(6). 1666–1676. 6 indexed citations

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Pilotto, Andrea, Alberto Imarisio, F. L. Conforti, et al.. (2021). Plasma NfL, clinical subtypes and motor progression in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 87. 41–47. 43 indexed citations

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Benussi, Alberto, Valentina Cantoni, Marta Manes, et al.. (2021). Motor and cognitive outcomes of cerebello-spinal stimulation in neurodegenerative ataxia. Brain. 144(8). 2310–2321. 46 indexed citations

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Pelucchi, Silvia, Lara Pizzamiglio, Jing Yan, et al.. (2020). Cyclase-associated protein 2 dimerization regulates cofilin in synaptic plasticity and Alzheimer's disease. Brain Communications. 2(2). fcaa086–fcaa086. 35 indexed citations

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Migliorati, Karol, Pier Paolo Panciani, Barbara Borroni, et al.. (2020). P-Tau as prognostic marker in long term follow up for patients with shunted iNPH. Neurological Research. 43(1). 78–85. 15 indexed citations

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Pilotto, Andrea, Alberto Romagnolo, Joaquín A. Vizcarra, et al.. (2019). Orthostatic hypotension and REM sleep behaviour disorder: impact on clinical outcomes in α-synucleinopathies. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 90(11). 1257–1263. 71 indexed citations

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Piccio, Laura, Yuetiva Deming, Jorge L. Del‐Aguila, et al.. (2016). Cerebrospinal fluid soluble TREM2 is higher in Alzheimer disease and associated with mutation status. Acta Neuropathologica. 131(6). 925–933. 262 indexed citations

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Dickerson, Bradford C., John R. Hodges, Paul McMonagle, et al.. (2015). Hodges' Frontotemporal Dementia. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations

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Borroni, Barbara, Matteo Malinverno, Fabrizio Gardoni, et al.. (2008). Tau forms in CSF as a reliable biomarker for progressive supranuclear palsy. Neurology. 71(22). 1796–1803. 69 indexed citations

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Chiappelli, Martina, Barbara Borroni, Silvana Archetti, et al.. (2006). VEGF Gene and Phenotype Relation with Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Rejuvenation Research. 9(4). 485–493. 81 indexed citations

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Cotelli, Maria, Barbara Borroni, Rosa Manenti, et al.. (2006). Action and object naming in frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration.. Neuropsychology. 20(5). 558–565. 160 indexed citations

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