Claudia Cicognola

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 767 citations indexed

About

Claudia Cicognola is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudia Cicognola has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 767 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Physiology, 15 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Claudia Cicognola's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (16 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (14 papers) and S100 Proteins and Annexins (5 papers). Claudia Cicognola is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (16 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (14 papers) and S100 Proteins and Annexins (5 papers). Claudia Cicognola collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Claudia Cicognola's co-authors include Kaj Blennow, Oskar Hansson, Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Mattsson, Shorena Janelidze, Lucilla Parnetti, Joakim Hertze, Davide Chiasserini, Kina Höglund and Antoine Leuzy and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Neurology and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Claudia Cicognola

19 papers receiving 756 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.

Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

2021 190 citations Claudia Cicognola, Shorena Janelidze et al. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claudia Cicognola Sweden	13	560	323	190	185	157	20	767
Joakim Hertze Sweden	10	661 1.2×	434 1.3×	321 1.7×	235 1.3×	143 0.9×	11	990
Marta del Campo Netherlands	19	515 0.9×	302 0.9×	173 0.9×	281 1.5×	262 1.7×	45	911
Carole Ho United States	5	400 0.7×	409 1.3×	152 0.8×	186 1.0×	132 0.8×	8	964
Wagner S. Brum Brazil	16	700 1.3×	561 1.7×	173 0.9×	209 1.1×	96 0.6×	37	1.0k
Manu Vandijck Belgium	11	660 1.2×	559 1.7×	165 0.9×	189 1.0×	119 0.8×	29	904
Martha Foiani United Kingdom	18	408 0.7×	211 0.7×	158 0.8×	312 1.7×	256 1.6×	23	855
Jeroen Vanbrabant Belgium	10	603 1.1×	484 1.5×	165 0.9×	184 1.0×	100 0.6×	22	800
Élodie Bouaziz-Amar France	16	403 0.7×	194 0.6×	131 0.7×	221 1.2×	110 0.7×	52	727
P.P. De Deyn Belgium	6	543 1.0×	361 1.1×	146 0.8×	294 1.6×	117 0.7×	8	854
Peter Parbo United Kingdom	14	461 0.8×	148 0.5×	296 1.6×	138 0.7×	270 1.7×	21	818

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Eratne, Dhamidhu, Olivia Dean, Michael Berk, et al.. (2025). Plasma Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Neurofilament Light Are Elevated in Bipolar Depression: Evidence for Neuroprogression and Astrogliosis. Bipolar Disorders. 27(5). 379–388. 2 indexed citations

Cicognola, Claudia, Gemma Salvadó, Ruben Smith, et al.. (2025). APOE4 impact on soluble and insoluble tau pathology is mostly influenced by amyloid-β. Brain. 148(7). 2373–2383. 3 indexed citations

Cicognola, Claudia, Niklas Mattsson, Danielle van Westen, et al.. (2023). Associations of CSF PDGFRβ With Aging, Blood-Brain Barrier Damage, Neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer Disease Pathologic Changes. Neurology. 101(1). e30–e39. 30 indexed citations

Londos, Elisabet, et al.. (2022). A Retrospective Study on Clinical Assessment of Cognitive Impairment in a Swedish Cohort: Is There Inequality Between Natives and Foreign-Born?. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 89(4). 1403–1412. 2 indexed citations

Groot, Colin, Claudia Cicognola, Divya Bali, et al.. (2022). Diagnostic and prognostic performance to detect Alzheimer’s disease and clinical progression of a novel assay for plasma p-tau217. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 14(1). 67–67. 50 indexed citations

Cicognola, Claudia, Oskar Hansson, Philip Scheltens, et al.. (2021). Cerebrospinal fluid N-224 tau helps discriminate Alzheimer’s disease from subjective cognitive decline and other dementias. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 13(1). 38–38. 13 indexed citations

Leuzy, Antoine, Shorena Janelidze, Niklas Mattsson, et al.. (2021). Comparing the clinical utility and diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid P‐tau181, P‐tau217 and P‐tau231 assays. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 17(S5).

Cicognola, Claudia, Shorena Janelidze, Joakim Hertze, et al.. (2021). Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 13(1). 68–68. 190 indexed citations breakdown →

Leuzy, Antoine, Shorena Janelidze, Niklas Mattsson, et al.. (2021). Comparing the Clinical Utility and Diagnostic Performance of CSF P-Tau181, P-Tau217, and P-Tau231 Assays. Neurology. 97(17). e1681–e1694. 73 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia, Shorena Janelidze, Sebastian Palmqvist, et al.. (2021). Effects of APOE genotype, age and sex on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers measured with NeuroToolKit in the Longitudinal Swedish Biofinder Cohort. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 17(S5). 1 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Irena Matečko‐Burmann, et al.. (2020). Tauopathy-Associated Tau Fragment Ending at Amino Acid 224 Is Generated by Calpain-2 Cleavage. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 74(4). 1143–1156. 9 indexed citations

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Foiani, Martha, Claudia Cicognola, Natalia Ermann, et al.. (2019). Searching for novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of tau pathology in frontotemporal dementia: an elusive quest. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 90(7). 740–746. 24 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia. (2019). Tau fragments: role as biomarkers and in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University). 1 indexed citations

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Leuzy, Antoine, Claudia Cicognola, Nicholas J. Ashton, et al.. (2019). Propagation of Tau Pathology: Integrating Insights From Postmortem and In Vivo Studies. Biological Psychiatry. 87(9). 808–818. 68 indexed citations

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Leuzy, Antoine, Claudia Cicognola, Konstantinos Chiotis, et al.. (2019). Longitudinal tau and metabolic PET imaging in relation to novel CSF tau measures in Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 46(5). 1152–1163. 33 indexed citations

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Blennow, Kaj, Chun Chen, Claudia Cicognola, et al.. (2019). Cerebrospinal fluid tau fragment correlates with tau PET: a candidate biomarker for tangle pathology. Brain. 143(2). 650–660. 66 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Jessica Wahlgren, et al.. (2018). Novel tau fragments in cerebrospinal fluid: relation to tangle pathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 137(2). 279–296. 117 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia, Davide Chiasserini, Paolo Eusebi, et al.. (2016). No diurnal variation of classical and candidate biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in CSF. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 11(1). 65–65. 15 indexed citations

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Cicognola, Claudia, Davide Chiasserini, & Lucilla Parnetti. (2015). Preanalytical Confounding Factors in the Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease: The Issue of Diurnal Variation. Frontiers in Neurology. 6. 143–143. 21 indexed citations

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Parnetti, Lucilla, Claudia Cicognola, Paolo Eusebi, & Davide Chiasserini. (2015). Value of Cerebrospinal Fluid α-Synuclein Species as Biomarker in Parkinson’S Diagnosis and Prognosis. Biomarkers in Medicine. 10(1). 35–49. 49 indexed citations

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