Cristina Tassorelli

18.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
399 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Cristina Tassorelli is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Cristina Tassorelli has authored 399 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 273 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 119 papers in Physiology and 104 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Cristina Tassorelli's work include Migraine and Headache Studies (232 papers), Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments (82 papers) and Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments (55 papers). Cristina Tassorelli is often cited by papers focused on Migraine and Headache Studies (232 papers), Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments (82 papers) and Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments (55 papers). Cristina Tassorelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Cristina Tassorelli's co-authors include Giuseppe Nappi, Giorgio Sandrini, Rosaria Greco, Grazia Sances, Fabio Blandini, E. Martignoni, Roberto De Icco, Shirley A. Joseph, Marta Allena and Zaza Katsarava and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Cristina Tassorelli

381 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

The cost of headache disorders in Europe: the Eurolight p... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2018 2021 2023 2024 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. The cost of headache disorders in Europe: the Eurolight project
    2011 533 citations Mattias Linde, Cristina Tassorelli et al. profile →
  2. Guidelines of the International Headache Society for controlled trials of preventive treatment of chronic migraine in adults
    2018 256 citations Cristina Tassorelli, Hans‐Christoph Diener et al. Cephalalgia profile →
  3. Migraine: integrated approaches to clinical management and emerging treatments
    2021 179 citations Messoud Ashina, Patricia Pozo‐Rosich et al. profile →
  4. Medication overuse headache
    2023 90 citations Sait Ashina, Gisela M. Terwindt et al. profile →
  5. Safety and efficacy of atogepant for the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults for whom conventional oral preventive treatments have failed (ELEVATE): a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3b trial
    2024 36 citations Cristina Tassorelli, Patricia Pozo‐Rosich et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cristina Tassorelli Italy 53 7.0k 3.4k 3.0k 2.2k 1.5k 399 11.7k
Giorgio Sandrini Italy 47 4.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 3.1k 1.0× 1.7k 0.8× 950 0.6× 283 8.8k
Michel Lantéri‐Minet France 51 6.8k 1.0× 4.6k 1.3× 6.1k 2.0× 2.4k 1.1× 814 0.5× 223 13.5k
Hans‐Christoph Diener Germany 77 6.0k 0.9× 4.2k 1.2× 2.9k 1.0× 3.4k 1.6× 3.0k 2.0× 329 19.9k
Lars Jacob Stovner Norway 53 8.0k 1.1× 3.8k 1.1× 2.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 826 0.6× 189 10.3k
Giuseppe Nappi Italy 69 9.8k 1.4× 5.3k 1.5× 5.8k 1.9× 4.2k 1.9× 1.7k 1.1× 607 19.8k
Marcelo E. Bigal United States 69 15.3k 2.2× 8.8k 2.6× 5.5k 1.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 276 17.6k
Zaza Katsarava Germany 57 10.7k 1.5× 7.0k 2.0× 4.2k 1.4× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 234 13.3k
Messoud Ashina Denmark 75 16.6k 2.4× 9.1k 2.7× 6.3k 2.1× 1.8k 0.8× 2.3k 1.6× 439 19.8k
Helle K. Iversen Denmark 43 4.6k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 851 0.6× 202 8.7k
David Borsook United States 75 5.5k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 6.0k 2.0× 1.1k 0.5× 1.7k 1.2× 335 17.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cristina Tassorelli

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pozo‐Rosich, Patricia, Edoardo Caronna, Gloria Vaghi, et al.. (2025). Guidelines of the International Headache Society for Real-World Evidence studies in migraine and cluster headache. Cephalalgia. 45(3). 2235363072–2235363072. 3 indexed citations
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Ashina, Sait, Messoud Ashina, Cristina Tassorelli, et al.. (2025). Long-term safety, efficacy and functional outcomes of atogepant for the preventive treatment of migraine. Cephalalgia. 45(8). 2235410262–2235410262.
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Pagliari, Chiara, Sonia Di Tella, Luisa Cacciante, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the effect of rehabilitation on multiple sclerosis: A randomized clinical trial investigating the impact of remotely-supervised transcranial direct current stimulation and virtual reality telerehabilitation training. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 94. 106256–106256. 2 indexed citations
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Puledda, Francesca, Irene de Boer, Roberta Messina, et al.. (2024). Worldwide availability of medications for migraine and tension-type headache: A survey of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia. 44(11). 2225342744–2225342744. 7 indexed citations
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Lipton, Richard B., Pranav Gandhi, Cristina Tassorelli, et al.. (2024). Early Improvements With Atogepant for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine. Neurology. 104(2). e210212–e210212. 1 indexed citations
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Castiglia, Stefano Filippo, Gloria Vaghi, Andrea Morotti, et al.. (2024). Differences in Trunk Acceleration-Derived Gait Indexes in Stroke Subjects with and without Stroke-Induced Immunosuppression. Sensors. 24(18). 6012–6012.
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Goffredo, Michela, Chiara Pagliari, Andrea Turolla, et al.. (2023). Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Telerehabilitation System Improves Postural Balance in People with Chronic Neurological Diseases. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(9). 3178–3178. 15 indexed citations
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Puledda, Francesca, Samaira Younis, Faraidoon Haghdoost, et al.. (2023). Efficacy, safety and indirect comparisons of lasmiditan, rimegepant, and ubrogepant for the acute treatment of migraine: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of the literature. Cephalalgia. 43(3). 2215196475–2215196475. 23 indexed citations
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Castiglia, Stefano Filippo, Carmela Conte, Alberto Ranavolo, et al.. (2023). Multiscale Entropy Algorithms to Analyze Complexity and Variability of Trunk Accelerations Time Series in Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease. Sensors. 23(10). 4983–4983. 12 indexed citations
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Tassorelli, Cristina, Tina M. Oakes, Jennifer Bardos, et al.. (2023). Baseline demographics and disease characteristics of patients with episodic or chronic cluster headache: data from two phase 3 randomized clinical trials in Europe and North America. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 1293163–1293163. 1 indexed citations
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Bottiroli, Sara, Alessia Renzi, Elena Ballante, et al.. (2023). Personality in Chronic Headache: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis. Pain Research and Management. 2023. 1–19. 9 indexed citations
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Facchini, Stefano, Natalia Dominik, Arianna Manini, et al.. (2023). Optical Genome Mapping Enables Detection and Accurate Sizing of RFC1 Repeat Expansions. Biomolecules. 13(10). 1546–1546. 11 indexed citations
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Demartini, Chiara, Rosaria Greco, Gloria Vaghi, et al.. (2022). Oculo-vestibular signs in experimentally induced migraine attacks: an exploratory analysis. Neurological Sciences. 43(11). 6561–6564. 2 indexed citations
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Sacco, Simona, Antonio Russo, Pierangelo Geppetti, et al.. (2020). What is changing in chronic migraine treatment? An algorithm for onabotulinumtoxinA treatment by the Italian chronic migraine group. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 20(12). 1275–1286. 13 indexed citations
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Viana, Michele, Grazia Sances, Mattias Linde, et al.. (2018). Prolonged migraine aura: new insights from a prospective diary-aided study. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 19(1). 77–77. 21 indexed citations
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Viana, Michele, Grazia Sances, Mattias Linde, et al.. (2016). Clinical features of migraine aura: Results from a prospective diary-aided study. Cephalalgia. 37(10). 979–989. 104 indexed citations
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Viana, Michele, Mattias Linde, Grazia Sances, et al.. (2015). Migraine aura symptoms: Duration, succession and temporal relationship to headache. Cephalalgia. 36(5). 413–421. 53 indexed citations
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Tassorelli, Cristina, Rosaria Greco, Giorgio Sandrini, & Giuseppe Nappi. (2003). Central Components of the Analgesic/Antihyperalgesic Effect of Nimesulide. Drugs. 63(Supplement 1). 9–22. 30 indexed citations
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Nappi, Giuseppe, et al.. (1993). Effectiveness of a Piroxicam Fast Dissolving Formulation Sublingually Administered in the Symptomatic Treatment of Migraine Without Aura. Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 33(6). 296–300. 17 indexed citations

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