Diego Forni

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Diego Forni is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Forni has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Epidemiology and 30 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Diego Forni's work include Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (17 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (15 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (13 papers). Diego Forni is often cited by papers focused on Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (17 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (15 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (13 papers). Diego Forni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Diego Forni's co-authors include Manuela Sironi, Rachele Cagliani, Mario Clerici, Uberto Pozzoli, Chiara Pontremoli, Alessandra Mozzi, Mara Biasin, Nereo Bresolin, Stefania Riva and Nasser M. Al‐Daghri and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Diego Forni

98 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Molecular Evolution of Human Coronavirus Genomes

2016 505 citations Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Forni Italy	25	1.0k	635	476	462	320	105	2.4k
Michihito Sasaki Japan	28	1.1k 1.1×	484 0.8×	491 1.0×	266 0.6×	260 0.8×	127	2.3k
Guido van Marle Canada	24	662 0.6×	456 0.7×	597 1.3×	280 0.6×	341 1.1×	62	2.0k
Rachele Cagliani Italy	31	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 2.1×	603 1.3×	743 1.6×	329 1.0×	139	3.6k
Michael Frese Australia	28	771 0.7×	668 1.1×	995 2.1×	977 2.1×	287 0.9×	79	3.1k
Michael Oglesbee United States	35	782 0.8×	766 1.2×	871 1.8×	328 0.7×	487 1.5×	104	2.9k
Shengbo Cao China	32	1.2k 1.2×	794 1.3×	451 0.9×	644 1.4×	315 1.0×	125	3.0k
Hinh Ly United States	34	1.8k 1.7×	1.4k 2.2×	955 2.0×	947 2.0×	284 0.9×	100	4.2k
Jennifer Richardson France	25	494 0.5×	691 1.1×	757 1.6×	366 0.8×	124 0.4×	77	2.1k
Gerald M. McInerney Sweden	31	1.4k 1.3×	1.6k 2.5×	457 1.0×	737 1.6×	185 0.6×	80	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Forni

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Sivertsen, Audun, et al.. (2025). Reassessing taxonomy and virulence in the Fusobacterium nucleatum group—rebuttal of Fusobacterium animalis clades “ Fna C1” and “ Fna C2,” genome announcement for Fusobacterium watanabei, and description of Fusobacterium paranimalis sp. nov.. mBio. 16(9). e0094125–e0094125. 1 indexed citations

Forni, Diego, Uberto Pozzoli, Rachele Cagliani, & Manuela Sironi. (2024). Dinucleotide biases in the genomes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic dsDNA viruses and their hosts. Molecular Ecology. 33(6). e17287–e17287. 2 indexed citations

Forni, Diego, Alessandra Mozzi, Manuela Sironi, & Rachele Cagliani. (2024). Positive Selection Drives the Evolution of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) Complexes. Genes. 15(9). 1159–1159.

Forni, Diego, Rachele Cagliani, Federica Arrigoni, et al.. (2023). Selective events at individual sites underlie the evolution of monkeypox virus clades. Virus Evolution. 9(1). vead031–vead031. 5 indexed citations

Forni, Diego, Rachele Cagliani, Uberto Pozzoli, & Manuela Sironi. (2023). An APOBEC3 Mutational Signature in the Genomes of Human-Infecting Orthopoxviruses. mSphere. 8(2). e0006223–e0006223. 19 indexed citations

Mozzi, Alessandra, Rachele Cagliani, Chiara Pontremoli, et al.. (2022). Simplexviruses Successfully Adapt to Their Host by Fine-Tuning Immune Responses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(7). 6 indexed citations

Forni, Diego, et al.. (2022). Monkeypox virus: The changing facets of a zoonotic pathogen. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 105. 105372–105372. 41 indexed citations

Pontremoli, Chiara, Diego Forni, Mario Clerici, Rachele Cagliani, & Manuela Sironi. (2021). Alternation between taxonomically divergent hosts is not the major determinant of flavivirus evolution. Virus Evolution. 7(1). 2 indexed citations

Pontremoli, Chiara, Diego Forni, Uberto Pozzoli, et al.. (2021). Kinetochore proteins and microtubule‐destabilizing factors are fast evolving in eutherian mammals. Molecular Ecology. 30(6). 1505–1515. 8 indexed citations

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Forni, Diego, Rachele Cagliani, Chiara Pontremoli, et al.. (2020). Antigenic variation of SARS‐CoV‐2 in response to immune pressure. Molecular Ecology. 30(14). 3548–3559. 13 indexed citations

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Mozzi, Alessandra, Matteo Biolatti, Rachele Cagliani, et al.. (2020). Past and ongoing adaptation of human cytomegalovirus to its host. PLoS Pathogens. 16(5). e1008476–e1008476. 23 indexed citations

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Cagliani, Rachele, Diego Forni, Alessandra Mozzi, & Manuela Sironi. (2020). Evolution and Genetic Diversity of Primate Cytomegaloviruses. Microorganisms. 8(5). 624–624. 11 indexed citations

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Pontremoli, Chiara, Diego Forni, Mario Clerici, Rachele Cagliani, & Manuela Sironi. (2019). Possible European Origin of Circulating Varicella Zoster Virus Strains. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 221(8). 1286–1294. 13 indexed citations

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Pontremoli, Chiara, Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani, & Manuela Sironi. (2018). Analysis of Reptarenavirus genomes indicates different selective forces acting on the S and L segments and recent expansion of common genotypes. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 64. 212–218. 6 indexed citations

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Riva, Valentina, Alessandra Mozzi, Diego Forni, et al.. (2018). The influence of DCDC2 risk genetic variants on reading: Testing main and haplotypic effects. Neuropsychologia. 130. 52–58. 8 indexed citations

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Forni, Diego, Rachele Cagliani, Mario Clerici, & Manuela Sironi. (2018). Origin and dispersal of Hepatitis E virus. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 7(1). 1–13. 41 indexed citations

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Mozzi, Alessandra, Diego Forni, Mario Clerici, Rachele Cagliani, & Manuela Sironi. (2018). The Diversity of Mammalian Hemoproteins and Microbial Heme Scavengers Is Shaped by an Arms Race for Iron Piracy. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 2086–2086. 5 indexed citations

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Pontremoli, Chiara, Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani, et al.. (2017). Evolutionary analysis of Old World arenaviruses reveals a major adaptive contribution of the viral polymerase. Molecular Ecology. 26(19). 5173–5188. 8 indexed citations

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Biasin, Mara, Manuela Sironi, Irma Saulle, et al.. (2016). A 6-amino acid insertion/deletion polymorphism in the mucin domain of TIM-1 confers protections against HIV-1 infection. Microbes and Infection. 19(1). 69–74. 10 indexed citations

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Biasin, Mara, Manuela Sironi, Irma Saulle, et al.. (2013). Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 2 haplotypes play a role in modulating susceptibility to HIV infection. AIDS. 27(11). 1697–1706. 24 indexed citations

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