Diego Serraino

32.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
379 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Diego Serraino is a scholar working on Oncology, Epidemiology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Serraino has authored 379 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 210 papers in Oncology, 91 papers in Epidemiology and 84 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Diego Serraino's work include Viral-associated cancers and disorders (86 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (65 papers) and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (53 papers). Diego Serraino is often cited by papers focused on Viral-associated cancers and disorders (86 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (65 papers) and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (53 papers). Diego Serraino collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Diego Serraino's co-authors include Carlo La Vecchia, Silvia Franceschi, Renato Talamini, Eva Negri, Luigino Dal Maso, Jerry Polesel, Antonella Zucchetto, Antonino Carbone, Ettore Bidoli and Cristina Bosetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Diego Serraino

370 papers receiving 12.3k 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.

Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Adult Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Extremities and Girdles: Results of the Italian Randomized Cooperative Trial

2001 506 citations Diego Serraino et al. profile →
Descriptive epidemiology of sarcomas in Europe: Report from the RARECARE project

2012 470 citations Diego Serraino et al. profile →
Smoking and drinking in relation to cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus in northern Italy.

1990 455 citations Silvia Franceschi, Renato Talamini et al. profile →
Descriptive epidemiology of Kaposi sarcoma in Europe. Report from the RARECARE project

2014 373 citations Diego Serraino et al. Cancer Epidemiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Serraino Italy	57	5.7k	2.5k	2.5k	2.2k	2.2k	379	12.6k
Luigino Dal Maso Italy	61	5.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	905 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	284	12.9k
Renato Talamini Italy	69	6.7k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	2.9k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	447	17.8k
Claudio Pelucchi Italy	55	1.9k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	196	9.8k
Paolo Bruzzi Italy	67	5.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	325	14.3k
Magnus Björkholm Sweden	66	4.0k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	488	16.3k
Aloïs Gratwohl Switzerland	80	4.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	4.4k 2.0×	515	23.8k
Keitaro Matsuo Japan	71	6.4k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	4.3k 1.9×	2.3k 1.1×	736	21.4k
David C. Dale United States	74	8.3k 1.4×	634 0.3×	2.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	337	19.6k
Martin M. Oken United States	47	7.4k 1.3×	3.2k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	3.8k 1.7×	1.8k 0.8×	145	18.2k
Jerry Polesel Italy	52	2.9k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	875 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	238	8.4k

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Zanet, Ernesto, Martina Taborelli, Umberto Tirelli, et al.. (2025). Long‐Term Clinical Outcomes After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in 49 Individuals Living With HIV (PLWH) and Affected by High‐Risk or Relapsed Lymphoma: A European Experience of Continued Relevance for PLWH. Journal of Medical Virology. 97(1). e70165–e70165.

Stracci, Fabrizio, Margherita Ferrante, Adele Caldarella, et al.. (2025). Challenges of cancer registration and epidemiology in Italy. Cancer Epidemiology. 96. 102804–102804. 2 indexed citations

Polesel, Jerry, Matteo Di Maso, Giovanna Esposito, et al.. (2024). A Plant-Based Cholesterol-Lowering Diet Score Correlates with Serum LDL-Cholesterol Levels. Nutrients. 16(4). 495–495. 2 indexed citations

Maso, Luigino Dal, Federica Toffolutti, Ettore Bidoli, et al.. (2023). Breast cancer deaths attributable to alcohol consumption: Italy, 2015–2019. The Breast. 71. 96–98. 3 indexed citations

Taborelli, Martina, Barbara Suligoi, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2022). Increased kidney disease mortality among people with AIDS versus the general population: a population-based cohort study in Italy, 2006–2018. BMJ Open. 12(12). e064970–e064970.

Petrara, Maria Raffaella, Sarah Shalaby, Martina Taborelli, et al.. (2022). Immune Activation, Exhaustion and Senescence Profiles as Possible Predictors of Cancer in Liver Transplanted Patients. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 899170–899170. 4 indexed citations

Dalmartello, Michela, Jeroen K. Vermunt, Fabio Parazzini, et al.. (2022). Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 76(10). 867–872. 3 indexed citations

Carbone, Antonino, Annunziata Gloghini, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2021). Immunodeficiency-associated Hodgkin lymphoma. Expert Review of Hematology. 14(6). 547–559. 9 indexed citations

Dalmartello, Michela, Jeroen K. Vermunt, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2020). Dietary patterns and oesophageal cancer: a multi-country latent class analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(6). 567–573. 4 indexed citations

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Rossi, Marta, Maria Parpinel, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2020). Dietary intake of branched-chain amino acids and colorectal cancer risk. British Journal Of Nutrition. 126(1). 22–27. 17 indexed citations

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Panato, Chiara, Salvatore Vaccarella, Luigino Dal Maso, et al.. (2020). Thyroid Cancer Incidence in India Between 2006 and 2014 and Impact of Overdiagnosis. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 105(8). 2507–2514. 30 indexed citations

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Turati, Federica, Michela Dalmartello, Francesca Bravi, et al.. (2020). Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Recommendations and the Risk of Breast Cancer. Nutrients. 12(3). 607–607. 32 indexed citations

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Maso, Matteo Di, Luigino Dal Maso, Livia S. A. Augustin, et al.. (2020). Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Mortality after Breast Cancer. Nutrients. 12(12). 3649–3649. 26 indexed citations

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Rossi, Marta, Maria Parpinel, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2019). Flavonoids and bladder cancer risk. Cancer Causes & Control. 30(5). 527–535. 18 indexed citations

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Maso, Matteo Di, Federica Turati, Cristina Bosetti, et al.. (2019). Food consumption, meat cooking methods and diet diversity and the risk of bladder cancer. Cancer Epidemiology. 63. 101595–101595. 17 indexed citations

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Rosato, Valentina, Eva Negri, Diego Serraino, et al.. (2018). Processed Meat and Risk of Renal Cell and Bladder Cancers. Nutrition and Cancer. 70(3). 418–424. 8 indexed citations

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Pizzichetta, Maria Antonietta, Daniela Massi, Mario Mandalà, et al.. (2017). Clinicopathological predictors of recurrence in nodular and superficial spreading cutaneous melanoma: a multivariate analysis of 214 cases. Journal of Translational Medicine. 15(1). 227–227. 8 indexed citations

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Bosetti, Cristina, Ettore Bidoli, Fabio Levi, et al.. (2015). Mediterranean diet and risk of endometrial cancer: a pooled analysis of three italian case-control studies. British Journal of Cancer. 112(11). 1816–1821. 60 indexed citations

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Dorrucci, Maria, et al.. (2003). The effect of aging on the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma among HIV‐positive individuals with known dates of seroconversion. International Journal of Cancer. 104(2). 251–254. 4 indexed citations

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Franceschi, Silvia, Luigino Dal Maso, Stefania Arniani, et al.. (1998). Risk of cancer other than Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in persons with AIDS in Italy. British Journal of Cancer. 78(7). 966–970. 99 indexed citations

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