Elena Spada

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Elena Spada is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Spada has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 16 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Elena Spada's work include Infant Nutrition and Health (16 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (11 papers). Elena Spada is often cited by papers focused on Infant Nutrition and Health (16 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (11 papers). Elena Spada collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Belarus. Elena Spada's co-authors include Silvano Milani, Gianni Bona, Giuseppe Tonini, E Cacciari, F. Cerutti, Nella Augusta Greggio, L Gargantini, Antonio Balsamo, Alessandro Cicognani and Luciano Cavallo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Hepatology.

In The Last Decade

Elena Spada

43 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Italian cross-sectional growth charts for height, weight and BMI (2 to 20 yr)

2006 694 citations Silvano Milani, Elena Spada et al. profile →
Neonatal Anthropometric Charts: The Italian Neonatal Study Compared With Other European Studies

2010 369 citations Enrico Bertino, Elena Spada et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Elena Spada	589	367	350	282	272	49	1.9k
Spyridon Ν. Karras	318 0.5×	580 1.6×	276 0.8×	454 1.6×	122 0.4×	126	2.9k
Didier Chevenne	956 1.6×	302 0.8×	511 1.5×	202 0.7×	123 0.5×	68	2.2k
Antti Saari	459 0.8×	408 1.1×	177 0.5×	147 0.5×	153 0.6×	38	1.3k
Per Magnus	443 0.8×	426 1.2×	302 0.9×	116 0.4×	145 0.5×	46	2.0k
Nándor Ács	468 0.8×	574 1.6×	500 1.4×	83 0.3×	135 0.5×	188	2.2k
Zoi Iliodromiti	473 0.8×	375 1.0×	584 1.7×	93 0.3×	269 1.0×	114	1.9k
M. Lynn Ahmed	949 1.6×	649 1.8×	342 1.0×	309 1.1×	92 0.3×	24	2.6k
Nikolaos Vrachnis	528 0.9×	481 1.3×	807 2.3×	68 0.2×	236 0.9×	125	2.2k
Zeev Weiner	910 1.5×	325 0.9×	845 2.4×	103 0.4×	254 0.9×	156	2.1k
Paweł Płudowski	347 0.6×	552 1.5×	100 0.3×	918 3.3×	135 0.5×	80	3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elena Spada

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All Works

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Volpi, Sonia, Roberto Buzzetti, Giuseppe Cimino, et al.. (2025). Real-World Safety and Effectiveness of Elexacaftor, Tezacaftor, and Ivacaftor in People with Cystic Fibrosis and Advanced Lung Disease: A Two-Year Multicenter Cohort Study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(21). 10513–10513.

Spada, Elena, Chiara Peila, & Alessandra Coscia. (2024). Italian neonatal birthweight charts derived from INeS not separated by birth order. The Italian Journal of Pediatrics/Italian journal of pediatrics. 50(1). 89–89.

Peila, Chiara, Elena Spada, Alessandra Coscia, et al.. (2023). The Gestational Pathologies Effect on the Human Milk Redox Homeostasis: A First Step towards Its Definition. Nutrients. 15(21). 4546–4546. 3 indexed citations

Vignali, M., Davide Gentilini, Elena Spada, et al.. (2021). Hormonal therapy potentiates the effect of surgery on gene expression profile of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients affected by endometriosis. Minerva Endocrinology. 46(1). 90–98. 2 indexed citations

Spada, Elena, Luciano Calzari, Teresa Fazia, et al.. (2020). Epigenome Wide Association and Stochastic Epigenetic Mutation Analysis on Cord Blood of Preterm Birth. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(14). 5044–5044. 14 indexed citations

Peila, Chiara, Elena Spada, Francesca Giuliani, et al.. (2020). Extrauterine Growth Restriction: Definitions and Predictability of Outcomes in a Cohort of Very Low Birth Weight Infants or Preterm Neonates. Nutrients. 12(5). 1224–1224. 56 indexed citations

Pellegrino, Marcella, Ivan Cortinovis, Elena Spada, et al.. (2019). Longitudinal Doppler references for monochorionic twins and comparison with singletons. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226090–e0226090. 9 indexed citations

Spada, Elena, Alessandra Coscia, Enrico Bertino, et al.. (2019). Enteral Nutrition Tolerance And REspiratory Support (ENTARES) Study in preterm infants: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 20(1). 67–67. 8 indexed citations

Simone, Emanuele Di, Noemi Giannetta, Elena Spada, et al.. (2018). Prevenire l’errore nella somministrazione della terapia endovenosa in terapia intensiva: revisione della letteratura. Recenti Progressi in Medicina. 109(2). 103–107. 11 indexed citations

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Coscia, Alessandra, Enrico Bertino, Paola Tonetto, et al.. (2018). Nutritional adequacy of a novel human milk fortifier from donkey milk in feeding preterm infants: study protocol of a randomized controlled clinical trial. Nutrition Journal. 17(1). 6–6. 32 indexed citations

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Spada, Elena, Giuseppe Chiossi, Alessandra Coscia, Francesca Monari, & Fabio Facchinetti. (2017). Effect of maternal age, height, BMI and ethnicity on birth weight: an Italian multicenter study. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 46(9). 1016–1021. 25 indexed citations

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Mozzanica, Francesco, et al.. (2016). Reliability, validity and normative data of the Italian version of the Bus Story test. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 89. 17–24. 7 indexed citations

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Grisendi, Valentina, Elena Spada, Cindy Argento, et al.. (2014). Age-specific reference values for serum FSH and estradiol levels throughout the reproductive period. Gynecological Endocrinology. 30(6). 451–455. 20 indexed citations

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Marca, Antonio La, Elena Spada, Valentina Grisendi, et al.. (2012). Normal serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels in the general female population and the relationship with reproductive history. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 163(2). 180–184. 96 indexed citations

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Santis, M. S. Nobile De, Emanuela Taricco, Tatjana Radaelli, et al.. (2010). Growth of fetal lean mass and fetal fat mass in gestational diabetes. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 36(3). 328–337. 32 indexed citations

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Franco, Marcelo De, Francesca Colombo, Antonella Galvan, et al.. (2010). Transcriptome of normal lung distinguishes mouse lines with different susceptibility to inflammation and to lung tumorigenesis. Cancer Letters. 294(2). 187–194. 8 indexed citations

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Marca, Antonio La, Elena Spada, Giovanna Sighinolfi, et al.. (2010). Age-specific nomogram for the decline in antral follicle count throughout the reproductive period. Fertility and Sterility. 95(2). 684–688. 72 indexed citations

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Spada, Elena, A Butti, Monica Ferraroni, & Silvano Milani. (2009). Adapting Häävikko's dental age for the assessment of Italian children: use of LMS and other models based on smoothing splines. Statistics in Medicine. 28(28). 3554–3561. 1 indexed citations

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Manenti, Giacomo, Antonella Galvan, Felicia Stefania Falvella, et al.. (2008). Genetic control of resistance to hepatocarcinogenesis by the mouse Hpcr3 locus†. Hepatology. 48(2). 617–623. 9 indexed citations

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Butti, A, Alberto Clivio, Monica Ferraroni, et al.. (2008). Haavikko's method to assess dental age in Italian children. European Journal of Orthodontics. 31(2). 150–155. 37 indexed citations

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