F. Barra

768 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 495 citations indexed

About

F. Barra is a scholar working on Emergency Medical Services, Surgery and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Barra has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 495 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Emergency Medical Services, 4 papers in Surgery and 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in F. Barra's work include Disaster Response and Management (6 papers), Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare (4 papers) and Global Health and Surgery (2 papers). F. Barra is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Response and Management (6 papers), Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare (4 papers) and Global Health and Surgery (2 papers). F. Barra collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Canada and Belgium. F. Barra's co-authors include Luca Carenzo, Davide Colombo, Françesco Della Corte, Maurizio Cecconi, Gianmaria Cammarota, Paolo Navalesi, Michele Lagioia, Rosanna Vaschetto, Massimiliano Greco and Alberto Zanella and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care and Medical Education.

In The Last Decade

F. Barra

12 papers receiving 482 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.

Hospital surge capacity in a tertiary emergency referral centre during the COVID ‐19 outbreak in Italy

2020 226 citations Luca Carenzo, Elena Costantini et al. Anaesthesia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
F. Barra Italy	7	199	140	124	106	99	13	495
Josep Trenado Spain	13	121 0.6×	79 0.6×	130 1.0×	40 0.4×	100 1.0×	25	459
Zheng Jie Lim Australia	8	183 0.9×	84 0.6×	159 1.3×	108 1.0×	63 0.6×	21	468
Mallikarjuna Ponnapa Reddy Australia	8	204 1.0×	99 0.7×	156 1.3×	105 1.0×	44 0.4×	19	477
Elena Costantini Italy	9	88 0.4×	53 0.4×	57 0.5×	124 1.2×	75 0.8×	24	417
Ghee Chee Phua Singapore	11	208 1.0×	82 0.6×	46 0.4×	96 0.9×	52 0.5×	31	616
Mirco Nacoti Italy	9	171 0.9×	109 0.8×	55 0.4×	47 0.4×	19 0.2×	24	438
L. Zapata Spain	10	112 0.6×	99 0.7×	99 0.8×	27 0.3×	43 0.4×	29	402
James L. Derrick Hong Kong	10	205 1.0×	56 0.4×	52 0.4×	103 1.0×	66 0.7×	19	500
Alexander Supady Germany	16	138 0.7×	89 0.6×	214 1.7×	42 0.4×	31 0.3×	71	626
Alessandra Palo Italy	11	108 0.5×	55 0.4×	324 2.6×	260 2.5×	114 1.2×	21	683

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. Barra

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Barra, F., et al.. (2025). From prompt to platform: an agentic AI workflow for healthcare simulation scenario design. Advances in Simulation. 10(1). 29–29. 4 indexed citations

2.

Barra, F., et al.. (2022). OP08.07: Lower uterine segment thickness in pregnancy following Caesarean section with double layer barbed fish‐bone suture. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 60(S1). 74–75.

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Carenzo, Luca, Elena Costantini, Massimiliano Greco, et al.. (2020). Hospital surge capacity in a tertiary emergency referral centre during the COVID ‐19 outbreak in Italy. Anaesthesia. 75(7). 928–934. 226 indexed citations breakdown →

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Messina, Antonio, Davide Colombo, F. Barra, et al.. (2019). Sigh maneuver to enhance assessment of fluid responsiveness during pressure support ventilation. Critical Care. 23(1). 31–31. 16 indexed citations

5.

Carenzo, Luca, Silvia Oldani, F. Barra, & Licia Montagna. (2019). Standardised medical student for clinician educator training. Medical Education. 53(11). 1158–1158. 1 indexed citations

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Barra, F., Luca Carenzo, Jeffrey Michael Franc, et al.. (2018). Anesthesiology Resident Induction Month: a pilot study showing an effective and safe way to train novice residents through simulation. Minerva Anestesiologica. 84(12). 1377–1386. 3 indexed citations

7.

Carenzo, Luca, et al.. (2016). Virtual Laboratory and Imaging: an online simulation tool to enhance hospital disaster preparedness training experience. European Journal of Emergency Medicine. 25(2). 128–133. 10 indexed citations

8.

Carenzo, Luca, F. Barra, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, et al.. (2014). Disaster medicine through Google Glass. European Journal of Emergency Medicine. 22(3). 222–225. 37 indexed citations

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Ingrassia, Pier Luigi, Davide Colombo, F. Barra, et al.. (2013). Impacto de la formación en gestión médica de desastres: resultados de un estudio piloto utilizando una nueva herramienta para la simulación in vivo. Emergencias. 25(6). 459–466. 8 indexed citations

10.

Carenzo, Luca, F. Barra, Antonio Messina, et al.. (2013). Overtriage and undertriage in a prehospital system over 7 years. Critical Care. 17(S2). 2 indexed citations

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Ingrassia, Pier Luigi, Luca Carenzo, F. Barra, et al.. (2011). Data collection in a live mass casualty incident simulation. European Journal of Emergency Medicine. 19(1). 35–39. 16 indexed citations

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Ingrassia, Pier Luigi, et al.. (2011). Efficacy of a Disaster Medicine Course for Undergraduates. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 41(2). 211–211. 1 indexed citations

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Colombo, Davide, Gianmaria Cammarota, Luca Carenzo, et al.. (2011). Efficacy of ventilator waveforms observation in detecting patient–ventilator asynchrony*. Critical Care Medicine. 39(11). 2452–2457. 171 indexed citations

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