Federica Giardina

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Federica Giardina is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Federica Giardina has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Federica Giardina's work include Parasites and Host Interactions (9 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (6 papers). Federica Giardina is often cited by papers focused on Parasites and Host Interactions (9 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (6 papers). Federica Giardina collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Switzerland. Federica Giardina's co-authors include Penelope Vounatsou, Virak Khieu, Peter Odermatt, Fabian Schär, Hans‐Peter Marti, Sinuon Muth, Sébastien Gagneux, Bouke C. de Jong, Jayne S. Sutherland and Richard Copin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Federica Giardina

28 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Strongyloides stercoralis: Global Distribution and Risk Factors

2013 490 citations Fabian Schär, Federica Giardina et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federica Giardina Netherlands	14	528	342	336	260	189	31	1.1k
Guo-Jing Yang China	22	917 1.7×	603 1.8×	292 0.9×	103 0.4×	483 2.6×	60	1.5k
J. Dick MacLean Canada	26	771 1.5×	315 0.9×	549 1.6×	208 0.8×	521 2.8×	52	1.6k
Patrick Soentjens Belgium	14	209 0.4×	373 1.1×	212 0.6×	144 0.6×	156 0.8×	56	806
Maria Ilma Araújo Brazil	22	1.2k 2.3×	430 1.3×	265 0.8×	167 0.6×	501 2.7×	60	1.9k
M Rohela Malaysia	16	472 0.9×	136 0.4×	281 0.8×	165 0.6×	172 0.9×	48	835
Indu Malhotra United States	27	925 1.8×	289 0.8×	511 1.5×	312 1.2×	910 4.8×	50	2.3k
G Poggensee Germany	16	443 0.8×	104 0.3×	306 0.9×	298 1.1×	197 1.0×	26	987
Expedito José de Albuquerque Luna Brazil	21	264 0.5×	76 0.2×	442 1.3×	386 1.5×	501 2.7×	92	1.4k
Zulma Medeiros Brazil	23	915 1.7×	596 1.7×	1.3k 3.9×	173 0.7×	486 2.6×	119	1.8k
Patrice Bourée France	20	510 1.0×	242 0.7×	567 1.7×	435 1.7×	216 1.1×	234	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Federica Giardina

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federica Giardina

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20 of 20 papers shown

Giardina, Federica, et al.. (2025). Hypoxic conditioning in Parkinson’s disease: randomized controlled multiple N-of-1 trials. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8469–8469.

Giardina, Federica, et al.. (2025). Risk conditions for invasive pneumococcal disease in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 89. 103522–103522.

Alba, Sandra, Ente Rood, Jennifer M. Ross, et al.. (2022). TB Hackathon: Development and Comparison of Five Models to Predict Subnational Tuberculosis Prevalence in Pakistan. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 7(1). 13–13. 8 indexed citations

Meinders, Marjan J., Federica Giardina, Kit C. B. Roes, et al.. (2022). Multiple N-of-1 trials to investigate hypoxia therapy in Parkinson’s disease: study rationale and protocol. BMC Neurology. 22(1). 262–262. 9 indexed citations

Toor, Jaspreet, Jonathan I. D. Hamley, Claudio Fronterrè, et al.. (2021). Strengthening data collection for neglected tropical diseases: What data are needed for models to better inform tailored intervention programmes?. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(5). e0009351–e0009351. 10 indexed citations

Vegvari, Carolin, et al.. (2021). Impact of Key Assumptions About the Population Biology of Soil-Transmitted Helminths on the Sustainable Control of Morbidity. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 72(Supplement_3). S188–S194. 5 indexed citations

Giardina, Federica, Carolin Vegvari, Sumali Bajaj, et al.. (2020). Modelling the impact of COVID-19-related control programme interruptions on progress towards the WHO 2030 target for soil-transmitted helminths. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115(3). 253–260. 12 indexed citations

Bulstra, Caroline A., Jan A. C. Hontelez, Federica Giardina, et al.. (2020). Mapping and characterising areas with high levels of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: A geospatial analysis of national survey data. PLoS Medicine. 17(3). e1003042–e1003042. 28 indexed citations

Piralla, Antonio, Laura Pellegrinelli, Federica Giardina, et al.. (2020). Contribution of Enteroviruses to Acute Central Nervous System or Systemic Infections in Northern Italy (2015‐2017): Is It Time to Establish a National Laboratory‐Based Surveillance System?. BioMed Research International. 2020(1). 9393264–9393264. 4 indexed citations

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Giardina, Federica, Ethan Romero-Severson, Maria Axelsson, et al.. (2019). Getting more from heterogeneous HIV-1 surveillance data in a high immigration country: estimation of incidence and undiagnosed population size using multiple biomarkers. International Journal of Epidemiology. 48(6). 1795–1803. 13 indexed citations

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Piralla, Antonio, et al.. (2019). Human parechovirus type 5 neurological infection in a neonate with a favourable outcome: A case report. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 89. 175–178. 5 indexed citations

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Michael, Edwin, Swarnali Sharma, Morgan E. Smith, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the value of surveillance data for improving model predictions of lymphatic filariasis elimination. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(10). e0006674–e0006674. 8 indexed citations

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Giardina, Federica, Ethan Romero-Severson, Jan Albert, Tom Britton, & Thomas Leitner. (2017). Inference of Transmission Network Structure from HIV Phylogenetic Trees. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(1). e1005316–e1005316. 22 indexed citations

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Coscollá, Mireia, Richard Copin, Jayne S. Sutherland, et al.. (2015). M. tuberculosis T Cell Epitope Analysis Reveals Paucity of Antigenic Variation and Identifies Rare Variable TB Antigens. Cell Host & Microbe. 18(5). 538–548. 101 indexed citations

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Schär, Fabian, Federica Giardina, Virak Khieu, et al.. (2015). Occurrence of and risk factors for Strongyloides stercoralis infection in South-East Asia. Acta Tropica. 159. 227–238. 40 indexed citations

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Giardina, Federica, Simon Kasasa, Ali Sié, et al.. (2014). Effects of vector-control interventions on changes in risk of malaria parasitaemia in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial and temporal analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 2(10). e601–e615. 52 indexed citations

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Borrell, Sònia, Youjin Teo, Federica Giardina, et al.. (2013). Epistasis between antibiotic resistance mutations drives the evolution of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 2013(1). 65–74. 81 indexed citations

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Schär, Fabian, Federica Giardina, Virak Khieu, et al.. (2013). Strongyloides stercoralis: Global Distribution and Risk Factors. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 7(7). e2288–e2288. 490 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sabidó, Meritxell, María Lahuerta, Alexandra Montoliu, et al.. (2011). Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Risk Behaviors Among Clients of Sex Workers in Guatemala: Are They a Bridge in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission?. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 38(8). 735–742. 15 indexed citations

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Sabidó, Meritxell, et al.. (2009). The UALE Project: Decline in the Incidence of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections and Increase in the Use of Condoms Among Sex Workers in Guatemala. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 51(Supplement 1). S35–S41. 26 indexed citations

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