Ferruccio Fazio

27.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
390 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

Ferruccio Fazio is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ferruccio Fazio has authored 390 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 92 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 58 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ferruccio Fazio's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (99 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (42 papers) and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (36 papers). Ferruccio Fazio is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (99 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (42 papers) and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (36 papers). Ferruccio Fazio collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Ferruccio Fazio's co-authors include Daniela Perani, Stefano F. Cappa, Valentino Bettinardi, Eraldo Paulesu, Marco Tettamanti, Paola Scifo, Maria Picchio, Cristina Messa, Daniela Perani and Giacomo Rizzolatti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Ferruccio Fazio

386 papers receiving 19.4k 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.

Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

2005 813 citations Marco Tettamanti, Massimo Danna et al. profile →
Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography

1994 772 citations Daniela Perani, Ferruccio Fazio et al. profile →
Dyslexia: Cultural Diversity and Biological Unity

2001 760 citations Eraldo Paulesu, Ferruccio Fazio et al. profile →
Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution

1996 748 citations Eraldo Paulesu, Daniela Perani et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ferruccio Fazio Italy	74	8.0k	5.1k	3.6k	3.1k	3.1k	390	20.2k
Gottfried Schlaug United States	95	16.0k 2.0×	4.9k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	4.2k 1.3×	273	27.0k
Cornelius Weiller Germany	86	12.3k 1.5×	4.7k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	407	25.9k
Richard G. Wise United Kingdom	85	16.1k 2.0×	6.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	285	26.1k
Helmuth Steinmetz Germany	73	6.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	960 0.3×	288	16.5k
Norihiro Sadato Japan	79	14.1k 1.8×	3.0k 0.6×	834 0.2×	1.6k 0.5×	4.0k 1.3×	414	21.7k
Nathaniel M. Alpert United States	68	8.5k 1.1×	3.3k 0.7×	645 0.2×	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	223	16.0k
Denis Le Bihan France	85	11.0k 1.4×	20.8k 4.1×	1.4k 0.4×	3.1k 1.0×	909 0.3×	296	33.8k
John A. Detre United States	90	11.1k 1.4×	16.1k 3.2×	2.5k 0.7×	979 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	423	31.1k
David C. Alsop United States	80	8.1k 1.0×	11.5k 2.3×	2.5k 0.7×	872 0.3×	777 0.2×	288	23.4k
Argye E. Hillis United States	69	13.2k 1.6×	2.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	4.5k 1.4×	1.7k 0.5×	464	19.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ferruccio Fazio

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Giovacchini, Giampiero, Maria Picchio, Alberto Briganti, et al.. (2014). ¹¹C-Choline PET/CT Predicts Prostate Cancer–Specific Survival in Patients with Biochemical Failure During Androgen-Deprivation Therapy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 55(2). 233–241. 78 indexed citations

Cottone, Lucia, Silvia Valtorta, Annalisa Capobianco, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of the Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in an Experimental Model of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Using ¹⁸F-FDG PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 52(11). 1770–1777. 10 indexed citations

Crocchiolo, Roberto, Federico Fallanca, Giampiero Giovacchini, et al.. (2009). Role of 18FDG-PET/CT in detecting relapse during follow-up of patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Annals of Hematology. 88(12). 1229–1236. 30 indexed citations

Visigalli, Ilaria, Rosa Maria Moresco, Sara Belloli, et al.. (2009). Monitoring disease evolution and treatment response in lysosomal disorders by the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligand PK11195. Neurobiology of Disease. 34(1). 51–62. 11 indexed citations

Pozzo, L. Da, C. Cozzarini, Alberto Briganti, et al.. (2009). Long-Term Follow-up of Patients with Prostate Cancer and Nodal Metastases Treated by Pelvic Lymphadenectomy and Radical Prostatectomy: The Positive Impact of Adjuvant Radiotherapy. European Urology. 55(5). 1003–1011. 132 indexed citations

Fragasso, Gabriele, Sergio Chierchia, Francesco Arioli, et al.. (2008). Coronary slow-flow causing transient myocardial hypoperfusion in patients with cardiac syndrome X: Long-term clinical and functional prognosis. International Journal of Cardiology. 137(2). 137–144. 43 indexed citations

Moresco, Rosa Maria, Mario Matarrese, & Ferruccio Fazio. (2006). PET and SPET Molecular Imaging: Focus on Serotonin System. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 6(18). 2027–2034. 16 indexed citations

Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto, Patrizia Turriziani, Eraldo Paulesu, et al.. (2003). Brain activity during intra- and cross-modal priming: new empirical data and review of the literature. Neuropsychologia. 42(1). 14–24. 23 indexed citations

Picchio, Maria, Sandro Sironi, C. Messa, et al.. (2003). Advanced ovarian carcinoma: usefulness of [(18)F]FDG-PET in combination with CT for lesion detection after primary treatment.. PubMed. 47(2). 77–84. 45 indexed citations

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Canessa, Nicola, Alessandra Gorini, Daniela Perani, et al.. (2002). Social cognition and reasoning: neuroimaging evidence. Human Brain Mapping. 1 indexed citations

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Moro, Andrea, Marco Tettamanti, Daniela Perani, et al.. (2001). Syntax and the Brain: Disentangling Grammar by Selective Anomalies. NeuroImage. 13(1). 110–118. 273 indexed citations

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Loc’h, Christian, B. Guibert, Vincent Leviel, et al.. (1999). Effects of dopamine on the in vivo binding of dopamine d2 receptor radioligands in rat striatum. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 26(1). 91–98. 10 indexed citations

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Blasi, Valeria, et al.. (1999). Ventral prefrontal areas specialised for lip-reading: A PET activation study. NeuroImage. 9. 3 indexed citations

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Fazio, Ferruccio, et al.. (1999). How can virtual reality be? a PET study of motor actions observation. NeuroImage. 9. 1 indexed citations

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Paulesu, Eraldo, Matteo Signorini, Chris Frith, et al.. (1997). Functional heterogeneity of left inferior frontal cortex: Explicit behavioural and PET evidence. NeuroImage. 5. 3 indexed citations

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Margonato, Alberto, Sergio Chierchia, Robert G. Xuereb, et al.. (1995). Specificity and sensitivity of exercise-induced st segment elevation for detection of residual viability: Comparison with fluorodeoxyglucose and positron emission tomography. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 25(5). 1032–1038. 63 indexed citations

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Colombo, Paolo, et al.. (1993). Immunoscintigraphy with anti-chromogranin A antibodies inpatients with endocrine/neuroendocrine tumors. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 16(10). 841–843. 8 indexed citations

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Zito, Felicia, et al.. (1992). Comparison of two state-of-art neuro-PET and neuro-SPECT scanners. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine. 22(4). 399. 1 indexed citations

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Cappa, Stefano F., et al.. (1991). Sneddon syndrome: Cerebral perfusion studies by Tc99M HM-PAO and SPECT. Neurological Sciences. 12(1). 39–43. 4 indexed citations

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Fazio, Ferruccio & Timothy Peter Jones. (1975). Assessment of regional ventilation by continuous inhalation of radioactive krypton-81m.. BMJ. 3(5985). 673–676. 129 indexed citations

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