Francesco Benedetti

26.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
300 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Francesco Benedetti is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Benedetti has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 96 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 76 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francesco Benedetti's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (97 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (71 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (62 papers). Francesco Benedetti is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (97 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (71 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (62 papers). Francesco Benedetti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Francesco Benedetti's co-authors include Cristina Colombo, Enrico Smeraldi, Sara Poletti, Sara Dallaspezia, Barbara Barbini, Cristina Lorenzi, Benedetta Vai, Mario Gennaro Mazza, Irene Bollettini and Alessandro Serretti and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Psychiatry and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Benedetti

286 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors

2020 1.1k citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Sara Poletti et al. profile →
Functional atlas of emotional faces processing: a voxel-based meta-analysis of 105 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

2009 1.1k citations Paolo Fusar‐Poli, Francesco Benedetti et al. profile →
Persistent psychopathology and neurocognitive impairment in COVID-19 survivors: Effect of inflammatory biomarkers at three-month follow-up

2021 334 citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Mariagrazia Palladini et al. profile →
Mental disorders and risk of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 200 citations Benedetta Vai, Mario Gennaro Mazza et al. profile →
Post-COVID-19 Depressive Symptoms: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacological Treatment

2022 121 citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Mariagrazia Palladini et al. profile →
Inflammatory mediators in major depression and bipolar disorder

2024 46 citations Sara Poletti, Mario Gennaro Mazza et al. Translational Psychiatry profile →

Peers

Francesco Benedetti

PMH

ECP

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Raymond W. Lam Canada

Enrico Smeraldi Italy

Sharon L. Naismith Australia

Murray A. Raskind United States

Cristina Colombo Italy

Martin Preisig Switzerland

John I. Nürnberger United States

Marcella Rietschel Germany

Isabella Heuser Germany

Wolfgang Maier Germany

Raymond W. Lam Canada

Francesco Benedetti

6.6k ×1.5

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3.2k ×0.7

3.7k ×1.0

ECP

2.2k ×0.8

EAS

2.9k ×1.1

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Benedetti

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dallaspezia, Sara & Francesco Benedetti. (2025). Chronobiologic treatments for mood disorders. Handbook of clinical neurology. 206. 181–192. 2 indexed citations

Gold, Stefan M., Kim Donoghue, Franz König, et al.. (2025). Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials. Nature Mental Health. 3(3). 276–285. 5 indexed citations

Bianchi, Anna Maria, Federico Calesella, Benedetta Vai, et al.. (2024). Assessment of ComBat Harmonization Performance on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measurements. Human Brain Mapping. 45(18). e70085–e70085. 2 indexed citations

Paolini, Marco, et al.. (2023). Brain correlates of perceived cognitive impairment after covid-19 infection: a multimodal MRI study.. European Psychiatry. 66(S1). S120–S120. 1 indexed citations

Benedetti, Francesco. (2023). Immunopsychiatry after COVID-19. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 12. 100521–100521. 1 indexed citations

Benedetti, Francesco & Benedetta Vai. (2023). New biomarkers in mood disorders: Insights from immunopsychiatry and neuroimaging. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 69. 56–57. 8 indexed citations

Palladini, Mariagrazia, Mario Gennaro Mazza, Andrea Scalabrini, et al.. (2023). The Burden of Survivorship: Survivor Guilt and Its Association with Psychiatric Sequelae in COVID-19 Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(9). 3117–3117. 1 indexed citations

Mazza, Elena, Federico Calesella, Marco Paolini, et al.. (2022). Insulin resistance disrupts white matter microstructure and amplitude of functional spontaneous activity in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 25(1). 32–42. 11 indexed citations

Vai, Benedetta, Mario Gennaro Mazza, Marisa Casanova Dias, et al.. (2022). Joint European policy on the COVID-19 risks for people with mental disorders: An umbrella review and evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for mental and public health. European Psychiatry. 65(1). e47–e47. 10 indexed citations

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Ramirez, Giuseppe A., Benedetta Vai, Martina Mazzetti, et al.. (2022). Interactions between Severe Allergy and Anxiety in Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinees. Vaccines. 10(12). 2047–2047. 3 indexed citations

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Paolini, Marco, Mariagrazia Palladini, Mario Gennaro Mazza, et al.. (2022). Brain correlates of subjective cognitive complaints in COVID-19 survivors: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 68. 1–10. 38 indexed citations

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Palladini, Mariagrazia, Federica Colombo, Patrizia Rovere‐Querini, et al.. (2022). Cognitive remediation therapy for post-acute persistent cognitive deficits in COVID-19 survivors: A proof-of-concept study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 33(7). 1207–1224. 14 indexed citations

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Colli, Claudia, Marta Borgi, S. Poggini, et al.. (2022). Time moderates the interplay between 5-HTTLPR and stress on depression risk: gene x environment interaction as a dynamic process. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 274–274. 20 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Igor Branchi, Sara Poletti, et al.. (2021). Adiponectin predicts poor response to antidepressant drugs in major depressive disorder. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental. 36(6). e2793–e2793. 6 indexed citations

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Geoffroy, Pierre A., Francesco Benedetti, Carmen Schröder, Anna Wirz‐Justice, & Patrice Bourgin. (2020). Lightening depression. Bipolar Disorders. 22(8). 872–873. 2 indexed citations

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Scalabrini, Andrea, Benedetta Vai, Sara Poletti, et al.. (2020). All roads lead to the default-mode network—global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(12). 2058–2069. 153 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Sara Poletti, Daniele Radaelli, et al.. (2015). Right hemisphere neural activations in the recall of waking fantasies and of dreams. Journal of Sleep Research. 24(5). 576–582. 9 indexed citations

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Mazzilli, Rossella, et al.. (2015). Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in a population of men affected by Erectile Dysfunction (ED).. PubMed. 166(5). e317–20. 27 indexed citations

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Zanardi, Raffaella, Francesco Benedetti, Alessandro Serretti, & Enrico Smeraldi. (2000). Genetic influence on response to serotonergic antidepressants. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 96(4). 2 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, et al.. (2000). Genetic differences in antidepressant response to sleep deprivation. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 96(4). 1 indexed citations

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