Francesco Ceci

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
128 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Francesco Ceci is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Ceci has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 66 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 24 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Francesco Ceci's work include Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (79 papers), Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (61 papers) and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (40 papers). Francesco Ceci is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (79 papers), Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (61 papers) and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (40 papers). Francesco Ceci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Francesco Ceci's co-authors include Stefano Fanti, Paolo Castellucci, Ken Herrmann, Tiziano Graziani, Riccardo Schiavina, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Eugenio Brunocilla, Matthias Eiber, Uwe Haberkorn and Thomas A. Hope and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, European Urology and Advanced Science.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Ceci

122 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

68Ga-PSMA PET/CT: Joint EANM and SNMMI procedure guideline for prostate cancer imaging: version 1.0

2017 567 citations Francesco Ceci, Stefano Fanti et al. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging profile →
E-PSMA: the EANM standardized reporting guidelines v1.0 for PSMA-PET

2021 214 citations Francesco Ceci, Stefano Fanti et al. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Ceci Italy	29	2.8k	2.1k	510	401	391	128	3.4k
Isabel Rauscher Germany	33	3.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	608 1.2×	692 1.7×	425 1.1×	97	4.5k
Matthias Heck Germany	30	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	769 1.5×	468 1.2×	431 1.1×	93	3.8k
Pim J. van Leeuwen Netherlands	30	3.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	391 0.8×	792 2.0×	314 0.8×	141	3.5k
Laura Evangelista Italy	30	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	706 1.4×	252 0.6×	415 1.1×	224	3.3k
Jan Philipp Radtke Germany	27	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	271 0.5×	825 2.1×	168 0.4×	100	3.1k
Daniela E. Oprea‐Lager Netherlands	24	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	439 0.9×	198 0.5×	233 0.6×	115	2.0k
Carsten Kobe Germany	31	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	754 1.5×	111 0.3×	233 0.6×	187	3.0k
Filip Ameye Belgium	19	1.8k 0.6×	710 0.3×	288 0.6×	385 1.0×	249 0.6×	69	2.3k
Jérémie Calais United States	37	3.5k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 2.6×	346 0.9×	857 2.2×	218	4.9k
Roslyn J. Francis Australia	25	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	371 0.7×	108 0.3×	180 0.5×	106	2.4k

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Piccinelli, Mattia Luca, Chiara Vaccaro, Danilo Bottero, et al.. (2025). Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testis cancer: a comparison between open and robot-assisted approach in oncological and surgical outcomes. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 51(8). 110281–110281.

Gilardi, Laura, et al.. (2024). Novel PET tracers in breast cancer for treatment optimization: clinical utility and future perspectives. Current Opinion in Oncology. 36(6). 514–520. 1 indexed citations

Mattana, Francesco, Antonio Barone, Marzia Colandrea, et al.. (2024). Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-Targeted Therapy in Prostate Cancer: History, Combination Therapies, Trials, and Future Perspective. Cancers. 16(9). 1643–1643. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Ziyang, Ke Fan, Laura Cruciani, et al.. (2024). Toward Human-Out-of-the-Loop Endoscope Navigation Based on Context Awareness for Enhanced Autonomy in Robotic Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 6(3). 1116–1124. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Ziyang, Ke Fan, Laura Cruciani, et al.. (2024). Toward a framework integrating augmented reality and virtual fixtures for safer robot-assisted lymphadenectomy. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 3602–3608.

Rubino, Manila, Lisa Bodei, Stefano Papi, et al.. (2024). Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy with 177Lu- or 90Y-SSTR peptides in malignant pheochromocytomas (PCCs) and paragangliomas (PGLs): results from a single institutional retrospective analysis. Endocrine. 84(2). 704–710. 4 indexed citations

Travaini, Laura Lavinia, Francesca Botta, Enrico Derenzini, et al.. (2023). [ ¹⁸ F]‐FDG PET radiomic model as prognostic biomarker in diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma. Hematological Oncology. 41(4). 674–682. 4 indexed citations

Gilardi, Laura, et al.. (2023). FDG and Non-FDG Radiopharmaceuticals for PET Imaging in Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma. Biomedicines. 11(5). 1350–1350. 8 indexed citations

Mattana, Francesco, Laura Lavinia Travaini, Gennaro Musi, et al.. (2023). First Live-Experience Session with PET/CT Specimen Imager: A Pilot Analysis in Prostate Cancer and Neuroendocrine Tumor. Biomedicines. 11(2). 645–645. 11 indexed citations

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Travaini, Laura Lavinia, Domenico Galetta, Francesco Mattana, et al.. (2023). [18F]FDG PET/CT: Lung Nodule Evaluation in Patients Affected by Renal Cell Carcinoma. Tomography. 9(1). 387–397. 1 indexed citations

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Mattana, Francesco, F. Collamati, Stefano Luzzago, et al.. (2023). Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) radioguided surgery in prostate cancer: An overview of current application and future perspectives. Clinical and Translational Imaging. 11(3). 255–261. 3 indexed citations

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Demirci, Emre, et al.. (2022). Radiolabeled FAP inhibitors as new pantumoral radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging: a pictorial essay. Clinical and Translational Imaging. 11(1). 95–106. 3 indexed citations

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Botta, Francesca, Mahila Ferrari, Sara Raimondi, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Segmentation Method and Target Lesion Selection on Radiomic Analysis of 18F-FDG PET Images in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Applied Sciences. 12(19). 9678–9678. 3 indexed citations

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Kretschmer, Alexander, Roderick C.N. van den Bergh, Alberto Martini, et al.. (2021). Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer—Current State and Future Perspectives. Cancers. 14(1). 147–147. 7 indexed citations

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Liberini, Virginia, Marco Rubatto, Roberto Passera, et al.. (2021). Predictive Value of Baseline [18F]FDG PET/CT for Response to Systemic Therapy in Patients with Advanced Melanoma. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(21). 4994–4994. 2 indexed citations

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Polverari, Giulia, Francesco Ceci, Valentina Bertaglia, et al.. (2020). 18F-FDG Pet Parameters and Radiomics Features Analysis in Advanced Nsclc Treated with Immunotherapy as Predictors of Therapy Response and Survival. Cancers. 12(5). 1163–1163. 77 indexed citations

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Marra, Giancarlo, Massimo Valério, Isabel Heidegger, et al.. (2020). Management of Patients with Node-positive Prostate Cancer at Radical Prostatectomy and Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection: A Systematic Review. European Urology Oncology. 3(5). 565–581. 43 indexed citations

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Schiavina, Riccardo, Lorenzo Bianchi, Marco Borghesi, et al.. (2018). Preoperative Staging With 11C-Choline PET/CT Is Adequately Accurate in Patients With Very High-Risk Prostate Cancer. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 16(4). 305–312.e1. 15 indexed citations

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Ghedini, Pietro, Irene Bossert, Lucia Zanoni, et al.. (2017). Liver metastases from prostate cancer at 11C-Choline PET/CT: a multicenter, retrospective analysis. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 45(5). 751–758. 9 indexed citations

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Bolton, Roberto C. Delgado, et al.. (2017). La PET/TC con 68 Ga-PSMA en el cáncer de próstata. Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular. 37(2). 130–138. 20 indexed citations

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