Francesco Della Villa

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
120 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Francesco Della Villa is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Della Villa has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 65 papers in Surgery and 24 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Francesco Della Villa's work include Sports injuries and prevention (66 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (56 papers) and Sports Performance and Training (16 papers). Francesco Della Villa is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (66 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (56 papers) and Sports Performance and Training (16 papers). Francesco Della Villa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Francesco Della Villa's co-authors include Matthew Buckthorpe, Alberto Grassi, Stefano Zaffagnini, Stefano Della Villa, Filippo Tosarelli, G. La Rosa, Markus Waldén, Giulio Sergio Roi, Alessandro Villa and Stefano Di Paolo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Della Villa

116 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Systematic video analysis of ACL injuries in professional... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 2023 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Systematic video analysis of ACL injuries in professional male football (soccer): injury mechanisms, situational patterns and biomechanics study on 134 consecutive cases
    2020 285 citations Francesco Della Villa, Matthew Buckthorpe et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  2. Systematic Video Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Professional Female Soccer Players
    2021 108 citations Matteo Zago, Matthew Buckthorpe et al. The American Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  3. Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020
    2023 67 citations Markus Waldén, Margo Mountjoy et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francesco Della Villa United States 25 1.5k 1.3k 340 249 183 120 2.3k
Joseph A. Abate United States 17 845 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 186 0.5× 24 0.1× 51 0.3× 31 1.7k
Roger Emery United Kingdom 29 261 0.2× 2.6k 1.9× 228 0.7× 9 0.0× 211 1.2× 123 3.2k
S. Ninomiya Japan 19 431 0.3× 891 0.7× 100 0.3× 68 0.3× 46 0.3× 47 1.3k
John A. Sidles United States 38 487 0.3× 5.2k 3.9× 544 1.6× 79 0.3× 309 1.7× 69 6.8k
Kevin F. King United States 25 98 0.1× 285 0.2× 700 2.1× 135 0.5× 219 1.2× 50 2.5k
L Kaufman United States 18 81 0.1× 233 0.2× 100 0.3× 118 0.5× 74 0.4× 37 1.4k
Richard F. Herzog Switzerland 14 198 0.1× 789 0.6× 109 0.3× 45 0.2× 120 0.7× 22 1.2k
Michael Green United Kingdom 22 144 0.1× 186 0.1× 226 0.7× 4 0.0× 132 0.7× 77 1.8k
Yukio Abe Japan 26 38 0.0× 1.0k 0.8× 105 0.3× 17 0.1× 682 3.7× 151 2.1k
Riccardo Lattanzi United States 26 98 0.1× 403 0.3× 437 1.3× 68 0.3× 61 0.3× 103 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Della Villa

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Francesco Della Villa's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Francesco Della Villa with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Francesco Della Villa more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Della Villa

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Francesco Della Villa. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Francesco Della Villa. The network helps show where Francesco Della Villa may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Della Villa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Della Villa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Della Villa based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Francesco Della Villa. Francesco Della Villa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Villa, Francesco Della, et al.. (2025). Systematic Video Analysis of ACL Injuries in Male Professional English Soccer Players: A Study of 124 Cases. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. 13(2). 981919698–981919698.
2.
Tosarelli, Filippo, Matthew Buckthorpe, Francesco Della Villa, et al.. (2025). Sport-Specific Injury Mechanisms and Situational Patterns of ACL Injuries: A Comprehensive Systematic Review. Sports Medicine. 55(10). 2489–2527. 1 indexed citations
3.
Gardner, Thomas W., Alan McCall, Franco M. Impellizzeri, et al.. (2024). Broadening our understanding of injury mechanisms to include at-risk situations: an overview of potential injuries at the FIFA men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 TM. Science and Medicine in Football. 9(3). 283–292. 6 indexed citations
4.
5.
Waldén, Markus, Margo Mountjoy, Alan McCall, et al.. (2023). Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 57(21). 1341–1350. 67 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Paolo, Stefano Di, Gregorio Marchiori, Alberto Grassi, et al.. (2023). Knee Joint Contact Forces during High-Risk Dynamic Tasks: 90° Change of Direction and Deceleration Movements. Bioengineering. 10(2). 179–179. 6 indexed citations
7.
Piussi, Ramana, Bálint Zsidai, Alberto Grassi, et al.. (2023). Better Safe Than Sorry? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis on Time to Return to Sport After ACL Reconstruction as a Risk Factor for Second ACL Injury. Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy. 54(3). 161–175. 9 indexed citations
8.
Gokeler, Alli, Filippo Tosarelli, Matthew Buckthorpe, & Francesco Della Villa. (2023). Neurocognitive Errors and Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Professional Male Soccer Players. Journal of Athletic Training. 59(3). 262–269. 24 indexed citations
9.
Paolo, Stefano Di, Laura Bragonzoni, Francesco Della Villa, Alberto Grassi, & Stefano Zaffagnini. (2022). Do healthy athletes exhibit at-risk biomechanics for anterior cruciate ligament injury during pivoting movements?. Sports Biomechanics. 23(12). 2995–3008. 16 indexed citations
10.
Gokeler, Alli, et al.. (2022). High quality rehabilitation to optimize return to sport following lateral meniscus surgery in football players. Annals of Joint. 7. 36–36. 7 indexed citations
11.
Villa, Francesco Della, Martin Hägglund, Stefano Della Villa, Jan Ekstrand, & Markus Waldén. (2021). High rate of second ACL injury following ACL reconstruction in male professional footballers: an updated longitudinal analysis from 118 players in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55(23). 1350–1357. 89 indexed citations
12.
Olivares, J., Thomas Dos’Santos, José Afonso, et al.. (2021). Exercise-Based Training Strategies to Reduce the Incidence or Mitigate the Risk Factors of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Adult Football (Soccer) Players: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(24). 13351–13351. 24 indexed citations
13.
Villa, Francesco Della, Martin Hägglund, Stefano Della Villa, Jan Ekstrand, & Markus Waldén. (2021). Infographic. High rate of second ACL injury following ACL reconstruction in male professional footballers: an updated longitudinal analysis from 118 players in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55(23). 1379–1380. 16 indexed citations
14.
Zago, Matteo, Matthew Buckthorpe, Alberto Grassi, et al.. (2021). Systematic Video Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Professional Female Soccer Players. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 49(7). 1794–1802. 108 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Straub, Rachel K., Francesco Della Villa, Bert R. Mandelbaum, & Christopher M. Powers. (2021). Confidence to Return to Play After ACL Reconstruction: An Evaluation of Quadriceps Strength Symmetry and Injury Mechanism in Male Athletes. Sports Health A Multidisciplinary Approach. 14(5). 758–763. 9 indexed citations
16.
Polydorides, Savvas, Francesco Della Villa, Thomas Gaillard, et al.. (2020). Physics-Based Computational Protein Design: An Update. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(51). 10637–10648. 16 indexed citations
17.
Villa, Alessandro, Umberto Mariani, & Francesco Della Villa. (2011). Lingual juvenile xanthogranuloma in a woman: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 5(1). 30–30. 6 indexed citations
18.
Adler, Joel T., T. Bolton, K. O. Bunnell, et al.. (1989). The Mark III vertex chamber. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 276(1-2). 42–52. 15 indexed citations
19.
Villa, Francesco Della, et al.. (1977). Récording streamer chamber tracks with charge coupled devices. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. 144(3). 533–536. 1 indexed citations
20.
Swanson, W.P., M. Davier, I. Derado, et al.. (1971). Inclusive Reactionγ+p→π−+ Anything in the Proton Fragmentation Region. Physical Review Letters. 27(21). 1472–1475. 13 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Joseph A. Abate Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Roger Emery Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by S. Ninomiya Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by John A. Sidles Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kevin F. King Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by L Kaufman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Richard F. Herzog Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael Green Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yukio Abe Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Riccardo Lattanzi
Rankless by CCL
2026