Francesco Franceschi

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Francesco Franceschi is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Franceschi has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Infectious Diseases, 21 papers in Epidemiology and 17 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Francesco Franceschi's work include COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (13 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (12 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Francesco Franceschi is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (13 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (12 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Francesco Franceschi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Francesco Franceschi's co-authors include Marcello Covino, Andrea Piccioni, Marcello Candelli, Veronica Ojetti, Antonio Gasbarrini, Laura Franza, Giulia Pignataro, Angela Saviano, Christian Zanza and Benedetta Simeoni and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Franceschi

71 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Interaction between Lipopolysaccharide and Gut Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

2021 247 citations Marcello Candelli, Veronica Ojetti et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Franceschi Italy	19	283	283	275	191	161	82	1.2k
Andrea Piccioni Italy	22	457 1.6×	324 1.1×	243 0.9×	235 1.2×	136 0.8×	114	1.6k
Christian Zanza Italy	20	221 0.8×	198 0.7×	276 1.0×	191 1.0×	72 0.4×	99	1.3k
Maria Auxiliadora‐Martins Brazil	18	239 0.8×	453 1.6×	187 0.7×	291 1.5×	79 0.5×	79	1.7k
Angela Saviano Italy	16	231 0.8×	155 0.5×	136 0.5×	182 1.0×	110 0.7×	58	783
Yu Cao China	20	254 0.9×	205 0.7×	190 0.7×	248 1.3×	107 0.7×	89	1.1k
Alireza Abdollahi Iran	18	126 0.4×	223 0.8×	477 1.7×	161 0.8×	104 0.6×	127	1.2k
Gülbin Aygencel Türkiye	17	94 0.3×	232 0.8×	213 0.8×	319 1.7×	96 0.6×	77	977
Qiang Fang China	17	213 0.8×	288 1.0×	434 1.6×	237 1.2×	141 0.9×	76	1.5k
Dimitrios Velissaris Greece	20	167 0.6×	719 2.5×	175 0.6×	428 2.2×	180 1.1×	99	1.7k
Yan Kang China	24	220 0.8×	589 2.1×	241 0.9×	245 1.3×	122 0.8×	107	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Franceschi

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Merra, Giuseppe, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Microbiota on Neurological Disorders: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications. OBM Neurobiology. 9(1). 1–12.

Papa, Valerio, Lucrezia Laterza, Valerio Papa, et al.. (2025). Vascular complications in hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease and acute gastroenteritis and colitis: A propensity score-matched study. Digestive and Liver Disease. 57(5). 997–1005. 1 indexed citations

Gasbarrini, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Relationship Between Human Microbiome and Helicobacter pylori. Microbiology Research. 16(1). 24–24. 4 indexed citations

Covino, Marcello, Andrea Piccioni, Giuseppe Merra, et al.. (2024). Head CT Scans in the Emergency Department during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Use or Overuse?. Life. 14(2). 264–264.

Matteis, Giuseppe De, Maria Anna Nicolazzi, Benedetta Simeoni, et al.. (2024). Clinical characteristics and prognostic impact of atrial fibrillation among older patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction hospitalized for acute heart failure. Internal and Emergency Medicine. 20(1). 95–104. 1 indexed citations

Schena, Carlo Alberto, Marcello Covino, Vito Laterza, et al.. (2024). The role of procalcitonin as a risk stratification tool of severity, prognosis, and need for surgery in patients with acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis. Surgery. 176(1). 162–171.

Piccioni, Andrea, Marcello Candelli, Antonio Voza, et al.. (2024). The Gut Microbiome in Sepsis: From Dysbiosis to Personalized Therapy. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(20). 6082–6082. 15 indexed citations

Saviano, Angela, Christian Zanza, Yaroslava Longhitano, et al.. (2023). Current Trends for Delirium Screening within the Emergency Department. Medicina. 59(9). 1634–1634. 4 indexed citations

Covino, Marcello, Antonio De Vita, Alessia d’Aiello, et al.. (2023). A New Clinical Prediction Rule for Infective Endocarditis in Emergency Department Patients With Fever: Definition and First Validation of the CREED Score. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(9). e027650–e027650. 3 indexed citations

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Mercurio, Giovanna, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Stefano Patarnello, et al.. (2023). A novel risk score predicting 30‐day hospital re‐admission of patients with acute stroke by machine learning model. European Journal of Neurology. 31(3). e16153–e16153. 5 indexed citations

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Marrone, Giuseppe, Giuseppe Merra, Andrea Piccioni, et al.. (2023). Ursodeoxycholic acid does not affect the clinical outcome of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: A retrospective study of propensity score‐matched cohorts. Liver International. 44(1). 83–92. 9 indexed citations

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Spampinato, Michele Domenico, Marcello Covino, Angelina Passaro, et al.. (2022). Predicting in-hospital mortality in pulmonary embolism patients: development and external validation of the PATHOS score. Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine. 10(1). 26–36. 5 indexed citations

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Russo, Edda, et al.. (2022). Chronic Systemic Low-Grade Inflammation and Modern Lifestyle:The Dark Role of Gut Microbiota on Related Diseases with a Focus onCOVID-19 Pandemic. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 29(33). 5370–5396. 20 indexed citations

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Spampinato, Michele Domenico, Marcello Covino, Angelina Passaro, et al.. (2022). ABCD2, ABCD2-I, and OTTAWA scores for stroke risk assessment: a direct retrospective comparison. Internal and Emergency Medicine. 17(8). 2391–2401.

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Covino, Marcello, Pietro Fransvea, Fausto Rosa, et al.. (2021). Early Procalcitonin Assessment in the Emergency Department in Patients with Intra-Abdominal Infection: An Excess or a Need?. Surgical Infections. 22(8). 787–796. 6 indexed citations

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Saviano, Angela, Mattia Brigida, Alessio Migneco, et al.. (2021). Lactobacillus Reuteri DSM 17938 (Limosilactobacillus reuteri) in Diarrhea and Constipation: Two Sides of the Same Coin?. Medicina. 57(7). 643–643. 53 indexed citations

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Piccioni, Andrea, Sara Cicchinelli, Emanuele Gilardi, et al.. (2020). Risk Management in First Aid for Acute Drug Intoxication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(21). 8021–8021. 9 indexed citations

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Béresniak, Ariel, et al.. (2020). Helicobacter pylori “Test‐and‐Treat” strategy with urea breath test: A cost‐effective strategy for the management of dyspepsia and the prevention of ulcer and gastric cancer in Spain—Results of the Hp‐Breath initiative. Helicobacter. 25(4). e12693–e12693. 33 indexed citations

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Ojetti, Veronica, Marcello Covino, Mattia Brigida, et al.. (2020). Non-COVID Diseases during the Pandemic: Where Have All Other Emergencies Gone?. Medicina. 56(10). 512–512. 52 indexed citations

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Ojetti, Veronica, et al.. (2020). A Review on the Use of Reversal Agents of Direct Oral Anticogulant Drugs in Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials. 15(4). 309–320. 1 indexed citations

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