Francesco Regoli

22.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
251 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Francesco Regoli is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Regoli has authored 251 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 95 papers in Pollution and 56 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Regoli's work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (153 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (56 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (40 papers). Francesco Regoli is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (153 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (56 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (40 papers). Francesco Regoli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Norway and United States. Francesco Regoli's co-authors include Stefania Gorbi, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Daniele Fattorini, Maria Elisa Giuliani, Maura Benedetti, Marco Nigro, Gary W. Winston, Giovanni Principato, Giuseppe d’Errico and Raffaella Bocchetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Regoli

240 papers receiving 17.3k 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.

  1. Pollutants bioavailability and toxicological risk from microplastics to marine mussels
    2015 1.1k citations Carlo Giacomo Avio, Stefania Gorbi et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
  2. Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat
    2016 910 citations Carlo Giacomo Avio, Stefania Gorbi et al. profile →
  3. Oxidative pathways of chemical toxicity and oxidative stress biomarkers in marine organisms
    2013 760 citations Francesco Regoli, Maria Elisa Giuliani profile →
  4. Experimental development of a new protocol for extraction and characterization of microplastics in fish tissues: First observations in commercial species from Adriatic Sea
    2015 625 citations Carlo Giacomo Avio, Stefania Gorbi et al. profile →
  5. The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters
    2016 587 citations Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  6. Glutathione, glutathione-dependent and antioxidant enzymes in mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, exposed to metals under field and laboratory conditions: implications for the use of biochemical biomarkers
    1995 556 citations Francesco Regoli et al. Aquatic Toxicology profile →
  7. The fate of microplastics in an Italian Wastewater Treatment Plant
    2018 473 citations Stefano Magni, Andrea Binelli et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  8. Role of the chronic air pollution levels in the Covid-19 outbreak risk in Italy
    2020 456 citations Daniele Fattorini, Francesco Regoli Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers

Francesco Regoli
Lúcia Guilhermino Portugal
Caterina Faggio Italy
Won Joon Shim South Korea
Eddy Y. Zeng China
Maria João Bebianno Portugal
Jörg Oehlmann Germany
J.N. Lester United Kingdom
Kmy Leung Hong Kong
N.F.Y. Tam Hong Kong
Eduarda Pereira Portugal
Lúcia Guilhermino Portugal
Francesco Regoli
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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Regoli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Regoli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Regoli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Regoli 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 Regoli. Francesco Regoli 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
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Gonçalves, Joanna M., Maura Benedetti, Giuseppe d’Errico, Francesco Regoli, & Maria João Bebianno. (2025). Gender effects of nanoplastics and emerging contaminants mixtures in Mytilus galloprovincialis. Aquatic Toxicology. 279. 107219–107219. 3 indexed citations
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Vianello, Alvise, Anna Rotander, Leticia Vidal-Liñán, et al.. (2025). Microplastics (10 µm-5 mm) in European Atlantic Coastal Waters. Environmental Advances. 21. 100644–100644. 1 indexed citations
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Mezzelani, Marica, Maria Elisa Giuliani, Stefania Gorbi, et al.. (2024). Integrative oxidative stress biomarkers in gills and digestive gland of the combined exposure to citalopram and bezafibrate with polyethylene microplastics on mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis. Environmental Pollution. 366. 125508–125508. 3 indexed citations
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Foglia, Alessia, Lucia Pittura, Massimiliano Sgroi, et al.. (2024). Microplastics in urban water cycles: Looking for a more scientific approach for sampling and characterization in wastewater and drinking water treatment plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 952. 175919–175919. 7 indexed citations
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Gonçalves, Joanna M., et al.. (2024). Are mixtures of micro/nanoplastics more toxic than individual micro or nanoplastic contamination in the clam Ruditapes decussatus?. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 206. 116697–116697. 4 indexed citations
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Gambardella, Chiara, Elisa Costa, Jérôme Cachot, et al.. (2024). New insights into the impact of leachates from in-field collected plastics on aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates. Environmental Pollution. 355. 124233–124233. 8 indexed citations
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Nardi, Alessandro, Lucia Pittura, Giuseppe d’Errico, et al.. (2024). Cellular effects of microplastics are influenced by their dimension: Mechanistic relationships and integrated criteria for particles definition.. Environmental Pollution. 344. 123327–123327. 8 indexed citations
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Messina, Concetta María, Cristóbal Espinosa‐Ruíz, Francesco Regoli, et al.. (2020). BDE-47 exposure modulates cellular responses, oxidative stress and biotransformation related-genes in Mytilus galloprovincialis. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 107(Pt B). 537–546. 21 indexed citations
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Fattorini, Daniele, Francesco Regoli, Wilson Wasielesky, et al.. (2018). The effect of diet enriched with lipoic acid in the accumulation and metabolization of metals in different organs of Litopenaeus vannamei. Aquaculture Research. 49(12). 3702–3710. 2 indexed citations
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Magni, Stefano, Andrea Binelli, Lucia Pittura, et al.. (2018). The fate of microplastics in an Italian Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Science of The Total Environment. 652. 602–610. 473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suaria, Giuseppe, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Gwendolyn L. Lattin, et al.. (2016). The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37551–37551. 587 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schettino, T., Antonio Calisi, Stefania Gorbi, et al.. (2014). Antioxidant and oxidative stress related responses in the Mediterranean land snail Cantareus apertus exposed to the carbamate pesticide Carbaryl. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology. 168. 20–27. 36 indexed citations
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Wasielesky, Wilson, et al.. (2013). The role of lipoic acid in the protection against of metallic pollutant effects in the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Crustacea, Decapoda). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 165(4). 491–497. 34 indexed citations
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Galloway, Tamara S., et al.. (2009). Sublethal toxicity of nano-titanium dioxide and carbon nanotubes in a sediment dwelling marine polychaete. Environmental Pollution. 158(5). 1748–1755. 157 indexed citations
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Machella, Nicola, et al.. (2006). Influence of the SCGE protocol on the amount of basal DNA damage detected in the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 47(8). 579–586. 20 indexed citations
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Nigro, Marco, Alessandra Falleni, Vittoria Scarcelli, et al.. (2006). Cellular biomarkers for monitoring estuarine environments: Transplanted versus native mussels. Aquatic Toxicology. 77(4). 339–347. 126 indexed citations
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Regoli, Francesco, Stefania Gorbi, Daniele Fattorini, et al.. (2005). Use of the Land Snail Helix aspersa as Sentinel Organism for Monitoring Ecotoxicologic Effects of Urban Pollution: An Integrated Approach. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(1). 63–69. 152 indexed citations
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Corsolini, Simonetta, Marco Nigro, Silvia Olmastroni, Silvano Focardi, & Francesco Regoli. (2001). Susceptibility to oxidative stress in Adélie and emperor penguin. Polar Biology. 24(5). 365–368. 24 indexed citations

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