Franco Benazzi

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
195 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Franco Benazzi is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Pharmacology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Benazzi has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 61 papers in Pharmacology and 59 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Franco Benazzi's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (161 papers), Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (96 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (61 papers). Franco Benazzi is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (161 papers), Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (96 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (61 papers). Franco Benazzi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Hungary. Franco Benazzi's co-authors include Hagop S. Akiskal, Alex Gamma, Jules Angst, Wulf Rössler, Vladeta Ajdacic‐Gross, Zoltán Rihmer, Dominique Eich, Kareen K. Akiskal, Steven C. Dilsaver and Giulio Perugi and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, American Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Affective Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Franco Benazzi

189 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Toward a re-definition of subthreshold bipolarity: epidem... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2005 200 400 600
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. Toward a re-definition of subthreshold bipolarity: epidemiology and proposed criteria for bipolar-II, minor bipolar disorders and hypomania
    2002 630 citations Franco Benazzi et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →
  2. The HCL-32: Towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients
    2005 521 citations Franco Benazzi et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Franco Benazzi Italy 47 6.7k 2.8k 1.9k 1.1k 893 195 8.0k
Jean‐Michel Azorin France 44 4.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 693 0.4× 752 0.7× 694 0.8× 230 6.3k
José Sánchez‐Moreno Spain 54 8.6k 1.3× 2.4k 0.8× 954 0.5× 823 0.8× 931 1.0× 131 9.8k
Ralph Kupka Netherlands 54 8.4k 1.3× 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 660 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 210 10.1k
Giovanni Battista Cassano Italy 46 3.5k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 958 0.5× 1.2k 1.2× 411 0.5× 163 6.2k
María Reinares Spain 53 7.6k 1.1× 2.3k 0.8× 697 0.4× 808 0.8× 736 0.8× 112 8.4k
Carla Torrent Spain 53 8.6k 1.3× 2.3k 0.8× 830 0.4× 948 0.9× 846 0.9× 150 9.7k
Cristòbal Gastó Spain 47 3.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 895 0.8× 610 0.7× 128 5.8k
Don Linszen Netherlands 48 5.3k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 843 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 384 0.4× 159 7.2k
Gustavo Vázquez United States 39 2.9k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 526 0.5× 748 0.8× 163 4.6k
Élie Hantouche France 36 3.2k 0.5× 2.4k 0.9× 455 0.2× 776 0.7× 258 0.3× 103 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benazzi, Franco. (2008). A prediction rule for diagnosing hypomania. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 33(2). 317–322. 7 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2007). Reviewing the diagnostic validity and utility of mixed depression (depressive mixed states). European Psychiatry. 23(1). 40–48. 43 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2007). Mixed Depression and the Dimensional View of Mood Disorders. Psychopathology. 40(6). 431–439. 7 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2007). Testing New Diagnostic Criteria for Hypomania. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. 19(2). 99–104. 14 indexed citations
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Dilsaver, Steven C., Franco Benazzi, Hagop S. Akiskal, & Kareen K. Akiskal. (2007). Post‐traumatic stress disorder among adolescents with bipolar disorder and its relationship to suicidality. Bipolar Disorders. 9(6). 649–655. 33 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco & Hagop S. Akiskal. (2007). How best to identify a bipolar-related subtype among major depressive patients without spontaneous hypomania: Superiority of age at onset criterion over recurrence and polarity?. Journal of Affective Disorders. 107(1-3). 77–88. 62 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2006). Is Overactivity the Core Feature of Hypomania in Bipolar II Disorder?. Psychopathology. 40(1). 54–60. 37 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2005). Agitated depression in bipolar II disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 6(3). 198–205. 16 indexed citations
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Dilsaver, Steven C., Franco Benazzi, Zoltán Rihmer, Kareen K. Akiskal, & Hagop S. Akiskal. (2005). Gender, suicidality and bipolar mixed states in adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders. 87(1). 11–16. 53 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco & Hagop S. Akiskal. (2005). Psychometric delineation of the most discriminant symptoms of depressive mixed states. Psychiatry Research. 141(1). 81–88. 37 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco, Alexia E. Koukopoulos, & Hagop S. Akiskal. (2004). Toward a validation of a new definition of agitated depression as a bipolar mixed state (mixed depression). European Psychiatry. 19(2). 85–90. 104 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2004). Agitated depression: a valid depression subtype?. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 28(8). 1279–1285. 38 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2003). Frequency of bipolar spectrum in 111 private practice depression outpatients. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 253(4). 203–208. 55 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco, et al.. (2002). Agitated depression: unipolar? Bipolar? Or both?. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. 14(2). 97–104. 30 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2002). Psychomotor changes in melancholic and atypical depression: unipolar and bipolar-II subtypes. Psychiatry Research. 112(3). 211–220. 41 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2001). Age at onset of bipolar II depressive mixed state. Psychiatry Research. 103(2-3). 229–235. 15 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2000). Early- versus late-onset bipolar II disorder.. PubMed. 25(1). 53–7. 8 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco & Zoltán Rihmer. (2000). Sensitivity and specificity of DSM-IV atypical features for bipolar II disorder diagnosis. Psychiatry Research. 93(3). 257–262. 40 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (2000). Female vs. male outpatient depression: A 448-Case study in private practice. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 24(3). 475–481. 6 indexed citations
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Benazzi, Franco. (1999). Bipolar II versus unipolar chronic depression: A 312-case study. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 40(6). 418–421. 18 indexed citations

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