Franco Costan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
2 papers, 884 citations indexed

About

Franco Costan is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Costan has authored 2 papers receiving a total of 884 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Surgery, 1 paper in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Franco Costan's work include Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders (1 paper), Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies (1 paper) and Esophageal and GI Pathology (1 paper). Franco Costan is often cited by papers focused on Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders (1 paper), Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies (1 paper) and Esophageal and GI Pathology (1 paper). Franco Costan collaborates with scholars based in Italy. Franco Costan's co-authors include Giorgio Benedetti, Silvano Loperfido, G. Angelini, Fausto Chilovi, A. Ederle, Paolo Fina, A. Fratton, B. Germanà and E. Galliani and has published in prestigious journals such as Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and PubMed.

In The Last Decade

Franco Costan

2 papers receiving 836 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.

Major early complications from diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP: a prospective multicenter study

1998 882 citations Silvano Loperfido, G. Angelini et al. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franco Costan Italy	2	838	837	562	31	12	2	884
Carol Overby United States	5	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	802 1.4×	24 0.8×	10 0.8×	8	1.3k
Suzette E. Schmidt United States	13	712 0.8×	795 0.9×	579 1.0×	25 0.8×	7 0.6×	34	869
Robin Gaupset Norway	4	220 0.3×	433 0.5×	549 1.0×	21 0.7×	18 1.5×	8	668
Casandra Anderson United States	12	283 0.3×	474 0.6×	442 0.8×	88 2.8×	12 1.0×	19	675
Thai Nguyen‐Tang Switzerland	10	359 0.4×	504 0.6×	355 0.6×	31 1.0×	14 1.2×	20	538
M. Ichiyama Japan	9	468 0.6×	495 0.6×	228 0.4×	12 0.4×	4 0.3×	14	505
Lois Bucksot United States	8	422 0.5×	464 0.6×	311 0.6×	9 0.3×	4 0.3×	19	486
Thomas A. Ruffolo United States	6	477 0.6×	507 0.6×	218 0.4×	43 1.4×	11 0.9×	10	537
Laura Lazzell–Pannell United States	10	596 0.7×	644 0.8×	489 0.9×	33 1.1×	2 0.2×	15	704
Dharmendra Verma United States	8	352 0.4×	382 0.5×	283 0.5×	44 1.4×	11 0.9×	11	450

Countries citing papers authored by Franco Costan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Franco Costan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Costan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Franco Costan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Franco Costan 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 Franco Costan. Franco Costan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Germanà, B., et al.. (2001). [Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infections using isotope-selective non dispersive infrared spectrometry with 13C-urea breath test].. PubMed. 92(2). 113–6. 2 indexed citations

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Loperfido, Silvano, G. Angelini, Giorgio Benedetti, et al.. (1998). Major early complications from diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP: a prospective multicenter study. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 48(1). 1–10. 882 indexed citations breakdown →

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