Frida Leonetti

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
158 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Frida Leonetti is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frida Leonetti has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 48 papers in Epidemiology and 48 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Frida Leonetti's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (29 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (28 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (28 papers). Frida Leonetti is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (29 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (28 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (28 papers). Frida Leonetti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Sweden. Frida Leonetti's co-authors include Gianluca Iacobellis, Mária Cristina Ribaudo, Alessandra Zappaterreno, Umberto Di Mario, Filippo Assael, Concetta Valeria Iannucci, Danila Capoccia, Nicola Basso, Gianfranço Silecchia and E Vecci and has published in prestigious journals such as Gastroenterology, PLoS ONE and Hepatology.

In The Last Decade

Frida Leonetti

156 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Echocardiographic Epicardial Adipose Tissue Is Related to Anthropometric and Clinical Parameters of Metabolic Syndrome: A New Indicator of Cardiovascular Risk

2003 690 citations Umberto Di Mario, Frida Leonetti et al. profile →
Epicardial Fat from Echocardiography: A New Method for Visceral Adipose Tissue Prediction

2003 617 citations Umberto Di Mario, Frida Leonetti et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Frida Leonetti	3.3k	2.9k	2.3k	1.9k	1.8k	158	7.9k
Tsutomu Hirano	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	3.8k 2.0×	1.5k 0.8×	252	9.0k
Andreas Festa	1.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	4.1k 2.1×	3.5k 2.0×	72	8.9k
Gianluca Perseghin	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	3.4k 1.5×	3.0k 1.6×	3.7k 2.1×	193	9.6k
Davide Lauro	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	206	7.3k
Melania Manco	2.0k 0.6×	840 0.3×	2.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.4×	3.1k 1.7×	191	8.7k
Nicola Abate	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	84	6.2k
Mitsuru Ohishi	974 0.3×	3.9k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	328	8.3k
B L Wajchenberg	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	2.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.7×	1.6k 0.9×	213	7.4k
Anna Solini	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	976 0.5×	233	7.4k
Sangeeta R. Kashyap	7.7k 2.3×	1.4k 0.5×	5.1k 2.2×	3.4k 1.8×	2.2k 1.2×	128	12.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leonetti, Frida, et al.. (2025). Social, cultural and ethnic determinants of obesity: From pathogenesis to treatment. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 35(6). 103901–103901. 2 indexed citations

Palleschi, Simonetta, Bárbara Rossi, Paolo Sbraccia, et al.. (2025). Sex Differences in MASLD After Age 50: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Clinical Implications. Biomedicines. 13(9). 2292–2292. 2 indexed citations

Mantovani, Alessandro, Stefano Ciardullo, Alessandro Csermely, et al.. (2025). Association between continuous glucose monitoring metrics and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in adults with type 1 diabetes undergoing vibration-controlled transient elastography: a multicenter cross-sectional study. Diabetes & Metabolism. 51(5). 101684–101684. 2 indexed citations

Cignarella, Andrea, Giuseppina Russo, Paolo Marzullo, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in the weight response to GLP-1RA in people with type 2 diabetes. A long-term longitudinal real-world study. Pharmacological Research. 219. 107866–107866. 5 indexed citations

Maio, Flavio De, Cristian Eugeniu Boru, Nunzio Velotti, et al.. (2024). Short-term gut microbiota’s shift after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y vs one anastomosis gastric bypass: results of a multicenter randomized control trial. Surgical Endoscopy. 38(11). 6643–6656. 2 indexed citations

Leonetti, Frida, et al.. (2024). Sex-Differences in Response to Treatment with Liraglutide 3.0 mg. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(12). 3369–3369. 2 indexed citations

Barchetta, Ilaria, Flavia Agata Cimini, Federica Sentinelli, et al.. (2023). Reduced Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein (LBP) Levels Are Associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Adipose Inflammation in Human Obesity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(24). 17174–17174. 17 indexed citations

Copetti, Massimiliano, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Raffaella Buzzetti, et al.. (2023). Validation in type 2 diabetes of a metabolomic signature of all‐cause mortality. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 40(2). e3734–e3734. 2 indexed citations

Csermely, Alessandro, Alessandro Mantovani, Mario Luca Morieri, et al.. (2023). Association between different modalities of insulin administration and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes & Metabolism. 49(6). 101477–101477. 5 indexed citations

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Maddaloni, Ernesto, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Maria Gisella Cavallo, et al.. (2023). Association of osteocalcin, osteoprotegerin, and osteopontin with cardiovascular disease and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 39(5). e3632–e3632. 12 indexed citations

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Barchetta, Ilaria, Caterina Chiappetta, Valentina Ceccarelli, et al.. (2020). Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4 Overexpression in Visceral Adipose Tissue from Obese Subjects with Impaired Glucose Metabolism and Relationship with Lipoprotein Lipase. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(19). 7197–7197. 22 indexed citations

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Barchetta, Ilaria, Flavia Agata Cimini, Caterina Chiappetta, et al.. (2020). Relationship between hepatic and systemic angiopoietin‐like 3, hepatic Vitamin D receptor expression and NAFLD in obesity. Liver International. 40(9). 2139–2147. 28 indexed citations

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Cimini, Flavia Agata, Andrea Arena, Ilaria Barchetta, et al.. (2019). Reduced biliverdin reductase-A levels are associated with early alterations of insulin signaling in obesity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1865(6). 1490–1501. 31 indexed citations

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Balla, Andrea, et al.. (2017). Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Changes in the Last Decade: Differences in Morbidity and Weight Loss. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. 27(11). 1165–1171. 12 indexed citations

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Sentinelli, Federica, Laura Bertoccini, Ilaria Barchetta, et al.. (2016). Search for Genetic Variant in the Apelin Gene by Resequencing and Association Study in European Subjects. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 20(2). 98–102. 7 indexed citations

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Basso, Nicola, Danila Capoccia, Mario Rizzello, et al.. (2011). First-phase insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, ghrelin, GLP-1, and PYY changes 72 h after sleeve gastrectomy in obese diabetic patients: the gastric hypothesis. Surgical Endoscopy. 25(11). 3540–3550. 111 indexed citations

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Sesti, Giorgio, Francesco Andreozzi, Riccardo C. Bonadonna, et al.. (2007). Impact of lowering the criterion for impaired fasting glucose on identification of individuals with insulin resistance. The GISIR database.. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 24(2). 130–136. 5 indexed citations

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Buzzetti, Raffaella, et al.. (2001). Disease Concordance and Genetic Susceptibility to Type 1 Diabetes in Italian Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 4(3). 174. 1 indexed citations

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Prato, Stefano Del, et al.. (1994). Effect of sustained physiologic hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia on insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity in man. Diabetologia. 37(10). 1025–1035. 10 indexed citations

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Prato, Stefano Del, Frida Leonetti, Donald C. Simonson, et al.. (1994). Effect of sustained physiologic hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia on insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity in man. Diabetologia. 37(10). 1025–1035. 252 indexed citations

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