Gaetano Rocco

17.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
315 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Gaetano Rocco is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gaetano Rocco has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 222 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 77 papers in Surgery and 76 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Gaetano Rocco's work include Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (136 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (74 papers) and Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (63 papers). Gaetano Rocco is often cited by papers focused on Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (136 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (74 papers) and Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (63 papers). Gaetano Rocco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Gaetano Rocco's co-authors include Alessandro Brunelli, Eliseo Passera, Antonio E. Martin-Ucar, Renato Franco, Nicola Martucci, Gonzálo Varela, Nicola Normanno, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Alessandro Morabito and Michele Salati and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gaetano Rocco

304 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

ERS/ESTS clinical guidelines on fitness for radical therapy in lung cancer patients (surgery and chemo-radiotherapy)

2009 607 citations Alessandro Brunelli, Gaetano Rocco et al. profile →
Symptomatic Toxicities Experienced During Anticancer Treatment: Agreement Between Patient and Physician Reporting in Three Randomized Trials

2015 330 citations Massimo Di Maïo, Ciro Gallo et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Gaetano Rocco	5.5k	2.2k	2.1k	1.3k	899	315	8.7k
Robert J. Downey	7.0k 1.3×	3.2k 1.5×	3.4k 1.7×	1.2k 0.9×	793 0.9×	201	11.3k
Lorenzo Spaggiari	6.3k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	507	10.4k
Stephen D. Cassivi	6.4k 1.2×	4.0k 1.9×	3.2k 1.6×	2.5k 1.9×	1.4k 1.5×	214	11.8k
Gail Darling	6.5k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	682 0.5×	470 0.5×	299	9.1k
David H. Harpole	9.1k 1.7×	3.3k 1.5×	3.8k 1.8×	1.1k 0.9×	626 0.7×	203	12.8k
Paul Van Schil	7.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	822 0.6×	584 0.6×	300	10.3k
Eric Lim	3.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	876 0.7×	705 0.8×	185	7.3k
Thomas A. D’Amico	8.7k 1.6×	3.7k 1.7×	2.5k 1.2×	579 0.4×	341 0.4×	299	11.1k
Michael T. Jaklitsch	5.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	368 0.4×	204	9.3k
Weiji Shi	4.0k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	3.5k 1.7×	870 0.7×	457 0.5×	98	8.0k

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Antonoff, Mara B., K. G. Mitchell, Samuel S. Kim, et al.. (2025). The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Clinical Practice Guideline on Surgical Management of Oligometastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 119(3). 495–508. 3 indexed citations

Fick, Cameron N., Brooke Mastrogiacomo, Kay See Tan, et al.. (2024). Clinicopathologic and genomic features associated with brain metastasis after resection of lung adenocarcinoma. JTCVS Open. 22. 458–469.

Tan, Kay See, Prasad S. Adusumilli, Manjit S. Bains, et al.. (2024). Real-world Decision-making Process for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Versus Minimally Invasive Surgery in Early-stage Lung Cancer Patients. Annals of Surgery. 1 indexed citations

Husta, Bryan, I‐Hsin Lin, Prasad S. Adusumilli, et al.. (2024). The incremental contribution of mobile cone-beam computed tomography to the tool–lesion relationship during shape-sensing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy. ERJ Open Research. 10(4). 993–2023. 7 indexed citations

Kalchiem‐Dekel, Or, Xiaoyue Ma, Paul J. Christos, et al.. (2024). Determinants of radiation exposure during mobile cone‐beam CT‐guided robotic‐assisted bronchoscopy. Respirology. 29(9). 803–814. 6 indexed citations

Tan, Kay See, Joseph Dycoco, Prasad S. Adusumilli, et al.. (2024). A New Functional Threshold for Minimally Invasive Lobectomy. Annals of Surgery. 280(6). 1029–1037. 1 indexed citations

Chu, Ngoc-Quynh, Kay See Tan, Joseph Dycoco, et al.. (2024). Determinants of successful minimally invasive surgery for resectable non–small cell lung cancer after neoadjuvant therapy. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 169(3). 753–762.e6. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Jun J., Daniela Molena, Krupali Desai, et al.. (2023). Implementing a virtual mind-body prehabilitation program for patients undergoing thoracic surgery: A quality improvement project. JTCVS Open. 14. 615–622. 4 indexed citations

Rocco, Gaetano, et al.. (2022). A brief history of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery. Lirias (KU Leuven). 8. 35–35.

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Osarogiagbon, Raymond U., Paul Van Schil, Dorothy J. Giroux, et al.. (2022). The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Lung Cancer Staging Project: Overview of Challenges and Opportunities in Revising the Nodal Classification of Lung Cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 18(4). 410–418. 26 indexed citations

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Chudgar, Neel P., Yan Shi, Meier Hsu, et al.. (2021). The American College of Surgeons Surgical Risk Calculator performs well for pulmonary resection: A validation study. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 163(4). 1509–1516.e1. 6 indexed citations

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Marino, Federica Zito, Gerardo Botti, Gabriella Aquino, et al.. (2020). Unproductive Effects of ALK Gene Amplification and Copy Number Gain in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. ALK Gene Amplification and Copy Gain in NSCLC. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(14). 4927–4927. 11 indexed citations

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Jones, Gregory D., Raul Caso, Kay See Tan, et al.. (2020). Prognostic factors following complete resection of non-superior sulcus lung cancer invading the chest wall. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 58(1). 78–85. 6 indexed citations

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Gu, Chang, Xin Shi, Chenyang Dai, et al.. (2020). RNA m6A Modification in Cancers: Molecular Mechanisms and Potential Clinical Applications. The Innovation. 1(3). 100066–100066. 93 indexed citations

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Brunelli, Alessandro, Gaetano Rocco, Zalán Szántó, P. Thomas, & Pierre‐Emmanuel Falcoz. (2019). Morbidity and mortality of lobectomy or pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant treatment: an analysis from the ESTS database. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 57(4). 740–746. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Jiagen, Bin Qiu, Marco Scarci, Gaetano Rocco, & Shugeng Gao. (2019). Uniportal video‐assisted thoracic surgery could reduce postoperative thorax drainage for lung cancer patients. Thoracic Cancer. 10(6). 1334–1339. 13 indexed citations

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Schneider, Bryan J., Megan E. Daly, Erin B. Kennedy, et al.. (2017). Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Endorsement of the American Society for Radiation Oncology Evidence-Based Guideline. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 36(7). 710–719. 111 indexed citations

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Rocco, Gaetano, Tommasangelo Petitti, Nicola Martucci, et al.. (2016). Survival After Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer Arising in the Population Exposed to Illegal Dumping of Toxic Waste in the Land of Fires ('Terra dei Fuochi') of Southern Italy.. PubMed. 36(5). 2119–24. 7 indexed citations

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Maïo, Massimo Di, Ciro Gallo, Natasha B. Leighl, et al.. (2015). Symptomatic Toxicities Experienced During Anticancer Treatment: Agreement Between Patient and Physician Reporting in Three Randomized Trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 33(8). 910–915. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rocco, Gaetano. (2012). Surgical management of infectious pleuropulmonary diseases. Saunders eBooks.

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