Giampietro Schiavo

27.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
260 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Giampietro Schiavo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Giampietro Schiavo has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Molecular Biology, 99 papers in Neurology and 97 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Giampietro Schiavo's work include Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (80 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (74 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (41 papers). Giampietro Schiavo is often cited by papers focused on Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (80 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (74 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (41 papers). Giampietro Schiavo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Giampietro Schiavo's co-authors include Cesare Montecucco, Ornella Rossetto, Bibhuti R. DasGupta, Fabio Benfenati, Michela Matteoli, Bernard Poulain, Patrizia Polverino de Laureto, Giovanna Lalli, Linda Greensmith and James N. Sleigh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giampietro Schiavo

255 papers receiving 19.4k 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.

Tetanus and botulinum-B neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release by proteolytic cleavage of synaptobrevin

1992 1.4k citations Giampietro Schiavo, Bernard Poulain et al. profile →
Neurotoxins Affecting Neuroexocytosis

2000 993 citations Giampietro Schiavo, Cesare Montecucco et al. profile →
Spatiotemporal Control of ULK1 Activation by NDP52 and TBK1 during Selective Autophagy

2019 343 citations Giampietro Schiavo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giampietro Schiavo United Kingdom	76	9.6k	8.0k	7.0k	6.2k	2.3k	260	19.7k
Cesare Montecucco Italy	83	10.5k 1.1×	9.9k 1.2×	6.6k 0.9×	4.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	361	25.1k
J. Paul Taylor United States	72	16.3k 1.7×	6.9k 0.9×	3.8k 0.5×	3.2k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	167	24.7k
Ron R. Kopito United States	67	14.6k 1.5×	2.5k 0.3×	3.9k 0.6×	7.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.6×	136	22.6k
Harry T. Orr United States	82	17.1k 1.8×	3.7k 0.5×	13.3k 1.9×	1.6k 0.3×	1.8k 0.8×	242	24.5k
Erika L.F. Holzbaur United States	79	10.5k 1.1×	3.0k 0.4×	3.8k 0.5×	9.5k 1.5×	2.5k 1.1×	205	19.0k
Jeffrey Milbrandt United States	106	18.1k 1.9×	2.1k 0.3×	12.5k 1.8×	3.3k 0.5×	3.3k 1.4×	297	34.7k
Anthony Bretscher United States	70	11.9k 1.2×	2.7k 0.3×	2.0k 0.3×	9.1k 1.5×	833 0.4×	148	19.0k
Lino Tessarollo United States	79	11.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.1×	5.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	247	21.2k
Cahir J. O’Kane United Kingdom	46	6.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.2×	4.8k 0.7×	3.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	96	13.4k
Mihael H. Polymeropoulos United States	45	6.0k 0.6×	6.3k 0.8×	3.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.2×	2.4k 1.0×	145	14.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giampietro Schiavo

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Lee, Song-Yi, et al.. (2026). LAMP1 and LAMP2A localise to axonal organelles with distinct motility dynamics and partially overlapping molecular signatures in human neurons. Journal of Cell Science. 139(3).

Hamilton, Antonia F. de C., Giampietro Schiavo, Dennis Chan, et al.. (2025). Plasma and serum BDNF differentially relate to fNIRS prefrontal cortex activity during executive function and memory tasks. Brain Research. 1865. 149827–149827.

Birsa, Nicol, Maria Giovanna Garone, Brian Tsang, et al.. (2021). FUS-ALS mutants alter FMRP phase separation equilibrium and impair protein translation. Science Advances. 7(30). 44 indexed citations

Villarroel‐Campos, David, Matt Golding, Anne Weston, et al.. (2020). PTPN23 binds the dynein adaptor BICD1 and is required for endocytic sorting of neurotrophin receptors. Journal of Cell Science. 133(6). 11 indexed citations

Brown, Anna‐Leigh, et al.. (2020). Morphological variability is greater at developing than mature mouse neuromuscular junctions. Journal of Anatomy. 237(4). 603–617. 28 indexed citations

Surana, Sunaina, David Villarroel‐Campos, Oscar M. Lazo, et al.. (2019). The evolution of the axonal transport toolkit. Traffic. 21(1). 13–33. 22 indexed citations

Villarroel‐Campos, David, Giampietro Schiavo, & Oscar M. Lazo. (2018). The many disguises of the signalling endosome. FEBS Letters. 592(21). 3615–3632. 32 indexed citations

Sleigh, James N., John M. Dawes, Steven J. West, et al.. (2017). Trk receptor signaling and sensory neuron fate are perturbed in human neuropathy caused by Gars mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(16). E3324–E3333. 57 indexed citations

Terenzio, Marco, Matt Golding, Matthew R. G. Russell, et al.. (2014). Bicaudal‐ D 1 regulates the intracellular sorting and signalling of neurotrophin receptors. The EMBO Journal. 33(14). 1582–1598. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuming, Probir Chakravarty, Michael Ranes, et al.. (2014). Dysregulation of gene expression as a cause of Cockayne syndrome neurological disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(40). 14454–14459. 80 indexed citations

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Simão, Daniel, Catarina Pinto, Stefania Piersanti, et al.. (2014). Modeling Human Neural Functionality In Vitro : Three-Dimensional Culture for Dopaminergic Differentiation. Tissue Engineering Part A. 21(3-4). 654–668. 35 indexed citations

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Bilsland, Lynsey, Erik Sahai, Gavin Kelly, et al.. (2010). Deficits in axonal transport precede ALS symptoms in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(47). 20523–20528. 313 indexed citations

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Pichlmair, Andreas, Oliver Schulz, Jan Rehwinkel, et al.. (2009). Activation of MDA5 Requires Higher-Order RNA Structures Generated during Virus Infection. Journal of Virology. 83(20). 10761–10769. 369 indexed citations

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Vilar, Marçal, Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Rajappa S. Kenchappa, et al.. (2009). Ligand-independent signaling by disulfide-crosslinked dimers of the p75 neurotrophin receptor. Journal of Cell Science. 122(18). 3351–3357. 46 indexed citations

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Hammond, Gerald, Giampietro Schiavo, & R.F. Irvine. (2009). Immunocytochemical techniques reveal multiple, distinct cellular pools of PtdIns4 P and PtdIns(4,5) P 2. Biochemical Journal. 422(1). 23–35. 247 indexed citations

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Lesa, Giovanni M., Mark T. Palfreyman, David H. Hall, et al.. (2003). Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are required for efficient neurotransmission in C. elegans. Journal of Cell Science. 116(24). 4965–4975. 124 indexed citations

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Rossetto, Ornella, Luisa Gorza, Giampietro Schiavo, et al.. (1996). VAMP/synaptobrevin isoforms 1 and 2 are widely and differentially expressed in nonneuronal tissues.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 132(1). 167–179. 113 indexed citations

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Deloye, Florence, et al.. (1996). Molecular mechanisms of tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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Rossetto, Ornella, Florence Deloye, Bernard Poulain, et al.. (1995). The metallo-proteinase activity of tetanus and botulism neurotoxins. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 89(1). 43–50. 31 indexed citations

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Montecucco, Cesare, Emanuele Papini, & Giampietro Schiavo. (1994). BACTERIAL PROTEIN TOXINS PENETRATE CELLS VIA A 4-STEP MECHANISM. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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