Gianluca Catania

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Gianluca Catania is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gianluca Catania has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in General Health Professions, 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 20 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. Recurrent topics in Gianluca Catania's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (23 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (18 papers) and Nursing education and management (11 papers). Gianluca Catania is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (23 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (18 papers) and Nursing education and management (11 papers). Gianluca Catania collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Ireland. Gianluca Catania's co-authors include Annamaria Bagnasco, Loredana Sasso, Milko Zanini, Giuseppe Aleo, Fiona Timmins, Roger Watson, Nicoletta Dasso, Mark Hayter, Massimo Luzzani and Silvia Rossi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Lancet Oncology and European Heart Journal.

In The Last Decade

Gianluca Catania

90 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave
    2019 206 citations Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco et al. Journal of Nursing Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gianluca Catania Italy 22 587 325 308 205 182 97 1.5k
Rebecca Spirig Switzerland 20 616 1.0× 208 0.6× 345 1.1× 241 1.2× 137 0.8× 116 1.6k
Hadi Hassankhani Iran 21 389 0.7× 323 1.0× 304 1.0× 275 1.3× 186 1.0× 101 1.3k
Sirkka Lauri Finland 25 661 1.1× 228 0.7× 698 2.3× 166 0.8× 299 1.6× 60 1.7k
Clint Douglas Australia 25 758 1.3× 188 0.6× 278 0.9× 114 0.6× 148 0.8× 75 2.0k
Natalie Pattison United Kingdom 23 474 0.8× 358 1.1× 455 1.5× 531 2.6× 130 0.7× 95 1.5k
Isabel Higgins Australia 29 1.3k 2.2× 355 1.1× 838 2.7× 410 2.0× 259 1.4× 94 2.9k
Azad Rahmani Iran 26 675 1.1× 433 1.3× 614 2.0× 289 1.4× 273 1.5× 132 1.9k
Polly Ryan United States 18 622 1.1× 239 0.7× 307 1.0× 82 0.4× 251 1.4× 34 1.8k
Ida Torunn Bjørk Norway 30 844 1.4× 377 1.2× 653 2.1× 319 1.6× 179 1.0× 99 2.4k
Agneta Berg Sweden 25 815 1.4× 345 1.1× 369 1.2× 158 0.8× 175 1.0× 58 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gianluca Catania

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gianluca Catania

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Catania, Gianluca, et al.. (2025). Desk review as a methodological approach for identifying policies and gray literature: A case study. Nursing Outlook. 73(6). 102547–102547. 1 indexed citations
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Aleo, Giuseppe, et al.. (2025). Attitudes of the Population Toward Vaccines During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: The PROACTIVE Study. Public Health Nursing. 42(4). 1485–1494. 1 indexed citations
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Pagnucci, Nicola, Milko Zanini, Gianluca Catania, et al.. (2024). Pedagogical strategies to improve emotional competencies in nursing students: A systematic review. Nurse Education Today. 142. 106337–106337. 5 indexed citations
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Lucente, Giuseppe, Fiona Timmins, Mark Hayter, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Nurses' Professional Quality of Life in Pre‐Hospital Emergency Settings: A Multicentre Mixed‐Method Study. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 34(1). 108–116. 3 indexed citations
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Pesenti, S., Nicola Pagnucci, Giuseppe Aleo, et al.. (2024). Nurses' attitudes towards COVID‐19 vaccines: A qualitative study (PROACTIVE‐study). Journal of Clinical Nursing. 33(10). 4024–4033.
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Catania, Gianluca, Andrea Fontanella, Dario Manfellotto, et al.. (2022). Intentional Rounding versus Standard of Care for Patients Hospitalised in Internal Medicine Wards: Results from a Cluster-Randomised Nation-Based Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(14). 3976–3976. 5 indexed citations
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Timmins, Fiona, Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, et al.. (2022). Nursing management of emergency department violence—Can we do more?. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 32(7-8). 1487–1494. 18 indexed citations
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Watson, Roger, Mark Hayter, Milko Zanini, et al.. (2022). Does nursing have a contribution to make to the silver economy?. International Nursing Review. 70(2). 145–148. 4 indexed citations
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Zanini, Milko, Roger Watson, Giuseppe Aleo, et al.. (2022). The structure of the Italian version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index. Journal of Nursing Management. 30(7). 3440–3448. 8 indexed citations
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Catania, Gianluca, Milko Zanini, Giuseppe Aleo, et al.. (2022). Fundamental care: An evolutionary concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 79(6). 2070–2080. 8 indexed citations
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Zanini, Milko, Gianluca Catania, Roger Watson, et al.. (2021). The WeanCare nutritional intervention in institutionalized dysphagic older people and its impact on nursing workload and costs: A quasi‐experimental study. Journal of Nursing Management. 29(8). 2620–2629. 5 indexed citations
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Bagnasco, Annamaria, Michela Barisone, Giuseppe Aleo, et al.. (2021). An international e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Italian cardiac nurses. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 20(7). 684–691. 8 indexed citations
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Bagnasco, Annamaria, Francesca Rosa, Nicoletta Dasso, et al.. (2020). Caring for patients at home after acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A phenomenological study of family caregivers’ experiences. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 30(15-16). 2246–2257. 12 indexed citations
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Bagnasco, Annamaria, Milko Zanini, Nicoletta Dasso, et al.. (2020). Dignity, privacy, respect and choice—A scoping review of measurement of these concepts within acute healthcare practice. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 29(11-12). 1832–1857. 14 indexed citations
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Bagnasco, Annamaria, Mark Hayter, Silvia Rossi, et al.. (2019). Experiences of participating in intergenerational interventions in older people's care settings: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative literature. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 76(1). 22–33. 19 indexed citations
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Barisone, Michela, Annamaria Bagnasco, Giuseppe Aleo, et al.. (2019). The effectiveness of web-based learning in supporting the development of nursing students’ practical skills during clinical placements: A qualitative study. Nurse Education in Practice. 37. 56–61. 59 indexed citations
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Tolotti, Angela, Annamaria Bagnasco, Gianluca Catania, et al.. (2018). The communication experience of tracheostomy patients with nurses in the intensive care unit: A phenomenological study. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 46. 24–31. 36 indexed citations
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Catania, Gianluca, Annamaria Bagnasco, Milko Zanini, Giuseppe Aleo, & Loredana Sasso. (2016). Spiritual Assessment within Clinical Interventions Focused on Quality of Life Assessment in Palliative Care: A Secondary Analysis of a Systematic Review. Religions. 7(3). 25–25. 4 indexed citations

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