Gianluca Giannarini

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
197 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Gianluca Giannarini is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gianluca Giannarini has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 79 papers in Surgery and 52 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Gianluca Giannarini's work include Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (80 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (59 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (48 papers). Gianluca Giannarini is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (80 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (59 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (48 papers). Gianluca Giannarini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Switzerland. Gianluca Giannarini's co-authors include Harriet C. Thoeny, Vincenzo Ficarra, Cesare Selli, Geert Villeirs, Jurgen J. Fütterer, Pieter De Visschere, Mark Emberton, Alessandro Crestani, Arnauld Villers and Alberto Briganti and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Gianluca Giannarini

182 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Can Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Be Detected with Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging? A Systematic Review of the Literature

2015 613 citations Jurgen J. Fütterer, Pieter De Visschere et al. European Urology profile →
Metastasis-directed Therapy of Regional and Distant Recurrences After Curative Treatment of Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2014 256 citations Piet Ost, Gianluca Giannarini et al. European Urology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gianluca Giannarini Italy	36	2.9k	1.6k	1.1k	921	865	197	4.9k
Marc A. Bjurlin United States	33	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	645 0.6×	579 0.6×	614 0.7×	189	4.0k
Paolo Dell’Oglio Italy	35	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	826 0.8×	586 0.6×	428 0.5×	231	4.0k
Ofer Yossepowitch Israel	35	3.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	848 0.8×	740 0.8×	418 0.5×	164	5.0k
Rocco Damiano Italy	42	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	817 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	225 0.3×	201	5.1k
Daniel A. Barocas United States	48	3.6k 1.2×	3.4k 2.1×	726 0.7×	1.5k 1.7×	404 0.5×	210	7.2k
Simon P. Kim United States	43	3.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.5×	525 0.5×	859 0.9×	361 0.4×	198	6.0k
Kimberly A. Roehl United States	39	4.3k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	577 0.6×	306 0.4×	177	6.4k
Marco Bianchi Italy	38	4.2k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	582 0.6×	320 0.4×	132	5.3k
Robert Abouassaly United States	31	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	520 0.5×	398 0.4×	418 0.5×	189	3.5k
Benjamin Pradère France	29	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	381 0.4×	645 0.7×	303 0.4×	310	3.5k

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Zucchi, Alessandro, Riccardo Morganti, Antonio Luigi Pastore, et al.. (2025). Correlation of clinically significant prostate cancer sites across multiparametric MRI, prostate biopsy, and whole-mount pathology for optimal prostate biopsy strategy. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4310–4310. 3 indexed citations

Urso, Luca, Angelo Castello, Alessandro Crestani, et al.. (2025). The Role of Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Staging PSMA PET in Assessing Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(10). 3318–3318. 3 indexed citations

Giannarini, Gianluca, Lorenzo Cereser, Chiara Zuiani, et al.. (2025). A Deep Learning Model Integrating Clinical and MRI Features Improves Risk Stratification and Reduces Unnecessary Biopsies in Men with Suspected Prostate Cancer. Cancers. 17(13). 2257–2257.

Claps, Francesco, Gianluca Giannarini, Nicola Pavan, et al.. (2024). The Prognostic Significance of Histological Subtypes in Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: An Overview of the Current Literature. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(15). 4349–4349. 18 indexed citations

Cerrato, Clara, Fabio Crocerossa, Michele Marchioni, et al.. (2024). Effect of Sex on the Oncological Outcomes in Response to Immunotherapy and Antibody-drug Conjugates in Patients with Urothelial and Kidney Cancer: A Systematic Review and a Network Meta-analysis. European Urology Oncology. 7(5). 1005–1014. 4 indexed citations

Lenfant, Louis, Carmen Mir, Gianluca Giannarini, et al.. (2023). A Systematic Review of Oncological Outcomes Associated with Bladder-sparing Strategies in Patients Achieving Complete Clinical Response to Initial Systemic Treatment for Localized Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer. European Urology Oncology. 6(3). 251–262. 9 indexed citations

Pasquale, Maria Debora De, et al.. (2023). Combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia for open radical cystectomy: A controlled study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 101–108. 1 indexed citations

García‐Rojo, Esther, Gianluca Giannarini, Borja García‐Gómez, et al.. (2023). Organ-Sparing Surgery for Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: A Current Perspective. Medicina. 59(7). 1249–1249. 5 indexed citations

Zattoni, Fabio, Fabrizio Moro, Giovanni Basso, et al.. (2023). Abbreviated Versus Multiparametric Prostate MRI in Active Surveillance for Prostate-Cancer Patients: Comparison of Accuracy and Clinical Utility as a Decisional Tool. Diagnostics. 13(4). 578–578. 2 indexed citations

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Bicchetti, Marco, Giuseppe Simone, Gianluca Giannarini, et al.. (2022). A novel pathway to detect muscle-invasive bladder cancer based on integrated clinical features and VI-RADS score on MRI: results of a prospective multicenter study. La radiologia medica. 127(8). 881–890. 26 indexed citations

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Chan, Vinson Wai‐Shun, Wei Shen Tan, Aqua Asif, et al.. (2021). Effects of Delayed Radical Prostatectomy and Active Surveillance on Localised Prostate Cancer—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Cancers. 13(13). 3274–3274. 10 indexed citations

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Ficarra, Vincenzo, et al.. (2021). Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy Using the Novel Urethral Fixation Technique Versus Standard Vesicourethral Anastomosis. European Urology. 79(4). 530–536. 8 indexed citations

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Ficarra, Vincenzo, Francesco Porpiglia, Alessandro Crestani, et al.. (2019). The Simplified PA DUA RE nal ( SPARE ) nephrometry system: a novel classification of parenchymal renal tumours suitable for partial nephrectomy. British Journal of Urology. 124(4). 621–628. 39 indexed citations

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Crestani, Alessandro, et al.. (2019). Late Arteriovenous Fistula After Partial Nephrectomy in Solitary Kidney. Journal of Endourology Case Reports. 5(2). 81–83. 2 indexed citations

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Visschere, Pieter De, Jurgen J. Fütterer, Geert Villeirs, et al.. (2018). A Systematic Review on the Role of Imaging in Early Recurrent Prostate Cancer. European Urology Oncology. 2(1). 47–76. 136 indexed citations

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Visschere, Pieter J. L. De, Alberto Briganti, Jurgen J. Fütterer, et al.. (2016). Role of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging in early detection of prostate cancer. Insights into Imaging. 7(2). 205–214. 43 indexed citations

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Ukimura, Osamu, Jonathan Coleman, A. De La Taille, et al.. (2012). Contemporary Role of Systematic Prostate Biopsies: Indications, Techniques, and Implications for Patient Care. European Urology. 63(2). 214–230. 183 indexed citations

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Giannarini, Gianluca, et al.. (2010). Do Patients Benefit from Routine Follow-up to Detect Recurrences After Radical Cystectomy and Ileal Orthotopic Bladder Substitution?. European Urology. 58(4). 486–494. 83 indexed citations

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Vinci, Serena, Gianluca Giannarini, Cesare Selli, et al.. (2009). Quantitative methylation analysis of BCL2, hTERT, and DAPK promoters in urine sediment for the detection of non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: A prospective, two-center validation study. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 29(2). 150–156. 43 indexed citations

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Fabris, Fabrizio, et al.. (2006). Chirurgia conservativa del testicolo nelle neoplasie a cellule di Leydig. Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia. 78. 212–212. 1 indexed citations

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