Giuseppe Plazzi

29.7k citations

444 papers · 15.7k · 3 hit papers · h-index 66

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.05%
- Sleep and related disorders
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.05%
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 317
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research 308
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 230
- Sleep and related disorders 226

Co-authors: Fabio Pizza (182 shared papers)Federica Provini (74 shared papers)Raffaele Ferri (66 shared papers)Pasquale Montagna (58 shared papers)E Lugaresi (50 shared papers)Yves Dauvilliers (53 shared papers)Stefano Vandi (82 shared papers)Emmanuel Mignot (30 shared papers)
Journals: Sleep Medicine (75 papers)SLEEP (56 papers)Journal of Sleep Research (31 papers)Neurology (23 papers)Clinical Neurophysiology (19 papers)
Partner nations: Italy United States France

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Giuseppe Plazzi

428 papers receiving 15.4k citations

Giuseppe Plazzi's Hit Papers

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Suicidal risk among adolescent psychiatric inpatients: the role of insomnia, depression, and social-personal factors 2025 · 20 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 European Psychiatry
2018 Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2016 Sleep Health

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1	National Sleep Foundation's sleep quality recommendations: first report Sleep Health ·Maurice M. Ohayon, Emerson M. Wickwire, Max Hirshkowitz, Steven M. Albert, Alon Y. Avidan, Frank J. Daly, Yves Dauvilliers, Raffaele Ferri, Constance H. Fung, David Gozal, Nancy Hazen, Andrew D. Krystal, Kenneth L. Lichstein, Monica P. Mallampalli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Robert Rawding, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Virend K. Somers, Michael V. Vitiello Hit paper breakdown →	2016	872
2	REM sleep behaviour disorder Nature Reviews Disease Primers ·Yves Dauvilliers, Carlos H. Schenck, Ronald B. Postuma, Álex Iranzo, Pierre‐Hervé Luppi, Giuseppe Plazzi, Jacques Montplaisir, Bradley F. Boeve Hit paper breakdown →	2018	296
3	Italian version of the Epworth sleepiness scale: external validity Neurological Sciences ·Luca Vignatelli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Alfredo Barbato, Luigi Ferini‐Strambi, Raffaele Manni, F. Pompei, R. D’Alessandro	2003	292
4	Ultrasensitive RT-QuIC assay with high sensitivity and specificity for Lewy body-associated synucleinopathies Acta Neuropathologica ·Marcello Rossi, Niccolò Candelise, Simone Baiardi, Sabina Capellari, Giulia Giannini, Christina D. Orrú, Elena Antelmi, Angela Mammana, Andrew G. Hughson, Giovanna Calandra–Buonaura, Anna Ladogana, Giuseppe Plazzi, Pietro Cortelli, Byron Caughey, Piero Parchi	2020	281
5	REM sleep behavior disorders in multiple system atrophy Neurology ·Giuseppe Plazzi, Rachel Corsini, Federica Provini, Giulia Pierangeli, Paolo Martinelli, P. Montagna, E Lugaresi, Pietro Cortelli	1997	275
6	Missense mutations in the sodium-gated potassium channel gene KCNT1 cause severe autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy Nature Genetics ·Sarah E. Heron, Katherine R. Smith, Melanie Bahlo, Lino Nobili, Esther Kahana, Laura Licchetta, Karen Oliver, Aziz Mazarib, Zaid Afawi, Amos D. Korczyn, Giuseppe Plazzi, Steven Petrou, Samuel F. Berkovic, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Leanne M. Dibbens	2012	266
7	Elevated Anti-Streptococcal Antibodies in Patients with Recent Narcolepsy Onset SLEEP ·Adi Aran, Ling Lin, Soňa Nevšímalová, Giuseppe Plazzi, Seung Chul Hong, Karin Weiner, Jamie M. Zeitzer, Emmanuel Mignot	2009	243
8	Mutations in DNMT1 cause autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy Human Molecular Genetics ·Juliane Winkelmann, Ling Lin, Barbara Schormair, Birgitte Rahbek Kornum, Juliette Faraco, Giuseppe Plazzi, Atle Melberg, F. Cornelio, Alexander E. Urban, Fabio Pizza, Francesca Poli, Fabian Grubert, Thomas Wieland, Elisabeth Graf, Joachim Hallmayer, Tim M. Strom, Emmanuel Mignot	2012	173
9	Poor Sleep Quality and Its Consequences on Mental Health During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy Frontiers in Psychology ·Christian Franceschini, Alessandro Musetti, Corrado Zenesini, Laura Palagini, Serena Scarpelli, Maria C. Quattropani, Vittorio Lenzo, Maria Francesca Freda, Daniela Lemmo, Elena Vegni, Lidia Borghi, Emanuela Saita, Roberto Cattivelli, Luigi De Gennaro, Giuseppe Plazzi, Dieter Riemann, Gianluca Castelnuovo	2020	156
10	Predictors of Hypocretin (Orexin) Deficiency in Narcolepsy Without Cataplexy SLEEP ·Olivier Andlauer, Hyatt Moore, Seung Chul Hong, Yves Dauvilliers, Takashi Kanbayashi, Seiji Nishino, Fang Han, Michael H. Silber, Tom Rico, Mali Einen, Birgitte Rahbek Kornum, Poul Jennum, Stine Knudsen, Soňa Nevšímalová, Francesca Poli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Emmanuel Mignot	2012	154
11	A quantitative statistical analysis of the submentalis muscle EMG amplitude during sleep in normal controls and patients with REM sleep behavior disorder Journal of Sleep Research ·Raffaele Ferri, Mauro Manconi, Giuseppe Plazzi, Oliviero Bruni, Stefano Vandi, Pasquale Montagna, Luigi Ferini‐Strambi, Marco Zucconi	2008	148
12	Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal-Lobe Epilepsy: Genetic Heterogeneity and Evidence for a Second Locus at 15q24 The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Hilary A. Phillips, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Kathryn M. Crossland, Kailash P. Bhatia, D. R. Fish, C. D. Marsden, Stephen Howell, J Stephenson, John Tolmie, Giuseppe Plazzi, Orvar Eeg‐Olofsson, Rita Singh, Íscia Lopes‐Cendes, E. Andermann, Frédérick Andermann, Samuel F. Berkovic, John C. Mulley	1998	147
13	World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) 2016 standards for recording and scoring leg movements in polysomnograms developed by a joint task force from the International and the European Restless Legs Syndrome Study Groups (IRLSSG and EURLSSG) Sleep Medicine ·Raffaele Ferri, Stephany Fulda, Richard P. Allen, Marco Zucconi, Oliviero Bruni, Sudhansu Chokroverty, Luigi Ferini‐Strambi, Birgit Frauscher, Diego García‐Borreguero, Max Hirshkowitz, Birgit Högl, Yuichi Inoue, Arshad Jahangir, Mauro Manconi, Carole L. Marcus, Daniel L. Picchietti, Giuseppe Plazzi, John W. Winkelman, Rochelle Zak	2016	142
14	Actigraphy in the Assessment of Insomnia: A Quantitative Approach SLEEP ·Vincenzo Natale, Giuseppe Plazzi, Monica Martoni	2009	140
15	Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Childhood Narcolepsy-Cataplexy: A Retrospective Study of 51 Children SLEEP ·Adi Aran, Mali Einen, Ling Lin, Giuseppe Plazzi, Seiji Nishino, Emmanuel Mignot	2010	138
16	Complex movement disorders at disease onset in childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy Brain ·Giuseppe Plazzi, Fabio Pizza, Vincenzo Palaia, Christian Franceschini, Francesca Poli, Keivan Kaveh Moghadam, Pietro Cortelli, Lino Nobili, Oliviero Bruni, Yves Dauvilliers, Ling Lin, Mark J. Edwards, Emmanuel Mignot, Kailash P. Bhatia	2011	137
17	Sleep disorders in multiple system atrophy: a correlative video-polysomnographic study Sleep Medicine ·Roberto Vetrugno, Federica Provini, Pietro Cortelli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Enrico Maria Lotti, Giulia Pierangeli, Carlotta Canali, Pasquale Montagna	2003	130
18	Challenges in Diagnosing Narcolepsy without Cataplexy: A Consensus Statement SLEEP ·Christian R. Baumann, Emmanuel Mignot, Gert Jan Lammers, Sebastiaan Overeem, Isabelle Arnulf, David B. Rye, Yves Dauvilliers, Makoto Honda, Judith Owens, Giuseppe Plazzi, Thomas E. Scammell	2014	126
19	Nocturnal Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Latency for Identifying Patients With Narcolepsy/Hypocretin Deficiency JAMA Neurology ·Olivier Andlauer, Hyatt Moore, Laura Jouhier, Christopher L. Drake, Paul E. Peppard, Fang Han, Seung‐Chul Hong, Francesca Poli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Ruth O’Hara, Émmanuel Haffen, Thomas Roth, Terry Young, Emmanuel Mignot	2013	124
20	Undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing among male nondippers with essential hypertension Journal of Hypertension ·Francesco Portaluppi, Federica Provini, Pietro Cortelli, Giuseppe Plazzi, Nino Bertozzi, Roberto Manfredini, C Fersini, E Lugaresi	1997	124

About Giuseppe Plazzi

Giuseppe Plazzi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Epidemiology, Neurology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, having authored 444 papers that have together received 15.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (308 papers), Sleep and related disorders (226 papers), Restless Legs Syndrome Research (97 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (62 papers), Circadian rhythm and melatonin (43 papers), Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research (35 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (33 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (32 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (8.2k citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (3.8k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (10.3k citations), Neurology (3.3k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (1.7k citations). Giuseppe Plazzi has collaborated with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include Fabio Pizza, Federica Provini, Raffaele Ferri, Pasquale Montagna, E Lugaresi, Yves Dauvilliers, Stefano Vandi, Emmanuel Mignot, Luigi Ferini‐Strambi and Roberto Vetrugno. Their work appears in journals such as Sleep Medicine, SLEEP, Journal of Sleep Research, Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology.

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