Laura Zani

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 959 citations indexed

About

Laura Zani is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Zani has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 959 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science, 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Laura Zani's work include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (22 papers), Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (21 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (14 papers). Laura Zani is often cited by papers focused on Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (22 papers), Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (21 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (14 papers). Laura Zani collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Estonia and Italy. Laura Zani's co-authors include Sandra Blome, Martin Beer, Jan H. Forth, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Klaus Depner, Arvo Viltrop, Imbi Nurmoja, A. A. Petrov, Jutta Pikalo and Jolene Carlson and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Vaccine and Neuroscience Letters.

In The Last Decade

Laura Zani

23 papers receiving 940 citations

Hit Papers

African Swine Fever in Wi... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
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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.

  1. African Swine Fever in Wild Boar in Europe—A Review
    2021 122 citations Carola Sauter‐Louis, Franz J. Conraths et al. Viruses profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Zani Germany 16 831 730 412 220 128 24 959
Ruby J. Larson United States 10 730 0.9× 329 0.5× 268 0.7× 314 1.4× 65 0.5× 10 962
Hyun‐Joo Sohn South Korea 13 296 0.4× 231 0.3× 190 0.5× 54 0.2× 13 0.1× 35 669
Vijay Kumar Saxena India 12 197 0.2× 92 0.1× 79 0.2× 60 0.3× 14 0.1× 48 499
Tina M. Henry United States 6 424 0.5× 255 0.3× 487 1.2× 58 0.3× 9 0.1× 6 531
Edward Spinard United States 12 220 0.3× 175 0.2× 140 0.3× 76 0.3× 118 0.9× 43 392
Hussein M. Abkallo Kenya 10 75 0.1× 63 0.1× 38 0.1× 45 0.2× 45 0.4× 25 259
Qi Jin China 8 40 0.0× 27 0.0× 126 0.3× 325 1.5× 17 0.1× 19 689
Jia Luo China 14 40 0.0× 43 0.1× 16 0.0× 151 0.7× 169 1.3× 39 590
Bridgett Sharp United States 9 86 0.1× 13 0.0× 44 0.1× 256 1.2× 37 0.3× 17 391
Xiumiao He China 13 22 0.0× 59 0.1× 25 0.1× 116 0.5× 41 0.3× 26 370

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Zani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Zani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Zani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laura Zani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laura Zani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Laura Zani. Laura Zani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oļševskis, Edvīns, et al.. (2023). Do Seropositive Wild Boars Pose a Risk for the Spread of African Swine Fever? Analysis of Field Data from Latvia and Lithuania. Pathogens. 12(5). 723–723. 4 indexed citations
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Bergmann, H, Katja Schulz, Carolina Probst, et al.. (2022). Identification of Risk Factors for African Swine Fever: A Systematic Review. Viruses. 14(10). 2107–2107. 13 indexed citations
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Blome, Sandra, Anja Globig, Vittorio Gubertì, et al.. (2022). African Swine Fever Outbreak Investigations—The Significance of Disease-Related Anecdotal Information Coming from Laypersons. Pathogens. 11(6). 702–702. 3 indexed citations
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Depner, Klaus, Laura Zani, Edvīns Oļševskis, et al.. (2022). A practical guide for strategic and efficient sampling in African swine fever‐affected pig farms. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(5). e2408–e2417. 8 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Alexander, Laura Zani, Jutta Pikalo, et al.. (2021). T‐cell responses in domestic pigs and wild boar upon infection with the moderately virulent African swine fever virus strain ‘Estonia2014’. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 68(5). 2733–2749. 22 indexed citations
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Sauter‐Louis, Carola, Franz J. Conraths, Carolina Probst, et al.. (2021). African Swine Fever in Wild Boar in Europe—A Review. Viruses. 13(9). 1717–1717. 122 indexed citations breakdown →
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Penrith, Mary‐Louise, Alberto Laddomada, Klaas Dietze, et al.. (2021). Evidence-Based African Swine Fever Policies: Do We Address Virus and Host Adequately?. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 8. 637487–637487. 37 indexed citations
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Globig, Anja, et al.. (2021). The course of African swine fever in Romanian backyard holdings – A case report. Veterinary Medicine and Science. 7(6). 2273–2279. 17 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Alexander, Theresa Schwaiger, Laura Zani, et al.. (2020). Impaired T‐cell responses in domestic pigs and wild boar upon infection with a highly virulent African swine fever virus strain. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 67(6). 3016–3032. 38 indexed citations
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Zani, Laura, Marius Masiulis, Klaas Dietze, et al.. (2020). African swine fever virus survival in buried wild boar carcasses. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 67(5). 2086–2092. 52 indexed citations
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Pikalo, Jutta, et al.. (2019). Pathogenesis of African swine fever in domestic pigs and European wild boar – Lessons learned from recent animal trials. Virus Research. 271. 197614–197614. 87 indexed citations
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Zani, Laura, et al.. (2019). African Swine Fever in a Bulgarian Backyard Farm—A Case Report. Veterinary Sciences. 6(4). 94–94. 42 indexed citations
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Zani, Laura, Jan H. Forth, Leonie F. Forth, et al.. (2018). Deletion at the 5’-end of Estonian ASFV strains associated with an attenuated phenotype. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6510–6510. 127 indexed citations
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Henke, Julia, Jolene Carlson, Laura Zani, et al.. (2018). Protection against transplacental transmission of moderately virulent classical swine fever virus using live marker vaccine “CP7_E2alf”. Vaccine. 36(29). 4181–4187. 11 indexed citations
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Petrov, A. A., Jan H. Forth, Laura Zani, Martin Beer, & Sandra Blome. (2018). No evidence for long-term carrier status of pigs after African swine fever virus infection. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 65(5). 1318–1328. 64 indexed citations
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Carlson, Jolene, Laura Zani, Theresa Schwaiger, et al.. (2017). Simplifying sampling for African swine fever surveillance: Assessment of antibody and pathogen detection from blood swabs. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 65(1). e165–e172. 25 indexed citations
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Zani, Laura, Mathieu Pinette, Aruna Ambagala, et al.. (2017). Virulence of current German PEDV strains in suckling pigs and investigation of protective effects of maternally derived antibodies. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 21 indexed citations
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Nurmoja, Imbi, A. A. Petrov, Laura Zani, et al.. (2017). Biological characterization of African swine fever virus genotype II strains from north-eastern Estonia in European wild boar. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 64(6). 2034–2041. 99 indexed citations
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Zani, Laura, et al.. (2016). First evidence of an attenuated phenotype of genotype II African swine fever virus in Estonia. 79. 1 indexed citations
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Curti, Daniela, F Rognoni, Laura Gasparini, et al.. (1997). Oxidative metabolism in cultured fibroblasts derived from sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Neuroscience Letters. 236(1). 13–16. 68 indexed citations

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