Maria Spano

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Maria Spano is a scholar working on Reproductive Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Spano has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Reproductive Medicine, 18 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 12 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Maria Spano's work include Sperm and Testicular Function (27 papers), Reproductive Biology and Fertility (17 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (10 papers). Maria Spano is often cited by papers focused on Sperm and Testicular Function (27 papers), Reproductive Biology and Fertility (17 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (10 papers). Maria Spano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Denmark and Sweden. Maria Spano's co-authors include Michelangelo Misuraca, M. Bungum, Juris Ērenpreiss, Aleksander Giwercman, Massimo Aria, A. Giwercman, Peter Humaidan, Anna Axmon, Leif Bungum and Eugenia Cordelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Human Reproduction and Sensors and Actuators B Chemical.

In The Last Decade

Maria Spano

72 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Sperm DNA integrity assessment in prediction of assisted reproduction technology outcome

2006 484 citations M. Bungum, Maria Spano et al. Human Reproduction profile →
Mapping the Evolution of Social Research and Data Science on 30 Years of Social Indicators Research

2020 292 citations Massimo Aria, Michelangelo Misuraca et al. Social Indicators Research profile →
Thematic Analysis as a New Culturomic Tool: The Social Media Coverage on COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

2022 103 citations Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo et al. Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Spano Italy	27	1.7k	1.3k	475	389	292	74	3.1k
Wen Zou United States	21	230 0.1×	263 0.2×	222 0.5×	587 1.5×	43 0.1×	67	2.0k
Zhilin Liu China	24	339 0.2×	469 0.4×	55 0.1×	493 1.3×	37 0.1×	159	2.3k
Robert Cook‐Deegan United States	32	231 0.1×	1.0k 0.8×	53 0.1×	757 1.9×	368 1.3×	150	3.6k
Hui Wang China	41	89 0.1×	405 0.3×	513 1.1×	2.1k 5.4×	186 0.6×	407	6.9k
Robert C. Jones United States	36	174 0.1×	181 0.1×	81 0.2×	1.1k 2.7×	78 0.3×	158	4.9k
Paul Walker Australia	34	122 0.1×	91 0.1×	550 1.2×	823 2.1×	45 0.2×	104	3.8k
K. Sexton United States	22	66 0.0×	160 0.1×	579 1.2×	199 0.5×	34 0.1×	45	1.6k
Sheldon Krimsky United States	27	66 0.0×	515 0.4×	116 0.2×	262 0.7×	50 0.2×	117	3.3k
Matthew R. Bonner United States	39	40 0.0×	320 0.2×	1.4k 2.9×	944 2.4×	132 0.5×	109	4.7k
W. H. Butler United Kingdom	39	91 0.1×	86 0.1×	504 1.1×	1.1k 2.7×	175 0.6×	134	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Maria Spano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Spano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Spano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maria Spano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maria Spano 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 Maria Spano. Maria Spano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Spano, Maria, et al.. (2025). Branching patterns of the left coronary artery — a systematic review and meta-analysis. Folia Morphologica.

Misuraca, Michelangelo, et al.. (2024). E-wom and territorial analyses: the use of opinion mining in tourism. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 33(1). 79–99.

Aria, Massimo, Corrado Cuccurullo, Luca D’Aniello, Michelangelo Misuraca, & Maria Spano. (2022). Thematic Analysis as a New Culturomic Tool: The Social Media Coverage on COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy. Sustainability. 14(6). 3643–3643. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Segovia, Juan Evangelista Trinidad, et al.. (2022). A Bibliometric Analysis on Agent‐Based Models in Finance: Identification of Community Clusters and Future Research Trends. Complexity. 2022(1). 3 indexed citations

Misuraca, Michelangelo, et al.. (2021). Using Opinion Mining as an educational analytic: An integrated strategy for the analysis of students’ feedback. Studies In Educational Evaluation. 68. 100979–100979. 31 indexed citations

Matano, Fabio, et al.. (2020). Integrated dataset of deformation measurements in fractured volcanic tuff and meteorological data (Coroglio coastal cliff, Naples, Italy). Earth system science data. 12(1). 321–344. 5 indexed citations

Aria, Massimo, Michelangelo Misuraca, & Maria Spano. (2020). Mapping the Evolution of Social Research and Data Science on 30 Years of Social Indicators Research. Social Indicators Research. 149(3). 803–831. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

Misuraca, Michelangelo, et al.. (2018). BMS: An improved Dunn index for Document Clustering validation. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 48(20). 5036–5049. 15 indexed citations

Misuraca, Michelangelo, et al.. (2018). A network approach to dimensionality reduction in Text Mining. 1 indexed citations

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Ginesti, Gianluca, Riccardo Macchioni, Giuseppe Sannino, & Maria Spano. (2013). The Impact of International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)'s Guidelines for Preparing Management Commentary (MC): Evidence From Italian Listed Firms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Ståhl, O., Jakob Eberhard, Eva Cavallin‐Ståhl, et al.. (2009). Sperm DNA integrity in cancer patients: the effect of disease and treatment. International Journal of Andrology. 32(6). 695–703. 41 indexed citations

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Ērenpreiss, Juris, et al.. (2006). Intra-individual variation in sperm chromatin structure assay parameters in men from infertile couples: clinical implications. Human Reproduction. 21(8). 2061–2064. 65 indexed citations

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Ērenpreiss, Juris, et al.. (2006). Sperm chromatin structure and male fertility: biological and clinical aspects. Asian Journal of Andrology. 8(1). 11–29. 221 indexed citations

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Giwercman, Aleksander, Maria Spano, Jaana Lähdetie, & J P Bonde. (1999). Quality assurance of semen analysis in multicenter studies. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 22 indexed citations

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Larsen, S. B., et al.. (1999). Seminal characteristics following exposure to pesticides among agricultural workers. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 10 indexed citations

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Spano, Maria. (1999). Nuclear chromatin variations in human spermatozoa undergoing swim-up and cryopreservation evaluated by the flow cytometric sperm chromatin structure assay. Molecular Human Reproduction. 5(1). 29–37. 94 indexed citations

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Kolstad, Henrik Albert, Jens Peter Bonde, Maria Spano, et al.. (1999). Sperm chromatin structure and semen quality following occupational styrene exposure. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 25(1). 70–73. 15 indexed citations

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Pacchierotti, Francesca, Cecilia Tiveron, R. Ranaldi, et al.. (1998). Reproductive toxicity of 1,3-butadiene in the mouse: cytogenetic analysis of chromosome aberrations in first-cleavage embryos and flow cytometric evaluation of spermatogonial cell killing. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 397(1). 55–66. 17 indexed citations

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Spano, Maria, Arnulf Kolstad, S. B. Larsen, et al.. (1998). The applicability of the flow cytometric sperm chromatin structure assay in epidemiological studies. Asclepios. Human Reproduction. 13(9). 2495–2505. 120 indexed citations

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Cividalli, Anna, et al.. (1985). Orgotein as a Radioprotector in Normal Tissues Experiments on mouse skin and a murine adenocarcinoma. Acta Radiologica Oncology. 24(3). 273–277. 4 indexed citations

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