Maura Malpetti

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Maura Malpetti is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maura Malpetti has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Physiology, 27 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 21 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Maura Malpetti's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (25 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (17 papers). Maura Malpetti is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (25 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (17 papers). Maura Malpetti collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Maura Malpetti's co-authors include James B. Rowe, John T. O’Brien, Luca Passamonti, Elijah Mak, Franklin I. Aigbirhio, Young T. Hong, P. Simon Jones, Tim D. Fryer, Timothy Rittman and W Richard Bevan‐Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Maura Malpetti

54 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Differential levels of plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and progressive supranuclear palsy

2022 108 citations Leonidas Chouliaras, Maura Malpetti et al. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maura Malpetti United Kingdom	24	595	429	414	399	315	61	1.4k
Patricia Vázquez Rodríguez United Kingdom	20	570 1.0×	457 1.1×	470 1.1×	410 1.0×	285 0.9×	26	1.3k
W Richard Bevan‐Jones United Kingdom	22	787 1.3×	401 0.9×	442 1.1×	374 0.9×	483 1.5×	39	1.5k
Olof Lindberg Sweden	22	804 1.4×	710 1.7×	276 0.7×	385 1.0×	336 1.1×	49	1.5k
Silvia Paola Caminiti Italy	22	441 0.7×	368 0.9×	464 1.1×	408 1.0×	170 0.5×	52	1.3k
Laure Saint‐Aubert France	20	895 1.5×	569 1.3×	231 0.6×	326 0.8×	291 0.9×	41	1.5k
Roberta Diehl Rodriguez Brazil	20	797 1.3×	579 1.3×	321 0.8×	315 0.8×	434 1.4×	46	1.7k
Kok Pin Ng Singapore	17	557 0.9×	544 1.3×	193 0.5×	204 0.5×	236 0.7×	77	1.1k
Víctor Montal Spain	16	493 0.8×	402 0.9×	193 0.5×	259 0.6×	196 0.6×	39	1.0k
Laëtitia Lemoine Sweden	20	863 1.5×	408 1.0×	276 0.7×	206 0.5×	185 0.6×	33	1.5k
Min Su Kang Canada	23	1.1k 1.9×	793 1.8×	262 0.6×	335 0.8×	323 1.0×	67	1.8k

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Roemer, Sebastian Niclas, Franziska Wagner, Boris‐Stephan Rauchmann, et al.. (2025). Amyloid-associated hyperconnectivity drives tau spread across connected brain regions in Alzheimer’s disease. Science Translational Medicine. 17(782). eadp2564–eadp2564. 13 indexed citations

Malpetti, Maura, Paul C. Donaghy, Alan Thomas, et al.. (2025). Polygenic risk discriminates Lewy body dementia from Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14381–e14381.

Durcan, Rory, Amanda Heslegrave, Peter Swann, et al.. (2025). Novel blood‐based proteomic signatures across multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(3). e70116–e70116. 3 indexed citations

Bright, Molly G., John T. O’Brien, James B. Rowe, et al.. (2025). C3 and C3a as indicators of complement dysregulation in tauopathies and FTLD-associated disorders. Immunobiology. 230(4). 152946–152946.

Koek, Ralph J., Josué M. Avecillas-Chasín, Scott E. Krahl, et al.. (2024). Deep brain stimulation of the amygdala for treatment-resistant combat post-traumatic stress disorder: Long-term results. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 175. 131–139. 10 indexed citations

Holland, Negin, George Savulich, P. Simon Jones, et al.. (2024). Differential Synaptic Loss in β‐Amyloid Positive Versus β‐Amyloid Negative Corticobasal Syndrome. Movement Disorders. 39(7). 1166–1178. 2 indexed citations

Holland, Negin, P Simon Jones, George Savulich, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal Synaptic Loss in Primary Tauopathies: An In Vivo [¹¹C]UCB‐J Positron Emission Tomography Study. Movement Disorders. 38(7). 1316–1326. 17 indexed citations

Sauer, Mathias, Julie Goossens, Andréa Lessa Benedet, et al.. (2023). Blood‐based SNAP‐25 and VAMP‐2 in Alzheimer’s disease; relation to cognition, atrophy and synaptic density.. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S24). 4 indexed citations

Ye, Rong, Frank H. Hezemans, Claire O’Callaghan, et al.. (2023). Locus Coeruleus Integrity Is Linked to Response Inhibition Deficits in Parkinson's Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(42). 7028–7040. 7 indexed citations

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Malpetti, Maura, Thomas Cope, Duncan Street, et al.. (2023). Microglial activation in the frontal cortex predicts cognitive decline in frontotemporal dementia. Brain. 146(8). 3221–3231. 24 indexed citations

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Holland, Negin, Kamen A. Tsvetanov, Elijah Mak, et al.. (2023). Synaptic density affects clinical severity via network dysfunction in syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8458–8458. 5 indexed citations

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Tanner, Jeremy A., Leonardo Iaccarino, Lauren Edwards, et al.. (2022). Amyloid, tau and metabolic PET correlates of cognition in early and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 145(12). 4489–4505. 38 indexed citations

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Holland, Negin, Maura Malpetti, Timothy Rittman, et al.. (2021). Molecular pathology and synaptic loss in primary tauopathies: an 18F-AV-1451 and 11C-UCB-J PET study. Brain. 145(1). 340–348. 27 indexed citations

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Mak, Elijah, Negin Holland, P. Simon Jones, et al.. (2021). In vivo coupling of dendritic complexity with presynaptic density in primary tauopathies. Neurobiology of Aging. 101. 187–198. 24 indexed citations

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Ye, Rong, Claire O’Callaghan, Catarina Rua, et al.. (2021). 7T locus coeruleus imaging correlates of apathy and cognition in patients with Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 17(S4).

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Malpetti, Maura, Sanne S. Kaalund, Kamen A. Tsvetanov, et al.. (2021). In Vivo ¹⁸F-Flortaucipir PET Does Not Accurately Support the Staging of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 63(7). 1052–1057. 14 indexed citations

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Sala, Arianna, Maura Malpetti, Mohsen Farsad, et al.. (2021). Lifelong bilingualism and mechanisms of neuroprotection in Alzheimer dementia. Human Brain Mapping. 43(2). 581–592. 15 indexed citations

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Malpetti, Maura, Rogier Kievit, Luca Passamonti, et al.. (2020). Microglial activation and tau burden predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 143(5). 1588–1602. 122 indexed citations

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Low, Audrey, Elijah Mak, Maura Malpetti, et al.. (2020). In vivo neuroinflammation and cerebral small vessel disease in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 92(1). 45–52. 47 indexed citations

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Nicastro, Nicolas, Maura Malpetti, Elijah Mak, et al.. (2020). Gray matter changes related to microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 94. 236–242. 18 indexed citations

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