Nicola Pavese

16.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
193 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Nicola Pavese is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Pavese has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Neurology, 71 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 35 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Nicola Pavese's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (126 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (103 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (33 papers). Nicola Pavese is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (126 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (103 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (33 papers). Nicola Pavese collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Italy. Nicola Pavese's co-authors include David J. Brooks, Paola Piccini, Yen Tai, Alexander Gerhard, Federico Turkheimer, Gary Hotton, Alexander Hammers, Roger A. Barker, Wolfgang H. Oertel and Ubaldo Bonuccelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Pavese

185 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

In vivo imaging of microglial activation with [11C](R)-PK11195 PET in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

2005 900 citations Alexander Gerhard, Nicola Pavese et al. Neurobiology of Disease profile →
Prasinezumab slows motor progression in rapidly progressing early-stage Parkinson’s disease

2024 56 citations Nicola Pavese et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicola Pavese United Kingdom	49	5.5k	3.9k	2.2k	2.0k	1.8k	193	10.0k
Paola Piccini United Kingdom	60	6.5k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.4×	940 0.5×	195	11.4k
Ernst N.H. Jansen Steur Netherlands	24	6.9k 1.2×	2.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	33	10.0k
Günter U. Höglinger Germany	55	5.2k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.2×	284	10.8k
Kenneth Marek United States	52	9.9k 1.8×	3.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	189	13.5k
Vladimir Kostić Serbia	53	6.4k 1.2×	3.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	369	10.4k
Eldad Melamed Israel	65	6.0k 1.1×	4.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	3.7k 1.8×	1.5k 0.8×	228	13.6k
Thomas Arzberger Germany	46	4.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.8×	3.3k 1.8×	116	9.7k
Rob A. I. de Vos Netherlands	46	10.2k 1.8×	4.8k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.7×	3.5k 1.9×	79	15.7k
Caroline H. Williams‐Gray United Kingdom	45	7.4k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	113	10.2k
Alessandro Stefani Italy	48	4.3k 0.8×	4.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	838 0.5×	220	8.1k

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Rowe, James B., Tanja Zerenner, Alistair Church, et al.. (2025). Cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles distinguish atypical parkinsonian syndromes. Brain. 148(9). 3239–3251.

Pavese, Nicola, et al.. (2024). Imaging Biomarkers in Prodromal and Earliest Phases of Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(s2). S353–S365. 6 indexed citations

Pasquini, Jacopo, Michael Firbank, Victoria Foster, et al.. (2024). Substantia nigra and locus coeruleus microstructural abnormalities in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and Parkinson’s disease. Brain Communications. 7(1). fcaf023–fcaf023. 1 indexed citations

Iranzo, Álex, Mónica Serradell, Morten Gersel Stokholm, et al.. (2024). Cholinergic dysfunction in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder links to impending phenoconversion. European Journal of Neurology. 31(12). e16503–e16503. 3 indexed citations

Firbank, Michael, Jacopo Pasquini, Victoria Foster, et al.. (2024). Cerebellum and basal ganglia connectivity in isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder and Parkinson’s disease: an exploratory study. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 18(6). 1428–1437.

Kobylecki, Christopher, Viorica Chelban, Yee Yen Goh, et al.. (2024). Frequency and outcomes of gastrostomy insertion in a longitudinal cohort study of atypical parkinsonism. European Journal of Neurology. 31(6). e16258–e16258. 1 indexed citations

Ledingham, David, et al.. (2023). The longitudinal progression of autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: A 7-year study. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 1155669–1155669. 10 indexed citations

Pavese, Nicola, et al.. (2022). Molecular Imaging of the GABAergic System in Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonisms. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 22(12). 867–879. 14 indexed citations

Aghakhanyan, Gayanè, Alessandro Galgani, Andrea Vergallo, et al.. (2022). Brain metabolic correlates of Locus Coeruleus degeneration in Alzheimer's disease: a multimodal neuroimaging study. Neurobiology of Aging. 122. 12–21. 7 indexed citations

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Xing, Yue, Antonio Martín‐Bastida, Christopher R. Tench, et al.. (2022). Neuromelanin‐MRI to Quantify and Track Nigral Depigmentation in Parkinson's Disease: A Multicenter Longitudinal Study Using Template‐Based Standardized Analysis. Movement Disorders. 37(5). 1028–1039. 21 indexed citations

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Sigurdsson, Hilmar P., Alison J. Yarnall, Brook Galna, et al.. (2022). Gait‐Related Metabolic Covariance Networks at Rest in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders. 37(6). 1222–1234. 11 indexed citations

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Jiang, Richard, Ce Zhang, Bryan M. Williams, et al.. (2022). Robust Brain Age Estimation Based on sMRI via Nonlinear Age-Adaptive Ensemble Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 30. 2146–2156. 11 indexed citations

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Johnsen, Erik, Mette Møller, Erik Hvid Danielsen, et al.. (2022). Spinal cord stimulation therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease and gait problems (STEP-PD): study protocol for an exploratory, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Neurology Open. 4(2). e000333–e000333. 4 indexed citations

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Sommerauer, Michael, Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Jeppe L. Schaldemose, et al.. (2021). Preserved noradrenergic function in Parkinson's disease patients with rest tremor. Neurobiology of Disease. 152. 105295–105295. 19 indexed citations

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Nissen, Sara Konstantin, Morten Gersel Stokholm, Álex Iranzo, et al.. (2021). Monocyte markers correlate with immune and neuronal brain changes in REM sleep behavior disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 47 indexed citations

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Xu, Zheyu, Kirstie N. Anderson, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, et al.. (2020). Progression of sleep disturbances in Parkinson’s disease: a 5-year longitudinal study. Journal of Neurology. 268(1). 312–320. 44 indexed citations

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Fedorova, Tatyana D., Karoline Knudsen, Ole Lajord Munk, et al.. (2014). Imaging acetylcholinesterase density in peripheral organs in Parkinson's disease with 11C-donepezil PET. Brain. 138(3). 653–663. 121 indexed citations

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Grover, Vijay P.B., Nicola Pavese, Seong‐Beom Koh, et al.. (2011). Cerebral microglial activation in patients with hepatitis c: in vivo evidence of neuroinflammation. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 19(2). e89–96. 105 indexed citations

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Pavese, Nicola, Paul Edison, Yen Tai, et al.. (2007). A systematic comparison of kinetic modelling methods generating parametric maps for [11C]-(R)-PK11195. NeuroImage. 36(1). 28–37. 30 indexed citations

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Pavese, Nicola, et al.. (2001). An 18F dopa PET study of disease progression and subclinical nigrostriatal dysfunction in a Parkin kindred. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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