Paola De Castro

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Paola De Castro is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Paola De Castro has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in General Health Professions, 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Paola De Castro's work include Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (6 papers), Sex and Gender in Healthcare (5 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 papers). Paola De Castro is often cited by papers focused on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (6 papers), Sex and Gender in Healthcare (5 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 papers). Paola De Castro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Paola De Castro's co-authors include Thomas F. Babor, Shirin Heidari, Sera Tort, Mirjam Curno, Elena Bravo, Laurence Mabile, Anne Cambon‐Thomsen, Daniela Marsili, Alessia Calzolari and Anna Maria Rossi and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Paola De Castro

37 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Sex and Gender Equity in Research: rationale for the SAGER guidelines and recommended use

2016 1.1k citations Shirin Heidari, Thomas F. Babor et al. PubMed profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paola De Castro Italy	12	609	307	240	118	118	40	1.5k
Mirjam Curno United States	6	577 0.9×	315 1.0×	209 0.9×	108 0.9×	89 0.8×	8	1.3k
Sera Tort Spain	12	1.0k 1.7×	294 1.0×	399 1.7×	134 1.1×	274 2.3×	36	2.1k
Christopher M. Wittich United States	25	828 1.4×	228 0.7×	458 1.9×	70 0.6×	97 0.8×	64	1.9k
Kent J. DeZee United States	21	778 1.3×	284 0.9×	387 1.6×	113 1.0×	54 0.5×	55	2.5k
Eduardo Hariton United States	16	474 0.8×	128 0.4×	208 0.9×	201 1.7×	106 0.9×	54	1.7k
Sean Tackett United States	22	580 1.0×	126 0.4×	422 1.8×	91 0.8×	58 0.5×	119	1.7k
Brian C. Drolet United States	28	1.1k 1.8×	834 2.7×	580 2.4×	140 1.2×	168 1.4×	161	2.5k
María Teresa Ruiz‐Cantero Spain	19	290 0.5×	142 0.5×	350 1.5×	118 1.0×	70 0.6×	96	1.2k
Fernando Adami Brazil	27	545 0.9×	130 0.4×	489 2.0×	212 1.8×	97 0.8×	189	2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paola De Castro

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Heidari, Shirin, Thomas F. Babor, Paola De Castro, Sera Tort, & Mirjam Curno. (2024). Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER): rationale for the SAGER guidelines and recommended use: a Korean translation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 47(1). e10–e10. 1 indexed citations

Castro, Paola De, et al.. (2023). Método gráfico para resolver sistemas de ecuaciones lineales 2x2. instname:Universidad de los Andes.

Bucciardini, Raffaella, Tuulia Rotko, Benedetta Mattioli, et al.. (2023). Addressing health inequalities in Europe: key messages from the Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE). Archives of Public Health. 81(1). 89–89. 8 indexed citations

Ceretti, Elisabetta, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Internet-Based Communication for Public Health: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(9). e38541–e38541. 5 indexed citations

Palmieri, Luigi, Chiara Cadeddu, Aldo Rosano, et al.. (2020). Abstract P532: The Italian Pilot of the Health Literacy Survey 2019 in the Cuore Project for the Who Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy (m-pohl). Circulation. 141(Suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

Biasio, Luigi Roberto, Chiara Lorini, Elena Bozzola, et al.. (2019). Assessment of health literacy skills in family doctors' patients by two brief, self-administered Italian measures.. PubMed. 54(3). 214–222. 7 indexed citations

Heidari, Shirin, Thomas F. Babor, Paola De Castro, Sera Tort, & Mirjam Curno. (2018). Equidad según sexo y de género en la investigación: justificación de las guías SAGER y recomendaciones para su uso. Gaceta Sanitaria. 33(2). 203–210. 35 indexed citations

Bucciardini, Raffaella, Vincenzo Fragola, M. Mirra, et al.. (2017). Predictors of attrition from care at 2 years in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected adults in Tigray, Ethiopia. BMJ Global Health. 2(3). e000325–e000325. 15 indexed citations

Heidari, Shirin, Thomas F. Babor, Paola De Castro, Sera Tort, & Mirjam Curno. (2017). Equidade de sexo e gênero na pesquisa: fundamentação das diretrizes SAGER e uso recomendado*. Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde. 26(3). 665–676. 26 indexed citations

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Heidari, Shirin, Thomas F. Babor, Paola De Castro, Sera Tort, & Mirjam Curno. (2016). Sex and Gender Equity in Research: rationale for the SAGER guidelines and recommended use. PubMed. 1(1). 2–2. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Calzolari, Alessia, Anne Cambon‐Thomsen, Laurence Mabile, et al.. (2016). Biobankers: Treat the Poison of Invisibility with CoBRA, a Systematic Way of Citing Bioresources in Journal Articles. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 14(4). 350–352. 11 indexed citations

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Mabile, Laurence, Paola De Castro, Elena Bravo, et al.. (2016). Towards new tools for bioresource use and sharing. Information Services & Use. 36(3-4). 133–146. 4 indexed citations

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Marsili, Daniela, Pietro Comba, & Paola De Castro. (2015). Environmental health literacy within the Italian Asbestos Project: experience in Italy and Latin American contexts. Commentary.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 51(3). 180–2. 12 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De, Alessia Calzolari, Anna Maria Rossi, et al.. (2013). Open Data Sharing in the Context of Bioresources. Acta Informatica Medica. 21(4). 291–291. 11 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De, et al.. (2013). Information and health literacy for school students: the e-Bug experience in Italy. 3 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De, et al.. (2012). Dissemination of public health information: key tools utilised by the NECOBELAC network in Europe and Latin America. Health Information & Libraries Journal. 29(2). 119–130. 4 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De, et al.. (2009). NECOBELAC, a European project to promote the diffusion of scientific information in public health. E-LIS Repository (University of Naples Federico II). 22(4). 3–6. 6 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De. (2009). Librarians of Babel: A Toolkit for Effective Communication. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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Iriarte, J., et al.. (1992). [Cognitive functions in multiple sclerosis].. PubMed. 7(7). 171–5. 2 indexed citations

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Castro, Paola De, et al.. (1990). The use of grey literature in health sciences: a preliminary survey.. PubMed. 78(4). 358–63. 109 indexed citations

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