Piera Catalano

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Piera Catalano is a scholar working on Pollution, Oncology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Piera Catalano has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Pollution, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Piera Catalano's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (4 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (3 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (3 papers). Piera Catalano is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (4 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (3 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (3 papers). Piera Catalano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Sweden and India. Piera Catalano's co-authors include Criselda Santacroce, Oliana Carnevali, Valentina Notarstefano, Alessandro Svelato, Mauro Rongioletti, Antonio Ragusa, Elisabetta Giorgini, Denise Rinaldo, Fabrizio Papa and F. Baiocco and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Environment International.

In The Last Decade

Piera Catalano

10 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta

2020 2.1k citations Antonio Ragusa, Alessandro Svelato et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Piera Catalano Italy	7	2.0k	1.2k	436	423	406	11	2.3k
Criselda Santacroce Italy	7	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	437 1.0×	430 1.0×	406 1.0×	13	2.3k
F. Baiocco Italy	7	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	396 0.9×	400 0.9×	386 1.0×	15	2.2k
Alessandro Svelato Italy	10	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	544 1.2×	538 1.3×	494 1.2×	29	3.2k
Antonio Ragusa Italy	13	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	549 1.3×	541 1.3×	496 1.2×	53	3.2k
Denise Rinaldo Italy	3	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	397 0.9×	400 0.9×	387 1.0×	7	2.1k
Martin J. M. van Velzen Netherlands	11	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	829 1.9×	584 1.4×	499 1.2×	15	3.1k
Amélie Châtel France	22	1.7k 0.9×	892 0.8×	638 1.5×	276 0.7×	432 1.1×	67	2.4k
D. Vethaak Netherlands	13	2.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.3×	802 1.8×	591 1.4×	676 1.7×	32	3.5k
Valentina Notarstefano Italy	24	2.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	774 1.8×	685 1.6×	590 1.5×	68	4.1k
Daheui Choi South Korea	25	1.2k 0.6×	693 0.6×	197 0.5×	824 1.9×	668 1.6×	52	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Piera Catalano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piera Catalano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Piera Catalano. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Piera Catalano. The network helps show where Piera Catalano may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piera Catalano

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

Lapenta, Caterina, Stefano M. Santini, Simona Donati, et al.. (2024). Anti-Tumor Immunity to Patient-Derived Breast Cancer Cells by Vaccination with Interferon-Alpha-Conditioned Dendritic Cells (IFN-DC). Vaccines. 12(9). 1058–1058.

Squitti, Rosanna, Vincenzo Tondolo, Amit Pal, et al.. (2024). Copper Dysmetabolism is Connected to Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition: A Pilot Study in Colorectal Cancer Patients. Biological Trace Element Research. 203(7). 3604–3617. 1 indexed citations

Ragusa, Antonio, Giuseppina Fanelli, Alessandro Svelato, et al.. (2022). Plastic and Placenta: Identification of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Compounds in the Human Placenta by HPLC-MS/MS System. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(21). 12743–12743. 6 indexed citations

Ragusa, Antonio, Loredana Cristiano, Roberto Matassa, et al.. (2022). Deeply in Plasticenta: Presence of Microplastics in the Intracellular Compartment of Human Placentas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(18). 11593–11593. 118 indexed citations

Ragusa, Antonio, Giuseppina Fanelli, Federica Gevi, et al.. (2022). Plastic and Placenta: Identification of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Compounds in the Human Placenta by HPLC-MS/MS System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Ragusa, Antonio, Alessandro Svelato, Criselda Santacroce, et al.. (2020). Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta. Environment International. 146. 106274–106274. 2088 indexed citations breakdown →

Moro, Carlos Fernández, Alejandro Fernandez-Woodbridge, Melroy A. D’Souza, et al.. (2016). Immunohistochemical Typing of Adenocarcinomas of the Pancreatobiliary System Improves Diagnosis and Prognostic Stratification. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0166067–e0166067. 34 indexed citations

Ciaparrone, Marco, Orietta Caspiani, Diego Signorelli, et al.. (2015). Predictive Role of ERCC1 Expression in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Treated with Surgery and Adjuvant Cisplatin-Based Chemoradiation. Oncology. 89(4). 227–234. 9 indexed citations

Danesi, Donatella Tirindelli, et al.. (2000). Flow cytometric DNA ploidy, p53, PCNA, and c-erbB-2 protein expressions as predictors of survival in surgically resected gastric cancer patients. Cytometry. 42(1). 27–34. 22 indexed citations

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Danesi, Donatella Tirindelli, Marcello Spanò, Pierluigi Altavista, et al.. (1997). Flow Cytometric and Immunohistochemical Correlations in High Incidence Human Solid Tumors. Tumori Journal. 83(3). 689–697. 4 indexed citations

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Celleno, D., et al.. (1993). An Anatomic Study of the Effects of Dural Puncture With Different Spinal Needles. Regional Anesthesia The Journal of Neural Blockade in Obstetrics Surgery & Pain Control. 18(4). 218–221. 10 indexed citations

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