Roberto Chiesa

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
186 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Roberto Chiesa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Chiesa has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Molecular Biology, 65 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 51 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Roberto Chiesa's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (66 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (46 papers) and Aortic aneurysm repair treatments (40 papers). Roberto Chiesa is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (66 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (46 papers) and Aortic aneurysm repair treatments (40 papers). Roberto Chiesa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Roberto Chiesa's co-authors include David A. Harris, Gianluigi Forloni, Mario Salmona, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Nadia Angeretti, Germano Melissano, Orso Bugiani, Pedro Piccardo, Bernardino Ghetti and Enrico Monzani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Chiesa

180 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Neurotoxicity of a prion protein fragment

1993 797 citations Gianluigi Forloni, Roberto Chiesa et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Chiesa Italy	43	4.3k	2.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	186	7.5k
Sylvain Chemtob Canada	59	4.5k 1.0×	975 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	512 0.4×	328	11.8k
Praveen Ballabh United States	43	1.9k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	257 0.2×	81	7.8k
Gary A. Weisman United States	57	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	588 0.4×	544 0.4×	159	9.6k
G Feuerstein United States	52	3.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	560 0.4×	290 0.2×	178	9.5k
Richard Breyer United States	57	3.5k 0.8×	659 0.3×	1.8k 1.1×	729 0.5×	386 0.3×	137	9.4k
Paula Grammas United States	45	2.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	301 0.2×	409 0.3×	140	6.2k
Atsushi Yamauchi Japan	39	2.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	682 0.4×	406 0.3×	322 0.2×	168	5.5k
David A. Antonetti United States	55	5.6k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	876 0.5×	273 0.2×	213 0.1×	124	12.7k
Henry M. Sarau United States	45	3.0k 0.7×	554 0.2×	1.5k 0.9×	495 0.3×	351 0.2×	131	7.5k
Volodymyr Gerzanich United States	54	3.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	636 0.4×	538 0.4×	260 0.2×	126	8.9k

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Chiesa, Roberto, Luana Fioriti, Gianluigi Forloni, & Claudia Balducci. (2025). Role of prion protein in mediating the synaptotoxic effects of tau oligomers: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies. Neural Regeneration Research.

Beeler, Aaron B., et al.. (2025). Enhanced lysosomal activity prevents infection with PrPSc and the seeding activity of α-synuclein & tau prions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 302(2). 111050–111050.

Balducci, Claudia, Franca Orsini, Milica Cerovic, et al.. (2025). Tau oligomers impair memory and synaptic plasticity through the cellular prion protein. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 13(1). 17–17. 1 indexed citations

Bilman, Victor, Luca Bertoglio, Germano Melissano, & Roberto Chiesa. (2021). Contained rupture of an aortic arch aneurysm in a patient with syphilitic aortitis. A case report. Jornal Vascular Brasileiro. 20. e20210160–e20210160. 3 indexed citations

Restelli, Elena, Raffaella Morini, Ilaria Bertani, et al.. (2020). Mutant prion proteins increase calcium permeability of AMPA receptors, exacerbating excitotoxicity. PLoS Pathogens. 16(7). e1008654–e1008654. 14 indexed citations

Bilman, Victor, Tommaso Cambiaghi, Alessandro Grandi, et al.. (2020). Anatomical feasibility of a new off-the-shelf inner branch stent graft (E-nside) for endovascular treatment of thoraco-abdominal aneurysms. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 58(6). 1296–1303. 28 indexed citations

Monaco, Fabrizio, Pasquale Nardelli, Laura Pasin, et al.. (2019). Tranexamic acid in open aortic aneurysm surgery: a randomised clinical trial. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 124(1). 35–43. 18 indexed citations

Pasin, Laura, Pasquale Nardelli, Giovanni Landoni, et al.. (2015). Examination of regional anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 62(3). 631–634.e1. 11 indexed citations

Pasin, Laura, Giovanni Landoni, Luca Cabrini, et al.. (2014). Propofol and survival: a meta‐analysis of randomized clinical trials. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. 59(1). 17–24. 19 indexed citations

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Cardinale, Alessio, Roberto Chiesa, & Michael R. Sierks. (2014). Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Diseases. International Journal of Cell Biology. 2014. 1–2. 11 indexed citations

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Chiesa, Roberto, Luca Bertoglio, Enrico Rinaldi, & Yamume Tshomba. (2014). Hybrid repair of aortic arch pathology. Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2014(0). mmu003–mmu003. 5 indexed citations

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Monti, Lucilla D., Pietro Lucotti, Massimiliano M. Marrocco‐Trischitta, et al.. (2012). Effect of a long‐term oral l ‐arginine supplementation on glucose metabolism: a randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 14(10). 893–900. 58 indexed citations

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Massignan, Tania, Emiliano Biasini, Eliana Lauranzano, et al.. (2009). Mutant Prion Protein Expression Is Associated with an Alteration of the Rab GDP Dissociation Inhibitor α (GDI)/Rab11 Pathway. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 9(4). 611–622. 29 indexed citations

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Melissano, Germano, et al.. (2005). Single Center Experience with a New Commercially Available Thoracic Endovascular Graft. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 29(6). 579–585. 19 indexed citations

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Marrocco‐Trischitta, Massimiliano M., et al.. (2005). Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitor-induced Angioedema following Carotid Endarterectomy Misdiagnosed as Cervical Hematoma. Annals of Vascular Surgery. 20(1). 145–147. 7 indexed citations

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Quaglio, Elena, Roberto Chiesa, & David A. Harris. (2001). Copper Converts the Cellular Prion Protein into a Protease-resistant Species That Is Distinct from the Scrapie Isoform. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(14). 11432–11438. 139 indexed citations

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Anzuini, Angelo, Carlo Briguori, Gary S. Roubin, et al.. (2001). Emergency stenting to treat neurological complications occurring after carotid endarterectomy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 37(8). 2074–2079. 29 indexed citations

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Melissano, Germano, Carlo Di Mario, Yamume Tshomba, et al.. (2000). Endovascular treatment of a noninfected anastomotic juxtarenal aortic aneurysm.. PubMed Central. 27(4). 408–11. 13 indexed citations

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Melissano, Germano, Francesco Blasi, Giovanni Esposito, et al.. (1999). Eradication from Carotid Plaques.Results of an Open, Randomised Treatment Study. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 18(4). 355–359. 26 indexed citations

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Spotti, Donatella, Giorgio Slaviero, Giuliana Ferrari, et al.. (1991). [Vascular access for chronic hemodialysis in diabetic patients].. PubMed. 46(12). 685–8. 1 indexed citations

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