Salvatore Spina

25.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
98 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Salvatore Spina is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Salvatore Spina has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Physiology, 52 papers in Neurology and 25 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Salvatore Spina's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (57 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (29 papers). Salvatore Spina is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (57 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (29 papers). Salvatore Spina collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Italy. Salvatore Spina's co-authors include Bruce L. Miller, Jee Bang, Bernardino Ghetti, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Nicholas Olney, Jill R. Murrell, Howard J. Rosen, Herbert Budka and Gábor G. Kovács and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Salvatore Spina

92 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Frontotemporal dementia

2015 664 citations Salvatore Spina, Bruce L. Miller et al. profile →
Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer’s disease

2021 271 citations Rana Eser, Antonia M. H. Piergies et al. profile →
Comorbid neuropathological diagnoses in early versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

2021 154 citations Salvatore Spina, Renaud La Joie et al. Brain profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Salvatore Spina United States	32	1.8k	1.8k	942	872	866	98	3.7k
Antonella Alberici Italy	37	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	892 1.0×	869 1.0×	139	4.1k
Anna Karydas United States	31	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	704 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	838 1.0×	58	3.7k
Albert Lladó Spain	34	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	826 0.9×	962 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	132	4.3k
Suzee E. Lee United States	15	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	534 0.6×	344 0.4×	778 0.9×	24	2.7k
Eizo Iseki Japan	42	2.4k 1.3×	2.7k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	173	5.3k
James R. Burrell Australia	24	2.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	639 0.7×	685 0.8×	840 1.0×	76	4.3k
Joanne Norton United States	21	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	630 0.7×	703 0.8×	545 0.6×	40	2.6k
Yen Tai United Kingdom	23	1.1k 0.6×	883 0.5×	876 0.9×	957 1.1×	535 0.6×	52	3.5k
Hiroshige Fujishiro Japan	31	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	591 0.6×	313 0.4×	724 0.8×	114	3.2k
Elizabeth J. Cochran United States	29	703 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	680 0.7×	985 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	48	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Salvatore Spina

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Ehrenberg, Alexander J., Cathrine Petersen, Felipe Luiz Pereira, et al.. (2025). Pathways underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease: Contrasting the vulnerable locus coeruleus to the resilient substantia nigra. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(3). e70087–e70087. 2 indexed citations

Saloner, Rowan, Kaitlin B. Casaletto, Sruti Rayaprolu, et al.. (2025). Interrogating the plasma proteome of repetitive head impact exposure and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 20(1). 71–71.

Roy, Ashlin R. K., Argentina Lario Lago, Yann Cobigo, et al.. (2025). Combining plasma neurofilament light chain and frontotemporal atrophy improves differentiation of bvFTD from primary psychiatric disorders. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(10). e70771–e70771.

Kauwe, Grant, Lei Yao, Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong, et al.. (2024). KIBRA repairs synaptic plasticity and promotes resilience to tauopathy-related memory loss. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(3). 12 indexed citations

Rimal, Suman, Wen Li, Yu Li, et al.. (2024). Deregulation of mitochondrial reverse electron transport alters the metabolism of reactive oxygen species and NAD⁺/NADH and presents a therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s disease. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

Li, Song Hua, Felipe Luiz Pereira, Cláudia Kimie Suemoto, et al.. (2024). Truncated tau accumulates before hyperphosphorylated tau and in relatively distinct neuronal subpopulations in entorhinal cortex and inferior temporal gyrus in Alzheimer’s disease patients. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S1). e093137–e093137. 1 indexed citations

Samudra, Niyatee, Christine M. Walsh, Heidi E. Kirsch, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal characteristics of neurophysiological changes in patients with four‐repeat tauopathies. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 11(2). 525–535. 1 indexed citations

Marsan, Elise, Dmitry Velmeshev, Marina Ramsey, et al.. (2023). Astroglial toxicity promotes synaptic degeneration in the thalamocortical circuit in frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutations. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(6). 25 indexed citations

Renganathan, Arun, Rita Martinez, Abdallah M. Eteleeb, et al.. (2023). Long non-coding RNA SNHG8 drives stress granule formation in tauopathies. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(11). 4889–4901. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, Salvatore Spina, Patrick Callahan, et al.. (2023). Pathology‐specific patterns of cerebellar atrophy in neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(3). 1771–1783. 6 indexed citations

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Theofilas, Panos, Antonia M. H. Piergies, Song Hua Li, et al.. (2022). Caspase‐6‐cleaved tau is relevant in Alzheimer's disease and marginal in four‐repeat tauopathies: Diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 48(5). e12819–e12819. 12 indexed citations

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Boland, Sebastian, Sharan Swarup, Alexander W. Fischer, et al.. (2022). Deficiency of the frontotemporal dementia gene GRN results in gangliosidosis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5924–5924. 44 indexed citations

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Pijnenburg, Yolande A.L., Priya Gami‐Patel, Baayla D.C. Boon, et al.. (2022). The behavioral variant of Alzheimer’s disease does not show a selective loss of Von Economo and phylogenetically related neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 14(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations

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Spina, Salvatore, Renaud La Joie, Cathrine Petersen, et al.. (2021). Comorbid neuropathological diagnoses in early versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 144(7). 2186–2198. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

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Falgàs, Neus, Isabel Elaine Allen, Salvatore Spina, et al.. (2021). The severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms is higher in early‐onset than late‐onset Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Neurology. 29(4). 957–967. 21 indexed citations

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Asken, Breton M., Ethan G. Geier, Katherine P. Rankin, et al.. (2021). Genetic pleiotropy and the shared pathological features of corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy: a case report and a review of the literature. Neurocase. 27(2). 120–128. 3 indexed citations

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Pasquini, Lorenzo, Alissa L. Nana, Gianina Toller, et al.. (2020). Salience Network Atrophy Links Neuron Type-Specific Pathobiology to Loss of Empathy in Frontotemporal Dementia. Cerebral Cortex. 30(10). 5387–5399. 34 indexed citations

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Kim, Eun‐Joo, Jihye Hwang, Stephanie E. Gaus, et al.. (2019). Evidence of corticofugal tau spreading in patients with frontotemporal dementia. Acta Neuropathologica. 139(1). 27–43. 21 indexed citations

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Boyd, Clara, Michael Tierney, Eric M. Wassermann, et al.. (2015). Sensitivity and Specificity of New Criteria for the Diagnosis of Corticobasal Degeneration (P5.010). Neurology. 84(14_supplement). 2 indexed citations

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Boyd, Clara, Michael Tierney, Eric M. Wassermann, et al.. (2014). Visual Perception Test Predicts a Pathological Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease in Patients Presenting with Corticobasal Syndrome (P3.202). Neurology. 82(10_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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