Sara Poletti

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
131 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sara Poletti is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Poletti has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 56 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 39 papers in Biological Psychiatry. Recurrent topics in Sara Poletti's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (58 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (49 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (39 papers). Sara Poletti is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (58 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (49 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (39 papers). Sara Poletti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Sara Poletti's co-authors include Francesco Benedetti, Cristina Colombo, Benedetta Vai, Enrico Smeraldi, Mario Gennaro Mazza, Irene Bollettini, Roberto Furlan, Daniele Radaelli, Patrizia Rovere‐Querini and Clara Locatelli and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Sara Poletti

125 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors

2020 1.1k citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Rebecca De Lorenzo et al. Brain Behavior and Immunity profile →
Persistent psychopathology and neurocognitive impairment in COVID-19 survivors: Effect of inflammatory biomarkers at three-month follow-up

2021 334 citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Mariagrazia Palladini et al. Brain Behavior and Immunity profile →
Post-COVID-19 Depressive Symptoms: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacological Treatment

2022 121 citations Mario Gennaro Mazza, Mariagrazia Palladini et al. profile →
Inflammatory mediators in major depression and bipolar disorder

2024 46 citations Sara Poletti, Mario Gennaro Mazza et al. Translational Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Poletti Italy	36	2.0k	1.6k	1.3k	1.3k	1.2k	131	5.3k
Belinda Lennox United Kingdom	33	1.5k 0.7×	654 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	779 0.6×	993 0.8×	112	4.3k
Matthew J. Kempton United Kingdom	44	2.5k 1.3×	960 0.6×	2.5k 1.9×	350 0.3×	722 0.6×	126	6.3k
Graham K. Murray United Kingdom	48	3.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.9×	432 0.3×	580 0.5×	167	7.1k
Cheng‐Ta Li Taiwan	47	2.3k 1.2×	941 0.6×	2.4k 1.8×	455 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	236	7.3k
Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak Denmark	43	3.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	982 0.8×	276	7.3k
Cristina Colombo Italy	54	3.2k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.9×	382 0.3×	1.6k 1.4×	245	8.8k
Poul Videbech Denmark	37	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	241 0.2×	543 0.5×	176	5.8k
Jonathan Savitz United States	48	2.2k 1.1×	874 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	544 0.4×	2.6k 2.1×	131	7.5k
Hilary P. Blumberg United States	44	3.8k 1.9×	1.8k 1.1×	3.0k 2.3×	329 0.3×	617 0.5×	114	7.2k
Stéphane Potvin Canada	44	2.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	283 0.2×	1.0k 0.9×	255	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Poletti

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Liu, Sijun, Sara Poletti, Wei Liu, et al.. (2025). Structural brain correlates in major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 55. e203–e203.

Scalabrini, Andrea, Sara Poletti, Benedetta Vai, et al.. (2025). Abnormally slow dynamics in occipital cortex of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 374. 523–530. 3 indexed citations

Poletti, Sara, Mario Gennaro Mazza, & Francesco Benedetti. (2024). Inflammatory mediators in major depression and bipolar disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 247–247. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Paolini, Marco, et al.. (2023). Brain correlates of perceived cognitive impairment after covid-19 infection: a multimodal MRI study.. European Psychiatry. 66(S1). S120–S120. 1 indexed citations

Palladini, Mariagrazia, Mario Gennaro Mazza, Andrea Scalabrini, et al.. (2023). The Burden of Survivorship: Survivor Guilt and Its Association with Psychiatric Sequelae in COVID-19 Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(9). 3117–3117. 1 indexed citations

Aggio, Veronica, Sara Poletti, Cristina Lorenzi, et al.. (2023). Circulating cytotoxic immune cell composition, activation status and toxins expression associate with white matter microstructure in bipolar disorder. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 22209–22209. 7 indexed citations

Mazza, Elena, Federico Calesella, Marco Paolini, et al.. (2022). Insulin resistance disrupts white matter microstructure and amplitude of functional spontaneous activity in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 25(1). 32–42. 11 indexed citations

Paolini, Marco, Mariagrazia Palladini, Mario Gennaro Mazza, et al.. (2022). Brain correlates of subjective cognitive complaints in COVID-19 survivors: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 68. 1–10. 38 indexed citations

Palladini, Mariagrazia, Federica Colombo, Patrizia Rovere‐Querini, et al.. (2022). Cognitive remediation therapy for post-acute persistent cognitive deficits in COVID-19 survivors: A proof-of-concept study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 33(7). 1207–1224. 14 indexed citations

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Melloni, Elisa, Sara Poletti, Sara Dallaspezia, et al.. (2022). Antidepressant chronotherapeutics normalizes prefrontal 1H-MRS glutamate in bipolar depression. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 119. 110606–110606. 9 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Igor Branchi, Sara Poletti, et al.. (2021). Adiponectin predicts poor response to antidepressant drugs in major depressive disorder. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental. 36(6). e2793–e2793. 6 indexed citations

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Scalabrini, Andrea, Benedetta Vai, Sara Poletti, et al.. (2020). All roads lead to the default-mode network—global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(12). 2058–2069. 153 indexed citations

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Mazza, Mario Gennaro, Rebecca De Lorenzo, Caterina Conte, et al.. (2020). Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 89. 594–600. 1122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vai, Benedetta, Irene Bollettini, Elisa Melloni, et al.. (2020). Predicting differential diagnosis between bipolar and unipolar depression with multiple kernel learning on multimodal structural neuroimaging. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 34. 28–38. 50 indexed citations

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Poletti, Sara, Veronica Aggio, Oliver Ambrée, et al.. (2016). Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Bdnf) and Gray Matter Volume in Bipolar Disorder. European Psychiatry. 40. 33–37. 20 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Sara Poletti, Clara Locatelli, et al.. (2016). Stem Cell Factor (SCF) is a putative biomarker of antidepressant response. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. 11(2). 248–258. 29 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Sara Poletti, Daniele Radaelli, et al.. (2015). Right hemisphere neural activations in the recall of waking fantasies and of dreams. Journal of Sleep Research. 24(5). 576–582. 9 indexed citations

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Vai, Benedetta, Sara Poletti, Daniele Radaelli, et al.. (2015). Abnormal cortico-limbic connectivity during emotional processing correlates with symptom severity in schizophrenia. European Psychiatry. 30(5). 590–597. 38 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Martina Absinta, Maria A. Rocca, et al.. (2011). Tract-specific white matter structural disruption in patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 13(4). 414–424. 116 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Francesco, Alessandro Bernasconi, Marta Bosia, et al.. (2009). Functional and structural brain correlates of theory of mind and empathy deficits in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 114(1-3). 154–160. 123 indexed citations

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