Silvia Turroni

15.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
207 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Silvia Turroni is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvia Turroni has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Molecular Biology, 54 papers in Physiology and 35 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Silvia Turroni's work include Gut microbiota and health (132 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (47 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (33 papers). Silvia Turroni is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (132 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (47 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (33 papers). Silvia Turroni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Silvia Turroni's co-authors include Patrizia Brigidi, Marco Candela, Elena Biagi, Simone Rampelli, Clarissa Consolandi, Marco Severgnini, Claudio Franceschi, Sara Quercia, Monica Barone and Clelia Peano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Silvia Turroni

195 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

High-level adherence to a Mediterranean diet beneficially impacts the gut microbiota and associated metabolome

2015 1.2k citations Nicoletta Pellegrini, Silvia Turroni et al. profile →
Gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers

2014 888 citations Stephanie L. Schnorr, Marco Candela et al. profile →
Gut Microbiota and Extreme Longevity

2016 698 citations Elena Biagi, Claudio Franceschi et al. profile →
Elevated gut microbiome abundance of Christensenellaceae, Porphyromonadaceae and Rikenellaceae is associated with reduced visceral adipose tissue and healthier metabolic profile in Italian elderly

2021 196 citations Simone Rampelli, Monica Barone et al. profile →
Effects of Dietary Fibers on Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review

2022 136 citations Valentina Vinelli, Daniela Martini et al. Nutrients profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silvia Turroni Italy	51	6.5k	3.0k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	207	10.0k
Rachel N. Carmody United States	25	7.7k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	40	10.9k
Marco Candela Italy	59	7.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	906 0.8×	228	12.5k
Corinne F. Maurice Canada	22	7.2k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	910 0.8×	45	9.7k
Rachel J. Dutton United States	24	7.0k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	845 0.7×	37	9.6k
Julie E. Button United States	8	5.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	813 0.7×	8	7.8k
A. Sloan Devlin United States	17	7.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	865 0.7×	25	9.8k
Elena Biagi Italy	45	6.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	737 0.6×	96	9.1k
David B. Gootenberg United States	6	6.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	842 0.7×	6	8.0k
Tanya Yatsunenko United States	8	7.2k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	602 0.5×	9	9.4k
Benjamin E. Wolfe United States	33	7.1k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	2.4k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	878 0.7×	65	12.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvia Turroni

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D’Amico, Federica, et al.. (2025). Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: Mass-Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics in the Study of Microbiome Mediators—Stress Relationship. Biomolecules. 15(2). 243–243.

Salvestrini, Valentina, Gabriele Conti, Federica D’Amico, et al.. (2025). Gut Microbiome as a Potential Marker of Hematologic Recovery Following Induction Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients. Cancer Medicine. 14(3). e70501–e70501. 1 indexed citations

Medici, Giorgio, Manuela Loi, Spase Stojanov, et al.. (2025). Lactic acid bacteria as microbial cell factories for the in vivo delivery of therapeutic proteins as secretable TAT fusion products. Journal of Biological Engineering. 19(1). 65–65. 1 indexed citations

Barone, Monica, Silvia Turroni, Patrizia Brigidi, et al.. (2024). Impact of Combined Prebiotic Galacto-Oligosaccharides and Bifidobacterium breve-Derived Postbiotic on Gut Microbiota and HbA1c in Prediabetic Adults: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study. Nutrients. 16(14). 2205–2205. 12 indexed citations

Dell’Anno, Antonio, Michael Tangherlini, Marco Candela, et al.. (2024). Resistance to freezing conditions of endemic Antarctic polychaetes is enhanced by cryoprotective proteins produced by their microbiome. Science Advances. 10(25). eadk9117–eadk9117. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Fengyi, et al.. (2024). Implementation of enhanced biological phosphorus recovery for phosphorus mining from eutrophic marine sediments: The optimization of parameters and exploration of microbial responses. Chemical Engineering Journal. 502. 157888–157888.

Zhu, Fengyi, Giorgia Palladino, Chen Chen, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the impact of carbon sources on phosphorus release from sediment: Investigation of microbial interactions and metabolic pathways for anaerobic phosphorus recovery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 500. 157058–157058. 3 indexed citations

Conti, Gabriele, Marco Fabbrini, Patrizia Brigidi, et al.. (2023). Gut microbiota resilience and recovery after anticancer chemotherapy. PubMed. 2(2). 16–16. 18 indexed citations

Cortés, Farid B., Diana Luise, Giorgia Palladino, et al.. (2023). Influence of body lesion severity on oxidative status and gut microbiota of weaned pigs. animal. 17(6). 100818–100818. 9 indexed citations

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D’Amico, Federica, Marco Fabbrini, Luigi Mariani, et al.. (2023). Gut Microbiota, Metabolome, and Body Composition Signatures of Response to Therapy in Patients with Advanced Melanoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11611–11611. 10 indexed citations

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Scarpina, Federica, Silvia Turroni, Sara Paola Mambrini, et al.. (2022). Gut Microbiota and Fear Processing in Women Affected by Obesity: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Nutrients. 14(18). 3788–3788. 2 indexed citations

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Vinelli, Valentina, Daniela Martini, Cristian Del Bo’, et al.. (2022). Effects of Dietary Fibers on Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 14(13). 2559–2559. 136 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rampelli, Simone, Silvia Turroni, Carolina Mallol, et al.. (2021). Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt. Communications Biology. 4(1). 169–169. 22 indexed citations

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Turroni, Silvia, Elisabetta Petracci, Valeria Edefonti, et al.. (2021). Effects of a Diet Based on Foods from Symbiotic Agriculture on the Gut Microbiota of Subjects at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome. Nutrients. 13(6). 2081–2081. 6 indexed citations

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Masetti, Riccardo, Daniele Zama, Davide Leardini, et al.. (2020). The gut microbiome in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 67(12). e28711–e28711. 29 indexed citations

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Durso, Danielle Fernandes, Tatiani Uceli Maioli, Angélica T. Vieira, et al.. (2020). Hypertension Is Associated With Intestinal Microbiota Dysbiosis and Inflammation in a Brazilian Population. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 11. 258–258. 85 indexed citations

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D’Amico, Federica, Matteo Soverini, Daniele Zama, et al.. (2019). Gut resistome plasticity in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5649–5649. 19 indexed citations

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Quercia, Sara, Silvia Turroni, Jessica Fiori, et al.. (2017). Gut microbiome response to short‐term dietary interventions in reactive hypoglycemia subjects. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 33(8). 20 indexed citations

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Valentini, Luzia, Alessandro Pinto, Isabelle Bourdel‐Marchasson, et al.. (2014). Impact of personalized diet and probiotic supplementation on inflammation, nutritional parameters and intestinal microbiota – The “RISTOMED project”: Randomized controlled trial in healthy older people. Clinical Nutrition. 34(4). 593–602. 103 indexed citations

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Bazzocchi, Gabriele, Tiziana Giovannini, Carlo Giussani, Patrizia Brigidi, & Silvia Turroni. (2014). Effect of a new synbiotic supplement on symptoms, stool consistency, intestinal transit time and gut microbiota in patients with severe functional constipation: a pilot randomized double-blind, controlled trial. Techniques in Coloproctology. 18(10). 945–953. 25 indexed citations

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