Silvio O. Rizzoli

14.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
157 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Silvio O. Rizzoli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvio O. Rizzoli has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Molecular Biology, 73 papers in Cell Biology and 60 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Silvio O. Rizzoli's work include Cellular transport and secretion (66 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (60 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (45 papers). Silvio O. Rizzoli is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (66 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (60 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (45 papers). Silvio O. Rizzoli collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Silvio O. Rizzoli's co-authors include William J. Betz, Stefan W. Hell, Reinhard Jahn, Volker Westphal, Dirk Kamin, Marcel A. Lauterbach, Katrin I. Willig, Sven Truckenbrodt, Katharina Kröhnert and Felipe Opazo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Silvio O. Rizzoli

151 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains cluste... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2006 2004 2008 2014 2006 250 500 750
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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.

  1. STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis
    2006 884 citations Silvio O. Rizzoli, Volker Westphal et al. profile →
  2. Synaptic vesicle pools
    2004 674 citations Silvio O. Rizzoli et al. profile →
  3. Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement
    2008 596 citations Volker Westphal, Silvio O. Rizzoli et al. Science profile →
  4. Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins
    2014 528 citations Benjamin Wilhelm, Sunit Mandad et al. Science profile →
  5. Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy
    2006 389 citations Gerald Donnert, Jan Keller‐Findeisen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy
    2009 334 citations Volker Westphal, Silvio O. Rizzoli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Silvio O. Rizzoli Germany 45 4.7k 2.9k 2.7k 2.3k 1.2k 157 8.7k
Jean‐Baptiste Sibarita France 50 4.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 996 0.8× 105 7.8k
Thomas J. Deerinck United States 61 9.2k 1.9× 3.0k 1.0× 2.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 575 0.5× 126 14.9k
Ryohei Yasuda United States 57 8.7k 1.8× 1.4k 0.5× 5.6k 2.1× 1.6k 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 133 14.4k
Daniel Choquet France 78 9.2k 2.0× 3.7k 1.3× 9.0k 3.3× 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 183 17.6k
David W. Piston United States 63 7.9k 1.7× 1.2k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 3.5k 1.5× 2.0k 1.6× 223 14.7k
Takeharu Nagai Japan 54 10.6k 2.3× 1.8k 0.6× 4.1k 1.5× 3.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.9× 228 15.4k
Katrin I. Willig Germany 31 2.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 1.3k 0.5× 3.3k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 54 6.7k
Yale E. Goldman United States 60 6.9k 1.5× 3.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 2.1k 1.8× 197 12.2k
Lukas C. Kapitein Netherlands 50 4.6k 1.0× 4.9k 1.7× 2.1k 0.8× 674 0.3× 379 0.3× 117 8.3k
Michael Z. Lin United States 49 11.0k 2.3× 2.1k 0.7× 5.6k 2.1× 2.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 107 17.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chowdhury, Rajdeep, et al.. (2025). Microtubules as a versatile reference standard for expansion microscopy. Communications Biology. 8(1). 499–499.
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Rizzoli, Silvio O., et al.. (2025). PHluorin-conjugated secondary nanobodies as a tool for measuring synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 10093–10093. 1 indexed citations
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Rizzoli, Silvio O., et al.. (2025). Long-term potentiation-induced changes in actin dynamics and spine geometry persist on the timescale of the synaptic tag. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1065–1065. 1 indexed citations
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Benseler, Fritz, Stefan Bonn, Silvio O. Rizzoli, et al.. (2025). Neddylation regulates the development and function of glutamatergic neurons. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1338–1338.
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Nevskyi, Oleksii, José Ignacio Gallea, Jan Christoph Thiele, et al.. (2024). Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy. Nature Photonics. 18(10). 1059–1066. 19 indexed citations
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Li, Fengxia, J. Bahr, Christian Tetzlaff, et al.. (2024). Morphological correlates of synaptic protein turnover in the mouse brain. Life Science Alliance. 7(11). e202402793–e202402793. 1 indexed citations
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Rizzoli, Silvio O., et al.. (2024). NanoPlex: a universal strategy for fluorescence microscopy multiplexing using nanobodies with erasable signals. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8771–8771. 8 indexed citations
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Tetzlaff, Christian, et al.. (2023). High-resolution analysis of bound Ca2+in neurons and synapses. Life Science Alliance. 7(1). e202302030–e202302030. 2 indexed citations
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Silbern, Ivan, Lucas Caldi Gomes, Vivian Dambeck, et al.. (2023). Proteomic analysis of the human hippocampus identifies neuronal pentraxin 1 (NPTX1) as synapto‐axonal target in late‐stage Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurochemistry. 166(5). 862–874. 1 indexed citations
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Meschkat, Martin, Anna M. Steyer, Marie‐Theres Weil, et al.. (2022). White matter integrity in mice requires continuous myelin synthesis at the inner tongue. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1163–1163. 55 indexed citations
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Silbern, Ivan, Kuan‐Ting Pan, Stefan Bonn, et al.. (2021). Protein Phosphorylation in Depolarized Synaptosomes: Dissecting Primary Effects of Calcium from Synaptic Vesicle Cycling. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 20. 100061–100061. 10 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Busnadiego, Rubén, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Synaptic Biology: A Perspective on Techniques, Numbers and Expectations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(19). 7298–7298. 3 indexed citations
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Jung, Sangyong, Tanja Maritzen, Carolin Wichmann, et al.. (2015). Disruption of adaptor protein 2μ ( AP ‐2μ) in cochlear hair cells impairs vesicle reloading of synaptic release sites and hearing. The EMBO Journal. 34(21). 2686–2702. 75 indexed citations
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Pech, Ulrike, et al.. (2015). Optical Dissection of Experience-Dependent Pre- and Postsynaptic Plasticity in the Drosophila Brain. Cell Reports. 10(12). 2083–2095. 48 indexed citations
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Wilhelm, Benjamin, Sunit Mandad, Sven Truckenbrodt, et al.. (2014). Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins. Science. 344(6187). 1023–1028. 528 indexed citations breakdown →
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Truckenbrodt, Sven & Silvio O. Rizzoli. (2014). Spontaneous vesicle recycling in the synaptic bouton. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 8. 409–409. 13 indexed citations
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Bethani, Ioanna, et al.. (2009). Endosomal Fusion upon SNARE Knockdown is Maintained by Residual SNARE Activity and Enhanced Docking. Traffic. 10(10). 1543–1559. 40 indexed citations
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Westphal, Volker, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Marcel A. Lauterbach, et al.. (2008). Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement. Science. 320(5873). 246–249. 596 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zwilling, Daniel, et al.. (2006). Homotypic fusion of early endosomes: SNAREs do not determine fusion specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(8). 2701–2706. 113 indexed citations
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Donnert, Gerald, Jan Keller‐Findeisen, Rebecca Medda, et al.. (2006). Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(31). 11440–11445. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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