Simone Rampelli

9.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
97 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Simone Rampelli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Rampelli has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Physiology and 18 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Simone Rampelli's work include Gut microbiota and health (66 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (28 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (17 papers). Simone Rampelli is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (66 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (28 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (17 papers). Simone Rampelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Simone Rampelli's co-authors include Patrizia Brigidi, Silvia Turroni, Marco Candela, Elena Biagi, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Sara Quercia, Clelia Peano, Claudio Franceschi and Matteo Soverini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simone Rampelli

91 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

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, Simone Rampelli 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 Teresa Tavella, Simone Rampelli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Rampelli Italy	39	4.1k	1.9k	901	651	650	97	5.8k
Sébastien Massart Belgium	27	4.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	945 1.0×	571 0.9×	807 1.2×	148	7.3k
Matteo Ramazzotti Italy	25	4.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	857 1.0×	537 0.8×	753 1.2×	101	6.5k
Marco Severgnini Italy	39	4.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	975 1.1×	428 0.7×	841 1.3×	107	6.3k
Kernika Gupta United States	4	3.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	827 0.9×	573 0.9×	600 0.9×	7	4.8k
William Van Treuren United States	16	4.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	391 0.6×	685 1.1×	16	5.2k
Monica Di Paola Italy	21	4.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	972 1.1×	571 0.9×	906 1.4×	39	5.7k
Erica D. Sonnenburg United States	25	4.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	934 1.0×	774 1.2×	1.3k 1.9×	32	6.5k
Ian B. Jeffery Ireland	30	5.8k 1.4×	2.9k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	836 1.3×	779 1.2×	47	8.0k
Martin Iain Bahl Denmark	37	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	806 0.9×	344 0.5×	775 1.2×	91	5.1k
Fredrik Karlsson Sweden	19	4.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	700 0.8×	390 0.6×	462 0.7×	28	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Simone Rampelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Rampelli

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Scicchitano, Daniel, Silvia Turroni, Luca Corlatti, et al.. (2025). Ski Tourism Shapes the Snow Microbiome on Ski Slopes in the Italian Central Alps. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 17(5). e70195–e70195.

Scicchitano, Daniel, Cédric C. Laczny, Rashi Halder, et al.. (2024). A 15-day pilot biodiversity intervention with horses in a farm system leads to gut microbiome rewilding in 10 urban Italian children. One Health. 19. 100902–100902.

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

Palladino, Giorgia, Daniel Scicchitano, Jessica Fiori, et al.. (2024). Zonation of the Vitis vinifera microbiome in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano PDO production area. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1626–1626.

Rampelli, Simone, Sandrine Gallois, Federica D’Amico, et al.. (2024). The gut microbiome of Baka forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon is optimized for wild plant foods. iScience. 27(3). 109211–109211. 3 indexed citations

Parma, Luca, Silvia Turroni, Simone Rampelli, et al.. (2023). Microbiome variation at the clam-sediment interface may explain changes in local productivity of Chamelea gallina in the North Adriatic sea. BMC Microbiology. 23(1). 402–402. 2 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

Fabbrini, Marco, Federica D’Amico, Davide Leardini, et al.. (2023). Levofloxacin prophylaxis and parenteral nutrition have a detrimental effect on intestinal microbial networks in pediatric patients undergoing HSCT. Communications Biology. 6(1). 36–36. 10 indexed citations

Viciani, Elisa, Monica Barone, Tindaro Bongiovanni, et al.. (2022). Fecal Microbiota Monitoring in Elite Soccer Players Along the 2019–2020 Competitive Season. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 43(13). 1137–1147. 3 indexed citations

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Palladino, Giorgia, Erik Caroselli, Teresa Tavella, et al.. (2022). Metagenomic shifts in mucus, tissue and skeleton of the coral Balanophyllia europaea living along a natural CO2 gradient. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 65–65. 8 indexed citations

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D’Amico, Federica, Anna Myriam Perrone, Simone Rampelli, et al.. (2021). Gut Microbiota Dynamics during Chemotherapy in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients Are Related to Therapeutic Outcome. Cancers. 13(16). 3999–3999. 38 indexed citations

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Turroni, Silvia, Stephanie Wright, Simone Rampelli, et al.. (2021). Microplastics shape the ecology of the human gastrointestinal intestinal tract. Current Opinion in Toxicology. 28. 32–37. 17 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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Barone, Monica, Simone Rampelli, Elena Biagi, et al.. (2021). Searching for New Microbiome-Targeted Therapeutics through a Drug Repurposing Approach. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 64(23). 17277–17286. 6 indexed citations

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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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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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Biagi, Elena, Daniele Zama, Simone Rampelli, et al.. (2019). Early gut microbiota signature of aGvHD in children given allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for hematological disorders. BMC Medical Genomics. 12(1). 49–49. 54 indexed citations

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Biagi, Elena, Federica D’Amico, Matteo Soverini, et al.. (2018). Faecal bacterial communities from Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ). Environmental Microbiology Reports. 11(3). 361–371. 38 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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Turroni, Silvia, Simone Rampelli, Elena Biagi, et al.. (2017). Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota in people sharing a confined environment, a 520-day ground-based space simulation, MARS500. Microbiome. 5(1). 39–39. 86 indexed citations

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