Simone Sala

15.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
102 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Simone Sala is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Sala has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 14 papers in Surgery and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Simone Sala's work include Viral Infections and Immunology Research (36 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (29 papers) and Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (27 papers). Simone Sala is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Immunology Research (36 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (29 papers) and Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (27 papers). Simone Sala collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Simone Sala's co-authors include Carlo Pappone, Gabriele Vicedomini, Vincenzo Santinelli, Simone Gulletta, Giuseppe Augello, Patrizio Mazzone, Filippo Gugliotta, Gabriele Paglino, Giovanni Peretto and Francesco Manguso and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Physical Review Letters and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Simone Sala

95 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Circumferential Pulmonary-Vein Ablation for Chronic Atrial Fibrillation

2006 687 citations Eustachio Agricola, Simone Sala et al. profile →
Mortality, morbidity, and quality of life after circumferential pulmonary vein ablation for atrial fibrillation

2003 562 citations Patrizio Mazzone, Simone Gulletta et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology profile →
Acute myocarditis presenting as a reverse Tako-Tsubo syndrome in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection

2020 355 citations Simone Sala, Giovanni Peretto 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 Sala Italy	31	4.0k	441	438	277	271	102	4.8k
Godtfred Holmvang United States	25	3.8k 1.0×	376 0.9×	838 1.9×	1.4k 5.2×	139 0.5×	55	4.5k
Paolo Della Bella Italy	35	5.3k 1.3×	157 0.4×	471 1.1×	299 1.1×	95 0.4×	206	5.6k
Julian A. Luetkens Germany	29	1.3k 0.3×	218 0.5×	654 1.5×	1.2k 4.4×	156 0.6×	225	3.2k
James A. White Canada	29	3.5k 0.9×	168 0.4×	952 2.2×	1.6k 5.9×	115 0.4×	181	4.8k
Hassan Abdel‐Aty Germany	25	4.0k 1.0×	192 0.4×	916 2.1×	2.5k 8.9×	72 0.3×	65	4.8k
John A. Spratt United States	22	914 0.2×	327 0.7×	569 1.3×	225 0.8×	46 0.2×	42	2.4k
Iacopo Carbone Italy	33	3.2k 0.8×	313 0.7×	1.4k 3.2×	2.2k 7.9×	177 0.7×	151	5.1k
Marco Francone Italy	36	3.3k 0.8×	459 1.0×	1.4k 3.1×	2.5k 8.9×	406 1.5×	197	5.3k
Daniel Kuetting Germany	24	863 0.2×	86 0.2×	451 1.0×	734 2.6×	57 0.2×	135	2.0k
Alexander Isaak Germany	18	425 0.1×	201 0.5×	199 0.5×	387 1.4×	83 0.3×	95	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Sala

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Barbati, Giulia, Andrea Villatore, Luciano Molinari, et al.. (2025). Predictors of Disease Progression in Patients with Left Ventricular Nondilated Cardiomyopathy. Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

Villatore, Andrea, Antonella Monno, Clara Sciorati, et al.. (2024). Pentraxin 3 in Myocarditis: Proof-of-Principle Assessment as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 17(5). 1048–1058. 1 indexed citations

Salvarani, Nicolò, Giovanni Peretto, Silvia Crasto, et al.. (2023). Functional Characterisation of the Rare SCN5A p.E1225K Variant, Segregating in a Brugada Syndrome Familial Case, in Human Cardiomyocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(11). 9548–9548. 2 indexed citations

Peretto, Giovanni, Elena Sommariva, Chiara Di Resta, et al.. (2023). Myocardial Inflammation as a Manifestation of Genetic Cardiomyopathies: From Bedside to the Bench. Biomolecules. 13(4). 646–646. 16 indexed citations

Gulletta, Simone, Alessio Gasperetti, Marco Schiavone, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Follow-Up of Catheter Ablation for Premature Ventricular Complexes in the Modern Era: The Importance of Localization and Substrate. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(21). 6583–6583. 7 indexed citations

Resta, Chiara Di, Jan van den Berg, Andrea Villatore, et al.. (2022). Concealed Substrates in Brugada Syndrome: Isolated Channelopathy or Associated Cardiomyopathy?. Genes. 13(10). 1755–1755. 6 indexed citations

Peretto, Giovanni, Simone Gulletta, Massimo Slavich, et al.. (2022). Exercise Stress Test Late after Arrhythmic versus Nonarrhythmic Presentation of Myocarditis. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 12(10). 1702–1702. 1 indexed citations

Ramirez, Giuseppe A., Veronica Batani, Luca Moroni, et al.. (2022). Cardiac Safety of mRNA-Based Vaccines in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lupus-like Disorders with a History of Myocarditis. Pathogens. 11(9). 1001–1001. 3 indexed citations

Peretto, Giovanni, Marco Merlo, Piero Gentile, et al.. (2022). Cardiac magnetic resonance abnormalities in patients with acute myocarditis proven by septal endomyocardial biopsy. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 112(3). 392–400. 1 indexed citations

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Palmisano, Anna, Davide Vignale, Marijana Tadić, et al.. (2021). Myocardial Late Contrast Enhancement CT in Troponin-Positive Acute Chest Pain Syndrome. Radiology. 302(3). 545–553. 38 indexed citations

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Peretto, Giovanni, Simone Sala, & Clara Camaschella. (2021). Iron deficiency in chronic myocarditis: Assessment and prognostic significance. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 89. 129–131. 1 indexed citations

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Peretto, Giovanni, Simone Sala, & Paolo Della Bella. (2020). Percorsi diagnostici e terapeutici nel paziente con miocardite a presentazione aritmica. Giornale italiano di cardiologia. 21(3). 187–194. 7 indexed citations

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Palmisano, Anna, Giulia Benedetti, Riccardo Faletti, et al.. (2020). Early T1 Myocardial MRI Mapping: Value in Detecting Myocardial Hyperemia in Acute Myocarditis. Radiology. 295(2). 316–325. 27 indexed citations

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Peretto, Giovanni, Simone Sala, Stefania Rizzo, et al.. (2020). Ventricular Arrhythmias in Myocarditis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 75(9). 1046–1057. 135 indexed citations

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Mizia‐Stec, Katarzyna, Alida L.P. Caforio, Philippe Charron, et al.. (2020). Atrial Fibrillation, Anticoagulation Management and Risk of Stroke in the Cardiomyopathy/Myocarditis Registry of the EURObservational Research Programme of the European Society of Cardiology. ESC Heart Failure. 7(6). 3601–3609. 15 indexed citations

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Palmisano, Anna, Davide Vignale, Giovanni Peretto, et al.. (2020). Hybrid FDG-PET/MR or FDG-PET/CT to Detect Disease Activity in Patients With Persisting Arrhythmias After Myocarditis. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging. 14(1). 288–292. 21 indexed citations

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Peretto, Giovanni, Cristina Basso, Paolo Della Bella, & Simone Sala. (2019). Thyroid dysfunction in adult patients with biopsy-proved myocarditis: Screening and characterization. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 71. 98–100. 6 indexed citations

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Feo, Carlo V., Alessandro De Troia, Massimo Pedriali, et al.. (2018). Adrenal cavernous hemangioma: a case report. BMC Surgery. 18(1). 103–103. 17 indexed citations

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Foppoli, Luca, Francesca Baratto, Caterina Bisceglia, et al.. (2018). 996Phrenic nerve limitation during epicardial catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia. EP Europace. 20(suppl_1). i187–i187. 2 indexed citations

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Galeotti, Roberto, et al.. (1999). Successful local arterial urokinase infusion to reverse late postoperative venous thrombosis of a renal graft. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 14(9). 2225–2227. 2 indexed citations

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