Valentina Villa

2.7k total citations
73 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Valentina Villa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Valentina Villa has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Physiology and 18 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Valentina Villa's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (28 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (16 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (14 papers). Valentina Villa is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (28 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (16 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (14 papers). Valentina Villa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United Kingdom. Valentina Villa's co-authors include Tullio Florio, Alessandro Corsaro, Stefano Thellung, Gennaro Schettini, Sara Arena, Mario Nizzari, Claudio Russo, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Antonio Aceto and Federica Barbieri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Valentina Villa

71 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valentina Villa Italy	29	876	430	391	356	208	73	1.9k
Marino De León United States	31	1.3k 1.5×	654 1.5×	228 0.6×	181 0.5×	242 1.2×	110	3.2k
Ling Shen United States	34	1.1k 1.3×	394 0.9×	651 1.7×	147 0.4×	164 0.8×	132	3.7k
Susana Solá Portugal	37	1.7k 1.9×	539 1.3×	703 1.8×	203 0.6×	123 0.6×	82	3.6k
Agustı́n Ruiz Spain	37	1.2k 1.4×	785 1.8×	310 0.8×	290 0.8×	55 0.3×	164	3.8k
B.K. Thelma India	32	768 0.9×	371 0.9×	209 0.5×	138 0.4×	65 0.3×	139	2.8k
Masayuki Niwa Japan	33	1.7k 1.9×	464 1.1×	206 0.5×	326 0.9×	94 0.5×	197	3.8k
Russell P. Saneto United States	31	2.3k 2.6×	337 0.8×	159 0.4×	208 0.6×	165 0.8×	112	4.1k
Søren Christensen Denmark	28	571 0.7×	265 0.6×	247 0.6×	219 0.6×	154 0.7×	81	2.6k
Alessandro Villa Italy	25	812 0.9×	623 1.4×	190 0.5×	585 1.6×	44 0.2×	71	3.1k
Liming Shen China	31	864 1.0×	276 0.6×	290 0.7×	136 0.4×	172 0.8×	113	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pietrabissa, Giada, et al.. (2025). Mapping Psychological Well-Being in Morbid Obesity: A Network Analysis Approach. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(6). 2076–2076.

Cancello, Raffaella, Davide Soranna, Antonella Zambon, et al.. (2024). Sarcopenia Prevalence among Hospitalized Patients with Severe Obesity: An Observational Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(10). 2880–2880. 6 indexed citations

Cancello, Raffaella, Davide Soranna, Antonella Zambon, et al.. (2024). Reply to Schluessel et al. Comment on “Cancello et al. Sarcopenia Prevalence Among Hospitalized Patients with Severe Obesity: An Observational Study. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 2880”. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(22). 6687–6687. 2 indexed citations

Usubini, Anna Guerrini, et al.. (2023). Let the Body Talk: Preliminary Data of an Open Trial of Dance Movement Therapy for Eating Disorders. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(1). 5–5. 1 indexed citations

Scarpina, Federica, et al.. (2022). Self-perception in anorexia nervosa: When the body becomes an object. Neuropsychologia. 166. 108158–108158. 9 indexed citations

Thellung, Stefano, Elena Gatta, Valentina Villa, et al.. (2017). Different Molecular Mechanisms Mediate Direct or Glia-Dependent Prion Protein Fragment 90–231 Neurotoxic Effects in Cerebellar Granule Neurons. Neurotoxicity Research. 32(3). 381–397. 6 indexed citations

Piatti, PierMarco, Micaela Cioni, Valentina Villa, et al.. (2017). Basal insulin therapy is associated with beneficial effects on postoperative infective complications, independently from circulating glucose levels in patients admitted for cardiac surgery. Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology. 7. 47–53. 2 indexed citations

Villa, Valentina, Stefano Thellung, Adriana Bajetto, et al.. (2016). Novel celecoxib analogues inhibit glial production of prostaglandin E2, nitric oxide, and oxygen radicals reverting the neuroinflammatory responses induced by misfolded prion protein fragment 90-231 or lipopolysaccharide. Pharmacological Research. 113(Pt A). 500–514. 27 indexed citations

Langer, Andreas, W. Kaiser, Jelena Knežević‐Vukčević, et al.. (2013). Protein Sizing and Conformation Analysis with an Electro-Switchable DNA Chip. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 194a–194a. 1 indexed citations

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Brunani, Amelia, Valentina Villa, Maria Elisa Berselli, et al.. (2012). Obesity Is a Marker of Reduction in QoL and Disability. The Scientific World JOURNAL. 2012. 1–6. 27 indexed citations

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Villa, Valentina, Luca Albarello, Giulia Franchi, et al.. (2012). Gastroenteric neuroendocrine neoplasms classification: Comparison of prognostic models. Cancer. 119(1). 36–44. 34 indexed citations

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Corsaro, Alessandro, Stefano Thellung, Valentina Villa, Mario Nizzari, & Tullio Florio. (2012). Role of Prion Protein Aggregation in Neurotoxicity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 13(7). 8648–8669. 40 indexed citations

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Thellung, Stefano, Alessandro Corsaro, Valentina Villa, et al.. (2011). Human PrP90-231-induced cell death is associated with intracellular accumulation of insoluble and protease-resistant macroaggregates and lysosomal dysfunction. Cell Death and Disease. 2(3). e138–e138. 28 indexed citations

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Villa, Valentina, et al.. (2011). Molecular mechanisms mediating the neuroproyective effects of quinacrine and minocycline on cell death induced by the prion protein fragment 90-231 (hPrP90-231). Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino della Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale. 84(1). 2 indexed citations

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Villa, Valentina, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Francesco Pagnini, et al.. (2009). Do Coping Strategies Discriminate Eating Disordered Individuals Better Than Eating Disorder Features? An Explorative Study on Female Inpatients with Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 16(4). 297–303. 24 indexed citations

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Paludi, Domenico, Stefano Thellung, Alessandro Corsaro, et al.. (2007). Different structural stability and toxicity of PrP^ARR and PrP^ARQ sheep prion protein variants. Journal of Neurochemistry. 103(6). 2291–2300. 15 indexed citations

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Venturin, Marco, Silvia Moncini, Valentina Villa, et al.. (2006). Mutations and novel polymorphisms in coding regions and UTRs of CDK5R1 and OMG genes in patients with non-syndromic mental retardation. Neurogenetics. 7(1). 59–66. 27 indexed citations

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Florio, Tullio, Monica Morini, Valentina Villa, et al.. (2003). Somatostatin Inhibits Tumor Angiogenesis and Growth via Somatostatin Receptor-3-Mediated Regulation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activities. Endocrinology. 144(4). 1574–1584. 142 indexed citations

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Florio, Tullio, Stefano Thellung, Alessandro Corsaro, et al.. (2003). Characterization of the intracellular mechanisms mediating somatostatin and lanreotide inhibition of DNA synthesis and growth hormone release from dispersed human GH‐secreting pituitary adenoma cells in vitro. Clinical Endocrinology. 59(1). 115–128. 44 indexed citations

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Florio, Tullio, Sara Arena, Alessandra Pattarozzi, et al.. (2003). Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Activates Endothelial Nitric-Oxide Synthase in CHO-K1 Cells via the Activation of Ceramide Synthesis. Molecular Pharmacology. 63(2). 297–310. 31 indexed citations

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