Valter Di Salvo

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Valter Di Salvo is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Valter Di Salvo has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 14 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Valter Di Salvo's work include Sports Performance and Training (45 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (44 papers) and Sport Psychology and Performance (14 papers). Valter Di Salvo is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (45 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (44 papers) and Sport Psychology and Performance (14 papers). Valter Di Salvo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Qatar and United Kingdom. Valter Di Salvo's co-authors include Fabio Pigozzi, Warren Gregson, Barry Drust, Greg Atkinson, Norbert Bachl, Ramon Baron, Francisco Montero, Harald Tschan, Alberto Méndez-Villanueva and Martin Buchheit and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Applied Physiology and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

In The Last Decade

Valter Di Salvo

70 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Performance Characteristics According to Playing Position in Elite Soccer

2007 890 citations Valter Di Salvo, Fabio Pigozzi et al. International Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Analysis of High Intensity Activity in Premier League Soccer

2009 641 citations Valter Di Salvo, Warren Gregson et al. International Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valter Di Salvo Italy	27	3.9k	1.1k	797	573	452	71	4.2k
Alexandre Dellal France	38	4.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	880 1.1×	1.0k 1.8×	615 1.4×	71	4.9k
Grant Abt United Kingdom	34	3.1k 0.8×	984 0.9×	654 0.8×	951 1.7×	223 0.5×	84	3.8k
Matthew C. Varley Australia	23	2.9k 0.7×	898 0.8×	673 0.8×	564 1.0×	234 0.5×	41	3.2k
Stuart J. Cormack Australia	33	3.7k 0.9×	944 0.8×	976 1.2×	729 1.3×	186 0.4×	69	4.0k
Ric Lovell Australia	36	3.1k 0.8×	927 0.8×	569 0.7×	495 0.9×	160 0.4×	85	3.6k
Alan McCall United Kingdom	39	4.1k 1.1×	889 0.8×	465 0.6×	535 0.9×	247 0.5×	103	4.7k
José Pino‐Ortega Spain	31	2.5k 0.6×	758 0.7×	670 0.8×	426 0.7×	331 0.7×	206	3.1k
S D’Ottavio Italy	31	2.8k 0.7×	661 0.6×	667 0.8×	900 1.6×	124 0.3×	83	3.2k
Mário C. Marques Portugal	40	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	120 0.3×	218	5.1k
Michel S. Brink Netherlands	29	2.5k 0.6×	655 0.6×	349 0.4×	363 0.6×	199 0.4×	90	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Valter Di Salvo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Valter Di Salvo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valter Di Salvo

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lolli, Lorenzo, et al.. (2022). The Percentage of Mature Height as a Morphometric Index of Somatic Growth: A Formal Scrutiny of Conventional Simple Ratio Scaling Assumptions. Pediatric Exercise Science. 35(2). 107–115. 1 indexed citations

Heinonen, Ilkka, David A. Low, Chunlei Han, et al.. (2020). Changes in quadriceps femoris muscle perfusion following different degrees of cold-water immersion. Journal of Applied Physiology. 128(5). 1392–1401. 20 indexed citations

Ford, Paul R., Warren Gregson, Matthew C. Varley, et al.. (2020). A survey of talent identification and development processes in the youth academies of professional soccer clubs from around the world. Journal of Sports Sciences. 38(11-12). 1269–1278. 84 indexed citations

Suárez-Arrones, Luís, et al.. (2020). Inertial flywheel knee- and hip-dominant hamstring strength exercises in professional soccer players: Muscle use and velocity-based (mechanical) eccentric overload. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239977–e0239977. 12 indexed citations

Lolli, Lorenzo, Hani Al Haddad, Valter Di Salvo, et al.. (2019). A novel approach to assessing validity in sports performance research: integrating expert practitioner opinion into the statistical analysis. Science and Medicine in Football. 3(4). 333–338. 14 indexed citations

Lolli, Lorenzo, Roald Bahr, Matthew Weston, et al.. (2019). No association between perceived exertion and session duration with hamstring injury occurrence in professional football. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 30(3). 523–530. 8 indexed citations

Munguía‐Izquierdo, Diego, et al.. (2018). Estimating fat-free mass in elite youth male soccer players: cross-validation of different field methods and development of prediction equation. Journal of Sports Sciences. 37(11). 1197–1204. 16 indexed citations

Varley, Matthew C., et al.. (2017). The influence of successive matches on match-running performance during an under-23 international soccer tournament: The necessity of individual analysis. Journal of Sports Sciences. 36(5). 585–591. 26 indexed citations

Buchheit, Martin, et al.. (2014). Integrating different tracking systems in football: multiple camera semi-automatic system, local position measurement and GPS technologies. Journal of Sports Sciences. 32(20). 1844–1857. 205 indexed citations

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Salvo, Valter Di, et al.. (2012). Match Performance Comparison in Top English Soccer Leagues. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 34(6). 526–532. 126 indexed citations

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Salvo, Valter Di, Michael R. Carmont, & Nicola Maffulli. (2011). Football officials activities during matches: a comparison of activity of referees and linesmen in European, Premiership and Championship matches.. PubMed. 1(3). 106–11. 14 indexed citations

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Salvo, Valter Di, et al.. (2009). Analysis of High Intensity Activity in Premier League Soccer. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 30(3). 205–212. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Salvo, Valter Di, et al.. (2008). Activity profile of elite goalkeepers during football match-play.. PubMed. 48(4). 443–6. 91 indexed citations

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Pigozzi, Fabio, Antonio Spataro, Attilio Parisi, et al.. (2005). Role of exercise stress test in master athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 39(8). 527–531. 34 indexed citations

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Iellamo, Ferdinando, Fabio Pigozzi, Attilio Parisi, et al.. (2003). The stress of competition dissociates neural and cortisol homeostasis in elite athletes.. PubMed. 43(4). 539–45. 27 indexed citations

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Salvo, Valter Di, et al.. (2002). Abdominal and lumbar muscles strength gains using two types of sit-up exercises. Biology of Sport. 19(4). 303–315. 5 indexed citations

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Klissouras, Vassilis, Beatrice Casini, Valter Di Salvo, et al.. (2001). Genes and Olympic Performance: a Co-Twin Study. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 22(4). 250–255. 13 indexed citations

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Parisi, Paolo, et al.. (2001). The Registry of Italian Twin Athletes (RITA): Background, design, and procedures,and twin data analysis on sport participation—An application to twin swimmers. European Journal of Sport Science. 1(2). 1–12. 2 indexed citations

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Pigozzi, Fabio, et al.. (1997). Snowboard Traumatology: An Epidemiological Study. Orthopedics. 20(6). 505–509. 45 indexed citations

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Salvo, Valter Di, et al.. (1988). Iron values and haematological parameters of cross-country skiers. Effect of iron and 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid (Prefolic)* * Prefolic - 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid - BioResearch S.p.A., Milan, Italy. supplementation. Clinical Trials. 25(5). 296–306. 3 indexed citations

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