2026 Anna Ghirardello: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	64	2956	2723	113	106	186	12795

Overview

Anna Ghirardello is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with 66 publications. Their work encompasses several subfields, notably Epidemiology, Rheumatology, Immunology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Anna Ghirardello include:

Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis
Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms
Muscle Physiology and Disorders
Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders

They have published extensively in several specialized venues. The most frequent publication venues for Anna Ghirardello are:

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (9 publications)
Current Opinion in Rheumatology (7 publications)
Diagnostics (3 publications)
Journal of Autoimmunity (3 publications)
RMD Open (2 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

Lymphocyte immunophenotyping in inflammatory myositis: a review, 2021, Current Opinion in Rheumatology
The interferon in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: Different signatures and new therapeutic perspectives. A literature review, 2023, Autoimmunity Reviews
Interstitial lung disease with and without progressive fibrosing phenotype in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: data from a large multicentric cohort, 2023, RMD Open
Size-Exclusion Chromatography Combined with Ultrafiltration Efficiently Isolates Extracellular Vesicles from Human Blood Samples in Health and Disease, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Nonimmune mechanisms in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, 2020, Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Anna Ghirardello has collaborated frequently with several scientists in their field. Co-authors with notable numbers of joint publications include:

Andrea Doria (30 publications)
Mariele Gatto (23 publications)
Chiara Franco (16 publications)
Elisabetta Zanatta (11 publications)
Luca Iaccarino (9 publications)

Best Publications

Risk of congenital complete heart block in newborns of mothers with anti-Ro/SSA antibodies detected by counterimmunoelectrophoresis: A prospective study of 100 women

Antonio Brucato;Micol Frassi;Franco Franceschini;Rolando Cimaz

612
Citations
Risk factors for subclinical atherosclerosis in a prospective cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

A Doria;Y Shoenfeld;R Wu;P F Gambari

519
Citations
Autoantibody profiles in the sera of European patients with myositis

R. Brouwer;G.J.D. Hengstman;W.T.M. Vree Egberts;H. Ehrfeld

509
Citations
Long-term prognosis and causes of death in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Andrea Doria;Luca Iaccarino;Anna Ghirardello;Sandra Zampieri

423
Citations
Autoantibodies in Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis

Anna Ghirardello;Nicola Bassi;Lavinia Palma;Elisabetta Borella

396
Citations
Infections and autoimmunity: the multifaceted relationship

Paolo Sfriso;Anna Ghirardello;Costantino Botsios;Michele Tonon

282
Citations
Autoinflammation and autoimmunity: Bridging the divide.

A. Doria;M. Zen;S. Bettio;M. Gatto

275
Citations
Prolonged remission in Caucasian patients with SLE: prevalence and outcomes

Margherita Zen;Luca Iaccarino;Mariele Gatto;Silvano Bettio

264
Citations
Infections as triggers and complications of systemic lupus erythematosus.

A Doria;M Canova;M Tonon;M Zen

243
Citations
Galectin-3 in autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases:

Felipe L de Oliveira;Mariele Gatto;Nicola Bassi;Roberto Luisetto

231
Citations
The clinical features, diagnosis and classification of dermatomyositis

Luca Iaccarino;Anna Ghirardello;Silvano Bettio;Margherita Zen

229
Citations
Overlap connective tissue disease syndromes

Luca Iaccarino;Mariele Gatto;Silvano Bettio;Francesco Caso

227
Citations
SLE diagnosis and treatment: when early is early.

Andrea Doria;Margherita Zen;Mariagrazia Canova;Silvano Bettio

220
Citations
Influence of Antisynthetase Antibodies Specificities on Antisynthetase Syndrome Clinical Spectrum Time Course

Lorenzo Cavagna;Ernesto Trallero-Araguás;Federica Meloni;Ilaria Cavazzana

217
Citations
Pregnancy outcome in 100 women with autoimmune diseases and anti-Ro/SSA antibodies: a prospective controlled study

A Brucato;A Doria;M Frassi;G Castellino

206
Citations
Health-related quality of life in Italian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. II. Role of clinical, immunological and psychological determinants.

A Doria;S Rinaldi;M Ermani;F Salaffi

194
Citations
Th2 immune deviation induced by pregnancy: The two faces of autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Andrea Doria;Luca Iaccarino;Silvia Arienti;Anna Ghirardello

185
Citations
Steroid hormones and disease activity during pregnancy in systemic lupus erythematosus

Andrea Doria;Maurizio Cutolo;Anna Ghirardello;Sandra Zampieri

184
Citations
Anti-heart and anti-intercalated disk autoantibodies: evidence for autoimmunity in idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis

Alida Linda Patrizia Caforio;A Brucato;Andrea Doria;G Brambilla

184
Citations
Polymyositis, dermatomyositis and malignancy: a further intriguing link.

S. Zampieri;M. Valente;N. Adami;D. Biral

178
Citations
Diagnostic performance and validation of autoantibody testing in myositis by a commercial line blot assay

Anna Ghirardello;Mariaelisa Rampudda;Louise Ekholm;Nicola Bassi

176
Citations
Muscle biopsy features of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and differential diagnosis

Gaetano Nicola Vattemi;Massimiliano Mirabella;Valeria Guglielmi;Matteo Lucchini

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Doria University of Padua

Leonardo Punzi University of Padua

Angela Tincani University of Brescia

Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini University of Milan

Franco Franceschini University of Brescia

Ilaria Cavazzana University of Brescia

Amelia Ruffatti University of Padua

Nicola Bizzaro University of Genoa

Fabiola Atzeni University of Messina

Yehuda Shoenfeld Sheba Medical Center

External Links

Personal website of Anna Ghirardello

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