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Anna Ghirardello

Anna Ghirardello

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
64
Citations
12795
World Ranking
2956
National Ranking
113

Anna Ghirardello publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Ghirardello sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 186 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Anna Ghirardello D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Ghirardello sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • Autoantibody profiles in the sera of European patients with myositis

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

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

    Andrea Doria;Luca Iaccarino;Anna Ghirardello;Sandra Zampieri

  • Autoantibodies in Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis

    Anna Ghirardello;Nicola Bassi;Lavinia Palma;Elisabetta Borella

  • Infections and autoimmunity: the multifaceted relationship

    Paolo Sfriso;Anna Ghirardello;Costantino Botsios;Michele Tonon

  • Autoinflammation and autoimmunity: Bridging the divide.

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

  • Prolonged remission in Caucasian patients with SLE: prevalence and outcomes

    Margherita Zen;Luca Iaccarino;Mariele Gatto;Silvano Bettio

  • Infections as triggers and complications of systemic lupus erythematosus.

    A Doria;M Canova;M Tonon;M Zen

  • Galectin-3 in autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases:

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

  • The clinical features, diagnosis and classification of dermatomyositis

    Luca Iaccarino;Anna Ghirardello;Silvano Bettio;Margherita Zen

  • Overlap connective tissue disease syndromes

    Luca Iaccarino;Mariele Gatto;Silvano Bettio;Francesco Caso

  • SLE diagnosis and treatment: when early is early.

    Andrea Doria;Margherita Zen;Mariagrazia Canova;Silvano Bettio

  • Influence of Antisynthetase Antibodies Specificities on Antisynthetase Syndrome Clinical Spectrum Time Course

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Andrea Doria;Luca Iaccarino;Silvia Arienti;Anna Ghirardello

  • Steroid hormones and disease activity during pregnancy in systemic lupus erythematosus

    Andrea Doria;Maurizio Cutolo;Anna Ghirardello;Sandra Zampieri

  • 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

  • Polymyositis, dermatomyositis and malignancy: a further intriguing link.

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

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

    Anna Ghirardello;Mariaelisa Rampudda;Louise Ekholm;Nicola Bassi

  • Muscle biopsy features of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and differential diagnosis

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Doria
Andrea Doria University of Padua
Leonardo Punzi
Leonardo Punzi University of Padua
Angela Tincani
Angela Tincani University of Brescia
Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini
Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini University of Milan
Franco Franceschini
Franco Franceschini University of Brescia
Ilaria Cavazzana
Ilaria Cavazzana University of Brescia
Amelia Ruffatti
Amelia Ruffatti University of Padua
Nicola Bizzaro
Nicola Bizzaro University of Genoa
Fabiola Atzeni
Fabiola Atzeni University of Messina
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Yehuda Shoenfeld Sheba Medical Center

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