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Carmine Zoccali

Carmine Zoccali

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
133
Citations
67166
World Ranking
2224
National Ranking
46

Carmine Zoccali publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,135 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Carmine Zoccali D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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This scientist: 133 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Carmine Zoccali is affiliated with Biogem in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, focusing primarily on nephrology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research encompasses topics related to dialysis and renal disease management, blood pressure and hypertension studies, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life, hemodynamic monitoring and therapy, diabetes treatment and management, and the clinical applications of ultrasound.

The scientist has a significant publication record in several notable journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Nephrology
  • Journal of Hypertension

Recent papers authored by Carmine Zoccali span a range of topics within kidney and cardiovascular research. Selected works include:

  • "Cardiovascular complications in chronic kidney disease: a review from the European Renal and Cardiovascular Medicine Working Group of the European Renal Association," 2023, Cardiovascular Research
  • "An introduction to inverse probability of treatment weighting in observational research," 2021, Clinical Kidney Journal
  • "External validation of prognostic models: what, why, how, when and where?", 2020, Clinical Kidney Journal
  • "Results from the ERA-EDTA Registry indicate a high mortality due to COVID-19 in dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients across Europe," 2020, Kidney International
  • "Mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in CKD," 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology

Carmine Zoccali frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Francesca Mallamaci
  • Giovanni Tripepi
  • Giovambattista Capasso
  • Alberto Ortíz
  • Kitty J. Jager

Their work often integrates insights from various medical subfields such as nephrology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, endocrinology including diabetes and metabolism, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

This multidisciplinary approach allows for comprehensive investigation of complex medical issues related to kidney disease and its cardiovascular complications, aiming to improve understanding of disease mechanisms, treatment strategies, and patient outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Obesity and Kidney Disease: Hidden Consequences of the Epidemic

    Csaba P Kovesdy;Susan Furth;Carmine Zoccali

  • Plasma concentration of asymmetrical dimethylarginine and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease: A prospective study

    Carmine Zoccali;Stefanie M Bode-Böger;Francesca Mallamaci;Frank Antonio Benedetto

  • Adiponectin, Metabolic Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Events among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease

    Carmine Zoccali;Francesca Mallamaci;Giovanni Tripepi;Francesco Antonio Benedetto

  • Renoprotective properties of ACE-inhibition in non-diabetic nephropathies with non-nephrotic proteinuria

    Piero Ruggenenti;Annalisa Perna;Giulia Gherardi;Giovanni Garini

  • Oxidative stress in end‐stage renal disease: an emerging threat to patient outcome

    Francesco Locatelli;Bernard Canaud;Kai-Uwe Eckardt;Peter Stenvinkel

  • A single number for advocacy and communication-worldwide more than 850 million individuals have kidney diseases

    Kitty J Jager;Csaba Kovesdy;Robyn Langham;Mark Rosenberg

  • When do we need competing risks methods for survival analysis in nephrology

    Marlies Noordzij;Karen Leffondré;Karlijn J. van Stralen;Carmine Zoccali

  • Blood-pressure control for renoprotection in patients with non-diabetic chronic renal disease (REIN-2): multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

    Piero Ruggenenti;Annalisa Perna;Giacomina Loriga;Maria Ganeva

  • Plasma Norepinephrine Predicts Survival and Incident Cardiovascular Events in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease

    Carmine Zoccali;Francesca Mallamaci;Saverio Parlongo;Sebastiano Cutrupi

  • Vitamin D Therapy and Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: The PRIMO Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ravi Thadhani;Evan Appelbaum;Yili Pritchett;Yuchiao Chang

  • Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Clinical Prediction Rules

    Carmine Zoccali;Francesca Mallamaci;Pietro Finocchiaro

  • Obesity and kidney disease: hidden consequences of the epidemic.

    Csaba P Kovesdy;Susan L Furth;Carmine Zoccali

  • CKD Prevalence Varies across the European General Population

    Katharina Brück;Vianda S. Stel;Giovanni Gambaro;Stein Hallan

  • Vitamin D levels and patient outcome in chronic kidney disease.

    Pietro Ravani;Fabio Malberti;Giovanni Tripepi;Paola Pecchini

  • Subjective global assessment of nutrition in dialysis patients

    Enia G;Sicuso C;Alati G;Zoccali C

  • Sample size calculations: basic principles and common pitfalls

    Marlies Noordzij;Giovanni Tripepi;Friedo W Dekker;Carmine Zoccali

  • Kidney disease: Improving global outcomes (KDIGO) blood pressure work group. KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the management of blood pressure in chronic kidney disease

    Gavin J. Becker;David C. Wheeler;Dick De Zeeuw;Toshiro Fujita

  • Epidemiology, contributors to, and clinical trials of mortality risk in chronic kidney failure

    Alberto Ortiz;Adrian Covic;Danilo Fliser;Denis Fouque

  • External validation of prognostic models: what, why, how, when and where?

    Chava L Ramspek;Kitty J Jager;Friedo W Dekker;Carmine Zoccali

  • Vitamin D Therapy and Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

    Ravi Thadhani;Evan Appelbaum;Yili Pritchett;Julia Wenger

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Mallamaci
Francesca Mallamaci National Research Council (CNR)
Giovanni Tripepi
Giovanni Tripepi National Research Council (CNR)
Friedo W. Dekker
Friedo W. Dekker Leiden University Medical Center
Kitty J. Jager
Kitty J. Jager University of Amsterdam
Csaba P. Kovesdy
Csaba P. Kovesdy University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Gérard M. London
Gérard M. London Grenoble Alpes University
Susan L. Furth
Susan L. Furth Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ziad A. Massy
Ziad A. Massy Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Francesco Locatelli
Francesco Locatelli University of Pavia
Adrian Covic
Adrian Covic Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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