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Ermanno Gherardi

Ermanno Gherardi

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
18370
World Ranking
17411
National Ranking
553

Ermanno Gherardi publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ermanno Gherardi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 154 publications — 29th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ermanno Gherardi D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ermanno Gherardi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ermanno Gherardi is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy and is primarily engaged in research within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Surgery, Hepatology, Epidemiology, Physiology, and Neurology, with a particular emphasis on areas that intersect clinical and biological sciences.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate a focus on liver and neurological diseases as well as regenerative medicine. Their papers include:

  • "Human Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis on a Chip" (2020) published in Hepatology Communications
  • "A Novel HGF/SF Receptor (MET) Agonist Transiently Delays the Disease Progression in an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mouse Model by Promoting Neuronal Survival and Dampening the Immune Dysregulation" (2020) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Dimerization of kringle 1 domain from hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor provides a potent MET receptor agonist" (2022) in Life Science Alliance
  • "Extrusion of BMP2+ surface colonocytes promotes stromal remodeling and tissue regeneration" (2025) in Nature Communications
  • "Dimerization of kringle 1 domain from hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor provides a potent minimal MET receptor agonist" (2020) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their main topics of study include pancreatic function and diabetes, liver physiology and pathology, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diet and metabolism studies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, and neurogenetic and muscular disorders research.

Frequent coauthors that appear in Ermanno Gherardi's work are:

  • Hugo de Jonge
  • Luisa Iamele
  • Giovanni de Nola
  • B. Leclercq
  • Alexandra Mougel

Throughout their career, Ermanno Gherardi has published in several venues that align closely with their research interests, such as Hepatology Communications, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Life Science Alliance, Nature Communications, and bioRxiv hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Best Publications

  • Met, metastasis, motility and more

    Carmen Birchmeier;Walter Birchmeier;Ermanno Gherardi;George F. Vande Woude

  • SCATTER FACTOR/HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR IS ESSENTIAL FOR LIVER DEVELOPMENT

    C Schmidt;F Bladt;S Goedecke;V Brinkmann

  • Scatter factor is a fibroblast-derived modulator of epithelial cell mobility.

    Michael Stoker;Ermanno Gherardi;Marion Perryman;Julia Gray

  • Targeting MET in cancer: rationale and progress

    Ermanno Gherardi;Ermanno Gherardi;Walter Birchmeier;Carmen Birchmeier;George Vande Woude

  • Developmental roles of HGF/SF and its receptor, the c-Met tyrosine kinase.

    Carmen Birchmeier;Ermanno Gherardi

  • Structural repertoire of the human VH segments.

    Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Ermanno Gherardi;Ian M. Tomlinson

  • An Approach to Random Mutagenesis of DNA Using Mixtures of Triphosphate Derivatives of Nucleoside Analogues

    Manuela Zaccolo;David M. Williams;Daniel M. Brown;Ermanno Gherardi

  • Purification of scatter factor, a fibroblast-derived basic protein that modulates epithelial interactions and movement

    Ermanno Gherardi;Julia Gray;Michael Stoker;Marion Perryman

  • Roles of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and the met receptor in the early development of the metanephros.

    A S Woolf;M Kolatsi-Joannou;P Hardman;E Andermarcher

  • Hepatocytes and scatter factor.

    Ermanno Gherardi;Michael Stoker

  • Hepatocyte growth factor--scatter factor: mitogen, motogen, and met.

    Gherardi E;Stoker M

  • Heparan Sulfate-modified CD44 Promotes Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor-induced Signal Transduction through the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase c-Met

    R. Van Der Voort;T. E. I. Taher;V. J. M. Wielenga;M. Spaargaren

  • The effect of high-frequency random mutagenesis on in vitro protein evolution: a study on TEM-1 beta-lactamase.

    Manuela Zaccolo;Ermanno Gherardi

  • The structural repertoire of the human V kappa domain.

    I. M. Tomlinson;J. P. L. Cox;E. Gherardi;A. M. Lesk

  • Regulation of cell movement: the motogenic cytokines.

    Michael Stoker;Ermanno Gherardi

  • Structural basis of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and MET signalling.

    Ermanno Gherardi;Sara Sandin;Maxim V. Petoukhov;John Finch

  • Functional map and domain structure of MET, the product of the c-met protooncogene and receptor for hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor

    E. Gherardi;M. E. Youles;R. N. Miguel;T. L. Blundell

  • Molecular evolution and domain structure of plasminogen-related growth factors (HGF/SF and HGF1/MSP).

    Luis Enrique Donate;N. Srinivasan;R. Sowdhamini;Ermanno Gherardi

  • The sema domain.

    E Gherardi;C A Love;R M Esnouf;E Y Jones

  • Erratum: Targeting MET in cancer: rationale and progress

    Ermanno Gherardi;Walter Birchmeier;Carmen Birchmeier;George Vande Woude

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom L. Blundell
Tom L. Blundell University of Cambridge
Walter Birchmeier
Walter Birchmeier Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Dirk W. Heinz
Dirk W. Heinz University of Freiburg
Cesar Milstein
Cesar Milstein MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Carmen Birchmeier
Carmen Birchmeier Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
George F. Vande Woude
George F. Vande Woude Van Andel Institute
Dmitri I. Svergun
Dmitri I. Svergun European Bioinformatics Institute
Terrance Grant Johns
Terrance Grant Johns Telethon Kids Institute
Malcolm Lyon
Malcolm Lyon University of Manchester

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