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Erminio Costa 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 Erminio Costa sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 251 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Erminio Costa 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 Erminio Costa sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Erminio Costa was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, health, general health professions, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and physiology.

The main areas of research addressed by Costa involved dementia and cognitive impairment, health disparities and outcomes, aging and gerontology, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, cardiac health and mental health, chronic disease management strategies, and frailty in older adults.

The scientist's work was frequently published in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Among the recent papers associated with Costa are:

  • Associations between social connections and cognition: a global collaborative individual participant data meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors: Individual-participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium, 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Does parity matter in women's risk of dementia? A COSMIC collaboration cohort study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Cohort Profile: The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSI-Brazil), 2022, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Social connections and risk of incident mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and mortality in 13 longitudinal cohort studies of ageing, 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Costa collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa
  • Perminder S. Sachdev
  • Darren M. Lipnicki
  • Henry Brodaty
  • Nikolaos Scarmeas

Best Publications

  • APPLICATION OF STEADY STATE KINETICS TO THE ESTIMATION OF SYNTHESIS RATE AND TURNOVER TIME OF TISSUE CATECHOLAMINES

    B. B. Brodie;E. Costa;A. Dlabac;N. H. Neff

  • Isolation, characterization, and purification to homogeneity of an endogenous polypeptide with agonistic action on benzodiazepine receptors

    Alessandro Guidotti;Concetta M. Forchetti;Maria G. Corda;Dennis Konkel

  • Molecular mechanisms in the receptor action of benzodiazepines

    E Costa;A Guidotti

  • Isolation, sequencing, synthesis, and pharmacological characterization of two brain neuropeptides that modulate the action of morphine

    H.-Y. T. Yang;W. Fratta;E. A. Majane;E. Costa

  • An endogenous protein modulates the affinity of GABA and benzodiazepine receptors in rat brain.

    Alessandro Guidotti;G. Toffano;E. Costa

  • Coupling of inositol phospholipid metabolism with excitatory amino acid recognition sites in rat hippocampus.

    F. Nicoletti;J. L. Meek;M. J. Iadarola;D. M. Chuang

  • The activation of inositol phospholipid metabolism as a signal-transducing system for excitatory amino acids in primary cultures of cerebellar granule cells.

    F. Nicoletti;J. T. Wroblewski;A. Novelli;H. Alho

  • Increase of proenkephalin mRNA and enkephalin content of rat striatum after daily injection of haloperidol for 2 to 3 weeks.

    F. Tang;Erminio Costa;Joan P. Schwartz

  • Projections of substance P containing neurons from neostriatum to substantia nigra.

    J.S. Hong;H.-Y.T. Yang;G. Racagni;E. Costa

  • Regional distribution of LEU and MET enkephalin in rat brain.

    H.-Y. Yang;J.S. Hong;E. Costa

  • Pathological gambling. A psychobiological study.

    Alec Roy;Bryon Adinoff;Laurie Roehrich;Danuta Lamparski

  • Rat striatal methionine-enkephalin content after chronic treatment with cataleptogenic and noncataleptogenic antischizophrenic drugs.

    J S Hong;H Y Yang;W Fratta;E Costa

  • Determination of methionine enkephalin in discrete regions of rat brain.

    J.S. Hong;H.-Y.T. Yang;W. Fratta;E. Costa

  • Mitochondrial benzodiazepine receptors regulate steroid biosynthesis.

    Alexey G. Mukhin;Vassilios Papadopoulos;Erminio Costa;Karl E. Krueger

  • Diazepam-binding inhibitor: a neuropeptide located in selected neuronal populations of rat brain.

    H Alho;E Costa;P Ferrero;M Fujimoto

  • Modulation of nicotinic receptors by opiate receptor agonists in cultured adrenal chromaffin cells.

    K. Kumakura;F. Karoum;A. Guidotti;E. Costa

  • Inhibition of spontaneous and opiate-modified nociception by an endogenous neuropeptide with Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2-like immunoreactivity.

    J. Tang;H. Y. T. Yang;E. Costa

  • beta-Carbolines enhance shock-induced suppression of drinking in rats.

    Maria G. Corda;William D. Blaker;Wallace B. Mendelson;Alessandro Guidotti

  • In primary cultures of cerebellar granule cells the activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate-sensitive glutamate receptors induces c-fos mRNA expression.

    A M Szekely;M L Barbaccia;H Alho;E Costa

  • The transsynaptic regulation of the septal-hippocampal cholinergic neurons

    E. Costa;P. Panula;H.K. Thompson;D.L. Cheney

Frequent Co-Authors

Jau-Shyong Hong
Jau-Shyong Hong National Institutes of Health
De-Maw Chuang
De-Maw Chuang National Institutes of Health
Walter Fratta
Walter Fratta University of Cagliari
Stefano Vicini
Stefano Vicini Georgetown University Medical Center
Giovanni Biggio
Giovanni Biggio University of Cagliari
Bryan L. Roth
Bryan L. Roth University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Giorgio Racagni
Giorgio Racagni University of Milan
Bernard B. Brodie
Bernard B. Brodie National Institutes of Health
Joan P. Schwartz
Joan P. Schwartz National Institutes of Health
Alessandro Guidotti
Alessandro Guidotti University of Illinois at Chicago

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