2026 Flavio Dell'Acqua: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	58	4122	3778	363	331	135	15242

Flavio Dell'Acqua publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Flavio Dell'Acqua sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 135 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Flavio Dell'Acqua D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Flavio Dell'Acqua sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Flavio Dell'Acqua is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus spanning multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience. Their work is particularly centered on advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, contributing extensively to understanding brain structure and function in both typical and atypical populations.

Their main fields of study include Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Clinical Psychology.

Key topics covered by Dell'Acqua in their research comprise:

Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Frequent publication venues for Dell'Acqua's work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Molecular Autism
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
Alzheimer s & Dementia
Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably Declan Murphy, Jan K. Buitelaar, Christine Ecker, Eva Loth, and Tony Charman.

Recent publications include:

"Anatomical evidence of an indirect pathway for word repetition," 2020, Neurology
"Atypical Brain Asymmetry in Autism-A Candidate for Clinically Meaningful Stratification," 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
"Differences in Frontal Network Anatomy Across Primate Species," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
"Excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in autism: the role of glutamate and GABA gene-sets in symptoms and cortical brain structure," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
"Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis," 2022, Molecular Autism

Best Publications

The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography

Klaus H. Maier-Hein;Peter F. Neher;Jean-Christophe Houde;Marc-Alexandre Cote

1315
Citations
A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Stephanie J Forkel;Andrew Simmons;Andrew Simmons

1200
Citations
Short frontal lobe connections of the human brain.

Marco Catani;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Francesco Vergani;Farah Malik

850
Citations
A revised limbic system model for memory, emotion and behaviour

Marco Catani;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

792
Citations
Atlasing location, asymmetry and inter-subject variability of white matter tracts in the human brain with MR diffusion tractography.

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Dominic H. ffytche;Alberto Bizzi;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua

736
Citations
Monkey to human comparative anatomy of the frontal lobe association tracts

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Romain Valabregue;Marco Catani

677
Citations
A novel frontal pathway underlies verbal fluency in primary progressive aphasia

Marco Catani;Marsel M. Mesulam;Estrid Jakobsen;Farah Malik

535
Citations
Can spherical deconvolution provide more information than fiber orientations? Hindrance modulated orientational anisotropy, a true-tract specific index to characterize white matter diffusion.

Flavio Dell'Acqua;Andrew Simmons;Steven C.R. Williams;Marco Catani

405
Citations
A modified damped Richardson–Lucy algorithm to reduce isotropic background effects in spherical deconvolution

Flavio Dell'Acqua;Paola Scifo;Giovanna Rizzo;Marco Catani

384
Citations
Atlasing the frontal lobe connections and their variability due to age and education: a spherical deconvolution tractography study

K Rojkova;E Volle;M Urbanski;F Humbert

371
Citations
Word learning is mediated by the left arcuate fasciculus

Diana López-Barroso;Marco Catani;Pablo Ripollés;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua

348
Citations
Anatomical predictors of aphasia recovery: a tractography study of bilateral perisylvian language networks.

Stephanie J. Forkel;Stephanie J. Forkel;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Lalit Kalra

336
Citations
Beyond cortical localization in clinico-anatomical correlation.

Marco Catani;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Alberto Bizzi;Stephanie J. Forkel

305
Citations
The anatomy of fronto-occipital connections from early blunt dissections to contemporary tractography.

Stephanie J. Forkel;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Jamie M. Kawadler;Flavio Dell'Acqua

280
Citations
Fronto-striatal circuitry and inhibitory control in autism: Findings from diffusion tensor imaging tractography

Marieke Langen;Alexander Leemans;Alexander Leemans;Patrick Johnston;Christine Ecker

268
Citations
A Model-Based Deconvolution Approach to Solve Fiber Crossing in Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging

F. Dell'Acqua;G. Rizzo;P. Scifo;R.A. Clarke

246
Citations
Modelling white matter with spherical deconvolution: How and why?

Flavio Dell'Acqua;J.‐Donald Tournier

234
Citations
From Phineas Gage and Monsieur Leborgne to H.M.: Revisiting Disconnection Syndromes

M. Thiebaut De Schotten;F. Dell'Acqua;P. Ratiu;A. Leslie

215
Citations
Microstructural imaging of the human brain with a ‘super-scanner’: 10 key advantages of ultra-strong gradients for diffusion MRI

Derek K. Jones;Derek K. Jones;Daniel C. Alexander;Daniel C. Alexander;Richard Bowtell;Mara Cercignani

201
Citations
White matter connections of the supplementary motor area in humans

Francesco Vergani;Luis Lacerda;Juan Martino;Johannes Attems

195
Citations
Non-invasive imaging of transplanted human neural stem cells and ECM scaffold remodeling in the stroke-damaged rat brain by 19F- and diffusion-MRI

Ellen Bible;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Bhavana Solanky;Anthony Balducci

188
Citations
A Lateralized Brain Network for Visuo-Spatial Attention

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Stephanie Forkel;Andrew Simmons

62
Citations