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37
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4661
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8851
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488

Francesco Papaleo 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 Francesco Papaleo sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 108 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Francesco Papaleo 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 Francesco Papaleo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Francesco Papaleo is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily within neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study covered in Papaleo's work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their research has significant focus on the following subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Genetics

Key topics addressed by Papaleo consist of:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Francesco Papaleo's recent publications include:

  • Immunology of COVID-19: Mechanisms, clinical outcome, diagnostics, and perspectives-A report of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), 2020, Allergy
  • A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice, 2020, Neurobiology of Stress
  • Reciprocal cortico-amygdala connections regulate prosocial and selfish choices in mice, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Dopamine, Cognitive Impairments and Second-Generation Antipsychotics: From Mechanistic Advances to More Personalized Treatments, 2020, Pharmaceuticals

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Papaleo include:

  • Francesca Managò
  • Gian Marco Leggio
  • Filippo Drago
  • Federica Maltese
  • Giada Pacinelli

Papaleo has published extensively in several academic venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Nature Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Allergy
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Genetic Dissection of the Role of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase in Cognition and Stress Reactivity in Mice

    Francesco Papaleo;Jacqueline N. Crawley;Jian Song;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Chronic and Acute Intranasal Oxytocin Produce Divergent Social Effects in Mice

    Huiping Huang;Caterina Michetti;Marta Busnelli;Francesca Managò

  • Oxytocin Signaling in the Central Amygdala Modulates Emotion Discrimination in Mice.

    Valentina Ferretti;Federica Maltese;Gabriella Contarini;Marco Nigro

  • Somatostatin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex control affective state discrimination in mice

    Diego Scheggia;Francesca Managò;Federica Maltese;Stefania Bruni

  • Neuregulin 1-ErbB4-PI3K signaling in schizophrenia and phosphoinositide 3-kinase-p110δ inhibition as a potential therapeutic strategy

    Amanda J. Law;Yanhong Wang;Yoshitatsu Sei;Patricio O’Donnell

  • Dysbindin-1 modulates prefrontal cortical activity and schizophrenia-like behaviors via dopamine/D2 pathways

    Francesco Papaleo;F. Yang;S. Garcia;J. Chen

  • Role of dysbindin in dopamine receptor trafficking and cortical GABA function

    Yuanyuan Ji;Feng Yang;Francesco Papaleo;Huai Xing Wang

  • Working Memory Deficits, Increased Anxiety-Like Traits, and Seizure Susceptibility in BDNF Overexpressing Mice.

    Francesco Papaleo;Jill L. Silverman;Jordan Aney;Qingjun Tian

  • Attenuated palmitoylation of serotonin receptor 5-HT1A affects receptor function and contributes to depression-like behaviors.

    Nataliya Gorinski;Monika Bijata;Sonal Prasad;Alexander Wirth

  • Mouse models of genetic effects on cognition: relevance to schizophrenia.

    Francesco Papaleo;Barbara K. Lipska;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Genetic Disruption of Arc/Arg3.1 in Mice Causes Alterations in Dopamine and Neurobehavioral Phenotypes Related to Schizophrenia

    Francesca Managò;Maddalena Mereu;Surjeet Mastwal;Rosa Mastrogiacomo

  • The corticotropin-releasing factor receptor-1 pathway mediates the negative affective states of opiate withdrawal

    Angelo Contarino;Francesco Papaleo

  • Understanding others: Emotion recognition in humans and other animals.

    Valentina Ferretti;Francesco Papaleo

  • Gender- and morphine dose-linked expression of spontaneous somatic opiate withdrawal in mice.

    Francesco Papaleo;Angelo Contarino

  • Automatic Visual Tracking and Social Behaviour Analysis with Multiple Mice

    Luca Giancardo;Diego Sona;Huiping Huang;Sara Sannino

  • Effects of sex and COMT genotype on environmentally modulated cognitive control in mice

    Francesco Papaleo;Lucy Erickson;Guangping Liu;Jingshan Chen

  • Dopamine, the antipsychotic molecule: A perspective on mechanisms underlying antipsychotic response variability

    Davide Amato;Davide Amato;Anthony C. Vernon;Francesco Papaleo

  • Decreased motivation to eat in mu-opioid receptor-deficient mice

    Francesco Papaleo;Brigitte L. Kieffer;Antoine Tabarin;Angelo Contarino

  • Reciprocal cortico-amygdala connections regulate prosocial and selfish choices in mice

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  • Epistatic interaction between COMT and DTNBP1 modulates prefrontal function in mice and in humans

    F Papaleo;F Papaleo;M C Burdick;J H Callicott;D R Weinberger;D R Weinberger

  • The Ultimate Intra-/Extra-Dimensional Attentional Set-Shifting Task for Mice

    Diego Scheggia;Diego Scheggia;Audrey Bebensee;Audrey Bebensee;Daniel R. Weinberger;Francesco Papaleo;Francesco Papaleo

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Vittorio Murino
Vittorio Murino University of Verona
Stefano Vicari
Stefano Vicari Boston Children's Hospital
Alessandro Gozzi
Alessandro Gozzi Italian Institute of Technology
Filippo Drago
Filippo Drago University of Catania
Gianfranco Spalletta
Gianfranco Spalletta Baylor College of Medicine
Claudio Bucolo
Claudio Bucolo University of Catania
Fabrizio Piras
Fabrizio Piras Fondazione Santa Lucia
Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis

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