2026 Giacomo Rizzolatti: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	137	214	193	2	1	392	150126

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Neuroscience

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Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
2014 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning such complex human functions as literacy, numeracy, motivated behaviour and social cognition, and for their efforts to understand cognitive and behavioural disorders
2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
2003 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Giacomo Rizzolatti is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy. Their recent scholarly contributions include a paper titled Issue Information, published in 2020 in the journal Brain and Behavior. This publication represents part of their ongoing engagement in brain science research.

Collaborative work forms a significant part of their academic activities. Frequent co-authors include:

Luigi Pizzamiglio
Richard Rende
Fred W. Sabb
Veronika Skvortsova
Kai-Christian Sonntag

Their publication record shows involvement primarily in the venue Brain and Behavior, contributing at least one paper there.

Over the course of their career, Giacomo Rizzolatti has received several recognitions from the academic and scientific community. These awards include:

The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation (2014) - for pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms related to literacy, numeracy, motivated behavior, social cognition, and for efforts in understanding cognitive and behavioral disorders
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville (2007)
Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin (2003)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Member of Academia Europaea (1989)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

The mirror neuron system.

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Laila Craighero

14933
Citations
Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions.

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Luciano Fadiga;Vittorio Gallese;Leonardo Fogassi

7652
Citations
Action recognition in the premotor cortex

Vittorio Gallese;Luciano Fadiga;Leonardo Fogassi;Giacomo Rizzolatti

7580
Citations
Understanding motor events-a neurophysiological study

G di Pellegrino;L Fadiga;L Fogassi;V Gallese

4964
Citations
Language within our grasp

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Michael A. Arbib

4852
Citations
Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action.

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Leonardo Fogassi;Vittorio Gallese

4804
Citations
Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation

Marco Iacoboni;Roger P. Woods;Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering

4045
Citations
Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study.

G. Buccino;F. Binkofski;G. R. Fink;L. Fadiga

3456
Citations
Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study

L. Fadiga;L. Fogassi;G. Pavesi;G. Rizzolatti

3325
Citations
Both of us disgusted in My insula: the common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust.

Bruno Wicker;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Jane Plailly;Jean Pierre Royet

3310
Citations
A unifying view of the basis of social cognition.

Vittorio Gallese;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Giacomo Rizzolatti

3252
Citations
Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron system.

Marco Iacoboni;Istvan Molnar-Szakacs;Vittorio Gallese;Giovanni Buccino

3043
Citations
Hearing sounds, understanding actions: action representation in mirror neurons.

Evelyne Kohler;Christian Keysers;M. Alessandra Umiltà;Leonardo Fogassi

2817
Citations
Parietal lobe: from action organization to intention understanding.

Leonardo Fogassi;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Benno Gesierich;Stefano Rozzi

2710
Citations
Reorienting attention across the horizontal and vertical meridians: evidence in favor of a premotor theory of attention.

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Lucia Riggio;Isabella Dascola;Carlo Umiltá

2402
Citations
Functional organization of inferior area 6 in the macaque monkey. II. Area F5 and the control of distal movements.

G Rizzolatti;R Camarda;L Fogassi;M Gentilucci

2237
Citations
The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations.

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Corrado Sinigaglia

2104
Citations
I Know What You Are Doing: A Neurophysiological Study

M.A. Umiltà;E. Kohler;V. Gallese;L. Fogassi

1993
Citations
Grasping objects: the cortical mechanisms of visuomotor transformation

Marc Jeannerod;M. A. Arbib;G. Rizzolatti;H. Sakata

1902
Citations
Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions

Giacomo Rizzolatti;Corrado Sinigaglia;Frances Anderson

1843
Citations