Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti 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 Giacomo Rizzolatti sits on this spectrum.

Giacomo Rizzolatti 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 Giacomo Rizzolatti sits on this spectrum.

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)
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

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