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Giampaolo Perna

Giampaolo Perna

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
59
Citations
10027
World Ranking
3755
National Ranking
57

Giampaolo Perna publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giampaolo Perna sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 316 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Giampaolo Perna D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giampaolo Perna sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Giampaolo Perna is affiliated with Humanitas University in Italy and has produced research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their scholarly work spans a range of subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Perna include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Treatment of Major Depression

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Perna are:

  • "World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and posttraumatic stress disorders - Version 3. Part I: Anxiety disorders" (2022), published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • "Religious Coping, Hopelessness, and Suicide Ideation in Subjects with First-Episode Major Depression: An Exploratory Study in the Real World Clinical Practice" (2020), published in Brain Sciences
  • "World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and posttraumatic stress disorders - Version 3. Part II: OCD and PTSD" (2022), published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • "Personalized Psychiatry and Depression: The Role of Sociodemographic and Clinical Variables" (2020), published in Psychiatry Investigation
  • "An Update on Glutamatergic System in Suicidal Depression and on the Role of Esketamine" (2020), published in Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with:

  • Daniela Caldirola
  • Silvia Daccò
  • Alessandra Alciati
  • Massimiliano Grassi
  • Francesco Cuniberti

Perna's publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • European Heart Journal Supplements
  • European Psychiatry
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

  • The HPA axis in bipolar disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Martino Belvederi Murri;Martino Belvederi Murri;Davide Prestia;Valeria Mondelli;Carmine Pariante

  • Suicide during Perinatal Period: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Clinical Correlates.

    Laura Orsolini;Alessandro Valchera;Roberta Vecchiotti;Carmine Tomasetti

  • Safety of antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia: a focus on the adverse effects of clozapine:

    Domenico De Berardis;Gabriella Rapini;Luigi Olivieri;Domenico Di Nicola

  • Age at onset of panic disorder: influence of familial liability to the disease and of childhood separation anxiety disorder.

    Marco Battaglia;Silvana Bertella;Ernestina Politi;Luana Bernardeschi

  • Approximate Entropy of Respiratory Patterns in Panic Disorder

    Daniela Caldirola;Laura Bellodi;Andrea Caumo;Giovanni Migliarese

  • The prevalence and predictors of bipolar and borderline personality disorders comorbidity: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    M Fornaro;L Orsolini;L Orsolini;S Marini;D De Berardis

  • Carbon dioxide/oxygen challenge test in panic disorder

    Giampaolo Perna;Marco Battaglia;Anna Garberi;Cinzia Arancio

  • Eradicating Suicide at Its Roots: Preclinical Bases and Clinical Evidence of the Efficacy of Ketamine in the Treatment of Suicidal Behaviors

    Domenico De Berardis;Michele Fornaro;Alessandro Valchera;Marilde Cavuto

  • An update of safety of clinically used atypical antipsychotics

    Orsolini L;Tomasetti C;Valchera A;Vecchiotti R

  • Asthma and panic attacks.

    Giampaolo Perna;Angelo Bertani;Ernestina Politi;Giselda Colombo

  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and posttraumatic stress disorders – Version 3. Part I: Anxiety disorders

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  • ALEXITHYMIA AND SUICIDE RISK IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: A MINI REVIEW

    Domenico De Berardis;Michele Fornaro;Laura Orsolini;Alessandro Valchera

  • Neurosteroid secretion in panic disorder

    Francesca Brambilla;Giovanni Biggio;Maria Giuseppina Pisu;Laura Bellodi

  • CO2-Induced Panic Attacks: A Twin Study

    Laura Bellodi;Giampaolo Perna;Daniela Caldirola;Cinzia Arancio

  • Heart rate variability: Can it serve as a marker of mental health resilience?: Special Section on "Translational and Neuroscience Studies in Affective Disorders" Section Editor, Maria Nobile MD, PhD.

    Giampaolo Perna;Alice Riva;Archie Defillo;Erika Sangiorgio

  • Prevalence and clinical features associated with bipolar disorder polypharmacy: a systematic review

    Michele Fornaro;Domenico De Berardis;Ann Sarah Koshy;Giampaolo Perna

  • Antipanic efficacy of paroxetine and polymorphism within the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene.

    Giampaolo Perna;Elisa Favaron;Daniela Di Bella;Riccardo Bussi

  • Sensitivity to 35% CO2 in healthy first-degree relatives of patients with panic disorder.

    G Perna;S Cocchi;A Bertani;C Arancio

  • The 35% CO2 challenge in panic disorder: optimization by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.

    Marco Battaglia;Giampaolo Perna

  • Panic disorder: the role of the balance system

    Giampaolo Perna;Alpini Dario;Daniela Caldirola;Barozzi Stefania

  • A Novel Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict the Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Clinical Information, and Neuropsychological Measures.

    Massimiliano Grassi;Nadine Rouleaux;Daniela Caldirola;David Loewenstein;David Loewenstein

  • The 35% CO2 challenge test in patients with social phobia

    Daniela Caldirola;Giampaolo Perna;Cinzia Arancio;Angelo Bertani

  • A comparison of citalopram and paroxetine in the treatment of panic disorder: a randomized, single-blind study

    G. Perna;A. Bertani;D. Caldirola;E. Smeraldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Bellodi
Laura Bellodi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Daniela Caldirola
Daniela Caldirola Humanitas University
Giovanni Martinotti
Giovanni Martinotti University of Chieti-Pescara
Felice Iasevoli
Felice Iasevoli University of Naples Federico II
Monica Mazza
Monica Mazza University of L'Aquila
Maurizio Pompili
Maurizio Pompili Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Di Nicola
Marco Di Nicola Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Gianluca Serafini
Gianluca Serafini University of Genoa
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Antonio Egidio Nardi
Antonio Egidio Nardi Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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