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Giancarlo Carli

Giancarlo Carli

University of Siena
Italy

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
4568
World Ranking
9059
National Ranking
503

Giancarlo Carli 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 Giancarlo Carli sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 197 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giancarlo Carli 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 Giancarlo Carli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Giancarlo Carli is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy and has a research focus spanning the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly contributions largely concentrate on the subfields of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and social psychology.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Carli has published extensively in several academic venues, with a significant number of works appearing in:

  • Progress in brain research
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Physiological Reports
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Carli are:

  • Tonic immobility as a survival, adaptive response and as a recovery mechanism (2022), published in Progress in brain research
  • The formalin test does not probe inflammatory pain but excitotoxicity in rodent skin (2022), published in Physiological Reports
  • Individual Traits and Pain Treatment: The Case of Hypnotizability (2021), published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • A retrospective observational study comparing somatosensory amplification in fibromyalgia, chronic pain, psychiatric disorders and healthy subjects (2020), published in Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • Can interoceptive sensitivity provide information on the difference in the perceptual mechanisms of recurrent and chronic pain? Part I. A retrospective clinical study related to multidimensional pain assessment (2022), published in Scandinavian Journal of Pain

Carli frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Francesca Farabollini
  • Antonella Ciaramella
  • Enrica L. Santarcangelo
  • Valentino Pozzolini
  • Tal Hoffmann

Best Publications

  • Reactivity to superficial and deep stimuli in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

    Giancarlo Carli;Anna Lisa Suman;Giovanni Biasi;Roberto Marcolongo

  • Sex differences in the behavioural response to persistent pain in rats

    Anna Maria Aloisi;Maria Emanuela Albonetti;Giancarlo Carli

  • Different strategies of modulation can be operative during hypnotic analgesia: a neurophysiological study.

    Nicolas Danziger;Emmanuel Fournier;Didier Bouhassira;Didier Michaud

  • Immobilization and restraint effects on pain reactions in animals

    Carlo A. Porro;Giancarlo Carli

  • Changes in the exercise-induced hormone response to branched chain amino acid administration.

    G Carli;Marco Bonifazi;Leda Lodi;C Lupo

  • Alexithymia in fibromyalgia syndrome: associations with ongoing pain, experimental pain sensitivity and illness behavior.

    Alexa Huber;Anna Lisa Suman;Giovanni Biasi;Giancarlo Carli

  • Effects of novelty, pain and stress on hippocampal extracellular acetylcholine levels in male rats

    Anna Maria Aloisi;F. Casamenti;C. Scali;G. Pepeu

  • The interphase of the formalin test.

    Michael Fischer;Giancarlo Carli;Giancarlo Carli;Patrick Raboisson;Peter Reeh

  • ‘Mirror pain’ in the formalin test: behavioral and 2-deoxyglucose studies

    Anna Maria Aloisi;Carlo Adolfo Porro;Milena Cavazzuti;Patrizia Baraldi

  • Modulation of pain-induced endothelial dysfunction by hypnotisability

    Zoltan Jambrik;Enrica L. Santarcangelo;Tibor Rudisch;Albert Varga

  • Individual pain history and familial pain tolerance models: relationships to post-surgical pain.

    Valeria Bachiocco;Michele Scesi;Antonello Maria Morselli;Giancarlo Carli

  • Behavioural effects of different intensities of formalin pain in rats

    Anna Maria Aloisi;Maria Emanuela Albonetti;Giancarlo Carli

  • Enriched environment and the recovery from inflammatory pain: Social versus physical aspects and their interaction

    Anne F. Gabriel;Giulia Paoletti;Daniele Della Seta;Riccardo Panelli

  • Changes in salivary cortisol and corticosteroid receptor-α mRNA expression following a 3-week multidisciplinary treatment program in patients with fibromyalgia

    Marco Bonifazi;Anna Lisa Suman;Caterina Cambiaggi;Andrea Felici

  • Effects of pain, morphine and naloxone on the duration of animal hypnosis.

    Giancarlo Carli;Francesca Farabollini;Giuliano Fontani

  • Effects of formalin-induced pain on ACTH, beta-endorphin, corticosterone and interleukin-6 plasma levels in rats.

    Anna Maria Aloisi;Maria Emanuela Albonetti;Michela Muscettola;Fabio Facchinetti

  • Responses of the muscle spindles and of the extrafusal fibres in an extensor muscle to stimulation of the lateral vestibular nucleus in the cat.

    G. Carli;K. Diete-Spiff;O. Pompeiano

  • Central beta-endorphin system involvement in the reaction to acute tonic pain.

    C. A. Porro;G. Tassinari;Fabio Facchinetti;A. E. Panerai

  • Predictors of psychological distress and well-being in women with chronic musculoskeletal pain: two sides of the same coin?

    Alexa Huber;Anna Lisa Suman;Giovanni Biasi;Giancarlo Carli

  • Midbrain course of descending pathways mediating sham rage behavior.

    Giancarlo Carli;Alberto Malliani;Alberto Zanchetti

  • Response of hip joint afferent fibers to pressure and vibration in the cat.

    A.M. Aloisi;G. Carli;A. Rossi

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Maria Aloisi
Anna Maria Aloisi University of Siena
O. Pompeiano
O. Pompeiano University of Pisa
Carlo Adolfo Porro
Carlo Adolfo Porro University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Roberta Ferrucci
Roberta Ferrucci University of Milan
Fabio Facchinetti
Fabio Facchinetti University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Alberto E. Panerai
Alberto E. Panerai University of Milan
Massimiliano Valeriani
Massimiliano Valeriani University of Rome Tor Vergata
Alberto Priori
Alberto Priori University of Milan
Elbert A.J. Joosten
Elbert A.J. Joosten Maastricht University
Alessandro Rossi
Alessandro Rossi University of L'Aquila

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