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Giorgia Silani

Giorgia Silani

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
7723
World Ranking
9390
National Ranking
44

Giorgia Silani 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 Giorgia Silani sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 102 publications — 21st percentile

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

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

Giorgia Silani 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 Giorgia Silani sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Giorgia Silani is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and focuses on research within the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research extensively covers topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, autism spectrum disorder research, olfactory and sensory function studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, COVID-19 and mental health, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and pain mechanisms and treatments.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Giorgia Silani include:

  • Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards, 2020, eLife
  • When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy, 2020, Cortex
  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology
  • Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect-Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Silani include Claus Lamm, Claudia Massaccesi, Urs M. Nater, Sebastian Korb, and Matthäus Willeit. The scientist has published multiple works in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Psychiatry, eLife, Cerebral Cortex, and Frontiers in Psychology.

The distribution of work across publication venues demonstrates consistent engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed platforms in the neuroscience and psychology domains.

Best Publications

  • Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping

    Grit Hein;Giorgia Silani;Kerstin Preuschoff;C. Daniel Batson

  • Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

    Geoffrey Bird;Giorgia Silani;Rachel Brindley;Sarah White

  • Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

    Giorgia Silani;Geoffrey Bird;Rachel Brindley;Tania Singer

  • Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments.

    Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Christian C. Ruff;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: a voxel based morphometry study.

    G. Silani;U. Frith;J.-F. Demonet;F. Fazio

  • Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain

    Tania Singer;Romana Snozzi;Geoffrey Bird;Predrag Petrovic

  • From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders

    C. Lamm;H. Bukowski;G. Silani

  • Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction

    L. Tomova;B. von Dawans;M. Heinrichs;G. Silani

  • Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders.

    Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Christopher D. Frith

  • Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

    Markus Rütgen;Eva-Maria Seidel;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Igor Riečanský;Igor Riečanský

  • Affective basis of judgment-behavior discrepancy in virtual experiences of moral dilemmas.

    Indrajeet Patil;Carlotta Cogoni;Nicola Zangrando;Luca Chittaro

  • Reduced empathic concern leads to utilitarian moral judgments in trait alexithymia

    Indrajeet Patil;Giorgia Silani

  • Are we really measuring empathy? Proposal for a new measurement framework.

    Michel-Pierre Coll;Michel-Pierre Coll;Essi Viding;Markus Rütgen;Giorgia Silani

  • A functional-anatomical model for lipreading.

    E. Paulesu;D. Perani;V. Blasi;G. Silani

  • Selective Disruption of Sociocognitive Structural Brain Networks in Autism and Alexithymia

    Boris C. Bernhardt;Sofie L. Valk;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Distinct neural networks underlying empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch

    Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures.

    Indrajeet Patil;Micaela Maria Zucchelli;Wouter Kool;Stephanie Campbell

  • Empathy for social exclusion involves the sensory-discriminative component of pain: a within-subject fMRI study

    Giovanni Novembre;Marco Zanon;Giorgia Silani

  • The impact of social exclusion vs. inclusion on subjective and hormonal reactions in females and males

    E.M. Seidel;G. Silani;H. Metzler;H. Thaler

  • Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism

    Indrajeet Patil;Jens Melsbach;Kristina Hennig-Fast;Giorgia Silani

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society
Urs M. Nater
Urs M. Nater University of Vienna
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Eraldo Paulesu
Eraldo Paulesu University of Milano-Bicocca
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Christian Windischberger
Christian Windischberger Medical University of Vienna
Boris B. Quednow
Boris B. Quednow University of Zurich
Luca Chittaro
Luca Chittaro University of Udine
Predrag Petrovic
Predrag Petrovic Karolinska Institute

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