Giovanni Defazio

Giovanni Defazio publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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Giovanni Defazio 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 Giovanni Defazio sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Pathophysiology of somatosensory abnormalities in Parkinson disease

  Antonella Conte;Nashaba Khan;Giovanni Defazio;John C. Rothwell

  355
  Citations

• Do primary adult-onset focal dystonias share aetiological factors?

  Giovanni Defazio;Alfredo Berardelli;Mark Hallett

  335
  Citations

• Epidemiology of primary dystonia

  Giovanni Defazio;Giovanni Abbruzzese;Paolo Livrea;Alfredo Berardelli

  299
  Citations

• Pain as a Nonmotor Symptom of Parkinson Disease: Evidence From a Case-Control Study

  Giovanni Defazio;Alfredo Berardelli;Giovanni Fabbrini;Davide Martino

  291
  Citations

• Botulinum toxin A treatment for primary hemifacial spasm: A 10-year multicenter study

  Giovanni Defazio;Giovanni Abbruzzese;Paolo Girlanda;Laura Vacca

  218
  Citations

• Blepharospasm 40 years later.

  Giovanni Defazio;Mark Hallett;Hyder A. Jinnah;Antonella Conte

  189
  Citations

• Camptocormia in Parkinson disease: an epidemiological and clinical study

  Dorina Tiple;Giovanni Fabbrini;Carlo Colosimo;Donatella Ottaviani

  183
  Citations

• A comparative study of primary and secondary hemifacial spasm

  Carlo Colosimo;Matteo Bologna;Simona Lamberti;Lucio Avanzino

  165
  Citations

• Rate of MMSE score change in Alzheimer's disease: influence of education and vascular risk factors.

  Francesco Roselli;Bruno Tartaglione;Francesco Federico;Vito Lepore

  158
  Citations

• Changes of serum sICAM-1 and MMP-9 induced by rIFNβ-1b treatment in relapsing-remitting MS

  M. Trojano;C. Avolio;G.M. Liuzzi;M. Ruggieri

  157
  Citations

• Spontaneous pain, pain threshold, and pain tolerance in Parkinson’s disease

  Sandro Zambito Marsala;Michele Tinazzi;Roberta Vitaliani;Serena Recchia

  156
  Citations

• Possible risk factors for primary adult onset dystonia: a case-control investigation by the Italian Movement Disorders Study Group

  Giovanni Defazio;A Berardelli;G Abbruzzese;Lepore

  155
  Citations

• Somatosensory temporal discrimination in patients with primary focal dystonia

  Alessandra Scontrini;Antonella Conte;Giovanni Defazio;Mirta Fiorio

  154
  Citations

• Correlation between cortical plasticity, motor learning and BDNF genotype in healthy subjects.

  P. Li Voti;A. Conte;A. Suppa;E. Iezzi

  154
  Citations

• Defective temporal processing of sensory stimuli in DYT1 mutation carriers: a new endophenotype of dystonia?

  Mirta Fiorio;Mattia Gambarin;Enza Maria Valente;Paolo Liberini

  152
  Citations

• Descriptive Epidemiology of Cervical Dystonia

  Giovanni Defazio;Joseph Jankovic;Jennifer L. Giel;Spyridon Papapetropoulos;Spyridon Papapetropoulos

  136
  Citations

• Diffusion tensor imaging in patients with primary cervical dystonia and in patients with blepharospasm.

  G. Fabbrini;P. Pantano;P. Totaro;V. Calistri

  134
  Citations

• Is tremor in dystonia a phenotypic feature of dystonia

  Giovanni Defazio;Antonella Conte;Angelo F. Gigante;Giovanni Fabbrini

  130
  Citations

• Cortical excitability is abnormal in patients with the “fixed dystonia” syndrome

  Laura Avanzino;Laura Avanzino;Davide Martino;Davide Martino;Bart P. C. van de Warrenburg;Bart P. C. van de Warrenburg;Susanne A. Schneider

  127
  Citations

• A new potential biomarker for dementia with Lewy bodies: Skin nerve α-synuclein deposits.

  Vincenzo Donadio;Alex Incensi;Giovanni Rizzo;Sabina Capellari

  125
  Citations