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Giovanni Di Guardo

Giovanni Di Guardo

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
31
Citations
14433
World Ranking
2220
National Ranking
107

Giovanni Di Guardo publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giovanni Di Guardo sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 167 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Giovanni Di Guardo D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giovanni Di Guardo sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Giovanni Di Guardo is affiliated with the University of Teramo in Italy and is active in the field of Medicine, with a primary focus on Infectious Diseases. Their research portfolio includes a significant number of publications addressing a range of topics related to viral infections, epidemiology, animal health, and public health concerns.

Their main fields of study are Medicine, prominently featuring Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, with additional work in Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Di Guardo's research topics cover several specialized areas:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

Their frequent co-authors include Carla Grattarola, Sandro Mazzariol, Cristina Casalone, Federica Giorda, and Gabriella Di Francesco, each contributing in numerous collaborative publications.

Giovanni Di Guardo publishes regularly in several scientific journals, with Veterinary Record and Pathogens as the most frequent publication venues. Additional notable venues include Top Italian Scientists Journal, PLoS ONE, and Animals.

Several recent papers provide insight into their research interests and contributions. Some of these include:

  • The SARS-CoV-2 receptor, ACE-2, is expressed on many different cell types: implications for ACE-inhibitor- and angiotensin II receptor blocker-based cardiovascular therapies (2020), published in Internal and Emergency Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2, a Threat to Marine Mammals? A Study from Italian Seawaters (2021), published in Animals
  • The SARS-CoV-2 receptor, ACE-2, is expressed on many different cell types: implications for ACE-inhibitor- and angiotensin II receptor blocker-based antihypertensive therapies-reply (2020), published in Internal and Emergency Medicine
  • Occurrence of Brucella ceti in striped dolphins from Italian Seas (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • Factors explaining driver yielding behaviour towards pedestrians at courtesy crossings (2020), published in Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Emerging infectious diseases in cetaceans worldwide and the possible role of environmental stressors.

    Marie-Francoise Van Bressem;Juan Antonio Raga;Giovanni Di Guardo;Paul D. Jepson

  • Cetacean morbillivirus : current knowledge and future directions

    Marie Françoise Van Bressem;Pádraig J. Duignan;Ashley Banyard;Michelle Barbieri

  • Identification of an allelic variant of the goat PrP gene associated with resistance to scrapie.

    Gabriele Vaccari;Michele A. Di Bari;Luisella Morelli;Romolo Nonno

  • Phocine distemper Virus: Current knowledge and future directions

    Pádraig J. Duignan;Marie Françoise Van Bressem;Jason D. Baker;Michelle Barbieri

  • Sometimes Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) Cannot Find Their Way Back to the High Seas: A Multidisciplinary Study on a Mass Stranding

    Sandro Mazzariol;Giovanni Di Guardo;Antonio Petrella;Letizia Marsili

  • Dolphin Morbillivirus and Toxoplasma gondii coinfection in a Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus).

    Sandro Mazzariol;Federica Marcer;Walter Mignone;Laura Serracca

  • Cetacean strandings in Italy: an unusual mortality event along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in 2013.

    Cristina Casalone;Sandro Mazzariol;Alessandra Pautasso;Giovanni Di Guardo

  • Anatomical evidence for ileal Peyer's patches innervation by enteric nervous system: a potential route for prion neuroinvasion?

    Roberto Chiocchetti;Gemma Mazzuoli;Valeria Albanese;Valeria Albanese;Maurizio Mazzoni

  • Molecular Analysis of Cases of Italian Sheep Scrapie and Comparison with Cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Experimental BSE in Sheep

    Romolo Nonno;Elena Esposito;Gabriele Vaccari;Michela Conte

  • Genomic organization, comparative analysis, and genetic polymorphisms of the bovine and ovine prion Doppel genes (PRND).

    Sergio Comincini;Maria G. Foti;Michael A. Tranulis;David Hills

  • Morbillivirus infection in cetaceans stranded along the Italian coastline: pathological, immunohistochemical and biomolecular findings.

    Giovanni Di Guardo;Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco;Claudia Eleni;Cristiano Cocumelli

  • Evolutionary evidence for multi-host transmission of cetacean morbillivirus.

    Wendy K. Jo;Jochen Kruppa;Andre Habierski;Marco van de Bildt

  • Mediterranean Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus) Threatened by Dolphin MorbilliVirus.

    Sandro Mazzariol;Cinzia Centelleghe;Giorgia Beffagna;Michele Povinelli

  • Meningoencephalitis and Listeria monocytogenes, Toxoplasma gondii and Brucella spp. coinfection in a dolphin in Italy

    Carla Grattarola;Federica Giorda;Barbara Iulini;Maria Domenica Pintore

  • Cetacean Morbillivirus-Associated Pathology: Knowns and Unknowns

    Giovanni Di Guardo;Sandro Mazzariol

  • SARS-CoV-2, a Threat to Marine Mammals? A Study from Italian Seawaters.

    Tania Audino;Carla Grattarola;Cinzia Centelleghe;Simone Peletto

  • Comparative histopathologic and viral immunohistochemical studies on CeMV infection among Western Mediterranean, Northeast-Central, and Southwestern Atlantic cetaceans

    Josué Díaz-Delgado;Kátia R. Groch;Eva Sierra;Simona Sacchini

  • Dolphin Morbillivirus Infection in a Captive Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)

    Sandro Mazzariol;Simone Peletto;Alessandra Mondin;Cinzia Centelleghe

  • Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii isolates in meningo-encephalitis affected striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from Italy.

    Giovanni Di Guardo;Angela Di Cesare;Domenico Otranto;Cristina Casalone

  • Dolphin Morbillivirus Associated with a Mass Stranding of Sperm Whales, Italy.

    Sandro Mazzariol;Cinzia Centelleghe;Andrea Di Provvido;Ludovica Di Renzo

  • Multidisciplinary studies on a sick-leader syndrome-associated mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) along the Adriatic coast of Italy

    Sandro Mazzariol;Cinzia Centelleghe;Bruno Cozzi;Michele Povinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Fernández
Antonio Fernández University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Letizia Marsili
Letizia Marsili University of Siena
Paul Jepson
Paul Jepson Zoological Society of London
Tiago F. Outeiro
Tiago F. Outeiro University of Göttingen
Atanas G. Atanasov
Atanas G. Atanasov Medical University of Vienna
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre Aix-Marseille University
Donato Traversa
Donato Traversa University of Teramo
Ursula Siebert
Ursula Siebert University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Pádraig J. Duignan
Pádraig J. Duignan University of Calgary
Angela Di Cesare
Angela Di Cesare University of Teramo

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