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2024
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2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
95
Citations
26163
World Ranking
911
National Ranking
28

Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
26491
World Ranking
9817
National Ranking
300

Neuroscience

D-Index
96
Citations
26442
World Ranking
886
National Ranking
25

Giovanni Stevanin 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 Giovanni Stevanin sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 355 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giovanni Stevanin 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 Stevanin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Giovanni Stevanin is affiliated with Inserm: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in France. Their research activity primarily focuses on neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine as well. The main subfields of their work include cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, neurology, and cell biology.

The scientist's work extensively covers hereditary neurological disorders, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and neurological diseases related to metabolism. Other notable topics include neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, mitochondrial function and pathology, genomics and rare diseases, and lysosomal storage disorders research.

Giovanni Stevanin has authored several papers, including:

  • Insights into Clinical, Genetic, and Pathological Aspects of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias: A Comprehensive Overview (2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences)
  • Impairment of Lysosome Function and Autophagy in Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases (2020, Journal of Molecular Biology)
  • Clinical and Genetic Spectra of 1550 Index Patients with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (2021, Brain)
  • Lipids in the Physiopathology of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • Clinical and Genetic Keys to Cerebellar Ataxia Due to FGF14 GAA Expansions (2023, EBioMedicine)

Frequent co-authors of this researcher include Alexandra Dürr, Alexis Brice, Liena E. O. Elsayed, Cyril Goizet, and Ashraf Yahia.

Giovanni Stevanin's publications often appear in journals such as Movement Disorders, European Journal of Human Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Brain.

Best Publications

  • Cloning of the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia 2 reveals a locus with high sensitivity to expanded CAG/glutamine repeats

    Georges Imbert;Frédéric Saudou;Frédéric Saudou;Gaël Yvert;Gaël Yvert;Didier Devys;Didier Devys

  • Cloning of the SCA7 gene reveals a highly unstable CAG repeat expansion

    Gilles David;Nacer Abbas;Giovanni Stevanin;Alexandra Dürr

  • Polyglutamine expansion as a pathological epitope in Huntington's disease and four dominant cerebellar ataxias

    Yvon Trottier;Yves Lutz;Giovanni Stevanin;Georges Imbert

  • Senataxin, the ortholog of a yeast RNA helicase, is mutant in ataxia-ocular apraxia 2

    M C Moreira;S Klur;M Watanabe;A H Nemeth

  • Exome sequencing links corticospinal motor neuron disease to common neurodegenerative disorders.

    Gaia Novarino;Ali G. Fenstermaker;Maha S. Zaki;Matan Hofree

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 3 and Machado-Joseph disease: clinical, molecular, and neuropathological features

    Alexandra Durr;Giovanni Stevanin;Geraldine Cancel;Charles Duyckaerts

  • Spectrin mutations cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 5

    Yoshio Ikeda;Katherine A Dick;Marcy R Weatherspoon;Dan Gincel

  • Mutations in SPG11, encoding spatacsin, are a major cause of spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum

    Giovanni Stevanin;Filippo M. Santorelli;Hamid Azzedine;Hamid Azzedine;Paula Coutinho

  • Chromosomal assignment of the second locus for autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (SCA2) to chromosome 12q23–24.1

    Gispert S;Twells R;Orozco G;Brice A

  • Mutations in voltage-gated potassium channel KCNC3 cause degenerative and developmental central nervous system phenotypes.

    Michael F. Waters;Ngatali A. Minassian;Giovanni Stevanin;Karla P. Figueroa

  • Molecular and Clinical Correlations in Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxia with Progressive Macular Dystrophy (SCA7)

    Gilles David;Alexandra Dürr;Giovanni Stevanin;Géraldine Cancel

  • A repeat expansion in the gene encoding junctophilin-3 is associated with Huntington disease-like 2.

    Susan E. Holmes;Elizabeth O'Hearn;Adam Rosenblatt;Colleen Callahan

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegias with autosomal dominant, recessive, X-linked, or maternal trait of inheritance.

    Josef Finsterer;Wolfgang Löscher;Stefan Quasthoff;Julia Wanschitz

  • Close Associations between Prevalences of Dominantly Inherited Spinocerebellar Ataxias with CAG-Repeat Expansions and Frequencies of Large Normal CAG Alleles in Japanese and Caucasian Populations

    H. Takano;G. Cancel;T. Ikeuchi;D. Lorenzetti

  • Molecular and Clinical Correlations in Spinocerebellar Ataxia 2: A Study of 32 Families

    Géraldine Cancel;Alexandra Dürr;Olivier Didierjean;Georges Imbert

  • Mutations in SPG11 are frequent in autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum, cognitive decline and lower motor neuron degeneration.

    Giovanni Stevanin;Hamid Azzedine;Paola Denora;Amir Boukhris

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegias: an update

    Christel Depienne;Giovanni Stevanin;Alexis Brice;Alexandra Durr

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type I in Martinique (French West Indies). Clinical and neuropathological analysis of 53 patients from three unrelated SCA2 families

    A Dürr;D Smadja;G Cancel;A Lezin

  • Clinical and molecular advances in autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias: from genotype to phenotype and physiopathology.

    Giovanni Stevanin;Alexandra Dürr;Alexis Brice

  • Identification of the SPG15 Gene, Encoding Spastizin, as a Frequent Cause of Complicated Autosomal-Recessive Spastic Paraplegia, Including Kjellin Syndrome

    Sylvain Hanein;Elodie Martin;Elodie Martin;Amir Boukhris;Paula Byrne

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau
Alexandra Durr
Alexandra Durr Sorbonne University
Yves Agid
Yves Agid Institut du Cerveau
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital
Mathieu Anheim
Mathieu Anheim University of Strasbourg
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Filippo M. Santorelli
Filippo M. Santorelli Fondazione Stella Maris
Paola Giunti
Paola Giunti University College London
Eric LeGuern
Eric LeGuern Institut du Cerveau

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