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Giuseppe Curcio

Giuseppe Curcio

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
9459
World Ranking
5738
National Ranking
292

Giuseppe Curcio 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 Giuseppe Curcio sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 171 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giuseppe Curcio 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 Giuseppe Curcio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Giuseppe Curcio is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology among other subfields.

The main topics in Curcio's work include sleep and related disorders, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, sleep and wakefulness research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Curcio has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scholarly venues. These include Neurological Sciences, Brain Sciences, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Public Health.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Curcio are as follows:

  • Resilience and psychological impact on Italian university students during COVID-19 pandemic. Distance learning and health, 2021, Psychology Health & Medicine
  • A night of sleep deprivation alters brain connectivity and affects specific executive functions, 2021, Neurological Sciences
  • From COVID-19 Pandemic to Patient Safety: A New "Spring" for Telemedicine or a Boomerang Effect?, 2022, Frontiers in Medicine
  • Clinical application of mindfulness-oriented meditation in children with ADHD: a preliminary study on sleep and behavioral problems, 2021, Psychology and Health
  • Positive mood induction to promote well-being and health: A systematic review from real settings to virtual reality, 2023, Journal of Environmental Psychology

Frequent co-authors in Curcio's research include Giulia D'Aurizio, Simone Migliore, Ilaria Di Pompeo, Walter Adriani, and Fabiana Festucci. These collaborations have formed an integral part of their scientific output.

Best Publications

  • Sleep loss, learning capacity and academic performance

    Giuseppe Curcio;Michele Ferrara;Michele Ferrara;Luigi De Gennaro

  • Validity of the Italian Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

    Giuseppe Curcio;Daniela Tempesta;Simone Scarlata;Cristina Marzano

  • The electroencephalographic fingerprint of sleep is genetically determined: a twin study

    Luigi De Gennaro;Cristina Marzano;Fabiana Fratello;Fabio Moroni

  • An electroencephalographic fingerprint of human sleep.

    Luigi De Gennaro;Michele Ferrara;Michele Ferrara;Fabrizio Vecchio;Giuseppe Curcio

  • Lack of sleep affects the evaluation of emotional stimuli

    Daniela Tempesta;Alessandro Couyoumdjian;Giuseppe Curcio;Fabio Moroni

  • Is the brain influenced by a phone call?: An EEG study of resting wakefulness

    G. Curcio;M. Ferrara;F. Moroni;G. D’Inzeo

  • Mobile phone emissions and human brain excitability.

    Florinda Ferreri;Giuseppe Curcio;Patrizio Pasqualetti;Luigi De Gennaro

  • The effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on task‐switching performance

    Alessandro Couyoumdjian;Stefano Sdoia;Daniela Tempesta;Giuseppe Curcio

  • Antero-posterior EEG changes during the wakefulness-sleep transition.

    Luigi De Gennaro;Michele Ferrara;Giuseppe Curcio;Riccardo Cristiani

  • Neurophysiological correlates of sleepiness: a combined TMS and EEG study.

    Luigi De Gennaro;Cristina Marzano;Domenica Veniero;Domenica Veniero;Fabio Moroni

  • Sleepiness: evaluating and quantifying methods

    Giuseppe Curcio;Maria Casagrande;Mario Bertini

  • Neurophysiological effects of mobile phone electromagnetic fields on humans: A comprehensive review

    E. Valentini;G. Curcio;G. Curcio;F. Moroni;M. Ferrara;M. Ferrara

  • Handedness is mainly associated with an asymmetry of corticospinal excitability and not of transcallosal inhibition

    Luigi De Gennaro;Riccardo Cristiani;Mario Bertini;Giuseppe Curcio

  • Modulation of corticospinal excitability by paired associative stimulation: reproducibility of effects and intraindividual reliability.

    Fabiana Fratello;Domenica Veniero;Domenica Veniero;Giuseppe Curcio;Michele Ferrara

  • Visual search performance across 40 h of continuous wakefulness: Measures of speed and accuracy and relation with oculomotor performance

    Luigi De Gennaro;Michele Ferrara;Giuseppe Curcio;Mario Bertini

  • Resilience and psychological impact on Italian university students during COVID-19 pandemic. Distance learning and health.

    Livia Quintiliani;Antonella Sisto;Flavia Vicinanza;Giuseppe Curcio

  • Mobile phone emission modulates interhemispheric functional coupling of EEG alpha rhythms.

    Fabrizio Vecchio;Claudio Babiloni;Florinda Ferreri;Giuseppe Curcio

  • Assessing vigilance through a brief pencil and paper letter cancellation task (LCT) : effects of one night of sleep deprivation and of the time of day

    Maria Casagrande;Cristiano Violani;Giuseppe Curcio;Mario Bertini

  • Paradoxes of the first-night effect: a quantitative analysis of antero-posterior EEG topography

    Giuseppe Curcio;Michele Ferrara;Michele Ferrara;Assunta Piergianni;Fabiana Fratello

  • Sleep to find your way: The role of sleep in the consolidation of memory for navigation in humans

    Michele Ferrara;Giuseppe Iaria;Daniela Tempesta;Giuseppe Curcio

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Ferrara
Michele Ferrara University of L'Aquila
Luigi De Gennaro
Luigi De Gennaro Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Maria Rossini
Paolo Maria Rossini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Fabrizio Vernieri
Fabrizio Vernieri Università Campus Bio-Medico
Fabrizio Vecchio
Fabrizio Vecchio Sapienza University of Rome
Maria Concetta Pellicciari
Maria Concetta Pellicciari Foundation Saint Lucia
Maria Casagrande
Maria Casagrande Sapienza University of Rome
Patrizio Pasqualetti
Patrizio Pasqualetti Sapienza University of Rome
Claudio Babiloni
Claudio Babiloni Sapienza University of Rome
Vincenzo Romei
Vincenzo Romei University of Bologna

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