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Fondazione Santa Lucia

In research, Fondazione Santa Lucia stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,001 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#3,970 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,076 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Neurology — Cognitive Neuroscience is 23.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,967
of 28,054 · #4,042 all time
Rank in Italy
#139
of 618
Research works
3.5k
▼ 2% vs 2013–17
Citations
146k
41.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Fondazione Santa Lucia known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #2,001 of 7,800 26.3%188 #1621
MedicineField #3,970 of 10,443 30.6%164 #2880
Health SciencesDomain #5,076 of 11,982 31.2%176 #3637
NeuroscienceField #595 of 1,168 26.9%129 #627
Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield #313 of 530 25.1%76 #288

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Fondazione Santa Lucia sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#1,621 #2,001
  2. Medicine#2,880 #3,970
  3. Health Sciences#3,637 #5,076
  4. Neuroscience#627 #595
  5. Cognitive Neuroscience#288 #313
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Fondazione Santa Lucia specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cognitive Neuroscience takes 23.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 76.2 works23×
  2. NeuroscienceField · 128.9 works18×
  3. NeurologySubfield · 20.7 works17×
  4. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 26.4 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 48 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.37× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 17.55× its world share, 129 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.95× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.25× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.80× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.88× its world share, 164 worksMedicineNursing: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.57× its world share, 49 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 17.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Fondazione Santa Lucia?

Ranked on the composite score, Gianfranco Spalletta, Marco Molinari and Carlo Caltagirone lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Fondazione Santa Lucia.

  1. 1 Gianfranco Spalletta Italy · #35,474 worldwide 427 citations · 57 works
  2. 2 Marco Molinari Italy · #51,812 worldwide 282 citations · 48 works
  3. 3 Carlo Caltagirone Italy · #67,878 worldwide 692 citations · 143 works
  4. 4 Fabrizio Piras Italy · #68,066 worldwide 370 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Donatella Spinelli Italy · #105,443 worldwide 187 citations · 33 works
  6. 6 Francesco Di Russo Italy · #129,684 worldwide 218 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo Italy · #131,436 worldwide 216 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Ugo Nocentini Italy · #143,422 worldwide 165 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Luca Battistini Italy · #155,942 worldwide 157 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Stefano Paolucci Italy · #170,933 worldwide 194 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at Fondazione Santa Lucia

Which keywords describe research at Fondazione Santa Lucia?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neurological Disorders, Neurodegeneration, Functional Connectivity, Neuroimaging, Neural Plasticity, Parkinson's Disease, Epidemiology and Oxidative Stress.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology38▲ 2.1×64 topics
  2. Neurological Disorders36▲ 14×18 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress28▲ 3.7×35 topics
  4. Neurodegeneration23▲ 17×9 topics
  5. Functional Connectivity23▲ 38×3 topics
  6. Neuroimaging22▲ 18×11 topics
  7. Neural Plasticity22▲ 28×5 topics
  8. Inflammation22▲ 2.3×59 topics
  9. Parkinson's Disease21▲ 19×8 topics
  10. Neural Mechanisms19▲ 45×4 topics
  11. Mitochondrial Dysfunction18▲ 13×10 topics
  12. Aging17▲ 7.1×15 topics
  13. Functional Recovery17▲ 24×3 topics
  14. Emotion Regulation16▲ 11×7 topics
  15. Depression16▲ 3.9×17 topics
  16. Diagnostic Criteria16▲ 16×8 topics
  17. Prefrontal Cortex16▲ 43×3 topics
  18. Neuroinflammation15▲ 12×6 topics
  19. Neural Circuits15▲ 36×4 topics
  20. Neurobiology15▲ 13×9 topics
  21. Biomarkers14▲ 4.5×13 topics
  22. Alzheimer's Disease14▲ 11×6 topics
  23. Motor Control14▲ 24×3 topics
  24. Cerebellum13▲ 61×2 topics
  25. Social Cognition12▲ 16×7 topics
  26. Cognitive Training12▲ 28×2 topics
  27. Constraint-Induced Therapy11▲ 32×1 topic
  28. Motor Recovery11▲ 32×1 topic
  29. Memory11▲ 10×3 topics
  30. Rehabilitation11▲ 6.2×11 topics
  31. Motor Imagery11▲ 20×2 topics
  32. Neuroprotection11▲ 6.8×12 topics
  33. Embodiment11▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Caregiver Burden10▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Cognitive Decline10▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Default Mode Network10▲ 31×1 topic
  37. Resting-State fMRI10▲ 31×1 topic
  38. Brain Development10▲ 12×6 topics
  39. Dementia10▲ 23×1 topic
  40. Mild Cognitive Impairment10▲ 26×1 topic

Which research topics does Fondazione Santa Lucia publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Stroke Rehabilitation an…11Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 11 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connect…10Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 10 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 10 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 9 fractional worksParkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 8 fractional worksNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies: 8 fractional worksAction Observation and Synchronization: 7 fractional worksMotor Control and Adapta…7Motor Control and Adaptation: 7 fractional worksMuscle activation and electromyography studies: 7 fractional worksTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies: 6 fractional works
RehabilitationCognitive NeurosciencePsychiatry and Mental healthNeurology2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 11 works
  2. 2 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 10 works
  3. 3 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 10 works
  4. 4 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 9 works
  5. 5 Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 8 works
  6. 6 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 8 works
  7. 7 Action Observation and Synchronization Social Psychology 7 works
  8. 8 Motor Control and Adaptation Cognitive Neuroscience 7 works
  9. 9 Muscle activation and electromyography studies Biomedical Engineering 7 works
  10. 10 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies Neurology 6 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available43.2%not open56.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.1%domestic only74.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Fondazione Santa Lucia's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 2% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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