Migraine, Italy in the top ten for research

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 30 - Italy, second only to the United States, is in the top ten of countries and institutions most involved in important studies on migraine in the decade 2010-2019 and among researchers in the list of the top ten worldwide there is also an Italian. Professor Paolo Martelletti, tenth in the list of scholars globally, with publications that have produced numerous citations in scientific journals. Asancirlo is a research, specifically a review, led by Lanzhou University, China, published in Annals of Palliative Medicine, which analyzed a total of 6,357 publications (including 5,203 articles and 1,154 reviews). The USA with 2,151 included studies, and specifically the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with 220, contributed the largest number of publications, followed byItaly, with 942.

   Martelletti, the only Italian in the top ten of scholars, is director of the regional center for headaches of the Sant'Andrea hospital in Rome, linked to La Sapienza University of Rome, which in turn is in tenth place in the classification of the universities. "These data - explains Martelletti - testify that in Italy research is carried out at the highest level. The Italian school is second in terms of scientific production after the USA. There is in our country a great culture on the study of headaches which brings these results". Then there is another milestone for Italian research in this area: the Journal of CitationReports places a magazine founded in Italy over 20 years, Journal of Headache And Pain, founded and directed by Professor Martelletti, at the world top of all the magazines dealing with headache,with an impact factor of 7,277.

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