| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bioactivity Screening of Microalgae for Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, Anticancer, Anti-Diabetes, and Antibacterial Activities | Frontiers in Marine Science | 2016 | 249 |
| 2 | Marine Microalgae with Anti-Cancer Properties | Marine Drugs | 2018 | 177 |
| 3 | Diversity and temporal patterns of planktonic protist assemblages at a Mediterranean Long Term Ecological Research site | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2017 | 173 |
| 4 | Marine Collagen from Alternative and Sustainable Sources: Extraction, Processing and Applications | Marine Drugs | 2020 | 165 |
| 5 | Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea | Global Change Biology | 2022 | 144 |
| 6 | Marine microorganisms as a promising and sustainable source of bioactive molecules | Marine Environmental Research | 2017 | 136 |
| 7 | Ecological-network models link diversity, structure and function in the plankton food-web | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 110 |
| 8 | Comparison of coastal phytoplankton composition estimated from the V4 and V9 regions of the 18S rRNA gene with a focus on photosynthetic groups and especially Chlorophyta | Environmental Microbiology | 2018 | 101 |
| 9 | Diatom Frustule Morphogenesis and Function: a Multidisciplinary Survey | Marine Genomics | 2017 | 85 |
| 10 | Marine Organisms with Anti-Diabetes Properties | Marine Drugs | 2016 | 81 |
| 11 | Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO2 gradients | Nature Communications | 2018 | 77 |
| 12 | Citizen-science for monitoring marine invasions and stimulating public engagement: a case project from the eastern Mediterranean | Biological Invasions | 2019 | 76 |
| 13 | A new digestion approach for the extraction of microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts (GITs) of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) from the western Mediterranean Sea | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2020 | 75 |
| 14 | Multiple impacts of microplastics can threaten marine habitat-forming species | Communications Biology | 2021 | 69 |
| 15 | Biotechnological Applications of Bioactive Peptides From Marine Sources | Advances in Microbial Physiology | 2018 | 67 |
| 16 | Ocean acidification as a driver of community simplification via the collapse of higher-order and rise of lower-order consumers | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 63 |
| 17 | How sea urchins face microplastics: Uptake, tissue distribution and immune system response | Environmental Pollution | 2020 | 62 |
| 18 | Prioritizing marine invasive alien species in the European Union through horizon scanning | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 2020 | 62 |
| 19 | Plastics occurrence in juveniles of Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardina pilchardus in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 60 |
| 20 | Phenotypic plasticity under rapid global changes: The intrinsic force for future seagrasses survival | Evolutionary Applications | 2021 | 58 |
| 21 | A meta‐analysis reveals a positive correlation between genetic diversity metrics and environmental status in the long‐lived seagrass Posidonia oceanica | Molecular Ecology | 2015 | 55 |
| 22 | Coralline algae in a naturally acidified ecosystem persist by maintaining control of skeletal mineralogy and size | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2016 | 52 |
| 23 | First identification of marine diatoms with anti-tuberculosis activity | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 51 |
| 24 | Mediterranean Azadinium dexteroporum (Dinophyceae) produces six novel azaspiracids and azaspiracid-35: a structural study by a multi-platform mass spectrometry approach | Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | 2017 | 50 |
| 25 | The diatom molecular toolkit to handle nitrogen uptake | Marine Genomics | 2015 | 48 |
| 26 | Molecular analyses of protists in long-term observation programmes—current status and future perspectives | Journal of Plankton Research | 2018 | 47 |
| 27 | Bioderived Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Nanostructures as Efficient Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for Cell Membrane Probing | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2018 | 44 |
| 28 | Snapshot of rare, exotic and overlooked fish species in the Italian seas: A citizen science survey | Journal of Sea Research | 2020 | 44 |
| 29 | Bottom-trawl catch composition in a highly polluted coastal area reveals multifaceted native biodiversity and complex communities of fouling organisms on litter discharge | Marine Environmental Research | 2020 | 40 |
| 30 | Fishery reforms for the management of non-indigenous species | Journal of Environmental Management | 2021 | 37 |
| 31 | Animal-like prostaglandins in marine microalgae | ISME Journal | 2017 | 36 |
| 32 | Does Warming Enhance the Effects of Eutrophication in the Seagrass Posidonia oceanica? | Frontiers in Marine Science | 2020 | 35 |
| 33 | Clonal expansion behind a marine diatom bloom | ISME Journal | 2018 | 33 |
| 34 | Maternal Exposure to Cadmium and Manganese Impairs Reproduction and Progeny Fitness in the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 32 |
| 35 | Iron partitioning during LOHAFEX: Copepod grazing as a major driver for iron recycling in the Southern Ocean | Marine Chemistry | 2017 | 31 |
| 36 | Global distribution and diversity of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae): integration of classical and novel strategies | PeerJ | 2019 | 31 |
| 37 | Toxic Diatom Aldehydes Affect Defence Gene Networks in Sea Urchins | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 30 |
| 38 | Diatom-derived oxylipins induce cell death in sea urchin embryos activating caspase-8 and caspase 3/7 | Aquatic Toxicology | 2016 | 29 |
| 39 | Resolving cryptic species complexes in marine protists: phylogenetic haplotype networks meet global DNA metabarcoding datasets | ISME Journal | 2021 | 29 |
| 40 | Marine alien species in Italy: A contribution to the implementation of descriptor D2 of the marine strategy framework directive | Mediterranean Marine Science | 0 | 29 |
| 41 | New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records 2020 | Mediterranean Marine Science | 2020 | 29 |
| 42 | New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 29 |
| 43 | Patterns and mechanisms of dispersal in a keystone seagrass species | Marine Environmental Research | 2016 | 28 |
| 44 | Toxigenic effects of two benthic diatoms upon grazing activity of the sea urchin: morphological, metabolomic and de novo transcriptomic analysis | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 28 |
| 45 | The Genetic Component of Seagrass Restoration: What We Know and the Way Forwards | Water (Switzerland) | 2021 | 28 |
| 46 | Diatom Resting Stages in Surface Sediments: A Pilot Study Comparing Next Generation Sequencing and Serial Dilution Cultures | Cryptogamie, Algologie | 2017 | 28 |
| 47 | Ecotoxicological hazard of a mixture of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid to the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck 1819) | Scientific Reports | 2019 | 27 |
| 48 | Machine learning identifies a strong association between warming and reduced primary productivity in an oligotrophic ocean gyre | Scientific Reports | 2020 | 27 |
| 49 | Improved chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the seagrass, Zostera marina (eelgrass) | F1000Research | 2021 | 26 |
| 50 | New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2018) | Mediterranean Marine Science | 2018 | 26 |
