The Primer on Multiple sclerosis published on Nature Reviews Disease Primers, written and edited by Prof. Massimo Filippi, Professor of UniSR Neurology and Group leader of the Neuroimaging Research Unit at the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, and by Dr. Maria Rocca, Group leader of the Neuroimaging of CNS White Matter Unit, together with an international group of researchers, has received a ‘Highly cited paper’ designation by Web of Science. That is, the Primer is one of the top 1% of papers of similar age in the field of clinical medicine.
Nature Reviews Disease Primers is a journal of the Nature group that publishes monographic dossiers of various medical specialties. Each issue, entrusted to an international panel of researchers, offers an overview of the topic according to a modular structure: epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and prevention, disease management and quality of life, and highlights the research questions still open.
Prof. Filippi and Dr. Rocca had been invited to write and coordinate the Primer dedicated to multiple sclerosis, published in 2018.
The article can be read online using this link: https://rdcu.be/b4IyP