Alessandro Crespi

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Crespi is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Crespi has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 9 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Crespi's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (8 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (8 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Alessandro Crespi is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (8 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (8 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Alessandro Crespi collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Portugal. Alessandro Crespi's co-authors include Auke Jan Ijspeert, Jean‐Marie Cabelguen, Dimitri Ryczko, Laurent Keller, Danielle Mersch, André Guignard, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, Nathalie Stroeymeyt, Anna V. Grasse and Sylvia Cremer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Crespi

27 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

From Swimming to Walking with a Salamander Robot Driven b... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 250 500 750
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. From Swimming to Walking with a Salamander Robot Driven by a Spinal Cord Model
    2007 880 citations Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Crespi Switzerland 17 1.7k 806 792 614 435 30 3.0k
Frédéric Boyer France 45 1.5k 0.9× 772 1.0× 482 0.6× 614 1.0× 992 2.3× 178 7.8k
Roger D. Quinn United States 43 3.8k 2.3× 1.7k 2.2× 1.1k 1.3× 279 0.5× 1.1k 2.5× 230 5.8k
Alcherio Martinoli Switzerland 36 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 1.7× 709 0.9× 397 0.6× 591 1.4× 202 5.1k
Nick Gravish United States 27 937 0.6× 672 0.8× 542 0.7× 209 0.3× 178 0.4× 80 2.7k
William M. Kier United States 27 2.8k 1.7× 1.2k 1.5× 276 0.3× 254 0.4× 1.0k 2.3× 65 4.7k
Sawyer B. Fuller United States 21 1.2k 0.7× 473 0.6× 1.3k 1.6× 232 0.4× 148 0.3× 47 2.8k
Barry A. Trimmer United States 38 3.8k 2.3× 2.3k 2.8× 216 0.3× 148 0.2× 764 1.8× 121 6.2k
Roy E. Ritzmann United States 45 2.0k 1.2× 646 0.8× 690 0.9× 92 0.1× 489 1.1× 125 5.1k
Nikolaus Correll United States 26 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 344 0.4× 112 0.2× 775 1.8× 96 3.6k
Avis H. Cohen United States 29 1.7k 1.0× 309 0.4× 850 1.1× 188 0.3× 412 0.9× 71 4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Crespi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2026). Energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot. Science Robotics. 11(110). eadw7868–eadw7868.
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Bender, Jan, et al.. (2024). A smoothed particle hydrodynamics framework for fluid simulation in robotics. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 185. 104885–104885. 1 indexed citations
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Koto, Akiko, Makoto Tamura, Pui Shan Wong, et al.. (2023). Social isolation shortens lifespan through oxidative stress in ants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5493–5493. 9 indexed citations
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Richardson, Thomas O., Nathalie Stroeymeyt, Alessandro Crespi, & Laurent Keller. (2022). Two simple movement mechanisms for spatial division of labour in social insects. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6985–6985. 9 indexed citations
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Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, Anna V. Grasse, Alessandro Crespi, et al.. (2018). Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect. Science. 362(6417). 941–945. 200 indexed citations
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Crasta, N., et al.. (2017). Environmental monitoring using autonomous vehicles: a survey of recent searching techniques. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 45. 76–84. 129 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2017). Automated computer-based detection of encounter behaviours in groups of honeybees. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17663–17663. 19 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2016). Envirobot: A bio-inspired environmental monitoring platform. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 381–386. 29 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2016). I limiti dell’intervento. L’orizzonte oikologico dell’architettura. 6. 94–101. 1 indexed citations
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Lacquaniti, Francesco, Martin S. Fischer, Naomichi Ogihara, et al.. (2015). Motor Patterns for Human Gait: Backward Versus.
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Mersch, Danielle, Alessandro Crespi, & Laurent Keller. (2013). Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization. Science. 340(6136). 1090–1093. 282 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, André Guignard, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2013). Salamandra Robotica II: An Amphibious Robot to Study Salamander-Like Swimming and Walking Gaits. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 29(2). 308–320. 194 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2011). Assistance using adaptive oscillators: Robustness to errors in the identification of the limb parameters. PubMed. 2011. 1–6. 9 indexed citations
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Ijspeert, Auke Jan & Alessandro Crespi. (2007). Online trajectory generation in an amphibious snake robot using a lamprey-like central pattern generator model. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings. 262–268. 116 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2006). Swimming and Crawling with an Amphibious Snake Robot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3024–3028. 69 indexed citations
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Ijspeert, Auke Jan, et al.. (2005). Institute Presentation: Biologically Inspired Robotics Group at EPFL. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. 2(2). 175–199. 1 indexed citations
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Ijspeert, Auke Jan, Alessandro Crespi, & Jean‐Marie Cabelguen. (2005). Simulation and Robotics Studies of Salamander Locomotion: Applying Neurobiological Principles to the Control of Locomotion in Robots. Neuroinformatics. 3(3). 171–196. 139 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2004). An amphibious robot capable of snake and lamprey-like locomotion. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 13 indexed citations
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Crespi, Alessandro, et al.. (2004). AmphiBot I: an amphibious snake-like robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 50(4). 163–175. 261 indexed citations

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