F. Piastra

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 762 citations indexed

About

F. Piastra is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Piastra has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 762 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in F. Piastra's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (6 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (3 papers). F. Piastra is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (6 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (3 papers). F. Piastra collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. F. Piastra's co-authors include L. Baudis, M. Alfonsi, M. Harańczyk, P. Pakarha, M. Galloway, F. Agostini, J. Wulf, D. Mayani, Y. Wei and G. Kessler and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Sciences, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and The European Physical Journal C.

In The Last Decade

F. Piastra

9 papers receiving 747 citations

Hit Papers

DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector
    2016 361 citations J. Aalbers, F. Agostini et al. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) profile →
  2. Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment
    2016 326 citations E. Aprile, F. Agostini et al. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
F. Piastra Switzerland 6 739 356 186 56 12 10 762
Y. Wei China 5 685 0.9× 352 1.0× 152 0.8× 44 0.8× 17 1.4× 9 723
F. Agostini Italy 4 689 0.9× 357 1.0× 150 0.8× 48 0.9× 10 0.8× 5 720
Martin Wolfgang Winkler Sweden 19 772 1.0× 521 1.5× 80 0.4× 35 0.6× 15 1.3× 35 824
S. Schanne France 13 516 0.7× 503 1.4× 47 0.3× 54 1.0× 24 2.0× 32 671
M. Harańczyk Switzerland 8 806 1.1× 372 1.0× 209 1.1× 57 1.0× 12 1.0× 9 823
T. Marrodán Undagoitia Germany 11 457 0.6× 130 0.4× 126 0.7× 104 1.9× 11 0.9× 28 518
A. Manalaysay United States 9 513 0.7× 221 0.6× 188 1.0× 45 0.8× 21 1.8× 15 536
R. F. Lang United States 14 419 0.6× 168 0.5× 166 0.9× 62 1.1× 6 0.5× 36 498
Erik Lundström Sweden 5 583 0.8× 317 0.9× 154 0.8× 15 0.3× 20 1.7× 6 619
M. J. Christl United States 7 689 0.9× 400 1.1× 46 0.2× 30 0.5× 22 1.8× 34 739

Countries citing papers authored by F. Piastra

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Fields of papers citing papers by F. Piastra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by F. Piastra. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by F. Piastra. The network helps show where F. Piastra may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. Piastra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of F. Piastra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of F. Piastra based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with F. Piastra. F. Piastra is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Baudis, L., R. Biondi, A. Bismark, et al.. (2024). Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle violations with Gator at LNGS. The European Physical Journal C. 84(11). 1137–1137. 2 indexed citations
2.
Baudis, L., Y. Biondi, C. Capelli, et al.. (2018). A dual-phase xenon TPC for scintillation and ionisation yield measurements in liquid xenon. The European Physical Journal C. 78(5). 351–351. 9 indexed citations
3.
Aalbers, J., F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, et al.. (2016). DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 361 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Aprile, E., F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, et al.. (2016). Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 326 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Baudis, L., et al.. (2015). Enhancement of light yield and stability of radio-pure tetraphenyl-butadiene based coatings for VUV light detection in cryogenic environments. Journal of Instrumentation. 10(9). P09009–P09009. 4 indexed citations
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Baudis, L., et al.. (2015). Cosmogenic activation of xenon and copper. The European Physical Journal C. 75(10). 15 indexed citations
7.
Alfonsi, M., L. Baudis, A. Behrens, et al.. (2014). Observation and applications of single-electron charge signals in the XENON100 experiment. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 27 indexed citations
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Gizzi, L. A., C. Benedetti, C. A. Cecchetti, et al.. (2013). Laser-Plasma Acceleration with FLAME and ILIL Ultraintense Lasers. Applied Sciences. 3(3). 559–580. 14 indexed citations
9.
Celani, F., A. Spallone, F. Piastra, et al.. (2012). Development of a High Temperature Hybrid CMNS Reactor. Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 6(1). 3 indexed citations
10.
Cecchetti, C. A., Andrea Gamucci, A. Giulietti, et al.. (2011). Influence of atomic species on laser pulse propagation in underdense plasmas. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 653(1). 126–129. 1 indexed citations

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