Francesca Modugno

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Francesca Modugno is a scholar working on Archeology, Earth-Surface Processes and Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Modugno has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Archeology, 56 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 51 papers in Conservation. Recurrent topics in Francesca Modugno's work include Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (94 papers), Building materials and conservation (56 papers) and Conservation Techniques and Studies (51 papers). Francesca Modugno is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (94 papers), Building materials and conservation (56 papers) and Conservation Techniques and Studies (51 papers). Francesca Modugno collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Norway and United Kingdom. Francesca Modugno's co-authors include Maria Perla Colombini, Erika Ribechini, Jacopo La Nasa, Ilaria Degano, Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko, Ilaria Bonaduce, Greta Biale, G. Giachi, Valter Castelvetro and Roger Fuoco and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Modugno

156 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Organic Mass Spectrometry in Art and Archaeology

2009 235 citations Maria Perla Colombini, Francesca Modugno CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Modugno Italy	43	3.1k	1.5k	1.4k	926	760	161	5.5k
Maria Perla Colombini Italy	53	5.8k 1.9×	3.2k 2.2×	2.9k 2.1×	195 0.2×	1.3k 1.7×	318	9.3k
Erika Ribechini Italy	35	2.0k 0.6×	739 0.5×	698 0.5×	70 0.1×	854 1.1×	136	3.9k
António Candeias Portugal	27	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	178 0.2×	53 0.1×	225	2.6k
Ilaria Bonaduce Italy	33	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	34 0.0×	184 0.2×	114	3.2k
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto Italy	28	424 0.1×	314 0.2×	234 0.2×	146 0.2×	89 0.1×	121	2.9k
J. J. Ortega Calvo Spain	39	174 0.1×	614 0.4×	306 0.2×	2.0k 2.2×	19 0.0×	101	3.8k
Krishna K. Pandey India	31	626 0.2×	313 0.2×	39 0.0×	149 0.2×	23 0.0×	171	6.1k
Eberhard Bock Germany	41	66 0.0×	346 0.2×	122 0.1×	3.0k 3.2×	18 0.0×	109	5.1k
Patricia Sanmartín Spain	23	421 0.1×	1.0k 0.7×	604 0.4×	63 0.1×	6 0.0×	71	1.6k
Giulio Pojana Italy	31	122 0.0×	82 0.1×	77 0.1×	1.7k 1.9×	8 0.0×	80	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesca Modugno

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Modugno

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sabatini, Francesca, Fauzia Albertin, Brenda Doherty, et al.. (2025). Unveiling street art: A multimodal and multitechnique approach for analyzing and mapping painting materials on large murals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2504918122–e2504918122. 1 indexed citations

Biale, Greta, Jacopo La Nasa, Marco Mattonai, et al.. (2024). Abiotic degradation and accelerated ageing of microplastics from biodegradable and recycled materials in artificial seawater. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176832–176832. 6 indexed citations

Marchelli, Filippo, Marco Mattonai, Roberta Ferrentino, et al.. (2024). Fostering Bioplastics Circularity through Hydrothermal Treatments: Degradation Behavior and Products. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(24). 9257–9267. 12 indexed citations

Sabatini, Francesca, Jacopo La Nasa, Ilaria Degano, et al.. (2023). Fluorescent Paints in Contemporary Murals: A Case Study. Heritage. 6(8). 5689–5699. 5 indexed citations

Sabatini, Francesca, Ilaria Degano, Celia Duce, et al.. (2023). A Thermal Analytical Study of LEGO® Bricks for Investigating Light-Stability of ABS. Polymers. 15(15). 3267–3267. 7 indexed citations

Biale, Greta, Jacopo La Nasa, Alessio Ceccarini, et al.. (2023). Characterization and quantification of microplastics and organic pollutants in mussels by microwave-assisted sample preparation and analytical pyrolysis. Environmental Science Advances. 3(1). 76–84. 7 indexed citations

Nodari, Luca, Jacopo La Nasa, Francesca Modugno, et al.. (2023). Preserving the Ephemeral: A Micro-Invasive Study on a Set of Polyurethane Scenic Objects from the 1960s and 1970s. Polymers. 15(9). 2111–2111. 2 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Kaare Lund, J. van der Plicht, Ilaria Degano, et al.. (2022). Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the ‘Christmas Cave’ of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea. Heritage Science. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Nasa, Jacopo La, et al.. (2022). Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit. Journal of Archaeological Science. 141. 105577–105577. 11 indexed citations

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Mattonai, Marco, et al.. (2022). Analytical strategies for the quali-quantitation of tire and road wear particles – A critical review. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 154. 116650–116650. 38 indexed citations

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Sabatini, Francesca, et al.. (2022). Testing Clean-Up Methods for the Quantification of Monosaccharides and Uronic Acids. Applied Sciences. 12(24). 12781–12781. 2 indexed citations

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Sabatini, Francesca, et al.. (2021). On the Set of Fellini’s Movies: Investigating and Preserving Multi-Material Stage Costumes Exploiting Spectroscopic and Mass Spectrometric Techniques. Applied Sciences. 11(7). 2954–2954. 3 indexed citations

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Łucejko, Jeannette Jacqueline, et al.. (2020). Correlation between bacterial decay and chemical changes in waterlogged archaeological wood analysed by light microscopy and Py-GC/MS. Holzforschung. 75(7). 635–645. 30 indexed citations

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Nasa, Jacopo La, Tommaso Lomonaco, Alessio Ceccarini, et al.. (2020). Plastic breeze: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by degrading macro- and microplastics analyzed by selected ion flow-tube mass spectrometry. Chemosphere. 270. 128612–128612. 41 indexed citations

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Modugno, Francesca, et al.. (2019). On the influence of relative humidity on the oxidation and hydrolysis of fresh and aged oil paints. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5533–5533. 53 indexed citations

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Nasa, Jacopo La, Greta Biale, Francesca Sabatini, et al.. (2019). Synthetic materials in art: a new comprehensive approach for the characterization of multi-material artworks by analytical pyrolysis. Heritage Science. 7(1). 35 indexed citations

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Modugno, Francesca, et al.. (2018). I writing di Peeta, Deban e Ment a Verona: Lo studio e il restauro di due opere di Street art. 71–80. 1 indexed citations

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Degano, Ilaria, et al.. (2015). An integrated approach to the study of Ri de pomme, a painting by Julian Schnabel. International Journal of Conservation Science. 6(1). 51–62.

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Colombini, Maria Perla, Alessia Andreotti, Ilaria Bonaduce, Francesca Modugno, & Erika Ribechini. (2010). Analytical strategies for characterising organic paint media using GC-MS. Accounts of Chemical Research. 395. 6 indexed citations

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Colombini, Maria Perla, Francesca Modugno, & Erika Ribechini. (2002). Caratterizzazione di resine vegetali in reperti archeologici. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 84. 1–1. 2 indexed citations

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