Francesco Maresca

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Francesco Maresca is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Maresca has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 24 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Francesco Maresca's work include Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (18 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (17 papers) and High Entropy Alloys Studies (9 papers). Francesco Maresca is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (18 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (17 papers) and High Entropy Alloys Studies (9 papers). Francesco Maresca collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Francesco Maresca's co-authors include W.A. Curtin, W. A. Curtin, V.G. Kouznetsova, Binglun Yin, M.G.D. Geers, J.P.M. Hoefnagels, M.G.D. Geers, Gábor Cśanyi, Cheng-Ran Du and Asunción Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Acta Materialia and Materials Science and Engineering A.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Maresca

41 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Mechanistic origin of high strength in refractory BCC high entropy alloys up to 1900K

2019 365 citations Francesco Maresca, W.A. Curtin Acta Materialia profile →
Vanadium is an optimal element for strengthening in both fcc and bcc high-entropy alloys

2020 247 citations Francesco Maresca, W. A. Curtin et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Strength can be controlled by edge dislocations in refractory high-entropy alloys

2021 175 citations Chanho Lee, Francesco Maresca et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Maresca Netherlands	22	1.7k	754	738	382	228	45	2.0k
Miao Song China	30	1.6k 1.0×	487 0.6×	1.5k 2.0×	345 0.9×	351 1.5×	106	2.5k
Francisca Méndez Martín Austria	17	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	515 0.7×	411 1.1×	49 0.2×	42	1.9k
Joël Alexis France	21	825 0.5×	554 0.7×	616 0.8×	238 0.6×	160 0.7×	83	1.3k
R.W. Swindeman United States	17	1.2k 0.7×	421 0.6×	899 1.2×	347 0.9×	129 0.6×	68	1.6k
Paul J. Gibbs United States	15	941 0.6×	208 0.3×	792 1.1×	262 0.7×	250 1.1×	27	1.1k
Pengfei Zheng China	18	448 0.3×	147 0.2×	574 0.8×	178 0.5×	78 0.3×	88	930
Anke R. Kaysser-Pyzalla Germany	11	952 0.6×	375 0.5×	392 0.5×	167 0.4×	72 0.3×	20	1.1k
Ryosuke MATSUMOTO Japan	24	578 0.3×	114 0.2×	936 1.3×	251 0.7×	721 3.2×	129	1.5k
Ronan Madec France	12	661 0.4×	141 0.2×	936 1.3×	387 1.0×	87 0.4×	23	1.2k
M. Hernández‐Mayoral Spain	27	685 0.4×	272 0.4×	2.2k 3.0×	383 1.0×	421 1.8×	60	2.4k

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Vermeij, Tijmen, et al.. (2025). Direct comparison of nanoscale plasticity in single and bi-crystal tensile tests extracted from a zinc coating. Materials Science and Engineering A. 932. 148128–148128. 3 indexed citations

Restrepo, Sebastián Echeverri, et al.. (2025). Mechanism and prediction of screw dislocation strengthening by interstitials in advanced high-strength steels: Application to Fe–C and Fe–N alloys. Mechanics of Materials. 205. 105314–105314. 2 indexed citations

Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2025). An atomistic K-test framework for general grain boundaries and triclinic single crystals. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 33(3). 35004–35004. 1 indexed citations

Giessen, E. van der, et al.. (2025). The influence of crack tip dislocation emission on the fracture toughness. International Journal of Fracture. 249(2).

Carella, Francesca, et al.. (2025). Bald disease in a natural population of the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus of the Mediterranean Sea: From spines to tissues. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 213. 108415–108415.

Hoefnagels, J.P.M., et al.. (2024). Influence of orientation-dependent lath martensite yielding on the hardening behavior of quenched martensitic steels. Scripta Materialia. 251. 116211–116211. 1 indexed citations

Rocha, A. Cristina S., Alexandra Baeta, Helena Veríssimo, et al.. (2023). Temporal and spatial variability in the isotopic composition of sea urchins along Portuguese coast. Marine Environmental Research. 192. 106236–106236. 1 indexed citations

Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2023). An integrated experimental-numerical study of martensite/ferrite interface damage initiation in dual-phase steels. Scripta Materialia. 239. 115798–115798. 14 indexed citations

Correia, Maria João, David Jacinto, Francesco Maresca, et al.. (2023). Pilot studies for stock enhancement of purple sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus, Lamarck, 1816): usefulness of refuges and calcein marking for the monitoring of juveniles released into the natural environment. Aquatic Living Resources. 36. 12–12. 2 indexed citations

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Cśanyi, Gábor, et al.. (2023). Atomistic fracture in bcc iron revealed by active learning of Gaussian approximation potential. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 24 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Bivalve Haemocyte Subpopulations: A Review. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 826255–826255. 78 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2022). A multi-scale framework to predict damage initiation at martensite/ferrite interface. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 168. 105018–105018. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Chanho, Francesco Maresca, Rui Feng, et al.. (2021). Strength can be controlled by edge dislocations in refractory high-entropy alloys. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5474–5474. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2021). High energy barriers for edge dislocation motion in body-centered cubic high entropy alloys. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 39 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, et al.. (2019). Solute/screw dislocation interaction energy parameter for strengthening in bcc dilute to high entropy alloys. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(8). 85011–85011. 39 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, V.G. Kouznetsova, M.G.D. Geers, & W.A. Curtin. (2018). Contribution of austenite-martensite transformation to deformability of advanced high strength steels: From atomistic mechanisms to microstructural response. Acta Materialia. 156. 463–478. 46 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, V.G. Kouznetsova, & M.G.D. Geers. (2015). Reduced crystal plasticity for materials with constrained slip activity. Mechanics of Materials. 92. 198–210. 23 indexed citations

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Hoefnagels, J.P.M., et al.. (2015). Retardation of plastic instability via damage-enabled microstrain delocalization. Journal of Materials Science. 50(21). 6882–6897. 45 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, V.G. Kouznetsova, & M.G.D. Geers. (2015). Deformation behaviour of lath martensite in multi-phase steels. Scripta Materialia. 110. 74–77. 31 indexed citations

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Maresca, Francesco, V.G. Kouznetsova, & M.G.D. Geers. (2014). On the role of interlath retained austenite in the deformation of lath martensite. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 22(4). 45011–45011. 70 indexed citations

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