Francesco Ricci

13.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
215 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Francesco Ricci is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Ricci has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Ricci's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (139 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (55 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (41 papers). Francesco Ricci is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (139 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (55 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (41 papers). Francesco Ricci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Canada. Francesco Ricci's co-authors include Giuseppe Palleschi, Kevin W. Plaxco, Alexis Vallée‐Bélisle, Andrea Idili, Danila Moscone, Alessandro Porchetta, Aziz Amine, Erica Del Grosso, Simona Ranallo and Leonard J. Prins and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Ricci

212 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Sensor and biosensor preparation, optimisation and applications of Prussian Blue modified electrodes

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Ricci Italy	59	7.3k	3.6k	3.2k	1.8k	1.1k	215	10.8k
Jie Wu China	48	4.8k 0.7×	3.7k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	708 0.6×	180	7.9k
Guodong Liu China	55	7.2k 1.0×	4.6k 1.3×	2.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	576 0.5×	264	11.0k
Yi Xiao United States	60	11.2k 1.5×	6.1k 1.7×	4.0k 1.3×	2.6k 1.5×	952 0.8×	149	14.3k
Anthony E. G. Cass United Kingdom	45	2.8k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	3.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	179	8.1k
Petr Skládal Czechia	45	3.4k 0.5×	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	209	7.5k
Hui Li China	49	3.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	832 0.5×	499 0.4×	341	8.6k
Charles S. Henry United States	68	9.3k 1.3×	13.8k 3.9×	4.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.1×	2.4k 2.2×	304	17.9k
David R. Walt United States	72	8.3k 1.1×	8.5k 2.4×	3.9k 1.2×	873 0.5×	2.9k 2.6×	328	18.1k
Erkang Wang China	50	7.8k 1.1×	4.3k 1.2×	4.9k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	506 0.4×	175	13.8k
Hua‐Zhong Yu Canada	46	2.7k 0.4×	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	713 0.4×	341 0.3×	208	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Ricci

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Ricci

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Porchetta, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). MAIGRET: a CRISPR-based immunoassay that employs antibody-induced cell-free transcription of CRISPR guide RNA strands. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(6). 7 indexed citations

Grosso, Erica Del, et al.. (2025). Sustained, Reversible, and Adaptive Non‐Equilibrium Steady States of a Dissipative DNA‐Based System. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(43). e202512967–e202512967.

Grosso, Erica Del, et al.. (2025). Sustained, Reversible, and Adaptive Non‐Equilibrium Steady States of a Dissipative DNA‐Based System. Angewandte Chemie. 137(43).

Solá, Carlos, Maria Angela Molinari, Francesco Ricci, et al.. (2025). Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1535722–1535722. 1 indexed citations

Idili, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Thermo-Programmed Synthetic DNA-Based Receptors. ACS Nano. 17(3). 1998–2006. 9 indexed citations

Chiaravalloti, Agostino, Francesco Ricci, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, et al.. (2023). Functional Correlates of Microglial and Astrocytic Activity in Symptomatic Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease: A CSF/18F-FDG-PET Study. Biomedicines. 11(3). 725–725. 2 indexed citations

Amodio, Alessia, Marco Cassani, Christina Cortez‐Jugo, et al.. (2022). Nanoscale probing and imaging of HIV-1 RNA in cells with a chimeric LNA–DNA sensor. Nanoscale. 14(8). 3049–3061. 1 indexed citations

Grosso, Erica Del, et al.. (2022). Dissipative Control over the Toehold‐Mediated DNA Strand Displacement Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(23). e202201929–e202201929. 53 indexed citations

Chamorro-García, Alejandro, Julian Gerson, Charlotte Flatebo, et al.. (2022). Real-Time, Seconds-Resolved Measurements of Plasma Methotrexate In Situ in the Living Body. ACS Sensors. 8(1). 150–157. 36 indexed citations

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Grosso, Erica Del, et al.. (2022). Dissipative Control over the Toehold‐Mediated DNA Strand Displacement Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(23). 3 indexed citations

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Grosso, Erica Del, et al.. (2022). Orthogonal Enzyme-Driven Timers for DNA Strand Displacement Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(43). 19791–19798. 43 indexed citations

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Nierzwicki, Łukasz, et al.. (2021). Folding‐upon‐Repair DNA Nanoswitches for Monitoring the Activity of DNA Repair Enzymes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(13). 7283–7289. 42 indexed citations

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Glab, Agata, Alessandro Bertucci, Fabiana De Martino, et al.. (2020). Dissecting the intracellular signalling and fate of a DNA nanosensor by super-resolution and quantitative microscopy. Nanoscale. 12(28). 15402–15413. 5 indexed citations

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Grosso, Erica Del, Leonard J. Prins, & Francesco Ricci. (2020). Transient DNA‐Based Nanostructures Controlled by Redox Inputs. Angewandte Chemie. 132(32). 13340–13347. 16 indexed citations

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Patiño, Tania, Alessandro Porchetta, Anita Jannasch, et al.. (2019). Self-Sensing Enzyme-Powered Micromotors Equipped with pH-Responsive DNA Nanoswitches. Nano Letters. 19(6). 3440–3447. 154 indexed citations

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Idili, Andrea, et al.. (2019). Entropy-Based Rational Modulation of the pK_a of a Synthetic pH-Dependent Nanoswitch. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(29). 11367–11371. 27 indexed citations

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Bertucci, Alessandro, Junling Guo, Agata Glab, et al.. (2017). Probing transcription factor binding activity and downstream gene silencing in living cells with a DNA nanoswitch. Nanoscale. 10(4). 2034–2044. 20 indexed citations

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Iacovelli, Federico, Andrea Idili, Alessio Ottaviani, et al.. (2017). Simulative and Experimental Characterization of a pH-Dependent Clamp-like DNA Triple-Helix Nanoswitch. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(15). 5321–5329. 23 indexed citations

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Sala, Flavio della, Jack L.‐Y. Chen, Simona Ranallo, et al.. (2016). Reversible Electrochemical Modulation of a Catalytic Nanosystem. Angewandte Chemie. 128(36). 10895–10898. 4 indexed citations

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Ricci, Francesco, Alexis Vallée‐Bélisle, & Kevin W. Plaxco. (2011). High-Precision, In Vitro Validation of the Sequestration Mechanism for Generating Ultrasensitive Dose-Response Curves in Regulatory Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(10). e1002171–e1002171. 42 indexed citations

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