Francesco Valle

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Francesco Valle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Valle has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Francesco Valle's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (26 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (16 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (13 papers). Francesco Valle is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (26 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (16 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (13 papers). Francesco Valle collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and Slovakia. Francesco Valle's co-authors include Fabio Biscarini, Massimiliano Cavallini, Denis Gentili, Giovanni Dietler, Pier Luigi Sacco, Manlio De Domenico, Nicola Castaldo, Riccardo Gallotti, Marco Brucale and Bruno Samorı̀ and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Valle

123 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Valle Italy	31	1.0k	850	632	426	391	124	3.3k
Sang‐Won Lee South Korea	43	3.2k 3.1×	695 0.8×	989 1.6×	471 1.1×	224 0.6×	271	7.1k
Paul Rees United Kingdom	31	865 0.8×	785 0.9×	589 0.9×	248 0.6×	502 1.3×	210	3.3k
Dong Wook Lee South Korea	36	1.5k 1.5×	881 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	109 0.3×	142 0.4×	273	4.8k
Ye Mei China	38	1.8k 1.7×	439 0.5×	881 1.4×	122 0.3×	851 2.2×	192	4.1k
Xiaofeng Wang China	31	845 0.8×	730 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	344 0.8×	164 0.4×	145	3.1k
Masahiro Kimura Japan	29	633 0.6×	393 0.5×	955 1.5×	114 0.3×	375 1.0×	197	3.9k
Stephanie Allen United Kingdom	34	1.7k 1.6×	702 0.8×	467 0.7×	769 1.8×	929 2.4×	127	3.8k
Yi‐Chun Wu Taiwan	30	1.7k 1.6×	626 0.7×	987 1.6×	279 0.7×	166 0.4×	58	4.3k
Yan Yu China	32	1.3k 1.3×	726 0.9×	618 1.0×	295 0.7×	165 0.4×	171	3.0k
Xinyi Wang China	34	1.0k 1.0×	715 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	238 0.6×	91 0.2×	246	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Valle

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Cardellini, Jacopo, Giuseppe Emanuele Lio, Marco Brucale, et al.. (2025). Nanoplasmonic Isosbestics Uncover Mesoscale Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles on Soft Templates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(23). 20008–20022. 2 indexed citations

Bortot, Barbara, Ben Peacock, Francesco Valle, et al.. (2024). Platelets as key cells in endometriosis patients: Insights from small extracellular vesicles in peritoneal fluid and endometriotic lesions analysis. The FASEB Journal. 38(24). e70267–e70267. 1 indexed citations

Omarini, Claudia, Angela Toss, Ilenia Mastrolia, et al.. (2024). 417P EV derived miR-21 as a promising biomarker for early diagnosis and tumor activity in discrete BC subtypes: The Exobreast project. Annals of Oncology. 35. S395–S395. 1 indexed citations

Ghezzi, Daniele, Marco Boi, Enrico Sassoni, et al.. (2023). Customized biofilm device for antibiofilm and antibacterial screening of newly developed nanostructured silver and zinc coatings. Journal of Biological Engineering. 17(1). 18–18. 12 indexed citations

Ridolfi, Andrea, Lucrezia Caselli, Matteo Baldoni, et al.. (2021). Stiffness of Fluid and Gel Phase Lipid Nanovesicles: Weighting the Contributions of Membrane Bending Modulus and Luminal Pressurization. Langmuir. 37(41). 12027–12037. 8 indexed citations

Ura, Blendi, Stefania Biffi, Lorenzo Monasta, et al.. (2021). Two Dimensional-Difference in Gel Electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) Proteomic Approach for the Identification of Biomarkers in Endometrial Cancer Serum. Cancers. 13(14). 3639–3639. 23 indexed citations

Özkan, Selda, Francesco Valle, Anca Mazare, et al.. (2020). Optimized Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Electrode Using TiO₂ Nanotube Arrays with Well-Defined Spacing. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(5). 4157–4170. 19 indexed citations

Ridolfi, Andrea, Lucrezia Caselli, Costanza Montis, et al.. (2020). Gold nanoparticles interacting with synthetic lipid rafts: an AFM investigation. Journal of Microscopy. 280(3). 194–203. 27 indexed citations

Montis, Costanza, Francesco Valle, Lucia Paolini, et al.. (2020). Biogenic supported lipid bilayers as a tool to investigate nano-bio interfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 570. 340–349. 25 indexed citations

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Ridolfi, Andrea, Marco Brucale, Costanza Montis, et al.. (2020). AFM-Based High-Throughput Nanomechanical Screening of Single Extracellular Vesicles. Analytical Chemistry. 92(15). 10274–10282. 88 indexed citations

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Montis, Costanza, Lucrezia Caselli, Francesco Valle, et al.. (2020). Shedding light on membrane-templated clustering of gold nanoparticles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 573. 204–214. 40 indexed citations

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Giosia, Matteo Di, Francesco Valle, Andrea Cantelli, et al.. (2019). Identification and preparation of stable water dispersions of protein - Carbon nanotube hybrids and efficient design of new functional materials. Carbon. 147. 70–82. 31 indexed citations

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Giuri, Demetra, Marianna Barbalinardo, Nicola Zanna, et al.. (2019). Tuning Mechanical Properties of Pseudopeptide Supramolecular Hydrogels by Graphene Doping. Molecules. 24(23). 4345–4345. 14 indexed citations

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Giuri, Demetra, Marianna Barbalinardo, Giovanna Sotgiu, et al.. (2019). Nano-hybrid electrospun non-woven mats made of wool keratin and hydrotalcites as potential bio-active wound dressings. Nanoscale. 11(13). 6422–6430. 36 indexed citations

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Giosia, Matteo Di, Lucia Ferrazzano, Alice Soldà, et al.. (2019). Stable and Biocompatible Monodispersion of C₆₀ in Water by Peptides. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 30(3). 808–814. 19 indexed citations

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Barbalinardo, Marianna, Matteo Di Giosia, Iryna Polishchuk, et al.. (2019). Retinoic acid/calcite micro-carriers inserted in fibrin scaffolds modulate neuronal cell differentiation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(38). 5808–5813. 11 indexed citations

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Montis, Costanza, Sara Busatto, Francesco Valle, et al.. (2018). Biogenic Supported Lipid Bilayers from Nanosized Extracellular Vesicles. Advanced Biosystems. 2(4). 16 indexed citations

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Giosia, Matteo Di, Francesco Valle, Andrea Cantelli, et al.. (2018). C60 Bioconjugation with Proteins: Towards a Palette of Carriers for All pH Ranges. Materials. 11(5). 691–691. 27 indexed citations

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Favaretto, Laura, Massimo Zambianchi, Sergio G. López, et al.. (2017). Synthesis and investigation on processing-depending polarized fluorescence emission in thin-films of 2,2′-([2,2′-bithiophene]-5,5′-diyl)bis(5-octyl-4-phenyl-4H-thieno[2,3-c]pyrrol-6(5H)-one). Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(39). 10320–10331. 5 indexed citations

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Ianiro, Alessandro, Matteo Di Giosia, Simona Fermani, et al.. (2014). Customizing Properties of β-Chitin in Squid Pen (Gladius) by Chemical Treatments. Marine Drugs. 12(12). 5979–5992. 30 indexed citations

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