Franco Blanchini

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
251 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Franco Blanchini is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Molecular Biology and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Blanchini has authored 251 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 36 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Franco Blanchini's work include Advanced Control Systems Optimization (92 papers), Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (80 papers) and Control Systems and Identification (35 papers). Franco Blanchini is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Control Systems Optimization (92 papers), Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (80 papers) and Control Systems and Identification (35 papers). Franco Blanchini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Netherlands. Franco Blanchini's co-authors include Stefano Miani, Patrizio Colaneri, Giulia Giordano, Raffaele Bruno, Marta Colaneri, Di Filippo A, Angela Di Matteo, Mario Sznaier, Elisa Franco and Richard H. Middleton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Franco Blanchini

236 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Set invariance in control

1999 1.7k citations Franco Blanchini Automatica profile →
Set-Theoretic Methods in Control

2007 1.1k citations Franco Blanchini, Stefano Miani profile →
Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy

2020 1.1k citations Giulia Giordano, Franco Blanchini et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franco Blanchini Italy	36	5.9k	1.2k	882	789	638	251	8.5k
Patrizio Colaneri Italy	42	5.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	983 1.2×	210 0.3×	269	7.8k
Zengqiang Chen China	51	3.6k 0.6×	288 0.2×	3.7k 4.2×	1.4k 1.7×	614 1.0×	694	12.2k
Giuseppe C. Calafiore Italy	36	2.7k 0.5×	283 0.2×	608 0.7×	699 0.9×	116 0.2×	208	6.6k
Hadi Jahanshahi China	40	1.1k 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	223 0.3×	95 0.1×	172	4.6k
Chris Watkins United Kingdom	14	867 0.1×	456 0.4×	663 0.8×	584 0.7×	185 0.3×	33	5.5k
Zhen Wang China	54	3.4k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	4.6k 5.2×	850 1.1×	570 0.9×	442	9.4k
Francesco Piazza Italy	36	821 0.1×	542 0.5×	399 0.5×	200 0.3×	588 0.9×	397	6.2k
M. Vidyasagar India	28	4.5k 0.8×	160 0.1×	932 1.1×	700 0.9×	289 0.5×	141	7.5k
Bor‐Sen Chen Taiwan	40	4.6k 0.8×	114 0.1×	1.7k 1.9×	844 1.1×	1.4k 2.1×	371	8.0k
Qingling Zhang China	42	5.9k 1.0×	256 0.2×	2.8k 3.2×	1.1k 1.4×	166 0.3×	403	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Franco Blanchini

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Blanchini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Franco Blanchini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Franco Blanchini 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 Franco Blanchini. Franco Blanchini is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2025). Reducing real-time complexity via sub-control Lyapunov functions: From theory to experiments. Automatica. 183. 112592–112592. 1 indexed citations

Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2025). Position-based visual servo control without hand-eye calibration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 193. 105045–105045.

Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2025). A low computation saturated controller for a quadcopter position tracking with stability and convoluted input constraints guarantees. European Journal of Control. 84. 101236–101236.

Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2024). Model-free kinematic control for robotic systems. Automatica. 173. 112030–112030. 3 indexed citations

Bauso, Dario, et al.. (2024). Cascading failures in the global financial system: A dynamical model. Operations Research Letters. 55. 107122–107122. 2 indexed citations

Samaniego, Christian Cuba, et al.. (2024). Neural networks built from enzymatic reactions can operate as linear and nonlinear classifiers. Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine). 6292–6297.

Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2023). Model-free cable robot control. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 550–555. 1 indexed citations

Zanin, Laura, Nicola Tomasi, Daniele Casagrande, et al.. (2023). A mechanistic mathematical model for describing and predicting the dynamics of high‐affinity nitrate intake into roots of maize and other plant species. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(5). e14021–e14021.

Pellegrino, Felice Andrea, et al.. (2022). Closed-loop Control from Data-Driven Open-Loop Optimal Control Trajectories. 2022 European Control Conference (ECC). 1379–1384. 4 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2022). A system-theoretic approach for image-based infectious plant disease severity estimation. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0272002–e0272002. 9 indexed citations

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Demori, Ilaria, Giulia Giordano, Viviana Mucci, et al.. (2022). Thalamocortical bistable switch as a theoretical model of fibromyalgia pathogenesis inferred from a literature survey. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 50(4). 471–484. 10 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco, et al.. (2021). A threshold mechanism ensures minimum-path flow in lightning discharge. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 280–280. 4 indexed citations

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Belgioioso, Giuseppe, et al.. (2020). Convergence in uncertain linear systems. Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine). 2 indexed citations

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Giordano, Giulia, Franco Blanchini, Raffaele Bruno, et al.. (2020). Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy. Nature Medicine. 26(6). 855–860. 1080 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burlando, Bruno, Franco Blanchini, & Giulia Giordano. (2019). Loop analysis of blood pressure/volume homeostasis. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(9). e1007346–e1007346. 7 indexed citations

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Giordano, Giulia, Christian Cuba Samaniego, Elisa Franco, & Franco Blanchini. (2015). Computing the structural influence matrix for biological systems. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 72(7). 1927–1958. 33 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco & Giulia Giordano. (2014). Piecewise-linear Lyapunov functions for structural stability of biochemical networks. Automatica. 50(10). 2482–2493. 60 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco, Elisa Franco, & Giulia Giordano. (2014). A Structural Classification of Candidate Oscillatory and Multistationary Biochemical Systems. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 76(10). 2542–2569. 38 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco. (1991). EIGENVALUE ASSIGNMENT VIA STATE OBSERVER FOR DESCRIPTOR SYSTEMS. Kybernetika. 27(4). 384–392. 8 indexed citations

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Blanchini, Franco. (1990). Control synthesis for discrete time systems with control and state bounds in the presence of disturbances. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 65(1). 29–40. 32 indexed citations

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