G. Boffetta

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

G. Boffetta is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, G. Boffetta has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Computational Mechanics, 51 papers in Ocean Engineering and 27 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in G. Boffetta's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (95 papers), Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows (51 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers). G. Boffetta is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (95 papers), Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows (51 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers). G. Boffetta collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United States. G. Boffetta's co-authors include Antonio Celani, S. Musacchio, Robert E. Ecke, Angelo Vulpiani, Massimo Cencini, F. De Lillo, Andrea Mazzino, Luca Biferale, A. Crisanti and Federico Toschi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

G. Boffetta

144 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

Two-Dimensional Turbulence 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Two-Dimensional Turbulence
    2011 578 citations G. Boffetta et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
G. Boffetta 3.2k 1.4k 1.1k 1.0k 960 147 6.1k
Gregory Falkovich 3.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 954 1.0× 796 0.8× 142 7.1k
Luca Biferale 4.8k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 747 0.7× 692 0.7× 1.0k 1.1× 218 6.6k
Antonio Celani 2.0k 0.6× 844 0.6× 698 0.6× 514 0.5× 615 0.6× 118 4.1k
Victor S. L’vov 2.1k 0.7× 325 0.2× 714 0.6× 919 0.9× 647 0.7× 174 5.8k
Bruno Eckhardt 3.5k 1.1× 527 0.4× 2.8k 2.5× 448 0.4× 1.8k 1.9× 195 8.2k
Gregory L. Eyink 2.5k 0.8× 320 0.2× 971 0.9× 612 0.6× 614 0.6× 124 4.4k
Robert E. Ecke 2.4k 0.7× 368 0.3× 502 0.4× 530 0.5× 768 0.8× 126 4.2k
Alain Pumir 2.5k 0.8× 902 0.6× 838 0.7× 452 0.5× 560 0.6× 158 4.9k
A. Tsinober 4.1k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 323 0.3× 911 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 119 5.9k
S. Ciliberto 2.4k 0.7× 345 0.2× 3.5k 3.1× 477 0.5× 894 0.9× 169 8.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by G. Boffetta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of G. Boffetta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lillo, F. De, et al.. (2025). Scaling and predictability in surface quasi-geostrophic turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1017. 1 indexed citations
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Lillo, F. De, et al.. (2025). Manipulating the direction of turbulent energy flux via tensor geometry in a two-dimensional flow. Science Advances. 11(30). eadv0956–eadv0956.
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Rosti, Marco Edoardo, et al.. (2024). Immiscible Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence: Implications for bacterial degradation in oil spills. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2311798121–e2311798121. 4 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G., et al.. (2023). Microswimmer trapping in surface waves with shear. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 479(2278). 6 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G.. (2023). Dimensional Transitions in Turbulence: The Effects of Rotation and Stratification. Atmosphere. 14(11). 1688–1688. 3 indexed citations
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Berti, Stefano, G. Boffetta, & S. Musacchio. (2023). Mean flow and fluctuations in the three-dimensional turbulent cellular flow. Physical Review Fluids. 8(5). 6 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G., et al.. (2022). Alignment of elongated swimmers in a laminar and turbulent Kolmogorov flow. Physical Review Fluids. 7(7). 5 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G., et al.. (2019). Turbulence induces clustering and segregation of non-motile, buoyancy-regulating phytoplankton. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(159). 20190324–20190324. 11 indexed citations
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Linkmann, Moritz, G. Boffetta, M. Cristina Marchetti, & Bruno Eckhardt. (2019). Phase Transition to Large Scale Coherent Structures in Two-Dimensional Active Matter Turbulence. Physical Review Letters. 122(21). 214503–214503. 35 indexed citations
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Lillo, F. De, et al.. (2018). Measuring surface gravity waves using a Kinect sensor. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids. 74. 260–264. 6 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G. & S. Musacchio. (2017). Chaos and Predictability of Homogeneous-Isotropic Turbulence. Physical Review Letters. 119(5). 54102–54102. 32 indexed citations
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Musacchio, S., et al.. (2016). Irreversibility of the two-dimensional enstrophy cascade. Physical review. E. 94(5). 53116–53116. 3 indexed citations
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Durham, William M., Éric Climent, Michael Barry, et al.. (2013). Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2148–2148. 214 indexed citations
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Re, Alessandro, Alessandro Lo Giudice, G. Boffetta, & Elena A. A. Garcea. (2011). ION AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC INTEREST: DETERMINATION OF THE PROVENANCE OF LAPIS LAZULI USED FOR GLYPTIC. Radiocarbon. 56. 3 indexed citations
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Bec, Jérémie, Luca Biferale, G. Boffetta, et al.. (2006). Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence. Physics of Fluids. 18(9). 64 indexed citations
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Biferale, Luca, G. Boffetta, Antonio Celani, Alessandra S. Lanotte, & Federico Toschi. (2004). Particle trapping in three-dimensional fully developed turbulence. Physics of Fluids. 17(2). 120 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G., Antonio Celani, & S. Musacchio. (2003). Two-Dimensional Turbulence of Dilute Polymer Solutions. Physical Review Letters. 91(3). 34501–34501. 40 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G., D. del-Castillo-Negrete, Crístobal López, Giuseppe Pucacco, & Angelo Vulpiani. (2003). Diffusive transport and self-consistent dynamics in coupled maps. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(2). 26224–26224. 11 indexed citations
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Boffetta, G. & Igor M. Sokolov. (2002). Relative Dispersion in Fully Developed Turbulence: The Richardson’s Law and Intermittency Corrections. Physical Review Letters. 88(9). 94501–94501. 114 indexed citations
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Biferale, Luca, et al.. (1998). Multi-time, multi-scale correlation functions in turbulence and in turbulent models. 19 indexed citations

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