Liberato Ferrara

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
222 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Liberato Ferrara is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liberato Ferrara has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 91 papers in Building and Construction and 62 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liberato Ferrara's work include Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (101 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (84 papers) and Microbial Applications in Construction Materials (61 papers). Liberato Ferrara is often cited by papers focused on Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (101 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (84 papers) and Microbial Applications in Construction Materials (61 papers). Liberato Ferrara collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Liberato Ferrara's co-authors include Estefanía Cuenca, Visar Krelani, Marta Roig‐Flores, Pedro Serna, Surendra P. Shah, Marco di Prisco, Ruben Paul Borg, Fabio Moretti, Maddalena Carsana and Alberto Meda and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Cement and Concrete Research.

In The Last Decade

Liberato Ferrara

203 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The realities of additively manufactured concrete structures in practice

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liberato Ferrara Italy	41	4.7k	2.4k	2.1k	339	332	222	5.8k
Oğuzhan Çopuroğlu Netherlands	31	4.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 3.4×	915 2.8×	111	5.4k
Ammar Yahia Canada	35	3.4k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	416 0.2×	416 1.2×	324 1.0×	121	4.3k
Jan Olek United States	44	6.0k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	949 0.4×	221 0.7×	1.5k 4.5×	162	6.9k
Mohammed Sonebi United Kingdom	34	3.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	360 0.2×	512 1.5×	330 1.0×	186	4.2k
Mohamed Lachemi Canada	59	9.5k 2.0×	5.6k 2.3×	997 0.5×	109 0.3×	1.3k 3.9×	223	10.2k
Branko Šavija Netherlands	45	4.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	516 0.2×	725 2.1×	1.1k 3.2×	195	6.7k
Wil V. Srubar United States	30	1.4k 0.3×	1.1k 0.4×	668 0.3×	236 0.7×	395 1.2×	105	3.1k
Роман Федюк Russia	45	4.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.4×	452 0.2×	192 0.6×	1.2k 3.8×	253	6.3k
Khandaker M. Anwar Hossain Canada	51	7.0k 1.5×	4.2k 1.8×	567 0.3×	87 0.3×	1.1k 3.2×	201	7.8k
L.G. Li China	45	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	238 0.1×	224 0.7×	631 1.9×	98	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liberato Ferrara

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Ferrari, Lucia, et al.. (2025). Rheological control of cementitious composites incorporating ceramic wastes for 3D printing applications. Cement and Concrete Composites. 167. 106452–106452.

Peys, Arne, Luca Valentini, Priyadharshini Perumal, et al.. (2025). Opening Letter of RILEM TC UMW: Upcycling Powder Mineral Wastes into Cement Matrices — Challenges and Opportunities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 33–43.

Ferrara, Liberato, et al.. (2025). A durability- based design approach for structural applications with advanced cement-based materials. Case Studies in Construction Materials. 22. e04294–e04294. 3 indexed citations

Cuenca, Estefanía, et al.. (2025). Optimized data-driven method to study the self-healing and durability of ultra-high performance concrete. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 143. 110043–110043. 7 indexed citations

Ferrara, Liberato, et al.. (2025). A partitioned Lagrangian finite element approach for the simulation of viscoelastic and elasto-viscoplastic free-surface flows. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 443. 118071–118071. 1 indexed citations

Al-Obaidi, Salam, et al.. (2025). Flexural performance of pre-cracked UHPC slabs exposed to aggressive environments. Construction and Building Materials. 466. 140315–140315. 1 indexed citations

Tafraoui, Ahmed, et al.. (2025). Exploring the feasibility of using recycled fines from diverse sources as partial cement substitutes in high-performance cementitious materials. Results in Engineering. 29. 108506–108506.

Ferrara, Liberato, et al.. (2024). Resilient crystalline admixture in ultra-high performance self-healing concrete under cyclic freeze-thaw with de-icing salts. Cement and Concrete Research. 181. 107524–107524. 16 indexed citations

Vo, Thanh, et al.. (2024). Early age hydration behaviour of foam concrete containing a coal mining waste: novel experimental procedures and effects of capillary pressure. Construction and Building Materials. 414. 134811–134811. 6 indexed citations

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Al-Obaidi, Salam, et al.. (2023). A methodology to assess the evolution of mechanical performance of UHPC as affected by autogenous healing under sustained loadings and aggressive exposure conditions. Cement and Concrete Composites. 139. 105058–105058. 21 indexed citations

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Snoeck, Didier, et al.. (2023). Assessment of impact resistance recovery in Ultra High-Performance Concrete through stimulated autogenous self-healing in various healing environments. Cement and Concrete Composites. 143. 105239–105239. 19 indexed citations

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Cuenca, Estefanía, et al.. (2023). Cellulose nanofibers to improve the mechanical and durability performance of self-healing Ultra-High Performance Concretes exposed to aggressive waters. Construction and Building Materials. 374. 130785–130785. 47 indexed citations

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Filho, José Roberto Tenório, Didier Snoeck, Philip Van den Heede, et al.. (2022). Environmental and economic sustainability of crack mitigation in reinforced concrete with SuperAbsorbent polymers (SAPs). Journal of Cleaner Production. 358. 131998–131998. 35 indexed citations

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Vo, Thanh, et al.. (2021). Coal mining wastes valorization as raw geomaterials in construction: A review with new perspectives. Journal of Cleaner Production. 336. 130213–130213. 60 indexed citations

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Cuenca, Estefanía, et al.. (2020). Synergy between crystalline admixtures and nano-constituents in enhancing autogenous healing capacity of cementitious composites under cracking and healing cycles in aggressive waters. Construction and Building Materials. 266. 121447–121447. 78 indexed citations

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Ferrara, Liberato, et al.. (2019). Self-healing lime mortars : an asset for restoration of heritage buildings. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 2 indexed citations

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Sánchez, M., Paulina Faria, Liberato Ferrara, et al.. (2018). External treatments for the preventive repair of existing constructions: A review. Construction and Building Materials. 193. 435–452. 83 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Enzo, Joaquim A. O. Barros, Guillermo Etse, et al.. (2014). The EnCoRe project : an international network for sustainable concrete. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 1 indexed citations

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Tregger, Nathan, et al.. (2010). Predicting dynamic segregation resistance of self-consolidating concrete from the slump-flow test. Journal of ASTM International. 7(1). 1–7. 11 indexed citations

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Andini, S., et al.. (1990). Synthesis, purification, NMR characterization and interaction with nucleotides of a fragment of fish protamines.. Gazzetta chimica italiana. 118(10). 647–652.

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