Lucia Nicola

1.6k total citations
60 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Lucia Nicola is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucia Nicola has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 27 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lucia Nicola's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (29 papers), Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (29 papers) and Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (25 papers). Lucia Nicola is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (29 papers), Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (29 papers) and Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (25 papers). Lucia Nicola collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and United States. Lucia Nicola's co-authors include E. van der Giessen, A. Needleman, N. Irani, Martin H. Müser, Fengwei Sun, A. Simone, Prashanth Srinivasan, Michael J. Vellekoop, A. Berthold and P.M. Sarro and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, Scientific Reports and Materials Science and Engineering A.

In The Last Decade

Lucia Nicola

56 papers receiving 855 citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lucia Nicola Netherlands 20 547 404 309 260 132 60 875
W. Grosinger Austria 11 389 0.7× 681 1.7× 390 1.3× 192 0.7× 131 1.0× 11 842
Sanghoon Shim United States 8 377 0.7× 622 1.5× 413 1.3× 141 0.5× 155 1.2× 12 825
William Nix United States 6 526 1.0× 456 1.1× 286 0.9× 103 0.4× 106 0.8× 8 675
Michaël Coulombier Belgium 14 256 0.5× 393 1.0× 257 0.8× 164 0.6× 209 1.6× 36 693
Yong Yee Lim United Kingdom 11 506 0.9× 394 1.0× 249 0.8× 141 0.5× 115 0.9× 18 625
Juri Wehrs Switzerland 19 465 0.9× 634 1.6× 532 1.7× 155 0.6× 166 1.3× 35 972
M. Kempf Germany 9 329 0.6× 317 0.8× 394 1.3× 208 0.8× 136 1.0× 10 675
Jon Alkorta Spain 16 406 0.7× 455 1.1× 471 1.5× 134 0.5× 224 1.7× 34 841
Ileana Nedelcu Netherlands 20 496 0.9× 224 0.6× 586 1.9× 146 0.6× 50 0.4× 31 810
John F. Curry United States 15 485 0.9× 444 1.1× 537 1.7× 75 0.3× 84 0.6× 38 830

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucia Nicola

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pastewka, Lars, Antonis I. Vakis, Stefan J. Eder, et al.. (2025). Modeling in tribology: Recent advances, applications, and open questions. Tribology International. 218. 111326–111326.
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Pérez–Ràfols, Francesc, et al.. (2024). Instabilities and cavitation in cylindrical wavy line contact: A Maugis analysis. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 305. 113008–113008. 1 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, et al.. (2024). On the Adhesive Interaction Between Metals in Atomistic Simulations of Friction and Wear. Tribology Letters. 72(3). 80–80. 1 indexed citations
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Müser, Martin H. & Lucia Nicola. (2022). Modeling the surface topography dependence of friction, adhesion, and contact compliance. MRS Bulletin. 47(12). 1221–1228. 19 indexed citations
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Pérez–Ràfols, Francesc, et al.. (2022). On the interplay between roughness and viscoelasticity in adhesive hysteresis. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 170. 105079–105079. 15 indexed citations
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Irani, N., et al.. (2021). Effect of dislocation core fields on discrete dislocation plasticity. Mechanics of Materials. 165. 104137–104137. 3 indexed citations
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Gandin, Alessandro, Anna Citron, Paolo Contessotto, et al.. (2021). Simple yet effective methods to probe hydrogel stiffness for mechanobiology. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22668–22668. 25 indexed citations
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Bian, Jianjun & Lucia Nicola. (2020). On the lubrication of rough copper surfaces with graphene. Tribology International. 156. 106837–106837. 22 indexed citations
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Srinivasan, Prashanth, Andrew Ian Duff, Thomas A. Mellan, et al.. (2019). The effectiveness of reference-free modified embedded atom method potentials demonstrated for NiTi and NbMoTaW. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(6). 65013–65013. 23 indexed citations
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Irani, N., et al.. (2019). On the load-area relation in rough adhesive contacts. Tribology International. 144. 106099–106099. 10 indexed citations
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Irani, N., et al.. (2018). Modelling coupled normal and tangential tractions in adhesive contacts. Tribology International. 124. 93–101. 18 indexed citations
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Srinivasan, Prashanth, Lucia Nicola, & A. Simone. (2018). Atomistic modeling of the orientation-dependent pseudoelasticity in NiTi: Tension, compression, and bending. Computational Materials Science. 154. 25–36. 26 indexed citations
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Srinivasan, Prashanth, Lucia Nicola, & A. Simone. (2017). Modeling pseudo-elasticity in NiTi: Why the MEAM potential outperforms the EAM-FS potential. Computational Materials Science. 134. 145–152. 35 indexed citations
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Müser, Martin H., et al.. (2017). Green’s function molecular dynamics meets discrete dislocation plasticity. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 25(6). 65018–65018. 17 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, et al.. (2016). Contact between two plastically deformable crystals: a discrete dislocation dynamics study. The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics. 96(25). 2583–2599. 4 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, A. F. Bower, Kyung–Suk Kim, A. Needleman, & E. van der Giessen. (2008). Multi-asperity contact: A comparison between discrete dislocation and crystal plasticity predictions. The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics. 88(30-32). 3713–3729. 20 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia. (2004). Stress and dislocations in thin metal layers. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, E. van der Giessen, & A. Needleman. (2003). Nonlocal Modeling of Size-Dependent Response of Thin Films. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, E. van der Giessen, & A. Needleman. (2002). Simulations of Dislocation Dynamics in Aluminum Interconnects. MRS Proceedings. 731. 2 indexed citations
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Nicola, Lucia, et al.. (1963). Scalar Differential Expressions for the Geostationary Satellite. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 19. 241.

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