Luigi La Spada

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Luigi La Spada is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luigi La Spada has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 22 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luigi La Spada's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (30 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (18 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (16 papers). Luigi La Spada is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (30 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (18 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (16 papers). Luigi La Spada collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Kazakhstan. Luigi La Spada's co-authors include Lucio Vegni, Yang Hao, Sajad Haq, Filiberto Bilotti, Pedram Lalbakhsh, Nima Bayat-Makou, Saeed Roshani, Alireza Jamshidi, Sara Kiani and Hamed Hashemi‐Dezaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Optics Express and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Luigi La Spada

45 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

  1. Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19: Deep Learning Approaches for Diagnosis and Treatment
    2020 369 citations Mohammad Jamshidi, Ali Lalbakhsh et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luigi La Spada United Kingdom 18 549 410 404 353 229 52 1.3k
Ruijia Xu China 21 651 1.2× 429 1.0× 417 1.0× 306 0.9× 72 0.3× 30 1.6k
Fanwei Kong China 16 250 0.5× 269 0.7× 162 0.4× 239 0.7× 64 0.3× 45 881
Haitham Alsaif Saudi Arabia 17 375 0.7× 437 1.1× 471 1.2× 199 0.6× 27 0.1× 89 1.1k
Itzik Malkiel Israel 9 280 0.5× 91 0.2× 254 0.6× 224 0.6× 88 0.4× 18 748
Lway Faisal Abdulrazak Iraq 24 185 0.3× 220 0.5× 957 2.4× 661 1.9× 119 0.5× 72 1.5k
Xiaoyuan Liu China 19 478 0.9× 238 0.6× 321 0.8× 206 0.6× 10 0.0× 50 1.0k
Chia-Ching Lin Taiwan 14 92 0.2× 524 1.3× 508 1.3× 107 0.3× 26 0.1× 40 959
Bo Zhang China 25 285 0.5× 241 0.6× 1.7k 4.1× 316 0.9× 29 0.1× 203 2.2k
Cheng Yang Germany 17 250 0.5× 305 0.7× 471 1.2× 70 0.2× 14 0.1× 78 1.2k
Dajun Zhang China 21 425 0.8× 367 0.9× 256 0.6× 207 0.6× 17 0.1× 58 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Luigi La Spada

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luigi La Spada

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Luigi La Spada. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Luigi La Spada. The network helps show where Luigi La Spada may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luigi La Spada

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2025). Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs. Applied Sciences. 15(5). 2429–2429. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2024). Review of Data Security Methods using Low-Earth Orbiters for High-Speed Encryption. Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University). 1366–1375.
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Shahbazzadeh, Mehdi Jafari, et al.. (2021). The Graphene Field Effect Transistor Modeling Based on an Optimized Ambipolar Virtual Source Model for DNA Detection. Applied Sciences. 11(17). 8114–8114. 41 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2020). Electromagnetic and thermal nanostructures: from waves to circuits. Engineering Research Express. 2(1). 15045–15045. 25 indexed citations
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Jamshidi, Mohammad, Ali Lalbakhsh, Jakub Talla, et al.. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19: Deep Learning Approaches for Diagnosis and Treatment. IEEE Access. 8. 109581–109595. 369 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2020). Metamaterials for electromagnetic and thermal waves. Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University). 1. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La & Anna Maria Vegni. (2019). MetaSurface Structures for Sensing and Communications. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2019). Curvilinear MetaSurfaces for Surface Wave Manipulation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3107–3107. 83 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La. (2019). Metasurfaces for Advanced Sensing and Diagnostics. Sensors. 19(2). 355–355. 81 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La & Lucio Vegni. (2018). Electromagnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications. Materials. 11(4). 603–603. 88 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La & Yang Hao. (2017). Electromagnetic waves control for antennas applications. Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University). 1. 116–119. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2016). Surface Wave Cloak from Graded Refractive Index Nanocomposites. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29363–29363. 40 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2016). Isotropic and anisotropic surface wave cloaking techniques. Journal of Optics. 18(4). 44005–44005. 37 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2013). Electromagnetic Modeling of Dielectric Mixtures. Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University). 4 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2013). Electromagnetic Modeling of Dielectric Mixtures. 2(4). 194–200. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2013). Electromagnetic analysis of deep brain stimulation. Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University). 115. 1153–1155. 2 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2013). Electromagnetic modeling of ellipsoidal nanoparticles for sensing applications. Optical Engineering. 52(5). 51205–51205. 18 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, et al.. (2012). Nanoparticle Electromagnetic Properties for Sensing Applications. Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University). 1(2). 9–14. 12 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, Filiberto Bilotti, & Lucio Vegni. (2011). Metamaterial-based design of biological sensors operating at THz frequencies. Iris (Roma Tre University). 486–488. 1 indexed citations
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Spada, Luigi La, Filiberto Bilotti, & Lucio Vegni. (2011). Metamaterial biosensor for cancer detection. Iris (Roma Tre University). 627–630. 35 indexed citations

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