Marco Santello

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Marco Santello is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Santello has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 92 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 20 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Marco Santello's work include Motor Control and Adaptation (102 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (85 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (45 papers). Marco Santello is often cited by papers focused on Motor Control and Adaptation (102 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (85 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (45 papers). Marco Santello collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Marco Santello's co-authors include John F. Soechting, Martha Flanders, Marc H. Schieber, Qiushi Fu, Caterina Ansuini, Antonio Bicchi, M. J. N. McDonagh, Sara A. Winges, Jamie R. Lukos and Andrew M. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marco Santello

144 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Postural Hand Synergies for Tool Use

1998 899 citations Marco Santello et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Santello United States	35	3.7k	3.6k	1.2k	839	509	152	5.7k
Martha Flanders United States	36	4.7k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	900 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	262 0.5×	80	5.6k
G. Westling Sweden	23	5.3k 1.4×	3.7k 1.1×	645 0.5×	993 1.2×	402 0.8×	29	6.4k
Theodore E. Milner Canada	42	4.1k 1.1×	4.1k 1.1×	870 0.7×	818 1.0×	379 0.7×	103	6.3k
John F. Soechting United States	50	6.8k 1.8×	3.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	399 0.8×	129	8.4k
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi United States	41	5.5k 1.5×	3.7k 1.0×	785 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	535 1.1×	151	7.1k
David W. Franklin Germany	51	4.7k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	800 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	224 0.4×	148	8.6k
Hiroaki Gomi Japan	28	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	820 0.7×	810 1.0×	261 0.5×	121	4.8k
Dagmar Sternad United States	40	3.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	558 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	204 0.4×	167	6.2k
Francisco J. Valero‐Cuevas United States	34	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	545 0.5×	285 0.3×	252 0.5×	126	3.9k
Andrea d’Avella Italy	38	5.7k 1.5×	5.6k 1.6×	454 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	584 1.1×	110	7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Santello

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Marco Santello's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Marco Santello with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Marco Santello more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Santello

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marco Santello. 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 Marco Santello. The network helps show where Marco Santello may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Santello

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Santello, Marco. (2025). ‘No in English I don’t do that’: exploring Gambian migrants’ linguistic cooperation in Italy. Applied Linguistics. 1 indexed citations

Santello, Marco, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired trajectory modulation for effective slip control in robot manipulation. Nature Machine Intelligence. 7(7). 1119–1128.

Tanikawa, Rokuya, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence–based deep learning model for evaluating procedural consistency in microvascular anastomosis. Journal of neurosurgery. 144(1). 1–10.

Fu, Qiushi, Giuseppe Lisi, Toshinori Yoshioka, et al.. (2023). Learning acquisition of consistent leader–follower relationships depends on implicit haptic interactions. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3476–3476. 4 indexed citations

Santello, Marco, et al.. (2023). Distinct sensorimotor mechanisms underlie the control of grasp and manipulation forces for dexterous manipulation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12037–12037. 5 indexed citations

Santello, Marco. (2021). Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control. Physics of Life Reviews. 37. 7–9.

Godfrey, Sasha Blue, Kristin D. Zhao, Ryan Breighner, et al.. (2020). Case Report: Optimizing Daily Function for People with Below-elbow Limb Deficiency with the SoftHand Pro. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(4). 1–7. 1 indexed citations

Chinello, Francesco, et al.. (2019). Linear Integration of Tactile and Non-tactile Inputs Mediates Estimation of Fingertip Relative Position. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 68–68. 6 indexed citations

Santello, Marco, et al.. (2019). Motor modules account for active perception of force. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8983–8983. 3 indexed citations

10.

Fu, Qiushi & Marco Santello. (2018). Improving Fine Control of Grasping Force during Hand–Object Interactions for a Soft Synergy-Inspired Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 11. 71–71. 25 indexed citations

11.

Godfrey, Sasha Blue, Ryan Breighner, Karen L. Andrews, et al.. (2017). Grasp Performance of a Soft Synergy-Based Prosthetic Hand: A Pilot Study. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 25(12). 2407–2417. 9 indexed citations

12.

Artemiadis, Panagiotis, et al.. (2017). Communication and Inference of Intended Movement Direction during Human–Human Physical Interaction. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 11. 21–21. 25 indexed citations

13.

Godfrey, Sasha Blue, Matteo Bianchi, Antonio Bicchi, & Marco Santello. (2016). Influence of force feedback on grasp force modulation in prosthetic applications: A preliminary study. PubMed. 2016. 5439–5442. 35 indexed citations

14.

Ratuapli, Shiva K., Kevin Ruff, Francisco C. Ramirez, et al.. (2015). Kinematic analysis of wrist motion during simulated colonoscopy in first-year gastroenterology fellows. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(6). E621–E626. 5 indexed citations

15.

Zhang, Wei & Marco Santello. (2014). Quantification of behavioral consequences of carpal tunnel syndrome: Insights from biomechanical analysis of grasping and manipulation. Journal of Novel Physiotherapies. 33–56. 3 indexed citations

16.

Fu, Qiushi, et al.. (2014). Learned Manipulation at Unconstrained Contacts Does Not Transfer across Hands. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e108222–e108222. 25 indexed citations

17.

Crajé, Céline, Marco Santello, & Andrew M. Gordon. (2013). Effects of Visual Cues of Object Density on Perception and Anticipatory Control of Dexterous Manipulation. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76855–e76855. 20 indexed citations

18.

Fu, Qiushi, Ziaul Hasan, & Marco Santello. (2011). Transfer of Learned Manipulation following Changes in Degrees of Freedom. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(38). 13576–13584. 36 indexed citations

19.

Adler, Charles H., Debra J. Crews, Kanav Kahol, et al.. (2011). Are the yips a task‐specific dystonia or “golfer's cramp”?. Movement Disorders. 26(11). 1993–1996. 29 indexed citations

20.

Ganley, Kathleen J., et al.. (2010). Fuel oxidation at the walk-to-run-transition in humans. Metabolism. 60(5). 609–616. 21 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact