Massimo D’Elia

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
187 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Massimo D’Elia is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo D’Elia has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 48 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Massimo D’Elia's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (152 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (99 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (94 papers). Massimo D’Elia is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (152 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (99 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (94 papers). Massimo D’Elia collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Massimo D’Elia's co-authors include Francesco Sanfilippo, Claudio Bonati, Francesco Negro, Maria-Paola Lombardo, A. Di Giacomo, Philippe de Forcrand, Marco Mariti, Enrico Meggiolaro, Michele Mesiti and Swagato Mukherjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Massimo D’Elia

173 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Finite density QCD via an imaginary chemical potential 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300
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. Finite density QCD via an imaginary chemical potential
    2003 392 citations Massimo D’Elia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Massimo D’Elia Italy 40 4.2k 614 599 559 122 187 4.5k
Gunnar Bali Germany 39 5.4k 1.3× 441 0.7× 603 1.0× 478 0.9× 72 0.6× 132 5.6k
Sinya Aoki Japan 47 7.9k 1.9× 741 1.2× 398 0.7× 777 1.4× 178 1.5× 374 8.2k
Kostas Orginos United States 52 7.0k 1.7× 358 0.6× 247 0.4× 642 1.1× 94 0.8× 197 7.4k
Olaf Kaczmarek Germany 39 6.6k 1.6× 362 0.6× 818 1.4× 454 0.8× 102 0.8× 134 6.7k
Julius Kuti United States 29 3.2k 0.8× 522 0.9× 326 0.5× 367 0.7× 150 1.2× 103 3.4k
A. Ukawa Japan 46 6.4k 1.5× 879 1.4× 318 0.5× 540 1.0× 140 1.1× 265 6.8k
Swagato Mukherjee United States 39 6.1k 1.5× 261 0.4× 1.0k 1.7× 456 0.8× 89 0.7× 129 6.4k
Lorenz von Smekal Germany 30 2.5k 0.6× 364 0.6× 164 0.3× 522 0.9× 113 0.9× 117 3.2k
William Detmold United States 43 4.6k 1.1× 244 0.4× 310 0.5× 568 1.0× 90 0.7× 184 4.9k
Alexei Bazavov United States 33 4.7k 1.1× 329 0.5× 688 1.1× 572 1.0× 97 0.8× 99 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Massimo D’Elia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Massimo D’Elia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo D’Elia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Massimo D’Elia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Massimo D’Elia 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 Massimo D’Elia. Massimo D’Elia 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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Astrakhantsev, Nikita, et al.. (2025). Electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma in the presence of strong magnetic fields. Physical review. D. 111(3). 5 indexed citations
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D’Elia, Massimo, Kurt Langfeld, & Biagio Lucini. (2024). Stochastic Methods in Scientific Computing. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa).
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2024). The $${\textrm{SU}}(3)$$ twisted gradient flow strong coupling without topological freezing. The European Physical Journal C. 84(9). 2 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2024). The θ-dependence of the SU(N) critical temperature at large N. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 10 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2024). Full QCD with milder topological freezing. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(8). 4 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Sphaleron rate from a modified Backus-Gilbert inversion method. Physical review. D. 108(7). 15 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Sphaleron rate from lattice QCD. Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings. 343. 113–119. 2 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, Francesco D’Angelo, & Massimo D’Elia. (2023). The chiral condensate of Nf = 2 + 1 QCD from the spectrum of the staggered Dirac operator. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(11). 4 indexed citations
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Astrakhantsev, Nikita, et al.. (2023). Electromagnetic conductivity of quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon chemical potential and electromagnetic field. Proceedings of The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2022). 155–155. 5 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Quantum algorithms for the computation of quantum thermal averages at work. Physical review. D. 108(11). 3 indexed citations
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Bonanno, Claudio, Andreas Athenodorou, Claudio Bonati, et al.. (2022). Topology in high-T QCD via staggered spectral projectors. Proceedings of The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2021). 166–166. 1 indexed citations
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D’Elia, Massimo, et al.. (2022). Localization properties of Dirac modes at the Roberge-Weiss phase transition. Physical review. D. 105(1). 8 indexed citations
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D’Elia, Massimo & Marco Mariti. (2017). Effect of Compactified Dimensions and Background Magnetic Fields on the Phase Structure of SU(N) Gauge Theories. Physical Review Letters. 118(17). 172001–172001. 5 indexed citations
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Bonati, Claudio, et al.. (2016). N f =2+1QCDの物理的点でのRoberge-Weiss端点. Physical Review D. 93(7). 1–74504. 2 indexed citations
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Bonati, Claudio, Enrico Calore, Massimo D’Elia, et al.. (2015). Development of Scientific Software for HPC Architectures Using Open ACC: The Case of LQCD. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 9–15. 2 indexed citations
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Bonati, Claudio, A. Di Giacomo, & Massimo D’Elia. (2010). Detecting monopoles on the lattice. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(9). 8 indexed citations
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Papa, Alessandro, et al.. (2009). On the analytic continuation of the critical line. 161.
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Carmona, J. M., Massimo D’Elia, Luigi Del Debbio, et al.. (2001). 1 Dual Superconductivity and Chiral Symmetry in Full QCD. 1 indexed citations
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Allés, B., Massimo D’Elia, A. Di Giacomo, & P.W. Stephenson. (1998). 1 Topological properties of full QCD at the phase transition. 1 indexed citations

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