Massimo Vergassola

13.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
118 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Massimo Vergassola is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Vergassola has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Computational Mechanics and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Massimo Vergassola's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (38 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (10 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers). Massimo Vergassola is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (38 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (10 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers). Massimo Vergassola collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Massimo Vergassola's co-authors include Roberto Benzi, Sauro Succi, Antonio Celani, Krzysztof Gawędzki, Gregory Falkovich, U. Frisch, Boris I. Shraiman, Emmanuel Villermaux, Andrea Mazzino and Eduardo P. C. Rocha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Vergassola

117 papers receiving 9.1k 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 lattice Boltzmann equation: theory and applications

1992 1.7k citations Massimo Vergassola et al. profile →
Particles and fields in fluid turbulence

2001 834 citations Massimo Vergassola et al. profile →
The Listeria transcriptional landscape from saprophytism to virulence

2009 700 citations Massimo Vergassola et al. Nature profile →
‘Infotaxis’ as a strategy for searching without gradients

2007 576 citations Massimo Vergassola et al. Nature profile →
Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria

2014 463 citations Sattar Taheri-Araghi, Serena Bradde et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Vergassola France	46	3.6k	2.6k	1.1k	819	760	118	9.4k
Jayanth R. Banavar United States	64	1.7k 0.5×	3.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	705 0.9×	826 1.1×	309	14.4k
Boris I. Shraiman United States	61	1.7k 0.5×	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	596 0.8×	120	16.6k
Lev S. Tsimring United States	56	1.5k 0.4×	5.5k 2.1×	2.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.8×	478 0.6×	175	14.5k
Albert Libchaber United States	65	3.5k 1.0×	6.9k 2.7×	4.6k 4.2×	428 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	178	18.9k
John Guckenheimer United States	52	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	830 1.1×	145	21.9k
Yuri A. Kuznetsov Russia	47	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	548 0.5×	2.1k 2.6×	812 1.1×	254	14.4k
Lee A. Segel Israel	44	1.1k 0.3×	4.4k 1.7×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	393 0.5×	142	11.8k
Gerhard Wanner Germany	71	7.0k 1.9×	7.0k 2.7×	1.4k 1.3×	983 1.2×	295 0.4×	281	30.7k
A. Arnéodo France	58	769 0.2×	3.5k 1.4×	471 0.4×	489 0.6×	670 0.9×	228	10.7k
Stephen Wiggins United Kingdom	49	1.5k 0.4×	813 0.3×	994 0.9×	443 0.5×	523 0.7×	222	14.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Vergassola

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Hayden, Luke, Anna Chao, Noah Mitchell, et al.. (2025). Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the Drosophila embryo. Nature Physics. 21(4). 632–643. 1 indexed citations

Costa, Antonio Carlos, et al.. (2024). Fluctuating Landscapes and Heavy Tails in Animal Behavior. PubMed. 2(2). 8 indexed citations

Broggini, Thomas, Xiang Ji, Rui Liu, et al.. (2024). Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex. Neuron. 112(14). 2349–2367.e8. 16 indexed citations

Biferale, Luca, et al.. (2023). Optimal policies for Bayesian olfactory search in turbulent flows. Physical review. E. 107(5). 55105–55105. 10 indexed citations

Puliafito, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Two-fluid dynamics and micron-thin boundary layers shape cytoplasmic flows in earlyDrosophilaembryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(44). e2302879120–e2302879120. 8 indexed citations

Vergassola, Massimo, et al.. (2022). Affinity maturation for an optimal balance between long-term immune coverage and short-term resource constraints. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(8). 13 indexed citations

Reddy, Gautam, et al.. (2022). Alternation emerges as a multi-modal strategy for turbulent odor navigation. eLife. 11. 9 indexed citations

Katta, S., Alessandro Sanzeni, Alakananda Das, Massimo Vergassola, & Miriam B. Goodman. (2019). Progressive recruitment of distal MEC-4 channels determines touch response strength in C. elegans. The Journal of General Physiology. 151(10). 1213–1230. 8 indexed citations

Reddy, Gautam, Joseph D. Zak, Massimo Vergassola, & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2018). Antagonism in olfactory receptor neurons and its implications for the perception of odor mixtures. eLife. 7. 57 indexed citations

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Reddy, Gautam, Jérôme Wong-Ng, Antonio Celani, Terrence J. Sejnowski, & Massimo Vergassola. (2018). Glider soaring via reinforcement learning in the field. Nature. 562(7726). 236–239. 107 indexed citations

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Nadal, Céline, et al.. (2016). Statistical Distribution of Quantum Entanglement for a Random Bipartite State. 25 indexed citations

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Wong-Ng, Jérôme, Anna Melbinger, Antonio Celani, & Massimo Vergassola. (2016). The Role of Adaptation in Bacterial Speed Races. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(6). e1004974–e1004974. 21 indexed citations

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Voisinne, Guillaume, Briana G. Nixon, Anna Melbinger, et al.. (2015). T Cells Integrate Local and Global Cues to Discriminate between Structurally Similar Antigens. Cell Reports. 11(8). 1208–1219. 45 indexed citations

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Taheri-Araghi, Sattar, Serena Bradde, John T. Sauls, et al.. (2014). Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria. Current Biology. 25(3). 385–391. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Celani, Antonio & Massimo Vergassola. (2012). Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Response in Sensory Systems. Physical Review Letters. 108(25). 258102–258102. 9 indexed citations

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Bailly‐Bechet, Marc, Massimo Vergassola, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2007). Causes for the intriguing presence of tRNAs in phages. Genome Research. 17(10). 1486–1495. 300 indexed citations

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Fischer, Gilles, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Frédéric Brunet, Massimo Vergassola, & Bernard Dujon. (2006). Highly Variable Rates of Genome Rearrangements betweenHemiascomycetous Yeast Lineages. PLoS Genetics. 2(3). e32–e32. 72 indexed citations

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Boffetta, G., Antonio Celani, Andrea Mazzino, Alberto Puliafito, & Massimo Vergassola. (2005). The viscoelastic Kolmogorov flow: eddy viscosity and linear stability. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 523. 161–170. 34 indexed citations

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Castiglione, Patrizia, A. Crisanti, Andrea Mazzino, Massimo Vergassola, & Angelo Vulpiani. (1998). Resonant enhanced diffusion in time-dependent flow. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 31(35). 7197–7210. 22 indexed citations

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Vergassola, Massimo & U. Frisch. (1991). Wavelet transforms of self-similar processes. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 54(1-2). 58–64. 37 indexed citations

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