Matteo Piccardo

959 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 758 citations indexed

About

Matteo Piccardo is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Matteo Piccardo has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 758 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Matteo Piccardo's work include Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (6 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (5 papers). Matteo Piccardo is often cited by papers focused on Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (6 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (5 papers). Matteo Piccardo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Australia and Belgium. Matteo Piccardo's co-authors include Vincenzo Barone, Emanuele Penocchio, Małgorzata Biczysko, Cristina Puzzarini, Julien Bloino, Hannes Taubenböck, Luca Caporaso, Rossano Schifanella, Alessandro Soncini and Grégory Duveiller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Matteo Piccardo

19 papers receiving 752 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.

  1. Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
    2023 130 citations Emanuele Massaro, Rossano Schifanella et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matteo Piccardo Italy 11 363 333 185 128 104 20 758
Jarosław Kalinowski United States 14 218 0.6× 124 0.4× 160 0.9× 169 1.3× 15 0.1× 20 549
Carsten Stoermer Germany 13 155 0.4× 310 0.9× 272 1.5× 163 1.3× 59 0.6× 16 877
Heriberto Hernández United States 10 188 0.5× 272 0.8× 146 0.8× 187 1.5× 12 0.1× 14 700
A. Kammrath United States 14 826 2.3× 222 0.7× 142 0.8× 202 1.6× 31 0.3× 19 1.1k
Ali Abo‐Riziq United States 17 379 1.0× 422 1.3× 86 0.5× 263 2.1× 13 0.1× 21 1.0k
J. Bragin United States 18 362 1.0× 438 1.3× 224 1.2× 171 1.3× 25 0.2× 32 864
Garold Murdachaew United States 16 435 1.2× 141 0.4× 106 0.6× 166 1.3× 14 0.1× 23 713
Tarek Trabelsi United States 16 279 0.8× 262 0.8× 62 0.3× 341 2.7× 11 0.1× 88 731
Alfred Sillesen Denmark 17 244 0.7× 204 0.6× 125 0.7× 359 2.8× 18 0.2× 44 768
Jean‐Claude Rayez France 19 545 1.5× 290 0.9× 245 1.3× 615 4.8× 19 0.2× 52 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Matteo Piccardo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matteo Piccardo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matteo Piccardo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matteo Piccardo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matteo Piccardo 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 Matteo Piccardo. Matteo Piccardo 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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Pickering, M. A., Gonzalo Otón, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2025). Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Bright, Ryan M., Luca Caporaso, Grégory Duveiller, Matteo Piccardo, & Alessandro Cescatti. (2025). Biogeophysical Radiative Forcings of Large‐Scale Afforestation in Europe Are Highly Localized and Dominated by Surface Albedo Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(1). 1 indexed citations
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Caporaso, Luca, Grégory Duveiller, Graziano Giuliani, et al.. (2024). Converging Findings of Climate Models and Satellite Observations on the Positive Impact of European Forests on Cloud Cover. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(11). 2 indexed citations
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Massaro, Emanuele, Rossano Schifanella, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2023). Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2903–2903. 130 indexed citations breakdown →
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Soncini, Alessandro & Matteo Piccardo. (2022). Ab initio non-covalent crystal field theory for lanthanide complexes: a multiconfigurational non-orthogonal group function approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(31). 18915–18930. 2 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, et al.. (2022). Study of the most relevant spin–orbit coupling descriptions of magnetic excitations in a series of lanthanide complexes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(15). 9007–9017. 3 indexed citations
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Rousset, Élodie, Matteo Piccardo, Robert W. Gable, et al.. (2022). Elucidation of LMCT Excited States for Lanthanoid Complexes: A Theoretical and Solid-State Experimental Framework. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(35). 14004–14018. 15 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, Alessandro Soncini, Patrick W. Fowler, Guglielmo Monaco, & Riccardo Zanasi. (2020). Design of annulene-within-an-annulene systems by the altanisation approach. A study ofaltan-[n]annulenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(10). 5476–5486. 8 indexed citations
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Rousset, Élodie, Matteo Piccardo, Marie‐Emmanuelle Boulon, et al.. (2018). Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Lanthanoid Crown Ether Complexes: Interplay of Raman and Anomalous Phonon Bottleneck Processes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(55). 14768–14785. 46 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, et al.. (2017). CERES: Anab initiocode dedicated to the calculation of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of lanthanide complexes. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 39(6). 328–337. 14 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo & Alessandro Soncini. (2017). A full‐pivoting algorithm for the Cholesky decomposition of two‐electron repulsion and spin‐orbit coupling integrals. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 38(32). 2775–2783. 6 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, Emanuele Penocchio, Cristina Puzzarini, Małgorzata Biczysko, & Vincenzo Barone. (2016). Correction to Semi-Experimental Equilibrium Structure Determinations by Employing B3LYP/SNSD Anharmonic Force Fields: Validation and Application to Semirigid Organic Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120(20). 3754–3754. 42 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, Emanuele Penocchio, Cristina Puzzarini, Małgorzata Biczysko, & Vincenzo Barone. (2015). Semi-Experimental Equilibrium Structure Determinations by Employing B3LYP/SNSD Anharmonic Force Fields: Validation and Application to Semirigid Organic Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 119(10). 2058–2082. 167 indexed citations
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Penocchio, Emanuele, Matteo Piccardo, & Vincenzo Barone. (2015). Semiexperimental Equilibrium Structures for Building Blocks of Organic and Biological Molecules: The B2PLYP Route. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11(10). 4689–4707. 105 indexed citations
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Piccardo, Matteo, Julien Bloino, & Vincenzo Barone. (2015). Generalized vibrational perturbation theory for rotovibrational energies of linear, symmetric and asymmetric tops: Theory, approximations, and automated approaches to deal with medium‐to‐large molecular systems. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 115(15). 948–982. 97 indexed citations
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Lapini, Andrea, Matteo Piccardo, Mariangela Di Donato, et al.. (2014). Ultrafast resonance energy transfer in the umbelliferone–alizarin bichromophore. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(21). 10059–10074. 10 indexed citations
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Egidi, Franco, Tommaso Giovannini, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2014). Stereoelectronic, Vibrational, and Environmental Contributions to Polarizabilities of Large Molecular Systems: A Feasible Anharmonic Protocol. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 10(6). 2456–2464. 31 indexed citations
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Ottonelli, Massimo, et al.. (2012). Koopmans’ Transfer Integral Calculation: A Comparison between the Hartree-Fock and the Density Functional Results. Energy Procedia. 31. 31–37. 24 indexed citations
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Ottonelli, Massimo, et al.. (2011). Tuning the Photophysical Properties of Pyrene-Based Systems: A Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 116(1). 611–630. 54 indexed citations

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