Ricard Alert

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ricard Alert is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricard Alert has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ricard Alert's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (21 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (16 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (7 papers). Ricard Alert is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (21 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (16 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (7 papers). Ricard Alert collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Ricard Alert's co-authors include Jaume Casademunt, Xavier Trepat, Jean‐François Joanny, Pietro Tierno, Andrej Košmrlj, Jing Yan, Carlès Blanch-Mercader, Bonnie L. Bassler, Bart Smeets and Ned S. Wingreen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ricard Alert

28 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Active Turbulence 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Active Turbulence
    2021 188 citations Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt et al. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ricard Alert Spain 17 475 426 405 192 163 30 1.0k
Xingbo Yang United States 13 384 0.8× 428 1.0× 380 0.9× 256 1.3× 133 0.8× 24 1.1k
Guillaume Duclos France 13 572 1.2× 633 1.5× 463 1.1× 181 0.9× 112 0.7× 20 1.2k
Jean-François Joanny France 8 481 1.0× 565 1.3× 403 1.0× 191 1.0× 90 0.6× 9 1.1k
Oleksandr Chepizhko Austria 12 568 1.2× 199 0.5× 347 0.9× 225 1.2× 157 1.0× 20 961
Carlès Blanch-Mercader France 17 459 1.0× 520 1.2× 366 0.9× 116 0.6× 81 0.5× 32 935
Falko Ziebert Germany 23 570 1.2× 639 1.5× 641 1.6× 206 1.1× 306 1.9× 67 1.6k
Hugo Wioland France 13 817 1.7× 552 1.3× 512 1.3× 326 1.7× 203 1.2× 25 1.6k
Yusuke T. Maeda Japan 19 223 0.5× 260 0.6× 329 0.8× 573 3.0× 79 0.5× 53 1.3k
Dávid Selmeczi Denmark 12 279 0.6× 375 0.9× 408 1.0× 244 1.3× 27 0.2× 16 940
Nikta Fakhri United States 14 350 0.7× 224 0.5× 533 1.3× 241 1.3× 419 2.6× 27 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ricard Alert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ricard Alert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ricard Alert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ricard Alert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ricard Alert 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 Ricard Alert. Ricard Alert 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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Alert, Ricard, et al.. (2025). Nonlinear Spontaneous Flow Instability in Active Nematics. Physical Review Letters. 134(23). 238301–238301. 4 indexed citations
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Han, Endao, Chenyi Fei, Ricard Alert, et al.. (2025). Local polar order controls mechanical stress and triggers layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies. Nature Communications. 16(1). 952–952. 4 indexed citations
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Fei, Chenyi, et al.. (2025). Capillary interactions drive the self-organization of bacterial colonies. Nature Physics. 21(9). 1444–1450.
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Alert, Ricard, et al.. (2025). Lattice-dependent orientational order in active crystals. Soft Matter. 21(37). 7228–7236. 1 indexed citations
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Rossetti, Leone, Steffen Grosser, Juan F. Abenza, et al.. (2024). Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force–velocity relation for collective cell migration. Nature Physics. 20(10). 1659–1669. 12 indexed citations
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Brückner, David B., et al.. (2023). Curvature induces active velocity waves in rotating spherical tissues. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1643–1643. 18 indexed citations
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Trepat, Xavier & Ricard Alert. (2023). How to bridge the gap between theory and experiments in biological physics. Nature Physics. 19(12). 1738–1739. 2 indexed citations
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Grazú, Valeria, Manuel Gómez‐González, Pere Roca‐Cusachs, et al.. (2022). Stiffness-dependent active wetting enables optimal collective cell durotaxis. Nature Physics. 18 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard, et al.. (2022). Collective durotaxis of cohesive cell clusters on a stiffness gradient. The European Physical Journal E. 45(1). 7–7. 6 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard. (2022). Fingering instability of active nematic droplets. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(23). 234009–234009. 14 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard, et al.. (2022). Cellular Sensing Governs the Stability of Chemotactic Fronts. Physical Review Letters. 128(14). 148101–148101. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiuting, Jian Li, Japinder Nijjer, et al.. (2021). Morphogenesis and cell ordering in confined bacterial biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(31). 52 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard & Xavier Trepat. (2021). Living cells on the move. Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona). 12 indexed citations
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Fei, Chenyi, Sheng Mao, Jing Yan, et al.. (2020). Nonuniform growth and surface friction determine bacterial biofilm morphology on soft substrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(14). 7622–7632. 95 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard & Xavier Trepat. (2019). Physical Models of Collective Cell Migration. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 11(1). 77–101. 224 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard, Carlès Blanch-Mercader, & Jaume Casademunt. (2019). Active Fingering Instability in Tissue Spreading. Physical Review Letters. 122(8). 88104–88104. 49 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard & Jaume Casademunt. (2018). Role of Substrate Stiffness in Tissue Spreading: Wetting Transition and Tissue Durotaxis. Langmuir. 35(23). 7571–7577. 24 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard & Jaume Casademunt. (2016). Bleb Nucleation through Membrane Peeling. Physical Review Letters. 116(6). 68101–68101. 12 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard, Pietro Tierno, & Jaume Casademunt. (2016). Formation of metastable phases by spinodal decomposition. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13067–13067. 45 indexed citations
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Alert, Ricard, Jaume Casademunt, & Pietro Tierno. (2014). Landscape-Inversion Phase Transition in Dipolar Colloids: Tuning the Structure and Dynamics of 2D Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 113(19). 198301–198301. 27 indexed citations

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