Riccardo Levato

7.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
102 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Riccardo Levato is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Riccardo Levato has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 27 papers in Automotive Engineering and 27 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Riccardo Levato's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (61 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (27 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (27 papers). Riccardo Levato is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (61 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (27 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (27 papers). Riccardo Levato collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Riccardo Levato's co-authors include Jos Malda, David Eglin, Susanna Piluso, A. Schwab, Matteo D’Este, Paulina Núñez Bernal, Miguel Castilho, Miguel A. Mateos‐Timoneda, Elisabeth Engel and Tina Vermonden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Riccardo Levato

98 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 2020 2022 2023 250 500 750
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. Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting
    2020 890 citations A. Schwab, Riccardo Levato et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  2. Volumetric Bioprinting of Complex Living‐Tissue Constructs within Seconds
    2019 452 citations Paulina Núñez Bernal, Yang Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  3. From Shape to Function: The Next Step in Bioprinting
    2020 368 citations Riccardo Levato, Tomasz Jüngst et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. Volumetric Bioprinting of Organoids and Optically Tuned Hydrogels to Build Liver‐Like Metabolic Biofactories
    2022 188 citations Paulina Núñez Bernal, Jorge Madrid‐Wolff et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting
    2023 116 citations Riccardo Levato, Oksana Y. Dudaryeva et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Riccardo Levato Netherlands 38 4.6k 2.5k 1.1k 726 634 102 5.9k
Khoon S. Lim New Zealand 36 3.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 725 1.0× 583 0.9× 123 5.0k
Marco Costantini Poland 34 3.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 770 1.1× 551 0.9× 69 4.2k
Tomasz Jüngst Germany 25 5.0k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 574 0.8× 519 0.8× 59 6.0k
Ferry P.W. Melchels Netherlands 29 7.0k 1.5× 3.7k 1.5× 2.1k 1.8× 1.2k 1.6× 670 1.1× 57 8.6k
Andrew C. Daly Ireland 20 3.0k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 809 0.7× 524 0.7× 426 0.7× 24 3.9k
Luiz E. Bertassoni United States 36 3.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 681 0.9× 559 0.9× 79 6.0k
Jetze Visser Netherlands 16 2.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 870 0.8× 584 0.8× 313 0.5× 21 3.6k
Aleksandr Ovsianikov Austria 55 7.2k 1.5× 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 516 0.7× 613 1.0× 146 9.1k
Jin‐Hyung Shim South Korea 38 5.3k 1.1× 2.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.4× 1.7k 2.4× 579 0.9× 75 6.4k
Wenmiao Shu United Kingdom 32 4.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 632 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 83 6.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Riccardo Levato

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pignatelli, Cataldo, et al.. (2025). Bioprinting and synthetic biology approaches to engineer functional endocrine pancreatic constructs. Trends in biotechnology. 43(9). 2133–2149. 3 indexed citations
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Bernal, Paulina Núñez, Sammy Florczak, Xiao Kuang, et al.. (2025). The road ahead in materials and technologies for volumetric 3D printing. Nature Reviews Materials. 10(11). 826–841. 18 indexed citations
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Rivas, David Fernández, Marcel Karperien, Jos Malda, et al.. (2025). A Quantitative Printability Framework for Programmable Assembly of Pre‐Vascular Patterns via Laser‐Induced Forward Transfer. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 15(8). e03665–e03665.
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Falandt, Marc, Martina Viola, Anne Metje van Genderen, et al.. (2025). Tunable Thermoshrinkable Hydrogels for 4D Fabrication of Cell‐Seeded Channels. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(35). 5 indexed citations
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Levato, Riccardo, Oksana Y. Dudaryeva, Carlos Ezio Garciamendez‐Mijares, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 4(1). 1 indexed citations
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Karperien, Marcel, et al.. (2024). Towards single-cell bioprinting: micropatterning tools for organ-on-chip development. Trends in biotechnology. 42(6). 739–759. 9 indexed citations
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Falandt, Marc, Paulina Núñez Bernal, Oksana Y. Dudaryeva, et al.. (2023). Spatial‐Selective Volumetric 4D Printing and Single‐Photon Grafting of Biomolecules within Centimeter‐Scale Hydrogels via Tomographic Manufacturing (Adv. Mater. Technol. 15/2023). Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(15). 2 indexed citations
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Schwab, A., Claudia Loebel, Marc Falandt, et al.. (2023). Modulating design parameters to drive cell invasion into hydrogels for osteochondral tissue formation. Journal of Orthopaedic Translation. 41. 42–53. 9 indexed citations
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Soliman, Bram G., Alessia Longoni, Mian Wang, et al.. (2023). Programming Delayed Dissolution Into Sacrificial Bioinks For Dynamic Temporal Control of Architecture within 3D‐Bioprinted Constructs. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(8). 40 indexed citations
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Florczak, Sammy, Andreas Hierholzer, Martin Fussenegger, et al.. (2023). Shaping Synthetic Multicellular and Complex Multimaterial Tissues via Embedded Extrusion‐Volumetric Printing of Microgels. Advanced Materials. 35(36). e2301673–e2301673. 70 indexed citations
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Levato, Riccardo & Khoon S. Lim. (2023). Harnessing light in biofabrication. Biofabrication. 15(2). 20401–20401. 6 indexed citations
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Korpershoek, Jasmijn V., et al.. (2022). The clinical potential of articular cartilage-derived progenitor cells: a systematic review. npj Regenerative Medicine. 7(1). 2–2. 38 indexed citations
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Korpershoek, Jasmijn V., et al.. (2021). Progenitor Cells in Healthy and Osteoarthritic Human Cartilage Have Extensive Culture Expansion Capacity while Retaining Chondrogenic Properties. Cartilage. 13(2_suppl). 129S–142S. 10 indexed citations
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Galarraga, Jonathan H., Ryan C. Locke, Claire E. Witherel, et al.. (2021). Fabrication of MSC-laden composites of hyaluronic acid hydrogels reinforced with MEW scaffolds for cartilage repair. Biofabrication. 14(1). 14106–14106. 65 indexed citations
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Levato, Riccardo, Khoon S. Lim, Wanlu Li, et al.. (2021). High-resolution lithographic biofabrication of hydrogels with complex microchannels from low-temperature-soluble gelatin bioresins. Materials Today Bio. 12. 100162–100162. 75 indexed citations
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Schwab, A., Riccardo Levato, Matteo D’Este, et al.. (2020). Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting. Chemical Reviews. 120(19). 11028–11055. 890 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cui, Xiaolin, Bram G. Soliman, Cesar R. Alcala‐Orozco, et al.. (2020). Rapid Photocrosslinking of Silk Hydrogels with High Cell Density and Enhanced Shape Fidelity. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 9(4). e1901667–e1901667. 135 indexed citations
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Piluso, Susanna, Yang Li, Riccardo Levato, et al.. (2019). Mimicking the Articular Joint with In Vitro Models. Trends in biotechnology. 37(10). 1063–1077. 38 indexed citations
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Lim, Khoon S., Riccardo Levato, Pedro F. Costa, et al.. (2018). Bio-resin for high resolution lithography-based biofabrication of complex cell-laden constructs. Biofabrication. 10(3). 34101–34101. 240 indexed citations
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Gudurić, Vera, Robin Siadous, Reine Bareille, et al.. (2017). Layer-by-layer bioassembly of cellularized polylactic acid porous membranes for bone tissue engineering. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine. 28(5). 78–78. 40 indexed citations

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