Roberto Serra

3.9k total citations
105 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Roberto Serra is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Serra has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 19 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Roberto Serra's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (36 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (22 papers) and Cellular Automata and Applications (15 papers). Roberto Serra is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (36 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (22 papers) and Cellular Automata and Applications (15 papers). Roberto Serra collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Netherlands. Roberto Serra's co-authors include Marco Villani, Salvatore Di Gregorio, Stuart Kauffman, Alex Graudenzi, Annamaria Colacci, G. Zanarini, Carlo L. Bottasso, Irene Poli, Stefania Bandini and Alessandro Filisetti and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Serra

97 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto Serra Italy 20 684 248 184 177 136 105 1.5k
Lei Li China 26 516 0.8× 86 0.3× 45 0.2× 14 0.1× 148 1.1× 172 3.0k
Faming Liang United States 30 625 0.9× 149 0.6× 24 0.1× 17 0.1× 77 0.6× 148 3.4k
Maria L. Rizzo United States 18 395 0.6× 102 0.4× 22 0.1× 18 0.1× 74 0.5× 30 2.7k
Brian Hutchinson United States 23 1.0k 1.5× 44 0.2× 116 0.6× 52 0.3× 405 3.0× 70 2.3k
Ronald Kates Germany 31 860 1.3× 33 0.1× 160 0.9× 213 1.2× 1.4k 10.0× 179 3.1k
Hongyan Xing China 23 691 1.0× 274 1.1× 8 0.0× 164 0.9× 97 0.7× 130 2.0k
Cheng Li United States 23 259 0.4× 27 0.1× 69 0.4× 624 3.5× 22 0.2× 75 2.0k
Adriano Barra Italy 26 747 1.1× 93 0.4× 37 0.2× 9 0.1× 77 0.6× 98 2.2k
Justin B. Kinney United States 24 2.3k 3.4× 53 0.2× 27 0.1× 227 1.3× 118 0.9× 47 3.4k
John Harrison United States 30 1.2k 1.8× 593 2.4× 102 0.6× 14 0.1× 131 1.0× 102 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Roberto Serra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Serra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Serra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roberto Serra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roberto Serra 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 Roberto Serra. Roberto Serra 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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Villani, Marco & Roberto Serra. (2025). Protocells Either Synchronize or Starve. Entropy. 27(2). 154–154.
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Villani, Marco & Roberto Serra. (2023). Super-Exponential Growth in Models of a Binary String World. Entropy. 25(1). 168–168. 3 indexed citations
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Villani, Marco, Riccardo Pecori, Michele Amoretti, et al.. (2018). An Iterative Information‐Theoretic Approach to the Detection of Structures in Complex Systems. Complexity. 2018(1). 11 indexed citations
4.
Rossi, Davide, Fary Diop, Elisa Spaccarotella, et al.. (2017). Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma genotyping on the liquid biopsy. Blood. 129(14). 1947–1957. 181 indexed citations
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Audusse, Emmanuel, et al.. (2013). Parallelization of a relaxation scheme modelling the bedload transport of sediments\n in shallow water flow. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations
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Villani, Marco, et al.. (2013). The detection of intermediate-level emergent structures and patterns. 372–378. 1 indexed citations
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Roli, Andrea, et al.. (2011). Robustness, evolvability and complexity in Boolean network robots. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 2 indexed citations
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Filisetti, Alessandro, Alex Graudenzi, Roberto Serra, et al.. (2011). A stochastic model of autocatalytic reaction networks. Theory in Biosciences. 131(2). 85–93. 20 indexed citations
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Graudenzi, Alex, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, et al.. (2009). Timing of molecular processes in a synchronous Boolean model of genetic regulatory network. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 87–97. 2 indexed citations
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Damiani, C., Alex Graudenzi, Marco Villani, et al.. (2009). On the fate of perturbations in critical random Boolean networks. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 85–85. 2 indexed citations
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Casolari, Sara, Marco Villani, Michele Colajanni, & Roberto Serra. (2009). Separating internal and external fluctuation in distributed web-based services. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 54–54. 1 indexed citations
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Serra, Roberto, et al.. (2008). The simulation of gene knock-out in scale-free random Boolean models of genetic networks. Networks and Heterogeneous Media. 3(2). 333–343. 8 indexed citations
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Serra, Roberto, et al.. (2007). Interacting random boolean networks. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 35–35. 4 indexed citations
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Serra, Roberto, et al.. (2004). A Small-world Network Where All Nodes Have the Same Connectivity, with Application to the Dynamics of Boolean Interacting Automata. Complex Systems. 15(2). 137–155. 2 indexed citations
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Serra, Roberto, Marco Villani, & Annamaria Colacci. (2001). Differential Equations and Cellular Automata Models of the Growth of Cell Cultures and Transformation Foci. Complex Systems. 13. 347–380. 2 indexed citations
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Gregorio, Salvatore Di, Roberto Serra, & Marco Villani. (1997). A Cellular Automata Model of Soil Bioremediation.. Complex Systems. 11. 12 indexed citations
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Gregorio, Salvatore Di, Roberto Serra, & Marco Villani. (1997). Environmental applications of genetic algorithms. IOS Press eBooks. 310–315. 4 indexed citations
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Gregorio, Salvatore Di, Rocco Rongo, Roberto Serra, et al.. (1996). Parallel Simulation of Soil Contamination by Cellular Automata.. 295–297.
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Compiani, Mario, D. Montanari, & Roberto Serra. (1991). Learning and bucket brigade dynamics in classifier systems. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 202–212. 1 indexed citations
20.
Serra, Roberto. (1986). Introduction to the physics of complex systems : the mesoscopic approach to fluctuations, non linearity, and self-organization. Pergamon eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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