Salvatore Girardo

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Salvatore Girardo is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Salvatore Girardo has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 17 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Salvatore Girardo's work include Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (18 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (16 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (13 papers). Salvatore Girardo is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (18 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (16 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (13 papers). Salvatore Girardo collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United Kingdom. Salvatore Girardo's co-authors include Dario Pisignano, Jochen Guck, Luana Persano, Yewang Su, Yonggang Huang, Canan Dağdeviren, Yihui Zhang, John A. Rogers, Oliver Otto and Philipp Rosendahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Salvatore Girardo

50 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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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.

High performance piezoelectric devices based on aligned arrays of nanofibers of poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene)

2013 1.1k citations Luana Persano, Canan Dağdeviren et al. Nature Communications profile →
Real-time deformability cytometry: on-the-fly cell mechanical phenotyping

2015 521 citations Oliver Otto, Philipp Rosendahl et al. Nature Methods profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Salvatore Girardo Germany	27	2.5k	739	563	509	329	51	3.5k
Hyungsuk Lee South Korea	25	1.8k 0.7×	564 0.8×	732 1.3×	480 0.9×	286 0.9×	59	3.2k
Philip R. LeDuc United States	36	3.0k 1.2×	947 1.3×	724 1.3×	169 0.3×	287 0.9×	195	5.1k
Xuefeng Wang United States	27	1.5k 0.6×	734 1.0×	889 1.6×	290 0.6×	788 2.4×	137	3.4k
Kahp Y. Suh South Korea	45	4.1k 1.6×	404 0.5×	1.2k 2.1×	216 0.4×	777 2.4×	122	6.5k
Prashant K. Purohit United States	25	2.0k 0.8×	339 0.5×	375 0.7×	458 0.9×	356 1.1×	122	4.0k
Jungyul Park South Korea	33	2.0k 0.8×	351 0.5×	913 1.6×	136 0.3×	393 1.2×	119	3.0k
Peter Tseng United States	25	1.3k 0.5×	328 0.4×	429 0.8×	153 0.3×	173 0.5×	59	2.1k
Peter Schön Netherlands	31	829 0.3×	370 0.5×	766 1.4×	272 0.5×	461 1.4×	109	3.3k
Ruchuan Liu China	24	942 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	552 1.0×	347 0.7×	646 2.0×	45	3.4k
Albert Folch United States	37	6.0k 2.4×	635 0.9×	982 1.7×	105 0.2×	282 0.9×	86	7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Salvatore Girardo

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Lee, Kelvin C. M., Edmund Y. Lam, Ruchi Goswami, et al.. (2025). High-throughput multimodal optofluidic biophysical imaging cytometry. Lab on a Chip. 25(20). 5329–5341. 1 indexed citations

Reichel, Felix, Ruchi Goswami, Salvatore Girardo, & Jochen Guck. (2024). High-throughput viscoelastic characterization of cells in hyperbolic microchannels. Lab on a Chip. 24(9). 2440–2453. 6 indexed citations

Soteriou, Despina, Catherine K. Xu, Ruchi Goswami, et al.. (2023). Image-based cell sorting using focused travelling surface acoustic waves. Lab on a Chip. 23(2). 372–387. 28 indexed citations

Schlüßler, Raimund, Kyoohyun Kim, Anna Taubenberger, et al.. (2022). Correlative all-optical quantification of mass density and mechanics of subcellular compartments with fluorescence specificity. eLife. 11. 57 indexed citations

Sun, Jiawei, Jiachen Wu, Song Wu, et al.. (2022). Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 204–204. 62 indexed citations

Augsburg, Martina, et al.. (2022). Efficient and gentle delivery of molecules into cells with different elasticity via Progressive Mechanoporation. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Träber, Nicole, Salvatore Girardo, Gokul Kesavan, et al.. (2019). Polyacrylamide Bead Sensors for in vivo Quantification of Cell-Scale Stress in Zebrafish Development. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17031–17031. 55 indexed citations

Taubenberger, Anna, Salvatore Girardo, Nicole Träber, et al.. (2019). Hydrogels: 3D Microenvironment Stiffness Regulates Tumor Spheroid Growth and Mechanics via p21 and ROCK (Adv. Biosys. 9/2019). Advanced Biosystems. 3(9). 2 indexed citations

Bugiel, Michael, Aniruddha Mitra, Salvatore Girardo, Stefan Diez, & Erik Schäffer. (2018). Measuring Microtubule Supertwist and Defects by Three-Dimensional-Force-Clamp Tracking of Single Kinesin-1 Motors. Nano Letters. 18(2). 1290–1295. 17 indexed citations

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Rosendahl, Philipp, Katarzyna Plak, Angela Jacobi, et al.. (2018). Real-time fluorescence and deformability cytometry. Nature Methods. 15(5). 355–358. 121 indexed citations

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Mokbel, Dominic, Alexander Mietke, Nicole Träber, et al.. (2017). Numerical Simulation of Real-Time Deformability Cytometry To Extract Cell Mechanical Properties. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 3(11). 2962–2973. 102 indexed citations

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Otto, Oliver, Philipp Rosendahl, Alexander Mietke, et al.. (2015). Real-time deformability cytometry: on-the-fly cell mechanical phenotyping. Nature Methods. 12(3). 199–202. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sciancalepore, Anna Giovanna, Fabio Sallustio, Salvatore Girardo, et al.. (2014). A Bioartificial Renal Tubule Device Embedding Human Renal Stem/Progenitor Cells. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e87496–e87496. 74 indexed citations

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Morello, Giovanni, Alessandro Polini, Salvatore Girardo, Andrea Camposeo, & Dario Pisignano. (2013). Enhanced emission efficiency in electrospun polyfluorene copolymer fibers. Applied Physics Letters. 102(21). 13 indexed citations

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Persano, Luana, Canan Dağdeviren, Yewang Su, et al.. (2013). High performance piezoelectric devices based on aligned arrays of nanofibers of poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene). Nature Communications. 4(1). 1633–1633. 1052 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zavelani–Rossi, M., Roman Krahne, Giuseppe Della Valle, et al.. (2012). Self‐assembled CdSe/CdS nanorod micro‐lasers fabricated from solution by capillary jet deposition. Laser & Photonics Review. 6(5). 678–683. 43 indexed citations

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Masini, Luca, Marco Cecchini, Salvatore Girardo, et al.. (2010). Surface-acoustic-wave counterflow micropumps for on-chip liquid motion control in two-dimensional microchannel arrays. Lab on a Chip. 10(15). 1997–1997. 47 indexed citations

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Sciancalepore, Anna Giovanna, Alessandro Polini, Elisa Mele, et al.. (2010). Rapid nested-PCR for tyrosinase gene detection on chip. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 26(5). 2711–2715. 22 indexed citations

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Girardo, Salvatore, Marco Cecchini, Fabio Beltram, R. Cingolani, & Dario Pisignano. (2008). Polydimethylsiloxane–LiNbO3 surface acoustic wave micropump devices for fluid control into microchannels. Lab on a Chip. 8(9). 1557–1557. 55 indexed citations

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Marco, Carmela De, Salvatore Girardo, Elisa Mele, R. Cingolani, & Dario Pisignano. (2008). Ultraviolet-based bonding for perfluoropolyether low aspect-ratio microchannels and hybrid devices. Lab on a Chip. 8(8). 1394–1394. 15 indexed citations

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