Silvia Milana

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Silvia Milana is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvia Milana has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Silvia Milana's work include Graphene research and applications (14 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (9 papers). Silvia Milana is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (14 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (9 papers). Silvia Milana collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Switzerland. Silvia Milana's co-authors include Andrea C. Ferrari, Anna Eiden, Ugo Sassi, Ilya Goykhman, Elefterios Lidorikis, Xin Zhang, Ping‐Heng Tan, Yan Lü, Domenico De Fazio and Antonio Lombardo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Silvia Milana

42 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrafast collinear scattering and carrier multiplication... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400
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. Ultrafast collinear scattering and carrier multiplication in graphene
    2013 444 citations Daniele Brida, Andrea Tomadin 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
Silvia Milana United Kingdom 23 2.0k 1.5k 1.2k 1.0k 519 51 3.2k
Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas United States 9 3.1k 1.6× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 783 0.8× 276 0.5× 13 3.6k
Zhenting Dai United States 12 3.1k 1.6× 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 422 0.8× 22 3.8k
Huakang Yu China 24 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 877 0.9× 569 1.1× 73 3.2k
Thomas Szkopek Canada 29 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 621 0.6× 613 1.2× 106 3.3k
Johannes de Boor Germany 29 2.9k 1.5× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 739 0.7× 681 1.3× 92 4.1k
Ali K. Okyay Türkiye 31 1.7k 0.9× 2.2k 1.5× 1.4k 1.1× 710 0.7× 831 1.6× 156 3.6k
Camilla Coletti Italy 33 3.8k 1.9× 2.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 376 0.7× 147 4.7k
Ilya Goykhman Israel 26 1.5k 0.8× 2.0k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 1.0k 1.0× 516 1.0× 58 3.3k
Rusen Yan United States 19 2.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 869 0.9× 980 1.9× 30 4.1k
Ting‐Fung Chung United States 20 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 627 0.6× 620 1.2× 34 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Silvia Milana

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Fields of papers citing papers by Silvia Milana

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvia Milana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Silvia Milana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Silvia Milana 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 Silvia Milana. Silvia Milana 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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Milana, Silvia, et al.. (2025). A Review of Bio-Inspired Perching Mechanisms for Flapping-Wing Robots. Biomimetics. 10(10). 666–666.
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Milana, Silvia, et al.. (2025). A Review of Bio-Inspired Perching Mechanisms for Flapping-Wing Robots. Preprints.org.
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Milana, Silvia, et al.. (2025). Combined use of Raman spectroscopy, cluster analysis, and SEM-EDS for the characterization of Roman bronze artifacts from Spoletino’s cistern (Civitella D’Agliano, VT). Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 333. 125885–125885.
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Betti, Raimondo, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the Damage Detection and Classification of Unknown Classes with a Hybrid Supervised–Unsupervised Approach. Infrastructures. 9(3). 40–40. 1 indexed citations
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Milana, Silvia, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Spherical Rolling Robot Control for Slippery Terrain. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 243–248. 2 indexed citations
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Cavoto, G., G. Chiarello, M. Hildebrandt, et al.. (2021). A photogrammetric method for target monitoring inside the MEG II detector. Review of Scientific Instruments. 92(4). 43707–43707. 3 indexed citations
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Milana, Silvia. (2021). Graphene sets standards. Nature Physics. 17(9). 1068–1068. 2 indexed citations
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Milana, Silvia. (2019). The lab-to-fab journey of 2D materials. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(10). 919–921. 19 indexed citations
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Pulizzi, Fabio, Olga Bubnova, Silvia Milana, et al.. (2019). Graphene in the making. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(10). 914–918. 38 indexed citations
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Karagiannidis, Panagiotis, S.A. Hodge, Lucia Lombardi, et al.. (2017). Microfluidization of Graphite and Formulation of Graphene-Based Conductive Inks. ACS Nano. 11(3). 2742–2755. 267 indexed citations
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Phillips, L. C., Antonio Lombardo, M. Ghidini, et al.. (2016). Tunnelling anisotropic magnetoresistance at La0.67Sr0.33MnO3-graphene interfaces. Applied Physics Letters. 108(11). 5 indexed citations
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Venema, Liesbeth, Bart Verberck, Iulia Georgescu, et al.. (2016). The quasiparticle zoo. Nature Physics. 12(12). 1085–1089. 36 indexed citations
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Culla, Antonio, Walter D’Ambrogio, Annalisa Fregolent, & Silvia Milana. (2016). Vibroacoustic optimization using a statistical energy analysis model. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 375. 102–114. 24 indexed citations
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Verzhbitskiy, Ivan, Alice Ruini, Elisa Molinari, et al.. (2016). Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons. Nano Letters. 16(6). 3442–3447. 91 indexed citations
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Popa, D., Valentin J. Wittwer, Silvia Milana, et al.. (2015). All-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser. Applied Physics Letters. 107(24). 15 indexed citations
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Echtermeyer, T. J., Silvia Milana, Ugo Sassi, et al.. (2015). Surface Plasmon Polariton Graphene Photodetectors. Nano Letters. 16(1). 8–20. 159 indexed citations
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Zaugg, C. A., Valentin J. Wittwer, Z. Sun, et al.. (2014). Graphene modelocked VECSELs. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8966. 896607–896607.
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Massi, Francesco, et al.. (2014). Degradation of high loaded oscillating bearings: Numerical analysis and comparison with experimental observations. Wear. 317(1-2). 141–152. 22 indexed citations
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Brown, G., Stephen J. Beecher, Felice Torrisi, et al.. (2013). 1.5 GHz picosecond pulse generation from a monolithic waveguide laser with a graphene-film saturable output coupler.. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 101 indexed citations
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Brida, Daniele, Andrea Tomadin, Cristian Manzoni, et al.. (2013). Ultrafast collinear scattering and carrier multiplication in graphene. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1987–1987. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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