Simona Fermani

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Simona Fermani is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Fermani has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Biomaterials, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simona Fermani's work include Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (55 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (29 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Simona Fermani is often cited by papers focused on Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (55 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (29 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Simona Fermani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Israel. Simona Fermani's co-authors include Giuseppe Falini, Alberto Ripamonti, Paolo Trost, Mirko Zaffagnini, Francesca Sparla, Massimo Gazzano, Stéphane D. Lemaire, Damir Kralj, Janet Moradian‐Oldak and Chang Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Simona Fermani

120 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Calcium carbonate: controlled synthesis, surface functionalization, and nanostructured materials

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simona Fermani Italy	31	1.5k	1.3k	827	678	415	120	4.0k
Marcos Farina Brazil	37	591 0.4×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	319 0.5×	216 0.5×	156	4.7k
Hermann Ehrlich Germany	52	3.8k 2.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 2.3×	1.3k 1.9×	579 1.4×	205	8.7k
Ingrid M. Weiss Germany	25	1.3k 0.9×	782 0.6×	578 0.7×	193 0.3×	273 0.7×	72	3.3k
Matthias Wiens Germany	41	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	690 0.8×	202 0.3×	188 0.5×	127	5.1k
Yael Levi‐Kalisman Israel	26	1.4k 0.9×	580 0.4×	846 1.0×	938 1.4×	104 0.3×	78	3.0k
Dongyan Liu China	41	637 0.4×	679 0.5×	531 0.6×	755 1.1×	270 0.7×	155	5.6k
Liping Xie China	40	2.1k 1.4×	698 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	219 0.3×	146 0.4×	186	4.5k
Nils Kröger Germany	32	4.5k 3.0×	2.6k 1.9×	667 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	219 0.5×	55	6.1k
Nicole Poulsen United States	22	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	208 0.3×	245 0.4×	80 0.2×	36	2.5k
Luca Bertinetti Germany	39	2.2k 1.5×	499 0.4×	2.1k 2.6×	1.3k 1.9×	99 0.2×	121	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Fermani

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20 of 20 papers shown

Graziani, Gabriela, Simona Fermani, Daniele Ghezzi, et al.. (2024). A natural multifunction and multiscale hierarchical matrix as a drug-eluting scaffold for biomedical applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 12(38). 9695–9702. 1 indexed citations

Greggio, Nicolas, Simona Fermani, A. Migliori, et al.. (2023). Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Calcium Carbonate from Waste Seashells by Ball Milling Mechanochemistry Processes. Crystal Growth & Design. 24(2). 657–668. 9 indexed citations

Mia, Marcello de, Christophe Marchand, Giuseppe Falini, et al.. (2022). Structural snapshots of nitrosoglutathione binding and reactivity underlying S-nitrosylation of photosynthetic GAPDH. Redox Biology. 54. 102387–102387. 8 indexed citations

Giuri, Demetra, et al.. (2021). New Material Perspective for Waste Seashells by Covalent Functionalization. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(18). 6203–6208. 21 indexed citations

Gurrieri, Libero, Alessandra Del Giudice, Nicola Demitri, et al.. (2019). Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas phosphoribulokinase crystal structures complete the redox structural proteome of the Calvin–Benson cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(16). 8048–8053. 20 indexed citations

Zaffagnini, Mirko, Christophe Marchand, Marco Malferrari, et al.. (2019). Glutathionylation primes soluble glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase for late collapse into insoluble aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(51). 26057–26065. 38 indexed citations

Fermani, Simona, Matteo Calvaresi, Franco Corticelli, et al.. (2019). Bionic synthesis of a magnetic calcite skeletal structure through living foraminifera. Materials Horizons. 6(9). 1862–1867. 8 indexed citations

Barbalinardo, Marianna, Matteo Di Giosia, Iryna Polishchuk, et al.. (2019). Retinoic acid/calcite micro-carriers inserted in fibrin scaffolds modulate neuronal cell differentiation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(38). 5808–5813. 11 indexed citations

Polishchuk, Iryna, et al.. (2018). Insights on the interaction of calcein with calcium carbonate and its implications in biomineralization studies. CrystEngComm. 20(30). 4221–4224. 6 indexed citations

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Fermani, Simona, et al.. (2018). Synthesis and Adsorbing Properties of Tabular {001} Calcite Crystals. Crystals. 9(1). 16–16. 11 indexed citations

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Zaffagnini, Mirko, Simona Fermani, Christophe Marchand, et al.. (2018). Redox Homeostasis in Photosynthetic Organisms: Novel and Established Thiol-Based Molecular Mechanisms. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 31(3). 155–210. 85 indexed citations

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Fermani, Simona, et al.. (2018). β-Chitin samples with similar microfibril arrangement change mechanical properties varying the degree of acetylation. Carbohydrate Polymers. 207. 26–33. 30 indexed citations

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Gizzi, Francesca, Michela Reggi, Simona Fermani, et al.. (2016). Shell properties of commercial clam Chamelea gallina are influenced by temperature and solar radiation along a wide latitudinal gradient. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36420–36420. 29 indexed citations

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Zaffagnini, Mirko, Simona Fermani, Matteo Calvaresi, et al.. (2015). Tuning Cysteine Reactivity and Sulfenic Acid Stability by Protein Microenvironment in Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases of Arabidopsis thaliana. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 24(9). 502–517. 30 indexed citations

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Ianiro, Alessandro, Matteo Di Giosia, Simona Fermani, et al.. (2014). Customizing Properties of β-Chitin in Squid Pen (Gladius) by Chemical Treatments. Marine Drugs. 12(12). 5979–5992. 30 indexed citations

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Michelet, Laure, Mirko Zaffagnini, Samuel Morisse, et al.. (2013). Redox regulation of the Calvin–Benson cycle: something old, something new. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 470–470. 328 indexed citations

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Calvaresi, Matteo, Giuseppe Falini, Sara Bonacchi, et al.. (2011). Fullerenol entrapment in calcite microspheres. Chemical Communications. 47(38). 10662–10662. 11 indexed citations

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Fermani, Simona, Francesca Sparla, Lucia Marri, et al.. (2010). Structure of photosynthetic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (isoformA₄) fromArabidopsis thalianain complex with NAD. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 66(6). 621–626. 8 indexed citations

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Tosi, Giovanna, Simona Fermani, Giuseppe Falini, et al.. (2009). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction data analysis of stenodactylin, a highly toxic type 2 ribosome-inactivating protein fromAdenia stenodactyla. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 66(1). 51–53. 3 indexed citations

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Fermani, Simona, Giuseppe Falini, Alberto Ripamonti, et al.. (2003). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of two ribosome-inactivating proteins: lychnin and dianthin 30. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 59(7). 1227–1229. 7 indexed citations

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