Stefano Forte

23.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
143 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Forte is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Forte has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Stefano Forte's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (124 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (106 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (100 papers). Stefano Forte is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (124 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (106 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (100 papers). Stefano Forte collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Stefano Forte's co-authors include Richard D. Ball, Juan Rojo, Luigi Del Debbio, Maria Ubiali, José I. Latorre, Alberto Guffanti, Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza, Giovanni Ridolfi and Nathan P. Hartland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Forte

135 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Parton distributions for the LHC run II

2015 730 citations Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
Parton distributions from high-precision collider data

2017 661 citations Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone et al. The European Physical Journal C profile →
Parton distributions with LHC data

2012 530 citations Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone et al. profile →
PDF4LHC recommendations for LHC Run II

2016 354 citations Stefano Carrazza, Stefano Forte et al. profile →
Parton distributions with QED corrections

2013 298 citations Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone et al. profile →
The path to proton structure at 1% accuracy

2022 233 citations Richard D. Ball, Stefano Carrazza et al. The European Physical Journal C profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Forte Italy	41	6.7k	458	265	234	154	143	7.1k
C.G. Papadopoulos Greece	27	2.9k 0.4×	270 0.6×	98 0.4×	119 0.5×	110 0.7×	104	3.2k
S. Jadach Poland	29	2.9k 0.4×	291 0.6×	94 0.4×	149 0.6×	84 0.5×	160	3.2k
Luigi Del Debbio United Kingdom	39	6.1k 0.9×	541 1.2×	308 1.2×	193 0.8×	103 0.7×	172	6.4k
Yuri L. Dokshitzer Russia	39	7.5k 1.1×	553 1.2×	105 0.4×	145 0.6×	55 0.4×	93	7.7k
George Sterman United States	55	9.9k 1.5×	585 1.3×	217 0.8×	130 0.6×	49 0.3×	145	10.2k
Torbjörn Sjöstrand Sweden	39	14.4k 2.1×	1.9k 4.1×	221 0.8×	562 2.4×	253 1.6×	112	14.7k
M. Czakon Germany	45	6.5k 1.0×	800 1.7×	127 0.5×	157 0.7×	95 0.6×	113	6.7k
Matthew D. Schwartz United States	36	3.2k 0.5×	870 1.9×	370 1.4×	240 1.0×	51 0.3×	90	3.8k
Dan Pirjol United States	31	5.0k 0.7×	200 0.4×	105 0.4×	73 0.3×	26 0.2×	119	5.3k
F.V. Tkachov Russia	23	3.6k 0.5×	414 0.9×	306 1.2×	111 0.5×	57 0.4×	47	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefano Forte

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Forte

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stefano Forte. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stefano Forte 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 Stefano Forte. Stefano Forte is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ball, Richard D., Juan Cruz–Martinez, Stefano Forte, et al.. (2025). A determination of $$\alpha _s(m_Z)$$ at $${{\textrm{aN}}}^3{{\textrm{LO}}}_{{\textrm{QCD}}}\otimes {{\textrm{NLO}}}_{{\textrm{QED}}}$$ accuracy from a global PDF analysis. The European Physical Journal C. 85(9). 1001–1001. 1 indexed citations

Cruz–Martinez, Juan, et al.. (2024). LO, NLO, and NNLO parton distributions for LHC event generators. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 6 indexed citations

Ball, Richard D., Alessandro Candido, Juan Cruz–Martinez, et al.. (2024). Intrinsic charm quark valence distribution of the proton. Physical review. D. 109(9). 20 indexed citations

Ball, Richard D., Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, et al.. (2024). Photons in the proton: implications for the LHC. The European Physical Journal C. 84(5). 13 indexed citations

Ball, Richard D., Alessandro Candido, Stefano Carrazza, et al.. (2024). The path to $$\hbox {N}^3\hbox {LO}$$ parton distributions. The European Physical Journal C. 84(7). 18 indexed citations

Ball, Richard D., Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz–Martinez, et al.. (2022). The path to proton structure at 1% accuracy. The European Physical Journal C. 82(5). 233 indexed citations breakdown →

Ball, Richard D., Alessandro Candido, Juan Cruz–Martinez, et al.. (2022). Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton. Nature. 608(7923). 483–487. 66 indexed citations

Ball, Richard D., Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz–Martinez, et al.. (2021). An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions. The European Physical Journal C. 81(10). 50 indexed citations

Khalek, Rabah Abdul, Stefano Forte, T. Gehrmann, et al.. (2020). Phenomenology of NNLO jet production at the LHC and its impact on parton distributions. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 28 indexed citations

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Ball, Richard D., Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza, et al.. (2017). Parton distributions from high-precision collider data. The European Physical Journal C. 77(10). 663–663. 661 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ball, Richard D., Valerio Bertone, Marco Bonvini, et al.. (2016). A determination of the charm content of the proton. The European Physical Journal C. 76(11). 647–647. 60 indexed citations

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Carrazza, Stefano, Stefano Forte, Zahari Kassabov, & Juan Rojo. (2016). Specialized minimal PDFs for optimized LHC calculations. The European Physical Journal C. 76(4). 205–205. 28 indexed citations

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Ball, Richard D., Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza, et al.. (2015). Parton distributions for the LHC run II. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(4). 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Forte, Stefano, A. Nisati, Giampiero Passarino, et al.. (2015). The Standard Model from LHC to future colliders. The European Physical Journal C. 75(11). 554–554. 6 indexed citations

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Ball, Richard D., Valerio Bertone, F. Cerutti, et al.. (2011). On the Impact of NMC Data on Parton Distributions and Higgs Production at the Tevatron and the LHC. arXiv (Cornell University). 26(1). 3–10. 1 indexed citations

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Caola, Fabrizio, Stefano Forte, & Juan Rojo. (2010). Deviations from NLO DGLAP at small-x within the combined HERA-I dataset. 22.

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Caola, Fabrizio & Stefano Forte. (2008). Geometric Scaling from Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi Evolution. Physical Review Letters. 101(2). 22001–22001. 25 indexed citations

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Altarelli, Guido, Richard D. Ball, Stefano Forte, & Giovanni Ridolfi. (1998). Theoretical Analysis of Polarized Structure Functions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 29(5). 1145–1173. 5 indexed citations

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Forte, Stefano & Richard D. Ball. (1997). Double asymptotic scaling '96. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 54(1-2). 163–167. 4 indexed citations

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Forte, Stefano & Richard D. Ball. (1996). Double scaling violations. CERN Bulletin. 172–176.

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