Stefano Frixione

20.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
68 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Stefano Frixione is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computer Networks and Communications and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Frixione has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 2 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Stefano Frixione's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (64 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (58 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (55 papers). Stefano Frixione is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (64 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (58 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (55 papers). Stefano Frixione collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and United States. Stefano Frixione's co-authors include Rikkert Frederix, Fabio Maltoni, Valentin Hirschi, Paolo Torrielli, Marco Zaro, Hua-Sheng Shao, T. Stelzer, B.R. Webber, Olivier Mattelaer and Johan Alwall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Frixione

66 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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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.

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations

2014 3.4k citations Johan Alwall, Rikkert Frederix et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
Matching NLO QCD computations and parton shower simulations

2002 656 citations Stefano Frixione, B.R. Webber Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
Three-jet cross sections to next-to-leading order

1996 488 citations Stefano Frixione et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Frixione Switzerland	35	8.2k	1.1k	357	197	195	68	8.3k
Tilman Plehn Germany	49	7.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.6×	570 1.6×	165 0.8×	198 1.0×	171	7.3k
S. Mrenna United States	23	9.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	490 1.4×	148 0.8×	183 0.9×	60	9.7k
Peter Skands Switzerland	22	9.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	474 1.3×	153 0.8×	218 1.1×	78	9.4k
Fabio Maltoni Belgium	51	10.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	511 1.4×	270 1.4×	268 1.4×	143	11.0k
Ansgar Denner Germany	50	8.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	414 1.2×	381 1.9×	160 0.8×	165	9.0k
Stefano Catani Italy	54	10.7k 1.3×	584 0.5×	245 0.7×	233 1.2×	154 0.8×	107	10.9k
E. W. N. Glover United Kingdom	50	7.0k 0.9×	598 0.5×	196 0.5×	208 1.1×	79 0.4×	184	7.2k
B.R. Webber United Kingdom	45	9.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	292 0.8×	143 0.7×	191 1.0×	157	10.2k
Rikkert Frederix Switzerland	22	5.8k 0.7×	984 0.9×	326 0.9×	152 0.8×	176 0.9×	46	5.9k
R. Keith Ellis United States	49	9.6k 1.2×	624 0.6×	187 0.5×	242 1.2×	106 0.5×	109	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Frixione

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20 of 20 papers shown

Frixione, Stefano, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani, & Marco Zaro. (2025). Double neutral-current corrections to NLO electroweak leptonic cross sections. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10).

Frixione, Stefano & Giovanni Stagnitto. (2023). The muon parton distribution functions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(12). 6 indexed citations

Frixione, Stefano, S. Amoroso, & S. Mrenna. (2023). Matrix element corrections in the Pythia8 parton shower in the context of matched simulations at next-to-leading order. The European Physical Journal C. 83(10). 2 indexed citations

Frederix, Rikkert, et al.. (2020). On the reduction of negative weights in MC@NLO-type matching procedures. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(7). 20 indexed citations

Frederix, Rikkert, Stefano Frixione, Valentin Hirschi, et al.. (2018). The automation of next-to-leading order electroweak calculations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(7). 140 indexed citations

Frederix, Rikkert, Stefano Frixione, Valentin Hirschi, et al.. (2014). Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects. Physics Letters B. 732. 142–149. 138 indexed citations

Alwall, Johan, Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione, et al.. (2014). The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(7). 3377 indexed citations breakdown →

Papanastasiou, Andrew S., et al.. (2013). Single-top t-channel production with off-shell and non-resonant effects. Physics Letters B. 726(1-3). 223–227. 19 indexed citations

Artoisenet, Pierre, Priscila de Aquino, Federico Demartin, et al.. (2013). A framework for Higgs characterisation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(11). 124 indexed citations

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Cacciari, Matteo, Stefano Frixione, Nicolas Houdeau, et al.. (2012). Theoretical predictions for charm and bottom production at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(10). 232 indexed citations

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Frixione, Stefano & B.R. Webber. (2008). The MC and NLO 3.4 Event Generator.. 2 indexed citations

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Frixione, Stefano, Eric Laenen, Patrick Motylinski, & B.R. Webber. (2007). Angular correlations of lepton pairs from vector boson and top quark decays in Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007(4). 81–81. 80 indexed citations

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Frixione, Stefano. (2005). Heavy flavors in perturbative QCD. The European Physical Journal C. 43(1-4). 103–111. 2 indexed citations

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Cacciari, Matteo, Stefano Frixione, M. Mangano, Paolo Nason, & Giovanni Ridolfi. (2004). QCD analysis of firstbcross section data at 1.96 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(7). 33–33. 60 indexed citations

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Cacciari, Matteo, Stefano Frixione, M. Mangano, Paolo Nason, & Giovanni Ridolfi. (2004). The tbar-t cross-section at 1.8 and 1.96 TeV: a study of the systematics due to parton densities and scale dependence. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(4). 68–68. 62 indexed citations

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Cacciari, Matteo, et al.. (2001). QCD radiative corrections to $\gamma^{*}\gamma^{*} \to$ hadrons. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2. 29. 180 indexed citations

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Cacciari, Matteo, Stefano Frixione, & Paolo Nason. (2001). The p_T spectrum in heavy-flavour photoproduction. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2001(3). 6–6. 207 indexed citations

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Andersen, Jeppe R., W. J. Stirling, Vittorio Del Duca, Stefano Frixione, & Carl R. Schmidt. (2001). Mueller-navelet jets at hadron colliders. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2001(2). 7–7. 40 indexed citations

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Frixione, Stefano, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Paolo Nason, & Giovanni Ridolfi. (1994). Charm and bottom production: theoretical results versus experimental data. Nuclear Physics B. 431(3). 453–483. 69 indexed citations

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Frixione, Stefano, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Paolo Nason, & Giovanni Ridolfi. (1993). Improving the Weizsäcker-Williams approximation in electron-proton collisions. Physics Letters B. 319(1-3). 339–345. 135 indexed citations

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