Stefano Legnaioli

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
197 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Stefano Legnaioli is a scholar working on Archeology, Mechanics of Materials and Analytical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Legnaioli has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Archeology, 119 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 102 papers in Analytical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Stefano Legnaioli's work include Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (117 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (117 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (90 papers). Stefano Legnaioli is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (117 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (117 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (90 papers). Stefano Legnaioli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Stefano Legnaioli's co-authors include Vincenzo Palleschi, G. Cristoforetti, E. Tognoni, A. Salvetti, Giulia Lorenzetti, Stefano Pagnotta, Beatrice Campanella, Francesco Poggialini, L. Pardini and M. Hidalgo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Legnaioli

185 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Beyond the McWhirter criterion

2009 529 citations G. Cristoforetti, Alessandro De Giacomo et al. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Legnaioli Italy	42	5.2k	4.4k	2.4k	1.5k	574	197	6.4k
O. De Pascale Italy	33	2.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.4×	741 0.3×	755 0.5×	316 0.6×	73	3.4k
Alessandro De Giacomo Italy	44	4.9k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	676 1.2×	97	5.8k
M. Dell’Aglio Italy	39	3.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	919 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	513 0.9×	76	4.8k
Vincent Detalle France	22	1.2k 0.2×	713 0.2×	699 0.3×	224 0.2×	241 0.4×	92	1.8k
S. M. Angel United States	39	1.8k 0.4×	1.9k 0.4×	545 0.2×	612 0.4×	352 0.6×	127	4.6k
Vincent Motto‐Ros France	34	2.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	566 0.2×	657 0.5×	331 0.6×	104	3.1k
Igor B. Gornushkin Germany	33	3.2k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	751 0.5×	418 0.7×	118	3.8k
Bruno Bousquet France	31	1.6k 0.3×	1.3k 0.3×	634 0.3×	332 0.2×	422 0.7×	97	3.2k
Karel Novotný Czechia	29	1.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.3×	559 0.2×	455 0.3×	204 0.4×	125	2.5k
Reinhard Noll Germany	33	3.4k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	924 0.6×	497 0.9×	85	3.9k

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Nodari, Luca, et al.. (2025). The Gardener of the Grand Duke: History and Analysis of Ms. 462 Hortus Pisanus, Icones variarum plantarum. Applied Sciences. 15(19). 10626–10626.

Legnaioli, Stefano, et al.. (2025). The Pace di Siena and its Gems. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 56(11). 1254–1278.

Coiai, Serena, Roberto Spiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, et al.. (2025). Sustainable two‐step functionalization of carbon fibers ( CFs ) with polyethyleneimine and investigation of curing kinetics in composite materials. Polymer Composites. 46(13). 11965–11983. 1 indexed citations

Sabatini, Francesca, Fauzia Albertin, Brenda Doherty, et al.. (2025). Unveiling street art: A multimodal and multitechnique approach for analyzing and mapping painting materials on large murals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2504918122–e2504918122. 1 indexed citations

Legnaioli, Stefano, et al.. (2024). A new method for calibration-free analysis by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy using a time-integrated spectrometer. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. 215. 106903–106903. 4 indexed citations

Lorenzetti, Giulia, et al.. (2024). Nomen omen: Euglena gracilis possesses a rhodopsin‐based photoreceptor. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 101(2). 350–358. 1 indexed citations

Palleschi, Vincenzo, et al.. (2024). New evidence reveals the earliest use of cinnabar in the western Mediterranean: The Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta (Lazio, Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews. 335. 108746–108746.

Nodari, Luca, Jacopo La Nasa, Francesca Modugno, et al.. (2023). Preserving the Ephemeral: A Micro-Invasive Study on a Set of Polyurethane Scenic Objects from the 1960s and 1970s. Polymers. 15(9). 2111–2111. 2 indexed citations

Sabatini, Francesca, Jacopo La Nasa, Ilaria Degano, et al.. (2023). Fluorescent Paints in Contemporary Murals: A Case Study. Heritage. 6(8). 5689–5699. 5 indexed citations

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Legnaioli, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies. Open Archaeology. 9(1). 4 indexed citations

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Fornasini, Laura, Simona Raneri, Stefano Legnaioli, et al.. (2023). Unveiled materials and techniques in wall paintings hidden for centuries in the church of San Francesco del Prato (Parma, Italy). The European Physical Journal Plus. 138(1). 1 indexed citations

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Poggialini, Francesco, Beatrice Campanella, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri, & Vincenzo Palleschi. (2022). Comparison of Convolutional and Conventional Artificial Neural Networks for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Quantitative Analysis. Applied Spectroscopy. 76(8). 959–966. 9 indexed citations

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Coiai, Serena, Francesca Cicogna, Stefano Legnaioli, et al.. (2021). Incorporation of 2D black phosphorus (2D-bP) in P3HT/PMMA mixtures for novel materials with tuned spectroscopic, morphological and electric features. FlatChem. 30. 100314–100314. 4 indexed citations

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Safi, Ali, Asia Botto, Beatrice Campanella, et al.. (2021). Determination of Spectroscopic Parameters of Ag(I) and Ag(II) Emission Lines Using Time-Independent Extended C-Sigma Method. Applied Spectroscopy. 75(6). 654–660. 3 indexed citations

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Selvaraj, Thirumalini, et al.. (2020). Pottery production and trades in Tamil Nadu region: new insights from Alagankulam and Keeladi excavation sites. Heritage Science. 8(1). 7 indexed citations

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Grifoni, Emanuela, Stefano Legnaioli, Beatrice Campanella, et al.. (2018). Construction and comparison of 3D multi-source multi-band models for cultural heritage applications. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 34. 261–267. 23 indexed citations

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Campanella, Beatrice, Ilaria Degano, Emanuela Grifoni, et al.. (2018). Identification of inorganic dyeing mordant in textiles by surface-enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Microchemical Journal. 139. 230–235. 33 indexed citations

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Poggialini, Francesco, Beatrice Campanella, Stefania Giannarelli, et al.. (2018). Green-synthetized silver nanoparticles for Nanoparticle-Enhanced Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NELIBS) using a mobile instrument. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. 141. 53–58. 25 indexed citations

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Giacomo, Alessandro De, M. Dell’Aglio, R. Gaudiuso, et al.. (2008). Spatial distribution of hydrogen and other emitters in aluminum laser-induced plasma in air and consequences on spatially integrated Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy measurements. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. 63(9). 980–987. 69 indexed citations

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Legnaioli, Stefano, et al.. (2007). Analisi sui pigmenti di ceramica neolitica tramite tecniche Raman e LIBS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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