Stefano Zapperi

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
238 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Stefano Zapperi is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Zapperi has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 62 papers in Materials Chemistry and 46 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Stefano Zapperi's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (111 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (38 papers) and Magnetic Properties and Applications (23 papers). Stefano Zapperi is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (111 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (38 papers) and Magnetic Properties and Applications (23 papers). Stefano Zapperi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Finland. Stefano Zapperi's co-authors include Alessandro Vespignani, Gianfranco Durin, H. Eugene Stanley, Caterina A. M. La Porta, Michael Zaiser, Ronald Dickman, Miguel A. Muñoz, Mikko J. Alava, James P. Sethna and Phani K. V. V. Nukala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Zapperi

233 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Dislocation Avalanches, Strain Bursts, and the Problem of Plastic Forming at the Micrometer Scale

2007 484 citations Michael Zaiser, Stefano Zapperi et al. profile →
Colloquium: Modeling friction: From nanoscale to mesoscale

2013 420 citations Andrea Vanossi, Nicola Manini et al. profile →
Oral mucositis: the hidden side of cancer therapy

2020 265 citations Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Zapperi

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Improving localized weather predictions for precision agriculture: A Time-Series Mixer approach for hazardous event detection 2025 ·Environmental Modelling & Software ·(unknown), Stefano Zapperi, Stefano Bocchi, Oxana Drofa, Silvio Davolio, Caterina A. M. La Porta	0
2	Predicting the response to immunotherapy from gene expression data in HER2-negative breast cancer 2025 ·Communications Medicine ·Caterina A. M. La Porta, Ornella Garrone, (unknown), Stefano Zapperi	0
3	Inhibitory neurons and the asymmetric shape of neuronal avalanches 2025 ·Physical review. E ·(unknown), Hans J. Herrmann, Alessandro Sarracino, Stefano Zapperi, L. de Arcangelis	2
4	Quasilocalized modes in crystalline and partially crystalline high-entropy alloys 2024 ·Physical Review Research ·Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, (unknown), Paweł Sobkowicz, Stefano Zapperi, Mikko J. Alava	4
5	Influence of microclimatic conditions on dairy production in an Automatic Milking System: Trends and Time-Series Mixer predictions 2024 ·Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ·(unknown), Caterina A. M. La Porta, Claudio Forte, Stefano Zapperi, Laura Ozella	1
6	Salivary proteomic profile of young healthy subjects 2023 ·Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences ·Paola Dongiovanni, Marica Meroni, Gilda Aiello, Alfonsina D’Amato, (unknown), Sara Casati, Giovanni Damiani, Chiara Fenoglio, Daniela Galimberti, Enzo Grossi, Daniele Prati, Giuseppe Lamorte, Cristiana Bianco, Luca Valenti, Alessio Soggiù, Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta, Massimo Del Fabbro, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia	1
7	Unraveling the dynamics of wealth inequality and the impact on social mobility and health disparities 2023 ·Journal of Physics Complexity ·Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi	1
8	Classification of triple-negative breast cancers through a Boolean network model of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition 2021 ·Cell Systems ·Francesc Font-Clos, Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta	17
9	Automatic design of mechanical metamaterial actuators 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, Francesc Font-Clos, Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, Stefano Zapperi	78
10	Chromatin and Cytoskeletal Tethering Determine Nuclear Morphology in Progerin-Expressing Cells 2020 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), Silvia Bonfanti, (unknown), Zoe Budrikis, Francesc Font-Clos, Giulio Costantini, Oleksandr Chepizhko, Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta	20
11	Irreversibility transition of colloidal polycrystals under cyclic deformation 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Pritam Kumar Jana, Mikko J. Alava, Stefano Zapperi	11
12	Dislocation mutual interactions mediated by mobile impurities and the conditions for plastic instabilities 2014 ·Physical Review E ·Fabio Leoni, Stefano Zapperi	5
13	Conformational Mechanism for the Stability of Microtubule-Kinetochore Attachments 2014 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), Caterina A. M. La Porta, Hélder Maiato, Stefano Zapperi	4
14	Emergent patterns of localized damage as a precursor to catastrophic failure in a random fuse network 2013 ·Physical Review E ·(unknown), Michael Zaiser, Ian Main, (unknown), Stefano Zapperi	5
15	Do cancer cells undergo phenotypic switching? The case for imperfect cancer stem cell markers 2012 ·Scientific Reports ·Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta	32
16	Senescent Cells in Growing Tumors: Population Dynamics and Cancer Stem Cells 2012 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi, James P. Sethna	44
17	Fracture Strength of Disordered Media: Universality, Interactions, and Tail Asymptotics 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Ashivni Shekhawat, Phani K. V. V. Nukala, Mikko J. Alava, James P. Sethna, Stefano Zapperi	32
18	Modeling friction: from nano to meso scales 2011 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Andrea Vanossi, Nicola Manini, Michael Urbakh, Stefano Zapperi, (unknown), Erio Tosatti, (unknown)	4
19	Dynamic Instability of a Growing Adsorbed Polymorphic Filament 2011 ·Biophysical Journal ·Stefano Zapperi, L. Mahadevan	7
20	Dislocation Jamming and Andrade Creep 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·M. Carmen Miguel, Alessandro Vespignani, Michael Zaiser, Stefano Zapperi	115

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