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Researcher · UniNettuno University · Italy

Luca Placidi

Luca Placidi publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures, Rock Mechanics and Modeling and Numerical methods in engineering.

ORCID 0000-0002-1461-3997 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,460
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#897
of 242,206
Works
196
Citations
7.5k
Citations per work
38.3
h-index
50
i10-index 100Top 1.1% in Mechanics of Materials
Luca Placidi

What does Luca Placidi research?

Luca Placidi's work is mostly in Engineering (51%), Materials Science (16%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 140 works · 71.4% of their workEngineering: 100 works · 51.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 64 works · 32.5% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 works · 8.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 13 works · 6.7% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 works · 3.9% of their workMaterials Science: 32 works · 16.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 32 works · 16.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 4.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 8 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 28.6% of their workTHEIR WORKLuca Placidi196works
Physical Sciences71%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering10051.1%
    2. Materials Science3216.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences84.1%
  2. Everything else5628.6%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials32% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luca Placidi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Size-Dependent Behavior, Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics, Strain Gradient Theory, Fracture, Acoustic Emission, Extended Finite Element Method, Meshless Methods and Rock Mechanics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Size-Dependent Behavior1172 topics
  2. Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics821 topic
  3. Strain Gradient Theory821 topic
  4. Fracture762 topics
  5. Acoustic Emission381 topic
  6. Extended Finite Element Method381 topic
  7. Meshless Methods381 topic
  8. Rock Mechanics381 topic
  9. Heterogeneous Materials351 topic
  10. Multi-Scale351 topic
  11. Heat Conduction281 topic
  12. Thermoelasticity281 topic
  13. Arterial Biomechanics211 topic
  14. Hyperelastic Modeling211 topic
  15. Finite Element Method181 topic
  16. Functionally Graded Materials181 topic
  17. Climate Change111 topic
  18. Glacier111 topic

Where does Luca Placidi work?

Luca Placidi's main affiliation in the publication record is UniNettuno University, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Luca Placidi have?

OpenAlex counts 196 works and 7,507 citations for Luca Placidi, an h-index of 50, ranking #50,460 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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