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Luciano Afferrante

Luciano Afferrante publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis.

World rank
#600,170
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#22,055
of 65,712
Works
31
Citations
113
Citations per work
3.6

What does Luciano Afferrante research?

Mechanics of Materials: 46.7%Mechanical Engineering: 22.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8.9%Surfaces, Coatings and Films: 8.9%other fields: 13.3%47%top field
Mechanics of Materials46.7%Mechanical Engineering22.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8.9%Surfaces, Coatings and Films8.9%other fields13.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials47% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  4. 4Surfaces, Coatings and Films9% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Automotive Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luciano Afferrante's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Surface Roughness, Adhesion, Gecko, Finite Element Simulation, Fretting Wear, Rolling Contact Fatigue, Gear Dynamics and Mesh Stiffness.

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. Surface Roughness172 topics
  2. Adhesion131 topic
  3. Gecko131 topic
  4. Finite Element Simulation81 topic
  5. Fretting Wear81 topic
  6. Rolling Contact Fatigue82 topics
  7. Gear Dynamics61 topic
  8. Mesh Stiffness61 topic
  9. Atomic Force Microscopy41 topic
  10. Bioinspired Design41 topic
  11. Force Spectroscopy41 topic
  12. Superhydrophobic Surfaces41 topic
  13. Automotive Brake21 topic
  14. Friction Materials21 topic
  15. Ground Vibration21 topic
  16. Railway Dynamics21 topic
  17. Delaunay Triangulations11 topic
  18. Mesh Generation11 topic

Where does Luciano Afferrante work?

Luciano Afferrante's main affiliation in the publication record is Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Luciano Afferrante have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 113 citations for Luciano Afferrante, ranking #600,170 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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