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Dario Farina publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dario Farina sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 937 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Dario Farina D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dario Farina sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 132 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to neuromuscular electrophysiology and neurorehabilitation

Overview

Dario Farina is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Engineering, with a strong focus on Biomedical Engineering and related subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including muscle activation and electromyography studies, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, neuroscience and neural engineering, motor control and adaptation, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, sports performance and training, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Several recent papers showcase the scope of their research:

  • Tutorial: Analysis of motor unit discharge characteristics from high-density surface EMG signals, 2020, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
  • Consensus for experimental design in electromyography (CEDE) project: Amplitude normalization matrix, 2020, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
  • Toward higher-performance bionic limbs for wider clinical use, 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Force Steadiness: From Motor Units to Voluntary Actions, 2021, Physiology
  • Common synaptic input, synergies and size principle: Control of spinal motor neurons for movement generation, 2022, The Journal of Physiology

Dario Farina frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Jaime Ibáñez
  • Alessandro Del Vecchio
  • François Hug
  • Simon Avrillon
  • Deren Y. Barsakcioglu

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, with the primary outlets being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • The Journal of Physiology

Dario Farina has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 2018 for contributions to neuromuscular electrophysiology and neurorehabilitation.

Best Publications

  • The extraction of neural strategies from the surface EMG

    Dario Farina;Roberto Merletti;Roger M. Enoka

  • The Extraction of Neural Information from the Surface EMG for the Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses: Emerging Avenues and Challenges

    Dario Farina;Ning Jiang;Hubertus Rehbaum;Ales Holobar

  • Rehabilitation of gait after stroke: a review towards a top-down approach.

    Juan Manuel Belda-Lois;Silvia Mena-Del Horno;Ignacio Bermejo-Bosch;Juan C. Moreno

  • Multi-channel intramuscular and surface EMG decomposition by convolutive blind source separation.

    Francesco Negro;Silvia Muceli;Anna Margherita Castronovo;Ales Holobar

  • THE EXTRACTION OF NEURAL STRATEGIES FROM THE SURFACE EMG: AN UPDATE

    Dario Farina;Roberto Merletti;Roger M. Enoka

  • Myoelectric Control of Artificial Limbs—Is There a Need to Change Focus? [In the Spotlight]

    Ning Jiang;S. Dosen;K-R Muller;D. Farina

  • Comparison of algorithms for estimation of EMG variables during voluntary isometric contractions.

    Dario Farina;Roberto Merletti

  • Influence of anatomical, physical, and detection-system parameters on surface EMG

    Dario Farina;Corrado Cescon;Roberto Merletti

  • Influence of amplitude cancellation on the simulated surface electromyogram.

    Kevin G. Keenan;Dario Farina;Katrina S. Maluf;Roberto Merletti

  • Accurate identification of motor unit discharge patterns from high-density surface EMG and validation with a novel signal-based performance metric

    A Holobar;M A Minetto;D Farina

  • Decoding the neural drive to muscles from the surface electromyogram.

    Dario Farina;Aleš Holobar;Aleš Holobar;Roberto Merletti;Roger M. Enoka

  • Linear and Nonlinear Regression Techniques for Simultaneous and Proportional Myoelectric Control

    J. M. Hahne;F. Biebmann;N. Jiang;H. Rehbaum

  • Analysis of motor units with high-density surface electromyography.

    Roberto Merletti;Aleš Holobar;Dario Farina

  • Surface electromyography for noninvasive characterization of muscle.

    R. Merletti;A. Rainoldi;D. Farina

  • The increase in muscle force after 4 weeks of strength training is mediated by adaptations in motor unit recruitment and rate coding

    Alessandro Del Vecchio;Alessandro Del Vecchio;Andrea Casolo;Andrea Casolo;Francesco Negro;Matteo Scorcelletti

  • Motor unit recruitment strategies investigated by surface EMG variables.

    Dario Farina;Mauro Fosci;Roberto Merletti

  • Interpretation of the surface electromyogram in dynamic contractions.

    Dario Farina

  • EMG-driven forward-dynamic estimation of muscle force and joint moment about multiple degrees of freedom in the human lower extremity.

    Massimo Sartori;Monica Reggiani;Dario Farina;David Gavin Lloyd

  • Man/machine interface based on the discharge timings of spinal motor neurons after targeted muscle reinnervation

    Dario Farina;Dario Farina;Ivan Vujaklija;Ivan Vujaklija;Massimo Sartori;Tamás Kapelner

  • Tutorial: Analysis of motor unit discharge characteristics from high-density surface EMG signals

    A. Del Vecchio;A. Holobar;D. Falla;F. Felici

  • Estimating motor unit discharge patterns from high-density surface electromyogram

    Aleš Holobar;Dario Farina;Marco Gazzoni;Roberto Merletti

  • A novel approach for precise simulation of the EMG signal detected by surface electrodes

    D. Farina;R. Merletti

  • A fast and reliable technique for muscle activity detection from surface EMG signals

    A. Merlo;D. Farina;R. Merletti

  • The linear electrode array : a useful tool with many applications

    Roberto Merletti;Dario Farina;Marco Gazzoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Falla
Deborah Falla University of Birmingham
Ning Jiang
Ning Jiang University of Waterloo
Roberto Merletti
Roberto Merletti Polytechnic University of Turin
Strahinja Dosen
Strahinja Dosen Aalborg University
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Roger M. Enoka
Roger M. Enoka University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Thomas Graven-Nielsen Aalborg University
Jose L Pons
Jose L Pons Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Bernhard Graimann
Bernhard Graimann Graz University of Technology
Xiangyang Zhu
Xiangyang Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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