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Francesco Sciortino

Francesco Sciortino

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Chemistry
Italy
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
100
Citations
33454
World Ranking
1286
National Ranking
24

Francesco Sciortino publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Sciortino sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 470 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Francesco Sciortino D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Sciortino sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Francesco Sciortino is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, focusing primarily on materials science. Their research extensively covers materials chemistry, with significant contributions in molecular biology, biomedical engineering, condensed matter physics, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The main research topics addressed by Sciortino include material dynamics and properties, pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, theoretical and computational physics, nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, and surfactants and colloidal systems.

Sciortino has published numerous papers in prominent venues. Some of the recent publications are:

  • Second critical point in two realistic models of water, 2020, Science
  • Advances in the study of supercooled water, 2021, The European Physical Journal E
  • Leveraging Hierarchical Self-Assembly Pathways for Realizing Colloidal Photonic Crystals, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Topological nature of the liquid-liquid phase transition in tetrahedral liquids, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Inverse design of a pyrochlore lattice of DNA origami through model-driven experiments, 2024, Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Sciortino are:

  • John Russo
  • Lorenzo Rovigatti
  • Petr Šulc
  • Andreas Neophytou
  • Pablo G. Debenedetti

Sciortino's work appears regularly in several scientific journals and repositories, including:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Phase behaviour of metastable water

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Ulrich Essmann;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Gelation of particles with short-range attraction

    Peter J. Lu;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Fabio Ciulla;Andrew B. Schofield

  • Relation between the Widom line and the dynamic crossover in systems with a liquid–liquid phase transition

    Limei Xu;Pradeep Kumar;S. V. Buldyrev;S.-H. Chen

  • SINGULARITY-FREE INTERPRETATION OF THE THERMODYNAMICS OF SUPERCOOLED WATER

    Srikanth Sastry;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Francesco Sciortino;H. E. Stanley

  • Phase Diagram of Patchy Colloids: Towards Empty Liquids

    Emanuela Bianchi;Julio Largo;Piero Tartaglia;Emanuela Zaccarelli

  • Equilibrium cluster phases and low-density arrested disordered states: the role of short-range attraction and long-range repulsion.

    Francesco Sciortino;Stefano Mossa;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Piero Tartaglia

  • Effect of hydrogen bonds on the thermodynamic behavior of liquid water.

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Tor Grande;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids

    F. Sciortino;W. Kob;P. Tartaglia

  • Higher-order glass-transition singularities in colloidal systems with attractive interactions

    Kenneth A. Dawson;Giuseppe Foffi;Matthias Fuchs;Wolfgang Götze

  • Supercooled water and the kinetic glass transition.

    F Sciortino;Paola Gallo;P Tartaglia;SH Chen

  • Effect of defects on molecular mobility in liquid water

    Francesco Sciortino;Alfons Geiger;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Observation of empty liquids and equilibrium gels in a colloidal clay

    Barbara Ruzicka;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Laura Zulian;Roberta Angelini

  • Fragile-to-strong transition and polyamorphism in the energy landscape of liquid silica

    Ivan Saika-Voivod;Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino

  • Configurational entropy and diffusivity of supercooled water

    Antonio Scala;Francis W. Starr;Francis W. Starr;Emilia La Nave;Francesco Sciortino

  • Slow dynamics of water molecules in supercooled states.

    Paola Gallo;F Sciortino;P Tartaglia;Sh Chen

  • Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition: Evidence from Simulations

    Stephen Harrington;Rong Zhang;Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino

  • Phase diagram of Janus particles.

    Francesco Sciortino;Achille Giacometti;Giorgio Pastore

  • Glassy colloidal systems

    F. Sciortino;P. Tartaglia

  • Potential energy landscape description of supercooled liquids and glasses

    Francesco Sciortino

  • Spinodal of liquid water

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Ulrich Essmann;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Saddles in the energy landscape probed by supercooled liquids.

    L. Angelani;R. Di Leonardo;G. Ruocco;A. Scala

  • Network defects and molecular mobility in liquid water

    Francesco Sciortino;Alfons Geiger;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Computer simulations of liquid silica: Equation of state and liquid-liquid phase transition

    Ivan Saika-Voivod;Francesco Sciortino;Peter H. Poole

  • Dynamics of simulated water under pressure.

    Francis W. Starr;Francesco Sciortino;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Disordered materials: One liquid, two glasses

    Francesco Sciortino

  • Ground-state clusters for short-range attractive and long-range repulsive potentials.

    S. Mossa;F. Sciortino;P. Tartaglia;E. Zaccarelli

  • Phase diagram for amorphous solid water.

    Peter H. Poole;Ulrich Essmann;Francesco Sciortino;Francesco Sciortino;Francesco Sciortino;H. Eugene Stanley

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuela Zaccarelli
Emanuela Zaccarelli National Research Council (CNR)
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University
Francis W. Starr
Francis W. Starr Wesleyan University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Antonio Scala
Antonio Scala National Research Council (CNR)
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson University College Dublin
Nicolas Giovambattista
Nicolas Giovambattista City University of New York
Giancarlo Ruocco
Giancarlo Ruocco Italian Institute of Technology
Tommaso Bellini
Tommaso Bellini University of Milan

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