2026 Nicola Guarino: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	50	5473	5319	121	119	145	20801

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Guarino is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research intersects several areas within computer science and molecular biology, with a primary emphasis on artificial intelligence and semantic technologies.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Computer Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, their work explores various subfields such as:

Artificial Intelligence
Molecular Biology
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Nicola Guarino's research topics cover multiple domains, highlighting the following areas:

Semantic Web and Ontologies
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

They have published extensively in notable academic venues, including:

Applied Ontology
Data & Knowledge Engineering
SSRN Electronic Journal
Synthese
arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent publications by Nicola Guarino include:

"Events, their names, and their synchronic structure," 2022, Applied Ontology
"DOLCE: A descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering1," 2021, Applied Ontology
"Explanation, semantics, and ontology," 2024, Data & Knowledge Engineering (co-authored by Giancarlo Guizzardi)
"Semantics, Ontology, and Explanation," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal (co-authored by Giancarlo Guizzardi)
"Semantics, Ontology and Explanation," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University) (co-authored by Giancarlo Guizzardi)

Nicola Guarino has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Corso Stati Uniti
Stefano Borgo
Roberta Ferrario
Aldo Gangemi

In addition to articles, Nicola Guarino has contributed to book publications, notably:

"Formal Ontology in Information Systems," published by Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2025

Best Publications

Ontologies and Knowledge Bases. Towards a Terminological Clarification

Nicola Guarino;Stati Uniti;Pierdaniele Giaretta

1614
Citations
Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE

Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino;Claudio Masolo;Alessandro Oltramari

1578
Citations
Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation

Nicola Guarino

1549
Citations
What Is an Ontology

Nicola Guarino;Daniel Oberle;Steffen Staab

1438
Citations
Editorial: The role of formal ontology in the information technology

Nicola Guarino;Roberto Poli

1254
Citations
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean

Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

1239
Citations
Understanding, building and using ontologies

Nicola Guarino

1231
Citations
OntoSeek: content-based access to the Web

N. Guarino;C. Masolo;G. Vetere

1009
Citations
An Overview of OntoClean

Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

806
Citations
Semantic Matching: Formal Ontological Distinctions for Information Organization, Extraction, and Integration

Nicola Guarino

683
Citations
A Formal Ontology of Properties

Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

679
Citations
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

Christopher Welty;Nicola Guarino

609
Citations
Social roles and their descriptions

Claudio Masolo;Laure Vieu;Emanuele Bottazzi;Carola Catenacci

529
Citations
Sweetening WORDNET with DOLCE

Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino;Claudio Masolo;Alessandro Oltramari

425
Citations
WonderWeb Deliverable D18 Ontology Library

Claudio Masolo;Stefano Borgo;Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino

423
Citations
Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: an overview

Alessandro Artale;Enrico Franconi;Nicola Guarino;Luca Pazzi

403
Citations
Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations: some linguistic and ontological criteria for structuring knowledge bases

Nicola Guarino

351
Citations
Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources

Nicola Guarino

330
Citations
Ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

300
Citations
An ontology of meta-level categories

Nicola Guarino;Massimiliano Carrara;Pierdaniele Giaretta

273
Citations
Business Process Management

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma;Farouk Toumani;Karsten Wolf

2
Citations
What Is anOntology

Nicola Guarino;D aniel Oberle

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giancarlo Guizzardi University of Twente

Aldo Gangemi University of Bologna

John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa

Chris Welty Google (United States)

João Paulo A. Almeida Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Marten van Sinderen University of Twente

Maurizio Lenzerini Sapienza University of Rome

Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart

Jérôme Euzenat Grenoble Alpes University

Ian Horrocks University of Oxford

External Links

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