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50
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Nicola Guarino publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicola Guarino sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 145 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Nicola Guarino D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

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

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

  • Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE

    Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino;Claudio Masolo;Alessandro Oltramari

  • Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation

    Nicola Guarino

  • What Is an Ontology

    Nicola Guarino;Daniel Oberle;Steffen Staab

  • Editorial: The role of formal ontology in the information technology

    Nicola Guarino;Roberto Poli

  • Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • Understanding, building and using ontologies

    Nicola Guarino

  • OntoSeek: content-based access to the Web

    N. Guarino;C. Masolo;G. Vetere

  • An Overview of OntoClean

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

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

    Nicola Guarino

  • A Formal Ontology of Properties

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

  • Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

    Christopher Welty;Nicola Guarino

  • Social roles and their descriptions

    Claudio Masolo;Laure Vieu;Emanuele Bottazzi;Carola Catenacci

  • Sweetening WORDNET with DOLCE

    Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino;Claudio Masolo;Alessandro Oltramari

  • WonderWeb Deliverable D18 Ontology Library

    Claudio Masolo;Stefano Borgo;Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino

  • Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: an overview

    Alessandro Artale;Enrico Franconi;Nicola Guarino;Luca Pazzi

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

    Nicola Guarino

  • Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources

    Nicola Guarino

  • Ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • An ontology of meta-level categories

    Nicola Guarino;Massimiliano Carrara;Pierdaniele Giaretta

  • Business Process Management

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma;Farouk Toumani;Karsten Wolf

  • What Is anOntology

    Nicola Guarino;D aniel Oberle

Frequent Co-Authors

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Giancarlo Guizzardi University of Twente
Aldo Gangemi
Aldo Gangemi University of Bologna
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Chris Welty
Chris Welty Google (United States)
João Paulo A. Almeida
João Paulo A. Almeida Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Marten van Sinderen
Marten van Sinderen University of Twente
Maurizio Lenzerini
Maurizio Lenzerini Sapienza University of Rome
Steffen Staab
Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart
Jérôme Euzenat
Jérôme Euzenat Grenoble Alpes University
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford

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