2026 Adelchi Azzalini: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	36	2563	2284	83	77	109	18755

Overview

Adelchi Azzalini is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Mathematics and Decision Sciences. Their research emphasizes Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications, with additional work in Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, and Probability and Risk Models.

The scholar's work spans several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Artificial Intelligence, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied quantitative methods.

Frequent publication venues for their work include arXiv (Cornell University), where four papers have been published, followed by the Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Stat, each with two publications. Additional publication contributions appear in Statistical Papers and Symmetry.

Adelchi Azzalini has collaborated repeatedly with several researchers, notably Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, with whom they have co-authored seven papers. Other frequent co-authors include Marco Zanin, Jayamini Ranaweera, Joshua Darrall-Jones, and Gregory Roe, each having worked with Azzalini on two publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Azzalini include the following:

"An overview on the progeny of the skew-normal family- A personal perspective" (2021), Journal of Multivariate Analysis
"Further Results on a Class of Distributions which Includes the Normal Ones - Looking Back" (2020), DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Other relevant papers related to their field but authored primarily by other individuals include:

"A Selective Overview of Skew-Elliptical and Related Distributions and of Their Applications" (2020), Symmetry
"Designing a small-sided game to elicit attacking tactical behaviour in professional rugby union forwards" (2022), Journal of Sports Sciences
"On the non-identifiability of unified skew-normal distributions" (2023), Stat

The research focus on skew-normal and related distribution families is evident from the nature of their frequent publications and collaborations. These statistical approaches are leveraged in various contexts, including multivariate analysis and applications spanning decision sciences and engineering design.

Best Publications

A class of distributions which includes the normal ones

Adelchi Azzalini

3769
Citations
The multivariate skew-normal distribution

A. Azzalini;A. Dalla Valle

2080
Citations
Distributions generated by perturbation of symmetry with emphasis on a multivariate skew t‐distribution

Adelchi Azzalini;Antonella Capitanio

1952
Citations
Applied smoothing techniques for data analysis : the kernel approach with S-plus illustrations

Adrian W. Bowman;Adelchi Azzalini

1834
Citations
Statistical applications of the multivariate skew normal distribution

Adelchi Azzalini;A. Capitanio

1725
Citations
The Skew-normal Distribution and Related Multivariate Families.

Adelchi Azzalini

947
Citations
Further results on a class of distributions which includes the normal ones

Adelchi Azzalini

744
Citations
The Skew-Normal and Related Families

Adelchi Azzalini;Antonella Capitanio

721
Citations
On the Unification of Families of Skew‐normal Distributions

Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle;Adelchi Azzalini

445
Citations
A note on the estimation of a distribution function and quantiles by a kernel method

A. Azzalini

441
Citations
Statistical Inference Based on the likelihood

Adelchi Azzalini

404
Citations
A look at some data on the old faithful geyser

A. Azzalini;A.W. Bowman

399
Citations
Skewed multivariate models related to hidden truncation and/or selective reporting

Barry C. Arnold;Robert J. Beaver;A. Azzalini;N. Balakrishnan

343
Citations
Robust Likelihood Methods Based on the Skew-t and Related Distributions

Adelchi Azzalini;Marc G. Genton;Marc G. Genton

267
Citations
On the use of nonparametric regression for model checking

A. Azzalini;A. W. Bowman;W. Härdle

249
Citations
On the Use of Nonparametric Regression for Checking Linear Relationships

Adelchi Azzalini;Adrian Bowman

206
Citations
Clustering via nonparametric density estimation

Adelchi Azzalini;Nicola Torelli

173
Citations
The centred parametrization for the multivariate skew-normal distribution

Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle;Adelchi Azzalini

150
Citations
Testing for a deficit in single-case studies: Effects of departures from normality

John R. Crawford;Paul H. Garthwaite;Adelchi Azzalini;David C. Howell

129
Citations
Graphical models for skew-normal variates

A. Capitanio;A. Azzalini;E. Stanghellini

121
Citations
Logistic regression for autocorrelated data with application to repeated measures

A. Azzalini

119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc G. Genton King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Paul D. McNicholas McMaster University

Mahdi Salehi Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

John Robertson Crawford University of Aberdeen

Peter J. Diggle Lancaster University

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan McMaster University

Dipak K. Dey University of Connecticut

Wolfgang Karl Härdle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Keith R. Laws University of Hertfordshire

David R. Cox University of Oxford

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