2026 Alberto Montanari: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	65	2161	2062	27	27	372	20768

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Alberto Montanari is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions in medicine as well. Within environmental science, Montanari has concentrated on the subfields of global and planetary change, water science and technology, and environmental engineering. In medicine, their work extends into surgery and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Montanari's research encompasses several key topics including hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, and flood risk assessment and management. Additional topics of interest include climate variability and models, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, and water-energy-food nexus studies.

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include AGU Advances, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hypertension, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Montanari and associates are:

Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries, 2023, Science Advances
Bluecat: A Local Uncertainty Estimator for Deterministic Simulations and Predictions, 2022, Water Resources Research
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments, 2023, Nature Geoscience
The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world (HELPING), 2024, Hydrological Sciences Journal
Megaprosthesis in Non-Oncologic Settings-A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Montanari has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Serena Ceola, Andrea Sambri, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Michele Fiore, and Massimiliano De Paolis.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Montanari became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2017 and was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

1379
Citations
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Alberto Viglione;Alberto Viglione;Rui A P Perdigão

1216
Citations
Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Juraj Parajka;Rui A. P. Perdigão

1010
Citations
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

1009
Citations
“Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

844
Citations
Uncertainty in river discharge observations: a quantitative analysis

G. Di Baldassarre;A. Montanari

772
Citations
Comparison of short-term rainfall prediction models for real-time flood forecasting

E. Toth;A. Brath;A. Montanari

669
Citations
Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

657
Citations
Global and regional increase of precipitation extremes under global warming.

Simon Michael Papalexiou;Alberto Montanari

656
Citations
Flood fatalities in Africa: From diagnosis to mitigation

Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Alberto Montanari;Harry Lins;Demetris Koutsoyiannis

503
Citations
Assessing the effect on flood frequency of land use change via hydrological simulation (with uncertainty)

Armando Brath;Alberto Montanari;Greta Moretti

412
Citations
Climate change impacts - throwing the dice?

Günter Blöschl;Alberto Montanari

406
Citations
Fractionally differenced ARIMA models applied to hydrologic time series: Identification, estimation, and simulation

Alberto Montanari;Renzo Rosso;Murad S. Taqqu

376
Citations
Statistical analysis of hydroclimatic time series: Uncertainty and insights

Demetris Koutsoyiannis;Alberto Montanari

353
Citations
A stochastic approach for assessing the uncertainty of rainfall‐runoff simulations

Alberto Montanari;Armando Brath

347
Citations
Large-sample hydrology: a need to balance depth with breadth

H. V. Gupta;C. Perrin;G. Blöschl;A. Montanari

343
Citations
Regional flow-duration curves: reliability for ungauged basins

Attilio Castellarin;Giorgio Galeati;Luigia Brandimarte;Alberto Montanari

311
Citations
Large sample behaviors of the generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) in assessing the uncertainty of rainfall‐runoff simulations

Alberto Montanari

308
Citations
What do we mean by ‘uncertainty’? The need for a consistent wording about uncertainty assessment in hydrology

Alberto Montanari

300
Citations
Water Resources Research in 2013

Alberto Montanari

33
Citations
'Panta Rhei - Everything Flows': Change in hydrology and society - The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022

A. Montanari

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna

Günter Blöschl TU Wien

Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens

Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University

Francesco Laio Polytechnic University of Turin

Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin

Berit Arheimer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology

Juraj Parajka TU Wien

Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam

External Links

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