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Alberto Montanari

Alberto Montanari

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
20768
World Ranking
2164
National Ranking
27

Alberto Montanari publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alberto Montanari sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 372 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Alberto Montanari D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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

  • Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

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

  • Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

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

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

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

  • “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

  • Uncertainty in river discharge observations: a quantitative analysis

    G. Di Baldassarre;A. Montanari

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

    E. Toth;A. Brath;A. Montanari

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

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

  • Global and regional increase of precipitation extremes under global warming.

    Simon Michael Papalexiou;Alberto Montanari

  • Flood fatalities in Africa: From diagnosis to mitigation

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

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

    Armando Brath;Alberto Montanari;Greta Moretti

  • Climate change impacts - throwing the dice?

    Günter Blöschl;Alberto Montanari

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

    Alberto Montanari;Renzo Rosso;Murad S. Taqqu

  • Statistical analysis of hydroclimatic time series: Uncertainty and insights

    Demetris Koutsoyiannis;Alberto Montanari

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

    Alberto Montanari;Armando Brath

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

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

  • Regional flow-duration curves: reliability for ungauged basins

    Attilio Castellarin;Giorgio Galeati;Luigia Brandimarte;Alberto Montanari

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

    Alberto Montanari

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

    Alberto Montanari

  • Water Resources Research in 2013

    Alberto Montanari

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

    A. Montanari

Frequent Co-Authors

Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University
Francesco Laio
Francesco Laio Polytechnic University of Turin
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Berit Arheimer
Berit Arheimer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam

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