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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 46 4271 3927 101 95 173 7072

Andrea Billi publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Andrea Billi between 1987 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Andrea Billi published across 39 years, from 1987 to 2025, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2020. 25 of the 234 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1987 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2020. 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 2 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 7 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 30 publications 2021: 21 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 21 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 11 publications
1987 2025

234 publications in total across all disciplines

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Andrea Billi: publications per year, 1987 to 2025
Year Publications
1987 1
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 1
1999 2
2000 2
2001 2
2002 1
2003 7
2004 3
2005 2
2006 3
2007 6
2008 5
2009 7
2010 10
2011 9
2012 8
2013 10
2014 5
2015 4
2016 13
2017 11
2018 10
2019 6
2020 30
2021 21
2022 9
2023 21
2024 14
2025 11
Total 234
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Andrea Billi publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

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

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 168–177 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 173 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490 173
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Andrea Billi D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

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

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 46 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212 46
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Andrea Billi is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences. The research spans key areas such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and seismic imaging, with a strong emphasis on geophysical and geological processes.

Their primary research fields include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Geophysics
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geology
  • Artificial Intelligence

Andrea Billi's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

The most frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology

Among the recent papers are:

  • "Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality," 2021, Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • "Smartphone assisted fieldwork: Towards the digital transition of geoscience fieldwork using LiDAR-equipped iPhones," 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "3D Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) models of damage zone fluid corridors within a reservoir-scale normal fault in carbonates: Multiscale approach using field data and UAV imagery," 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Architecture and evolution of an extensionally-inverted thrust (Mt. Tancia Thrust, Central Apennines): Geological, structural, geochemical, and K-Ar geochronological constraints," 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Changes in groundwater trace element concentrations before seismic and volcanic activities in Iceland during 2010-2018," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Eugenio Carminati
  • Luca Smeraglia
  • Luca Aldega
  • Stefano Tavani
  • Marino Domenico Barberio

Best Publications

  • Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

    Claudio Faccenna;Thorsten W Becker;Ludwig Auer;Andrea Billi

  • The damage zone-fault core transition in carbonate rocks: implications for fault growth, structure and permeability

    Andrea Billi;Francesco Salvini;Fabrizio Storti

  • Particle size distributions in natural carbonate fault rocks: insights for non-self-similar cataclasis

    Fabrizio Storti;Andrea Billi;Francesco Salvini

  • Strike-slip fault-propagation cleavage in carbonate rocks: the Mattinata Fault Zone, Southern Apennines, Italy

    Francesco Salvini;Andrea Billi;Donald U Wise

  • Late Pleistocene depositional cycles of the Lapis Tiburtinus travertine (Tivoli, Central Italy): Possible influence of climate and fault activity

    Claudio Faccenna;Michele Soligo;Andrea Billi;Luigi De Filippis

  • Topography of the Calabria subduction zone (southern Italy): Clues for the origin of Mt. Etna

    Claudio Faccenna;Paola Molin;B. Orecchio;B. Orecchio;Valerio Olivetti

  • Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality.

    Maurizio Barbieri;Marino Domenico Barberio;Francesca Banzato;Andrea Billi

  • Tectonics and seismicity of the Tindari Fault System, southern Italy: Crustal deformations at the transition between ongoing contractional and extensional domains located above the edge of a subducting slab

    Andrea Billi;Graziella Barberi;Claudio Faccenna;Giancarlo Neri

  • Coseismic recrystallization during shallow earthquake slip

    S. A. F. Smith;G. Di Toro;G. Di Toro;S. Kim;J.-H. Ree

  • Principal Slip Zones in Limestone: Microstructural Characterization and Implications for the Seismic Cycle (Tre Monti Fault, Central Apennines, Italy)

    Steven A. F. Smith;Andrea Billi;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Richard Spiess

  • Grain size distribution and thickness of breccia and gouge zones from thin (<1 m) strike-slip fault cores in limestone

    Andrea Billi

  • Recent tectonic reorganization of the Nubia-Eurasia convergent boundary heading for the closure of the western Mediterranean

    Andrea Billi;Claudio Faccenna;Olivier Bellier;Liliana Minelli

  • Hydrogeochemical changes before and during the 2016 Amatrice-Norcia seismic sequence (central Italy).

    Marino Domenico Barberio;Maurizio Barbieri;Andrea Billi;Carlo Doglioni;Carlo Doglioni

  • Plateau versus fissure ridge travertines from Quaternary geothermal springs of Italy and Turkey: Interactions and feedbacks between fluid discharge, paleoclimate, and tectonics

    Luigi De Filippis;Claudio Faccenna;Andrea Billi;Erlisiana Anzalone

  • On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy

    Andrea Billi;Renato Funiciello;Liliana Minelli;Claudio Faccenna

  • Fractal distribution of particle size in carbonate cataclastic rocks from the core of a regional strike-slip fault zone

    Andrea Billi;Fabrizio Storti

  • Earthquake focal mechanisms, seismogenic stress, and seismotectonics of the Calabrian Arc, Italy

    Debora Presti;Debora Presti;Andrea Billi;Barbara Orecchio;Cristina Totaro

  • Growth of fissure ridge travertines from geothermal springs of Denizli Basin, western Turkey

    L De Filippis;Claudio Faccenna;A Billi;E Anzalone

  • Fracture-controlled fluid circulation and dissolutional weathering in sinkhole-prone carbonate rocks from central Italy

    Andrea Billi;Andrea Valle;Mauro Brilli;Claudio Faccenna

  • Seismotectonics of the Nubia plate compressive margin in the south Tyrrhenian region, Italy: Clues for subduction inception

    Andrea Billi;D Presti;Claudio Faccenna;G. Neri

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Faccenna
Claudio Faccenna Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum
Carlo Doglioni
Carlo Doglioni National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Federico Rossetti
Federico Rossetti Roma Tre University
Renato Funiciello
Renato Funiciello Roma Tre University
Eugenio Carminati
Eugenio Carminati Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Petitta
Marco Petitta Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Salvini
Francesco Salvini Roma Tre University
Luca Aldega
Luca Aldega Sapienza University of Rome
Fabrizio Storti
Fabrizio Storti University of Parma
Giulio Di Toro
Giulio Di Toro University of Padua

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