2026 Andrea Saltelli: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	66	1358	1289	30	29	147	52215

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Engineering and Technology

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Engineering and Technology

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52215

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1358

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Overview

Andrea Saltelli is affiliated with the UPF Barcelona School of Management in Spain. Their recent research contributions span various domains including sensitivity analysis, sustainability, and water resource management.

Saltelli's recent published papers include:

The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support (2020, Environmental Modelling & Software)
Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto (2020, Nature)
The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability (2020, Environmental Science & Policy)
Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals (2021, Nature Communications)
Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator (2020, Social Indicators Research)

They frequently collaborate with a core group of co-authors including Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Monica Di Fiore, Erik S. Reinert, and J.P. van der Sluijs.

Andrea Saltelli has published extensively in several academic venues, with notable frequency in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Environmental Modelling & Software
arXiv (Cornell University)
Environmental Science & Policy
Nature Communications

The scope of their research crosses several interconnected fields of study and subfields, such as:

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Sociology and Political Science
Water Science and Technology
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Management Science and Operations Research

Main topics explored in Andrea Saltelli's work focus on methodologies and applications including:

Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
Water resources management and optimization
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Philosophy and History of Science
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Regional Development and Policy

Best Publications

Global sensitivity analysis : the primer

Andrea Saltelli

8085
Citations
Variance based sensitivity analysis of model output. Design and estimator for the total sensitivity index

Andrea Saltelli;Paola Annoni;Ivano Azzini;Francesca Campolongo

3621
Citations
Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators: Methodology and User Guide

Michela Nardo;Michaela Saisana;Andrea Saltelli;Stefano Tarantola

3621
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis in Practice: A Guide to Assessing Scientific Models

Andrea Saltelli;Stefano Tarantola;Francesca Campolongo;Marco Ratto

2920
Citations
Making best use of model evaluations to compute sensitivity indices

Andrea Saltelli

2524
Citations
Importance measures in global sensitivity analysis of nonlinear models

Toshimitsu Homma;Andrea Saltelli

2413
Citations
An effective screening design for sensitivity analysis of large models

Francesca Campolongo;Jessica Cariboni;Andrea Saltelli

2324
Citations
A quantitative model-independent method for global sensitivity analysis of model output

A. Saltelli;S. Tarantola;K. P.-S. Chan

2245
Citations
Sensitivity analysis for importance assessment.

Andrea Saltelli

1588
Citations
How to avoid a perfunctory sensitivity analysis

Andrea Saltelli;Paola Annoni

1199
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis as an Ingredient of Modeling

A. Saltelli;S. Tarantola;F. Campolongo

1068
Citations
Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques as tools for the quality assessment of composite indicators

M Saisana;A Saltelli;S Tarantola

1059
Citations
Sensitivity Anaysis as an Ingredient of Modeling

A. Saltelli;S. Tarantola;F. Campolongo

1029
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis for Chemical Models

Andrea Saltelli;Marco Ratto;Stefano Tarantola;Francesca Campolongo

818
Citations
Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: A systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices

Andrea Saltelli;Andrea Saltelli;Ksenia Aleksankina;William Becker;Pamela Fennell

792
Citations
Sensitivity analysis practices: Strategies for model-based inference

Andrea Saltelli;Marco Ratto;Stefano Tarantola;Francesca Campolongo

726
Citations
Sensitivity Measures, ANOVA-like Techniques and the Use of Bootstrap

G. E. B. Archer;A. Saltelli;I. M. Sobol

699
Citations
The role of sensitivity analysis in ecological modelling

J. Cariboni;D. Gatelli;R. Liska;A. Saltelli

679
Citations
Sensitivity analysis in practice

Andrea Saltelli;Stefano Tarantola;Francesca Campolongo;Marco Ratto

643
Citations
On the relative importance of input factors in mathematical models: Safety assessment for nuclear waste disposal

Andrea Saltelli;Stefano Tarantola

541
Citations
The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support

Saman Razavi;Anthony Jakeman;Andrea Saltelli;Clémentine Prieur

527
Citations
From screening to quantitative sensitivity analysis. A unified approach

Francesca Campolongo;Andrea Saltelli;Jessica Cariboni

468
Citations
Sixth International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output How to avoid a perfunctory sensitivity analysis

Andrea Saltelli;Paola Annoni

1
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