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Elisabetta Erba

Elisabetta Erba

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
13006
World Ranking
1799
National Ranking
19

Elisabetta Erba 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 Elisabetta Erba sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 263 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elisabetta Erba 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 Elisabetta Erba sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Elisabetta Erba is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extensively covers subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology. The scientist's main research topics encompass Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geological formations and processes, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Erba has published numerous papers, including notable recent works such as:

  • Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO2 world during the Weissert Event, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Determining the style and provenance of magmatic activity during the Early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 1a), 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • APTIAN-ALBIAN CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE SCISTI A FUCOIDI CORED AT PIOBBICO (CENTRAL ITALY), 2020, RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
  • Ferruginous oceans during OAE1a and collapse of the marine sulfate pool, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Carbon- and oxygen-isotope signature of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: insights from two Tethyan pelagic sequences (Gajum and Sogno Cores - Lombardy Basin, northern Italy), 2022, Newsletters on Stratigraphy

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Erba include:

  • Cinzia Bottini
  • Roger L. Larson
  • James G. Ogg
  • Isabella Premoli Silvá
  • Janet A. Haggerty

Erba's research has been published in a variety of venues with multiple contributions in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Cretaceous Research

In recognition of academic contributions, Elisabetta Erba was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Calcareous nannofossils and Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events

    Elisabetta Erba

  • Volcanism, CO2 and palaeoclimate: a Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous carbon and oxygen isotope record

    Helmut Weissert;Elisabetta Erba

  • Onset of the Mid‐Cretaceous greenhouse in the Barremian‐Aptian: Igneous events and the biological, sedimentary, and geochemical responses

    Roger L. Larson;Elisabetta Erba

  • Carbon-isotope stratigraphy recorded by the Cenomanian–Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event: correlation and implications based on three key localities

    H. Tsikos;H. Tsikos;H.C. Jenkyns;B. Walsworth-Bell;M.R. Petrizzo

  • Nannofossils and superplumes: The Early Aptian “nannoconid crisis”

    Elisabetta Erba

  • N2-fixing cyanobacteria supplied nutrient N for Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events

    Marcel M.M. Kuypers;Yvonne van Breugel;Stefan Schouten;Elisabetta Erba

  • Integrated stratigraphy of the Cismon Apticore (southern Alps, Italy); a reference section for the Barremian-Aptian interval at low latitudes

    Elisabetta Erba;James E. T. Channell;Michele Claps;Charles Jones

  • Valanginian Weissert oceanic anoxic event

    Elisabetta Erba;Annachiara Bartolini;Roger L. Larson

  • Synchronous basin-wide formation and redox-controlled preservation of a Mediterranean sapropel

    Gert J. De Lange;John Thomson;Anja Reitz;Caroline P. Slomp

  • The Valanginian carbon isotope event: a first episode of greenhouse climate conditions during the Cretaceous

    Andrea Lini;Helmut Weissert;Elisabetta Erba

  • Calcareous Nannoplankton Response to Surface-Water Acidification Around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a

    Elisabetta Erba;Cinzia Bottini;Helmut J. Weissert;Christina E. Keller

  • Nannofossil carbonate fluxes during the Early Cretaceous: Phytoplankton response to nutrification episodes, atmospheric CO2, and anoxia

    Elisabetta Erba;Fabrizio Tremolada

  • Calcareous nannofossils and Milankovitch cycles: the example of the Albian Gault Clay Formation (southern England)

    Elisabetta Erba;Davide Castradori;Guido Guasti;Maurizio Ripepe

  • A volcanic CO2 pulse triggered the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and a biocalcification crisis

    Sabine Méhay;Christina E. Keller;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Helmut Weissert

  • Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Time Scales and Oceanic Magnetic Anomaly Block Models

    James E. T. Channell;Elisabetta Erba;Masao Nakanishi;Kensaku Tamaki

  • Barremian-Aptian calcareous plankton biostratigraphy from the Gorgo Cerbara section (Marche, central Italy) and implications for plankton evolution

    Rodolfo Coccioni;Elisabetta Erba;Isabella Premoli-Silva

  • Biotic changes in Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events of the Tethys

    Isabella Premoli Silva;Elisabetta Erba;Giovanni Salvini;Cecilia Locatelli

  • Black shale deposition on the northwest African Shelf during the Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event: Climate coupling and global organic carbon burial

    Sadat Kolonic;Thomas Wagner;Astrid Forster;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Episodes of high productivity and cooling in the early Aptian Alpine Tethys

    Peter A. Hochuli;Alessio P. Menegatti;Helmut Weissert;Angelo Riva

  • Orbital tuning as an inverse problem: Chronology of the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event 1a (Selli Level) in the Cismon APTICORE

    A. Malinverno;E. Erba;T. D. Herbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh C. Jenkyns
Hugh C. Jenkyns University of Oxford
Timothy D. Herbert
Timothy D. Herbert Brown University
Isabella Premoli Silva
Isabella Premoli Silva University of Milan
Rodolfo Coccioni
Rodolfo Coccioni University of Urbino
Roger L. Larson
Roger L. Larson University of Rhode Island
Patrizia Ziveri
Patrizia Ziveri Autonomous University of Barcelona
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
James E T Channell
James E T Channell University of Florida
Giovanni Muttoni
Giovanni Muttoni University of Milan

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