2026 Fausto Guzzetti: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	87	326	280	2	2	351	42557

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Fausto Guzzetti is affiliated with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, accumulating 60 and 18 publications in these areas, respectively.

Their main research subfields include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. Guzzetti's work addresses a variety of scientific topics, notably Landslides and related hazards, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Cryospheric studies and observations. Additional focus areas encompass Fire effects on ecosystems, Tree Root and Stability Studies, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, and Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis.

Among Guzzetti's recent publications are:

Landslide failures detection and mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar: Past, present and future (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
Parameter-free delineation of slope units and terrain subdivision of Italy (2020, Geomorphology)
Deep learning forecast of rainfall-induced shallow landslides (2023, Nature Communications)
Landslide size matters: A new data-driven, spatial prototype (2021, Engineering Geology)
Rockfall susceptibility and network-ranked susceptibility along the Italian railway (2021, Engineering Geology)

Guzzetti has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Massimo Melillo, Ivan Marchesini, Mauro Rossi, Stefano Luigi Gariano, and Alessandro Mondini.

Their work often appears in the journals Landslides, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Engineering Geology, Earth-Science Reviews, and Geomorphology.

In addition to journal articles, Guzzetti has authored a book published by Springer International Publishing: "Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk" (2020).

Best Publications

Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy

Fausto Guzzetti;Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;Paola Reichenbach

3334
Citations
Landslide inventory maps: New tools for an old problem

Fausto Guzzetti;Alessandro Cesare Mondini;Mauro Cardinali;Federica Fiorucci

2126
Citations
A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models

Paola Reichenbach;Mauro Rossi;Bruce D. Malamud;Monika Mihir;Monika Mihir

1978
Citations
The rainfall intensity–duration control of shallow landslides and debris flows: an update

Fausto Guzzetti;Silvia Peruccacci;Mauro Rossi;Colin P. Stark

1726
Citations
Landslides in a changing climate

Stefano Luigi Gariano;Fausto Guzzetti

1572
Citations
Landslide inventories and their statistical properties

Bruce D. Malamud;Donald L. Turcotte;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

1483
Citations
GIS techniques and statistical models in evaluating landslide hazard

Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;R. Detti;Fausto Guzzetti

1463
Citations
Rainfall thresholds for the initiation of landslides in central and southern Europe

F. Guzzetti;S. Peruccacci;M. Rossi;C. P. Stark

1450
Citations
Probabilistic landslide hazard assessment at the basin scale

Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach;Mauro Cardinali;Mirco Galli

1320
Citations
Estimating the quality of landslide susceptibility models

Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali

1061
Citations
Gis Technology in Mapping Landslide Hazard

Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

895
Citations
Landslide fatalities and the evaluation of landslide risk in Italy

Fausto Guzzetti

685
Citations
Comparing landslide inventory maps

Mirco Galli;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali;Fausto Guzzetti

653
Citations
Rainfall thresholds for the possible occurrence of landslides in Italy

Maria Teresa Brunetti;Silvia Peruccacci;Mauro Rossi;Silvia Luciani

634
Citations
Use of GIS Technology in the Prediction and Monitoring of Landslide Hazard

A Carrara;Fausto Guzzetti;M Cardinali;P Reichenbach

619
Citations
Landslide volumes and landslide mobilization rates in Umbria, central Italy

Fausto Guzzetti;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali;Mauro Rossi

614
Citations
Power-law correlations of landslide areas in central Italy

Fausto Guzzetti;Bruce D Malamud;Donald L Turcotte;Paola Reichenbach

605
Citations
Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards

Alberto Carrara;Fausto Guzzetti

602
Citations
Geographical landslide early warning systems

Fausto Guzzetti;Stefano Luigi Gariano;Silvia Peruccacci;Maria Teresa Brunetti

531
Citations
STONE: a computer program for the three-dimensional simulation of rock-falls

Fausto Guzzetti;Giovanni Crosta;Riccardo Detti;Federico Agliardi

504
Citations
Landslides, earthquakes, and erosion

Bruce D. Malamud;Donald L. Turcotte;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

482
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paola Reichenbach National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Francesca Ardizzone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Mauro Cardinali National Research Council (CNR)

Bruce D. Malamud King's College London

Mario Parise University of Bari Aldo Moro

Michele Manunta National Research Council (CNR)

Donald L. Turcotte University of California, Davis

Riccardo Lanari National Research Council (CNR)

Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center

Andrea Manconi ETH Zurich

External Links

Personal website of Fausto Guzzetti Google Scholar page

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