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Francesca Pellicciotti 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 Francesca Pellicciotti sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 308 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Francesca Pellicciotti 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 Francesca Pellicciotti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesca Pellicciotti is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in Environmental Science. The scientist's subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Water Science and Technology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The core topics addressed in their research encompass Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Landslides and related hazards, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Climate variability and models.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pellicciotti include:

  • The state of rock debris covering Earth's glaciers (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Glacier runoff variations since 1955 in the Maipo River basin, in the semiarid Andes of central Chile (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • Warming-induced monsoon precipitation phase change intensifies glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris-Covered Glaciers (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pellicciotti include Evan Miles, Thomas E. Shaw, Michael McCarthy, Pascal Buri, and Marin Kneib.

Pellicciotti's work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Communications Earth & Environment, Environmental Research Letters, and Nature Geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • Rising river flows throughout the twenty-first century in two Himalayan glacierized watersheds

    W. W. Immerzeel;W. W. Immerzeel;F. Pellicciotti;M. F. P. Bierkens

  • High-resolution monitoring of Himalayan glacier dynamics using unmanned aerial vehicles

    Walter Immerzeel;Walter Immerzeel;Walter Immerzeel;P.D.A. Kraaijenbrink;J.M. Shea;A.B. Shrestha

  • An enhanced temperature-index glacier melt model including the shortwave radiation balance: development and testing for Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Francesca Pellicciotti;Ben Brock;Ulrich Strasser;Paolo Burlando

  • The importance of observed gradients of air temperature and precipitation for modeling runoff from a glacierized watershed in the Nepalese Himalayas

    W. W. Immerzeel;W. W. Immerzeel;L. Petersen;S. Ragettli;F. Pellicciotti

  • Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia.

    Evan Miles;Michael McCarthy;Michael McCarthy;Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Marin Kneib;Marin Kneib

  • Contrasting climate change impact on river flows from high-altitude catchments in the Himalayan and Andes Mountains

    Silvan Ragettli;Walter W. Immerzeel;Francesca Pellicciotti

  • The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers

    Sam Herreid;Francesca Pellicciotti

  • Unraveling the hydrology of a Himalayan catchment through integration of high resolution in situ data and remote sensing with an advanced simulation model

    Silvan Ragettli;Francesca Pellicciotti;Walter W. Immerzeel;Walter W. Immerzeel;Evan S. Miles

  • Mass-balance changes of the debris-covered glaciers in the Langtang Himal, Nepal, from 1974 to 1999

    Francesca Pellicciotti;Christa Stephan;Evan Miles;Sam Herreid

  • Challenges and Uncertainties in Hydrological Modeling of Remote Hindu Kush-Karakoram- Himalayan (HKH) Basins: Suggestions for Calibration Strategies

    Francesca Pellicciotti;Cyrill Buergi;Walter Willem Immerzeel;Markus Konz

  • A study of the energy balance and melt regime on Juncal Norte Glacier, semi-arid Andes of central Chile, using melt models of different complexity

    Francesca Pellicciotti;Jakob Helbing;Andrés Rivera;Vincent Favier

  • A comparison of empirical and physically based glacier surface melt models for long-term simulations of glacier response

    Jeannette Gabbi;Marco Carenzo;Francesca Pellicciotti;Andreas Bauder

  • Seasonal surface velocities of a Himalayan glacier derived by automated correlation of unmanned aerial vehicle imagery

    Philip Kraaijenbrink;Sander W. Meijer;Joseph M. Shea;Francesca Pellicciotti

  • Heterogeneous glacier thinning patterns over the last 40 years in LangtangHimal, Nepal

    Silvan Ragettli;Silvan Ragettli;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Francesca Pellicciotti

  • The value of glacier mass balance, satellite snow cover images, and hourly discharge for improving the performance of a physically based distributed hydrological model

    David Finger;David Finger;Francesca Pellicciotti;Markus Konz;Stefan Rimkus

  • Refined energy-balance modelling of a supraglacial pond, Langtang Khola, Nepal

    Evan S. Miles;Francesca Pellicciotti;Ian C. Willis;Jakob F. Steiner

  • Object-based analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle imagery to map and characterise surface features on a debris-covered glacier

    P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink;J. M. Shea;Francesca Pellicciotti;S. M. de Jong

  • Glaciers as a Proxy to Quantify the Spatial Distribution of Precipitation in the Hunza Basin

    Walter Willem Immerzeel;Walter Willem Immerzeel;Francesca Pellicciotti;Arun B. Shrestha

  • Including debris cover effects in a distributed model of glacier ablation

    Tim Reid;Marco Carenzo;Francesca Pellicciotti;Benjamin Brock

  • Sources of uncertainty in modeling the glaciohydrological response of a Karakoram watershed to climate change

    S. Ragettli;F. Pellicciotti;R. Bordoy;W. W. Immerzeel

  • Calibration of a physically based, spatially distributed hydrological model in a glacierized basin: On the use of knowledge from glaciometeorological processes to constrain model parameters

    S. Ragettli;F. Pellicciotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter W. Immerzeel
Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University
Evan S. Miles
Evan S. Miles Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Paolo Burlando
Paolo Burlando ETH Zurich
Joseph M. Shea
Joseph M. Shea University of Northern British Columbia
Wei Yang
Wei Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tobias Bolch
Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology
Marc F. P. Bierkens
Marc F. P. Bierkens Utrecht University
Arun Bhakta Shrestha
Arun Bhakta Shrestha International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Ian Willis
Ian Willis University of Cambridge
Neil S. Arnold
Neil S. Arnold University of Cambridge

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