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Francesca Sprovieri

Francesca Sprovieri

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
5530
World Ranking
8132
National Ranking
171

Francesca Sprovieri publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Sprovieri sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 150 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Francesca Sprovieri D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Sprovieri sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesca Sprovieri is affiliated with the University of Calabria in Italy and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their work covers several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics focus extensively on mercury impact and mitigation studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, air quality and health impacts, heavy metals in the environment, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, isotope analysis in ecology, and marine animal studies overview.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Nicola Pirrone, Antonella Tassone, Attilio Naccarato, Mariantonia Bencardino, and Francesco D'Amore.

Preferred publication venues for their research are:

  • Atmosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Notable recent papers authored by Francesca Sprovieri include:

  • Agrochemical treatments as a source of heavy metals and rare earth elements in agricultural soils and bioaccumulation in ground beetles (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Mediterranean Mercury Assessment 2022: An Updated Budget, Health Consequences, and Research Perspectives (2022) in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Multiscale assessment of the impact on air quality of an intense wildfire season in southern Italy (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A field intercomparison of three passive air samplers for gaseous mercury in ambient air (2021) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Recent applications and novel strategies for mercury determination in environmental samples using microextraction-based approaches: A review (2022) in Journal of Hazardous Materials

Best Publications

  • Mercury emission and speciation of coal-fired power plants in China

    S. X. Wang;L. Zhang;G. H. Li;Y. Wu

  • Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

  • A review of worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements

    F. Sprovieri;N. Pirrone;R. Ebinghaus;H. Kock

  • Intercomparison of methods for sampling and analysis of atmospheric mercury species

    J Munthe;I Wängberg;N Pirrone;Å Iverfeldt

  • Atmospheric mercury distribution in Northern Europe and in the Mediterranean region

    I. Wängberg;J. Munthe;N. Pirrone;Å. Iverfeldt

  • Evasion of mercury from coastal and open waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

    Katarina Gårdfeldt;Jonas Sommar;Romano Ferrara;Claudia Ceccarini

  • Genetic Aspects of Susceptibility to Mercury Toxicity: An Overview.

    Virginia Andreoli;Francesca Sprovieri

  • Mercury speciation in surface and deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea

    Jože Kotnik;Milena Horvat;Emmanuel Tessier;Nives Ogrinc

  • Seasonal and daily variation of mercury evasion at coastal and off shore sites from the Mediterranean Sea

    Maria E. Andersson;Katarina Gårdfeldt;Ingvar Wängberg;Francesca Sprovieri

  • Mediterranean Mercury Assessment 2022: An Updated Budget, Health Consequences, and Research Perspectives.

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  • Mercury speciation in the marine boundary layer along a 6000 km cruise path around the Mediterranean Sea

    F. Sprovieri;N. Pirrone;K. Gärdfeldt;J. Sommar

  • Multi-model study of mercury dispersion in the atmosphere: atmospheric processes and model evaluation

    Oleg Travnikov;Hélène Angot;Hélène Angot;Paulo Artaxo;Mariantonia Bencardino

  • Size-resolved aerosol chemical composition over the Italian Peninsula during typical summer and winter conditions

    C. Carbone;S. Decesari;Mihaela Mircea;L. Giulianelli

  • Toward the next generation of air quality monitoring: Mercury

    Nicola Pirrone;Wenche Aas;Sergio Cinnirella;Ralf Ebinghaus

  • Intensive atmospheric mercury measurements at Terra Nova Bay in Antarctica during November and December 2000

    F. Sprovieri;N. Pirrone;I. M. Hedgecock;M. S. Landis

  • Overview of mercury measurements in the Antarctic troposphere

    A. Dommergue;F. Sprovieri;N. Pirrone;R. Ebinghaus

  • Agrochemical treatments as a source of heavy metals and rare earth elements in agricultural soils and bioaccumulation in ground beetles.

    Attilio Naccarato;Antonella Tassone;Francesco Cavaliere;Rosangela Elliani

  • Five-year records of mercury wet deposition flux at GMOS sites in the Northern and Southern hemispheres

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

  • Dynamic processes of mercury over the Mediterranean region: results from the Mediterranean Atmospheric Mercury Cycle System (MAMCS) project

    N Pirrone;R Ferrara;I.M Hedgecock;G Kallos

  • An investigation of the origins of reactive gaseous mercury in the Mediterranean marine boundary layer

    F. Sprovieri;I. M. Hedgecock;N. Pirrone

  • Reactive gaseous mercury in the marine boundary layer: modelling and experimental evidence of its formation in the Mediterranean region

    Ian M. Hedgecock;Nicola Pirrone;Francesca Sprovieri;Eduardo Pesenti

  • Chemical cycling and deposition of atmospheric mercury in polar regions:review of recent measurements and comparison with models

    Hélène Angot;Ashu Dastoor;Francesco De Simone;Katarina Gårdfeldt

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Pirrone
Nicola Pirrone National Research Council (CNR)
Aurélien Dommergue
Aurélien Dommergue Grenoble Alpes University
Ralf Ebinghaus
Ralf Ebinghaus Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Milena Horvat
Milena Horvat Jožef Stefan Institute
John Munthe
John Munthe IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Antonella Macagnano
Antonella Macagnano University of Rome Tor Vergata
Matthew S. Landis
Matthew S. Landis Environmental Protection Agency
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice
Jonas Sommar
Jonas Sommar Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christophe Ferrari
Christophe Ferrari Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

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