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Gian Paolo Cimellaro

Gian Paolo Cimellaro

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
9293
World Ranking
4549
National Ranking
127

Gian Paolo Cimellaro publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gian Paolo Cimellaro sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 368 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Gian Paolo Cimellaro D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gian Paolo Cimellaro sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gian Paolo Cimellaro is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, with a research focus primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work engages extensively with Civil and Structural Engineering, alongside contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Ocean Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's publication record includes over a hundred papers, covering several specialized topics. Key areas of research include:

  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Structural Response to Dynamic Loads

Gian Paolo Cimellaro's recent papers document contributions to diverse aspects of engineering resilience and structural analysis. Notable works include:

  • "Probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of engineering systems using Bayesian and dynamic Bayesian networks," 2020, published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Integrated platform to assess seismic resilience at the community level," 2020, published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Collapse analysis of the Polcevera viaduct by the applied element method," 2020, published in Engineering Structures
  • "System Dynamics Modeling-Based Approach for Assessing Seismic Resilience of Hospitals: Methodology and a Case in China," 2020, published in Journal of Management in Engineering
  • "Fire Emergency Evacuation from a School Building Using an Evolutionary Virtual Reality Platform," 2022, published in Buildings

Frequent publication venues reflect an emphasis on disaster risk reduction, structural dynamics, and sustainable urban development. The main journals and proceedings where Cimellaro has published multiple works include:

  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • COMPDYN Proceedings
  • Engineering Structures
  • International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems
  • Resilient Cities and Structures

Collaborative research is a prominent aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Marco Domaneschi
  • Alessandro Cardoni
  • Sebastiano Marasco
  • Omar Kammouh
  • Melissa De Iuliis

In addition to journal articles, Gian Paolo Cimellaro has contributed to book literature, including a 2023 publication from Springer Nature titled Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures.

Best Publications

  • Framework for analytical quantification of disaster resilience

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Andrei M. Reinhorn;Michel Bruneau

  • Seismic resilience of a hospital system

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Andrei M. Reinhorn;Michel Bruneau

  • PEOPLES: A Framework for Evaluating Resilience

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Chris Renschler;Andrei M. Reinhorn;Lucy Arendt

  • Probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of engineering systems using Bayesian and dynamic Bayesian networks

    Omar Kammouh;Paolo Gardoni;Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  • A Framework for Defining and Measuring Resilience at the Community Scale: The PEOPLES Resilience Framework

    C. Renschler;A. Frazier;L. Arendt;Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  • New Resilience Index for Urban Water Distribution Networks

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;A. Tinebra;C. Renschler;M. Fragiadakis

  • Resilience-Based Design of Natural Gas Distribution Networks

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;O. Villa;M. Bruneau

  • Physical infrastructure interdependency and regional resilience index after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Daniele Solari;Michel Bruneau

  • Quantification of Seismic Resilience

    M. Bruneau;Gian Paolo Cimellaro;A. M. Reinhorn

  • Developing the 'PEOPLES' resilience framework for defining and measuring disaster resilience at the community scale

    C. S Renschler;A. E. Frazier;L. A. Arendt;Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  • Performance‐based metamodel for healthcare facilities

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Andrei M. Reinhorn;Michel Bruneau

  • Retrofit of a hospital through strength reduction and enhanced damping

    Stefania Viti;Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Andrei M. Reinhorn

  • Seismic reliability of a cable-stayed bridge retrofitted with hysteretic devices

    Fabio Casciati;Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Marco Domaneschi

  • Post-collapse analysis of Morandi’s Polcevera viaduct in Genoa Italy

    Maurizio Morgese;Farhad Ansari;Marco Domaneschi;Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  • Simultaneous stiffness–damping optimization of structures with respect to acceleration, displacement and base shear

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  • Future directions in structural control

    T. T. Soong;G. P. Cimellaro

  • Three-Dimensional Base Isolation Using Vertical Negative Stiffness Devices

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Marco Domaneschi;Gordon Warn

  • Fragility Analysis and Seismic Record Selection

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;A.M. Reinhorn;A. D'Ambrisi;M. De Stefano

  • Multidimensional Performance Limit State for Hazard Fragility Functions

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Gian Paolo Cimellaro;A.M. Reinhorn;A.M. Reinhorn

  • Resilience Assessment of Urban Communities

    Omar Kammouh;Ali Zamani Noori;Gian Paolo Cimellaro;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Integrated platform to assess seismic resilience at the community level

    Sebastiano Marasco;Alessandro Cardoni;Ali Zamani Noori;Omar Kammouh

  • Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery: Fundamental Concepts and Applications

    Gian Paolo Cimellaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei M. Reinhorn
Andrei M. Reinhorn University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Michel Bruneau
Michel Bruneau University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Stephen A. Mahin
Stephen A. Mahin University of California, Berkeley
Farhad Ansari
Farhad Ansari University of Illinois at Chicago
Paolo Gardoni
Paolo Gardoni University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Giuseppe Marano
Giuseppe Marano University of Milan
Solomon Tesfamariam
Solomon Tesfamariam University of Waterloo
Anil K. Agrawal
Anil K. Agrawal City University of New York
Dongping Fang
Dongping Fang Tsinghua University

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