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Gianluca Botter

Gianluca Botter

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 47 4097 3762 93 88 163 6596

Gianluca Botter publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Gianluca Botter between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Gianluca Botter published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 9.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2020. 17 of the 223 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2020. 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 13 publications 2020: 19 publications 2021: 19 publications 2022: 19 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 7 publications
2002 2025

223 publications in total across all disciplines

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Gianluca Botter: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 1
2003 1
2004 2
2005 7
2006 2
2007 4
2008 7
2009 8
2010 9
2011 3
2012 6
2013 12
2014 12
2015 14
2016 14
2017 11
2018 11
2019 13
2020 19
2021 19
2022 19
2023 12
2024 10
2025 7
Total 223
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Gianluca Botter 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 Gianluca Botter sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 158–167 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 163 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458 163
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Gianluca Botter 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 Gianluca Botter sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 47 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202 47
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Gianluca Botter is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to environmental science with a concentration on hydrology and watershed management. Their research encompasses a range of topics within environmental science, particularly focusing on water science and technology, ecology, and global and planetary change.

Botter's recent publications highlight a focus on hydrological processes and stream dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • "Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions" (2022), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Intraseasonal Drainage Network Dynamics in a Headwater Catchment of the Italian Alps" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "The Stream Length Duration Curve: A Tool for Characterizing the Time Variability of the Flowing Stream Length" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Low-cost stage-camera system for continuous water-level monitoring in ephemeral streams" (2022), published in Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • "Hierarchical climate-driven dynamics of the active channel length in temporary streams" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

Their research work covers main topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and flood risk assessment and management. Other areas of study include fish ecology and management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, species distribution related to climate change, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Botter collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, contributing to a network of research in hydrology and environmental science. Frequent collaborators include Nicola Durighetto, Leonardo Bertassello, Andrea Rinaldo, Alfonso Senatore, and Giuseppe Mendicino.

Their work has been published chiefly in the following venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Scientific Reports

Botter's publications often explore the temporal and spatial dynamics of catchments and ephemeral streams, including innovative monitoring methods. Their studies contribute data-driven insights into the functioning of environmental and hydrological systems under various climatic and landscape conditions.

Best Publications

  • Catchment residence and travel time distributions: The master equation

    Gianluca Botter;Enrico Bertuzzo;Enrico Bertuzzo;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Transport in the hydrologic response: Travel time distributions, soil moisture dynamics, and the old water paradox

    Gianluca Botter;Enrico Bertuzzo;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Resilience of river flow regimes

    Gianluca Botter;Stefano Basso;Stefano Basso;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Storage selection functions : A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

    Andrea Rinaldo;Paolo Benettin;Ciaran J. Harman;Markus Hrachowitz

  • Catchment travel time distributions and water flow in soils

    A. Rinaldo;A. Rinaldo;K. J. Beven;K. J. Beven;Enrico Bertuzzo;L. Nicotina

  • Basin-scale soil moisture dynamics and the probabilistic characterization of carrier hydrologic flows: Slow, leaching-prone components of the hydrologic response

    G. Botter;A. Porporato;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;A. Rinaldo

  • Nonlinear storage-discharge relations and catchment streamflow regimes

    Gianluca Botter;Amilcare Porporato;Amilcare Porporato;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

    Paolo Benettin;Chris Soulsby;Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Scale effect on geomorphologic and kinematic dispersion

    Gianluca Botter;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions

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  • Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

    Paolo Benettin;James W. Kirchner;Andrea Rinaldo;Gianluca Botter

  • On the emergence of rainfall extremes from ordinary events

    E. Zorzetto;G. Botter;M. Marani;M. Marani

  • Transport at basin scales: 1. Theoretical framework

    A. Rinaldo;G. Botter;Enrico Bertuzzo;A. Uccelli

  • Sea level rise, hydrologic runoff, and the flooding of Venice

    Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo;Ludovico Nicotina;E Alessi Celegon;F Beraldin

  • Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

    Paolo Benettin;Scott W. Bailey;John L. Campbell;Mark B. Green;Mark B. Green

  • Natural streamflow regime alterations: Damming of the Piave river basin (Italy)

    G. Botter;S. Basso;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Ecohydrological model of flow duration curves and annual minima

    Gianluca Botter;Stefano Zanardo;Amilcare Porporato;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Streamflow variability and optimal capacity of run‐of‐river hydropower plants

    S. Basso;G. Botter

  • Chloride circulation in a lowland catchment and the formulation of transport by travel time distributions

    Paolo Benettin;Ype van der Velde;Sjoerd E. A. T. M. van der Zee;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Signatures of large‐scale soil moisture dynamics on streamflow statistics across U.S. climate regimes

    G. Botter;F. Peratoner;A. Porporato;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Probabilistic characterization of base flows in river basins: Roles of soil, vegetation, and geomorphology

    Gianluca Botter;Amilcare Porporato;Edoardo Daly;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Enrico Bertuzzo
Enrico Bertuzzo Ca Foscari University of Venice
Mario Schirmer
Mario Schirmer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Marco Marani
Marco Marani University of Padua
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
P. Suresh C. Rao
P. Suresh C. Rao Purdue University West Lafayette
James W. Jawitz
James W. Jawitz University of Florida
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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