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Giulio Viola 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 Giulio Viola sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 233 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giulio Viola 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 Giulio Viola sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Giulio Viola is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Their research spans several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, Atmospheric Science, and Epidemiology, reflecting a diverse scientific interest.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, prominently featuring earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide. Additional areas of work include high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Giulio Viola has published frequently in several scientific journals. The most common venues for their work include the Journal of Structural Geology, Solid Earth, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Tectonics, and Scientific Reports.

Some recent publications illustrate the scope and nature of their work:

  • The Sveconorwegian orogeny, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Architecture and evolution of an extensionally-inverted thrust (Mt. Tancia Thrust, Central Apennines): Geological, structural, geochemical, and K-Ar geochronological constraints, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Brittle structural facies" analysis: A diagnostic method to unravel and date multiple slip events of long-lived faults, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Syn-Orogenic Exhumation of High-P Units by Upward Extrusion in an Accretionary Wedge: Insights From the Eastern Elba Nappe Stack (Northern Apennines, Italy), 2021, Tectonics
  • Disproving the Presence of Paleozoic-Triassic Metamorphic Rocks on the Island of Zannone (Central Italy): Implications for the Early Stages of the Tyrrhenian-Apennines Tectonic Evolution, 2020, Tectonics

Throughout their career, Giulio Viola has collaborated extensively with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Gianluca Vignaroli, Roelant van der Lelij, Manuel Curzi, Luca Aldega, and Francesco Giuntoli.

Best Publications

  • Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution.

    H. Fritz;M. Abdelsalam;K.A. Ali;B. Bingen

  • A four-phase model for the Sveconorwegian orogeny, SW Scandinavia

    Bernard Bingen;Øystein Nordgulen;Giulio Viola

  • Geochronology of the Precambrian crust in the Mozambique belt in NE Mozambique, and implications for Gondwana assembly

    B. Bingen;J. Jacobs;G. Viola;I.H.C. Henderson

  • Late Oligocene‐Neogene evolution of Europe‐Adria collision: New structural and geochronological evidence from the Giudicarie fault system (Italian Eastern Alps)

    Giulio Viola;Neil S. Mancktelow;Diane Seward

  • Preferential distribution along transcontinental corridors of kimberlites and related rocks of Southern Africa

    Hielke A. Jelsma;Maarten J. de Wit;Christien Thiart;Paul H.G.M. Dirks

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Periadriatic Fault System (Alps)

    Wolfgang Müller;Giacomo Prosser;Neil S. Mancktelow;Igor M. Villa

  • The DAV and Periadriatic fault systems in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Daniel F. Stöckli;Balz Grollimund;Wolfgang Müller

  • Structure and shearing conditions in the Day Nui Con Voi massif: Implications for the evolution of the Red River shear zone in northern Vietnam

    R. Anczkiewicz;G. Viola;Othmar Müntener;M. F. Thirlwall

  • Patterns of stress and strain rate in southern Africa

    Peter Bird;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Gerald Schubert;Marco Andreoli;Marco Andreoli

  • Growth and collapse of a deeply eroded orogen: Insights from structural, geophysical, and geochronological constraints on the Pan-African evolution of NE Mozambique

    G. Viola;I. H. C. Henderson;B. Bingen;R. J. Thomas

  • The Sveconorwegian orogeny

    Bernard Bingen;Giulio Viola;Charlotte Möller;Jacqueline Vander Auwera

  • Offshore mud volcanoes and onland faulting in southwestern Africa: neotectonic implications and constraints on the regional stress field

    Giulio Viola;Marco Andreoli;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Ingrid Stengel

  • Analogue modelling of reverse fault reactivation in strike–slip and transpressive regimes: application to the Giudicarie fault system, Italian Eastern Alps

    G Viola;F Odonne;N.S Mancktelow

  • Brittle tectonic evolution along the western margin of South Africa: More than 500 Myr of continued reactivation

    G. Viola;A. Kounov;M.A.G. Andreoli;M.A.G. Andreoli;J. Mattila

  • Cyclic frictional‐viscous slip oscillations along the base of an advancing nappe complex: Insights into brittle‐ductile nappe emplacement mechanisms from the Naukluft Nappe Complex, central Namibia

    Giulio Viola;Neil S. Mancktelow;Jodie A. Miller

  • Deconvoluting complex structural histories archived in brittle fault zones.

    Giulio Viola;Thomas Scheiber;Ola Fredin;Horst Zwingmann

  • Structural and temporal evolution of a reactivated brittle-ductile fault - Part II: Timing of fault initiation and reactivation by K-Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite

    E. Torgersen;G. Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;C.R. Harris

  • Manual extraction of bedrock lineaments from high-resolution LiDAR data: methodological bias and human perception

    Thomas Scheiber;Ola Fredin;Giulio Viola;Alexandra Jarna

  • Denudation along the Atlantic passive margin : new insights from apatite fission-track analysis on the western coast of South Africa

    A. Kounov;Giulio Viola;M. de Wit;M. A. G. Andreoli

  • The grenvillian-sveconorwegian orogeny in fennoscandia: Back-thrusting and extensional shearing along the "mylonite zone"

    Giulio Viola;I. H. C. Henderson;B. Bingen;B. W. H. Hendriks

  • Mesoproterozoic geology of the Nampula Block, northern Mozambique: Tracing fragments of Mesoproterozoic crust in the heart of Gondwana

    P. H Macey;R. J. Thomas;G. H. Grantham;B. A. Ingram

  • Present denudation rates at selected sections of the South African escarpment and the elevated continental interior based on cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne

    A. Kounov;S. Niedermann;M. J. de Wit;G. Viola

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Bingen
Bernard Bingen Université Libre de Bruxelles
Robert J. Thomas
Robert J. Thomas Council for Geoscience
Horst Zwingmann
Horst Zwingmann Kyoto University
Luca Aldega
Luca Aldega Sapienza University of Rome
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Francesco Mazzarini
Francesco Mazzarini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd University of Ottawa
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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