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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
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Citations
15679
World Ranking
880
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Igor M. Villa is a researcher affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, primarily working in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions focus extensively on geological and geochemical analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies, alongside work in high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and cultural heritage materials analysis.

Their publication record includes papers in several scientific venues, with notable frequent venues being Chemical Geology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Journal of the Geological Society, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, and Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Some recent papers that Igor M. Villa contributed to are:

  • IUPAC-IUGS recommendation on the half-lives of 147Sm and 146Sm, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Three-dimensional vorticity and time-constrained evolution of the Main Central Thrust zone, Garhwal Himalaya (NW India), 2020, Terra Nova
  • Geochronology of Himalayan shear zones: unravelling the timing of thrusting from structurally complex fault rocks, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society
  • A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology, 2023, Nature
  • U−Pb geochronology of epidote by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) as a tool for dating hydrothermal-vein formation, 2021, Geochronology

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Igor M. Villa include:

  • S. Nisi
  • Giulia Bosio
  • Chiara Montemagni
  • Giovanni Bianucci
  • Mario Urbina

The main subfields of study in which Igor M. Villa is active comprise:

  • Geophysics
  • Archeology
  • Paleontology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Significant research topics covered by Igor include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Best Publications

  • Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra)

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Augusto Mangini;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Zircons from Syros, Cyclades, Greece—Recrystallization and Mobilization of Zircon During High-Pressure Metamorphism

    Frank Tomaschek;Allen K. Kennedy;Igor M. Villa;Markus Lagos

  • Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

    Julia de Sigoyer;Valérie Chavagnac;Janne Blichert-Toft;Igor M. Villa

  • Call for an improved set of decay constants for geochronological use

    F. Begemann;K. R. Ludwig;G. W. Lugmair;K. W. Min

  • Time calibration of a PT-path from the Western Tauern Window, Eastern Alps: the problem of closure temperatures

    F. v. Blanckenburg;I. M. Villa;H. Baur;G. Morteani

  • IUPAC-IUGS recommendation on the half life of 87Rb

    Igor Maria Villa;P. De Bièvre;N.E. Holden;N.E. Holden;P.R. Renne

  • Plio-Pleistocene geological evolution of the geothermal area of Tuscany and Latium

    F Barberi;G Buonasorte;R Cioni;A Fiordelisi

  • Age of the Corsica-Sardinia rotation and Liguro-Provencal Basin spreading: new paleomagnetic and Ar/Ar evidence

    F. Speranza;I. M. Villa;L. Sagnotti;F. Florindo

  • Eocene age of eclogite metamorphism in Pakistan Himalaya: implications for India-Eurasia collision

    Sonia Tonarini;Igor M. Villa;Felix Oberli;Martin Meier

  • Provenance versus weathering control on the composition of tropical river mud (southern Africa)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Marta Padoan;Massimo Setti;Alberto López-Galindo

  • Weathering geochemistry and Sr‐Nd fingerprints of equatorial upper Nile and Congo muds

    Eduardo Garzanti;Marta Padoan;Massimo Setti;Yani Najman

  • Very high rates of cooling and uplift in the Alpine belt of the Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain

    H. P. Zeck;P. Monié;I. M. Villa;B. T. Hansen

  • A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea

    Ernesto Abbate;Andrea Albianelli;Augusto Azzaroli;Marco Benvenuti

  • The South Ladakh ophiolites (NW Himalaya, India): an intra-oceanic tholeiitic arc origin with implication for the closure of the Neo-Tethys

    Gweltaz Mahéo;Hervé Bertrand;Stéphane Guillot;Igor Maria Villa

  • Pinpointing the Source of a Lunar Meteorite: Implications for the Evolution of the Moon

    Edwin Gnos;Beda A. Hofmann;Ali Al-Kathiri;Silvio Lorenzetti

  • Climate variability in the SE Alps of Italy over the past 17 000 years reconstructed from a stalagmite record

    Silvia Frisia;Andrea Borsato;Christoph Spötl;Igor Maria Villa

  • The rift-to-drift transition in the North Atlantic: A stuttering start of the MORB machine?

    Oliver Jagoutz;Othmar Müntener;Gianreto Manatschal;Daniela Rubatto

  • Geochronology of the Hout River Shear Zone and the metamorphism in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa

    K Kreissig;L Holzer;R Frei;I.M Villa

  • Bias in detrital zircon geochronology and thermochronometry

    Marco G. Malusà;Andy Carter;Marta Limoncelli;Igor M. Villa;Igor M. Villa

  • 39Ar−40Ar dating of multiply zoned amphibole generations (Malenco, Italian Alps)

    Igor M Villa;Joerg Hermann;Othmar Muntener;Volkmar Trommsdorff

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Nägler
Thomas F. Nägler University of Bern
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Giovanni Bianucci
Giovanni Bianucci University of Pisa
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Othmar Müntener
Othmar Müntener University of Lausanne
Anna Gioncada
Anna Gioncada University of Pisa
Mario Urbina
Mario Urbina National University of San Marcos
Andrea Zanchi
Andrea Zanchi University of Milano-Bicocca
Jan Kramers
Jan Kramers University of Johannesburg

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