2026 Marco Marani: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	60	1936	1747	22	20	195	11217

Overview

Marco Marani is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Oceanography.

Marani's publications frequently appear in journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

The main topics covered in Marani's research include:

Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Climate variability and models
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Marine and coastal plant biology

Selected recent publications by Marco Marani include:

Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon, 2021, Nature Geoscience
Estimation of Daily Rainfall Extremes Through the Metastatistical Extreme Value Distribution: Uncertainty Minimization and Implications for Trend Detection, 2020, Water Resources Research
Loss of geomorphic diversity in shallow tidal embayments promoted by storm-surge barriers, 2022, Science Advances
Analyses Through the Metastatistical Extreme Value Distribution Identify Contributions of Tropical Cyclones to Rainfall Extremes in the Eastern United States, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Among frequent co-authors associated with Marco Marani are Andrea D'Alpaos, Davide Tognin, Marco Borga, Sonia Silvestri, and Luca Carniello.

Best Publications

Tidal regime, salinity and salt marsh plant zonation

Sonia Silvestri;Andrea Defina;Marco Marani

599
Citations
Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics.

Marco Marani;Marco Marani;Gabriel G Katul;William K Pan;Anthony J Parolari

595
Citations
Landscape evolution in tidal embayments: Modeling the interplay of erosion, sedimentation, and vegetation dynamics

Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani;Andrea Rinaldo

451
Citations
Mapping salt-marsh vegetation by multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing

Enrica Belluco;Monica Camuffo;Sergio Ferrari;Lorenza Modenese

430
Citations
Understanding and predicting wave erosion of marsh edges

M. Marani;M. Marani;A. D'Alpaos;S. Lanzoni;M. Santalucia

300
Citations
Tidal network ontogeny: Channel initiation and early development

Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani;Sergio Fagherazzi

286
Citations
Biologically‐controlled multiple equilibria of tidal landforms and the fate of the Venice lagoon

Marco Marani;Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Luca Carniello

282
Citations
On the drainage density of tidal networks

Marco Marani;Enrica Belluco;Andrea D'Alpaos;Andrea Defina

265
Citations
Remote sensing retrieval of suspended sediment concentration in shallow waters

V. Volpe;S. Silvestri;M. Marani

262
Citations
Tidal networks: 2. Watershed delineation and comparative network morphology

Andrea Rinaldo;Sergio Fagherazzi;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani

250
Citations
Geomorphological origin of recession curves

Basudev Biswal;Marco Marani

218
Citations
Tidal networks: 1. Automatic network extraction and preliminary scaling features from digital terrain maps

Sergio Fagherazzi;Annalisa Bortoluzzi;William E. Dietrich;Attilio Adami

215
Citations
On the impact of rainfall patterns on the hydrologic response

L. Nicótina;E. Alessi Celegon;A. Rinaldo;A. Rinaldo;M. Marani

210
Citations
Vegetation engineers marsh morphology through multiple competing stable states

Marco Marani;Cristina Da Lio;Andrea D’Alpaos

206
Citations
The importance of being coupled: Stable states and catastrophic shifts in tidal biomorphodynamics

Marco Marani;Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Luca Carniello

205
Citations
Tidal meanders: TIDAL MEANDERS

Marco Marani;Stefano Lanzoni;Diego Zandolin;Giovanni Seminara

201
Citations
Tidal networks: 3. Landscape‐forming discharges and studies in empirical geomorphic relationships

Andrea Rinaldo;Sergio Fagherazzi;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani

198
Citations
Subsurface flow and vegetation patterns in tidal environments

Nadia Ursino;Sonia Silvestri;Marco Marani

175
Citations
A metastatistical approach to rainfall extremes

Marco Marani;Marco Marani;Massimiliano Ignaccolo;Massimiliano Ignaccolo

173
Citations
On the tidal prism–channel area relations

Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

168
Citations
The drainage density of tidal networks

A. Rinaldo;M. Marani;E. Belluco;A. D'Alpaos

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Andrea D'Alpaos University of Padua

Stefano Lanzoni University of Padua

Gianluca Botter University of Padua

Luca Carniello University of Padua

Mario Putti University of Padua

Gabriel G. Katul Duke University

Jean-Christophe Domec Bordeaux Sciences Agro

Massimiliano Ghinassi University of Padua

Sergio Fagherazzi Boston University

External Links

Personal website of Marco Marani

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