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45
Citations
18736
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4332
National Ranking
105

Mauro Cardinali 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 Mauro Cardinali sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 134 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mauro Cardinali 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 Mauro Cardinali sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mauro Cardinali is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in environmental and earth sciences. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on landslides, related hazards, and geotechnical phenomena, with significant contributions to studies on cryospheric processes and flood risk assessment.

Their research covers several main fields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, Mauro Cardinali has worked across various subfields such as:

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Mechanics of Materials

The scientist's primary topics of investigation encompass:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Mauro Cardinali has coauthored work with several researchers, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Michele Santangelo
  • Francesco Bucci
  • Federica Fiorucci
  • Ivan Marchesini
  • Massimiliano Alvioli

Their publications appear in a variety of journals, with multiple papers in:

  • Journal of Maps
  • Engineering Geology
  • Earth system science data
  • Scientific Data
  • Landslides

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Mauro Cardinali include:

  • "Rockfall susceptibility and network-ranked susceptibility along the Italian railway," 2021, Engineering Geology
  • "A new digital lithological map of Italy at the 1:100 000 scale for geomechanical modelling," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Exploring event landslide mapping using Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter products," 2021, Geomorphology
  • "Inventory of landslides triggered by an extreme rainfall event in Marche-Umbria, Italy, on 15 September 2022," 2023, Scientific Data
  • "Landslides triggered by an extraordinary rainfall event in Central Italy on September 15, 2022," 2023, Landslides

Best Publications

  • Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti;Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;Paola Reichenbach

  • Landslide inventory maps: New tools for an old problem

    Fausto Guzzetti;Alessandro Cesare Mondini;Mauro Cardinali;Federica Fiorucci

  • GIS techniques and statistical models in evaluating landslide hazard

    Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;R. Detti;Fausto Guzzetti

  • Probabilistic landslide hazard assessment at the basin scale

    Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach;Mauro Cardinali;Mirco Galli

  • Estimating the quality of landslide susceptibility models

    Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali

  • Gis Technology in Mapping Landslide Hazard

    Alberto Carrara;Mauro Cardinali;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

  • Comparing landslide inventory maps

    Mirco Galli;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali;Fausto Guzzetti

  • Use of GIS Technology in the Prediction and Monitoring of Landslide Hazard

    A Carrara;Fausto Guzzetti;M Cardinali;P Reichenbach

  • Landslide volumes and landslide mobilization rates in Umbria, central Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali;Mauro Rossi

  • Comparing Landslide Maps: A Case Study in the Upper Tiber River Basin, Central Italy.

    F. Guzzetti;M. Cardinali;P. Reichenbach;A. Carrara

  • A geomorphological approach to the estimation of landslide hazards and risks in Umbria, Central Italy

    M. Cardinali;P. Reichenbach;F. Guzzetti;F. Ardizzone

  • The AVI project: A bibliographical and archive inventory of landslides and floods in Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti;Mauro Cardinali;Paola Reichenbach

  • Landslide hazard assessment in the Collazzone area, Umbria, Central Italy

    F. Guzzetti;M. Galli;P. Reichenbach;F. Ardizzone

  • Semi-automatic recognition and mapping of rainfall induced shallow landslides using optical satellite images

    A.C. Mondini;F. Guzzetti;P. Reichenbach;M. Rossi

  • Uncertainty in assessing landslide hazard and risk

    A Carrara;M Cardinali;F Guzzetti

  • Landslides triggered by the 23 November 2000 rainfall event in the Imperia Province, Western Liguria, Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti;Mauro Cardinali;Paola Reichenbach;Francesco Cipolla

  • Identification and mapping of recent rainfall-induced landslides using elevation data collected by airborne Lidar

    F. Ardizzone;M. Cardinali;M. Galli;F. Guzzetti

  • Regional hydrological thresholds for landslides and floods in the Tiber River Basin (central Italy)

    P. Reichenbach;M. Cardinali;P. De Vita;F. Guzzetti

  • Distribution of landslides in the Upper Tiber River basin, central Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti;Francesca Ardizzone;Mauro Cardinali;Mirco Galli

  • Impact of mapping errors on the reliability of landslide hazard maps

    F. Ardizzone;M. Cardinali;A. Carrara;F. Guzzetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Paola Reichenbach
Paola Reichenbach National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Francesca Ardizzone
Francesca Ardizzone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Martin Mergili
Martin Mergili University of Graz
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi University of Perugia
Mario Parise
Mario Parise University of Bari Aldo Moro
Giacomo Prosser
Giacomo Prosser University of Basilicata
Andrea Manconi
Andrea Manconi ETH Zurich
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Michele Manunta
Michele Manunta National Research Council (CNR)

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