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Paola Iacumin

Paola Iacumin

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6461
World Ranking
8064
National Ranking
170

Paola Iacumin publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paola Iacumin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 130 publications — 30th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Paola Iacumin D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paola Iacumin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Paola Iacumin is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy and is active in research primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work integrates various disciplinary approaches in topics such as archaeology, isotope analysis, and geochemistry to explore ancient environments and biogeochemical processes.

Their scientific output covers multiple thematic areas including:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

The main fields of study for Iacumin include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work and consist of:

  • Paleontology
  • Ecology
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Anthropology
  • Archeology

Iacumin has contributed to research published in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Applied Sciences
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Iacumin demonstrate an emphasis on isotope geochemistry, archaeological bone analysis, and hydrocarbon reservoir studies. Some of these publications include:

  • Chemical and isotope composition of the oilfield brines from Mishrif Formation (southern Iraq): Diagenesis and geothermometry, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Strontium and oxygen isotopes as indicators of Longobards mobility in Italy: an investigation at Povegliano Veronese, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI) and normalized difference image (NDI) data processing: An advanced method to map collagen in archaeological bones, 2021, Talanta
  • Combining elemental and immunochemical analyses to characterize diagenetic alteration patterns in ancient skeletal remains, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Coupled Microbiological-Isotopic Approach for Studying Hydrodynamics in Deep Reservoirs: The Case of the Val d'Agri Oilfield (Southern Italy), 2020, Water

Collaborative research is a consistent feature of Iacumin's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mattia Rossi
  • Gianpiero Venturelli
  • Tiziano Boschetti
  • Enricomaria Selmo
  • Pietro Rizzo

Best Publications

  • Oxygen isotope analyses of co-existing carbonate and phosphate in biogenic apatite: a way to monitor diagenetic alteration of bone phosphate?

    P. Iacumin;H. Bocherens;A. Mariotti;A. Longinelli

  • Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs

    Luca Bragazza;Chris Freeman;Timothy Jones;Håkan Rydin

  • Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Lynn P. Tomsho;Snjezana Rendulic;Michael Packard

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • The deuterium excess records of EPICA Dome C and Dronning Maud Land ice cores (East Antarctica)

    B. Stenni;V. Masson-Delmotte;E. Selmo;Hans Oerter

  • Nitrogen content and d15N signature of ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants in Europe: to what extent is the increasing atmospheric N deposition altering the N-status of nutrient-poor mires?

    Luca Bragazza;Juul Limpens;Renato Gerdol;Philippe Grosvernier

  • Oxygen isotope variations of phosphate in mammalian bone and tooth enamel

    Antonio Delgado Huertas;Paola Iacumin;Barbara Stenni;Begoña Sánchez Chillón

  • Nutritional constraints in ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants under increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Europe

    Luca Bragazza;Teemu Tahvanainen;Lado Kutnar;Håkan Rydin

  • C and N stable isotope measurements on Eurasian fossil mammals, 40 000 to 10 000 years BP: Herbivore physiologies and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

    P Iacumin;V Nikolaev;M Ramigni

  • Mass loss and nutrient release during litter decay in peatland: The role of microbial adaptability to litter chemistry

    L. Bragazza;C. Siffi;P. Iacumin;R. Gerdol

  • Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Daniela I. Drautz;Arthur M. Lesk;Simon Y.W. Ho

  • An isotopic palaeoenvironmental study of human skeletal remains from the Nile Valley

    P. Iacumin;P. Iacumin;H. Bocherens;A. Mariotti;A. Longinelli

  • Salt Waters of the Northern Apennine Foredeep Basin (Italy): Origin and Evolution

    Tiziano Boschetti;Lorenzo Toscani;Orfan Shouakar-Stash;Paola Iacumin

  • Monitoring temporal trends of air pollution in an urban area using mosses and lichens as biomonitors.

    Renato Gerdol;Roberta Marchesini;Paola Iacumin;Lisa Brancaleoni

  • Nitrogen deposition interacts with climate in affecting production and decomposition rates in Sphagnum mosses

    Renato Gerdol;Alessandro Petraglia;Luca Bragazza;Paola Iacumin

  • Intra-tooth study of modern rhinoceros enamel δ18O: Is the difference between phosphate and carbonate δ18O a sound diagenetic test?

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  • Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes as Dietary Indicators of Ancient Nubian Populations (Northern Sudan)

    P. Iacumin;P. Iacumin;H. Bocherens;L. Chaix;A. Marioth

  • A stable isotope study of fossil mammal remains from the Paglicci cave, Southern Italy. N and C as palaeoenvironmental indicators

    P. Iacumin;H. Bocherens;A. Delgado Huertas;A. Mariotti

  • Coupling tooth microwear and stable isotope analyses for palaeodiet reconstruction: the case study of Late Middle Pleistocene Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus teeth from Central Italy (Rome area)

    Maria Rita Palombo;M. L. Filippi;P. Iacumin;A. Longinelli

  • Isotopic composition of precipitation in Northern Italy: Reverse effect of anomalous climatic events

    A Longinelli;E Anglesio;Onelio Flora;P Iacumin

  • Oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of fish otoliths

    P. Iacumin;G. Bianucci;A. Longinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Renato Gerdol
Renato Gerdol University of Ferrara
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Fabrizio Storti
Fabrizio Storti University of Parma
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Tamsin C. O'Connell
Tamsin C. O'Connell University of Cambridge
Michal Hájek
Michal Hájek Masaryk University
Thierry Smith
Thierry Smith Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Marco Bartoli
Marco Bartoli University of Parma
Tomáš Hájek
Tomáš Hájek University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen

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