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Salvatore Grimaldi

Salvatore Grimaldi

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
9076
World Ranking
6333
National Ranking
123

Salvatore Grimaldi 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 Salvatore Grimaldi sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 176 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Salvatore Grimaldi 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 Salvatore Grimaldi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Salvatore Grimaldi is affiliated with Tuscia University in Italy and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their main research areas encompass a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work addresses various topics within these fields, notably Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Salvatore Grimaldi has contributed to multiple recent publications, among them:

  • Continuous hydrologic modelling for design simulation in small and ungauged basins: A step forward and some tests for its practical use, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • UAV-DEMs for Small-Scale Flood Hazard Mapping, 2020, Water
  • An Evaluation of Image Velocimetry Techniques under Low Flow Conditions and High Seeding Densities Using Unmanned Aerial Systems, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges, 2020, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Towards harmonisation of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations, 2020, Earth system science data

Their frequent co-authors include Andrea Petroselli, Flavia Tauro, Ciro Apollonio, Francesco Cappelli, and Fernando Nardi.

Salvatore Grimaldi frequently publishes in certain academic venues, demonstrating repeated contributions to these journals:

  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • Journal of Agricultural Engineering

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Asymmetric copula in multivariate flood frequency analysis

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Francesco Serinaldi

  • Multivariate return periods in hydrology: a critical and practical review focusing on synthetic design hydrograph estimation

    B. Gräler;M. J. van den Berg;S. Vandenberghe;A. Petroselli

  • Probabilistic characterization of drought properties through copulas

    Francesco Serinaldi;Brunella Bonaccorso;Antonino Cancelliere;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • Investigating a floodplain scaling relation using a hydrogeomorphic delineation method

    Fernando Nardi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Salvatore Grimaldi;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

    Flavia Tauro;John Selker;Nick van de Giesen;Tommaso Abrate

  • Flood mapping in ungauged basins using fully continuous hydrologic–hydraulic modeling

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Salvatore Grimaldi;Andrea Petroselli;Ettore Arcangeletti;Fernando Nardi

  • Time of concentration: a paradox in modern hydrology

    S. Grimaldi;A. Petroselli;F. Tauro;M. Porfiri

  • Design hyetograph analysis with 3-copula function

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Francesco Serinaldi

  • Investigation on the use of geomorphic approaches for the delineation of flood prone areas

    Salvatore Manfreda;Fernando Nardi;Caterina Samela;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • A physically-based method for removing pits in digital elevation models

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Fernando Nardi;Francesco Di Benedetto;Erkan Istanbulluoglu

  • Hydrogeomorphic properties of simulated drainage patterns using digital elevation models: the flat area issue

    Fernando Nardi;Salvatore Grimaldi;Monia Santini;Andrea Petroselli

  • Surface flow measurements from drones

    Flavia Tauro;Maurizio Porfiri;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • GFPLAIN250m, a global high-resolution dataset of Earth’s floodplains

    F. Nardi;A. Annis;G. Di Baldassarre;G. Di Baldassarre;E. R. Vivoni

  • Flow time estimation with spatially variable hillslope velocity in ungauged basins

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Andrea Petroselli;Gustavo Alonso;Fernando Nardi

  • Green‐Ampt Curve‐Number mixed procedure as an empirical tool for rainfall–runoff modelling in small and ungauged basins

    S. Grimaldi;S. Grimaldi;A. Petroselli;N. Romano

  • A parsimonious geomorphological unit hydrograph for rainfall–runoff modelling in small ungauged basins

    S. Grimaldi;A. Petroselli;F. Nardi

  • Fully Nested 3-Copula: Procedure and Application on Hydrological Data

    Francesco Serinaldi;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • Do we still need the Rational Formula? An alternative empirical procedure for peak discharge estimation in small and ungauged basins

    Salvatore Grimaldi;Andrea Petroselli

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Petroselli
Andrea Petroselli Tuscia University
Maurizio Porfiri
Maurizio Porfiri New York University
Aldo Fiori
Aldo Fiori Roma Tre University
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Maria Cristina Rulli
Maria Cristina Rulli Polytechnic University of Milan
Salvatore Manfreda
Salvatore Manfreda University of Naples Federico II
Enrique R. Vivoni
Enrique R. Vivoni Arizona State University
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University

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