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Salvatore Manfreda 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 Salvatore Manfreda sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 186 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Salvatore Manfreda 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 Salvatore Manfreda sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Salvatore Manfreda is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. The primary field of research is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

Research topics covered in their work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Manfreda are:

  • Silvano Fortunato Dal Sasso
  • Alonso Pizarro
  • Ruodan Zhuang
  • Yijian Zeng
  • Zhongbo Su

Common venues for publication include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Salvatore Manfreda are:

  • Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The Science behind Scour at Bridge Foundations: A Review, 2020, Water
  • An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources, 2020, Water
  • An Evaluation of Image Velocimetry Techniques under Low Flow Conditions and High Seeding Densities Using Unmanned Aerial Systems, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Towards harmonisation of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations, 2020, Earth System Science Data

Best Publications

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew F. McCabe;Pauline E. Miller;Richard Lucas

  • Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring

    Goran Tmušić;Salvatore Manfreda;Helge Aasen;Mike R. James

  • Detection of Flood-Prone Areas Using Digital Elevation Models

    Salvatore Manfreda;Margherita Di Leo;Aurelia Sole

  • The olive tree: a paradigm for drought tolerance in Mediterranean climates

    A. Sofo;S. Manfreda;M. Fiorentino;B. Dichio

  • 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

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

    Salvatore Manfreda;Fernando Nardi;Caterina Samela;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • Geomorphic classifiers for flood-prone areas delineation for data-scarce environments

    Caterina Samela;Tara J. Troy;Salvatore Manfreda

  • A Bayesian Network for Flood Detection Combining SAR Imagery and Ancillary Data

    Annarita D'Addabbo;Alberto Refice;Guido Pasquariello;Francesco P. Lovergine

  • Dynamic response of grass cover to rainfall variability: implications for the function and persistence of savanna ecosystems

    Todd M. Scanlon;Kelly K. Caylor;Salvatore Manfreda;Simon A. Levin

  • The Science behind Scour at Bridge Foundations: A Review

    Alonso Pizarro;Salvatore Manfreda;Enrico Tubaldi

  • A GIS tool for cost-effective delineation of flood-prone areas

    Caterina Samela;Raffaele Albano;Aurelia Sole;Salvatore Manfreda

  • On the coupled geomorphological and ecohydrological organization of river basins

    Kelly K. Caylor;Salvatore Manfreda;Salvatore Manfreda;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements

    S. Manfreda;L. Brocca;T. Moramarco;F. Melone

  • Flood-prone areas assessment using linear binary classifiers based on flood maps obtained from 1D and 2D hydraulic models

    Salvatore Manfreda;Caterina Samela;Andrea Gioia;Giuseppe Gerardo Consoli

  • DREAM: a distributed model for runoff, evapotranspiration, and antecedent soil moisture simulation

    S. Manfreda;S. Manfreda;M. Fiorentino;V. Iacobellis

  • Predicting root zone soil moisture with soil properties and satellite near-surface moisture data across the conterminous United States

    D Baldwin;Salvatore Manfreda;K. Keller;K. Keller;E. A. H. Smithwick

  • An integrative information aqueduct to close the gaps between satellite observation of water cycle and local sustainable management of water resources

    Zhongbo Su;Yijian Zeng;Nunzio Romano;Salvatore Manfreda

  • DEM-Based Approaches for the Delineation of Flood-Prone Areas in an Ungauged Basin in Africa

    Caterina Samela;Salvatore Manfreda;Francesco De Paola;Maurizio Giugni

  • An Evaluation of Image Velocimetry Techniques under Low Flow Conditions and High Seeding Densities Using Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Sophie Pearce;Robert Ljubičić;Salvador Peña-Haro;Matthew Perks

  • Space-time modeling of soil moisture: Stochastic rainfall forcing with heterogeneous vegetation

    I. Rodríguez-Iturbe;V. Isham;D. R. Cox;S. Manfreda;S. Manfreda

  • A digital elevation model based method for a rapid estimation of flood inundation depth

    Salvatore Manfreda;Caterina Samela

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Salvatore Grimaldi
Salvatore Grimaldi Tuscia University
Yijian Zeng
Yijian Zeng University of Twente
Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Tommaso Moramarco
Tommaso Moramarco National Research Council (CNR)
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Matthew F. McCabe
Matthew F. McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Klaus Keller
Klaus Keller Dartmouth College
Valerio Tramutoli
Valerio Tramutoli University of Basilicata

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