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Silvia Becagli

Silvia Becagli

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9743
World Ranking
4736
National Ranking
77

Silvia Becagli 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 Silvia Becagli sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 270 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Silvia Becagli 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 Silvia Becagli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Silvia Becagli is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and related subfields, with significant involvement in Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The primary research themes in Becagli's publications include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Frequent publication venues for Becagli's work reflect their focus on atmospheric and environmental sciences and include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geosciences

Several notable recent papers by Becagli and collaborators are:

  • "Dimethyl Sulfide-Induced Increase in Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Arctic Atmosphere" (2021), published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols" (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Elucidating the present-day chemical composition, seasonality and source regions of climate-relevant aerosols across the Arctic land surface" (2022), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Airborne bacteria structure and chemical composition relationships in winter and spring PM10 samples over southeastern Italy" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Understanding Sources and Drivers of Size-Resolved Aerosol in the High Arctic Islands of Svalbard Using a Receptor Model Coupled with Machine Learning" (2022), published in Environmental Science & Technology

Becagli collaborates frequently with a group of researchers, including:

  • Rita Traversi
  • Mirko Severi
  • Mauro Mazzola
  • Laura Caiazzo
  • F. Lucarelli

Best Publications

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

    E.W. Wolff;H. Fischer;F. Fundel;U. Ruth

  • AIRUSE-LIFE+: a harmonized PM speciation and source apportionment in five southern European cities

    Fulvio Amato;Andrés Alastuey;Angeliki Karanasiou;Franco Lucarelli

  • Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

    E. W. Wolff;C. Barbante;S. Becagli;M. Bigler

  • Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica

    Hubertus Fischer;Felix Fundel;Urs Ruth;Birthe Twarloh

  • Annual variability of ice-nucleating particle concentrations at different Arctic locations

    Heike Wex;Lin Huang;Wendy Zhang;Hayley Hung

  • New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements

    Massimo Frezzotti;Michel Pourchet;Onelio Flora;Stefano Gandolfi

  • Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica from traverse data

    Massimo Frezzotti;Michel Pourchet;Onelio Flora;Stefano Gandolfi

  • Arctic sea ice melt leads to atmospheric new particle formation

    M. Dall´Osto;D. C. S. Beddows;P. Tunved;R. Krejci

  • Evidence for heavy fuel oil combustion aerosols from chemical analyses at the island of Lampedusa: a possible large role of ships emissions in the Mediterranean

    Silvia Becagli;D. M. Sferlazzo;G. Pace;A. di Sarra

  • A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm

    Willie Soon;Victor M. Velasco Herrera;Kandasamy Selvaraj;Rita Traversi

  • Holocene volcanic history as recorded in the sulfate stratigraphy of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C (EDC96) ice core

    E. Castellano;Silvia Becagli;M. Hansson;M. Hutterli

  • Snow chemistry across Antarctica

    N. Bertler;P.A. Mayewski;A. Aristarain;P. Barrett

  • Seasonality of sulfur species (dimethyl sulfide, sulfate, and methanesulfonate) in Antarctica: Inland versus coastal regions

    Susanne Preunkert;Bruno Jourdain;Michel Legrand;Roberto Udisti

  • The impact of long-range-transport on PM1 and PM2.5 at a Central Mediterranean site

    M.R. Perrone;S. Becagli;J.A. Garcia Orza;R. Vecchi

  • Sea spray aerosol in central Antarctica. Present atmospheric behaviour and implications for paleoclimatic reconstructions

    R. Udisti;U. Dayan;S. Becagli;M. Busetto

  • A synthesis of the Antarctic surface mass balance during the last 800 yr

    Massimo Frezzotti;C. Scarchilli;S. Becagli;Marco Proposito

  • Saharan dust aerosol over the central Mediterranean Sea: PM10 chemical composition and concentration versus optical columnar measurements

    M. Marconi;D. M. Sferlazzo;S. Becagli;C. Bommarito

  • Relationships linking primary production, sea ice melting, and biogenic aerosol in the Arctic

    Silvia Becagli;Luigi Lazzara;C. Marchese;U. Dayan

  • Synchronisation of the EDML and EDC ice cores for the last 52 kyr by volcanic signature matching

    Mirko Severi;Silvia Becagli;Emiliano Castellano;Andrea Morganti

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Traversi
Rita Traversi University of Florence
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Mirko Severi
Mirko Severi University of Florence
Franco Lucarelli
Franco Lucarelli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Silvia Nava
Silvia Nava National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Giulia Calzolai
Giulia Calzolai University of Florence
Roberta Vecchi
Roberta Vecchi University of Milan
Massimo Frezzotti
Massimo Frezzotti Roma Tre University
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Paola Fermo
Paola Fermo University of Milan

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