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Researcher · Agenzia Spaziale Italiana · Italy

Francesca Cigna

Francesca Cigna publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Landslides and related hazards and Cryospheric studies and observations.

ORCID 0000-0001-8134-1576 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,302
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#855
of 242,206
Works
178
Citations
5.2k
Citations per work
29.1
h-index
39
i10-index 83Top 0.7% in Aerospace Engineering
Francesca Cigna

What does Francesca Cigna research?

Francesca Cigna's work is mostly in Engineering (33%), Environmental Science (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%).

Physical Sciences: 130 works · 73.1% of their workEngineering: 58 works · 32.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 46 works · 26.1% of their workOcean Engineering: 12 works · 6.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 37 works · 21.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 26 works · 14.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 works · 6.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 35 works · 19.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 25 works · 14.0% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 10 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancesca Cigna178works
Physical Sciences73%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering5832.7%
    2. Environmental Science3721.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences3519.4%
  2. Everything else4826.9%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering26% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law15% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Space and Planetary Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francesca Cigna's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Remote Sensing, SAR Interferometry, Surface Deformation Monitoring, Hazard, Landslide, Climate Change, Glacier and Machine Learning.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Remote Sensing2076 topics
  2. SAR Interferometry1221 topic
  3. Surface Deformation Monitoring1221 topic
  4. Hazard741 topic
  5. Landslide741 topic
  6. Climate Change531 topic
  7. Glacier531 topic
  8. Machine Learning422 topics
  9. Ground-Penetrating Radar301 topic
  10. Sedimentology301 topic
  11. Archaeology281 topic
  12. LiDAR281 topic
  13. Hyperspectral191 topic
  14. Image Analysis191 topic
  15. Satellite Observations191 topic
  16. Soil Moisture191 topic
  17. Phenology141 topic
  18. Vegetation Monitoring141 topic

Where does Francesca Cigna work?

Francesca Cigna's main affiliation in the publication record is Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Francesca Cigna have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 5,180 citations for Francesca Cigna, an h-index of 39, ranking #48,302 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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