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Researcher · Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale · Italy

Francesco La Vigna

Francesco La Vigna publishes mostly in Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology and Geophysics, on topics such as Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

ORCID 0000-0003-2727-2017 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,388,973
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#148,502
of 242,206
Works
151
Citations
490
Citations per work
3.2
h-index
13
i10-index 16Top 40% in Environmental Engineering
Francesco La Vigna

What does Francesco La Vigna research?

Francesco La Vigna's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Environmental Science (20%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Physical Sciences: 72 works · 47.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 41 works · 27.3% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 14 works · 9.5% of their workGeophysics: 14 works · 9.1% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 13 works · 8.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 31 works · 20.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 20 works · 13.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 70 works · 46.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 5.9% of their workArcheology: 9 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancesco LaVigna151works
Physical Sciences48%Social Sciences6%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences4127.3%
    2. Environmental Science3120.5%
  2. Everything else7046.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities95.9%
  1. 1Environmental Engineering13% of their works
  2. 2Geochemistry and Petrology10% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics9% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes9% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Archeology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francesco La Vigna's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Groundwater, Climate Change, Groundwater Flow, Transport Modeling, GIS-based Modeling, Remote Sensing, Hydrogeology and Karst.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Groundwater342 topics
  2. Climate Change242 topics
  3. Groundwater Flow201 topic
  4. Transport Modeling201 topic
  5. GIS-based Modeling192 topics
  6. Remote Sensing192 topics
  7. Hydrogeology181 topic
  8. Karst181 topic
  9. Isotopes161 topic
  10. Stable161 topic
  11. Hazard111 topic
  12. Landslide111 topic
  13. Maritime Archaeology111 topic
  14. Mediterranean111 topic
  15. Earthquakes91 topic
  16. Subduction91 topic
  17. Flood Risk81 topic
  18. Geological Modeling81 topic
  19. Surface Water Mapping81 topic
  20. Uncertainty Analysis81 topic

Where does Francesco La Vigna work?

Francesco La Vigna's main affiliation in the publication record is Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Francesco La Vigna have?

OpenAlex counts 151 works and 490 citations for Francesco La Vigna, an h-index of 13, ranking #4,388,973 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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