Alberto Viglione

16.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
115 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Alberto Viglione is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Viglione has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 80 papers in Water Science and Technology and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Alberto Viglione's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (78 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (64 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (57 papers). Alberto Viglione is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (78 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (64 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (57 papers). Alberto Viglione collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Italy and Germany. Alberto Viglione's co-authors include Günter Blöschl, José Luis Salinas, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Juraj Párajka, Linda Kuil, Gemma Carr, Ralf Merz, Magdalena Rogger, Murugesu Sivapalan and Luigia Brandimarte and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Viglione

111 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2015 2019 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions
    2013 427 citations Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Alberto Viglione et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  2. Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Capturing feedbacks between physical and social processes
    2015 349 citations Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Alberto Viglione et al. Water Resources Research profile →
  3. Sociohydrology: Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
    2019 305 citations Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. Water Resources Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alberto Viglione Austria 46 4.6k 3.9k 985 795 714 115 5.8k
Yadu Pokhrel United States 39 3.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 800 0.8× 830 1.0× 817 1.1× 115 5.5k
Peter Salamon Italy 39 4.2k 0.9× 2.9k 0.8× 1.9k 1.9× 317 0.4× 1.2k 1.7× 99 5.6k
Valentina Krysanova Germany 42 3.5k 0.8× 4.3k 1.1× 992 1.0× 571 0.7× 905 1.3× 119 5.9k
Casey Brown United States 43 3.3k 0.7× 3.3k 0.8× 658 0.7× 2.2k 2.7× 653 0.9× 130 5.9k
Heiko Apel Germany 36 3.5k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 295 0.4× 433 0.6× 83 4.4k
Ad de Roo Italy 35 4.0k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 2.1k 2.1× 520 0.7× 1.3k 1.9× 77 6.3k
Hessel Winsemius Netherlands 44 5.9k 1.3× 3.0k 0.8× 2.7k 2.8× 377 0.5× 965 1.4× 109 7.7k
Rolf Weingartner Switzerland 35 2.9k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 2.3k 2.4× 497 0.6× 631 0.9× 145 5.5k
Anne F. Van Loon Netherlands 37 6.1k 1.3× 3.8k 1.0× 945 1.0× 715 0.9× 598 0.8× 119 7.6k
Lihua Xiong China 42 4.1k 0.9× 3.9k 1.0× 977 1.0× 861 1.1× 1.3k 1.9× 200 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alberto Viglione

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Viglione

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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D’Oria, Marco, Alberto Viglione, Nadım K. Copty, et al.. (2025). Direct impact of climate change on groundwater levels in the Iberian Peninsula. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 179009–179009. 3 indexed citations
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Tamea, Stefania, et al.. (2025). A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(10). 2255–2273. 1 indexed citations
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Bertola, Miriam, Alberto Viglione, Sergiy Vorogushyn, et al.. (2021). Do small and large floods have the same drivers of change? A regional attribution analysis in Europe. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(3). 1347–1364. 64 indexed citations
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Thirel, Guillaume, Olivier Delaigue, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, et al.. (2021). Technical note: Hydrology modelling R packages – a unified analysis of models and practicalities from a user perspective. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(7). 3937–3973. 23 indexed citations
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Tarasova, Larisa, Stefano Basso, Dadiyorto Wendi, et al.. (2020). A Process‐Based Framework to Characterize and Classify Runoff Events: The Event Typology of Germany. Water Resources Research. 56(5). 48 indexed citations
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Bertola, Miriam, Alberto Viglione, David Lun, Julia Hall, & Günter Blöschl. (2020). Flood trends in Europe: are changes in small and big floods different?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(4). 1805–1822. 89 indexed citations
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Toth, Elena, et al.. (2019). Impact of Catchment Grouping using Machine Learning on Estimating Envelope Curves of Extreme Floods in Alpine Catchments. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Párajka, Juraj, Nejc Bezak, J. F. Burkhart, et al.. (2018). Modis Snowline Elevation Changes During Snowmelt Runoff Events in Europe. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics. 67(1). 101–109. 13 indexed citations
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Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa, Juraj Párajka, & Alberto Viglione. (2017). Flood type classification and assessment of their past changes across Europe. 11 indexed citations
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Sivapalan, Murugesu, Alberto Viglione, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, & Saket Pande. (2016). The current state of Socio-hydrology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Archfield, S. A., Martyn Clark, Berit Arheimer, et al.. (2015). Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling. Water Resources Research. 51(12). 10078–10091. 122 indexed citations
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Salinas, José Luis, Attilio Castellarin, Alberto Viglione, Silvia Kohnová, & Thomas Kjeldsen. (2014). Regional parent flood frequency distributions in Europe – Part 1: Is the GEV model suitable as a pan-European parent?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(11). 4381–4389. 69 indexed citations
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Párajka, Juraj, Alberto Viglione, Magdalena Rogger, et al.. (2013). Comparative assessment of predictions in ungauged basins – Part 1: Runoff-hydrograph studies. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(5). 1783–1795. 207 indexed citations
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Zoccatelli, Davide, Marco Borga, Alberto Viglione, Giovanni Battista Chirico, & Günter Blöschl. (2011). Spatial moments of catchment rainfall: rainfall spatial organisation, basin morphology, and flood response. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(12). 3767–3783. 82 indexed citations
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Blöschl, Günter, Alberto Viglione, P. Balabanis, & Marco Borga. (2010). Barriers to the exchange of hydrometeorological data across Europe - results from a survey and implications for data policy. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9619. 1 indexed citations
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Skøien, Jon Olav, Gregor Laaha, Günter Blöschl, et al.. (2009). Rtop - an R package for interpolation along the stream network. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10349. 3 indexed citations
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Viglione, Alberto & Günter Blöschl. (2009). On the role of storm duration in the mapping of rainfall to flood return periods. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(2). 205–216. 86 indexed citations
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Viglione, Alberto, Ralf Merz, & Günter Blöschl. (2009). On the role of the runoff coefficient in the mapping of rainfall to flood return periods. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(5). 577–593. 83 indexed citations
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Claps, Pierluigi, et al.. (2008). Development of an information system of the italian basins for the CUBIST project. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 2 indexed citations

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