Alessia Bani

895 total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 602 citations indexed

About

Alessia Bani is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessia Bani has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 602 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Alessia Bani's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (6 papers). Alessia Bani is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (6 papers). Alessia Bani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Alessia Bani's co-authors include Luigimaria Borruso, Lorenzo Brusetti, Silvia Pioli, Roberto Tognetti, Maurizio Ventura, Pietro Panzacchi, Giustino Tonon, Giuliana D’Imporzano, Fabrizio Adani and Marco Bazzicalupo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Alessia Bani

28 papers receiving 595 citations

Hit Papers

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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. The role of microbial community in the decomposition of leaf litter and deadwood
    2018 268 citations Alessia Bani, Silvia Pioli et al. profile →

Peers

Alessia Bani
Simone Raposo Cotta Brazil
Afnan Khalil Ahmad Suleiman Netherlands
Sarina Claassens South Africa
Babur S. Mirza United States
Rahul A. Bahulikar India
Matthias Gube Germany
Arturo Fabiani Italy
Madeline Giles United Kingdom
Simone Raposo Cotta Brazil
Alessia Bani
Citations per year, relative to Alessia Bani Alessia Bani (= 1×) peers Simone Raposo Cotta

Countries citing papers authored by Alessia Bani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessia Bani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessia Bani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alessia Bani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alessia Bani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alessia Bani. Alessia Bani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bani, Alessia, Maarten De Brauwer, Matthew J. Struebig, et al.. (2024). Combining environmental DNA and visual surveys can inform conservation planning for coral reefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2307214121–e2307214121. 13 indexed citations
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Pioli, Silvia, Elisa Clagnan, Alessia Bani, et al.. (2023). Structural and functional microbial diversity in deadwood respond to decomposition dynamics. Environmental Microbiology. 25(11). 2351–2367. 5 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, et al.. (2022). Anaerobes and methanogens dominate the microbial communities in water harvesting ponds used by Kenyan rural smallholder farmers. The Science of The Total Environment. 819. 153040–153040. 5 indexed citations
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Wilkes, Martin, Marc Naura, Laura K. Allen, et al.. (2021). Defining Recovery Potential in River Restoration: A Biological Data-Driven Approach. Water. 13(23). 3339–3339. 1 indexed citations
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Borruso, Luigimaria, Alessia Bani, Silvia Pioli, et al.. (2021). Do Aerial Nitrogen Depositions Affect Fungal and Bacterial Communities of Oak Leaves?. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 633535–633535. 2 indexed citations
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Dell’Orto, Marta, et al.. (2021). The structure and diversity of microalgae-microbial consortia isolated from various local organic wastes. Bioresource Technology. 347. 126416–126416. 12 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, F.G. Acién, Giuliana D’Imporzano, Katia Parati, & Fabrizio Adani. (2020). Influence of photobioreactor set-up on the survival of microalgae inoculum. Bioresource Technology. 320(Pt B). 124408–124408. 31 indexed citations
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Marazzi, Francesca, Micol Bellucci, Riccardo Fornaroli, et al.. (2019). Lab‐scale testing of operation parameters for algae based treatment of piggery wastewater. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. 95(4). 967–974. 11 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, et al.. (2019). Heavy metal accumulation capability in the shells of Cerastoderma lamarcki in the south west coast of the Caspian sea; Guilan province. 32(2). 129–141.
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Bani, Alessia, Luigimaria Borruso, Flavio Fornasier, et al.. (2018). Microbial Decomposer Dynamics: Diversity and Functionality Investigated through a Transplantation Experiment in Boreal Forests. Microbial Ecology. 76(4). 1030–1040. 7 indexed citations
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Pioli, Silvia, Serena Antonucci, Alessio Giovannelli, et al.. (2017). Community fingerprinting reveals increasing wood-inhabiting fungal diversity in unmanaged Mediterranean forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 408. 202–210. 22 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, et al.. (2016). Heavy metals uptake by hyperaccumulating flora in some serpentine soils of Kosovo. Global NEST Journal. 18(1). 214–222. 10 indexed citations
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Galardini, Marco, Matteo Brilli, Giulia Spini, et al.. (2015). Evolution of Intra-specific Regulatory Networks in a Multipartite Bacterial Genome. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(9). e1004478–e1004478. 31 indexed citations
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Bacci, Giovanni, Maria Teresa Ceccherini, Alessia Bani, et al.. (2015). Exploring the dynamics of bacterial community composition in soil: the pan-bacteriome approach. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 107(3). 785–797. 7 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, et al.. (2014). Water quality and heavy metal content of Karavasta Lagoon in Albania.. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 23. 3296–3302. 4 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia, et al.. (2014). Physico-chemical characteristics and heavy metal contents of water from Karavasta Lagoon, Albania.. 13(3). 55–60. 2 indexed citations
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Bani, Alessia. (1970). Popular growing on sandy soils derived from the early deltas of the Po.. 21(6). 21–32. 2 indexed citations

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