Fabio Badalamenti

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
160 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Fabio Badalamenti is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabio Badalamenti has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Ecology, 93 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 75 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Fabio Badalamenti's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (83 papers), Marine and fisheries research (63 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (54 papers). Fabio Badalamenti is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (83 papers), Marine and fisheries research (63 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (54 papers). Fabio Badalamenti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Fabio Badalamenti's co-authors include Giovanni D’Anna, Carlo Pipitone, Marco Milazzo, Renato Chemello, Tomás Vega Fernández, Silvano Riggio, Nicholas Polunin, John K. Pinnegar, Paola Gianguzza and Adriana Alagna and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Fabio Badalamenti

158 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Seagrass meadows (Posidonia oceanica) distribution and trajectories of change

2015 305 citations Adriana Alagna, Fabio Badalamenti et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fabio Badalamenti Italy	38	3.4k	2.5k	2.1k	595	468	160	4.7k
Patrice Francour France	37	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	624 1.0×	407 0.9×	107	4.6k
Gil Rilov Israel	39	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	469 0.8×	325 0.7×	105	4.2k
Britta Schaffelke Australia	39	3.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	336 0.6×	444 0.9×	91	4.8k
Matthew C. Kay United States	8	2.4k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	437 0.7×	458 1.0×	9	4.1k
Loke Ming Chou Singapore	35	3.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	755 1.3×	368 0.8×	184	4.7k
Jonne Kotta Estonia	36	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.3×	495 0.8×	301 0.6×	218	4.6k
Jennifer Molnar United States	10	2.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	523 0.9×	291 0.6×	16	4.0k
Telmo Morato Portugal	36	2.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	395 0.8×	99	4.0k
Marco Milazzo Italy	39	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.5×	469 0.8×	593 1.3×	114	5.3k
Stuart R. Jenkins United Kingdom	41	3.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	3.2k 1.5×	642 1.1×	370 0.8×	155	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Fabio Badalamenti

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabio Badalamenti

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fabio Badalamenti. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fabio Badalamenti 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 Fabio Badalamenti. Fabio Badalamenti is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Pipitone, Carlo, et al.. (2025). New Records of Non-Indigenous Crustaceans from Sicily (Central Mediterranean Sea). Thalassas An International Journal of Marine Sciences. 41(2). 1 indexed citations

Cattano, Carlo, et al.. (2025). To see and not be seen: Carangids hide behind sharks to prey on fish. Ecology. 106(3). e70028–e70028. 1 indexed citations

Scardi, Michele, Agostino Tomasello, Sebastiano Calvo, et al.. (2024). Long‐term response of Posidonia oceanica meadow restoration at the population and plant level: implications for management decisions. Restoration Ecology. 33(3). 2 indexed citations

Agnetta, Davide, Fabio Badalamenti, Christopher J. Sweeting, et al.. (2024). Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1909). 20230167–20230167. 4 indexed citations

Ruocco, Miriam, Guglielmo Lacorata, Luigi Palatella, et al.. (2024). Movement Ecology of a Coastal Foundation Seagrass Species: Insights From Genetic Data and Oceanographic Modelling. Diversity and Distributions. 31(2). 2 indexed citations

Pipitone, Carlo, Davide Agnetta, Vincenzo Maximiliano Giacalone, et al.. (2023). When the Trawl Ban Is a Good Option: Opportunities to Restore Fish Biomass and Size Structure in a Mediterranean Fisheries Restricted Area. Sustainability. 15(3). 2425–2425. 6 indexed citations

Rinaldi, Alessandro, Fabio Badalamenti, Giovanni D’Anna, et al.. (2023). The ontogeny-specific thermal sensitivity of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 8 indexed citations

Sinopoli, Mauro, Fabio Badalamenti, Massimiliano Bottaro, & Giovanni D’Anna. (2023). The Role of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) in Juvenile Fish Dispersal along the North-Western Coast of Sicily. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(4). 746–746. 2 indexed citations

Giacalone, Vincenzo Maximiliano, Carlo Pipitone, David Abecasis, Fabio Badalamenti, & Giovanni D’Anna. (2022). Movement ecology of the white seabream Diplodus sargus across its life cycle: a review. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 105(12). 1809–1823. 10 indexed citations

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Mirasole, Alice, Fabio Badalamenti, Antonio Franco, María Cristina Gambi, & Núria Teixidó. (2021). Boosted fish abundance associated with Posidonia oceanica meadows in temperate shallow CO2 vents. The Science of The Total Environment. 771. 145438–145438. 7 indexed citations

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Ciancio, Javier, et al.. (2020). Influence of light, food and predator presence on the activity pattern of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas: An investigation using tri-axial accelerometers. Ecological Indicators. 113. 106174–106174. 4 indexed citations

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Prada, Fiorella, Luigi Musco, Adriana Alagna, et al.. (2019). Anthropogenic impact is negatively related to coral health in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea). Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13469–13469. 55 indexed citations

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Willis, Trevor J., Rona A. R. McGill, Luigi Musco, et al.. (2017). Kleptopredation: a mechanism to facilitate planktivory in a benthic mollusc. Biology Letters. 13(11). 20170447–20170447. 14 indexed citations

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Bertocci, Iacopo, Fabio Badalamenti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, et al.. (2017). Reducing the data-deficiency of threatened European habitats: Spatial variation of sabellariid worm reefs and associated fauna in the Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea. Marine Environmental Research. 130. 325–337. 27 indexed citations

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Milazzo, Marco, Ernesto Azzurro, Renato Chemello, et al.. (2016). Warming-related shifts in the distribution of two competing coastal wrasses. Marine Environmental Research. 120. 55–67. 10 indexed citations

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Bulleri, Fabio, Fabio Badalamenti, Ljiljana Iveša, et al.. (2016). The effects of an invasive seaweed on native communities vary along a gradient of land-based human impacts. PeerJ. 4. e1795–e1795. 18 indexed citations

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Gianguzza, Paola, et al.. (2016). Size-dependent predation of the mesopredator Marthasterias glacialis (L.) (Asteroidea). Marine Biology. 163(3). 14 indexed citations

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Musco, Luigi, Franco Andaloro, Giovanni D’Anna, et al.. (2015). Impatto di Caulerpa Taxifolia var. Distichophylla su macro- e meiofauna associate a Posidonia oceanica. Nova Science Publishers (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.). 22. 136–137. 2 indexed citations

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Sinopoli, Mauro, Emanuela Fanelli, Giovanni D’Anna, Fabio Badalamenti, & Carlo Pipitone. (2012). Assessing the effects of a trawling ban on diet and trophic level of hake, Merluccius merluccius, in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea [Efectos de un área de veda a la pesca de arrastre sobre la dieta y el nivel trófico de la merluza, Merluccius Merluccius, e. Scientia Marina. 76. 2 indexed citations

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Bonaviri, Chiara, Tomás Vega Fernández, Fabio Badalamenti, et al.. (2009). Fish versus starfish predation in controlling sea urchin populations in Mediterranean rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 382. 129–138. 51 indexed citations

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