Francesco Comiti

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Francesco Comiti is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Comiti has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Ecology, 88 papers in Soil Science and 54 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Francesco Comiti's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (114 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (86 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (49 papers). Francesco Comiti is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (114 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (86 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (49 papers). Francesco Comiti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Chile and Germany. Francesco Comiti's co-authors include Mario Aristide Lenzi, Luca Mao, Lorenzo Marchi, Marco Cavalli, Nicola Surian, Andrea Andreoli, Sebastiano Trevisani, Massimo Rinaldi, Ellen Wohl and M. Bussettini and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Comiti

173 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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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.

Geomorphometric assessment of spatial sediment connectivity in small Alpine catchments

2012 554 citations Marco Cavalli, Francesco Comiti et al. Geomorphology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Comiti Italy	49	5.0k	3.9k	2.1k	1.8k	1.4k	178	6.8k
Marwan A. Hassan Canada	40	4.6k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	959 0.5×	998 0.7×	213	5.7k
Luca Mao Chile	41	3.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	981 0.6×	761 0.5×	144	4.5k
Andrew Simon United States	44	5.0k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	147	7.0k
Gordon E. Grant United States	37	3.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	716 0.5×	101	6.0k
John Wainwright United Kingdom	47	3.9k 0.8×	4.1k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	812 0.6×	160	7.2k
Anthony J. Parsons United Kingdom	47	3.5k 0.7×	4.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	750 0.5×	138	6.5k
Peter Richard Wilcock United States	44	5.9k 1.2×	4.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	748 0.5×	124	7.4k
Massimo Rinaldi Italy	34	3.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	646 0.5×	87	4.7k
Bruce L. Rhoads United States	52	5.5k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	3.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	441 0.3×	137	7.3k
Xingmin Mu China	49	3.1k 0.6×	4.0k 1.0×	4.3k 2.0×	4.2k 2.4×	661 0.5×	162	8.6k

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Horton, Pascal, et al.. (2025). Scale dependency in modeling nivo-glacial hydrological systems: the case of the Arolla basin, Switzerland. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(6). 1725–1748.

Coviello, Velio, et al.. (2025). Temporal variability of bedload vs suspended sediment load and respective hysteresis cycles in a glacier-fed Alpine river. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133215–133215.

Scorpio, Vittoria & Francesco Comiti. (2024). Channel changes during and after extreme floods in two catchments of the Northern Apennines (Italy). Geomorphology. 463. 109355–109355. 3 indexed citations

Engel, Michael, Velio Coviello, Sara Savi, et al.. (2024). Meltwater-driven sediment transport dynamics in two contrasting alpine proglacial streams. Journal of Hydrology. 635. 131171–131171. 6 indexed citations

Mazzorana, Bruno, et al.. (2024). Limited effect of the confluence angle and tributary gradient on Alpine confluence morphodynamics under intense sediment loads. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(5). 1607–1634. 2 indexed citations

Marchi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Monitoring debris flows in the Gadria catchment (eastern Italian Alps): Data and insights acquired from 2018 to 2020. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 415. 3018–3018. 1 indexed citations

Mazzorana, Bruno, et al.. (2023). Confluence morphodynamics in mountain rivers in response to intense tributary bedload input. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 48(12). 2277–2298. 6 indexed citations

Coviello, Velio, Walter Bertoldi, Michael Engel, et al.. (2022). Bedload Fluxes in a Glacier‐Fed River at Multiple Temporal Scales. Water Resources Research. 58(10). 18 indexed citations

Savi, Sara, et al.. (2022). Multi-temporal analysis of morphological changes in an Alpine proglacial area and their effect on sediment transfer. CATENA. 220. 106701–106701. 11 indexed citations

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Bizzi, Simone, et al.. (2022). Mapping riverbed sediment size from Sentinel‐2 satellite data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 47(10). 2544–2559. 17 indexed citations

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Zuecco, Giulia, Anam Amin, Jay Frentress, et al.. (2022). A comparative study of plant water extraction methods for isotopic analyses: Scholander-type pressure chamber vs. cryogenic vacuum distillation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(13). 3673–3689. 24 indexed citations

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Kofler, Christian, Volkmar Mair, Stephan Gruber, et al.. (2021). When do rock glacier fronts fail? Insights from two case studies in South Tyrol (Italian Alps). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 46(7). 1311–1327. 22 indexed citations

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Comiti, Francesco, Luca Mao, Daniele Penna, et al.. (2019). Glacier melt runoff controls bedload transport in Alpine catchments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 520. 77–86. 49 indexed citations

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Marchi, Lorenzo, Francesco Comiti, Stefano Crema, & Marco Cavalli. (2019). Channel control works and sediment connectivity in the European Alps. The Science of The Total Environment. 668. 389–399. 57 indexed citations

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Theule, Joshua, Stefano Crema, Lorenzo Marchi, Marco Cavalli, & Francesco Comiti. (2018). Exploiting LSPIV to assess debris-flow velocities in the field. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(1). 1–13. 44 indexed citations

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Cavalli, Marco, et al.. (2016). Assessment of erosion and deposition in steep mountain basins by differencing sequential digital terrain models. Geomorphology. 291. 4–16. 98 indexed citations

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Cavalli, Marco, Stefano Crema, Ana Lúcia, et al.. (2016). Integrating structural and functional connectivity to characterize sediment dynamics in a small Alpine catchment. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Theule, Joshua, Stefano Crema, Francesco Comiti, Marco Cavalli, & Lorenzo Marchi. (2015). Video monitoring in the Gadria debris flow catchment: preliminary results of large scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV). EGUGA. 4635. 1 indexed citations

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Penna, Daniele, et al.. (2013). Hydrological effects of glacier melt and snowmelt in a high-elevation catchment. View. 4 indexed citations

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Mao, Luca, et al.. (2005). Bankfull and bed load effective discharge in a steep boulder-bed channel. View. 6 indexed citations

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