Franco Varetto

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

Franco Varetto is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Accounting and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Varetto has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Accounting and 1 paper in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Franco Varetto's work include Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (2 papers), Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction (2 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (1 paper). Franco Varetto is often cited by papers focused on Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (2 papers), Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction (2 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (1 paper). Franco Varetto collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Austria and Germany. Franco Varetto's co-authors include Edward I. Altman, Bernard Paranque, Silvio Cuneo and José-Ramón Cano and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Banking & Finance and SSRN Electronic Journal.

In The Last Decade

Franco Varetto

5 papers receiving 792 citations

Hit Papers

Corporate distress diagnosis: Comparisons using linear di... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 200 400 600
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. Corporate distress diagnosis: Comparisons using linear discriminant analysis and neural networks (the Italian experience)
    1994 733 citations Edward I. Altman, Franco Varetto et al. Journal of Banking & Finance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Franco Varetto Italy 3 715 415 308 190 109 5 925
P. Ravi Kumar India 5 735 1.0× 456 1.1× 294 1.0× 221 1.2× 86 0.8× 6 956
Vijay S. Desai United States 6 438 0.6× 389 0.9× 206 0.7× 129 0.7× 75 0.7× 9 625
Teija Laitinen Finland 10 565 0.8× 244 0.6× 194 0.6× 92 0.5× 78 0.7× 22 675
D.K. Malhotra United States 13 579 0.8× 291 0.7× 472 1.5× 141 0.7× 319 2.9× 75 925
Ana I. Marqués Spain 12 507 0.7× 544 1.3× 179 0.6× 123 0.6× 50 0.5× 17 814
Linda Salchenberger United States 9 253 0.4× 288 0.7× 170 0.6× 256 1.3× 92 0.8× 16 645
Pamela K. Coats United States 6 385 0.5× 263 0.6× 135 0.4× 163 0.9× 64 0.6× 14 579
Barbro Back Finland 13 327 0.5× 327 0.8× 124 0.4× 209 1.1× 94 0.9× 39 761
Kenneth O. Cogger United States 11 411 0.6× 387 0.9× 69 0.2× 323 1.7× 66 0.6× 25 833
Giacomo di Tollo Italy 10 182 0.3× 162 0.4× 150 0.5× 197 1.0× 72 0.7× 30 515

Countries citing papers authored by Franco Varetto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Franco Varetto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Varetto

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

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
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Varetto, Franco, et al.. (2019). The Margin of Conservatism (MoC) in the IRB approach: defining and measuring the general estimation error. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2019). 13–20. 1 indexed citations
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Paranque, Bernard, et al.. (2000). Corporate Finance in Europe from 1985 to 1996. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Varetto, Franco. (1998). Genetic algorithms applications in the analysis of insolvency risk. Journal of Banking & Finance. 22(10-11). 1421–1439. 184 indexed citations
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Altman, Edward I., et al.. (1994). Corporate distress diagnosis: Comparisons using linear discriminant analysis and neural networks (the Italian experience). Journal of Banking & Finance. 18(3). 505–529. 733 indexed citations breakdown →

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