Marco Bittelli

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Marco Bittelli is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Bittelli has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 28 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Marco Bittelli's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (39 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (23 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (21 papers). Marco Bittelli is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (39 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (23 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (21 papers). Marco Bittelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Marco Bittelli's co-authors include Markus Flury, Gaylon S. Campbell, Paola Rossi Pisa, Roberto Valentino, Claudia Meisina, Massimiliano Bordoni, Silvia Chersich, Francesca Ventura, Fiorenzo Salvatorelli and Linda Pieri 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

Marco Bittelli

80 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: An intercomparison and validation study across Europe

2011 492 citations Luca Brocca, Teodosio Lacava et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Marco Bittelli	1.7k	1.6k	985	860	667	80	3.9k
Peter Lehmann	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	765 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	745 1.1×	118	5.2k
Markus Tuller	3.0k 1.8×	3.1k 1.9×	864 0.9×	636 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	150	6.5k
Ole Wendroth	2.0k 1.2×	2.5k 1.6×	547 0.6×	436 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	139	4.3k
Tusheng Ren	2.9k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	329 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	170	5.1k
Todd H. Skaggs	2.0k 1.2×	2.9k 1.8×	467 0.5×	283 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	103	4.6k
Li Ren	1.0k 0.6×	704 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	705 0.8×	308 0.5×	230	4.9k
Lutz Weihermüller	1.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	681 0.7×	316 0.4×	791 1.2×	113	3.9k
Wolfgang Durner	3.3k 1.9×	3.1k 1.9×	309 0.3×	570 0.7×	881 1.3×	129	5.1k
Carsten Montzka	1.3k 0.8×	3.1k 1.9×	1.7k 1.8×	398 0.5×	467 0.7×	117	4.4k
H. Flühler	3.1k 1.9×	3.6k 2.2×	1.1k 1.1×	764 0.9×	1.4k 2.0×	156	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Bittelli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Bittelli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Bittelli

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

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Righi, Adne Abbud, Matteo Bettuzzi, John Koestel, et al.. (2025). Root traits of different wheat cultivars influence soil structure: an X-ray computed tomography and root morphology study. Geoderma. 459. 117349–117349. 2 indexed citations

Sannino, Giovanna, Fausto Tomei, Marco Bittelli, et al.. (2025). A three-dimensional agro-hydrological model for predictive analysis of shallow landslides: CRITERIA-3D. Engineering Geology. 352. 108073–108073. 1 indexed citations

Bordoni, Massimiliano, et al.. (2024). Deterministic Physically Based Distributed Models for Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslides. Geosciences. 14(10). 255–255. 2 indexed citations

Bittelli, Marco, et al.. (2024). An auto-tuning process-based 3D model to forecast irrigation demand in kiwifruit. Ecological Informatics. 85. 102947–102947. 1 indexed citations

Bordoni, Massimiliano, et al.. (2023). Comparison between mechanical and hydrological reinforcement effects of cultivated plants on shallow slope stability. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 168999–168999. 11 indexed citations

Bittelli, Marco, et al.. (2023). Robust Statistical Processing of Long-Time Data Series to Estimate Soil Water Content. Mathematical Geosciences. 56(1). 3–26. 2 indexed citations

Ghanbarian, Behzad, Allen G. Hunt, Marco Bittelli, Markus Tuller, & Emmanuel Arthur. (2021). Estimating specific surface area: Incorporating the effect of surface roughness and probing molecule size. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 85(3). 534–545. 10 indexed citations

Bittelli, Marco, Gaylon S. Campbell, & Fausto Tomei. (2020). Soil Physics with Python: Transport in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 16 indexed citations

Bittelli, Marco, Maria Costanza Andrenelli, Gianluca Simonetti, et al.. (2018). Shall we abandon sedimentation methods for particle size analysis in soils?. Soil and Tillage Research. 185. 36–46. 47 indexed citations

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Huffaker, Ray, et al.. (2018). Nonlinear Time Series Analysis with R. Oxford University Press eBooks. 36 indexed citations

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Rocchi, Irene, et al.. (2018). In-situ measurements of soil water content and suction to assess river embankments stability under transient flow conditions. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 2. 1139–1144. 5 indexed citations

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Meisina, Claudia, Roberto Valentino, Marco Bittelli, et al.. (2016). Field investigation of soil-atmosphere interaction on a slope prone to shallow landslides.. 224–229. 1 indexed citations

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Kroener, Eva, Mohsen Zarebanadkouki, Marco Bittelli, & Andrea Carminati. (2016). Simulation of root water uptake under consideration of nonequilibrium dynamics in the rhizosphere. Water Resources Research. 52(8). 5755–5770. 18 indexed citations

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Bordoni, Massimiliano, Claudia Meisina, Roberto Valentino, Marco Bittelli, & Silvia Chersich. (2015). Site-specific to local-scale shallow landslides triggering zones assessment using TRIGRS. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(5). 1025–1050. 53 indexed citations

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Huffaker, Ray & Marco Bittelli. (2015). A Nonlinear Dynamics Approach for Incorporating Wind-Speed Patterns into Wind-Power Project Evaluation. PLoS ONE. 10(1). e0115123–e0115123. 8 indexed citations

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Lacava, Teodosio, Patrick Matgen, Luca Brocca, et al.. (2012). A First Assessment of the SMOS Soil Moisture Product With In Situ and Modeled Data in Italy and Luxembourg. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 50(5). 1612–1622. 67 indexed citations

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Valentino, Roberto, et al.. (2011). An empirical model for the evaluation of the degree of saturation of shallow soils in relation to rainfalls. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 48(5). 795–809. 13 indexed citations

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Bittelli, Marco. (2010). Measuring Soil Water Potential for Water Management in Agriculture: A Review. Sustainability. 2(5). 1226–1251. 42 indexed citations

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Pistocchi, Alberto, F. Bouraoui, & Marco Bittelli. (2008). A simplified parameterization of the monthly topsoil water budget. Water Resources Research. 44(12). 38 indexed citations

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Bittelli, Marco, Markus Flury, & Gaylon S. Campbell. (2003). A thermodielectric analyzer to measure the freezing and moisture characteristic of porous media. Water Resources Research. 39(2). 97 indexed citations

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