Maria Rota

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Maria Rota is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Rota has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 6 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 4 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Maria Rota's work include Seismic Performance and Analysis (47 papers), Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (37 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (25 papers). Maria Rota is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Performance and Analysis (47 papers), Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (37 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (25 papers). Maria Rota collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and British Virgin Islands. Maria Rota's co-authors include Andrea Penna, Guido Magenes, Claudio Strobbia, Francesca da Porto, Carlo Filippo Manzini, Paolo Morandi, Alessandro Galasco, Ilaria Senaldi, Carlo G. Lai and Paolo Ricci and has published in prestigious journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Sustainability and Engineering Structures.

In The Last Decade

Maria Rota

49 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Performance of masonry buildings during the Emilia 2012 e... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
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. Performance of masonry buildings during the Emilia 2012 earthquake
    2013 271 citations Andrea Penna, Maria Rota et al. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maria Rota Italy 23 1.9k 406 358 135 75 52 2.0k
Carlo Del Gaudio Italy 19 1.2k 0.6× 253 0.6× 141 0.4× 115 0.9× 71 0.9× 42 1.3k
Daniele Perrone Italy 21 1.5k 0.8× 402 1.0× 93 0.3× 62 0.5× 79 1.1× 83 1.6k
Barbara Borzi Italy 17 1.3k 0.7× 237 0.6× 70 0.2× 207 1.5× 82 1.1× 53 1.5k
Elena Speranza Italy 12 834 0.4× 164 0.4× 213 0.6× 71 0.5× 24 0.3× 23 924
Crescenzo Petrone Italy 20 1.3k 0.7× 331 0.8× 70 0.2× 164 1.2× 70 0.9× 37 1.4k
Maria Polese Italy 20 1.1k 0.6× 235 0.6× 32 0.1× 104 0.8× 55 0.7× 56 1.2k
Claudio Moroni Italy 10 803 0.4× 174 0.4× 58 0.2× 68 0.5× 34 0.5× 26 881
Domenico Liberatore Italy 19 868 0.4× 226 0.6× 259 0.7× 69 0.5× 13 0.2× 58 957
Hernán Santa María Chile 18 719 0.4× 418 1.0× 59 0.2× 91 0.7× 63 0.8× 51 880
Anna De Falco Italy 18 546 0.3× 171 0.4× 101 0.3× 15 0.1× 36 0.5× 61 775

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Rota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Rota

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All Works

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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2025). Seismic Fragility Assessment of a Multi‐Span Masonry Arch Bridge Using a Discontinuum Modeling Approach. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 54(13). 3320–3340.
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Smerzini, Chiara, et al.. (2025). Seismic fragility curves with unconventional ground motion intensity measures from physics-based simulations. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 23(5). 1885–1915. 1 indexed citations
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Guerrini, Gabriele, Francesco Graziotti, Maria Rota, & Andrea Penna. (2023). SEISMIC PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDING CONTENTS BY KINEMATIC ISOLATION DEVICES. COMPDYN Proceedings. 1 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2023). A New Seismic Classification Procedure for Nonstructural Elements Based on Fragility Curves. Buildings. 13(4). 1017–1017. 3 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2023). Empirical seismic vulnerability of Italian URM churches hit by the 2016-17 Central Italy earthquake sequence. Procedia Structural Integrity. 44. 91–98. 1 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2022). An empirical seismic vulnerability model. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 20(8). 4147–4173. 14 indexed citations
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Porto, Francesca da, Marco Donà, Maria Rota, et al.. (2021). Comparative analysis of the fragility curves for Italian residential masonry and RC buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 19(8). 3209–3252. 66 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2020). Empirical fragility curves for Italian URM buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 19(8). 3057–3076. 126 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2018). Damage classification and derivation of damage probability matrices from L’Aquila (2009) post-earthquake survey data. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 16(9). 3687–3720. 70 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2016). Seismic assessment of masonry buildings accounting for limited knowledge on materials by Bayesian updating. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 14(8). 2273–2297. 31 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, et al.. (2014). Identification of Suitable Limit States from Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Masonry Structures. Journal of Earthquake Engineering. 18(2). 231–263. 41 indexed citations
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Penna, Andrea, et al.. (2014). Implications of cumulated seismic damage on the seismic performance of unreinforced masonry buildings. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. 47(2). 157–170. 23 indexed citations
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Penna, Andrea, et al.. (2014). ISSUES ON THE USE OF TIME-HISTORY ANALYSIS FOR THE DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF MASONRY STRUCTURES. 669–686. 13 indexed citations
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Corigliano, Mirko, Carlo G. Lai, Maria Rota, & Claudio Strobbia. (2012). ASCONA: Automated Selection of COmpatible Natural Accelerograms. Earthquake Spectra. 28(3). 965–987. 36 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, Andrea Penna, Claudio Strobbia, & Guido Magenes. (2011). Typological Seismic Risk Maps for Italy. Earthquake Spectra. 27(3). 907–926. 38 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, Andrea Penna, & Guido Magenes. (2010). A methodology for deriving analytical fragility curves for masonry buildings based on stochastic nonlinear analyses. Engineering Structures. 32(5). 1312–1323. 213 indexed citations
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Rota, Maria, Andrea Penna, & Guido Magenes. (2008). A PROCEDURE FOR DERIVING ANALYTICAL FRAGILITY CURVES FOR MASONRY BUILDINGS. 1 indexed citations

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