Massimo Melillo

3.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Massimo Melillo is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Melillo has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Massimo Melillo's work include Landslides and related hazards (31 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (17 papers). Massimo Melillo is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (31 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (17 papers). Massimo Melillo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Netherlands. Massimo Melillo's co-authors include Silvia Peruccacci, Maria Teresa Brunetti, Fausto Guzzetti, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Mauro Rossi, Ivan Marchesini, Alessandro Mondini, Carmela Vennari, Giulio Iovine and O. Terranova and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Melillo

36 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Geographical landslide early warning systems

2019 301 citations Fausto Guzzetti, Stefano Luigi Gariano et al. profile →
Rainfall thresholds for possible landslide occurrence in Italy

2017 268 citations Silvia Peruccacci, Maria Teresa Brunetti et al. Geomorphology profile →
Deep learning forecast of rainfall-induced shallow landslides

2023 89 citations Alessandro Mondini, Fausto Guzzetti et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Melillo Italy	20	1.8k	1.2k	1.0k	385	291	37	2.0k
Ascanio Rosi Italy	27	1.8k 1.0×	974 0.8×	966 0.9×	336 0.9×	309 1.1×	58	2.1k
Ivan Marchesini Italy	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	824 0.8×	352 0.9×	322 1.1×	77	2.3k
Amar Deep Regmi China	17	1.5k 0.8×	978 0.8×	421 0.4×	205 0.5×	383 1.3×	26	1.8k
Daniela Lagomarsino Italy	15	1.2k 0.7×	725 0.6×	538 0.5×	146 0.4×	204 0.7×	20	1.4k
Diego Di Martire Italy	25	1.4k 0.8×	505 0.4×	668 0.6×	308 0.8×	161 0.6×	112	2.0k
Rainer Bell Austria	16	1.1k 0.6×	742 0.6×	391 0.4×	198 0.5×	191 0.7×	44	1.4k
P. Aleotti Italy	3	1.7k 0.9×	964 0.8×	487 0.5×	354 0.9×	326 1.1×	4	1.7k
Federica Fiorucci Italy	20	2.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	934 0.9×	230 0.6×	331 1.1×	39	2.7k
Kang-Tsung Chang Taiwan	14	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	642 0.6×	173 0.4×	245 0.8×	16	2.0k
Tamer Y. Duman Türkiye	19	1.2k 0.7×	751 0.7×	300 0.3×	406 1.1×	292 1.0×	46	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Melillo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mondini, Alessandro, Fausto Guzzetti, Massimo Melillo, & Antonio Pievatolo. (2025). Short to long term space-time prediction of rain-induced landslides under uncertainty. The Science of The Total Environment. 984. 179453–179453.

Brunetti, Maria Teresa, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Massimo Melillo, Mauro Rossi, & Silvia Peruccacci. (2025). An enhanced rainfall-induced landslide catalogue in Italy. Scientific Data. 12(1). 216–216. 3 indexed citations

Guzzetti, Fausto, Massimo Melillo, & Alessandro Mondini. (2024). Landslide predictions through combined rainfall threshold models. Landslides. 22(1). 137–147. 6 indexed citations

Guzzetti, Fausto, Massimo Melillo, Michele Calvello, Gaetano Pecoraro, & Alessandro Mondini. (2024). Independent demonstration of a deep-learning system for rainfall-induced landslide forecasting in Italy. Landslides. 21(9). 2171–2178. 1 indexed citations

Peruccacci, Silvia, et al.. (2023). The ITAlian rainfall-induced LandslIdes CAtalogue, an extensive and accurate spatio-temporal catalogue of rainfall-induced landslides in Italy. Earth system science data. 15(7). 2863–2877. 31 indexed citations

Santangelo, Michele, Omar F. Althuwaynee, Massimiliano Alvioli, et al.. (2023). Inventory of landslides triggered by an extreme rainfall event in Marche-Umbria, Italy, on 15 September 2022. Scientific Data. 10(1). 427–427. 31 indexed citations

Donnini, Marco, Michele Santangelo, Stefano Luigi Gariano, et al.. (2023). Landslides triggered by an extraordinary rainfall event in Central Italy on September 15, 2022. Landslides. 20(10). 2199–2211. 29 indexed citations

Althuwaynee, Omar F., Massimo Melillo, Stefano Luigi Gariano, et al.. (2023). DEWS: A QGIS tool pack for the automatic selection of reference rain gauges for landslide-triggering rainfall thresholds. Environmental Modelling & Software. 162. 105657–105657. 12 indexed citations

Mondini, Alessandro, Fausto Guzzetti, & Massimo Melillo. (2023). Deep learning forecast of rainfall-induced shallow landslides. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2466–2466. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brunetti, Maria Teresa, Massimo Melillo, Stefano Luigi Gariano, et al.. (2021). Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide prediction in India. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 3267–3279. 30 indexed citations

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Melillo, Massimo, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Silvia Peruccacci, et al.. (2020). Rainfall and rockfalls in the Canary Islands: assessing a seasonal link. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(8). 2307–2317. 19 indexed citations

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Alvioli, Massimiliano, Massimo Melillo, Fausto Guzzetti, et al.. (2019). Effects of Climate Change on Landslide Hazard in Central Italy within the TRIGRS Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Gariano, Stefano Luigi, Massimo Melillo, Silvia Peruccacci, & Maria Teresa Brunetti. (2019). How much does the rainfall temporal resolution affect rainfall thresholds for landslide triggering?. Natural Hazards. 100(2). 655–670. 86 indexed citations

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Alvioli, Massimiliano, Massimo Melillo, Fausto Guzzetti, et al.. (2018). Implications of climate change on landslide hazard in Central Italy. The Science of The Total Environment. 630. 1528–1543. 136 indexed citations

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Pisano, Luca, Ivan Marchesini, Mauro Rossi, et al.. (2017). Landslides, floods and sinkholes in a karst environment: the 1–6 September 2014 Gargano event, southern Italy. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(3). 467–480. 47 indexed citations

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Peruccacci, Silvia, Maria Teresa Brunetti, Stefano Luigi Gariano, et al.. (2017). Rainfall thresholds for possible landslide occurrence in Italy. Geomorphology. 290. 39–57. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Viero, Alessia, Laura Turconi, Maria Teresa Brunetti, et al.. (2017). Rainfall thresholds for the activation of shallow landslides in the Italian Alps: the role of environmental conditioning factors. Geomorphology. 303. 53–67. 55 indexed citations

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Faccini, Francesco, Daniele Giordan, Massimo Melillo, et al.. (2016). Terraced slope on active coastal landslides. The case of Le Grazie hill (Genoa Metropolitan Area, Italy). CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 18. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Melillo, Massimo, et al.. (2015). Possible response of two water systems in central Italy to climatic changes. 397–424. 9 indexed citations

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Gariano, Stefano Luigi, Giulio Iovine, Loredana Antronico, et al.. (2013). Rainfall thresholds for the initiation of shallow landslides in Sicily. Bollettino Della Societa Geologica Italiana. 1 indexed citations

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