Michele Santangelo

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Michele Santangelo is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele Santangelo has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 17 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Michele Santangelo's work include Landslides and related hazards (40 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers). Michele Santangelo is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (40 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers). Michele Santangelo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Romania. Michele Santangelo's co-authors include Mauro Cardinali, Fausto Guzzetti, Federica Fiorucci, Alessandro Mondini, Kang-Tsung Chang, Francesco Bucci, Ivan Marchesini, Mauro Rossi, Daniele Giordan and Andrea Manconi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Michele Santangelo

42 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Landslide inventory maps: New tools for an old problem

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michele Santangelo Italy	21	2.3k	1.3k	894	370	280	46	2.6k
Federica Fiorucci Italy	20	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	934 1.0×	407 1.1×	331 1.2×	39	2.7k
Tapas R. Martha India	25	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	821 0.9×	207 0.6×	236 0.8×	69	2.6k
Tolga Görüm Türkiye	27	2.1k 0.9×	939 0.7×	699 0.8×	291 0.8×	322 1.1×	88	2.7k
Ivan Marchesini Italy	28	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	824 0.9×	411 1.1×	322 1.1×	77	2.3k
Javier Hervás Italy	14	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	617 0.7×	481 1.3×	345 1.2×	23	2.3k
Alessandro Mondini Italy	23	3.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	440 1.2×	446 1.6×	49	3.6k
Kang-Tsung Chang Taiwan	14	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	642 0.7×	264 0.7×	245 0.9×	16	2.0k
Olivier Maquaire France	26	1.5k 0.7×	679 0.5×	491 0.5×	260 0.7×	185 0.7×	71	2.1k
Alessandro Corsini Italy	26	1.7k 0.7×	530 0.4×	928 1.0×	243 0.7×	168 0.6×	101	2.3k
Matteo Berti Italy	29	2.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	907 1.0×	354 1.0×	263 0.9×	75	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele Santangelo

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Ferrarini, Federica, Francesco Bucci, Michele Santangelo, et al.. (2025). Bridging the Gap Between Active Faulting and Deformation Across Normal-Fault Systems in the Central–Southern Apennines (Italy): Multi-Scale and Multi-Source Data Analysis. Remote Sensing. 17(14). 2491–2491. 1 indexed citations

Bucci, Francesco, et al.. (2024). A dataset of geotechnical parameters based on international literature to characterise lithotypes in Italy. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1371–1371. 1 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

Ardizzone, Francesca, Francesco Bucci, Mauro Cardinali, et al.. (2023). Geomorphological landslide inventory map of the Daunia Apennines, southern Italy. Earth system science data. 15(2). 753–767. 9 indexed citations

Bucci, Francesco, Michele Santangelo, Massimiliano Alvioli, et al.. (2022). A new digital lithological map of Italy at the 1:100 000 scale for geomechanical modelling. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4129–4151. 30 indexed citations

Bucci, Francesco, Michele Santangelo, Federica Fiorucci, et al.. (2021). Geomorphologic landslide inventory by air photo interpretation of the High Agri Valley (Southern Italy). Journal of Maps. 17(2). 376–388. 11 indexed citations

Santangelo, Michele, Ivan Marchesini, Francesco Bucci, et al.. (2020). Exposure to landslides in rural areas in Central Italy. Journal of Maps. 17(4). 124–132. 22 indexed citations

Santangelo, Michele, Massimiliano Alvioli, Marco Baldo, et al.. (2019). Brief communication: Remotely piloted aircraft systems for rapid emergency response: road exposure to rockfall in Villanova di Accumoli (central Italy). Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(2). 325–335. 20 indexed citations

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Mancini, Marco, Gianluca Vignaroli, Francesco Bucci, et al.. (2019). New stratigraphic constraints for the Quaternary source‐to‐sink history of the Amatrice Basin (central Apennines, Italy). Geological Journal. 55(6). 4226–4251. 11 indexed citations

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Fiorucci, Federica, Daniele Giordan, Michele Santangelo, et al.. (2018). Criteria for the optimal selection of remote sensing optical images to map event landslides. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(1). 405–417. 64 indexed citations

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Niculiță, Mihai, Francesco Bucci, Michele Santangelo, & Mihai Ciprian Mărgărint. (2016). Landslides and fortified settlements as valuable geoheritage sites in the Moldavian Plateau, North-Eastern Romania. EGUGA. 3 indexed citations

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Santangelo, Michele, Ivan Marchesini, Francesco Mirabella, et al.. (2016). From photo-geology to 3D geological models. An open source approach.

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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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Taylor, Faith E., Bruce D. Malamud, Michele Santangelo, Ivan Marchesini, & Fausto Guzzetti. (2015). Statistical Patterns of Triggered Landslide Events and their Application to Road Networks. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9992.

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Santangelo, Michele, Ivan Marchesini, Francesco Bucci, et al.. (2015). An approach to reduce mapping errors in the production of landslide inventory maps. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(9). 2111–2126. 67 indexed citations

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Brunetti, Maria Teresa, Fausto Guzzetti, Mauro Cardinali, et al.. (2014). Analysis of a new geomorphological inventory of landslides in Valles Marineris, Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 405. 156–168. 59 indexed citations

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Taylor, Faith E., Michele Santangelo, Ivan Marchesini, Bruce D. Malamud, & Fausto Guzzetti. (2014). A Tool for Modelling the Impact of Triggered Landslide Events on Road Networks. AGUFM. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Taylor, Faith E., Michele Santangelo, Ivan Marchesini, & Bruce D. Malamud. (2013). A GRASS GIS Semi-Stochastic Model for Evaluating the Probability of Landslides Impacting Road Networks in Collazzone, Central Italy. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Santangelo, Michele, et al.. (2012). Morpho-structural influences on landslide pattern and distribution: Grass GIS tool application.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12457. 2 indexed citations

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