Paolo Scussolini

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Paolo Scussolini is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Paolo Scussolini has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Paolo Scussolini's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (18 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (12 papers). Paolo Scussolini is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (18 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (12 papers). Paolo Scussolini collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Paolo Scussolini's co-authors include Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Philip J. Ward, Hessel Winsemius, Brenden Jongman, Andrés Díaz Loaiza, Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, José A. Jiménez and Laurens M. Bouwer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Paolo Scussolini

36 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment

2023 112 citations Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Eilander et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paolo Scussolini Netherlands	18	958	757	360	266	263	37	1.7k
Willem Ligtvoet Netherlands	16	1.4k 1.5×	524 0.7×	133 0.4×	389 1.5×	324 1.2×	36	1.9k
Philip S. J. Minderhoud Netherlands	17	405 0.4×	392 0.5×	526 1.5×	444 1.7×	141 0.5×	45	1.5k
Ad Jeuken Netherlands	21	1.1k 1.2×	754 1.0×	128 0.4×	124 0.5×	203 0.8×	39	1.5k
Shaleen Jain United States	17	1.3k 1.3×	773 1.0×	168 0.5×	151 0.6×	86 0.3×	53	1.6k
Lorenz King Germany	23	476 0.5×	851 1.1×	181 0.5×	201 0.8×	161 0.6×	42	1.8k
Gilles Erkens Netherlands	24	548 0.6×	840 1.1×	718 2.0×	749 2.8×	128 0.5×	58	2.3k
Milivoj B. Gavrilov Serbia	25	535 0.6×	838 1.1×	162 0.5×	155 0.6×	72 0.3×	90	1.7k
Eli D. Lazarus United Kingdom	21	356 0.4×	399 0.5×	670 1.9×	726 2.7×	123 0.5×	53	1.4k
Cameron Wobus United States	23	422 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	605 1.7×	511 1.9×	104 0.4×	53	2.4k
S. H. Akhter Bangladesh	18	294 0.3×	318 0.4×	464 1.3×	299 1.1×	91 0.3×	58	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paolo Scussolini

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Wen, Jiahong, Jiao Wang, Guotao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Integrating nature-based solutions for compound flood risk mitigation in China: A case study of Shanghai. Journal of Environmental Management. 380. 125155–125155. 1 indexed citations

Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H., Jun Wang, Jie Yin, et al.. (2025). Dynamic flood adaptation pathways for Shanghai under deep uncertainty. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 5 indexed citations

Maanen, Nicole van, et al.. (2025). Brief communication: Bridging the data gap – a call to enhance the representation of global coastal flood protection. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(6). 2075–2080. 1 indexed citations

Wijnands, Jasper S., et al.. (2024). Detecting Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Western European Heatwaves Using Deep Learning. VU Research Portal. 3(4).

Scussolini, Paolo, Linh N. Luu, Sjoukje Philip, et al.. (2023). Challenges in the attribution of river flood events. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(3). 11 indexed citations

Peeters, Frank J C, J.J.L. van der Lubbe, & Paolo Scussolini. (2023). Age‐Depth Models for Tropical Marine Hemipelagic Deposits Improve Significantly When Proxy‐Based Information on Sediment Composition Is Included. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(1). 1 indexed citations

Scussolini, Paolo, Job Dullaart, Sanne Muis, et al.. (2023). Modeled storm surge changes in a warmer world: the Last Interglacial. Climate of the past. 19(1). 141–157. 4 indexed citations

Monsarrat, Sophie, Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen, Paolo Scussolini, et al.. (2023). Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(1). 34–47. 26 indexed citations

Nienhuis, Jaap H., et al.. (2022). A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE). Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(12). 4087–4101. 13 indexed citations

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Couasnon, Anaïs, Paolo Scussolini, Thi Van Thu Tran, et al.. (2022). A Flood Risk Framework Capturing the Seasonality of and Dependence Between Rainfall and Sea Levels—An Application to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Water Resources Research. 58(2). 18 indexed citations

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Nienhuis, Jaap H., et al.. (2021). A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Dan, Paolo Scussolini, & Shiqiang Du. (2021). Assessing Chinese flood protection and its social divergence. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(2). 743–755. 16 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2020). Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 56 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, Pepijn Bakker, Chuncheng Guo, et al.. (2019). Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax7047–eaax7047. 56 indexed citations

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Hinkel, Jochen, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Sally Brown, et al.. (2018). The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change. 8(7). 570–578. 186 indexed citations

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Du, Shiqiang, Paolo Scussolini, Jiahong Wen, et al.. (2018). Rapid Population Growth in Chinese Floodplains from 1990 to 2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(8). 1602–1602. 23 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Brenden Jongman, et al.. (2016). FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(5). 1049–1061. 213 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, J.C.J.H. Aerts, Brenden Jongman, et al.. (2015). FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards. VU Research Portal. 14 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, Erik van Sebille, & Jonathan V. Durgadoo. (2013). Paleo Agulhas rings enter the subtropical gyre during the penultimate deglaciation. Climate of the past. 9(6). 2631–2639. 16 indexed citations

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Morellón, Mario, Ana Pérez-Sanz, Juan Pablo Corella, et al.. (2012). A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees. Climate of the past. 8(2). 683–700. 73 indexed citations

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