Raffaello Cossu

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Raffaello Cossu is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raffaello Cossu has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 19 papers in Building and Construction and 16 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Raffaello Cossu's work include Landfill Environmental Impact Studies (20 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (19 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (13 papers). Raffaello Cossu is often cited by papers focused on Landfill Environmental Impact Studies (20 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (19 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (13 papers). Raffaello Cossu collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and China. Raffaello Cossu's co-authors include Luca Alibardi, Francesca Girotto, Roberto Raga, Maria Cristina Lavagnolo, Tiziana Lai, Alberto Pivato, Thomas H. Christensen, R. Stegmann, Alessandro Spagni and Mubbshir Saleem and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Raffaello Cossu

95 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review
    2015 533 citations Francesca Girotto, Luca Alibardi et al. Waste Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raffaello Cossu Italy 33 1.5k 985 931 801 664 98 3.6k
Silvia Fiore Italy 30 1.2k 0.8× 671 0.7× 654 0.7× 725 0.9× 561 0.8× 140 3.4k
Junting Pan China 37 921 0.6× 1000 1.0× 900 1.0× 560 0.7× 848 1.3× 132 4.2k
Paolo S. Calabrò Italy 33 872 0.6× 538 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 585 0.7× 680 1.0× 92 3.1k
Jianguo Liu China 36 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 650 0.7× 472 0.6× 724 1.1× 101 3.5k
Jes la Cour Jansen Sweden 36 1.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 718 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 2.0k 3.0× 122 4.6k
Göksel N. Demirer Türkiye 34 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 892 1.0× 975 1.2× 957 1.4× 114 4.0k
Xiomar Gómez Spain 41 811 0.5× 2.2k 2.3× 1.5k 1.7× 690 0.9× 680 1.0× 106 4.1k
Michael Nelles Germany 33 920 0.6× 1.4k 1.4× 1.3k 1.4× 422 0.5× 503 0.8× 151 3.4k
Thrassyvoulos Manios Greece 30 1.3k 0.9× 559 0.6× 466 0.5× 555 0.7× 627 0.9× 121 3.5k
Santhana Krishnan Malaysia 34 785 0.5× 722 0.7× 988 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 515 0.8× 90 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Raffaello Cossu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Raffaello Cossu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raffaello Cossu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cossu, Raffaello, et al.. (2025). Treatment of food processing wastewaters by using Black Soldier Fly larvae: Preliminary results. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 73. 107746–107746.
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Cossu, Raffaello. (2018). Why this journal? Why this name?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Raga, Roberto, et al.. (2018). Storage potential and residual emissions from fresh and stabilized waste samples from a landfill simulation experiment. Waste Management. 75. 372–383. 5 indexed citations
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Rafieenia, Razieh, et al.. (2017). Pre-treating anaerobic mixed microflora with waste frying oil: A novel method to inhibit hydrogen consumption. Waste Management. 71. 129–136. 10 indexed citations
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Raga, Roberto, Alberto Pivato, Maria Cristina Lavagnolo, Laura Megido, & Raffaello Cossu. (2017). Methane oxidation and attenuation of sulphur compounds in landfill top cover systems: Lab-scale tests. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 65. 317–326. 12 indexed citations
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Alibardi, Luca & Raffaello Cossu. (2016). Pre-treatment of tannery sludge for sustainable landfilling. Waste Management. 52. 202–211. 67 indexed citations
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Girotto, Francesca, Luca Alibardi, & Raffaello Cossu. (2015). Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review. Waste Management. 45. 32–41. 533 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cossu, Raffaello, et al.. (2015). Biogas production enhancement using semi-aerobic pre-aeration in a hybrid bioreactor landfill. Waste Management. 55. 83–92. 69 indexed citations
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Pivato, Alberto, Stefano Vanin, Roberto Raga, et al.. (2015). Use of digestate from a decentralized on-farm biogas plant as fertilizer in soils: An ecotoxicological study for future indicators in risk and life cycle assessment. Waste Management. 49. 378–389. 97 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello & Tiziana Lai. (2015). Automotive shredder residue (ASR) management: An overview. Waste Management. 45. 143–151. 104 indexed citations
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Alibardi, Luca, et al.. (2014). Anaerobic Digestion of Microalgal Residues to Enhance the Energetic Profit of Biocrude Production. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Alibardi, Luca & Raffaello Cossu. (2014). Composition variability of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste and effects on hydrogen and methane production potentials. Waste Management. 36. 147–155. 192 indexed citations
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Raga, Roberto & Raffaello Cossu. (2014). Landfill aeration in the framework of a reclamation project in Northern Italy. Waste Management. 34(3). 683–691. 41 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello & Salvatore Masi. (2013). Re-thinking incentives and penalties: Economic aspects of waste management in Italy. Waste Management. 33(11). 2541–2547. 30 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello & Tiziana Lai. (2012). Washing of waste prior to landfilling. Waste Management. 32(5). 869–878. 27 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello, et al.. (2012). Standardization of BOD5/COD ratio as a biological stability index for MSW. Waste Management. 32(8). 1503–1508. 44 indexed citations
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Giannis, Apostolos, et al.. (2011). Electrochemical oxidation of stabilized landfill leachate on DSA electrodes. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 190(1-3). 460–465. 78 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello, et al.. (2003). The PAF model: an integrated approach for landfill sustainability. Waste Management. 23(1). 37–44. 110 indexed citations
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Cossu, Raffaello, et al.. (1990). International perspectives on municipal solid wastes and sanitary landfilling : a report from the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association (ISWA), Working Group on Sanitary Landfilling (WGSL). Academic Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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