Sara Barsotti

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sara Barsotti is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Barsotti has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Sara Barsotti's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (21 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (13 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (11 papers). Sara Barsotti is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (21 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (13 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (11 papers). Sara Barsotti collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, Italy and United Kingdom. Sara Barsotti's co-authors include Augusto Neri, Lee Siebert, Larry G. Mastin, William I. Rose, Marianne Guffanti, Barbara J. B. Stunder, A. C. Volentik, John W. Ewert, Andrew Tupper and D. Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sara Barsotti

58 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

A multidisciplinary effort to assign realistic source parameters to models of volcanic ash-cloud transport and dispersion during eruptions

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sara Barsotti	869	644	563	204	159	65	1.5k
D. J. Schneider	943 1.1×	778 1.2×	1.0k 1.8×	114 0.6×	340 2.1×	73	2.2k
Marianne Guffanti	741 0.9×	519 0.8×	663 1.2×	132 0.6×	216 1.4×	46	1.4k
John W. Ewert	729 0.8×	505 0.8×	657 1.2×	98 0.5×	200 1.3×	45	1.4k
Thea Hincks	403 0.5×	286 0.4×	609 1.1×	103 0.5×	206 1.3×	28	1.2k
Andrew Tupper	933 1.1×	907 1.4×	243 0.4×	132 0.6×	59 0.4×	32	1.3k
Sébastien Biass	527 0.6×	361 0.6×	505 0.9×	85 0.4×	103 0.6×	56	1.1k
R. Servranckx	1.7k 2.0×	1.9k 2.9×	245 0.4×	176 0.9×	50 0.3×	27	2.4k
Mathieu Gouhier	623 0.7×	399 0.6×	446 0.8×	77 0.4×	76 0.5×	42	1.0k
C. A. Werner	571 0.7×	668 1.0×	1.2k 2.1×	426 2.1×	412 2.6×	77	2.1k
Laura Sandri	516 0.6×	425 0.7×	1.7k 3.0×	123 0.6×	716 4.5×	88	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Barsotti

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Barclay, Jenni, et al.. (2025). Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises. Nature Geoscience. 18(11). 1077–1080.

Beckett, Frances, Sara Barsotti, Fabio Dioguardi, et al.. (2024). Conducting volcanic ash cloud exercises: practising forecast evaluation procedures and the pull-through of scientific advice to the London VAAC. Bulletin of Volcanology. 86(7). 1 indexed citations

Sigmundsson, Freysteinn, Michelle Parks, Halldór Geirsson, et al.. (2024). Fracturing and tectonic stress drive ultrarapid magma flow into dikes. Science. 383(6688). 1228–1235. 32 indexed citations

Parks, Michelle, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Vincent Drouin, et al.. (2024). 2021–2023 Unrest and Geodetic Observations at Askja Volcano, Iceland. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 4 indexed citations

Halldórsson, Sæmundur A., Bergrún Arna Óladóttir, Melissa Pfeffer, et al.. (2024). Magmatic Controls on Volcanic Sulfur Emissions at the Iceland Hotspot. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 25(5).

Barnie, Talfan, Manuel Títos, Bergur H. Bergsson, et al.. (2023). Volcanic plume height monitoring using calibrated web cameras at the Icelandic Meteorological Office: system overview and first application during the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(1). 9 indexed citations

Parks, Michelle, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Vincent Drouin, et al.. (2023). Deformation, seismicity, and monitoring response preceding and during the 2022 Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology. 85(10). 14 indexed citations

Pedersen, Gro B. M., Melissa Pfeffer, Sara Barsotti, et al.. (2023). Lava flow hazard modeling during the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland: applications of MrLavaLoba. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(9). 3147–3168. 8 indexed citations

Whitty, Rachel C. W., Melissa Pfeffer, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of low-cost air quality monitors for identifying volcanic SO₂ and PM downwind from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 33–59. 5 indexed citations

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Lowenstern, Jacob B., Kristi L. Wallace, Sara Barsotti, et al.. (2022). Guidelines for volcano-observatory operations during crises: recommendations from the 2019 volcano observatory best practices meeting. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 25 indexed citations

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Carlsen, Hanne Krage, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Peter J. Baxter, et al.. (2021). Increased respiratory morbidity associated with exposure to a mature volcanic plume from a large Icelandic fissure eruption. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2161–2161. 24 indexed citations

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Tarquini, Simone, et al.. (2018). Modeling lava flow propagation over a flat landscape by using MrLavaLoba: the case of the 2014–2015 eruption at Holuhraun, Iceland. Annals of Geophysics. 62(2). VO228–VO228. 9 indexed citations

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Stefánsson, Andri, Gerður Stefánsdóttir, N. S. Keller, et al.. (2017). Major impact of volcanic gases on the chemical composition of precipitation in Iceland during the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(3). 1971–1982. 27 indexed citations

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Jónsdóttir, Kristín, Andrew Hooper, Kristján Jónasson, et al.. (2017). Bárðarbunga volcano - post-eruption trends following the Holuhraun eruption in 2014-2015. EGUGA. 12535. 1 indexed citations

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Galle, Bo, Melissa Pfeffer, Santiago Arellano, et al.. (2016). Measurements of the gas emission from Holuhraun volcanic fissure eruption on Iceland, using Scanning DOAS instruments. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts.

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Pfeffer, Melissa, Gerður Stefánsdóttir, Baldur Bergsson, et al.. (2015). Ground-based measurements of the emission rate and composition of gases from the Holuhraun eruption. EGUGA. 7373. 2 indexed citations

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Barsotti, Sara, Kristín Jónsdóttir, Matthew J. Roberts, et al.. (2015). An overview of the Icelandic Volcano Observatory response to the on-going rifting event at Bárðarbunga (Iceland) and the SO2 emergency associated with the gas-rich eruption in Holuhraun. EGUGA. 12581.

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Barsotti, Sara, et al.. (2015). Abundant SO2 release from the 2014 Holuhraun eruption (Bárðarbunga, Iceland) and its impact on human health. EGUGA. 12886. 1 indexed citations

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Tarquini, Simone, et al.. (2015). Simulating the lava flow formed during the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption (Bardarbunga volcanic system, Iceland) by using the new F-L probabilistic code. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11851. 1 indexed citations

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Burton, Mike, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Alessandro La Spina, et al.. (2015). Contrasting gas compositions and fluxes produced by the Holuhraun 2014/2015 eruption and the Fimmvörðuháls 2010 eruption, Iceland. EGUGA. 15899. 1 indexed citations

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