Sebastiano Foti

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
153 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sebastiano Foti is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastiano Foti has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Geophysics, 70 papers in Ocean Engineering and 64 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sebastiano Foti's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (88 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (52 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (33 papers). Sebastiano Foti is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (88 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (52 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (33 papers). Sebastiano Foti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Australia. Sebastiano Foti's co-authors include Laura Valentina Socco, D. Boiero, Claudio Strobbia, Carlo G. Lai, Cesare Comina, Glenn J. Rix, Margherita Maraschini, Dario Albarello, Matteo Picozzi and Donato Sabia and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Geophysics and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

Sebastiano Foti

142 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Surface-wave analysis for building near-surface velocity models — Established approaches and new perspectives

2010 387 citations Laura Valentina Socco, Sebastiano Foti et al. Geophysics profile →
Guidelines for the good practice of surface wave analysis: a product of the InterPACIFIC project

2017 352 citations Sebastiano Foti, Cesare Comina et al. profile →
Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization

2014 258 citations Sebastiano Foti, Carlo G. Lai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastiano Foti Italy	30	3.1k	1.6k	1.4k	447	296	153	3.9k
Laura Valentina Socco Italy	24	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	399 0.3×	438 1.0×	162 0.5×	117	2.8k
Choon B. Park United States	27	6.0k 1.9×	3.4k 2.1×	1.2k 0.8×	877 2.0×	445 1.5×	73	6.3k
Cesare Comina Italy	22	1.3k 0.4×	739 0.5×	446 0.3×	178 0.4×	249 0.8×	136	1.8k
Dante Fratta United States	23	632 0.2×	484 0.3×	538 0.4×	183 0.4×	210 0.7×	98	1.4k
Marco Mucciarelli Italy	33	2.3k 0.7×	321 0.2×	2.1k 1.5×	275 0.6×	116 0.4×	149	3.2k
Brady R. Cox United States	29	2.0k 0.6×	688 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	250 0.6×	114 0.4×	123	2.9k
Philip Meldrum United Kingdom	32	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	314 0.2×	97 0.2×	186 0.6×	93	2.8k
Angela Perrone Italy	24	1.2k 0.4×	857 0.5×	360 0.3×	95 0.2×	186 0.6×	66	1.9k
Lichao Nie China	21	619 0.2×	871 0.5×	662 0.5×	76 0.2×	546 1.8×	71	1.5k
Stephen Bourne Netherlands	24	1.6k 0.5×	450 0.3×	222 0.2×	201 0.4×	300 1.0×	58	2.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cox, Brady R., et al.. (2025). A frequency‐domain beamforming procedure for extracting Rayleigh wave attenuation coefficients and small‐strain damping ratio from 2D ambient noise array measurements. Earthquake Spectra. 41(2). 1333–1363.

Civera, Marco, et al.. (2024). Preliminary Insights from Surveys of Bridges at High Scouring Risk in West Piedmont. Procedia Structural Integrity. 62. 609–616. 2 indexed citations

Sextos, Anastasios, Raffaele De Risi, Alessandro Pagliaroli, et al.. (2018). Local Site Effects and Incremental Damage of Buildings during the 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence. Earthquake Spectra. 34(4). 1639–1669. 92 indexed citations

Passeri, Federico, Sebastiano Foti, Brady R. Cox, & Adrián Rodríguez-Marek. (2018). Influence of Epistemic Uncertainty in Shear Wave Velocity on Seismic Ground Response Analyses. Earthquake Spectra. 35(2). 929–954. 32 indexed citations

Passeri, Federico, et al.. (2018). Geophysical Monitoring of Blast-induced Liquefaction At the Mirabello (ne Italy) Test Site. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 23(3). 319–333. 10 indexed citations

Bonilla, Luis Fabián, et al.. (2016). IN SITU SHEAR MODULUS REDUCTION COMPUTATION USING SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY BY DECONVOLUTION FROM BOREHOLE AND SURFACE DATA: THEORY AND EXAMPLES. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 1 indexed citations

Foti, Sebastiano & Federico Passeri. (2016). RELIABILITY OF SOIL POROSITY ESTIMATION FROM SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITIES. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 3 indexed citations

Musso, Guido, et al.. (2015). Assessment of the structural representativeness of sample data sets for the mechanical characterization of deep formations. Geophysics. 80(5). D441–D457. 6 indexed citations

Kontoe, Stavroula, et al.. (2015). Numerical modelling of wave attenuation through soil. 3959–3964. 1 indexed citations

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Foti, Sebastiano. (2013). Combined use of geophysical methods in site characterization. 1(12). 43–61. 2 indexed citations

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Maraschini, Margherita, D. Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, & Laura Valentina Socco. (2011). Scale properties of the seismic wavefield perspectives for full-waveform matching. Geophysics. 76(5). A37–A44. 9 indexed citations

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Maraschini, Margherita, Fabian Ernst, Sebastiano Foti, & Laura Valentina Socco. (2010). A new misfit function for multimodal inversion of surface waves. Geophysics. 75(4). G31–G43. 120 indexed citations

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d’Onofrio, Anna, Francesco Silvestri, D. Boiero, et al.. (2010). Geotechnical Characterization of the C.A.S.E. project sites. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 3 indexed citations

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Socco, Laura Valentina, D. Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, & Roger Wisén. (2009). Laterally constrained inversion of ground roll from seismic reflection records. Geophysics. 74(6). G35–G45. 99 indexed citations

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Comina, Cesare, et al.. (2005). IMAGING HETEROGENEITIES AND DIFFUSION IN SAND SAMPLES. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 6 indexed citations

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Foti, Sebastiano. (2004). Using transfer function for estimating dissipative properties of soils from surface‐wave data. Near Surface Geophysics. 2(4). 231–240. 22 indexed citations

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Comina, Cesare, Sebastiano Foti, Laura Valentina Socco, & Claudio Strobbia. (2004). Geophysical characterisation for seepage potential assessment along the embankment of the Po River. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 1 indexed citations

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Cancelli, Anthony A., Sebastiano Foti, Diego Carlo Lo Presti, et al.. (2001). Geological and Geotechnical investigations for the seismic response analysis at Castelnuovo Garfagnana in Central Italy. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 3 indexed citations

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Foti, Sebastiano, et al.. (2000). Caratterizzazione geotecnica dei terreni mediante l'uso di tecniche geofisiche. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 3 indexed citations

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Rix, Glenn J., et al.. (1998). Surface wave tests in landfills and embankments. 1008–1019. 18 indexed citations

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