Stefano Aliani

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Aliani is a scholar working on Pollution, Oceanography and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Aliani has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Pollution, 27 papers in Oceanography and 20 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stefano Aliani's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (29 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (20 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers). Stefano Aliani is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (29 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (20 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers). Stefano Aliani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Stefano Aliani's co-authors include Giuseppe Suaria, Peter G. Ryan, Vonica Perold, Anne Molcard, Jasmine Lee, Francesco Regoli, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Marcello G. Magaldi, Genuario Belmonte and Charles J. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Aliani

65 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters

2016 587 citations Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

2020 370 citations Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold et al. Science Advances profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Aliani

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Weathered microplastics alter deep sea benthic biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment 2025 ·Environmental Pollution ·Claudia Dessì, Stefano Aliani, (unknown), Maria Cristina Follesa, Davide Moccia, Giuseppe Suaria, Andrea Paluselli, Alessandro Cau	0
2	Remote sensing and image analysis of macro-plastic litter: A review 2025 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Shin’ichiro Kako, Tomoya Kataoka, Daisuke Matsuoka, Yukihiro Takahashi, (unknown), Stefano Aliani, Umberto Andriolo, Heidi M. Dierssen, Tim van Emmerik, Gil Gonçalves, Víctor Martínez-Vicente, Pravakar Mishra, João Gama Monteiro, Konstantinos Topouzelis, Atsuhiko Isobe	0
3	Proof of concept for a new sensor to monitor marine litter from space 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Andrés Cózar, Manuel Arias, Giuseppe Suaria, Josué Viejo, Stefano Aliani, Aristeidis Koutroulis, (unknown), (unknown), Diego Macías, Robin de Vries, (unknown), Carmen Morales‐Caselles, Antonio Turiel, Daniel González‐Fernández, Paolo Corradi	28
4	Abundance and composition of small floating plastics in the eastern and southern sectors of the Atlantic Ocean 2023 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Giuseppe Suaria, (unknown), Vonica Perold, Stefano Aliani, Peter G. Ryan	12
5	Reproducible pipelines and readiness levels in plastic monitoring 2023 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Stefano Aliani, Amy Lusher, François Galgani, Dorte Herzke, Vladimir Nikiforov, Sebastian Primpke, Lisa Roscher, Vitor Hugo da Silva, Jakob Strand, Giuseppe Suaria, (unknown), (unknown), Bavo De Witte, Bert van Bavel	21
6	Sentinel-2 Detection of Floating Marine Litter Targets with Partial Spectral Unmixing and Spectral Comparison with Other Floating Materials (Plastic Litter Project 2021) 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Dimitris Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Topouzelis, Giuseppe Suaria, Stefano Aliani, Paolo Corradi	25
7	Floating marine litter detection algorithms and techniques using optical remote sensing data: A review 2021 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Konstantinos Topouzelis, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Giuseppe Suaria, Stefano Aliani	91
8	Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization breakdown → 2020 ·Science Advances ·Giuseppe Suaria, (unknown), Vonica Perold, Jasmine Lee, Andrea Pierucci, Thomas G. Bornman, Stefano Aliani, Peter G. Ryan	370
9	Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition 2020 ·Environment International ·Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold, Jasmine Lee, (unknown), Stefano Aliani, Peter G. Ryan	194
10	Sampling microfibres at the sea surface: The effects of mesh size, sample volume and water depth 2019 ·Environmental Pollution ·Peter G. Ryan, Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold, Andrea Pierucci, Thomas G. Bornman, Stefano Aliani	82
11	Benthic diversity patterns and predictors: A study case with inferences for conservation 2019 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Paolo Vassallo, Chiara Paoli, Stefano Aliani, Silvia Cocito, Carla Morri, Carlo Nike Bianchi	13
12	Oceanographic moorings as year-round laboratories for investigating growth performance and settlement dynamics in the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki (E. A. Smith, 1902) 2019 ·PeerJ ·Stefano Schiaparelli, Stefano Aliani	4
13	The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters breakdown → 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio, (unknown), Gwendolyn L. Lattin, Marcello G. Magaldi, Genuario Belmonte, Charles J. Moore, Francesco Regoli, Stefano Aliani	587
14	First observations on the abundance and composition of floating debris in the North-western Black Sea 2015 ·Marine Environmental Research ·Giuseppe Suaria, Mihaela Melinte‐Dobrinescu, Gabriel Ion, Stefano Aliani	52
15	GUARD1: An autonomous system for gelatinous zooplankton image-based recognition 2015 ·Simone Marini, Lorenzo Corgnati, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stefano Aliani, Alessandra Conversi, Annalisa Griffa	6
16	Carbon fluxes from hydrothermal vents off Milos, Aegean Volcanic Arc, and the influence of venting on the surrounding ecosystem. 2014 ·CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) ·P. R. Dando, Stefano Aliani, (unknown), Hilary Kennedy, Петер Линке, Carla Morri	1
17	From microbes to macrofauna: an integrated study of deep benthic communities and their response to environmental variables along the Malta Escarpment (Ionian Sea) 2013 ·Scientia Marina ·(unknown), Stefano Aliani, Alessandra Conversi, Marc Lavaleye, (unknown), Elena Manini	20
18	Preliminary results from a bathymetric and seismo-stratigraphic survey in the Kongsfjorden, Svalbard Islands 2013 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·(unknown), Federico Giglio, Leonardo Langone, Stefano Miserocchi, Stefano Aliani, Luca Gasperini	1
19	Genetic input by Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile fruits dispersed by currents in the Ligurian Sea 2010 ·Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology ·Carla Micheli, (unknown), Stefano Aliani, G.P. Gasparini, Anne Molcard, Andrea Peirano	21
20	Hitch-hiking on floating marine debris: macrobenthic species in the Western Mediterranean Sea 2003 ·Hydrobiologia ·Stefano Aliani, Anne Molcard	88

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