Umberto Lombardo

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Umberto Lombardo is a scholar working on History, General Health Professions and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Umberto Lombardo has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in History, 15 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Umberto Lombardo's work include Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (28 papers), Indigenous Health and Education (15 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (11 papers). Umberto Lombardo is often cited by papers focused on Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (28 papers), Indigenous Health and Education (15 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (11 papers). Umberto Lombardo collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and United Kingdom. Umberto Lombardo's co-authors include Heinz Veit, José M. Capriles, Heiko Prümers, Leonor Rodrigues, Jan‐Hendrik May, Javier Ruiz-Pérez, José Iriarte, Lautaro Hilbert, H. Veit and Daniel García‐Castellanos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Umberto Lombardo

35 papers receiving 999 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.

Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia

2020 133 citations Umberto Lombardo, José Iriarte et al. Nature profile →
p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

2022 51 citations José M. Capriles, Julie A. Hoggarth et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Umberto Lombardo Switzerland	21	562	294	247	197	170	39	1.0k
S. Yoshi Maezumi United Kingdom	18	380 0.7×	257 0.9×	216 0.9×	290 1.5×	531 3.1×	37	1.4k
Damian Evans France	20	71 0.1×	499 1.7×	36 0.1×	164 0.8×	79 0.5×	46	1.4k
Paul R. Fish United States	18	70 0.1×	450 1.5×	54 0.2×	105 0.5×	134 0.8×	47	831
W. Paul Adderley United Kingdom	15	40 0.1×	298 1.0×	92 0.4×	112 0.6×	279 1.6×	34	777
H. Veit Switzerland	17	68 0.1×	109 0.4×	65 0.3×	125 0.6×	388 2.3×	29	603
Ulf Segerström Sweden	20	54 0.1×	190 0.6×	93 0.4×	333 1.7×	684 4.0×	30	1.0k
Kristof Haneca Belgium	15	51 0.1×	279 0.9×	85 0.3×	61 0.3×	617 3.6×	59	1.1k
Julie C. Aleman Canada	15	31 0.1×	89 0.3×	93 0.4×	171 0.9×	345 2.0×	32	702
Lynley A. Wallis Australia	16	16 0.0×	418 1.4×	145 0.6×	127 0.6×	321 1.9×	92	906
Franz Herzig Germany	7	33 0.1×	256 0.9×	50 0.2×	120 0.6×	890 5.2×	12	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Umberto Lombardo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Raczka, Marco F., Umberto Lombardo, Ezequiel Chavez, et al.. (2025). Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia. The Holocene. 35(8). 729–742.

Lombardo, Umberto, José Iriarte, Lautaro Hilbert, et al.. (2020). Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia. Nature. 581(7807). 190–193. 133 indexed citations breakdown →

Souza, Jonas Gregório de, Mark Robinson, S. Yoshi Maezumi, et al.. (2019). Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1007–1017. 47 indexed citations

Blatrix, Rumsaïs, Philippe Béarez, Leonor Rodrigues, et al.. (2018). The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5998–5998. 27 indexed citations

Lombardo, Umberto. (2017). River logjams cause frequent large-scale forest die-off events in southwestern Amazonia. Earth System Dynamics. 8(3). 565–575. 10 indexed citations

Lombardo, Umberto. (2017). Estimating the pre-Columbian population of southwestern Amazonia..

Rodrigues, Leonor, Umberto Lombardo, & Heinz Veit. (2017). Design of pre-Columbian raised fields in the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazon: Differential adaptations to the local environment?. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 17. 366–378. 24 indexed citations

Lombardo, Umberto, Leonor Rodrigues, & Heinz Veit. (2017). Alluvial plain dynamics and human occupation in SW Amazonia during the Holocene: A paleosol-based reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews. 180. 30–41. 12 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Leonor, et al.. (2016). An insight into pre-Columbian raised fields: the case of San Borja, Bolivian lowlands. SOIL. 2(3). 367–389. 12 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto. (2016). Alluvial plain dynamics in the southern Amazonian foreland basin. Earth System Dynamics. 7(2). 453–467. 22 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Leonor, et al.. (2016). Linking soil properties and pre-Columbian agricultural strategies in the Bolivian lowlands: The case of raised fields in Exaltación. Quaternary International. 437. 143–155. 17 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto, et al.. (2015). Soil properties and pre-Columbian settlement patterns in the Monumental Mounds Region of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazon. SOIL. 1(1). 65–81. 16 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto. (2014). Neotectonics, flooding patterns and landscape evolution in southern Amazonia. Earth Surface Dynamics. 2(2). 493–511. 24 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Leonor, et al.. (2014). Pre-Columbian agriculture in the Bolivian Lowlands: Construction history and management of raised fields in Bermeo. CATENA. 132. 126–138. 21 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto. (2014). Quantitative morphometric analysis of lakes using GIS: rectangularityR, ellipticityE, orientationO, and the rectangularity vs. ellipticity index, REi. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 41(4). 340–347. 5 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto. (2012). Pre-Columbian human-environment interactions in the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazon. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern).

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Lombardo, Umberto, et al.. (2012). Eco-archaeological regions in the Bolivian Amazon. Geographica Helvetica. 66(3). 173–182. 25 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto, et al.. (2010). Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia: a prehistoric green revolution or a flood risk mitigation strategy?. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38(3). 502–512. 70 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Umberto & Heiko Prümers. (2010). Pre-Columbian human occupation patterns in the eastern plains of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazonia. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37(8). 1875–1885. 79 indexed citations

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García‐Castellanos, Daniel & Umberto Lombardo. (2007). Poles of inaccessibility: A calculation algorithm for the remotest places on earth. Scottish Geographical Journal. 123(3). 227–233. 32 indexed citations

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