Vito Ferro

11.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
349 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Vito Ferro is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vito Ferro has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 239 papers in Ecology, 216 papers in Soil Science and 157 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vito Ferro's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (237 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (200 papers) and Hydraulic flow and structures (124 papers). Vito Ferro is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (237 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (200 papers) and Hydraulic flow and structures (124 papers). Vito Ferro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Iran and United States. Vito Ferro's co-authors include Costanza Di Stefano, Vincenzo Bagarello, Vincenzo Pampalone, Francesco Giuseppe Carollo, Paolo Porto, Vincenzo Palmeri, Alessio Nicosia, Giuseppe Giordano, Sirio Modugno and Katrin Meusburger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Vito Ferro

327 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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. An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion
    2017 1.8k citations Vito Ferro, Vincenzo Bagarello et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Vito Ferro 6.5k 5.9k 2.9k 2.7k 1.7k 349 9.3k
Peter Richard Wilcock 4.4k 0.7× 5.9k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.4× 1.8k 1.0× 124 7.4k
Andrew Simon 4.3k 0.7× 5.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 147 7.0k
C. W. Rose 4.3k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 965 0.6× 199 6.1k
Vincenzo Bagarello 3.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.3× 1.5k 0.5× 2.0k 0.7× 764 0.5× 176 5.5k
Marwan A. Hassan 3.5k 0.5× 4.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 661 0.2× 879 0.5× 213 5.7k
D. K. McCool 5.7k 0.9× 2.9k 0.5× 3.4k 1.2× 453 0.2× 1.2k 0.7× 71 7.1k
G. R. Foster 9.9k 1.5× 5.6k 1.0× 5.5k 1.9× 820 0.3× 2.3k 1.3× 96 11.6k
James C. Bathurst 2.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.5× 4.0k 1.4× 1.3k 0.5× 508 0.3× 89 6.6k
XC Zhang 4.0k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 2.9k 1.0× 711 0.3× 973 0.6× 176 6.7k
Francesco Comiti 3.9k 0.6× 5.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.7× 781 0.3× 479 0.3× 178 6.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vito Ferro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vito Ferro

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

All Works

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Carollo, Francesco Giuseppe, et al.. (2025). Integrated Approach to Assess Simulated Rainfall Uniformity and Energy-Related Parameters for Erosion Studies. Water. 17(23). 3429–3429.
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Nicosia, Alessio, Francesco Giuseppe Carollo, Costanza Di Stefano, et al.. (2024). Overland flow resistance: A review. Earth-Science Reviews. 258. 104949–104949. 2 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, et al.. (2024). Assessing a transitional and turbulent overland flow resistance law for surfaces with different roughness. Journal of Hydrology. 641. 131858–131858. 4 indexed citations
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Stefano, Costanza Di, et al.. (2024). Comment on “the hydraulic investigation of harmonic plan weirs” by A. Yıldız, A. İhsan Marti, M. Göğüş. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 97. 102606–102606.
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Nicosia, Alessio, et al.. (2024). The stage-discharge relationship of a sharp-crested triangular weir pierced by square orifices. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 100. 102705–102705. 1 indexed citations
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Stefano, Costanza Di, et al.. (2024). Effects of surface inoculation of biological soil crusts on laminar overland flow resistance. Hydrological Processes. 38(6). 1 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, et al.. (2024). Effects of longitudinal profile shape on scour and flow resistance in rills. European Journal of Soil Science. 75(4).
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Pampalone, Vincenzo, et al.. (2024). Empirical modeling of soil erosion using unit plot data at Sparacia experimental area (southern Italy). Journal of Soils and Sediments. 24(6). 2535–2547. 3 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, Francesco Giuseppe Carollo, Costanza Di Stefano, et al.. (2024). The Importance of Measuring Soil Erosion by Water at the Field Scale: A Review. Water. 16(23). 3427–3427. 2 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, et al.. (2023). Deducing the stage-discharge relationship of rectangular broad and sharp-crested contraction devices. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 91. 102365–102365. 2 indexed citations
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Ferro, Vito & Alessio Nicosia. (2023). Soil Erosion Measurement Techniques and Field Experiments. Water. 15(15). 2846–2846. 2 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, Costanza Di Stefano, & Vito Ferro. (2022). A generalized stage-discharge relationship for sharp-crested power-law weirs by dimensional analysis and self-similarity. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 86. 102200–102200. 9 indexed citations
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Nicosia, Alessio, Costanza Di Stefano, Vincenzo Pampalone, Vincenzo Palmeri, & Vito Ferro. (2021). Assessing an overland flow resistance approach under equilibrium sediment transport conditions. CATENA. 207. 105578–105578. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Li, et al.. (2019). Variable power‐law scaling of hillslope Hortonian rainfall–runoff processes. Hydrological Processes. 33(22). 2926–2938. 11 indexed citations
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Bagarello, Vincenzo, Vito Ferro, Saskia Keesstra, et al.. (2018). Testing simple scaling in soil erosion processes at plot scale. CATENA. 167. 171–180. 33 indexed citations
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Bagarello, Vincenzo, Vito Ferro, Giuseppe Giordano, et al.. (2018). Statistical check of USLE‐M and USLE‐MM to predict bare plot soil loss in two Italian environments. Land Degradation and Development. 29(8). 2614–2628. 17 indexed citations
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Sofia, Giulia, Costanza Di Stefano, Vito Ferro, & Paolo Tarolli. (2017). Morphological Similarity of Channels: From Linear Erosional Features (Rill, Gully) to Alpine Rivers. Land Degradation and Development. 28(5). 1717–1728. 7 indexed citations
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Ferro, Vito, et al.. (1998). Testing a distributed approach for modelling sediment delivery. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 43(3). 425–442. 49 indexed citations
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Ferro, Vito & Mario Minacapilli. (1995). Sediment delivery processes at basin scale. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 40(6). 703–717. 208 indexed citations

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