[1][2] In 1992, she was president of the European Science Foundation scientific committee for the Ocean Drilling Program.
She was president of the Italian geological society (Società geologica italiana) from 1989 to 1990, the first woman to hold that office.
[1][3] Cita participated in the 1970 exploration of the Mediterranean sea floor by the research vessel Glomar Challenger which collected data on the Messinian salinity crisis.
[4] She published over 200 articles in various journals on micropaleontology, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography and marine geology.
She served on the editorial boards for journals in the fields of micropaleontology, geology, oceanography and stratigraphy.