Akli Benali

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Akli Benali is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Akli Benali has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Akli Benali's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Akli Benali is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Akli Benali collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Italy. Akli Benali's co-authors include Nuno Carvalhais, João Pedro Nunes, Ana Cristina Carvalho, Artur Santos, José M. C. Pereira, Ana C. L. Sá, Bernardo Mota, Paulo M. Fernandes, José M. Moreno and Joaquín Bedia and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Ecological Applications.

In The Last Decade

Akli Benali

32 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Estimating air surface temperature in Portugal using MODIS LST data

2012 406 citations Akli Benali, João Pedro Nunes et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akli Benali Portugal	17	860	430	292	279	168	37	1.1k
Leonardo F. Peres Brazil	19	821 1.0×	575 1.3×	355 1.2×	403 1.4×	50 0.3×	54	1.4k
Francesca Di Giuseppe United Kingdom	23	1.3k 1.5×	217 0.5×	111 0.4×	645 2.3×	132 0.8×	74	1.5k
Bernardo Mota Portugal	14	934 1.1×	139 0.3×	354 1.2×	288 1.0×	132 0.8×	24	1.1k
Junnan Xiong China	21	877 1.0×	181 0.4×	224 0.8×	315 1.1×	202 1.2×	63	1.1k
Edward Dwyer Ireland	14	531 0.6×	411 1.0×	531 1.8×	294 1.1×	157 0.9×	19	1.1k
Malik Amraoui Portugal	11	808 0.9×	112 0.3×	192 0.7×	142 0.5×	184 1.1×	21	968
Gail Schmidt United States	9	964 1.1×	451 1.0×	1.0k 3.4×	298 1.1×	106 0.6×	13	1.6k
Julien Ruffault France	23	1.6k 1.9×	172 0.4×	289 1.0×	457 1.6×	292 1.7×	43	1.8k
Ali Sarhadi Canada	16	1.3k 1.5×	168 0.4×	140 0.5×	461 1.7×	90 0.5×	23	1.6k
José Manuel Fernández‐Guisuraga Spain	20	871 1.0×	342 0.8×	615 2.1×	120 0.4×	99 0.6×	61	1.1k

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Giannaros, Theodore M., et al.. (2026). Fire Behavior and Propagation of Twin Wildfires in a Mediterranean Landscape: A Case Study from İzmir, Türkiye. Fire. 9(2). 86–86.

Parente, Joana, et al.. (2025). Multidecadal satellite-derived Portuguese Burn Severity Atlas (1984–2022). Earth system science data. 17(9). 4957–4984.

Benali, Akli, et al.. (2025). A Near-Real-Time Operational Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) Product to Support Decision-Making at the National Level. Fire. 8(5). 178–178.

Benali, Akli, et al.. (2025). H-Component Variations Induced by Geomagnetic Storms during Solar Cycle 24: Insights from TAM Observatory. Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. 65(4). 71–78.

Russo, Ana, Renata Libonati, Ricardo M. Trigo, et al.. (2024). Lightning-induced fire regime in Portugal based on satellite-derived and in situ data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110108–110108. 4 indexed citations

Marta‐Almeida, Martinho, et al.. (2023). Wildfire exposure and risk in pulp paper companies’ plantations under extreme weather conditions: A case study in North-Western Portugal. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 100. 104064–104064. 3 indexed citations

Sá, Ana C. L., et al.. (2023). A method to produce a flexible and customized fuel models dataset. MethodsX. 10. 102218–102218. 5 indexed citations

Benali, Akli, et al.. (2023). Defining priorities for wildfire mitigation actions at the local scale: insights from a novel risk analysis method applied in Portugal. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 6. 7 indexed citations

Benali, Akli, et al.. (2023). MTTfireCAL Package for R—An Innovative, Comprehensive, and Fast Procedure to Calibrate the MTT Fire Spread Modelling System. Fire. 6(6). 219–219. 2 indexed citations

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Benali, Akli, Nuno Guiomar, Hugo Gonçalves, et al.. (2023). The Portuguese Large Wildfire Spread database (PT-FireSprd). Earth system science data. 15(8). 3791–3818. 17 indexed citations

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Baartman, Jantiene, et al.. (2022). How do large wildfires impact sediment redistribution over multiple decades?. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 47(13). 3033–3050. 8 indexed citations

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Calheiros, Tomás, Akli Benali, Mário Pereira, João M. N. Silva, & João Pedro Nunes. (2022). Drivers of extreme burnt area in Portugal: fire weather and vegetation. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(12). 4019–4037. 11 indexed citations

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Vieira, Diana, et al.. (2022). Wildfires in Europe: Burned soils require attention. Environmental Research. 217. 114936–114936. 36 indexed citations

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Sá, Ana C. L., Akli Benali, Michele Salis, et al.. (2022). Coupling wildfire spread simulations and connectivity analysis for hazard assessment: a case study in Serra da Cabreira, Portugal. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(12). 3917–3938. 13 indexed citations

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Calheiros, Tomás, Akli Benali, João M. N. Silva, Mário Pereira, & João Pedro Nunes. (2021). Spatial variability in the relation between fire weather and burned area: patterns and drivers in Portugal. 1 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Sandra, et al.. (2020). Assessing Risk and Prioritizing Safety Interventions in Human Settlements Affected by Large Wildfires. Forests. 11(8). 859–859. 36 indexed citations

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Benali, Akli, et al.. (2016). Deciphering the impact of uncertainty on the accuracy of large wildfire spread simulations. The Science of The Total Environment. 569-570. 73–85. 47 indexed citations

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Benali, Akli, Ana C. L. Sá, Paulo M. Fernandes, et al.. (2016). Probabilistic fire spread forecast as a management tool in an operational setting. SpringerPlus. 5(1). 1205–1205. 31 indexed citations

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Nunes, João Pedro, et al.. (2015). A simple water balance model adapted for soil water repellency: application on Portuguese burned and unburned eucalypt stands. Hydrological Processes. 30(3). 463–478. 21 indexed citations

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Carvalhais, Nuno, Markus Reichstein, G. J. Collatz, et al.. (2010). Deciphering the components of regional net ecosystem fluxes following a bottom-up approach for the Iberian Peninsula. Biogeosciences. 7(11). 3707–3729. 23 indexed citations

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