Alberto Canarini

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Alberto Canarini is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Canarini has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Soil Science, 19 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alberto Canarini's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (9 papers). Alberto Canarini is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (9 papers). Alberto Canarini collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Australia and Japan. Alberto Canarini's co-authors include Andreas Richter, Feike A. Dijkstra, Andrew Merchant, Wolfgang Wanek, Christina Kaiser, Pierre Mariotte, Lars Pødenphant Kiær, Michael Bahn, Hannes Schmidt and Yolima Carrillo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Global Change Biology and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Canarini

37 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and The... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2021 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli
    2019 712 citations Alberto Canarini, Christina Kaiser et al. Frontiers in Plant Science profile →
  2. Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community
    2021 223 citations Alberto Canarini, Hannes Schmidt et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alberto Canarini Austria 21 1.1k 1.0k 720 291 288 39 2.2k
Yangquanwei Zhong China 25 826 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 671 0.9× 377 1.3× 169 0.6× 50 2.0k
Jean‐Christophe Lata France 21 754 0.7× 712 0.7× 560 0.8× 229 0.8× 205 0.7× 52 1.9k
Rongxiao Che China 30 852 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 330 1.1× 397 1.4× 77 2.9k
Yongliang Chen China 27 1.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 256 0.9× 273 0.9× 67 3.1k
Colin Bell United States 19 777 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.4× 300 1.0× 267 0.9× 23 2.4k
Marianne Koranda Austria 12 828 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 890 1.2× 157 0.5× 200 0.7× 16 1.9k
Cong Wang China 23 588 0.5× 863 0.8× 507 0.7× 194 0.7× 162 0.6× 77 1.7k
Shaoshan An China 21 661 0.6× 1.7k 1.7× 1.1k 1.5× 193 0.7× 182 0.6× 62 2.5k
Aurore Kaisermann France 9 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.8× 203 0.7× 587 2.0× 13 2.6k
Christian Poll Germany 29 748 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 852 1.2× 227 0.8× 208 0.7× 75 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alberto Canarini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alberto Canarini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Canarini

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Canarini, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Soil bacterial neutral lipid fatty acids: Markers for carbon storage or necromass?. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 208. 109855–109855. 2 indexed citations
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Marhan, Sven, Ellen Kandeler, Bernd J. Berauer, et al.. (2025). Drought Impacts on Plant–Soil Carbon Allocation—Integrating Future Mean Climatic Conditions. Global Change Biology. 31(2). e70070–e70070. 5 indexed citations
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Fuchslueger, Lucia, et al.. (2025). Post-drought organic carbon mineralization leads to high productivity and nutrient uptake efficiency of perennial grassland after rewetting. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 204. 109744–109744. 3 indexed citations
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Fuchslueger, Lucia, Emily F. Solly, Alberto Canarini, & Albert C. Brangarí. (2024). Overview: Global change effects on terrestrial biogeochemistry at the plant–soil interface. Biogeosciences. 21(17). 3959–3964. 1 indexed citations
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Canarini, Alberto, Lucia Fuchslueger, Jörg Schnecker, et al.. (2024). Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10410–10410. 29 indexed citations
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Fujita, Hiroaki, Masayuki Ushio, Kenta Suzuki, et al.. (2023). Metagenomic analysis of ecological niche overlap and community collapse in microbiome dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1261137–1261137. 6 indexed citations
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Schnecker, Jörg, Alberto Canarini, Lucia Fuchslueger, et al.. (2023). Microbial growth under drought is confined to distinct taxa and modified by potential future climate conditions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5895–5895. 70 indexed citations
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Fujita, Hiroaki, Masayuki Ushio, Kenta Suzuki, et al.. (2023). Alternative stable states, nonlinear behavior, and predictability of microbiome dynamics. Microbiome. 11(1). 63–63. 35 indexed citations
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Fujita, Hiroaki, Masayuki Ushio, Kenta Suzuki, et al.. (2023). Facilitative interaction networks in experimental microbial community dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1153952–1153952. 9 indexed citations
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Richter, Andreas, et al.. (2023). Beyond PLFA: Concurrent extraction of neutral and glycolipid fatty acids provides new insights into soil microbial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 187. 109205–109205. 15 indexed citations
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Canarini, Alberto, Hannes Schmidt, Lucia Fuchslueger, et al.. (2021). Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5308–5308. 223 indexed citations breakdown →
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Canarini, Alberto, Hannes Schmidt, Lucia Fuchslueger, et al.. (2021). Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Séneca, Joana, Petra Pjevac, Alberto Canarini, et al.. (2020). Composition and activity of nitrifier communities in soil are unresponsive to elevated temperature and CO2, but strongly affected by drought. The ISME Journal. 14(12). 3038–3053. 67 indexed citations
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Simon, Eva, Alberto Canarini, Victoria Martin, et al.. (2020). Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency show seasonal responses in a multifactorial climate change experiment. Communications Biology. 3(1). 584–584. 60 indexed citations
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Canarini, Alberto, Christina Kaiser, Andrew Merchant, Andreas Richter, & Wolfgang Wanek. (2019). Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 157–157. 712 indexed citations breakdown →
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Canarini, Alberto, Pierre Mariotte, Lachlan J. Ingram, Andrew Merchant, & Feike A. Dijkstra. (2017). Mineral-Associated Soil Carbon is Resistant to Drought but Sensitive to Legumes and Microbial Biomass in an Australian Grassland. Ecosystems. 21(2). 349–359. 20 indexed citations
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Canarini, Alberto, Lars Pødenphant Kiær, & Feike A. Dijkstra. (2017). Soil carbon loss regulated by drought intensity and available substrate: A meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 112. 90–99. 147 indexed citations
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Carrillo, Yolima, Colin Bell, Akihiro Koyama, et al.. (2017). Plant traits, stoichiometry and microbes as drivers of decomposition in the rhizosphere in a temperate grassland. Journal of Ecology. 105(6). 1750–1765. 63 indexed citations
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Dijkstra, Feike A., Yolima Carrillo, Michael J. Aspinwall, et al.. (2016). Water, nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiencies of four tree species in response to variable water and nutrient supply. Plant and Soil. 406(1-2). 187–199. 53 indexed citations
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Salvucci, Michael E., Csengele Barta, John A. Byers, & Alberto Canarini. (2010). Photosynthesis and assimilate partitioning between carbohydrates and isoprenoid products in vegetatively active and dormant guayule: physiological and environmental constraints on rubber accumulation in a semiarid shrub. Physiologia Plantarum. 140(4). 368–379. 14 indexed citations

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