Alberto Martilli

13.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
150 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Alberto Martilli is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Martilli has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Environmental Engineering, 59 papers in Atmospheric Science and 47 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Alberto Martilli's work include Wind and Air Flow Studies (102 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (97 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (44 papers). Alberto Martilli is often cited by papers focused on Wind and Air Flow Studies (102 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (97 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (44 papers). Alberto Martilli collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United States. Alberto Martilli's co-authors include Alain Clappier, Francisco Salamanca, José Luis Santiago, Mathias W. Rotach, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Fernando Martín, Fei Chen, Mukul Tewari, Negin Nazarian and Oscar Brousse and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Martilli

145 papers receiving 8.2k citations

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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.

The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems

2010 959 citations Fei Chen, Alberto Martilli et al. profile →
An Urban Surface Exchange Parameterisation for Mesoscale Models

2002 909 citations Alberto Martilli et al. profile →
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

2022 176 citations Alberto Martilli, Gerald Mills et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Martilli Spain	48	7.2k	3.0k	2.9k	2.6k	2.0k	150	8.4k
Matthias Roth Singapore	36	4.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	68	5.3k
Valéry Masson France	48	5.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	4.1k 1.4×	4.6k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	149	9.0k
Silvana Di Sabatino Italy	35	4.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	715 0.4×	139	6.1k
Chun‐Ho Liu Hong Kong	32	3.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	869 0.3×	904 0.3×	940 0.5×	113	4.6k
Andreas Christen Canada	33	3.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	806 0.4×	111	4.6k
Chao Ren Hong Kong	48	5.6k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	150	7.1k
James Voogt Canada	45	8.2k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	4.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.1×	95	9.2k
Shiguang Miao China	37	3.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	616 0.3×	127	5.0k
D. N. Asimakopoulos Greece	40	2.0k 0.3×	922 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	173	5.0k
Xiaoming Cai United Kingdom	33	2.1k 0.3×	1.5k 0.5×	890 0.3×	715 0.3×	358 0.2×	100	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Martilli, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Adaptation and mitigation of outdoor heat stress and building energy consumption during a heat wave in Nicosia, Cyprus. Urban Climate. 62. 102507–102507.

Pappaccogli, Gianluca, Andrea Zonato, Alberto Martilli, Riccardo Buccolieri, & Piero Lionello. (2025). MLUCM BEP + BEM: an offline one-dimensional multi-layer urban canopy model based on the BEP + BEM scheme. Geoscientific model development. 18(19). 7129–7145.

Miró, Josep Ramón, Fei Chen, Alberto Martilli, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Intensity of Heatwaves in a Warming Climate at the Urban Scale: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(14).

Singh, Manmeet, Alberto Martilli, He Liu, et al.. (2024). GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications. Scientific Data. 11(1). 886–886. 14 indexed citations

Santiago, José Luis, Marta G. Vivanco, Beatriz Sánchez, et al.. (2024). How do meteorological conditions impact the effectiveness of various traffic measures on NOx concentrations in a real hot-spot?. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176667–176667. 4 indexed citations

Brousse, Oscar, Charles Simpson, Andrea Zonato, et al.. (2024). Cool Roofs Could Be Most Effective at Reducing Outdoor Urban Temperatures in London (United Kingdom) Compared With Other Roof Top and Vegetation Interventions: A Mesoscale Urban Climate Modeling Study. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(13). 10 indexed citations

Yang, Zong‐Liang, et al.. (2024). Prioritizing social vulnerability in urban heat mitigation. PNAS Nexus. 3(9). pgae360–pgae360. 6 indexed citations

Nazarian, Negin, et al.. (2024). A one-dimensional urban flow model with an eddy-diffusivity mass-flux (EDMF) scheme and refined turbulent transport (MLUCM v3.0). Geoscientific model development. 17(7). 2525–2545. 10 indexed citations

Martilli, Alberto, Negin Nazarian, E. Scott Krayenhoff, et al.. (2024). WRF-Comfort: simulating microscale variability in outdoor heat stress at the city scale with a mesoscale model. Geoscientific model development. 17(12). 5023–5039. 16 indexed citations

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Donateo, Antonio, Gianluca Pappaccogli, Antonio Esposito, et al.. (2023). Analysis of urban heat island and human thermal comfort in a Mediterranean city: A case study of Lecce (Italy). Sustainable Cities and Society. 98. 104849–104849. 32 indexed citations

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Martilli, Alberto, Manmeet Singh, Kevin Lanza, et al.. (2023). Human heat health index (H3I) for holistic assessment of heat hazard and mitigation strategies beyond urban heat islands. Urban Climate. 52. 101675–101675. 11 indexed citations

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Santiago, José Luis, Esther Rivas, Beatriz Sánchez, et al.. (2023). How do emission reductions of individual national and local measures impact street-level air quality in a neighbourhood of Madrid, Spain?. Air Quality Atmosphere & Health. 17(4). 813–826. 1 indexed citations

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Rivas, Esther, José Luis Santiago, Fernando Martín, et al.. (2023). Indoor-outdoor NOX modelling in a single-side naturally ventilated room in a real building in Madrid. Journal of Building Engineering. 84. 108403–108403. 4 indexed citations

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Zonato, Andrea, Alberto Martilli, Fei Chen, et al.. (2021). Exploring the Effects of Rooftop Mitigation Strategies on Urban Temperatures and Energy Consumption. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(21). 61 indexed citations

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Krayenhoff, E. Scott, Ashley M. Broadbent, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2021). Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 53007–53007. 148 indexed citations

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Nazarian, Negin, Manon Kohler, Jason Lee, et al.. (2020). Project Coolbit: can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3). 34031–34031. 64 indexed citations

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Martilli, Alberto, et al.. (2020). EFEITO DA URBANIZAÇÃO SOBRE A DISPERSÃO DE POLUENTES E FORMAÇÃO DE ILHA DE CALOR. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 27. 34–56. 1 indexed citations

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Martilli, Alberto. (2017). On the use of Cell Phones data to characterize the Atmosphere in Urban Areas. 2 indexed citations

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Kosović, Branko, et al.. (2017). Recent developments and assessment of a three-dimensional PBL parameterization for improved wind forecasting over complex terrain. AGUFM. 2017. 2 indexed citations

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Brousse, Oscar, Alberto Martilli, Michael Foley, Gerald Mills, & Benjamin Bechtel. (2016). WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid. Urban Climate. 17. 116–134. 212 indexed citations

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