Alberto Orgiazzi

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alberto Orgiazzi is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Orgiazzi has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Soil Science, 15 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alberto Orgiazzi's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (11 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Alberto Orgiazzi is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (11 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Alberto Orgiazzi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Alberto Orgiazzi's co-authors include Panos Panagos, Arwyn Jones, Cristiano Ballabio, Oihane Fernández‐Ugalde, Emanuele Lugato, Luca Montanarella, Valeria Bianciotto, Erica Lumini, Paola Bonfante and Pasquale Borrelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Orgiazzi

46 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

LUCAS Soil, the largest expandable soil dataset for Europe: a review

2017 408 citations Alberto Orgiazzi, Cristiano Ballabio et al. European Journal of Soil Science profile →
Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe

2023 161 citations Maëva Labouyrie, Cristiano Ballabio et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Orgiazzi Italy	24	1.1k	997	726	437	422	49	3.0k
Frank Rasche Germany	28	1.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	197 0.5×	335 0.8×	118	3.5k
Mario Tenuta Canada	36	1.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	854 1.2×	225 0.5×	272 0.6×	148	4.0k
Lynne Carpenter‐Boggs United States	33	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	601 0.8×	197 0.5×	306 0.7×	78	3.3k
Aidan M. Keith United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.1×	974 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	199 0.5×	235 0.6×	60	3.1k
Guido Incerti Italy	33	684 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	561 0.8×	171 0.4×	245 0.6×	84	2.9k
Rhae A. Drijber United States	36	2.4k 2.3×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	159 0.4×	402 1.0×	94	4.1k
David Dubois Switzerland	20	1.6k 1.6×	2.2k 2.2×	1.1k 1.6×	257 0.6×	171 0.4×	50	4.5k
Jacqueline M. Potts United Kingdom	26	913 0.9×	877 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	184 0.4×	192 0.5×	45	2.8k
Antonio Bispo France	30	1.1k 1.0×	578 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	291 0.7×	773 1.8×	70	3.1k
Peter D. Stahl United States	35	1.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	155 0.4×	223 0.5×	101	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Orgiazzi

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Visca, Andrea, Manuela Costanzo, Roberta Bernini, et al.. (2025). Microbial Bioindicators for Monitoring the Impact of Emerging Contaminants on Soil Health in the European Framework. Sustainability. 17(3). 1093–1093.

Romero, Ferran, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2025). The soil microbiome as an indicator of ecosystem multifunctionality in European soils. Nature Communications. 17(1). 705–705.

Aslani, Farzad, Mohammad Bahram, Stefan Geisen, et al.. (2024). Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 195. 109459–109459. 9 indexed citations

Guerra, Carlos A., Katarina Hedlund, Edmundo Barrios, et al.. (2024). Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 1. 1 indexed citations

Romero, Ferran, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2024). Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1847–1855. 35 indexed citations

Vieira, Diana, Laure‐Alix Clerbaux, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the ecological risk of pesticide residues from the European LUCAS Soil monitoring 2018 survey. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 20(5). 1639–1653. 8 indexed citations

Labouyrie, Maëva, Cristiano Ballabio, Ferran Romero, et al.. (2024). Interaction effects of pH and land cover on soil microbial diversity are climate‐dependent. Environmental Microbiology. 26(2). e16572–e16572. 8 indexed citations

Köninger, Julia, Cristiano Ballabio, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2023). Ecosystem type drives soil eukaryotic diversity and composition in Europe. Global Change Biology. 29(19). 5706–5719. 26 indexed citations

Sünnemann, Marie, Rémy Beugnon, Claudia Breitkreuz, et al.. (2023). Climate change and cropland management compromise soil integrity and multifunctionality. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 37 indexed citations

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Labouyrie, Maëva, Cristiano Ballabio, Ferran Romero, et al.. (2023). Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3311–3311. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panagos, Panos, Marc Van Liedekerke, Pasquale Borrelli, et al.. (2022). European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science. 73(6). 104 indexed citations

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Siles, José A., Marta Díaz‐López, Alfonso Vera, et al.. (2022). Priming effects in soils across Europe. Global Change Biology. 28(6). 2146–2157. 39 indexed citations

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Ballabio, Cristiano, Emanuele Lugato, Oihane Fernández‐Ugalde, et al.. (2019). Mapping LUCAS topsoil chemical properties at European scale using Gaussian process regression. Geoderma. 355. 113912–113912. 219 indexed citations

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Panagos, Panos, Cristiano Ballabio, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2018). Potential Sources of Anthropogenic Copper Inputs to European Agricultural Soils. Sustainability. 10(7). 2380–2380. 130 indexed citations

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Lugato, Emanuele, Pete Smith, Pasquale Borrelli, et al.. (2018). Soil erosion is unlikely to drive a future carbon sink in Europe. Science Advances. 4(11). eaau3523–eaau3523. 82 indexed citations

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Ballabio, Cristiano, Panos Panagos, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2018). Copper distribution in European topsoils: An assessment based on LUCAS soil survey. The Science of The Total Environment. 636. 282–298. 281 indexed citations

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Tsiafouli, Maria Α., Evangelia G. Drakou, Alberto Orgiazzi, Katarina Hedlund, & Karl Ritz. (2017). Optimizing the Delivery of Multiple Ecosystem Goods and Services in Agricultural Systems. Frontiers research topics. 4 indexed citations

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Arwyn, Jones, et al.. (2016). LUCAS Soil Component: proposal for analysing new physical, chemical and biological soil parameters. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations

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Orgiazzi, Alberto, Panos Panagos, Yusuf Yiğini, et al.. (2015). A knowledge-based approach to estimating the magnitude and spatial patterns of potential threats to soil biodiversity. The Science of The Total Environment. 545-546. 11–20. 71 indexed citations

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Orgiazzi, Alberto, Erica Lumini, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2012). Unravelling Soil Fungal Communities from Different Mediterranean Land-Use Backgrounds. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34847–e34847. 190 indexed citations

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