Alessandro Sorichetta

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Sorichetta is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Sorichetta has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Transportation and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Sorichetta's work include Impact of Light on Environment and Health (32 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (21 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (18 papers). Alessandro Sorichetta is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Light on Environment and Health (32 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (21 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (18 papers). Alessandro Sorichetta collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Alessandro Sorichetta's co-authors include Andrew J. Tatem, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Christopher T. Lloyd, Graeme Hornby, Marco Masetti, Catherine Linard, Jeremiah J. Nieves, Simone Sterlacchini and Cristiano Ballabio and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Sorichetta

69 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

2019 245 citations Stefan Leyk, Andrea E. Gaughan et al. Earth system science data profile →

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Yunyan Du China

Wei Kang United States

Sérgio Freire Italy

Gang Xu China

Ting Ma China

Binbin Lu China

Xinqi Zheng China

Forrest R. Stevens United States

Taylor M. Oshan United States

Tong Wu China

Yunyan Du China

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Sorichetta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alessandro Sorichetta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alessandro Sorichetta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alessandro Sorichetta. Alessandro Sorichetta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cleary, Eimear, Alessandro Sorichetta, Nick Ruktanonchai, et al.. (2025). Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0003431–e0003431.

Hutton, Craig W., et al.. (2025). “Where and Whom You Collect Weightings from Matters…” Capturing Wellbeing Priorities Within a Vulnerable Context: A Case Study of Volta Delta, Ghana. Social Indicators Research. 177(2). 863–908. 1 indexed citations

Hutton, Craig W., et al.. (2025). “Happy Farmers” in Volta Delta, Ghana? Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Conditions and Happiness. Social Indicators Research. 179(3). 1355–1391.

Hutton, Craig W., et al.. (2024). Is the fulfilment of objective wellbeing reflected in subjective wellbeing? A case study of vulnerable communities in Volta Delta, Ghana. International Journal of Wellbeing. 14(2). 1–35. 3 indexed citations

Hutton, Craig W., et al.. (2024). Opposing objective and subjective wellbeing outcomes within an environmentally vulnerable delta: a case study of Volta Delta, Ghana. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1401480–1401480. 1 indexed citations

Bondarenko, Maksym, David Kerr, Thomas Esch, et al.. (2023). High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean using official statistics. Scientific Data. 10(1). 436–436. 5 indexed citations

Ruktanonchai, Nick, D. R. Woods, Andrew J. Tatem, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Relationship between Temporal Fluctuations in Satellite Nightlight Imagery and Human Mobility across Africa. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4252–4252. 9 indexed citations

Woods, D. R., C. Edson Utazi, Maksym Bondarenko, et al.. (2022). Exploring methods for mapping seasonal population changes using mobile phone data. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9(1). 7 indexed citations

Palacios‐Lopez, Daniela, Felix Bachofer, Thomas Esch, et al.. (2021). High-Resolution Gridded Population Datasets: Exploring the Capabilities of the World Settlement Footprint 2019 Imperviousness Layer for the African Continent. Remote Sensing. 13(6). 1142–1142. 19 indexed citations

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Nieves, Jeremiah J., Maksym Bondarenko, Alessandro Sorichetta, et al.. (2020). Predicting Near-Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Small Area Populations. Remote Sensing. 12(10). 1545–1545. 4 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Christopher T., Heather Chamberlain, David Kerr, et al.. (2019). Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets. Big Earth Data. 3(2). 108–139. 190 indexed citations

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Leyk, Stefan, Andrea E. Gaughan, Susana B. Adamo, et al.. (2019). Allocating people to pixels: A review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 12 indexed citations

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Leyk, Stefan, Andrea E. Gaughan, Susana B. Adamo, et al.. (2019). The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use. Earth system science data. 11(3). 1385–1409. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Palacios‐Lopez, Daniela, Felix Bachofer, Thomas Esch, et al.. (2019). New Perspectives for Mapping Global Population Distribution Using World Settlement Footprint Products. Sustainability. 11(21). 6056–6056. 35 indexed citations

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Gaughan, Andrea E., Tomohiro Oda, Alessandro Sorichetta, et al.. (2019). Evaluating nighttime lights and population distribution as proxies for mapping anthropogenic CO 2 emission in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Gaughan, Andrea E., et al.. (2018). Gridded Population Maps Informed by Different Built Settlement Products. Data. 3(3). 33–33. 55 indexed citations

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Erbach-Schoenberg, Elisabeth zu, Victor A. Alegana, Alessandro Sorichetta, et al.. (2016). Dynamic denominators: the impact of seasonally varying population numbers on disease incidence estimates. Population Health Metrics. 14(1). 35–35. 34 indexed citations

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Nghiem, S. V., Marco Masetti, Stefania Stevenazzi, et al.. (2014). Interdisciplinary Study of Urbanization and Impacts – the Poplex 2014 Field Campaign. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Santoro, Mattia, et al.. (2013). Improve the ranking algorithm of the GEO Discovery and Access Broker through resource accessibility assessment. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Sterlacchini, Simone, Jan Blahút, Marco Masetti, & Alessandro Sorichetta. (2008). A methodological approach for comparing predictive maps derived from statistic-probabilistic methods. The EGU General Assembly. 10. 2 indexed citations

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