Benedetto Rugani

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Benedetto Rugani is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Benedetto Rugani has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Environmental Engineering, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Benedetto Rugani's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (35 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers). Benedetto Rugani is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (35 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers). Benedetto Rugani collaborates with scholars based in Luxembourg, Italy and France. Benedetto Rugani's co-authors include Enrico Benetto, Javier Babí Almenar, Thomas Elliot, Ian Vázquez‐Rowe, Davide Geneletti, Guido Sonnemann, Dario Caro, Graziella Benedetto, Thomas Schaubroeck and Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benedetto Rugani

85 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.

Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benedetto Rugani Luxembourg	30	1.4k	999	621	462	449	87	3.0k
Zhenci Xu China	31	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	501 0.8×	501 1.1×	958 2.1×	90	4.1k
Shenghui Cui China	40	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	941 1.5×	277 0.6×	500 1.1×	143	4.2k
Rusong Wang China	29	899 0.6×	1.9k 1.9×	684 1.1×	478 1.0×	492 1.1×	105	3.7k
Michalis Hadjikakou Australia	30	1.0k 0.7×	516 0.5×	707 1.1×	287 0.6×	443 1.0×	74	3.4k
Meirong Su China	38	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	647 1.0×	257 0.6×	724 1.6×	156	3.9k
Federico Maria Pulselli Italy	31	1.6k 1.1×	457 0.5×	424 0.7×	654 1.4×	559 1.2×	109	3.0k
Christian Lauk Austria	24	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	848 1.4×	317 0.7×	398 0.9×	44	3.7k
Giovanni Baiocchi United States	29	2.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	553 0.9×	447 1.0×	1.6k 3.5×	59	5.0k
Thomas Koellner Germany	39	1.2k 0.8×	2.5k 2.5×	1.2k 1.9×	736 1.6×	1.0k 2.3×	107	4.9k
Fabio Monforti-Ferrario Italy	27	885 0.6×	422 0.4×	1.3k 2.0×	243 0.5×	398 0.9×	53	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benedetto Rugani

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Rugani, Benedetto, et al.. (2025). Modelling the environmental implications of phytoremediation in urban settings: A review of the integration of life cycle assessment and ecosystem services approaches. Urban forestry & urban greening. 107. 128788–128788. 1 indexed citations

Rugani, Benedetto, et al.. (2024). Tree‐based model for achieving environmental impact neutrality: A case study application in the agri‐food sector. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 31(6). 5557–5573.

Almenar, Javier Babí, et al.. (2023). Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests. Ecosystem Services. 60. 101506–101506. 46 indexed citations

Elliot, Thomas, Benjamin Goldstein, Erik Gómez‐Baggethun, Vânia Proença, & Benedetto Rugani. (2022). Ecosystem service deficits of European cities. The Science of The Total Environment. 837. 155875–155875. 29 indexed citations

Almenar, Javier Babí, et al.. (2021). A spatiotemporally differentiated product system modelling framework for consequential life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 333. 130127–130127. 16 indexed citations

Rugani, Benedetto, Edoardo Conticini, Bruno Frediani, & Dario Caro. (2021). Decrease in life expectancy due to COVID-19 disease not offset by reduced environmental impacts associated with lockdowns in Italy. Environmental Pollution. 292(Pt A). 118224–118224. 1 indexed citations

Rugani, Benedetto & Dario Caro. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 outbreak measures of lockdown on the Italian Carbon Footprint. The Science of The Total Environment. 737. 139806–139806. 110 indexed citations

Elliot, Thomas, Javier Babí Almenar, Samuel Niza, Vânia Proença, & Benedetto Rugani. (2019). Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework. Sustainability. 11(10). 2766–2766. 34 indexed citations

Elliot, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Spatial optimisation of urban ecosystem services through integrated participatory and multi-objective integer linear programming. Ecological Modelling. 409. 108774–108774. 39 indexed citations

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Schaubroeck, Thomas & Benedetto Rugani. (2017). A Revision of What Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Should Entail: Towards Modeling the Net Impact on Human Well‐Being. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(6). 1464–1477. 84 indexed citations

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Rugani, Benedetto, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho, & Benoit Othoniel. (2016). Management of Big and Open Data in the Life Cycle Assessment of Ecosystem Services.. ERCIM news/ERCIM news online edition. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Rugani, Benedetto, Thomas Schaubroeck, & Enrico Benetto. (2016). Substantiating the cross-fertilization among LCA and ecosystem services and biodiversity assessment. Ecosystem Services. 23. 156–157. 4 indexed citations

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Schaubroeck, Thomas, Gaby Deckmyn, Olivier Giot, et al.. (2016). Environmental impact assessment and monetary ecosystem service valuation of an ecosystem under different future environmental change and management scenarios; a case study of a Scots pine forest. Journal of Environmental Management. 173. 79–94. 35 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Tomás Navarrete, Benedetto Rugani, Yoann Pigné, Antonino Marvuglia, & Enrico Benetto. (2015). On the Complexity of Life Cycle Inventory Networks: Role of Life Cycle Processes with Network Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20(5). 1094–1107. 13 indexed citations

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Marvuglia, Antonino, et al.. (2013). Using graph search algorithms for a rigorous application of emergy algebra rules. Revue de Métallurgie. 110(1). 87–94. 5 indexed citations

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Rugani, Benedetto, et al.. (2013). Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services. The Science of The Total Environment. 472. 262–272. 61 indexed citations

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Marvuglia, Antonino, et al.. (2011). A scalable implementation of the track summing algorithm for Emergy calculation with Life Cycle Inventory databases. EnviroInfo. 755–764. 2 indexed citations

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Niccolucci, Valentina, et al.. (2011). Towards lower carbon footprint patterns of consumption: The case of drinking water in Italy. Environmental Science & Policy. 14(4). 388–395. 48 indexed citations

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Pulselli, Riccardo Maria, Benedetto Rugani, E. Tiezzi, & Nadia Marchettini. (2010). An emergy evaluation of a medieval water management system: the case of the underground “Bottini” in Siena (Italy). WIT transactions on ecology and the environment. 1. 369–374. 2 indexed citations

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Pulselli, Riccardo Maria, Roberto Ridolfi, Benedetto Rugani, & Enzo Tiezzi. (2009). Application of life cycle assessment to the production of man-made crystal glass. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 14(5). 490–501. 14 indexed citations

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