Duccio Rocchini

12.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
234 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Duccio Rocchini is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Duccio Rocchini has authored 234 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Ecology, 116 papers in Ecological Modeling and 99 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Duccio Rocchini's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (116 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (98 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (83 papers). Duccio Rocchini is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (116 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (98 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (83 papers). Duccio Rocchini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Czechia and Germany. Duccio Rocchini's co-authors include Alessandro Chiarucci, Carlo Ricotta, Harini Nagendra, Markus Neteler, Kate S. He, Giovanni Bacaro, Francesco Geri, Valerio Amici, Giles M. Foody and Matteo Marcantonio and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Duccio Rocchini

231 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing
    2019 258 citations Jonathan Lenoir, Duccio Rocchini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Duccio Rocchini Italy 49 4.8k 3.3k 3.2k 2.7k 1.3k 234 8.2k
Nathalie Pettorelli United Kingdom 50 7.7k 1.6× 3.0k 0.9× 3.9k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 193 11.6k
Arturo Sánchez‐Azofeifa Canada 57 5.3k 1.1× 2.3k 0.7× 5.6k 1.8× 3.2k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 233 11.9k
Roberta E. Martin United States 57 6.4k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 4.1k 1.3× 3.0k 1.1× 2.1k 1.5× 147 10.4k
Louis R. Iverson United States 46 3.7k 0.8× 2.6k 0.8× 4.8k 1.5× 4.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.9× 148 9.9k
Carlo Ricotta Italy 44 3.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 3.4k 1.3× 590 0.4× 234 7.6k
Janet Franklin United States 57 6.9k 1.4× 5.4k 1.7× 4.8k 1.5× 5.2k 1.9× 1.9k 1.4× 227 13.8k
Karen H. Beard United States 36 3.4k 0.7× 1.7k 0.5× 3.0k 1.0× 3.1k 1.2× 741 0.6× 135 8.9k
Bethany A. Bradley United States 47 5.2k 1.1× 2.6k 0.8× 4.1k 1.3× 3.8k 1.4× 441 0.3× 132 9.1k
Thomas C. Edwards United States 23 3.2k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 1.7k 0.5× 2.2k 0.8× 806 0.6× 53 6.4k
Solomon Z. Dobrowski United States 44 3.8k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 5.5k 1.7× 3.1k 1.2× 896 0.7× 84 9.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Duccio Rocchini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Duccio Rocchini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Duccio Rocchini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Duccio Rocchini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Duccio Rocchini 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 Duccio Rocchini. Duccio Rocchini is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gatti, Roberto Cazzolla, et al.. (2025). An early warning system based on machine learning detects huge forest loss in Ukraine during the war. Global Ecology and Conservation. 58. e03427–e03427. 4 indexed citations
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Malavasi, Marco, et al.. (2025). Unravelling Bias: A Sardinian perspective on taxonomic, spatial, and temporal biases in vascular plant biodiversity data from GBIF. Ecological Informatics. 90. 103289–103289. 1 indexed citations
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Barták, Vojtěch, Vítězslav Moudrý, Duccio Rocchini, et al.. (2025). Habitat heterogeneity from lidar and hyperspectral data: Implications for bird guilds and restoration management of coal mines. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(7). 1659–1673. 1 indexed citations
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Torresani, Michele, et al.. (2025). Machine learning for biodiversity: UAV-based flower detection as an indirect proxy for bee abundance. Ecological Informatics. 91. 103346–103346. 1 indexed citations
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Barták, Vojtěch, Petr Keil, Vítězslav Moudrý, et al.. (2024). The relationship between remotely-sensed spectral heterogeneity and bird diversity is modulated by landscape type. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 128. 103763–103763. 1 indexed citations
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Cassola, Francesca Maura, Duccio Rocchini, Pierangela Angelini, et al.. (2024). A case study on the impact of coppicing on small mammal diversity: First evidence from the high Agri Valley in the Basilicata Region, Italy. Journal for Nature Conservation. 82. 126732–126732. 2 indexed citations
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Carmona, Carlos P., Enrico Tordoni, Francesco Petruzzellis, et al.. (2024). Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(2). 8 indexed citations
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Guarino, Riccardo, Daniele Cerra, Alessandro Chiarucci, et al.. (2024). Remote sensing reveals fire-driven enhancement of a C 4 invasive alien grass on a small Mediterranean volcanic island. Biogeosciences. 21(11). 2717–2730. 3 indexed citations
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Sakowska, Karolina, Damiano Gianelle, Duccio Rocchini, et al.. (2023). Assessing plant trait diversity as an indicators of species α‐ and β‐diversity in a subalpine grassland of the Italian Alps. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(3). 328–342. 1 indexed citations
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Moudrý, Vítězslav, Petr Keil, Lukáš Gábor, et al.. (2023). Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 47(3). 467–482. 23 indexed citations
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Zannini, Piero, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Juri Nascimbene, et al.. (2022). Investigating sacred natural sites and protected areas for forest area changes in Italy. Conservation Science and Practice. 4(8). 8 indexed citations
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Cervellini, Marco, Michele Di Musciano, Piero Zannini, et al.. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. Ecology and Evolution. 11(24). 18111–18124. 21 indexed citations
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Gábor, Lukáš, Vítězslav Moudrý, Vincent Lecours, et al.. (2019). The effect of positional error on fine scale species distribution models increases for specialist species. Ecography. 43(2). 256–269. 28 indexed citations
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Torresani, Michele, Duccio Rocchini, Marc Zebisch, Ruth Sonnenschein, & Giustino Tonon. (2018). Testing the spectral variation hypothesis by using the RAO-Q index to estimate forest biodiversity: Effect of spatial resolution. View. 1183–1186. 13 indexed citations
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Sabatini, Francesco María, Enrico Tordoni, Daniele Da Re, et al.. (2018). Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases. International Journal of Engineering & Technology. 18(4.18). 5–8. 2 indexed citations
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Bazzichetto, Manuele, Marco Malavasi, Vojtěch Barták, et al.. (2018). Plant invasion risk: A quest for invasive species distribution modelling in managing protected areas. Ecological Indicators. 95. 311–319. 41 indexed citations
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Ewald, Michael, Raf Aerts, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2018). LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment. 211. 13–25. 22 indexed citations
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Amici, Valerio, Goffredo Filibeck, Duccio Rocchini, et al.. (2017). Are CORINE land cover classes reliable proxies of plant species assemblages? A test in Mediterranean forest landscapes. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 152(5). 994–1001. 3 indexed citations
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Bacaro, Giovanni, Duccio Rocchini, Ilaria Bonini, et al.. (2008). The role of regional and local scale predictors for plant species richness in Mediterranean forests. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 142(3). 630–642. 37 indexed citations

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