Emanuele Lugato

17.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
93 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Emanuele Lugato is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Emanuele Lugato has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Soil Science, 31 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Emanuele Lugato's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (46 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (25 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (24 papers). Emanuele Lugato is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (46 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (25 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (24 papers). Emanuele Lugato collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium. Emanuele Lugato's co-authors include Panos Panagos, Luca Montanarella, Pasquale Borrelli, Cristiano Ballabio, Christine Alewell, Katrin Meusburger, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Arwyn Jones, Michelle L. Haddix and David A. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Emanuele Lugato

89 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

2017 1.8k citations Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson et al. Nature Communications profile →
Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

2019 1.1k citations M. Francesca Cotrufo, Maria Giovanna Ranalli et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

2015 905 citations Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →
Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)

2020 881 citations Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

2015 580 citations Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →
Biochar as a strategy to sequester carbon and increase yield in durum wheat

2011 361 citations Emanuele Lugato et al. profile →
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter

2021 359 citations Emanuele Lugato, Jocelyn M. Lavallee et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review

2017 270 citations Emanuele Lugato et al. profile →
Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models

2018 263 citations Panos Panagos, Gabriele Standardi et al. Land Degradation and Development profile →
Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe

2023 161 citations Cristiano Ballabio, Panos Panagos et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emanuele Lugato

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How do diet shifts affect the greenhouse gas balance of agricultural soils? Denmark as a case study 2025 ·Agricultural Systems ·(unknown), Emanuele Lugato, Panos Panagos, (unknown), Florian Freund, Arwyn Jones, Diego Ábalos	1
2	Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know? 2025 ·Global Change Biology ·Katerina Georgiou, Denis A. Angers, (unknown), M. Francesca Cotrufo, Matthew E. Craig, Sebastian Döetterl, A. Stuart Grandy, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Yang Lin, Emanuele Lugato, Christopher Poeplau, Katherine S. Rocci, Steffen A. Schweizer, Johan Six, William R. Wieder	14
3	Revisiting the soil carbon saturation concept to inform a risk index in European agricultural soils 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Daniele De Rosa, Panos Panagos, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Arwyn Jones, Emanuele Lugato	4
4	Short-term warming supports mineral-associated carbon accrual in abandoned croplands 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Zhenrui Zhang, Hui Gao, Xiaoxia Gao, (unknown), Shuli Niu, Emanuele Lugato, Xinghui Xia	13
5	A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Remus Prăvălie, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio, Emanuele Lugato, Adrian Chappell, Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho, Federico Maggi, Jian Peng, Mihai Niculiță, Bogdan Roșca, Cristian Valeriu Patriche, Monica Dumitrașcu, Georgeta Bandoc, Ion-Andrei Niță, Marius‐Victor Birsan	37
6	Including land management in a European carbon model with lateral transfer to the oceans 2023 ·Environmental Research ·Arthur Nicolaus Fendrich, Philippe Ciais, Panos Panagos, Philippe Martin, Marco Carozzi, Bertrand Guenet, Emanuele Lugato	3
7	Soil organic carbon losses exacerbated by climate extremes 2023 ·Nature Climate Change ·Emanuele Lugato	9
8	About the Assessment of Cover Crop Albedo Potential Cooling Effect: Risk of the Darkening Feedback Loop Effects 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Dominique Carrer, Emanuele Lugato, Rémy Fieuzal, (unknown), Éric Ceschia	4
9	European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies 2022 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Panos Panagos, Marc Van Liedekerke, Pasquale Borrelli, Julia Köninger, Cristiano Ballabio, Alberto Orgiazzi, Emanuele Lugato, Leonidas Liakos, Javier Hervás, Arwyn Jones, Luca Montanarella	104
10	Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland 2022 ·Nature Sustainability ·Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, Christine Alewell, Cristiano Ballabio, (unknown), Nigussie Haregeweyn, Emanuele Lugato, Michael Maerker, Jean Poesen, Matthias Vanmaercke, David A. Robinson	64
11	Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter 2022 ·Nature Geoscience ·Emanuele Lugato, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Michelle L. Haddix, Panos Panagos, M. Francesca Cotrufo	8
12	Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Emanuele Lugato, Alessandro Cescatti, Arwyn Jones, Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller	41
13	Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070) breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos, Emanuele Lugato, Jae E. Yang, Christine Alewell, David Wuepper, Luca Montanarella, Cristiano Ballabio	881
14	Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Geoscience ·M. Francesca Cotrufo, Maria Giovanna Ranalli, Michelle L. Haddix, Johan Six, Emanuele Lugato	1099
15	Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N2O emissions 2018 ·Nature Climate Change ·Emanuele Lugato, Adrian Leip, Arwyn Jones	165
16	Potential Sources of Anthropogenic Copper Inputs to European Agricultural Soils 2018 ·Sustainability ·Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio, Emanuele Lugato, Arwyn Jones, Pasquale Borrelli, Simone Scarpa, Alberto Orgiazzi, Luca Montanarella	130
17	Soil erosion is unlikely to drive a future carbon sink in Europe 2018 ·Science Advances ·Emanuele Lugato, Pete Smith, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio, Alberto Orgiazzi, Oihane Fernández‐Ugalde, Luca Montanarella, Arwyn Jones	82
18	Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models breakdown → 2018 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Panos Panagos, Gabriele Standardi, Pasquale Borrelli, Emanuele Lugato, Luca Montanarella, Francesco Bosello	263
19	An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson, (unknown), Emanuele Lugato, Cristiano Ballabio, Christine Alewell, Katrin Meusburger, Sirio Modugno, Brigitta Schütt, Vito Ferro, Vincenzo Bagarello, Kristof Van Oost, Luca Montanarella, Panos Panagos	1798
20	Complementing the topsoil information of the Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) with modelled N2O emissions 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Emanuele Lugato, (unknown), Arwyn Jones, W. de Vries, Adrian Leip	23

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