Francesca Ugolini

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Francesca Ugolini is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Ugolini has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Plant Science, 12 papers in Soil Science and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Francesca Ugolini's work include Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Francesca Ugolini is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Francesca Ugolini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Francesca Ugolini's co-authors include Luciano Massetti, David Pearlmutter, Giovanni Sanesi, Ingrida Šaulienė, A. Raschi, Paloma Cariñanos, Ana Marija Marin, Pedro Calaza Martínez, Cynnamon Dobbs and Dijana Vuletić and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Environmental Management and Frontiers in Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Ugolini

43 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptio... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space: An international exploratory study
    2020 459 citations Francesca Ugolini, Luciano Massetti et al. Urban forestry & urban greening profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francesca Ugolini Italy 18 652 518 383 186 155 46 1.2k
Danielle Sinnett United Kingdom 17 879 1.3× 399 0.8× 304 0.8× 454 2.4× 95 0.6× 52 1.5k
Zhifang Wang China 18 620 1.0× 705 1.4× 176 0.5× 129 0.7× 145 0.9× 57 1.3k
Kumelachew Yeshitela Ethiopia 24 317 0.5× 825 1.6× 234 0.6× 232 1.2× 97 0.6× 58 1.4k
Kati Vierikko Finland 20 678 1.0× 758 1.5× 296 0.8× 175 0.9× 133 0.9× 35 1.3k
Makoto Yokohari Japan 21 521 0.8× 751 1.4× 382 1.0× 246 1.3× 138 0.9× 136 1.7k
Fabio Salbitano Italy 18 906 1.4× 674 1.3× 347 0.9× 369 2.0× 129 0.8× 48 1.5k
Jérôme Dupras Canada 23 318 0.5× 708 1.4× 325 0.8× 154 0.8× 89 0.6× 67 1.6k
Victoria Marshall United States 7 397 0.6× 592 1.1× 142 0.4× 238 1.3× 64 0.4× 15 1.1k
Cassandra Johnson Gaither United States 17 471 0.7× 593 1.1× 160 0.4× 151 0.8× 321 2.1× 40 1.1k
Silvestre García de Jalón Spain 21 220 0.3× 478 0.9× 214 0.6× 107 0.6× 93 0.6× 39 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesca Ugolini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Ugolini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesca Ugolini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesca Ugolini 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 Francesca Ugolini. Francesca Ugolini 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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Camilli, Francesca, et al.. (2025). Turning Waste Wool into a Circular Resource: A Review of Eco-Innovative Applications in Agriculture. Agronomy. 15(2). 446–446. 2 indexed citations
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Camilli, Francesca, et al.. (2025). “Grazing with trees”: a visual journey through silvopastoralism in European art. Agroforestry Systems. 100(1).
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Manetti, Maria Chiara, Silvia Baronti, Anita Maienza, et al.. (2025). Impacts of semi-extensive grazing of Maremma cattle on a Mediterranean agroforestry ecosystem. Agroforestry Systems. 99(6). 1 indexed citations
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Tauginienė, Loreta, et al.. (2024). Making responsible research and innovation meaningful in citizen science. Science and Public Policy. 52(3). 329–342.
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Brizi, Danilo, Carla Giordano, Francesca Ugolini, et al.. (2024). Development of a microwave sensor for the non-invasive detection of plant responses to water stress: A practical application on maize (Zea mays L.). Biosystems Engineering. 246. 191–203. 3 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Public Food Trees’ Usage and Perception, and Their Potential for Participatory Edible Cities: A Case Study in Birjand, Iran. Sustainability. 16(19). 8498–8498. 1 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Wool Agro-Waste Biomass and Spruce Sawdust: Pellets as an Organic Soil Amendment. Sustainability. 16(6). 2228–2228. 4 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, Alfonso Crisci, Silvia Baronti, et al.. (2024). Effects of Orange Waste Extract Produced by Hydrodynamic Cavitation on the Germination of Chenopodium album L. and Lactuca sativa L.. Sustainability. 16(7). 3039–3039. 3 indexed citations
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Mariotti, Barbara, Sabrina Raddi, Francesca Ugolini, et al.. (2023). Cultivation Using Coir Substrate and P or K Enriched Fertilizer Provides Higher Resistance to Drought in Ecologically Diverse Quercus Species. Plants. 12(3). 525–525. 1 indexed citations
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Speak, Andrew, et al.. (2022). Attitudes towards urban green during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter. Cities. 126. 103707–103707. 26 indexed citations
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Maienza, Anita, Fabrizio Ungaro, Silvia Baronti, et al.. (2021). Biological Restoration of Urban Soils after De-Sealing Interventions. Agriculture. 11(3). 190–190. 15 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, Luciano Massetti, David Pearlmutter, & Giovanni Sanesi. (2021). Usage of urban green space and related feelings of deprivation during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons learned from an Italian case study. Land Use Policy. 105. 105437–105437. 122 indexed citations
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Peruzzi, Eleonora, Cristina Macci, Serena Doni, et al.. (2021). Posidonia oceanica based-compost and dredged sediments as a growth substrate for ornamental plants. Acta Horticulturae. 317–324. 5 indexed citations
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Baronti, Silvia, Francesca Ugolini, F. Miglietta, et al.. (2021). Agronomic and ecophysiological evaluation of an early establishment of perennial wheat lines in Central Italy. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 69(2). 619–633. 4 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, Luciano Massetti, Pedro Calaza Martínez, et al.. (2020). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space: An international exploratory study. Urban forestry & urban greening. 56. 126888–126888. 459 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ugolini, Francesca, et al.. (2020). Assessing the influence of topsoil and technosol characteristics on plant growth for the green regeneration of urban built sites. Journal of Environmental Management. 273. 111168–111168. 17 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, Barbara Mariotti, Alberto Maltoni, et al.. (2018). A tree from waste: Decontaminated dredged sediments for growing forest tree seedlings. Journal of Environmental Management. 211. 269–277. 17 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, Costanza Calzolari, Luciano Massetti, et al.. (2017). Testing decontaminated sediments as a substrate for ornamentals in field nursery plantations. Journal of Environmental Management. 197. 681–693. 21 indexed citations
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Massetti, Luciano, Francesca Ugolini, Francesco Sabatini, et al.. (2016). The Use of River Sediments for Plant Nursery in the Framework of the LIFE+ project CLEANSED. 1 indexed citations
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Ugolini, Francesca, et al.. (1952). Studies on aeration. I.. PubMed. 6(1-2). 73–97. 17 indexed citations

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