Giacomo Certini

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Giacomo Certini is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giacomo Certini has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Soil Science and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Giacomo Certini's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (23 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Giacomo Certini is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (23 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Giacomo Certini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and France. Giacomo Certini's co-authors include Riccardo Scalenghe, Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Cornélia Rumpel, Claudia Forte, Ornella Francioso, Heike Knicker, Daniel Moya, Sonia Chamizo, Federico Rossi and Gianmarco Mugnai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Giacomo Certini

71 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of fire on properties of forest soils: a review 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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 fire on properties of forest soils: a review
    2005 2.2k citations Giacomo Certini Oecologia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Giacomo Certini Italy 25 2.6k 1.5k 1.4k 657 501 75 4.2k
Julia Jones United States 36 2.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 2.6k 1.8× 1.4k 2.2× 750 1.5× 97 5.1k
José Carlos González Hidalgo Spain 36 2.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 973 0.7× 440 0.7× 1.2k 2.4× 107 4.3k
Erik Cammeraat Netherlands 38 1.3k 0.5× 2.9k 2.0× 1.6k 1.1× 473 0.7× 384 0.8× 118 4.9k
R. P. D. Walsh United Kingdom 32 2.1k 0.8× 998 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 521 0.8× 334 0.7× 81 3.4k
Delphis F. Levia United States 38 3.0k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 957 1.5× 1.3k 2.6× 144 5.4k
Xianguo Lü China 40 1.8k 0.7× 661 0.4× 2.6k 1.8× 463 0.7× 838 1.7× 199 4.6k
Anders Ahlström Sweden 25 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 726 1.1× 772 1.5× 54 4.5k
Juan Puigdefábregas Spain 37 2.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 2.1× 571 1.1× 81 4.9k
Adam F. A. Pellegrini United States 23 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 622 1.2× 36 3.8k
Qiuan Zhu China 42 2.9k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 2.2k 1.5× 886 1.3× 1.6k 3.2× 145 5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giacomo Certini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giacomo Certini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giacomo Certini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giacomo Certini 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 Giacomo Certini. Giacomo Certini 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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Certini, Giacomo, Gianluca Grilli, & Riccardo Scalenghe. (2025). The monetization of soil: An emerging imperative?. Land Use Policy. 158. 107750–107750.
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Juilleret, Jérôme, et al.. (2025). Planetary pedology: New horizons for lunar resource mapping. Pedosphere.
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Mastrolonardo, Giovanni, Giulio Castelli, Giacomo Certini, et al.. (2024). Post-fire erosion and sediment yield in a Mediterranean forest catchment in Italy. International Journal of Sediment Research. 39(3). 464–477. 8 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo, et al.. (2024). Soil quality in the urban gardens of Barcelona (Spain). Journal of Soils and Sediments. 24(4). 1652–1664. 3 indexed citations
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Piccolo, Ermes Lo, Claudia Cocozza, Giovanni Mastrolonardo, et al.. (2024). Cork and Compost as Mitigators of Soil Compaction from Trampling in Urban Green Areas: Effects on Plant Growth and Soil Functionality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 5–5.
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Certini, Giacomo & Riccardo Scalenghe. (2023). War is undermining soil health and availability more than urbanisation. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168124–168124. 5 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo, et al.. (2023). Does association with N-fixing nurse trees improve carbon sequestration in walnut plantations? Case-study on a reclaimed opencast mine in Italy. Forest Ecology and Management. 545. 121245–121245. 2 indexed citations
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Nocentini, M., Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Marco Michelozzi, et al.. (2023). Effects of biochar and compost addition in potting substrates on growth and volatile compounds profile of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.). Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 104(3). 1609–1620. 8 indexed citations
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Chiti, Tommaso, et al.. (2023). The potential for an old-growth forest to store carbon in the topsoil: A case study at Sasso Fratino, Italy. Journal of Forestry Research. 35(1). 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Shan, Nico Eisenhauer, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, et al.. (2022). Fire frequency and type regulate the response of soil carbon cycling and storage to fire across soil depths and ecosystems: A meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 825. 153921–153921. 32 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo & Riccardo Scalenghe. (2021). Soil is the best testifier of the diachronous dawn of the Anthropocene. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 184(2). 183–186. 6 indexed citations
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Andriuzzi, Walter S., Giovanna Battipaglia, Giacomo Certini, et al.. (2021). Mixed-Species Plantation Effects on Soil Biological and Chemical Quality and Tree Growth of A Former Agricultural Land. Forests. 12(7). 842–842. 13 indexed citations
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Fioravanti, Fabrizio, et al.. (2020). Accounting for soil respiration variability – Case study in a Mediterranean pine-dominated forest. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1787–1787. 5 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo, S. Karunatillake, Yuyan Zhao, et al.. (2020). Disambiguating the soils of Mars. Planetary and Space Science. 186. 104922–104922. 27 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo, Live Semb Vestgarden, Claudia Forte, & Line Tau Strand. (2015). Litter decomposition rate and soil organic matter quality in a patchwork heathland of southern Norway. SOIL. 1(1). 207–216. 28 indexed citations
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Mastrolonardo, Giovanni, Cornélia Rumpel, Claudia Forte, Stefan H. Doerr, & Giacomo Certini. (2015). Abundance and composition of free and aggregate-occluded carbohydrates and lignin in two forest soils as affected by wildfires of different severity. Geoderma. 245-246. 40–51. 48 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo. (2013). Fire as a Soil-Forming Factor. AMBIO. 43(2). 191–195. 70 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo & Riccardo Scalenghe. (2010). Do soils exist outside Earth?. Planetary and Space Science. 58(14-15). 1767–1770. 6 indexed citations
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Certini, Giacomo. (2005). Effects of fire on properties of forest soils: a review. Oecologia. 143(1). 1–10. 2199 indexed citations breakdown →
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Certini, Giacomo, et al.. (1999). Distribution of the microbial biomass in forest soils of the Tuscan Apennines. Florence Research (University of Florence). 3 indexed citations

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