Giacomo Grassi

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
108 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Giacomo Grassi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Giacomo Grassi has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 27 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Giacomo Grassi's work include Forest Management and Policy (43 papers), Forest ecology and management (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers). Giacomo Grassi is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (43 papers), Forest ecology and management (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers). Giacomo Grassi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United Kingdom. Giacomo Grassi's co-authors include Federico Magnani, Roberto Pilli, Sandro Federici, U. Bagnaresi, Michel den Elzen, Joanna I. House, Alessandro Cescatti, Frank Dentener, Francesco Ripullone and Marco Borghetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Giacomo Grassi

105 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Stomatal, mesophyll conductance and biochemical limitations to photosynthesis as affected by drought and leaf ontogeny in ash and oak trees

2005 655 citations Giacomo Grassi et al. profile →
The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation

2017 387 citations Giacomo Grassi, Joanna I. House et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

2020 227 citations Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller et al. Nature profile →
Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

2022 116 citations Ramdane Alkama, Grégory Duveiller et al. profile →
The carbon dioxide removal gap

2024 47 citations William F. Lamb, Thomas Gasser et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers

Giacomo Grassi

GPC

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NLC

EE

ECOLO

Pieter Johannes Verkerk Finland

Pekka E. Kauppi Finland

Mikko Peltoniemi Finland

Georg Kindermann Austria

Marc Hanewinkel Germany

Thomas A. M. Pugh United Kingdom

Stefan Zerbe Italy

Heli Peltola Finland

Galina Churkina Germany

Raisa Mäkipää Finland

Pieter Johannes Verkerk Finland

Giacomo Grassi

3.1k ×0.9

GPC

335 ×0.3

PS

1.3k ×1.0

NLC

608 ×0.7

EE

1.0k ×1.4

ECOLO

Citations per year, relative to Giacomo Grassi Giacomo Grassi (= 1×) peers Pieter Johannes Verkerk

Countries citing papers authored by Giacomo Grassi

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giacomo Grassi

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Giacomo Grassi. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Giacomo Grassi. The network helps show where Giacomo Grassi may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giacomo Grassi

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Román-Cuesta, Rosa María, Michel den Elzen, Nicklas Forsell, et al.. (2025). Land remains a blind spot in tracking progress under the Paris Agreement due to lack of data comparability. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

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Obermeier, Wolfgang A., Clemens Schwingshackl, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2025). Differences and uncertainties in land-use CO2 flux estimates. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(11). 747–766.

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Gibbs, David A., Giacomo Grassi, Joana Melo, et al.. (2025). Revised and updated geospatial monitoring of 21st century forest carbon fluxes. Earth system science data. 17(3). 1217–1243. 6 indexed citations

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Grassi, Giacomo, Glen P. Peters, Josep G. Canadell, et al.. (2025). Improving land-use emission estimates under the Paris Agreement. Nature Sustainability. 8(6). 579–581. 3 indexed citations

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Nyawira, Sylvia S., Martin Herold, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Pantropical CO2 emissions and removals for the AFOLU sector in the period 1990–2018. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(2). 4 indexed citations

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MacDougall, Andrew H., Joeri Rogelj, Chris Jones, Spencer Liddicoat, & Giacomo Grassi. (2024). Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 74065–74065. 1 indexed citations

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Yue, Chao, Binbin He, Kaiguang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Growing biomass carbon stock in China driven by expansion and conservation of woody areas. Nature Geoscience. 17(11). 1127–1134. 16 indexed citations

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Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). The carbon dioxide removal gap. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 644–651. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs. Nature Climate Change. 14(12). 1323–1323.

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Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs. Nature Climate Change. 14(8). 883–883. 1 indexed citations

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Winkler, Karina, Hui Yang, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2023). Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe’s terrestrial carbon sink. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 26 indexed citations

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Nabuurs, G.J., Philippe Ciais, Giacomo Grassi, R. A. Houghton, & Brent Sohngen. (2023). Reporting carbon fluxes from unmanaged forest. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 14 indexed citations

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Grassi, Giacomo, Giulia Conchedda, Sandro Federici, et al.. (2022). Carbon fluxes from land 2000–2020: bringing clarity to countries' reporting. Earth system science data. 14(10). 4643–4666. 40 indexed citations

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Giuntoli, Jacopo, José I. Barredo, Valerio Avitabile, et al.. (2022). The quest for sustainable forest bioenergy: win-win solutions for climate and biodiversity. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 159. 112180–112180. 39 indexed citations

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Tubiello, Francesco N., Giulia Conchedda, Nathan Wanner, et al.. (2021). Carbon emissions and removals from forests: new estimates, 1990–2020. Earth system science data. 13(4). 1681–1691. 55 indexed citations

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Calvin, Katherine, Annette Cowie, Göran Berndes, et al.. (2021). Bioenergy for climate change mitigation: Scale and sustainability. GCB Bioenergy. 13(9). 1346–1371. 80 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido, Grégory Duveiller, Giacomo Grassi, et al.. (2020). Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015. Nature. 583(7814). 72–77. 227 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pilli, Roberto, et al.. (2017). The EU Archive Index Database customised for the Carbon Budget Model (CBM-CFS3). Open MIND. 2 indexed citations

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Somogyi, Zoltán, Maurizio Teobaldelli, Sandro Federici, et al.. (2008). Allometric biomass and carbon factors database. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry. 1(3). 107–113. 42 indexed citations

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Grassi, Giacomo. (2007). Nitrogen deposition drives the carbon sink of temperate and boreal forests. 4(2). 144–146. 1 indexed citations

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