Guido Ceccherini

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Guido Ceccherini is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Guido Ceccherini has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Guido Ceccherini's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers). Guido Ceccherini is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers). Guido Ceccherini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Belgium. Guido Ceccherini's co-authors include Alessandro Cescatti, Grégory Duveiller, Iban Ameztoy, Valerio Avitabile, César Carmona‐Moreno, Guido Lemoine, Giacomo Grassi, Simone Russo, Roberto Pilli and Frédéric Achard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Guido Ceccherini

31 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

2020 227 citations Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller et al. Nature profile →
Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

2021 215 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello et al. profile →

Peers

Guido Ceccherini

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Colin M. Beier United States

Marcelo Rezende Italy

Futao Guo China

Camilo Alcántara Mexico

Roger F. Auch United States

Ján Feranec Slovakia

Andrew B. Reinmann United States

Yelena Finegold Italy

Fatih Sivrikaya Türkiye

Hammad Gilani Nepal

Colin M. Beier United States

Guido Ceccherini

645 ×0.8

GPC

397 ×0.9

ECOLO

220 ×0.8

335 ×1.5

380 ×2.0

NLC

Citations per year, relative to Guido Ceccherini Guido Ceccherini (= 1×) peers Colin M. Beier

Countries citing papers authored by Guido Ceccherini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guido Ceccherini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guido Ceccherini

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pickering, M. A., Gonzalo Otón, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2025). Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Bourgoin, Clément, René Beuchle, João M. B. Carreiras, et al.. (2025). Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades. Biogeosciences. 22(19). 5247–5256. 1 indexed citations

Bourgoin, Clément, Guido Ceccherini, Marco Girardello, et al.. (2024). Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated. Nature. 631(8021). 570–576. 44 indexed citations

Mariotti, G., Guido Ceccherini, Clark Alexander, & Amanda C. Spivak. (2024). Centennial Changes of Salt Marsh Area in Coastal Georgia (USA) Related to Large-Scale Sediment Dynamics by River, Waves, and Tides. Estuaries and Coasts. 47(6). 1498–1516. 2 indexed citations

Duveiller, Grégory, Javier Pacheco‐Labrador, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2024). Satellite remote sensing reveals the footprint of biodiversity on multiple ecosystem functions across the NEON eddy covariance network. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 45003–45003. 1 indexed citations

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

Ceccherini, Guido, Marco Girardello, Pieter S. A. Beck, et al.. (2023). Spaceborne LiDAR reveals the effectiveness of European Protected Areas in conserving forest height and vertical structure. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 18 indexed citations

Danylo, Olha, J. Pirker, Guido Lemoine, et al.. (2021). A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Scientific Data. 8(1). 96–96. 76 indexed citations

Lugato, Emanuele, Alessandro Cescatti, Arwyn Jones, Guido Ceccherini, & Grégory Duveiller. (2020). Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94075–94075. 41 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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Ceccherini, Guido, et al.. (2019). The Potential of High Resolution (5 m) RapidEye Optical Data to Estimate Above Ground Biomass at the National Level over Tanzania. Forests. 10(2). 107–107. 16 indexed citations

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Pecchi, Matteo, Giovanni Forzieri, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2019). Pan-European mapping of windthrows. EGUGA. 15216. 1 indexed citations

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Forzieri, Giovanni, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2019). Vulnerability of European forests to climate risks. EGUGA. 15017. 1 indexed citations

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Giovanni, Forzieri, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2019). Vulnerability of European forests to natural disturbances. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido, Grégory Duveiller, & Alessandro Cescatti. (2018). Different satellite products show contrasting patterns in the greening of the North. EGUGA. 2716.

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Farinosi, Fabio, Carlo Giupponi, Arnaud Reynaud, et al.. (2018). An innovative approach to the assessment of hydro-political risk: A spatially explicit, data driven indicator of hydro-political issues. Global Environmental Change. 52. 286–313. 60 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido, et al.. (2017). Heat waves in Africa 1981–2015, observations and reanalysis. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(1). 115–125. 107 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido, et al.. (2016). Magnitude and frequency of heat and cold waves in recent decades: the case of South America. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(3). 821–831. 61 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido, Nadine Gobron, Mirco Migliavacca, & Monica Robustelli. (2013). Long-Term Measurements Of Plant Phenology Over Europe Derived From Seawifs And MERIS. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 722. 71. 2 indexed citations

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Ceccherini, Guido & Francesco Castelli. (2012). Vegetation response to climate, eco-hydrological modeling at basin scale in water-limited ecosystems. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5637. 1 indexed citations

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