Luca Caporaso

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 775 citations indexed

About

Luca Caporaso is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Caporaso has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 775 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luca Caporaso's work include Climate variability and models (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Luca Caporaso is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Luca Caporaso collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Luca Caporaso's co-authors include Alessandro Cescatti, Monia Santini, Sergio Noce, Lucia Perugini, Almut Arneth, Grégory Duveiller, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Sergio Marconi, Benjamín Quesada and Joanna I. House and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Luca Caporaso

24 papers receiving 757 citations

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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.

Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes

2023 130 citations Emanuele Massaro, Rossano Schifanella et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Caporaso Italy	12	502	227	223	146	117	24	775
Hoonyoung Park South Korea	15	538 1.1×	124 0.5×	262 1.2×	84 0.6×	210 1.8×	27	764
Rita Durão Portugal	10	481 1.0×	105 0.5×	224 1.0×	86 0.6×	96 0.8×	16	669
Josh Hooker Italy	7	559 1.1×	260 1.1×	251 1.1×	57 0.4×	251 2.1×	9	790
Daniel Joly France	15	223 0.4×	130 0.6×	208 0.9×	137 0.9×	76 0.6×	48	577
Luis Morales-Salinas Chile	13	356 0.7×	134 0.6×	128 0.6×	49 0.3×	159 1.4×	48	619
Aleš Farda Czechia	15	438 0.9×	89 0.4×	231 1.0×	84 0.6×	78 0.7×	32	710
Jennifer Boehnert United States	8	227 0.5×	151 0.7×	155 0.7×	113 0.8×	89 0.8×	20	528
Jilin Yang China	12	496 1.0×	245 1.1×	132 0.6×	92 0.6×	359 3.1×	27	790
Mustapha El Maayar Canada	11	580 1.2×	119 0.5×	238 1.1×	71 0.5×	183 1.6×	14	872
Stephen Outten Norway	14	729 1.5×	91 0.4×	586 2.6×	56 0.4×	78 0.7×	26	964

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Caporaso

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Caporaso. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Caporaso 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 Luca Caporaso. Luca Caporaso 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

Bright, Ryan M., Luca Caporaso, Grégory Duveiller, Matteo Piccardo, & Alessandro Cescatti. (2025). Biogeophysical Radiative Forcings of Large‐Scale Afforestation in Europe Are Highly Localized and Dominated by Surface Albedo Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(1). 1 indexed citations

Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Luca Caporaso, Grégory Duveiller, et al.. (2025). Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios. Scientific Data. 12(1). 564–564. 3 indexed citations

Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Luca Caporaso, Ramdane Alkama, et al.. (2024). Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests. Environmental Research Letters. 19(4). 44050–44050. 6 indexed citations

Caporaso, Luca, Grégory Duveiller, Graziano Giuliani, et al.. (2024). Converging Findings of Climate Models and Satellite Observations on the Positive Impact of European Forests on Cloud Cover. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(11). 2 indexed citations

Duveiller, Grégory, M. A. Pickering, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, et al.. (2023). Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extremes. Geoscientific model development. 16(24). 7357–7373. 5 indexed citations

Santini, Monia, Sergio Noce, Marco Mancini, & Luca Caporaso. (2023). A Global Multiscale SPEI Dataset under an Ensemble Approach. Data. 8(2). 36–36. 3 indexed citations

Massaro, Emanuele, Rossano Schifanella, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2023). Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2903–2903. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

Cagnazzo, Chiara, Fabio Madonna, Paolo Cristofanelli, et al.. (2022). Intercomparison of Atmospheric Upper-Air Temperature From Recent Global Reanalysis Datasets. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 5 indexed citations

Santini, Monia, Sergio Noce, Marta Antonelli, & Luca Caporaso. (2022). Complex drought patterns robustly explain global yield loss for major crops. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5792–5792. 67 indexed citations

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Noce, Sergio, Luca Caporaso, & Monia Santini. (2020). A new global dataset of bioclimatic indicators. Scientific Data. 7(1). 398–398. 65 indexed citations

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Noce, Sergio, Luca Caporaso, & Monia Santini. (2019). Climate Change and Geographic Ranges: The Implications for Russian Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7. 16 indexed citations

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Ciardini, Virginia, Luca Caporaso, Roberto Sozzi, et al.. (2019). Interconnections of the urban heat island with the spatial and temporal micrometeorological variability in Rome. Urban Climate. 29. 100493–100493. 28 indexed citations

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Santini, Monia & Luca Caporaso. (2018). Evaluation of Freshwater Flow From Rivers to the Sea in CMIP5 Simulations: Insights From the Congo River Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(18). 10 indexed citations

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Paola, Arianna Di, Luca Caporaso, Francesco Di Paola, et al.. (2018). The expansion of wheat thermal suitability of Russia in response to climate change. Land Use Policy. 78. 70–77. 23 indexed citations

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Perugini, Lucia, Luca Caporaso, Sergio Marconi, et al.. (2017). Biophysical effects on temperature and precipitation due to land cover change. Environmental Research Letters. 12(5). 53002–53002. 195 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Adrian M. & Luca Caporaso. (2016). Assessment of malaria transmission changes in Africa, due to the climate impact of land use change using Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 earth system models. Geospatial health. 11(1s). 380–380. 15 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Adrian M., et al.. (2015). A Generalized Deforestation and Land-Use Change Scenario Generator for Use in Climate Modelling Studies. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0136154–e0136154. 8 indexed citations

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Giuseppe, Francesca Di, et al.. (2011). Automatic detection of atmospheric boundary layer height using ceilometer backscatter data assisted by a boundary layer model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(664). 649–663. 47 indexed citations

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Notarnicola, Claudia, et al.. (2010). Exploitation of C- and X-band SAR images for soil moisture change detection estimation in agricultural areas (Po Valley, Italy). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7829. 78290G–78290G. 3 indexed citations

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Angelini, F., et al.. (2009). Study of atmospheric aerosols and mixing layer by LIDAR. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 137(3-4). 275–279. 32 indexed citations

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