Luca Carraro

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Luca Carraro is a scholar working on Ecology, Animal Science and Zoology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Carraro has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Animal Science and Zoology and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Luca Carraro's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (15 papers), Animal Nutrition and Physiology (14 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (13 papers). Luca Carraro is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (15 papers), Animal Nutrition and Physiology (14 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (13 papers). Luca Carraro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and United States. Luca Carraro's co-authors include Enrico Bertuzzo, Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto, Stefano Miccoli, Renato Casagrandi, Florian Altermatt, Hanna Hartikainen, Jukka Jokela and Luigi Gallo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luca Carraro

49 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Spread and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: Effects of emergency containment measures

2020 730 citations Marino Gatto, Enrico Bertuzzo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Carraro Switzerland	20	629	604	296	232	221	50	1.8k
Lorenzo Mari Italy	28	648 1.0×	1.2k 2.1×	107 0.4×	16 0.1×	313 1.4×	79	2.8k
Alice P. Y. Chiu Hong Kong	13	194 0.3×	124 0.2×	115 0.4×	77 0.3×	38 0.2×	19	1.6k
Antonio López‐Quílez Spain	26	436 0.7×	169 0.3×	81 0.3×	23 0.1×	198 0.9×	105	2.2k
Gustavo de los Campos United States	43	276 0.4×	66 0.1×	753 2.5×	379 1.6×	39 0.2×	86	9.2k
Richard J. Hall United States	24	1.3k 2.1×	56 0.1×	142 0.5×	44 0.2×	89 0.4×	70	3.0k
Sujeet Kumar Singh India	16	257 0.4×	97 0.2×	227 0.8×	69 0.3×	36 0.2×	120	1.3k
Noboru Minakawa Japan	43	524 0.8×	177 0.3×	393 1.3×	41 0.2×	28 0.1×	141	5.2k
Stephen J. Beckett United States	20	327 0.5×	155 0.3×	148 0.5×	11 0.0×	40 0.2×	38	1.8k
Michael Epprecht Switzerland	20	272 0.4×	86 0.1×	21 0.1×	78 0.3×	187 0.8×	48	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Carraro

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carraro, Luca. (2025). Integrating direct observation and environmental DNA data to enhance species distribution models in riverine environments. Ecological Informatics. 86. 103056–103056. 1 indexed citations

Altermatt, Florian, Marjorie Couton, Luca Carraro, et al.. (2025). Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1(5). 332–346. 8 indexed citations

Blackman, Rosetta C., Marjorie Couton, François Keck, et al.. (2024). Environmental DNA: The next chapter. Molecular Ecology. 33(11). e17355–e17355. 31 indexed citations

Aronoff, Rachel, Rosetta C. Blackman, Luca Carraro, et al.. (2024). A new flow path: eDNA connecting hydrology and biology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 11(6). 6 indexed citations

Carraro, Luca & Florian Altermatt. (2024). eDITH : An R‐package to spatially project eDNA ‐based biodiversity across river networks with minimal prior information. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(5). 806–815. 9 indexed citations

Boschman, Lydian M., Luca Carraro, Fernanda A. S. Cassemiro, et al.. (2023). Freshwater fish diversity in the western Amazon basin shaped by Andean uplift since the Late Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(12). 2037–2044. 12 indexed citations

Altermatt, Florian, et al.. (2023). Coupled biological and hydrological processes shape spatial food-web structures in riverine metacommunities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 7 indexed citations

Carraro, Luca. (2023). Seamless Extraction and Analysis of River Networks in R: The Rivnet Package. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Carraro, Luca. (2023). Technical note: Seamless extraction and analysis of river networks in R. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(20). 3733–3742. 5 indexed citations

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Altermatt, Florian, Luca Carraro, Camille Albouy, et al.. (2023). Quantifying biodiversity using eDNA from water bodies: General principles and recommendations for sampling designs. Environmental DNA. 5(4). 671–682. 43 indexed citations

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Gatto, Marino, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, et al.. (2020). Spread and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: Effects of emergency containment measures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(19). 10484–10491. 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carraro, Luca, Enrico Bertuzzo, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, et al.. (2020). Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution. Ecology and Evolution. 10(14). 7537–7550. 47 indexed citations

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Carraro, Luca, et al.. (2020). Environmental DNA allows upscaling spatial patterns of biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3585–3585. 106 indexed citations

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Carraro, Luca, et al.. (2018). Body and milk quality traits of purebred Holstein and three-generation crossbred cows from Viking Red, Montbéliarde, and Holstein sires. Journal of Central European Agriculture. 19(4). 760–765. 8 indexed citations

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Schiavon, Stefano, et al.. (2018). Effects of feed allowance and indispensable amino acid reduction on feed intake, growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing pigs. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195645–e0195645. 38 indexed citations

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Carraro, Luca, Hanna Hartikainen, Jukka Jokela, Enrico Bertuzzo, & Andrea Rinaldo. (2018). Using environmental DNA to study species distributions in river networks. EGUGA. 12827. 1 indexed citations

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Carraro, Luca, Lorenzo Mari, Hanna Hartikainen, et al.. (2016). An epidemiological model for proliferative kidney disease in salmonid populations. Parasites & Vectors. 9(1). 487–487. 31 indexed citations

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Gallo, Luigi, Mirco Dalla Bona, Luca Carraro, et al.. (2016). Effect of progressive reduction in crude protein and lysine of heavy pigs diets on some technological properties of green hams destined for PDO dry-cured ham production. Meat Science. 121. 135–140. 9 indexed citations

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Trocino, A., et al.. (2010). Effect of diet supplementation with Toyocerin® (Bacillus cereus var. toyoi) on performance and health of growing rabbits.. World Rabbit Science. 13(1). 20 indexed citations

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Xiccato, Gerolamo, et al.. (2008). Digestible fibre to starch ratio and antibiotic treatment time in growing rabbits affected by epizootic rabbit enteropathy.. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 847–852. 21 indexed citations

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