Luca Montanarella

30.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
203 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Luca Montanarella is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Montanarella has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Soil Science, 47 papers in Environmental Engineering and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Luca Montanarella's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (52 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (52 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (41 papers). Luca Montanarella is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (52 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (52 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (41 papers). Luca Montanarella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and United Kingdom. Luca Montanarella's co-authors include Panos Panagos, Emanuele Lugato, Pasquale Borrelli, Cristiano Ballabio, Gergely Tóth, Christine Alewell, Arwyn Jones, Robert Jones, Katrin Meusburger and Tamás Hermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luca Montanarella

195 papers receiving 18.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Montanarella Italy 66 9.7k 4.8k 3.9k 3.8k 3.4k 203 19.2k
Panos Panagos Italy 66 11.3k 1.2× 5.7k 1.2× 3.4k 0.9× 3.9k 1.0× 4.5k 1.3× 217 18.5k
C.J. Ritsema Netherlands 67 4.5k 0.5× 2.9k 0.6× 2.3k 0.6× 5.6k 1.5× 2.6k 0.8× 332 16.5k
Saskia Keesstra Netherlands 69 7.3k 0.8× 4.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 5.2k 1.4× 3.4k 1.0× 217 14.7k
Mingan Shao China 73 9.3k 1.0× 3.5k 0.7× 5.0k 1.3× 5.2k 1.4× 3.8k 1.1× 541 20.3k
Artemi Cerdà Spain 90 14.9k 1.5× 7.5k 1.6× 3.0k 0.8× 8.8k 2.3× 4.3k 1.3× 454 26.9k
Liding Chen China 68 5.3k 0.5× 3.2k 0.7× 4.4k 1.1× 5.8k 1.5× 3.2k 1.0× 383 15.4k
Pasquale Borrelli Italy 48 9.0k 0.9× 4.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 4.0k 1.2× 133 12.9k
Emanuele Lugato Italy 47 7.8k 0.8× 3.7k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 1.9k 0.6× 93 11.8k
Kelin Wang China 63 5.7k 0.6× 4.7k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 4.8k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 446 15.3k
Cristiano Ballabio Italy 41 5.9k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 74 9.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Montanarella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Montanarella

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

All Works

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Droz, Boris, Sylvain Payraudeau, José Antonio Rodríguez Martín, et al.. (2021). Copper Content and Export in European Vineyard Soils Influenced by Climate and Soil Properties. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(11). 7327–7334. 49 indexed citations
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Willemen, Louise, Nichole N. Barger, Ben ten Brink, et al.. (2020). How to halt the global decline of lands. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 164–166. 44 indexed citations
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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2020). Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21994–22001. 881 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kristensen, J. A., Thomas Balstrøm, Robert Jones, et al.. (2019). Development of a harmonised soil profile analytical database for Europe: a resource for supporting regional soil management. SOIL. 5(2). 289–301. 14 indexed citations
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Panagos, Panos, Cristiano Ballabio, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2018). Potential Sources of Anthropogenic Copper Inputs to European Agricultural Soils. Sustainability. 10(7). 2380–2380. 130 indexed citations
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Panagos, Panos, Gabriele Standardi, Pasquale Borrelli, et al.. (2018). Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models. Land Degradation and Development. 29(3). 471–484. 263 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lugato, Emanuele, Pete Smith, Pasquale Borrelli, et al.. (2018). Soil erosion is unlikely to drive a future carbon sink in Europe. Science Advances. 4(11). eaau3523–eaau3523. 82 indexed citations
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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2017). An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2013–2013. 1798 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keesstra, Saskia, J. Bouma, Jakob Wallinga, et al.. (2016). FORUM paper: The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 39 indexed citations
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Bouma, J. & Luca Montanarella. (2016). Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. SOIL. 2(2). 135–145. 49 indexed citations
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Keesstra, Saskia, J. Bouma, Jakob Wallinga, et al.. (2016). The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. SOIL. 2(2). 111–128. 1109 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mulder, Christian, J.-P. Hettelingh, Luca Montanarella, et al.. (2015). Chemical footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on recent soil C : N ratios in Europe. Biogeosciences. 12(13). 4113–4119. 15 indexed citations
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Montanarella, Luca. (2014). The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS). 123–123. 8 indexed citations
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Meusburger, Katrin, E. Ashley Steel, Panos Panagos, Luca Montanarella, & Christine Alewell. (2012). Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall erosivity factor for Switzerland. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(1). 167–177. 205 indexed citations
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Bosco, Claudio, Daniele de Rigo, Olivier Dewitte, & Luca Montanarella. (2011). Towards a Reproducible Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment - RUSLE. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 13. 3351. 2 indexed citations
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Montanarella, Luca, et al.. (2010). Developing SoilML as a global standard for the collation and transfer of soil data and information.. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3180. 2 indexed citations
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Dobos, Endre, Joël Daroussin, & Luca Montanarella. (2010). A quantitative procedure for building physiographic units supporting a global SOTER database. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11 indexed citations
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Florêncio, M. Helena, Walter Goessler, Kurt J. Irgolic, et al.. (1997). Identification of inorganic, methylated and hydride-refractory arsenic species in estuarine waters. Advances by Electrospray, ES-MS, Pyrolysis-GC-MS and HPLC-ICP/MS. Analusis. 25(7). 226–229. 6 indexed citations
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Montanarella, Luca, et al.. (1995). ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION USING MAGNETIC SECTOR MASS SPECTROMETERS. Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. 14(4). 205–226. 1 indexed citations

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