Luca Secondi

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Luca Secondi is a scholar working on Food Science, Economics and Econometrics and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Secondi has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Food Science, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 11 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Luca Secondi's work include Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (23 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (8 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (7 papers). Luca Secondi is often cited by papers focused on Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (23 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (8 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (7 papers). Luca Secondi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and China. Luca Secondi's co-authors include Ludovica Principato, Tiziana Laureti, Carlo Alberto Pratesi, Guido Ferrari, Clara Cicatiello, Stefano Poponi, Barbara Aquilani, Juan-Antonio Mondéjar-Jiménez, Giovanni Mattia and Luca Ruini and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Luca Secondi

48 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Household food waste behaviour in EU-27 countries: A multilevel analysis

2015 402 citations Luca Secondi, Ludovica Principato et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Secondi Italy	25	1.7k	761	633	526	371	52	2.7k
Ludovica Principato Italy	22	1.8k 1.0×	834 1.1×	768 1.2×	413 0.8×	365 1.0×	39	2.4k
Juha‐Matti Katajajuuri Finland	17	1.3k 0.8×	695 0.9×	575 0.9×	404 0.8×	270 0.7×	68	2.1k
Matteo Vittuari Italy	27	1.4k 0.8×	744 1.0×	351 0.6×	436 0.8×	298 0.8×	81	2.1k
Effie Papargyropoulou United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.7×	611 0.8×	377 0.6×	267 0.5×	244 0.7×	28	2.1k
Julian Parfitt United Kingdom	10	2.0k 1.2×	908 1.2×	322 0.5×	705 1.3×	319 0.9×	12	2.9k
Shengkui Cheng China	27	1.2k 0.7×	599 0.8×	227 0.4×	492 0.9×	190 0.5×	112	3.0k
Karin Schanes Austria	9	960 0.6×	424 0.6×	394 0.6×	240 0.5×	157 0.4×	11	1.5k
David Pearson Australia	26	1.3k 0.8×	345 0.5×	861 1.4×	1.2k 2.3×	273 0.7×	110	2.8k
A. Meybeck France	16	1.5k 0.9×	449 0.6×	187 0.3×	847 1.6×	511 1.4×	41	3.7k
Christian Reynolds United Kingdom	27	1.1k 0.6×	520 0.7×	177 0.3×	353 0.7×	434 1.2×	109	2.2k

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Principato, Ludovica, et al.. (2025). Food Sharing Platforms as a Technology to Reduce Food Waste at Food Service Level: Recommendations for Businesses and Society. Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility. 35(2). 860–875.

Secondi, Luca, et al.. (2025). Saving food surplus and developing new business models: Exploring the potential of ‘Too Good To Go’ at territorial level using web-scraped data. Big Data Research. 40. 100536–100536.

Benedetti, Ilaria, et al.. (2024). Adopting the fuzzy approach to analyze food poverty in Italy: A study on vulnerable households using household budget survey data. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 95. 102006–102006. 2 indexed citations

Principato, Ludovica, et al.. (2023). Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 27(4). 1060–1075. 11 indexed citations

Franco, Silvio, Marco Barbanera, Roberto Moscetti, et al.. (2022). Overnutrition is a significant component of food waste and has a large environmental impact. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8166–8166. 18 indexed citations

Marchetti, Stefano & Luca Secondi. (2022). The Economic Perspective of Food Poverty and (In)security: An Analytical Approach to Measuring and Estimation in Italy. Social Indicators Research. 162(3). 995–1020. 18 indexed citations

Malefors, Christopher, Luca Secondi, Stefano Marchetti, & Mattias Eriksson. (2021). Food waste reduction and economic savings in times of crisis: The potential of machine learning methods to plan guest attendance in Swedish public catering during the Covid-19 pandemic. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 82. 101041–101041. 30 indexed citations

Cicatiello, Clara, et al.. (2021). Consumer expenditure, elasticity and value of food waste: A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System for evaluating changes in Mexico during COVID-19. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 82. 101065–101065. 39 indexed citations

Principato, Ludovica, Luca Secondi, Clara Cicatiello, & Giovanni Mattia. (2020). Caring more about food: The unexpected positive effect of the Covid-19 lockdown on household food management and waste. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 82. 100953–100953. 163 indexed citations

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Secondi, Luca. (2020). A Regression-Adjustment Approach with Control-Function for Estimating Economic Benefits of Targeted Circular Economy Practices: Evidence from European SMEs. Studies of Applied Economics. 39(3). 5 indexed citations

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Corrado, Sara, Carla Caldeira, Mattias Eriksson, et al.. (2019). Food waste accounting methodologies: Challenges, opportunities, and further advancements. Global Food Security. 20. 93–100. 159 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Ilaria, Tiziana Laureti, & Luca Secondi. (2018). Choosing a healthy and sustainable diet: A three-level approach for understanding the drivers of the Italians' dietary regime over time. Appetite. 123. 357–366. 25 indexed citations

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Mondéjar-Jiménez, Juan-Antonio, Guido Ferrari, Luca Secondi, & Ludovica Principato. (2016). From the table to waste: An exploratory study on behaviour towards food waste of Spanish and Italian youths. Journal of Cleaner Production. 138. 8–18. 231 indexed citations

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Tomao, Antonio, Luca Secondi, Piermaria Corona, Giuseppe Carrus, & Mariagrazia Agrimi. (2016). Exploring Individuals’ Well-being Visiting Urban and Peri-Urban Green Areas: A Quantile Regression Approach. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia. 8. 115–122. 13 indexed citations

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Principato, Ludovica, Luca Secondi, & Carlo Alberto Pratesi. (2015). Reducing food waste: an investigation on the behaviour of Italian youths. British Food Journal. 117(2). 731–748. 270 indexed citations

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Laureti, Tiziana, et al.. (2014). Measuring the efficiency of teaching activities in Italian universities: An information theoretic approach. Economics of Education Review. 42. 147–164. 27 indexed citations

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Laureti, Tiziana & Luca Secondi. (2012). Determinants of Households’ Space Heating type and Expenditures in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research. 6(4). 1025–1038. 19 indexed citations

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Secondi, Luca, et al.. (2011). EXPLORING THE ROLE OF THIRD-PARTY RESEARCH IN ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES. 1566–1576. 2 indexed citations

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Pirani, Elena & Luca Secondi. (2011). Eco-Friendly Attitudes: What European Citizens Say and What They Do. International Journal of Environmental Research. 5(1). 67–84. 58 indexed citations

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Mencarini, Letizia, Silvana Salvini, Luca Secondi, & Daniele Vignoli. (2010). Having Children in Italy: From Intentions to Realizations. Florence Research (University of Florence). 1 indexed citations

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