Luis Lassaletta

13.3k citations

78 papers · 7.0k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 42

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.2%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Environmental Chemistry 37
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 37
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 23
- Phosphorus and nutrient management 22

Co-authors: Josette Garnier Gilles Billen Bruna Grizzetti Eduardo Aguilera Juliette Anglade Lex Bouwman Alberto Sanz-Cobeña Benjamín S. Gimeno
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (14 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (10 papers)Nature Food (5 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (4 papers)Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (4 papers)
Partner nations: Spain France Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Luis Lassaletta

75 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion 2019 · 277 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Climate Change
2016 Global Environmental Change
2015 Environmental Research Letters
2014 Environmental Research Letters
2013 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Luis Lassaletta, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Impact of changing agricultural management on the exceedance of empirical critical loads of nitrogen in terrestrial habitats of Southwestern Europe Environmental Pollution ·Héctor García-Gómez, Rasmus Einarsson, Mark R. Theobald, Eduardo Aguilera, Michael U. Hensel, Victoria Gil, Benjamín S. Gimeno, 王燕娜, Luis Lassaletta, Kerstin Hanne, Hans van Grinsven, Marta G. Vivanco, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña	2025	0
2	The NBCalCer model for calculating global benefits and costs of nitrogen fertilizer use for cereal cultivation: Model description, uncertainty analysis and validation Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ·Alfredo Rodríguez, Hans J. M. van Grinsven, Rasmus Einarsson, Arthur Beusen, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Luis Lassaletta	2025	1
3	Valuing damages and benefits of the altered global nitrogen cycle; lessons for national to global policy support Environmental Research Letters ·Hans J. M. van Grinsven, Baojing Gu, Alfredo Rodríguez, Laurence Jones, Roy Brouwer, Gülben Şanlı, Amirmahdi Taromiha, Luis Lassaletta, Kentaro Hayashi, Francy Raquel Peña, Nandula Raghuram, Markus Geupel, Peter Ebanyat, Xiuming Zhang, Steven Lord, Martha Anne Hodges Landorf, Mark A. Sutton	2025	0
4	Assessing nitrate groundwater hotspots in Europe reveals an inadequate designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones Chemosphere ·Joobeom Yun, 邱子坤, 誠司河戸, Seqinbater, Maria do Rosário Cameira, W. de Vries, Tommy Dalgaard, Nicholas John Hutchings, Morten Graversgaard, 悟伊野田, Luis Lassaletta, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Miguel Quemada, Eduardo Aguilera, Sergiy Medinets, Rasmus Einarsson, Josette Garnier	2024	14
5	Fertilizer dependency: a new indicator for assessing the sustainability of agrosystems beyond nitrogen use efficiency Agronomy for Sustainable Development ·Miguel Quemada, Luis Lassaletta	2024	6
6	Special issue opening editorial: Reducing nitrogen waste through crop and livestock reconnection Agricultural Systems ·Luis Lassaletta, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, George W Hopkins, Lin Ma, Sheri Spiegal, Pytrik Reidsma	2023	3
7	Investing in mini-livestock production for food security and carbon neutrality in China Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Zhaohai Bai, Xiaofei Wu, Luis Lassaletta, Alexander Haverkamp, Wei Li, Zengwei Yuan, Eduardo Aguilera, Aimable Uwizeye, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Nannan Zhang, 山本俊一, A. N. Ivanitzky, Marcel Dicke, Xuan Wang, Lin Ma	2023	6
8	Fertilization strategies for abating N pollution at the scale of a highly vulnerable and diverse semi-arid agricultural region (Murcia, Spain) Environmental Research Letters ·Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Luis Lassaletta, Alfredo Rodríguez, Eduardo Aguilera, Pablo Piñero, M.J. Moro, Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen, Rasmus Einarsson, Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma, Ayesha Mubarik, Margarita Ruiz‐Ramos, Antonio Vallejo, Mohammad Mostafa Zaman, Juan Infante‐Amate, Benjamín S. Gimeno	2023	9
9	Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals Environmental Research Letters ·Wilfried Winiwarter, Barbara Amon, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Jingjing Li, Markus Geupel, Luis Lassaletta, Nandula Raghuram	2022	9
10	More efficient phosphorus use can avoid cropland expansion Nature Food ·José M. Mogollón, Lex Bouwman, Arthur Beusen, Luis Lassaletta, Hans J. M. van Grinsven, Henk Westhoek	2021	66
11	Crop production and nitrogen use in European cropland and grassland 1961–2019 Scientific Data ·Rasmus Einarsson, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Eduardo Aguilera, Gilles Billen, Josette Garnier, Hans J. M. van Grinsven, Luis Lassaletta	2021	57
12	Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity One Earth ·Gilles Billen, Eduardo Aguilera, Rasmus Einarsson, Josette Garnier, Simone Gingrich, Bruna Grizzetti, Luis Lassaletta, Julia Le Noë, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña	2021	118
13	Long-term trajectories of the C footprint of N fertilization in Mediterranean agriculture (Spain, 1860–2018) Environmental Research Letters ·Eduardo Aguilera, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Juan Infante‐Amate, Roberto García‐Ruiz, Omar Shabbir, Gloria I. Guzmán, Manuel González de Molina, Alfredo Rodríguez, Pablo Piñero, Luis Lassaletta	2021	22
14	Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate: a systemic analysis Environmental Research Letters ·Luis Lassaletta, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Eduardo Aguilera, Miguel Quemada, Gilles Billen, Alberte Bondeau, María Luz Cayuela, Wolfgang Crämer, Joris Eekhout, Josette Garnier, Bruna Grizzetti, Diego S. Intrigliolo, Margarita Ruiz‐Ramos, Estela Romero, Antonio Vallejo, Benjamín S. Gimeno	2021	38
15	Reducing marine eutrophication may require a paradigmatic change The Science of The Total Environment ·Xavier Desmit, Vincent Thieu, Gilles Billen, Francisco Campuzano, Valérie Dulière, Josette Garnier, Luis Lassaletta, Alain Ménesguen, Ramiro Neves, Lı́gia Pinto, Marie Silvestre, Melodie M. Miles, Geneviève Lacroix	2018	94
16	Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm Global Environmental Change ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Elke Stehfest, David Gernaat, Jonathan Doelman, Maarten van den Berg, Mathijs Harmsen, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Lex Bouwman, Vassilis Daioglou, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Bastien Girod, Tom Kram, Luis Lassaletta, Paul Lucas, Hans van Meijl, Christoph Müller, Bas van Ruijven, Sietske van der Sluis, Andrzej Tabeau Hit paper breakdown →	2016	613
17	Water management practices exacerbate nitrogen retention in Mediterranean catchments The Science of The Total Environment ·Estela Romero, Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen, Francesc Peters, Luis Lassaletta	2016	41
18	Yield-scaled mitigation of ammonia emission from N fertilization: the Spanish case Environmental Research Letters ·Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Luis Lassaletta, Fernándo Estellés, A. del Prado, Guillermo Guardia, Diego Ábalos, Eduardo Aguilera, Guillermo Orozco Pardo, Antonio Vallejo, Mark A. Sutton, Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen	2014	72
19	Leakage of nitrous oxide emissions within the Spanish agro-food system in 1961–2009 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change ·Luis Lassaletta, Eduardo Aguilera, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Guillermo Orozco Pardo, Gilles Billen, Josette Garnier, Bruna Grizzetti	2014	13
20	Agricultura industrial y cambio global: esta actividad está alterando los ciclos globales del agua, carbono y nitrógeno José Rovira, Luis Lassaletta	2005	0

About Luis Lassaletta

Luis Lassaletta is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Soil Science, Ecology and Process Chemistry and Technology, having authored 78 papers that have together received 7.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (37 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (27 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers), Phosphorus and nutrient management (22 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (2.0k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.0k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (1.0k citations), Ecology (2.0k citations) and Agronomy and Crop Science (719 citations). Luis Lassaletta has collaborated with scholars based in Spain, France and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen, Bruna Grizzetti, Eduardo Aguilera, Juliette Anglade, Lex Bouwman, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Benjamín S. Gimeno, Andreas Gattinger and Hans J. M. van Grinsven. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, Nature Food, Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

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