Marco Turco

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Marco Turco is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Turco has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Marco Turco's work include Climate variability and models (35 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (23 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (20 papers). Marco Turco is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (35 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (23 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (20 papers). Marco Turco collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United States. Marco Turco's co-authors include María Carmen Llasat, Antonello Provenzale, Jost von Hardenberg, Sónia Jerez, Ricardo M. Trigo, Joaquín Bedia, Juan Pedro Montávez, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, Sixto Herrera and Amir AghaKouchak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Marco Turco

71 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models

2018 328 citations Marco Turco, Juan José Rosa-Cánovas et al. Nature Communications profile →
Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction

2017 242 citations Marco Turco et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Turco Spain	34	2.6k	918	486	419	330	74	3.4k
Xianli Wang Canada	32	2.1k 0.8×	489 0.5×	892 1.8×	521 1.2×	195 0.6×	97	3.2k
Jeremy S. Littell United States	25	3.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 2.5×	496 1.2×	281 0.9×	58	3.7k
Rachael H. Nolan Australia	28	2.5k 0.9×	470 0.5×	881 1.8×	434 1.0×	178 0.5×	81	3.2k
Niels Andela United States	22	3.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 2.4×	419 1.0×	142 0.4×	40	4.2k
Daniel L. Swain United States	28	3.9k 1.5×	2.1k 2.3×	586 1.2×	266 0.6×	847 2.6×	41	5.2k
Gitta Lasslop Germany	27	4.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 2.5×	339 0.8×	149 0.5×	48	4.6k
Chao Yue China	33	3.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 2.8×	404 1.0×	93 0.3×	120	4.5k
Florent Mouillot France	34	3.9k 1.5×	957 1.0×	1.5k 3.2×	580 1.4×	223 0.7×	93	4.7k
R. P. D. Walsh United Kingdom	32	2.1k 0.8×	334 0.4×	1.0k 2.1×	457 1.1×	601 1.8×	81	3.4k
Jessica E. Halofsky United States	20	1.6k 0.6×	402 0.4×	758 1.6×	222 0.5×	110 0.3×	39	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Turco

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Marco Turco's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Marco Turco with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Marco Turco more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Turco

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marco Turco. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marco Turco. The network helps show where Marco Turco may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Turco

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Trigo, Ricardo M., et al.. (2025). Beyond the NAO : The East Atlantic Pattern's Role in Early 20th‐Century Meteorological Droughts in Western Europe. International Journal of Climatology. 45(13). 1 indexed citations

Abatzoglou, John T., Crystal A. Kolden, Alison C. Cullen, et al.. (2025). Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6390–6390. 6 indexed citations

Pausas, Juli G., Joaquín Bedia, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, et al.. (2024). The Interannual Variability of Global Burned Area Is Mostly Explained by Climatic Drivers. Earth s Future. 12(7). 11 indexed citations

Montávez, Juan Pedro, et al.. (2023). High resolution monitoring and probabilistic prediction of meteorological drought in a Mediterranean environment. Weather and Climate Extremes. 40. 100558–100558. 12 indexed citations

Turco, Marco, John T. Abatzoglou, Sixto Herrera, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(25). e2213815120–e2213815120. 70 indexed citations

Jerez, Sónia, David Barriopedro, Raquel Lorente‐Plazas, et al.. (2023). An Action‐Oriented Approach to Make the Most of the Wind and Solar Power Complementarity. Earth s Future. 11(6). 5 indexed citations

Maycock, Amanda C., et al.. (2023). Atlantic Multidecadal Variability modulates the climate impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Australia. Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 84029–84029. 2 indexed citations

Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, Conor Murphy, et al.. (2020). Long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851–2018). International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 79 indexed citations

Cortès, María, et al.. (2019). Changes in flood damage with global warming on the eastern coast of Spain. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(12). 2855–2877. 21 indexed citations

10.

Turco, Marco, et al.. (2019). Seasonal prediction of climate-driven fire risk for decision-making and operational applications in a Mediterranean region. The Science of The Total Environment. 676. 577–583. 24 indexed citations

11.

Jerez, Sónia, Jose María López‐Romero, Marco Turco, et al.. (2018). Impact of evolving greenhouse gas forcing on the warming signal in regional climate model experiments. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1304–1304. 25 indexed citations

12.

Ceglar, Andrej, Andrea Toreti, Chloé Prodhomme, et al.. (2018). Land-surface initialisation improves seasonal climate prediction skill for maize yield forecast. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1322–1322. 54 indexed citations

13.

Turco, Marco, Sónia Jerez, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, et al.. (2018). Skilful forecasting of global fire activity using seasonal climate predictions. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2718–2718. 70 indexed citations

14.

Turco, Marco, Juan José Rosa-Cánovas, Joaquín Bedia, et al.. (2018). Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3821–3821. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

15.

Turco, Marco, María Carmen Llasat, Sixto Herrera, & José Manuel Gutiérrez. (2017). Bias correction and downscaling of future RCM precipitation projections using a MOS‐Analog technique. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(5). 2631–2648. 62 indexed citations

16.

Marcos-Matamoros, Raül, María Carmen Llasat, Pere Quintana‐Seguí, & Marco Turco. (2017). Use of bias correction techniques to improve seasonal forecasts for reservoirs — A case-study in northwestern Mediterranean. The Science of The Total Environment. 610-611. 64–74. 14 indexed citations

17.

Gruner, Susan V., Daniel H. Slone, John L. Capinera, & Marco Turco. (2016). Volume of Larvae Is the Most Important Single Predictor of Mass Temperatures in the Forensically Important Calliphorid,Chrysomya megacephala(Diptera: Calliphoridae). Journal of Medical Entomology. 54(1). 30–34. 13 indexed citations

18.

Gruner, Susan V., Daniel H. Slone, John L. Capinera, & Marco Turco. (2016). Development of the Oriental Latrine Fly,Chrysomya megacephala(Diptera: Calliphoridae), at Five Constant Temperatures. Journal of Medical Entomology. 54(2). tjw169–tjw169. 16 indexed citations

19.

Quintana‐Seguí, Pere, et al.. (2012). Validation of the SAFRAN meteorological analysis system in the northeast of Spain. Arcimis (State Meteorological Agency). 8137. 1 indexed citations

20.

Zollo, Alessandra Lucia, Paola Mercogliano, Marco Turco, et al.. (2012). Architectures and tools to analyse the impact of climate change on hydrogeological risk on Mediterranean area.. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact