María Piles

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

María Piles is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, María Piles has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Environmental Engineering, 94 papers in Atmospheric Science and 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in María Piles's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (104 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (57 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (34 papers). María Piles is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (104 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (57 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (34 papers). María Piles collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. María Piles's co-authors include Dara Entekhabi, Adriano Camps, M. Vall‐llossera, Alexandra G. Konings, Nilda Sánchez, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Anna Agustí‐Panareda, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga and Gabriele Arduini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

María Piles

137 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

2021 2.5k citations Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, María Piles et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
María Piles Spain	32	3.3k	3.1k	2.4k	831	727	147	6.1k
Aaron Berg Canada	40	3.5k 1.1×	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	651 0.8×	934 1.3×	182	6.2k
Jeffrey B. Basara United States	44	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	4.1k 1.7×	698 0.8×	850 1.2×	130	6.3k
Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater United Kingdom	27	3.6k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	492 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	61	6.0k
José Martínez‐Fernández Spain	39	2.7k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	515 0.6×	787 1.1×	120	5.1k
Clément Albergel France	39	4.9k 1.5×	4.1k 1.3×	3.8k 1.6×	806 1.0×	1.6k 2.1×	118	8.1k
Isabel F. Trigo Portugal	44	4.6k 1.4×	3.8k 1.2×	5.1k 2.1×	994 1.2×	430 0.6×	120	8.3k
Bo‐Hui Tang China	30	3.2k 1.0×	4.5k 1.5×	2.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	489 0.7×	202	6.4k
Claudia Notarnicola Italy	35	2.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	989 1.2×	464 0.6×	219	4.7k
É. Mougin France	45	2.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 2.4×	507 0.7×	152	6.0k
Catherine Ottlé France	36	1.8k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	885 1.1×	999 1.4×	111	5.1k

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Li, Xiaojun, Roberto Fernandez-Morán, Xiangzhuo Liu, et al.. (2025). A novel calibration of global soil roughness effects for SMOS-IC soil moisture and L-VOD products. Remote Sensing of Environment. 329. 114946–114946. 1 indexed citations

Ronco, Michele, et al.. (2023). Exploring interactions between socioeconomic context and natural hazards on human population displacement. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8004–8004. 19 indexed citations

Adsuara, José E., et al.. (2023). Interpretable Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Crop Yield Estimation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–5. 30 indexed citations

Laparra, Valero, Adrián Pérez-Suay, María Piles, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Impact of Using Short Videos for Teaching at Higher Education: Empirical Evidence From Log-Files in a Learning Management System. IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje. 18(3). 233–238. 5 indexed citations

Chaparro, David, Thomas Jagdhuber, María Piles, et al.. (2023). Estimation of Gravimetric Vegetation Moisture in the Western United States Using a Multi-Sensor Approach. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 6. 1505–1508.

Ronco, Michele, Ioannis Papoutsis, Gustau Camps‐Valls, et al.. (2022). Wildfire Danger Prediction and Understanding With Deep Learning. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(17). 75 indexed citations

Martínez‐Fernández, José, et al.. (2022). Influence of atmospheric patterns on soil moisture dynamics in Europe. The Science of The Total Environment. 846. 157537–157537. 14 indexed citations

Adsuara, José E., et al.. (2022). Inferring causal relations from observational long-term carbon and water fluxes records. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1610–1610. 21 indexed citations

Piles, María, Jordi Muñoz-Marı́, Alicia Guerrero-Curieses, Gustau Camps‐Valls, & José Luis Rojo‐Álvarez. (2021). Autocorrelation Metrics to Estimate Soil Moisture Persistence From Satellite Time Series: Application to Semiarid Regions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–17. 7 indexed citations

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Piles, María, et al.. (2020). Explicit Granger causality in kernel Hilbert spaces. Physical review. E. 102(6). 62201–62201. 11 indexed citations

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Adsuara, José E., et al.. (2019). Nonlinear Distribution Regression for Remote Sensing Applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(12). 10025–10035. 11 indexed citations

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Piles, María, Joaquim Ballabrera‐Poy, & Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater. (2019). Dominant Features of Global Surface Soil Moisture Variability Observed by the SMOS Satellite. Remote Sensing. 11(1). 95–95. 29 indexed citations

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Running, Steven W., Gustau Camps‐Valls, María Piles, et al.. (2019). Inferring causal graphs from observational long-term carbon and water fluxes records. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.

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Piles, María, et al.. (2019). Synergistic integration of optical and microwave satellite data for crop yield estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 234. 111460–111460. 94 indexed citations

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Petropoulos, George P., Prashant K. Srivastava, María Piles, & Simon Pearson. (2018). Earth Observation-Based Operational Estimation of Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Crops in Support of Sustainable Water Management. Sustainability. 10(1). 181–181. 41 indexed citations

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Piles, María, Dara Entekhabi, Alexandra G. Konings, et al.. (2016). Monitoring the Phenology of Global Agroecosystems Using SMAP Multi-temporal Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Das, Narendra N., Dara Entekhabi, Seung-Bum Kim, et al.. (2016). High-Resolution Enhanced Product based on SMAP Active-Passive Approach and Sentinel 1A Radar Data. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Piles, María, et al.. (2014). Satellite Retrievals of Vegetation Optical Depth Using Time-Series of Dual-Polarized and Single Look-Angle Global Microwave Observations. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Nilda, María Piles, M. Vall‐llossera, et al.. (2013). Soil Moisture Maps At Very High Spatial Resolution Through Optical, Thermal And L-Band Observations. 722. 325. 1 indexed citations

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Cervilla, Antonio, et al.. (2004). The reduction of tris-dithiolene complexes of molybdenum(vi) and tungsten(vi) by hydroxide ion: kinetics and mechanism. Dalton Transactions. 1461–1465. 10 indexed citations

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