Massimo Menenti

14.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
318 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Massimo Menenti is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Menenti has authored 318 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 121 papers in Environmental Engineering and 104 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Massimo Menenti's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (95 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (53 papers). Massimo Menenti is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (95 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (53 papers). Massimo Menenti collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and Italy. Massimo Menenti's co-authors include W.G.M. Bastiaanssen, R.A. Feddes, A.A.M. Holtslag, G.J. Roerink, Jia Li, Zhongbo Su, W. Verhoef, Roderik Lindenbergh, S. Azzali and Jie Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Menenti

302 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

A remote sensing surface ... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2000 2000 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL). 1. Formulation
    1998 2.4k citations W.G.M. Bastiaanssen, Massimo Menenti et al. profile →
  2. S-SEBI: A simple remote sensing algorithm to estimate the surface energy balance
    2000 560 citations Massimo Menenti et al. profile →
  3. Reconstructing cloudfree NDVI composites using Fourier analysis of time series
    2000 523 citations Massimo Menenti et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Massimo Menenti 6.8k 4.4k 3.4k 2.7k 2.1k 318 10.7k
Matthew F. McCabe 7.4k 1.1× 4.8k 1.1× 3.3k 1.0× 3.9k 1.5× 3.0k 1.5× 225 13.0k
S.M. de Jong 2.4k 0.4× 2.6k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 2.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 143 7.4k
T. M. Lillesand 3.6k 0.5× 2.7k 0.6× 4.4k 1.3× 1.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 41 10.2k
Jungho Im 4.7k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 3.8k 1.1× 3.5k 1.3× 770 0.4× 216 10.8k
Martin Jung 10.6k 1.6× 2.8k 0.6× 4.5k 1.3× 3.9k 1.5× 2.3k 1.1× 102 14.7k
M. Susan Moran 6.6k 1.0× 5.6k 1.2× 5.3k 1.6× 3.5k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 161 12.8k
John R. Jensen 3.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 5.0k 1.5× 2.0k 0.8× 629 0.3× 113 10.1k
Nuno Carvalhais 5.3k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 2.4k 0.9× 975 0.5× 103 9.1k
Zhongbo Su 8.1k 1.2× 5.9k 1.3× 2.5k 0.7× 5.6k 2.1× 3.1k 1.5× 428 13.7k
Prashant K. Srivastava 3.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 2.2k 0.8× 2.2k 1.1× 268 7.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Massimo Menenti

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Menenti

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All Works

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Zeng, Yelong, et al.. (2024). Hydrological Factor and Land Use/Land Cover Change Explain the Vegetation Browning in the Dosso Reserve, Niger. Remote Sensing. 16(10). 1728–1728. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Jinxin, et al.. (2023). Seasonal Cooling Effect of Vegetation and Albedo Applied to the LCZ Classification of Three Chinese Megacities. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5478–5478. 9 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jie, Massimo Menenti, Jia Li, et al.. (2023). A scalable software package for time series reconstruction of remote sensing datasets on the Google Earth Engine platform. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 988–1007. 19 indexed citations
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Li, Jia, Massimo Menenti, Le Yu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Patterns in Land Use/Land Cover Observed by Fusion of Multi-Source Fine-Resolution Data in West Africa. Land. 12(5). 1032–1032. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Jia, et al.. (2022). Global soil moisture data fusion by Triple Collocation Analysis from 2011 to 2018. Scientific Data. 9(1). 687–687. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Lian, et al.. (2021). Improved parameterization of snow albedo in Noah coupled with Weather Research and Forecasting: applicability to snow estimates for the Tibetan Plateau. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 4967–4981. 24 indexed citations
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Yang, Jinxin, Massimo Menenti, Zhifeng Wu, et al.. (2020). Assessing the impact of urban geometry on surface urban heat island using complete and nadir temperatures. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 35 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, et al.. (2020). Glacier Mass Balance in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains between 2000 and 2017 Retrieved from ZiYuan-3 Stereo Images and the SRTM DEM. Remote Sensing. 12(5). 864–864. 32 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, et al.. (2019). Improving the AMSR-E/NASA Soil Moisture Data Product Using In-Situ Measurements from the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing. 11(23). 2748–2748. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Jia, et al.. (2019). Glacier Facies Mapping Using a Machine-Learning Algorithm: The Parlung Zangbo Basin Case Study. Remote Sensing. 11(4). 452–452. 52 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jie, Jia Li, Jing Lu, et al.. (2019). A prototype web-based analysis platform for drought monitoring and early warning. International Journal of Digital Earth. 13(7). 817–831. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Lian, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of WRF Modeling in Relation to Different Land Surface Schemes and Initial and Boundary Conditions: A Snow Event Simulation Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(1). 209–226. 49 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, et al.. (2010). Patrones fenológicos de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina, mediante serie temporal de imágenes NOAA-AVHRR NDVI GAC. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica. 45. 343–362. 2 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, et al.. (2006). Response of vegetation photosynthetic activity to net radiation and rainfall: a case study on the Tibetan Plateau by means of Fourier analysis of MODIS fAPAR time series. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 21(21). 1254–1259. 1 indexed citations
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Jia, Liming, Massimo Menenti, & Bart van den Hurk. (2002). Relationship between Root Zone Soil Moisture and Foliage Temperature at Global Scale. 34. 3445. 1 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, et al.. (1991). Mapping of groundwater losses by evaporation in the Western Desert of Egypt. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 3 indexed citations

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