Michael Matiu

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 880 citations indexed

About

Michael Matiu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Matiu has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 880 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Atmospheric Science, 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael Matiu's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers). Michael Matiu is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers). Michael Matiu collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Austria. Michael Matiu's co-authors include Annette Menzel, Donna P. Ankerst, Ye Yuan, Regula Gehrig, Nicole Estrella, Helfried Scheifinger, Tim H. Sparks, Marc Zebisch, Claudia Notarnicola and Marcello Petitta and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Biometrics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Matiu

30 papers receiving 869 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate change fingerprints in recent European plant phenology

2020 245 citations Annette Menzel, Ye Yuan et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Matiu Italy	14	448	259	228	214	212	30	880
Aaron B. Berdanier United States	9	292 0.7×	295 1.1×	226 1.0×	126 0.6×	91 0.4×	12	749
Rebecca Sanders‐DeMott United States	13	411 0.9×	280 1.1×	372 1.6×	137 0.6×	81 0.4×	18	851
Jaroslav Škvarenina Slovakia	20	480 1.1×	250 1.0×	346 1.5×	181 0.8×	161 0.8×	56	990
Laura Dobor Czechia	17	538 1.2×	189 0.7×	277 1.2×	138 0.6×	119 0.6×	31	878
Alison K. Post United States	12	574 1.3×	159 0.6×	212 0.9×	181 0.8×	113 0.5×	14	873
Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva Mongolia	10	296 0.7×	117 0.5×	179 0.8×	102 0.5×	155 0.7×	15	625
Haiying Yu China	11	460 1.0×	191 0.7×	582 2.6×	133 0.6×	149 0.7×	14	1.0k
Yue Xu China	15	291 0.6×	137 0.5×	140 0.6×	95 0.4×	210 1.0×	34	681
Skip J. Van Bloem United States	18	439 1.0×	138 0.5×	332 1.5×	174 0.8×	140 0.7×	37	941
Justin M. Becknell United States	12	723 1.6×	207 0.8×	191 0.8×	168 0.8×	146 0.7×	17	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Matiu

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Matiu, Michael, et al.. (2025). Spatial Downscaling of Daily Temperature Minima Using Machine Learning Methods and Application to Frost Forecasting in Two Alpine Valleys. Atmosphere. 16(1). 38–38. 2 indexed citations

Napoli, Anna, Michael Matiu, Lavinia Laiti, et al.. (2025). Review on climate change impacts on the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus in the North-Eastern Italian Alps. Climatic Change. 178(3). 2 indexed citations

Matiu, Michael, et al.. (2025). EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region. Earth system science data. 17(4). 1367–1391. 1 indexed citations

Zardi, Dino, et al.. (2024). Intercomparison of Machine Learning Models for Spatial Downscaling of Daily Mean Temperature in Complex Terrain. Atmosphere. 15(9). 1085–1085. 5 indexed citations

Matiu, Michael, Anna Napoli, Sven Kotlarski, et al.. (2024). Elevation-dependent biases of raw and bias-adjusted EURO-CORDEX regional climate models in the European Alps. Climate Dynamics. 62(9). 9013–9030. 5 indexed citations

Crespi, Alice, Michael Matiu, Bruno Majone, et al.. (2024). Long‐term snowfall trends and variability in the Alps. International Journal of Climatology. 44(13). 4571–4591. 9 indexed citations

Matiu, Michael, et al.. (2023). Fawn birthdays: From opportunistically sampled fawn rescue data to true wildlife demographic parameters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 5 indexed citations

Bertoldi, Giacomo, Alice Crespi, Michael Matiu, et al.. (2023). Diverging snowfall trends across months and elevation in the northeastern Italian Alps. International Journal of Climatology. 43(6). 2794–2819. 15 indexed citations

Matiu, Michael & Florian Hanzer. (2022). Bias adjustment and downscaling of snow cover fraction projections from regional climate models using remote sensing for the European Alps. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(12). 3037–3054. 17 indexed citations

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Matiu, Michael, Alice Crespi, Giacomo Bertoldi, et al.. (2021). Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps 1971 to 2019. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 1 indexed citations

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Crespi, Alice, Michael Matiu, Giacomo Bertoldi, Marcello Petitta, & Marc Zebisch. (2021). A high-resolution gridded dataset of daily temperature and precipitation records (1980–2018) for Trentino-South Tyrol (north-eastern Italian Alps). Earth system science data. 13(6). 2801–2818. 45 indexed citations

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Matiu, Michael & Florian Hanzer. (2021). Bias correction and downscaling of snow cover fraction projections from regional climate models using remote sensing for the European Alps. 2 indexed citations

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Menzel, Annette, et al.. (2020). Chilling and Forcing From Cut Twigs—How to Simplify Phenological Experiments for Citizen Science. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 561413–561413. 13 indexed citations

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Menzel, Annette, Ye Yuan, Michael Matiu, et al.. (2020). Climate change fingerprints in recent European plant phenology. Global Change Biology. 26(4). 2599–2612. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matiu, Michael, Marcello Petitta, Claudia Notarnicola, & Marc Zebisch. (2019). Evaluating Snow in EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Models with Observations for the European Alps: Biases and Their Relationship to Orography, Temperature, and Precipitation Mismatches. Atmosphere. 11(1). 46–46. 27 indexed citations

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Matiu, Michael, et al.. (2018). First-rotation growth and stand structure dynamics of tree species in organic and conventional short-rotation agroforestry systems. Heliyon. 4(6). e00645–e00645. 6 indexed citations

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Asam, Sarah, Mattia Callegari, Michael Matiu, et al.. (2018). Relationship between Spatiotemporal Variations of Climate, Snow Cover and Plant Phenology over the Alps—An Earth Observation-Based Analysis. Remote Sensing. 10(11). 1757–1757. 44 indexed citations

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Matiu, Michael, Donna P. Ankerst, & Annette Menzel. (2017). Interactions between temperature and drought in global and regional crop yield variability during 1961-2014. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0178339–e0178339. 203 indexed citations

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Matiu, Michael, et al.. (2017). Changes in spring arrival dates and temperature sensitivity of migratory birds over two centuries. International Journal of Biometeorology. 61(7). 1279–1289. 11 indexed citations

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Schunk, Christian, et al.. (2016). Diverging Drought Resistance of Scots Pine Provenances Revealed by Infrared Thermography. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1247–1247. 35 indexed citations

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