Riccardo Valentini

56.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
261 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Riccardo Valentini is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Riccardo Valentini has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Ecology and 52 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Riccardo Valentini's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (84 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (47 papers) and Forest ecology and management (36 papers). Riccardo Valentini is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (84 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (47 papers) and Forest ecology and management (36 papers). Riccardo Valentini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Russia. Riccardo Valentini's co-authors include Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Serge Rambal, Gioṙgio Matteucci, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Christopher B. Field, Ana Rey, Paolo De Angelis, Gaia Vaglio Laurin and John A. Gamon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Riccardo Valentini

257 papers receiving 14.4k 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.

Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation

2006 1.2k citations Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types

1995 888 citations Riccardo Valentini et al. profile →
Annual variation in soil respiration and its components in a coppice oak forest in Central Italy

2002 529 citations Riccardo Valentini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Riccardo Valentini Italy	58	9.7k	4.4k	3.2k	3.1k	3.0k	261	15.1k
Stith T. Gower United States	52	8.4k 0.9×	5.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	3.9k 1.3×	101	13.0k
Changhui Peng Canada	67	8.5k 0.9×	4.4k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	4.8k 1.6×	320	15.4k
Mathew Williams United Kingdom	60	8.4k 0.9×	3.7k 0.8×	4.0k 1.2×	2.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	259	12.9k
Alessandro Cescatti Italy	63	10.5k 1.1×	5.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	172	14.5k
Patrick Meir United Kingdom	75	10.9k 1.1×	4.7k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	5.6k 1.8×	214	17.3k
Dario Papale Italy	52	11.3k 1.2×	4.6k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	143	14.7k
David W. Kicklighter United States	58	9.0k 0.9×	3.7k 0.8×	3.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	111	13.5k
Diane E. Pataki United States	58	9.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	3.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	136	14.1k
Michael Keller United States	66	8.7k 0.9×	5.5k 1.3×	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	4.0k 1.3×	185	16.1k
Rodrigo Vargas United States	47	6.5k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	225	12.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Riccardo Valentini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Riccardo Valentini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Riccardo Valentini

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Angelis, Paolo De, et al.. (2025). Physiological Response of Olive Trees Under Xylella fastidiosa Infection and Thymol Therapy Monitored Through Advanced IoT Sensors. Plants. 14(9). 1380–1380. 1 indexed citations

Chiriacò, Maria Vincenza, Federico Magnani, Gilmo Vianello, et al.. (2024). Ecophysiology of Mediterranean Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) Forests: Effects of Pruning Studied through an Advanced IoT System. Forests. 15(9). 1579–1579. 1 indexed citations

Laurin, Gaia Vaglio, et al.. (2022). Potential of ALOS2 Polarimetric Imagery to Support Management of Poplar Plantations in Northern Italy. Remote Sensing. 14(20). 5202–5202. 3 indexed citations

Badalamenti, Emilio, Giovanna Battipaglia, Luciano Gristina, et al.. (2019). Carbon stock increases up to old growth forest along a secondary succession in Mediterranean island ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0220194–e0220194. 32 indexed citations

Paola, Arianna Di, Luca Caporaso, Francesco Di Paola, et al.. (2018). The expansion of wheat thermal suitability of Russia in response to climate change. Land Use Policy. 78. 70–77. 23 indexed citations

Valentini, Riccardo & F. Miglietta. (2015). The greenhouse gas balance of Italy: an insight on managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental science and engineering. 9 indexed citations

Bertolini, T., Stefano Materia, Silvio Gualdi, et al.. (2014). Seasonal trends of dry and bulk concentration of nitrogen compounds over a rain forest in Ghana. Biogeosciences. 11(11). 3069–3081. 6 indexed citations

Castaldi, Simona, T. Bertolini, Monia Santini, et al.. (2013). Hotspots of N2O and CH4 emissions in tropical ecosystems. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

Kuzminsky, Elena, et al.. (2013). Leaf epidermis morphological differentiation between Tamarix africana Poir. and Tamarix gallica L. ( Tamaricaceae ) with ecological remarks. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 147(3). 573–582. 5 indexed citations

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Laurin, Gaia Vaglio, Qi Chen, Jeremy Lindsell, et al.. (2013). Above ground biomass estimation from lidar and hyperspectral airbone data in West African moist forests.. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Simona, et al.. (2013). Nitrous oxide emissions from soil of an African rain forest in Ghana. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 4179–4187. 36 indexed citations

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Perugini, Lucia, et al.. (2012). Durban Climate Conference: new perspectives on forests. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 1–7. 5 indexed citations

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Bombelli, Antonio & Riccardo Valentini. (2011). Africa and the carbon cycle : proceedings of the Open Science Conference on "Africa and Carbon Cycle : the CarboAfrica project" : Accra (Ghana) 25-27 November 2008. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Ciais, Philippe, Catherine Ottlé, Pierre Hiernaux, et al.. (2009). Evaluation and improvement of the representation of Sahelian savannah in the vegetation model ORCHIDEE.. EGUGA. 11895–101. 1 indexed citations

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Bombelli, Antonio, Matieu Henry, Simona Castaldi, et al.. (2009). An outlook on the Sub-Saharan Africa carbon balance. Biogeosciences. 6(10). 2193–2205. 75 indexed citations

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Vuichard, Nicolas, et al.. (2008). Carbon sequestration due to the abandonment of agriculture in the former USSR since 1990. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 22(4). 94 indexed citations

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Colla, Valentina, et al.. (2006). Ca-treatment of Al-Killed steels: inclusion modification and application of Artificial Neural Networks for the prediction of clogging. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). 2 indexed citations

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Papale, Dario, Markus Reichstein, Eleonora Canfora, et al.. (2006). Towards a more harmonized processing of eddy covariance CO ₂ fluxes: algorithms and uncertainty estimation. 18 indexed citations

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Reichstein, Markus, Thomas Kätterer, Olof Andrén, et al.. (2005). Temperature sensitivity of decomposition in relation to soil organic matter pools: critique and outlook. Biogeosciences. 2(4). 317–321. 114 indexed citations

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Reichstein, Markus, Dennis Baldocchi, Steven W. Running, et al.. (2002). Validation Effort of MODIS LAI/GPP/NPP Products at FLUXNET Sites. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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