Simone Fatichi

13.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
156 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Simone Fatichi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Fatichi has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Water Science and Technology and 47 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Simone Fatichi's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (54 papers) and Climate variability and models (51 papers). Simone Fatichi is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (54 papers) and Climate variability and models (51 papers). Simone Fatichi collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Singapore and United States. Simone Fatichi's co-authors include Paolo Burlando, V. Y. Ivanov, Péter Molnár, Christoforos Pappas, Gabriele Manoli, Enrica Caporali, Athanasios Paschalis, Sebastian Leuzinger, Naika Meili and Nadav Peleg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simone Fatichi

148 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

2019 832 citations Gabriele Manoli, Simone Fatichi et al. profile →
An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

2016 456 citations Simone Fatichi, V. Y. Ivanov et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink‐driven vegetation modeling

2013 429 citations Simone Fatichi, Sebastian Leuzinger et al. New Phytologist profile →
Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

2023 262 citations Simone Fatichi, Trevor F. Keenan et al. profile →
Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts

2025 44 citations Simone Fatichi, Francesca Pellicciotti et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Fatichi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simone Fatichi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simone Fatichi 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 Simone Fatichi. Simone Fatichi 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ecohydrological responses to solar radiation changes 2025 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Naika Meili, Simone Fatichi	1
2	Future glacier retreat and forest expansion in the Swiss Alps provide limited benefits for carbon sinks 2025 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), Simone Fatichi, Gianalberto Losapio, Nadav Peleg	0
3	Investigating the influence of urban morphology on pluvial flooding: Insights from urban catchments in England (UK) 2024 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Yue Zhu, Paolo Burlando, Puay Yok Tan, (unknown), Simone Fatichi	6
4	Temperature controls the relation between soil organic carbon and microbial carbon use efficiency 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Jianning Ren, Stefano Manzoni, Simone Fatichi	8
5	Seawater Intrusion Inhibits Nitrate Removal in Tidal Marsh Aquifers 2024 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Jun Kong, Xiayang Yu, Chao Gao, D. A. Barry, Simone Fatichi	5
6	Environmental changes promoted vegetation growth and reduced water yield over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China during 1901–2016 2023 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), Simone Fatichi, Huimin Lei, Zhentao Cong, Hanbo Yang, Limin Duan	10
7	Evidence and Controls of the Acceleration of the Hydrological Cycle Over Land 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Naika Meili, Simone Fatichi	16
8	A review of Water Use Efficiency across space and time 2023 ·Simone Fatichi, Athanasios Paschalis, Sara Bonetti, Gabriele Manoli, Christoforos Pappas	0
9	Consistent responses of vegetation gas exchange to elevated atmospheric CO ₂ emerge from heuristic and optimization models 2022 ·Biogeosciences ·Stefano Manzoni, Simone Fatichi, Xue Feng, Gabriel G. Katul, Danielle A. Way, Giulia Vico	9
10	The Energy and Mass Balance of Peruvian Glaciers 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Catriona Fyffe, (unknown), Stefan Fugger, Andrew Orr, Simone Fatichi, Edwin Loarte, (unknown), Robert Hellström, (unknown), Caroline Aubry‐Wake, (unknown), L. Baker Perry, Wilson Suárez, Duncan J. Quincey, Francesca Pellicciotti	22
11	More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Theodoros Mastrotheodoros, Christoforos Pappas, Péter Molnár, Paolo Burlando, Gabriele Manoli, Juraj Párajka, Riccardo Rigon, Borbála Széles, Michele Bottazzi, Panagiotis Hadjidoukas, Simone Fatichi	184
12	Aboveground tree growth is a minor and decoupled fraction of boreal forest carbon input 2020 ·Christoforos Pappas, (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer L. Baltzer, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Simone Fatichi, Colin P. Laroque, Ashley M. Matheny, Alexandre Roy, Oliver Sonnentag, Tianshan Zha	1
13	Aboveground tree growth is a minor and decoupled fraction of boreal forest carbon input 2020 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Christoforos Pappas, (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer L. Baltzer, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Simone Fatichi, Colin P. Laroque, Ashley M. Matheny, Alexandre Roy, Oliver Sonnentag, Tianshan Zha	34
14	A review of studies on observed precipitation trends in Italy 2020 ·International Journal of Climatology ·Enrica Caporali, (unknown), Tommaso Pacetti, (unknown), Simone Fatichi	52
15	Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation 2018 ·New Phytologist ·Simone Fatichi, Christoforos Pappas, Jakob Zscheischler, Sebastian Leuzinger	187
16	Ecohydrological dynamics in the Alps: Insights from a modelling analysis of the spatial variability 2018 ·Ecohydrology ·Theodoros Mastrotheodoros, Christoforos Pappas, Péter Molnár, Paolo Burlando, Panagiotis Hadjidoukas, Simone Fatichi	17
17	Constrained variability of modeled T:ET ratio across biomes 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Simone Fatichi, Christoforos Pappas	117
18	Linking plant functional trait plasticity and the large increase in forest water use efficiency 2017 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Theodoros Mastrotheodoros, Christoforos Pappas, Péter Molnár, Paolo Burlando, Trevor F. Keenan, Pierre Gentine, Christopher M. Gough, Simone Fatichi	60
19	Abiotic and biotic controls of soil moisture spatiotemporal variability and the occurrence of hysteresis 2015 ·Water Resources Research ·Simone Fatichi, Gabriel G. Katul, V. Y. Ivanov, Christoforos Pappas, Athanasios Paschalis, (unknown), Jongho Kim, Paolo Burlando	64
20	Terrestrial water and carbon fluxes across climatic gradients: does plant diversity matter? 2014 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Christoforos Pappas, Simone Fatichi, Paolo Burlando	2

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