Valerio Avitabile

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Valerio Avitabile is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Valerio Avitabile has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Environmental Engineering and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Valerio Avitabile's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (22 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (14 papers). Valerio Avitabile is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (22 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (14 papers). Valerio Avitabile collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Valerio Avitabile's co-authors include Martin Herold, Pasi Raumonen, Andrew Burt, Mathias Disney, Kim Calders, Christiane Schmullius, Alessandro Baccini, Simon Murphy, Darius Culvenor and Glenn Newnham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Valerio Avitabile

42 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Nondestructive estimates of above‐ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning

2014 508 citations Kim Calders, Glenn Newnham et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

2020 227 citations Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Valerio Avitabile

GPC

ECOLO

NLC

Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo Brazil

Eben N. Broadbent United States

Erkki Tomppo Finland

Grant M. Domke United States

Matti Katila Finland

Nobuya Mizoue Japan

Mark J. Ducey United States

Silvia Petrova United States

Brian R. Zutta United States

José Natalino Macedo Silva Brazil

Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo Brazil

Valerio Avitabile

923 ×0.6

1.4k ×1.0

GPC

1.1k ×1.0

ECOLO

903 ×0.9

NLC

156 ×0.5

Citations per year, relative to Valerio Avitabile Valerio Avitabile (= 1×) peers Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo

Countries citing papers authored by Valerio Avitabile

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Fields of papers citing papers by Valerio Avitabile

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valerio Avitabile

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

Bourgoin, Clément, Guido Ceccherini, Marco Girardello, et al.. (2024). Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated. Nature. 631(8021). 570–576. 44 indexed citations

Ceccherini, Guido, Marco Girardello, Pieter S. A. Beck, et al.. (2023). Spaceborne LiDAR reveals the effectiveness of European Protected Areas in conserving forest height and vertical structure. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 18 indexed citations

Estoque, Ronald C., Rajarshi Dasgupta, Karina Winkler, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84022–84022. 47 indexed citations

Giuntoli, Jacopo, José I. Barredo, Valerio Avitabile, et al.. (2022). The quest for sustainable forest bioenergy: win-win solutions for climate and biodiversity. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 159. 112180–112180. 39 indexed citations

Ceccherini, Guido, Grégory Duveiller, Giacomo Grassi, et al.. (2022). Potentials and limitations of NFIs and remote sensing in the assessment of harvest rates: a reply to Breidenbach et al.. Annals of Forest Science. 79(1). 4 indexed citations

Koirala, Sujan, Markus Reichstein, Martin Thurner, et al.. (2020). Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time: uncertainties and robust features. Earth system science data. 12(4). 2517–2536. 25 indexed citations

Ceccherini, Guido, Grégory Duveiller, Giacomo Grassi, et al.. (2020). Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015. Nature. 583(7814). 72–77. 227 indexed citations breakdown →

Sy, Veronique De, Martin Herold, Frédéric Achard, et al.. (2019). Tropical deforestation drivers and associated carbon emission factors derived from remote sensing data. Environmental Research Letters. 14(9). 94022–94022. 58 indexed citations

Ceccherini, Guido, et al.. (2019). The Potential of High Resolution (5 m) RapidEye Optical Data to Estimate Above Ground Biomass at the National Level over Tanzania. Forests. 10(2). 107–107. 16 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., Makoto Ooba, Valerio Avitabile, et al.. (2019). The future of Southeast Asia’s forests. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1829–1829. 185 indexed citations

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Santoro, Maurizio, Oliver Cartus, Stéphane Mermoz, et al.. (2018). A detailed portrait of the forest aboveground biomass pool for the year 2010 obtained from multiple remote sensing observations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 18932. 13 indexed citations

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Romijn, Erika, Veronique De Sy, Martin Herold, et al.. (2018). Independent data for transparent monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector – What do stakeholders think and need?. Environmental Science & Policy. 85. 101–112. 23 indexed citations

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Avitabile, Valerio & Andrea Camia. (2017). An assessment of forest biomass maps in Europe using harmonized national statistics and inventory plots. Forest Ecology and Management. 409. 489–498. 62 indexed citations

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Salvini, G., A. Ligtenberg, Annemarie van Paassen, et al.. (2016). REDD+ and climate smart agriculture in landscapes: A case study in Vietnam using companion modelling. Journal of Environmental Management. 172. 58–70. 36 indexed citations

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Pratihast, Arun Kumar, et al.. (2016). Design and Implementation of an Interactive Web-Based Near Real-Time Forest Monitoring System. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150935–e0150935. 29 indexed citations

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Avitabile, Valerio, Michael Schultz, Nadine Herold, et al.. (2016). Carbon emissions from land cover change in Central Vietnam. Carbon Management. 7(5-6). 333–346. 22 indexed citations

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Calders, Kim, Glenn Newnham, Andrew Burt, et al.. (2014). Nondestructive estimates of above‐ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(2). 198–208. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeVries, Ben, Valerio Avitabile, Lammert Kooistra, & Martin Herold. (2012). MONITORING THE IMPACT OF REDD+ IMPLEMENTATION IN THE UNESCO KAFA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, ETHIOPIA. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 145–146. 3 indexed citations

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Herold, Martin, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, Danilo Mollicone, et al.. (2011). Options for monitoring and estimating historical carbon emissions from forest degradation in the context of REDD+. Carbon Balance and Management. 6(1). 13–13. 118 indexed citations

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Avitabile, Valerio, Martin Herold, Matieu Henry, & Christiane Schmullius. (2011). Mapping biomass with remote sensing: a comparison of methods for the case study of Uganda. Carbon Balance and Management. 6(1). 7–7. 67 indexed citations

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