Yusuf Yiğini

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Yusuf Yiğini is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Yusuf Yiğini has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Soil Science, 7 papers in Environmental Engineering and 3 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Yusuf Yiğini's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (7 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (2 papers). Yusuf Yiğini is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (7 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (2 papers). Yusuf Yiğini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and Poland. Yusuf Yiğini's co-authors include Panos Panagos, Luca Montanarella, Marc Van Liedekerke, Cristiano Ballabio, Martha B. Dunbar, Ciro Gardi, Alberto Orgiazzi, Panagos Panagiotis, Christian Omuto and Guillermo F. Olmedo and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Yusuf Yiğini

13 papers receiving 970 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network

2013 446 citations Panos Panagos, Marc Van Liedekerke et al. Journal of Environmental and Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yusuf Yiğini Italy	11	383	262	247	172	116	14	998
Zhao Qiguo China	14	455 1.2×	261 1.0×	294 1.2×	260 1.5×	142 1.2×	42	1.2k
Line Boulonne France	14	505 1.3×	527 2.0×	215 0.9×	192 1.1×	94 0.8×	25	1.0k
Pengbao Wu China	14	206 0.5×	153 0.6×	270 1.1×	200 1.2×	68 0.6×	19	781
Malcolm Coull United Kingdom	18	275 0.7×	261 1.0×	136 0.6×	278 1.6×	118 1.0×	40	928
Chunfa Wu China	20	224 0.6×	332 1.3×	346 1.4×	121 0.7×	51 0.4×	37	1.1k
Peter N. Eze Botswana	15	270 0.7×	127 0.5×	288 1.2×	132 0.8×	46 0.4×	44	919
Mingming Wang China	22	388 1.0×	140 0.5×	207 0.8×	281 1.6×	265 2.3×	62	1.3k
Xuefeng Xie China	16	287 0.7×	121 0.5×	170 0.7×	302 1.8×	184 1.6×	44	928
Talal Darwish Lebanon	17	296 0.8×	274 1.0×	121 0.5×	172 1.0×	170 1.5×	50	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yusuf Yiğini

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14 of 14 papers shown

Sousa, Luís Moreira de, Tomáš Řezník, Fenny van Egmond, et al.. (2025). GloSIS: The Global Soil Information System Web Ontology. Semantic Web. 16(5).

Tong, Yuxin, Marcos E. Angelini, Yusuf Yiğini, & Isabel Luotto. (2024). Global black soil distribution. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 0(0). 0–0. 4 indexed citations

Yiğini, Yusuf, et al.. (2019). Spatial prediction of soil organic carbon stocks in Ghana using legacy data. Geoderma. 360. 114008–114008. 37 indexed citations

Yiğini, Yusuf, et al.. (2016). Combining Soil Databases for Topsoil Organic Carbon Mapping in Europe. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0152098–e0152098. 41 indexed citations

Yiğini, Yusuf & Panos Panagos. (2016). Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks under future climate and land cover changes in Europe. The Science of The Total Environment. 557-558. 838–850. 201 indexed citations

Orgiazzi, Alberto, Panos Panagos, Yusuf Yiğini, et al.. (2015). A knowledge-based approach to estimating the magnitude and spatial patterns of potential threats to soil biodiversity. The Science of The Total Environment. 545-546. 11–20. 71 indexed citations

Yiğini, Yusuf & Panos Panagos. (2014). Reference Area Method for Mapping Soil Organic Carbon Content at Regional Scale. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science. 10. 330–338. 3 indexed citations

Yiğini, Yusuf, Panagos Panagiotis, & Luca Montanarella. (2013). Soil Resources of Mediterranean and Caucasus Countries. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 13 indexed citations

Tóth, Gergely, Jones Arwyn, Luca Montanarella, et al.. (2013). LUCAS Topoil Survey - methodology, data and results. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 90 indexed citations

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Panagos, Panos, Marc Van Liedekerke, Yusuf Yiğini, & Luca Montanarella. (2013). Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2013. 1–11. 446 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gardi, Ciro & Yusuf Yiğini. (2012). Continuous Mapping of Soil pH Using Digital Soil Mapping Approach in Europe. EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE (EJSS). 1(2). 64–68. 11 indexed citations

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Panagos, Panos, Cristiano Ballabio, Yusuf Yiğini, & Martha B. Dunbar. (2012). Estimating the soil organic carbon content for European NUTS2 regions based on LUCAS data collection. The Science of The Total Environment. 442. 235–246. 47 indexed citations

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Özcan, Hasan, et al.. (2006). Assessment of the Water Quality of Troia for the Multipurpose Usages. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 130(1-3). 389–402. 12 indexed citations

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Kavdır, Yasemin, et al.. (2004). The influence of clay content, organic carbon and land use types on soil aggregate stability and tensile strength. TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 28(3). 155–162. 22 indexed citations

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