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Researcher · Joint Research Centre · Italy

Cristiano Ballabio

Cristiano Ballabio publishes mostly in Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0001-7452-9271 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,730
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#427
of 242,206
Works
147
Citations
18k
Citations per work
123.0
h-index
56
i10-index 84Top 1.5% in Soil Science
Cristiano Ballabio

What does Cristiano Ballabio research?

Cristiano Ballabio's work is mostly in Environmental Science (34%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 59 works · 40.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 50 works · 34.1% of their workEcology: 15 works · 10.3% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 14 works · 9.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 works · 7.6% of their workWater Science and Technology: 10 works · 6.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 5.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 9 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 35.7% of their workLife Sciences: 36 works · 24.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 36 works · 24.3% of their workSoil Science: 36 works · 24.3% of their workTHEIR WORKCristianoBallabio147works
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences40%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science5034.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences95.9%
  2. Everything else5235.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3624.3%
  1. 1Soil Science24% of their works
  2. 2Ecology10% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology6% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cristiano Ballabio's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Land Use Change, Climate Change, Sediment Transport, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, Remote Sensing, Nitrogen Cycle and Soil Carbon Sequestration.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Land Use Change802 topics
  2. Climate Change753 topics
  3. Sediment Transport593 topics
  4. Agricultural Sustainability571 topic
  5. Soil Erosion571 topic
  6. Remote Sensing402 topics
  7. Nitrogen Cycle301 topic
  8. Soil Carbon Sequestration301 topic
  9. Digital Soil Mapping271 topic
  10. Geostatistics271 topic
  11. Hydrological Modeling231 topic
  12. Water Resources231 topic
  13. Aeolian Processes221 topic
  14. Wind Erosion221 topic
  15. Riparian Vegetation141 topic
  16. River Restoration141 topic
  17. Hazard131 topic
  18. Landslide131 topic
  19. Nutrient Cycling101 topic
  20. Water Quality101 topic

Where does Cristiano Ballabio work?

Cristiano Ballabio's main affiliation in the publication record is Joint Research Centre, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Cristiano Ballabio have?

OpenAlex counts 147 works and 18,088 citations for Cristiano Ballabio, an h-index of 56, ranking #24,730 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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