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Amilcare Porporato

Amilcare Porporato

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
86
Citations
31520
World Ranking
709
National Ranking
311

Amilcare Porporato publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amilcare Porporato sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 496 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Amilcare Porporato D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amilcare Porporato sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Amilcare Porporato is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and conducts research principally in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Climate variability and models.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Amilcare Porporato include:

  • Impacts of solar intermittency on future photovoltaic reliability, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Risk of the hydrogen economy for atmospheric methane, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Contrasting effects of aridity and seasonality on global salinization, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Cloud cooling effects of afforestation and reforestation at midlatitudes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Porporato are:

  • Matteo B. Bertagni
  • Salvatore Calabrese
  • Jun Yin
  • Milad Hooshyar
  • Shashank Kumar Anand

Publication venues where Porporato has frequently contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical Review. E
  • Ecohydrology

Porporato has also contributed to book publications, notably a work titled Ecohydrology published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Amilcare Porporato was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Water Pulses and Biogeochemical Cycles in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems

    Amy T. Austin;Laura Yahdjian;John M. Stark;Jayne Belnap

  • Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils

    Stefano Manzoni;Philip Taylor;Andreas Richter;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis

    Stefano Manzoni;Joshua P. Schimel;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress: II. Probabilistic soil moisture dynamics

    F. Laio;F. Laio;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;L. Ridolfi;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Stoichiometric controls on carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing litter

    Stefano Manzoni;John A. Trofymow;Robert B. Jackson;Amilcare Porporato

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization: Theory and models across scales

    Stefano Manzoni;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems: Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics

    Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe;Amilcare Porporato

  • The effect of vegetation density on canopy sub-layer turbulence

    D. Poggi;A. Porporato;L. Ridolfi;J. D. Albertson

  • The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

    Stefano Manzoni;Robert B. Jackson;John A. Trofymow;Amilcare Porporato

  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change.

    Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Edoardo Daly;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Global resorption efficiencies and concentrations of carbon and nutrients in leaves of terrestrial plants

    Leonardus Vergutz;Leonardus Vergutz;Stefano Manzoni;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Roberto Ferreira Novais

  • Probabilistic modelling of water balance at a point: the role of climate, soil and vegetation

    I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;A. Porporato;L. Ridolfi;V. Isham

  • Changes in rainfall seasonality in the tropics

    Xue Feng;Amilcare Porporato;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress: III. Vegetation water stress

    A. Porporato;A. Porporato;Francesco Laio;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Ecohydrology of water-controlled ecosystems

    A. Porporato;P. D'Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • On the spatial and temporal links between vegetation, climate, and soil moisture

    I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;P. D'Odorico;A. Porporato;L. Ridolfi

  • Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress: I. Scope and general outline

    I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;F. Laio;F. Laio;L. Ridolfi

  • Mechanistic analytical models for long-distance seed dispersal by wind.

    G. G. Katul;A. Porporato;R. Nathan;M. Siqueira

  • A theoretical analysis of microbial eco-physiological and diffusion limitations to carbon cycling in drying soils

    Stefano Manzoni;Stefano Manzoni;S. M. Schaeffer;G. Katul;A. Porporato

  • Hydrologic controls on soil carbon and nitrogen cycles. I. Modeling scheme

    Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;P. D'Odorico;F. Laio;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Luca Ridolfi
Luca Ridolfi Polytechnic University of Turin
Stefano Manzoni
Stefano Manzoni Stockholm University
Giulia Vico
Giulia Vico Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Francesco Laio
Francesco Laio Polytechnic University of Turin
Mario B. S. Siqueira
Mario B. S. Siqueira Duke University
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University

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