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Andrea Carminati

Andrea Carminati

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
8349
World Ranking
4324
National Ranking
112

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
52
Citations
7774
World Ranking
1953
National Ranking
40

Andrea Carminati publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Carminati sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 182 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Andrea Carminati D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Carminati sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - VZJ Reviewer-Editor's Citation of Excellence Award, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Andrea Carminati is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a substantial body of research primarily in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work spans several interconnected fields, focusing largely on plant science, global and planetary change, soil science, civil and structural engineering, and environmental engineering.

Their research covers multiple key topics, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement

Andrea Carminati has published frequently in various scientific venues, with the most common being:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • Annals of Botany
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Their recent papers include the following titles along with their year of publication and venues:

  • "Soil hydrology in the Earth system" (2022), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought" (2020), Trends in Plant Science
  • "Crop traits and production under drought" (2024), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Root hydraulic phenotypes impacting water uptake in drying soils" (2022), Plant Cell & Environment
  • "Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organization-A Key to Rhizosphere Functions" (2020), Frontiers in Agronomy

Andrea Carminati has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Mutez Ali Ahmed
  • Mathieu Javaux
  • Gaochao Cai
  • Mohsen Zarebanadkouki
  • Patrick Duddek

Among the recognitions received is the VZJ Reviewer-Editor's Citation of Excellence Award from the American Society of Agronomy, awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of soil water content in the rhizosphere

    Andrea Carminati;Ahmad B. Moradi;Doris Vetterlein;Peter Vontobel

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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  • The holistic rhizosphere: integrating zones, processes, and semantics in the soil influenced by roots

    Larry M. York;Andrea Carminati;Sacha J. Mooney;Karl Ritz

  • Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought.

    Andrea Carminati;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Plasticity of rhizosphere hydraulic properties as a key for efficient utilization of scarce resources.

    Andrea Carminati;Doris Vetterlein

  • Mucilage exudation facilitates root water uptake in dry soils

    Mutez Ali Ahmed;Eva Kroener;Maire Holz;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki

  • When Roots Lose Contact

    Andrea Carminati;Doris Vetterlein;Ulrich Weller;Hans-Jörg Vogel

  • Three-dimensional visualization and quantification of water content in the rhizosphere

    Ahmad B. Moradi;Andrea Carminati;Doris Vetterlein;Peter Vontobel

  • Root hairs enable high transpiration rates in drying soils

    Andrea Carminati;John B. Passioura;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mutez Ali Ahmed

  • Root hydraulic phenotypes impacting water uptake in drying soils

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  • Root hairs increase rhizosphere extension and carbon input to soil.

    Maire Holz;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Yakov Kuzyakov;Johanna Pausch

  • Quantitative Imaging of Infiltration, Root Growth, and Root Water Uptake via Neutron Radiography

    Sascha E. Oswald;Sascha E. Oswald;Manoj Menon;Manoj Menon;Andrea Carminati;Peter Vontobel

  • Soil zymography – A novel in situ method for mapping distribution of enzyme activity in soil

    Marie Spohn;Andrea Carminati;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Root type matters: measurement of water uptake by seminal, crown, and lateral roots in maize.

    Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Félicien Meunier;Mathieu Javaux

  • Liquid bridges at the root-soil interface

    Andrea Carminati;Pascal Benard;Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki

  • Unsaturated water flow across soil aggregate contacts

    A. Carminati;A. Kaestner;P. Lehmann;H. Flühler

  • Nonequilibrium water dynamics in the rhizosphere: How mucilage affects water flow in soils

    Eva Kroener;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Anders Kaestner;Andrea Carminati

  • How the Rhizosphere May Favor Water Availability to Roots

    Andrea Carminati;Christoph L. Schneider;Ahmad B. Moradi;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki

  • Do roots mind the gap

    A. Carminati;D. Vetterlein;N. Koebernick;S. Blaser

  • Is the Rhizosphere Temporarily Water Repellent

    Ahmad B. Moradi;Andrea Carminati;Axel Lamparter;Susanne K. Woche

  • Investigation of water imbibition in porous stone by thermal neutron radiography

    R Hassanein;H O Meyer;A Carminati;M Estermann

  • Measurements of water uptake of maize roots: the key function of lateral roots

    Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mutez Ali Ahmed;Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Anders Kaestner;Andrea Carminati

  • Where do roots take up water? Neutron radiography of water flow into the roots of transpiring plants growing in soil

    Mohsen Zarebanadkouki;Yangmin X. Kim;Andrea Carminati

Frequent Co-Authors

Mutez Ali Ahmed
Mutez Ali Ahmed Technical University of Munich
Mathieu Javaux
Mathieu Javaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Doris Vetterlein
Doris Vetterlein Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Peter Lehmann
Peter Lehmann ETH Zurich
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
John B. Passioura
John B. Passioura Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lyesse Laloui
Lyesse Laloui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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