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Dario Papale

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Environmental Sciences
Italy
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
48185
World Ranking
859
National Ranking
8

Dario Papale 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 Dario Papale sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 277 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Dario Papale 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 Dario Papale sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Dario Papale is affiliated with Tuscia University in Italy and focuses research efforts primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientific topics covered by Papale include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, and Research Data Management Practices.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Papale are Ivan Mammarella, Nina Buchmann, Lukas Hörtnagl, Mirco Migliavacca, and Markus Reichstein.

Publication venues where Papale has contributed multiple papers include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Global Change Biology, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Dario Papale include:

  • Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to "Comments on 'The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe'", 2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

    I.A. Janssens;W. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;J.-A. Subke

  • Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation

    Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;Marc Aubinet;Eleonora Canfora

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Eddy covariance : a practical guide to measurement and data analysis

    Marc Aubinet;Timo Vesala;Dario Papale

  • Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

    Gitta Lasslop;Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Andrew D. Richardson

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

    Antje M. Moffat;Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;David Y. Hollinger

  • Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

    Gianluca Tramontana;Martin Jung;Christopher R. Schwalm;Kazuhito Ichii

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

    Alessandro Anav;Pierre Friedlingstein;Christian Beer;Philippe Ciais

  • Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher Huntingford

  • The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes

    Martin Jung;Sujan Koirala;Ulrich Weber;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • A new assessment of European forests carbon exchanges by eddy fluxes and artificial neural network spatialization

    Dario Papale;Riccardo Valentini

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Martin Jung
Martin Jung Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp

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