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Francesca Cagnacci

Francesca Cagnacci

Fondazione Edmund Mach
Italy

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
9489
World Ranking
4998
National Ranking
91

Francesca Cagnacci publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Cagnacci sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Francesca Cagnacci D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Cagnacci sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesca Cagnacci is affiliated with Fondazione Edmund Mach in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, their work further specializes in:

  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Small Animals
  • Genetics

The topics they cover emphasize various aspects of wildlife and ecological research, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Francesca Cagnacci has a number of recent scientific publications, demonstrating engagement with contemporary research themes:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes," 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations," 2021, Science
  • "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors," 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Experimental evidence of memory-based foraging decisions in a large wild mammal," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, notably:

  • Federico Ossi
  • Nathan Ranc
  • Nicolas Morellet
  • Marco Heurich
  • P. R. Moorcroft

Publication venues where Francesca Cagnacci commonly contributes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology Letters
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: a perfect storm of opportunities and challenges

    Francesca Cagnacci;Luigi Boitani;Roger A. Powell;Mark S. Boyce

  • The home-range concept: are traditional estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

    John G. Kie;Jason Matthiopoulos;John R Fieberg;Roger A. Powell

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • Resolving issues of imprecise and habitat-biased locations in ecological analyses using GPS telemetry data.

    Jacqueline L. Frair;John R Fieberg;Mark Hebblewhite;Francesca Cagnacci

  • Metagenomic Profile of the Bacterial Communities Associated with Ixodes ricinus Ticks

    Giovanna Carpi;Francesca Cagnacci;Nicola E. Wittekindt;Fangqing Zhao

  • Partial migration in roe deer: migratory and resident tactics are end points of a behavioural gradient determined by ecological factors

    Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Marco Heurich;Anja Stache

  • Seasonality, weather and climate affect home range size in roe deer across a wide latitudinal gradient within Europe

    Nicolas Morellet;Christophe Bonenfant;Luca Börger;Federico Ossi;Federico Ossi

  • Analysis and visualisation of movement: an interdisciplinary review

    Urška Demšar;Kevin Buchin;Francesca Cagnacci;Kamran Safi;Kamran Safi

  • Wildlife tracking data management: a new vision

    Ferdinando Urbano;Francesca Cagnacci;Clément Calenge;Holger Dettki

  • Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes

    Marta Cimatti;Marta Cimatti;Nathan Ranc;Ana Benítez‐López;Ana Benítez‐López;Luigi Maiorano

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Comparison of social networks derived from ecological data: implications for inferring infectious disease dynamics.

    Sarah E. Perkins;Francesca Cagnacci;Anna Stradiotto;Daniele Arnoldi

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

    Marco Apollonio;Vladimir V. Belkin;Jakub Borkowski;Oleg I. Borodin

  • Saturation deficit and deer density affect questing activity and local abundance of Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodidae) in Italy

    V. Tagliapietra;R. Rosà;D. Arnoldi;F. Cagnacci

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Tick infestation on roe deer in relation to geographic and remotely sensed climatic variables in a tick-borne encephalitis endemic area

    G. Carpi;F. Cagnacci;M. Neteler;A. Rizzoli

  • How many routes lead to migration? Comparison of methods to assess and characterize migratory movements.

    Francesca Cagnacci;Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Anne Ghisla;Bram van Moorter

  • Fear of the dark? Contrasting impacts of humans versus lynx on diel activity of roe deer across Europe.

    Nadège C. Bonnot;Ophélie Couriot;Anne Berger;Francesca Cagnacci

  • Effects of deer density on tick infestation of rodents and the hazard of tick-borne encephalitis. I: empirical assessment.

    F. Cagnacci;L. Bolzoni;R. Rosà;G. Carpi

  • LoRa from the City to the Mountains: Exploration of Hardware and Environmental Factors

    Oana Iova;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco;Lorenzo Ghiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
Paul R. Moorcroft
Paul R. Moorcroft Harvard University
Petter Kjellander
Petter Kjellander Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefano Focardi
Stefano Focardi National Research Council (CNR)
Annapaola Rizzoli
Annapaola Rizzoli Fondazione Edmund Mach
A. J. Mark Hewison
A. J. Mark Hewison Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage

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Justin M. Calabrese

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Eliezer Gurarie

Eliezer Gurarie

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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William F. Fagan

William F. Fagan

University of Maryland, College Park

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Thomas Mueller

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Publications: 19

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Mark S. Boyce

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Steven J. Cooke

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José de la Fuente

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Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

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Annapaola Rizzoli

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Publications: 16

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