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Francesco Laio 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 Francesco Laio sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 272 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Francesco Laio 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 Francesco Laio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Francesco Laio is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering, and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in Laio's research include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Water resources management and optimization, Economic and Technological Innovation, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, and Climate variability and models.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laio are:

  • Luca Ridolfi
  • Marta Tuninetti
  • Amin Elshorbagy
  • Kumud Acharya
  • Newsha Ajami

Notable recent publications by Laio include:

  • Reconciling contrasting views on economic complexity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Measuring economic water scarcity in agriculture: a cross-country empirical investigation, 2020, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Compliance with EAT-Lancet dietary guidelines would reduce global water footprint but increase it for 40% of the world population, 2022, Nature Food
  • Virtual water trade and water footprint of agricultural goods: the 1961-2016 CWASI database, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Trade of economically and physically scarce virtual water in the global food network, 2021, Scientific Reports

Laio frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Feeding humanity through global food trade

    Paolo D'Odorico;Joel A. Carr;Francesco Laio;Luca 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

  • Verification tools for probabilistic forecasts of continuous hydrological variables

    Francesco Laio;Stefania Tamea

  • Mathematical models of vegetation pattern formation in ecohydrology

    Fabio Borgogno;P. D'Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • 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

  • Noise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences

    Luca Ridolfi;Paolo D'Odorico;Francesco Laio

  • Cramer-von Mises and Anderson-Darling goodness of fit tests for extreme value distributions with unknown parameters

    Francesco Laio

  • Plants in water-controlled ecosystems: active role in hydrologic processes and response to water stress: IV. Discussion of real cases

    F. Laio;F. Laio;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;C. P. Fernandez-Illescas;I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Model selection techniques for the frequency analysis of hydrological extremes

    Francesco Laio;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Alberto Montanari

  • Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts

    Paolo D'Odorico;Joel A. Carr;Carole Dalin;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Jampel Dell'Angelo

  • Noise-induced stability in dryland plant ecosystems

    Paolo D'Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • A comparison of homogeneity tests for regional frequency analysis

    Alberto Viglione;Francesco Laio;Pierluigi Claps

  • An analytical model to relate the vertical root distribution to climate and soil properties

    Francesco Laio;Paolo D'Odorico;Luca Ridolfi

  • A probabilistic analysis of fire-induced tree-grass coexistence in savannas.

    Paolo D’Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • Satellite nighttime lights reveal increasing human exposure to floods worldwide

    Serena Ceola;Francesco Laio;Alberto Montanari

  • Challenges in humid land ecohydrology: Interactions of water table and unsaturated zone with climate, soil, and vegetation

    Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Paolo D'Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • Drivers of the virtual water trade

    Stefania Tamea;J.A. Carr;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • Recent history and geography of virtual water trade.

    Joel A. Carr;Paolo D’Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Ridolfi
Luca Ridolfi Polytechnic University of Turin
Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University
Lorenzo Alfieri
Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara

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