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Gherardo Chirici

Gherardo Chirici

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
9945
World Ranking
3312
National Ranking
58

Gherardo Chirici 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 Gherardo Chirici sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 323 publications — 93rd percentile

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

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

Gherardo Chirici 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 Gherardo Chirici sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gherardo Chirici is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several key subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Insect Science.

Their research topics focus largely on applications of remote sensing and LiDAR technology, with significant attention given to agriculture and forest systems. Main topics covered in Chirici's publications include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Chirici's frequent collaboration with other researchers is notable. Their most common coauthors include Saverio Francini, Francesca Giannetti, Giovanni D'Amico, Elia Vangi, and Davide Travaglini.

They have published multiple papers in prominent journals and venues, with repeated appearances in the following:

  • Forests
  • Remote Sensing
  • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
  • European Journal of Remote Sensing
  • L'Italia forestale e montana

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • The New Hyperspectral Satellite PRISMA: Imagery for Forest Types Discrimination (2021, Sensors)
  • Concerns about reported harvests in European forests (2021, Nature)
  • A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000-2018 (2020, Earth System Science Data)
  • A concept for application of integrated digital technologies to enhance future smart agricultural systems (2023, Smart Agricultural Technology)

Best Publications

  • The MIMOSE Approach to Support Sustainable Forest Management Planning at Regional Scale in Mediterranean Contexts

    Matteo Vizzarri;Lorenzo Sallustio;Davide Travaglini;Francesca Bottalico

  • Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

    Giovanni Forzieri;Marco Girardello;Guido Ceccherini;Jonathan Spinoni

  • European Forest Types and Forest Europe SFM indicators: Tools for monitoring progress on forest biodiversity conservation

    A. Barbati;M. Marchetti;G. Chirici;P. Corona

  • European atlas of forest tree species

    Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz;Daniele de Rigo;Giovanni Caudullo;Tracy Houston Durrant

  • Species distribution modelling to support forest management. A literature review

    Matteo Pecchi;Maurizio Marchi;Vanessa Burton;Francesca Giannetti

  • Contribution of large-scale forest inventories to biodiversity assessment and monitoring

    Piermaria Corona;Gherardo Chirici;Ronald E. McRoberts;Susanne Winter

  • A meta-analysis and review of the literature on the k-Nearest Neighbors technique for forestry applications that use remotely sensed data

    Gherardo Chirici;Matteo Mura;Daniel McInerney;Nicolas Py

  • Regulating Ecosystem Services of forests in ten Italian Metropolitan Cities: Air quality improvement by PM10 and O3 removal

    Fausto Manes;F. Marando;G. Capotorti;Carlo Blasi

  • How Sensitive Are Ecosystem Services in European Forest Landscapes to Silvicultural Treatment

    Peter Biber;José G. Borges;Ralf Moshammer;Susana Barreiro

  • Non-parametric and parametric methods using satellite images for estimating growing stock volume in alpine and Mediterranean forest ecosystems

    Gherardo Chirici;Anna Barbati;Piermaria Corona;Marco Marchetti

  • Air Pollution Removal by Green Infrastructures and Urban Forests in the City of Florence

    Francesca Bottalico;Gherardo Chirici;Francesca Giannetti;Alessandra De Marco

  • Combining remote sensing and ancillary data to monitor the gross productivity of water-limited forest ecosystems

    Fabio Maselli;Dario Papale;Nicola Puletti;Gherardo Chirici

  • Is land abandonment affecting forest dynamics at high elevation in Mediterranean mountains more than climate change

    C. Palombo;G. Chirici;M. Marchetti;R. Tognetti

  • A new approach with DTM-independent metrics for forest growing stock prediction using UAV photogrammetric data

    Francesca Giannetti;Gherardo Chirici;Terje Gobakken;Erik Næsset

  • Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources

    Ruben Valbuena;Ruben Valbuena;Ruben Valbuena;Brian O’Connor;Florian Zellweger;William Simonson

  • Possibilities for harmonizing national forest inventory data for use in forest biodiversity assessments

    Susanne Winter;Gherardo Chirici;Ronald E. McRoberts;Elmar Hauk

  • National Forest Inventory contributions to forest biodiversity monitoring

    Gherardo Chirici;Ronald E. McRoberts;Susanne Winter;Roberta Bertini

  • The potential of multifrequency SAR images for estimating forest biomass in Mediterranean areas

    Emanuele Santi;Simonetta Paloscia;Simone Pettinato;Giacomo Fontanelli

  • Concerns about reported harvests in European forests

    Marc Palahí;Rubén Valbuena;Cornelius Senf;Nezha Acil

  • The New Hyperspectral Satellite PRISMA: Imagery for Forest Types Discrimination.

    Elia Vangi;Giovanni D'Amico;Saverio Francini;Saverio Francini;Saverio Francini;Francesca Giannetti

  • Estimation of Mediterranean forest attributes by the application of k-NN procedures to multitemporal Landsat ETM+ images

    F. Maselli;G. Chirici;L. Bottai;P. Corona

  • Assessing Forest Naturalness

    Ronald E. McRoberts;Susanne Winter;Gherardo Chirici;Elizabeth LaPoint

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Marchetti
Marco Marchetti University of Molise
Piermaria Corona
Piermaria Corona The Canadian Real Estate Association
Anna Barbati
Anna Barbati Tuscia University
Fabio Maselli
Fabio Maselli National Research Council (CNR)
Ronald E. McRoberts
Ronald E. McRoberts University of Minnesota
Roberto Tognetti
Roberto Tognetti University of Molise
Raffaele Lafortezza
Raffaele Lafortezza University of Bari Aldo Moro
Erkki Tomppo
Erkki Tomppo University of Helsinki
Göran Ståhl
Göran Ståhl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome

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