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D-Index
39
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6940
World Ranking
6325
National Ranking
102

Juha Aalto 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 Juha Aalto sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 102 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Juha Aalto 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 Juha Aalto sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Juha Aalto is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics including climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, species distribution and climate change, geology and paleoclimatology research, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Juha Aalto include Miska Luoto, Pekka Niittynen, Julia Kemppinen, Jan Hjort, and Risto K. Heikkinen.

Some recent papers by Juha Aalto include:

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Global maps of soil temperature (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere (2022, Earth system science data)
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties (2021, Global Change Biology)

Juha Aalto has published numerous articles in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda.

    Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Miska Luoto;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Rainfall Erosivity in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Christiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

    Jan Hjort;Olli Karjalainen;Juha Antero Aalto;Sebastian Westermann

  • New climatic classification of Nepal

    Ramchandra Karki;Rocky Talchabhadel;Juha Aalto;Saraju Kumar Baidya

  • Spatial interpolation of monthly climate data for Finland: comparing the performance of kriging and generalized additive models

    Juha Aalto;Pentti Pirinen;Juha Heikkinen;Ari Venäläinen

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe

    Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Katrin Meusburger

  • Tilastoja Suomen ilmastosta 1981 - 2010

    Pentti Pirinen;Henriikka Simola;Juha Aalto;Juho-Pekka Kaukoranta

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • New gridded daily climatology of Finland: permutation-based uncertainty estimates and temporal trends in climate

    Juha Antero Aalto;Juha Antero Aalto;Pentti Pirinen;Kirsti Jylhä

  • Statistical forecasting of current and future circum‐Arctic ground temperatures and active layer thickness

    Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Olli Karjalainen;Jan Hjort;Miska Luoto

  • Reviews and syntheses: Arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century

    Jessica L. McCarty;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Ville-Veikko Paunu;Steve R. Arnold

  • Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in-situ logging to remote sensing

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Jonathan Lenoir;Nina Roth;Tarek Hattab;Tarek Hattab

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Soil moisture's underestimated role in climate change impact modelling in low-energy systems.

    Peter Christiaan le Roux;Juha Aalto;Miska Luoto

  • Vegetation Mediates Soil Temperature and Moisture in Arctic-Alpine Environments

    Juha Aalto;Peter C. le Roux;Miska Luoto

  • Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change.

    Emiel De Lombaerde;Pieter Vangansbeke;Jonathan Lenoir;Koenraad Van Meerbeek

  • Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions

    Pekka Niittynen;Risto K. Heikkinen;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Antoine Guisan

  • Circumpolar permafrost maps and geohazard indices for near-future infrastructure risk assessments

    Olli Karjalainen;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Miska Luoto;Sebastian Westermann

  • Monthly Rainfall Erosivity: Conversion Factors for Different Time Resolutions and Regional Assessments

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Cristiano Ballabio

  • Snow cover trends in Finland over 1961-2014 based on gridded snow depth observations

    Anna Luomaranta;Juha Antero Aalto;Kirsti Jylhä

Frequent Co-Authors

Miska Luoto
Miska Luoto University of Helsinki
Jan Hjort
Jan Hjort University of Oulu
Bernd Etzelmüller
Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo
Risto K. Heikkinen
Risto K. Heikkinen Finnish Environment Institute
Peter Christiaan le Roux
Peter Christiaan le Roux University of Pretoria
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Ari Venäläinen
Ari Venäläinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Kristoffer Hylander
Kristoffer Hylander Stockholm University
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo

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