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Maria Cristina Rulli

Maria Cristina Rulli

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
11401
World Ranking
3645
National Ranking
47

Maria Cristina Rulli 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 Maria Cristina Rulli sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 224 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria Cristina Rulli 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 Maria Cristina Rulli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria Cristina Rulli is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change among other subfields.

The scientist's work addresses topics including Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health.

Recent scholarly contributions by Maria Cristina Rulli include:

  • "Global agricultural economic water scarcity" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "The global value of water in agriculture" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dryland productivity under a changing climate" (2022) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture" (2024) published in Science

Frequent collaborators of Maria Cristina Rulli include Paolo D'Odorico, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Nikolas Galli, Lorenzo Rosa, and Jampel Dell'Angelo.

Their research outputs have been published repeatedly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment, and Advances in Water Resources.

Best Publications

  • Global land and water grabbing

    Maria Cristina Rulli;Antonio Saviori;Paolo D’Odorico

  • The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus

    Paolo D'Odorico;Kyle Frankel Davis;Lorenzo Rosa;Joel A. Carr

  • Global agricultural economic water scarcity

    Lorenzo Rosa;Davide Danilo Chiarelli;Maria Cristina Rulli;Jampel Dell’Angelo;Jampel Dell’Angelo

  • Increased food production and reduced water use through optimized crop distribution

    Kyle Frankel Davis;Kyle Frankel Davis;Kyle Frankel Davis;Maria Cristina Rulli;Antonio Seveso;Paolo D’Odorico;Paolo D’Odorico

  • The water-land-food nexus of first-generation biofuels.

    Maria Cristina Rulli;Davide Bellomi;Andrea Cazzoli;Giulia De Carolis

  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

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  • The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush

    Jampel Dell’Angelo;Paolo D’Odorico;Paolo D’Odorico;Maria Cristina Rulli;Philippe Marchand

  • Dryland productivity under a changing climate

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  • The global value of water in agriculture.

    Paolo D'Odorico;Davide Danilo Chiarelli;Lorenzo Rosa;Alfredo Bini

  • The nexus between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks.

    Maria Cristina Rulli;Monia Santini;David T. S. Hayman;Paolo D’Odorico

  • Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate.

    Lorenzo Rosa;Davide Danilo Chiarelli;Matteo Sangiorgio;Areidy Aracely Beltran-Peña

  • Accelerated deforestation driven by large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia

    Kyle Frankel Davis;Kailiang Yu;Maria Cristina Rulli;Lonn Pichdara

  • Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability

    Lorenzo Rosa;Maria Cristina Rulli;Kyle Frankel Davis;Kyle Frankel Davis;Davide Danilo Chiarelli

  • A physically based model for the hydrologic control on shallow landsliding

    Renzo Rosso;Maria Cristina Rulli;Giovanni Vannucchi

  • A RUSLE approach to model suspended sediment load in the Lo river (Vietnam): Effects of reservoirs and land use changes

    Roberto Ranzi;Thanh Hung Le;Maria Cristina Rulli

  • Resilience in the global food system

    David A. Seekell;Joel Carr;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Paolo D'Odorico

  • Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade

    Lorenzo Rosa;Davide Danilo Chiarelli;Chengyi Tu;Chengyi Tu;Maria Cristina Rulli

  • Wind control of storm-triggered shallow landslides

    M. C. Rulli;F. Meneguzzo;R. Rosso

  • The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome

    Jampel Dell'Angelo;Maria Cristina Rulli;Paolo D'Odorico

  • A flume experiment on the formation of wood jams in rivers

    D. Bocchiola;M. C. Rulli;R. Rosso

  • Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions

    Kyle Frankel Davis;Kyle Frankel Davis;Heejin Irene Koo;Jampel Dell’Angelo;Paolo D’Odorico

  • Land grabbing: a preliminary quantification of economic impacts on rural livelihoods

    Kyle F. Davis;Paolo D’Odorico;Maria Cristina Rulli

  • Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions

    Maria Cristina Rulli;Paolo D’Odorico

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Renzo Rosso
Renzo Rosso Polytechnic University of Milan
Daniele Bocchiola
Daniele Bocchiola Polytechnic University of Milan
Salvatore Grimaldi
Salvatore Grimaldi Tuscia University
Andrea Petroselli
Andrea Petroselli Tuscia University
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Maurizio Porfiri
Maurizio Porfiri New York University
Aldo Fiori
Aldo Fiori Roma Tre University
Flavio Manenti
Flavio Manenti Polytechnic University of Milan
David T. S. Hayman
David T. S. Hayman Massey University

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