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D-Index
80
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28835
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953
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Panos Panagos 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 Panos Panagos sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 213 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Panos Panagos 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 Panos Panagos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Panos Panagos is affiliated with the European Commission in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on soil science and related environmental processes.

The scientist has published a considerable body of work covering topics such as:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Panagos's subfields of study include:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Frequent publication venues for Panagos consist of:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Environmental Research
  • Global Change Biology

Noteworthy recent papers include:

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal (2020), published in Land Use Policy
  • Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter (2021), published in Nature Geoscience

Panagos has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Pasquale Borrelli
  • Cristiano Ballabio
  • Arwyn Jones
  • Emanuele Lugato
  • Alberto Orgiazzi

Regarding book publications, Panagos has contributed to works published by KU Leuven, including a 2024 title titled The state of soils in Europe: Fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation.

Best Publications

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.

    Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Larissa R. Fleischer;Emanuele Lugato

  • The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Jean Poesen;Cristiano Ballabio

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070).

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Panos Panagos;Emanuele Lugato

  • Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Christine Alewell

  • Using the USLE: Chances, challenges and limitations of soil erosion modelling

    Christine Alewell;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Panos Panagos

  • European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements

    Panos Panagos;Marc Van Liedekerke;Arwyn Jones;Luca Montanarella

  • Rainfall Erosivity in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Christiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion

    Christine Alewell;Bruno Ringeval;Cristiano Ballabio;David A. Robinson

  • Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network

    Panos Panagos;Marc Van Liedekerke;Yusuf Yigini;Luca Montanarella

  • LUCAS Soil, the largest expandable soil dataset for Europe: a review

    A. Orgiazzi;C. Ballabio;P. Panagos;A. Jones

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis.

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell;Pablo Alvarez;Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache

  • Soil erodibility in Europe: A high-resolution dataset based on LUCAS

    Panos Panagos;Katrin Meusburger;Cristiano Ballabio;Pasqualle Borrelli

  • Mapping topsoil physical properties at European scale using the LUCAS database

    Cristiano Ballabio;Panos Panagos;Luca Monatanarella

  • The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal

    Luca Montanarella;Panos Panagos

  • Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter

    Emanuele Lugato;Jocelyn M. Lavallee;Michelle L. Haddix;Panos Panagos

  • A New European Slope Length and Steepness Factor (LS-Factor) for Modeling Soil Erosion by Water

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Modelling the effect of support practices (P-factor) on the reduction of soil erosion by water at European Scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Emma H. van der Zanden

  • Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models

    Panos Panagos;Gabriele Standardi;Pasquale Borrelli;Emanuele Lugato

  • Copper distribution in European topsoils: An assessment based on LUCAS soil survey

    Cristiano Ballabio;Panos Panagos;Emanuele Lugato;Jen-How Huang

  • Prediction of soil organic carbon content by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy using a local partial least square regression approach

    Marco Nocita;Antoine Stevens;Gergely Toth;Panos Panagos

Frequent Co-Authors

Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Emanuele Lugato
Emanuele Lugato University of Padua
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino University of Granada
Peter C. de Ruiter
Peter C. de Ruiter University of Amsterdam

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