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Paolo D'Odorico 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 Paolo D'Odorico sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 441 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paolo D'Odorico 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 Paolo D'Odorico sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Paolo D'Odorico is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with notable contributions to global and planetary change, water science and technology, ocean engineering, ecology, and sociology and political science.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Paolo D'Odorico has authored several recent scientific papers, including:

  • "Global agricultural economic water scarcity," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The global value of water in agriculture," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dryland productivity under a changing climate," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Paolo D'Odorico include:

  • Maria Cristina Rulli
  • Lorenzo Rosa
  • Davide Danilo Chiarelli
  • Jampel Dell'Angelo
  • Chengyi Tu

Publication venues where Paolo D'Odorico frequently publishes are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Research Letters

Among the awards received, Paolo D'Odorico was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

    Paolo D’Odorico;Abinash Bhattachan;Kyle F. Davis;Sujith Ravi

  • 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

  • Ecohydrology of water-controlled ecosystems

    A. Porporato;P. D'Odorico;Francesco Laio;Luca Ridolfi

  • Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades.

    Wenzhe Jiao;Lixin Wang;William K. Smith;Qing Chang

  • Feeding humanity through global food trade

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

  • Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic-aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics

    Sujith Ravi;David D. Breshears;Travis E. Huxman;Paolo D'Odorico

  • Meeting future food demand with current agricultural resources

    Kyle F. Davis;Jessica A. Gephart;Kyle A. Emery;Allison M. Leach

  • Elements of physical hydrology

    George M. Hornberger;Patricia L Wiberg;Jeffrey Peter Raffensperger;Paolo D'Odorico

  • A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

    Paolo D'Odorico;Paolo D'Odorico;Gregory S. Okin;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • On the spatial and temporal links between vegetation, climate, and soil moisture

    I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;P. D'Odorico;A. Porporato;L. Ridolfi

  • On soil moisture–vegetation feedbacks and their possible effects on the dynamics of dryland ecosystems

    Paolo D'Odorico;Kelly Caylor;Gregory S. Okin;Todd M. Scanlon

  • 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

  • Mathematical models of vegetation pattern formation in ecohydrology

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

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

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

  • Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

    Vasilis Dakos;Egbert H. van Nes;Paolo D'Odorico;Marten Scheffer

  • AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

    Sujith Ravi;Paolo D'Odorico;David D. Breshears;Jason P. Field

  • Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

    Lixin Wang;Lixin Wang;P. D'Odorico;J. P. Evans;D. J. Eldridge

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Ridolfi
Luca Ridolfi Polytechnic University of Turin
Francesco Laio
Francesco Laio Polytechnic University of Turin
Maria Cristina Rulli
Maria Cristina Rulli Polytechnic University of Milan
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
Todd M. Scanlon
Todd M. Scanlon University of Virginia

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