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Pasquale Borrelli

Pasquale Borrelli

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
23131
World Ranking
2855
National Ranking
38

Pasquale Borrelli 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 Pasquale Borrelli sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pasquale Borrelli 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 Pasquale Borrelli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pasquale Borrelli is affiliated with Roma Tre University in Italy and has contributed extensively to environmental science, particularly focusing on soil erosion and sediment transport. Their research spans over multiple aspects of soil science, water science, and ecology, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change as well as earth-surface processes.

Their recent publications demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches combining environmental and agricultural sciences. Key papers include:

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis (2021), The Science of The Total Environment

While not the lead author, other influential papers related to their research interests include:

  • Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion (2020), Nature Communications
  • Arable lands under the pressure of multiple land degradation processes. A global perspective (2021), Environmental Research
  • Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art (2021), Earth-Science Reviews

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a consistent group of coauthors including Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio, Christine Alewell, Nejc Bezak, and Francis Matthews, indicating a strong network in soil and environmental sciences.

Their work is prominently published in venues that specialize in environmental science and soil studies. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research
  • European Journal of Soil Science

Borrelli's research fields mainly encompass:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields within these broader categories where they have published extensively include:

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

The scholar's main topics of research focus on:

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

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

  • Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

    G. Grill;B. Lehner;M. Thieme;B. Geenen

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Countries and the global rate of soil erosion

    David Wuepper;Pasquale Borrelli;Robert Finger

  • 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

  • Arable lands under the pressure of multiple land degradation processes. A global perspective.

    Remus Prăvălie;Cristian Patriche;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Panos Panagos

  • Rainfall erosivity: An historical review

    Mark A. Nearing;Shui-qing Yin;Pasquale Borrelli;Viktor O. Polyakov

  • Mapping LUCAS topsoil chemical properties at European scale using Gaussian process regression.

    Cristiano Ballabio;Emanuele Lugato;Oihane Fernández-Ugalde;Alberto Orgiazzi

  • A linkage between the biophysical and the economic: Assessing the global market impacts of soil erosion

    Martina Sartori;George Philippidis;Emanuele Ferrari;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art

    Matthias Vanmaercke;Matthias Vanmaercke;Panos Panagos;Tom Vanwalleghem;Antonio Hayas

  • Mapping regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland–Urban Interface areas in Europe

    Sirio Modugno;Sirio Modugno;Heiko Balzter;Beth Cole;Pasquale Borrelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos Panagos
Panos Panagos European Commission
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
Andreas Klik
Andreas Klik BOKU University
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council

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