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D-Index
52
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9057
World Ranking
3490
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55

Raisa Mäkipää 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 Raisa Mäkipää sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 182 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raisa Mäkipää 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 Raisa Mäkipää sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Raisa Mäkipää is affiliated with the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Their research spans across several domains within environmental sciences, focusing primarily on forest ecosystems and soil carbon dynamics.

The scientist has a substantial record of publications, including recent papers such as:

  • How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? - A review (2022) in Forest Ecology and Management
  • The costs of monitoring changes in forest soil carbon stocks (2024) in Helda (University of Helsinki)

Raisa Mäkipää frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Aleksi Lehtonen
  • Mikko Peltoniemi
  • Boris Ťupek
  • Raija Laiho
  • Sakari Sarkkola

The researcher has contributed extensively across main fields such as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their work also covers multiple subfields of study including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science

Raisa Mäkipää's research touches on a range of main topics, illustrating a broad scope of interest and expertise in ecosystem and forest studies:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Policy briefs
  • Forest Policy and Economics

In addition to journal articles, Raisa Mäkipää has also contributed to book publications, with a notable book titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022 published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Biomass and stem volume equations for tree species in Europe.

    Dimitris Zianis;Petteri Muukkonen;Raisa Mäkipää;Maurizio Mencuccini

  • Biomass expansion factors (BEFs) for Scots pine, Norway spruce and birch according to stand age for boreal forests

    A Lehtonen;R Mäkipää;J Heikkinen;R Sievänen

  • Which rotation length is favourable to carbon sequestration

    Jussi Liski;Ari Pussinen;Kim Pingoud;Raisa Mäkipää

  • Indirect methods of large-scale forest biomass estimation

    Z. Somogyi;E. Cienciala;R. Mäkipää;P. Muukkonen

  • Fungal community dynamics in relation to substrate quality of decaying Norway spruce ( Picea abies [L.] Karst.) logs in boreal forests.

    Tiina Rajala;Mikko Peltoniemi;Taina Pennanen;Raisa Mäkipää

  • Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

    Jari Liski;Jari Liski;Aleksi Lehtonen;Taru Palosuo;Mikko Peltoniemi

  • Changes in soil carbon with stand age – an evaluation of a modelling method with empirical data

    Mikko Peltoniemi;Raisa Mäkipää;Jari Liski;Jari Liski;Pekka Tamminen

  • RNA reveals a succession of active fungi during the decay of Norway spruce logs

    Tiina Rajala;Mikko Peltoniemi;Jarkko Hantula;Raisa Mäkipää

  • Individual tree biomass equations or biomass expansion factors for assessment of carbon stock changes in living biomass – A comparative study

    Hans Petersson;Sören Holm;Göran Ståhl;David Alger

  • Interactions between soil- and dead wood-inhabiting fungal communities during the decay of Norway spruce logs

    Raisa Mäkipää;Tiina Rajala;Dmitry Schigel;Katja T Rinne

  • How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? – A review

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  • Estimation of the biomass stock of trees in Sweden: comparison of biomass equations and age-dependent biomass expansion factors

    Anneli Jalkanen;Raisa Mäkipää;Göran Ståhl;Aleksi Lehtonen

  • Automatic tree species recognition with quantitative structure models

    Markku Åkerblom;Pasi Raumonen;Raisa Mäkipää;Mikko Kaasalainen

  • Factors affecting the uncertainty of sinks and stocks of carbon in Finnish forests soils and vegetation

    Mikko Peltoniemi;Taru Palosuo;Suvi Monni;Raisa Mäkipää

  • Forest carbon sequestration and harvests in Scots pine stand under different climate and nitrogen deposition scenarios

    Ari Pussinen;Timo Karjalainen;Raisa Mäkipää;Lauri Valsta

  • Relationship between biomass and percentage cover in understorey vegetation of boreal coniferous forests

    Petteri Muukkonen;Raisa Mäkipää;Raija Laiho;Kari Minkkinen

  • Effects of climate change and nitrogen deposition on the carbon sequestration of a forest ecosystem in the boreal zone

    Raisa Mäkipää;Timo Karjalainen;Ari Pussinen;Seppo Kellomäki

  • Identifying wood-inhabiting fungi with 454 sequencing – what is the probability that BLAST gives the correct species?

    Otso Ovaskainen;Jussi Pekka Nokso-Koivisto;Jenni Hottola;Tiina Rajala

  • Models in country scale carbon accounting of forest soils

    Mikko Peltoniemi;Esther Thürig;Stephen Ogle;Taru Palosuo

  • Hotspots of the European forests carbon cycle

    G.J. Nabuurs;E. Thürig;E. Thürig;N. Heidema;K. Armolaitis

  • Change Detection of Tree Biomass with Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Quantitative Structure Modelling

    Sanna Kaasalainen;Anssi Krooks;Jari Liski;Pasi Raumonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Aleksi Lehtonen
Aleksi Lehtonen Finnish Forest Research Institute
Jari Liski
Jari Liski Finnish Meteorological Institute
Taina Pennanen
Taina Pennanen Finnish Forest Research Institute
Taru Palosuo
Taru Palosuo Natural Resources Institute Finland
Timo Karjalainen
Timo Karjalainen Finnish Forest Research Institute
Raija Laiho
Raija Laiho Natural Resources Institute Finland
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Aino Smolander
Aino Smolander Finnish Forest Research Institute
Timo Penttilä
Timo Penttilä Natural Resources Institute Finland
Anne Tolvanen
Anne Tolvanen Natural Resources Institute Finland

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