ISRIC - World Soil Information

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where ISRIC - World Soil Information sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 10.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Environmental ScienceField · 23.5 works11×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

• Environmental Science 10.7×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5.6×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 2.0×
• Energy 0.9×
• Computer Science 0.7×
• Decision Sciences 0.6×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.4×
• Mathematics 0.4×
• Engineering 0.3×
• Nursing 0.3×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.2×
• Materials Science 0.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.1×
• Social Sciences 0.1×
• Chemistry 0.1×
• Medicine 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Tomislav Hengl, Otto Spaargaren and J.H.M. Wösten lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ISRIC - World Soil Information.

1. 1 🇳🇱 Tomislav Hengl Netherlands · #59,682 worldwide 332 citations · 44 works
2. 2 🇳🇱 Otto Spaargaren Netherlands · #74,178 worldwide 2.4k citations · 24 works
3. 3 🇳🇱 J.H.M. Wösten Netherlands · #81,271 worldwide 431 citations · 34 works
4. 4 🇳🇱 Freddy Nachtergaele Netherlands · #136,139 worldwide 2.7k citations · 19 works
5. 5 🇳🇱 N.H. Batjes Netherlands · #145,749 worldwide 250 citations · 52 works
6. 6 🇳🇱 Zhanguo Bai Netherlands · #203,141 worldwide 517 citations · 17 works
7. 7 🇳🇱 C. van Ouwerkerk Netherlands · #256,570 worldwide 98 citations · 20 works
8. 8 🇳🇱 P.E.V. van Walsum Netherlands · #297,255 worldwide 76 citations · 27 works
9. 9 🇳🇱 J. Harmsen Netherlands · #582,152 worldwide 48 citations · 32 works
10. 10 🇳🇱 J. Bril Netherlands · #643,771 worldwide 62 citations · 23 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Soil Properties, Digital Soil Mapping, Geostatistics, Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Soil Fertility.

By volume in 2022–2025: Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Soil and Land Suitability Analysis, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture.

1. 1 Soil Geostatistics and Mapping Environmental Engineering 8 works
2. 2 Soil and Land Suitability Analysis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 4 works
3. 3 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 3 works
4. 4 Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture Plant Science 3 works
5. 5 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 2 works
6. 6 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 2 works
7. 7 Soil and Unsaturated Flow Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
8. 8 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 1 works
9. 9 Soil and Environmental Studies Soil Science 1 works
10. 10 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 1 works

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% higher than in 2013–2017.

• Wageningen University & Research
• Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences
• Maritime Research Institute Netherlands
• TiFN
• Centre for BioSystems Genomics
• Wetlands International
• Noldus Information Technology
• KeyGene (Netherlands)