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Researcher · Scotland's Rural College · United Kingdom

Bruce C. Ball

Bruce C. Ball publishes mostly in Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Agronomy and Crop Science, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil Management and Crop Yield and Soil and Unsaturated Flow.

ORCID 0000-0002-0208-5656 OpenAlex
World rank
#88,346
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#7,629
of 367,258
Works
164
Citations
10k
Citations per work
62.3
h-index
54
i10-index 116Top 1.7% in Soil Science
Bruce C. Ball

What does Bruce C. Ball research?

Bruce C. Ball's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (40%), Environmental Science (22%), Engineering (12%).

Life Sciences: 65 works · 39.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 65 works · 39.8% of their workSoil Science: 49 works · 30.1% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 16 works · 9.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 55 works · 33.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 35 works · 21.6% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 14 works · 8.7% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 13 works · 7.8% of their workEcology: 8 works · 5.1% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 11.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 19 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 44 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBruce C. Ball164works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences33%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6539.8%
    1. Environmental Science3521.6%
    2. Engineering1911.7%
  3. Everything else4426.9%
  1. 1Soil Science30% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Agronomy and Crop Science10% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry9% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Ecology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce C. Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, No-till Crop Production, Soil Compaction, Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Remote Sensing and Nutrient Cycling.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Nitrogen Cycle861 topic
  2. Soil Carbon Sequestration861 topic
  3. No-till Crop Production361 topic
  4. Soil Compaction361 topic
  5. Soil Hydraulic Properties361 topic
  6. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics361 topic
  7. Remote Sensing352 topics
  8. Nutrient Cycling331 topic
  9. Water Quality331 topic
  10. Digital Soil Mapping221 topic
  11. Geostatistics221 topic
  12. Methane Production181 topic
  13. Ruminant Nutrition181 topic
  14. Maize Yield171 topic
  15. Nitrogen Uptake171 topic
  16. GIS131 topic
  17. Land Suitability131 topic

Where does Bruce C. Ball work?

Bruce C. Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Scotland's Rural College, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Bruce C. Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 164 works and 10,219 citations for Bruce C. Ball, an h-index of 54, ranking #88,346 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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