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Researcher · Scotland's Rural College · United Kingdom

B.C. Ball

B.C. Ball publishes mostly in Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0002-0208-5656 OpenAlex
World rank
#47,188
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,478
of 90,785
Works
39
Citations
477
Citations per work
12.2

What does B.C. Ball research?

Soil Science: 26.2%Civil and Structural Engineering: 26.2%Environmental Engineering: 14.3%Agronomy and Crop Science: 7.1%other fields: 26.2%26%top field
Soil Science26.2%Civil and Structural Engineering26.2%Environmental Engineering14.3%Agronomy and Crop Science7.1%other fields26.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Soil Science26% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering26% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science7% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B.C. Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydraulic Conductivity, Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Digital Soil Mapping, Geostatistics and Soil Degradation.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydraulic Conductivity92 topics
  2. Soil Hydraulic Properties71 topic
  3. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics71 topic
  4. Nitrogen Cycle51 topic
  5. Soil Carbon Sequestration51 topic
  6. Digital Soil Mapping41 topic
  7. Geostatistics41 topic
  8. Soil Degradation42 topics
  9. Agricultural Sustainability21 topic
  10. Geosynthetic Clay Liners21 topic
  11. Geosynthetics21 topic
  12. Landfill Gas21 topic
  13. Methane Production21 topic
  14. No-till Crop Production21 topic
  15. Ruminant Nutrition21 topic
  16. Soil Compaction21 topic
  17. Soil Erosion21 topic
  18. Soil Reinforcement21 topic

Where does B.C. Ball work?

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

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

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 477 citations for B.C. Ball, ranking #47,188 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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