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Researcher · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · Kenya

Bernard Vanlauwe

Bernard Vanlauwe publishes mostly in Plant Science, Soil Science and Agronomy and Crop Science, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

ORCID 0000-0001-6016-6027 OpenAlex
World rank
#35,383
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#17
of 7,520
Works
590
Citations
24k
Citations per work
40.0
h-index
78
i10-index 274Top 0.2% in Plant Science
Bernard Vanlauwe

What does Bernard Vanlauwe research?

Bernard Vanlauwe's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (68%), Environmental Science (3%).

Life Sciences: 404 works · 68.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 404 works · 68.4% of their workPlant Science: 130 works · 22.1% of their workSoil Science: 93 works · 15.7% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 80 works · 13.6% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 61 works · 10.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 40 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 168 works · 28.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 18 works · 3.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 18 works · 3.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 18 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKBernard Vanlauwe590works
Life Sciences68%Physical Sciences3%

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 Sciences40468.4%
  2. Everything else16828.5%
    1. Environmental Science183.1%
  1. 1Plant Science22% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science16% of their works
  3. 3Agronomy and Crop Science14% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences10% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bernard Vanlauwe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Nitrogen Fixation, Smallholder Farmers, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Agricultural Productivity and Intercropping.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainable Agriculture2402 topics
  2. Climate Change2052 topics
  3. Nitrogen Fixation2002 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers1722 topics
  5. Nitrogen Cycle1491 topic
  6. Soil Carbon Sequestration1491 topic
  7. Agricultural Productivity1241 topic
  8. Intercropping1241 topic
  9. Agricultural Innovation1161 topic
  10. Livelihood Diversification1161 topic
  11. Legumes761 topic
  12. Symbiosis761 topic
  13. Livestock Farming561 topic
  14. Sustainability561 topic
  15. Maize Yield451 topic
  16. Nitrogen Uptake451 topic
  17. Banana401 topic
  18. Genetics401 topic
  19. Cassava291 topic
  20. Cyanogenic Glycosides291 topic

Where does Bernard Vanlauwe work?

Bernard Vanlauwe's main affiliation in the publication record is International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Bernard Vanlauwe have?

OpenAlex counts 590 works and 23,592 citations for Bernard Vanlauwe, an h-index of 78, ranking #35,383 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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