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Researcher · The University of Queensland · Australia

Des McGarry

Des McGarry publishes mostly in Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Soil Management and Crop Yield and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#724,727
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#24,447
of 140,210
Works
47
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
38.1
h-index
23
i10-index 28Top 15% in Soil Science
Des McGarry

What does Des McGarry research?

Des McGarry's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (47%), Engineering (24%), Environmental Science (19%).

Life Sciences: 22 works · 47.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 works · 47.4% of their workSoil Science: 17 works · 35.6% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 7.6% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 4.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 42.3% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 23.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 works · 23.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 18.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 works · 12.7% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDes McGarry47works
Life Sciences47%Physical Sciences42%

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 Sciences2247.4%
    1. Engineering1123.7%
    2. Environmental Science918.6%
  3. Everything else510.3%
  1. 1Soil Science36% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering24% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science8% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Des McGarry's research?

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

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. Soil Degradation242 topics
  2. Soil Hydraulic Properties161 topic
  3. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics161 topic
  4. No-till Crop Production151 topic
  5. Remote Sensing152 topics
  6. Soil Compaction151 topic
  7. Nitrogen Cycle121 topic
  8. Soil Carbon Sequestration121 topic
  9. Digital Soil Mapping101 topic
  10. Geostatistics101 topic
  11. Agricultural Sustainability91 topic
  12. Soil Erosion91 topic
  13. Soil Mechanics91 topic
  14. Terrain Interaction91 topic
  15. Satellite Observations51 topic
  16. Soil Moisture51 topic
  17. Genomics41 topic
  18. Sugarcane41 topic

Where does Des McGarry work?

Des McGarry's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Queensland, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Des McGarry have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 1,790 citations for Des McGarry, an h-index of 23, ranking #724,727 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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