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Researcher · International Atomic Energy Agency · Austria

Gerd Dercon

Gerd Dercon publishes mostly in Plant Science, Soil Science and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Soil erosion and sediment transport.

ORCID 0000-0002-9561-7219 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,006,608
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#6,736
of 10,230
Works
17
Citations
61
Citations per work
3.6

What does Gerd Dercon research?

Plant Science: 19.2%Soil Science: 19.2%Aerospace Engineering: 7.7%Atmospheric Science: 7.7%other fields: 46.2%19%top field
Plant Science19.2%Soil Science19.2%Aerospace Engineering7.7%Atmospheric Science7.7%other fields46.2%

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

  1. 1Plant Science19% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science19% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  5. 5Ecology8% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerd Dercon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Sustainability, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrogen Fixation, Rice, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Soil Erosion, Water Management and Agricultural Productivity.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Sustainability21 topic
  2. Nitrogen Cycle21 topic
  3. Nitrogen Fixation22 topics
  4. Rice21 topic
  5. Soil Carbon Sequestration21 topic
  6. Soil Erosion21 topic
  7. Water Management21 topic
  8. Agricultural Productivity11 topic
  9. Cassava11 topic
  10. Cyanogenic Glycosides11 topic
  11. Food Irradiation11 topic
  12. Intercropping11 topic
  13. Irradiation Effects11 topic
  14. Legumes11 topic
  15. Mutation Breeding11 topic
  16. Symbiosis11 topic
  17. TILLING11 topic

Where does Gerd Dercon work?

Gerd Dercon's main affiliation in the publication record is International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Gerd Dercon have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 61 citations for Gerd Dercon, ranking #1,006,608 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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