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Researcher · Universidade Federal de Lavras · Brazil

Pedro Castro Neto

Pedro Castro Neto publishes mostly in Soil Science, Plant Science and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Soil Management and Crop Yield, Growth and nutrition in plants and Agricultural and Food Sciences.

ORCID 0000-0002-3836-5553 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,787,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#131,416
of 253,246
Works
36
Citations
630
Citations per work
17.5
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 67% in Soil Science
Pedro Castro Neto

What does Pedro Castro Neto research?

Pedro Castro Neto's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (42%), Engineering (22%).

Life Sciences: 15 works · 42.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 42.2% of their workSoil Science: 7 works · 19.3% of their workPlant Science: 6 works · 15.7% of their workForestry: 3 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 36.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 21.6% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 21.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 8.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 7.2% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 6.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPedro Castro Neto36works
Life Sciences42%Physical Sciences22%

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 Sciences1542.2%
  2. Everything else1336.2%
    1. Engineering821.6%
  1. 1Soil Science19% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science16% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Forestry7% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pedro Castro Neto's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Soil Fertility, No-till Crop Production, Soil Compaction, Plant Nutrition, Substrates, Biodiesel, Deficit Irrigation and Forest Biomass.

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. Soil Fertility132 topics
  2. No-till Crop Production101 topic
  3. Soil Compaction101 topic
  4. Plant Nutrition91 topic
  5. Substrates91 topic
  6. Biodiesel61 topic
  7. Deficit Irrigation61 topic
  8. Forest Biomass61 topic
  9. Transesterification61 topic
  10. Water Use Efficiency61 topic
  11. Wood Residues61 topic
  12. Mechanical Properties51 topic
  13. Physical Properties51 topic
  14. Soil Mechanics51 topic
  15. Terrain Interaction51 topic
  16. Litter Production41 topic
  17. Nutrient Cycling41 topic

Where does Pedro Castro Neto work?

Pedro Castro Neto's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Pedro Castro Neto have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 630 citations for Pedro Castro Neto, an h-index of 7, ranking #5,787,438 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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