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Researcher · The Ohio State University · United States

Rattan Lal

Rattan Lal publishes mostly in Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-9016-2972 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,390
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#872
of 1,627,098
Works
1,413
Citations
126k
Citations per work
89.0
h-index
173
i10-index 945Top 0.1% in Soil Science
Rattan Lal

What does Rattan Lal research?

Rattan Lal's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (46%), Environmental Science (18%).

Life Sciences: 654 works · 46.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 654 works · 46.3% of their workSoil Science: 465 works · 32.9% of their workPlant Science: 99 works · 7.0% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 90 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 499 works · 35.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 260 works · 18.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 260 works · 18.4% of their workEcology: 119 works · 8.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 73 works · 5.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 68 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRattan Lal1,413works
Life Sciences46%Physical Sciences18%

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 Sciences65446.3%
  2. Everything else49935.3%
    1. Environmental Science26018.4%
  1. 1Soil Science33% of their works
  2. 2Ecology8% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science7% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rattan Lal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Microbial Communities, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Degradation, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion and Nutrient Cycling.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change8602 topics
  2. Soil Carbon Sequestration8242 topics
  3. Microbial Communities7211 topic
  4. Nitrogen Cycle7211 topic
  5. Soil Degradation4202 topics
  6. Agricultural Sustainability2801 topic
  7. Soil Erosion2801 topic
  8. Nutrient Cycling1561 topic
  9. Water Quality1561 topic
  10. Soil Hydraulic Properties1501 topic
  11. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics1501 topic
  12. No-till Crop Production1401 topic
  13. Soil Compaction1401 topic
  14. Carbon1391 topic
  15. Peatlands1391 topic
  16. Rice1061 topic
  17. Water Management1061 topic
  18. Bioenergy Crops1031 topic
  19. Switchgrass1031 topic

Where does Rattan Lal work?

Rattan Lal's main affiliation in the publication record is The Ohio State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rattan Lal have?

OpenAlex counts 1,413 works and 125,723 citations for Rattan Lal, an h-index of 173, ranking #2,390 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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