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Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics is a research topic within Environmental Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, in the interface of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It explores topics such as nutrient hot spots and hot moments, control of nitrogen and phosphorus export from watersheds, hyporheic flow and transport processes, agricultural impacts on water quality, and strategies for mitigating eutrophication. The research also delves into the effectiveness of riparian buffers, stream restoration, and watershed management in addressing nutrient pollution.

  • Nutrient Cycling
  • Water Quality
  • Hyporheic Zone
  • Phosphorus Management
  • Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Stream Restoration
  • Agricultural Pollution
  • Riparian Buffers
  • Watershed Management
  • Eutrophication
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Which countries lead Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 Germany 231 works
  4. 4 Canada 220 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 160 works
  6. 6 Australia 134 works
  7. 7 France 110 works
  8. 8 India 99 works
  9. 9 Japan 96 works
  10. 10 Brazil 92 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 44.2%United States: 27.6%Germany: 5.7%Canada: 5.4%6 others listed: 17.0%44%largest
China1,799 · 44.2%United States1,123 · 27.6%Germany231 · 5.7%Canada220 · 5.4%6 others listed692 · 17.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 275 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 98 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 79 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 49 works
  6. 6 Hohai UniversityChina 39 works
  7. 7 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 38 works
  8. 8 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 38 works
  9. 9 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 35 works
  10. 10 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics include Jun Wang, Mark A. Bradford and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  6. 6 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  7. 7 David Alan Bennett United States 190k citations
  8. 8 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  9. 9 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  10. 10 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics is "Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations" (Daniel N. Moriasi, Jeffery G. Arnold, Mike W. Van Liew et al., 2007), with 13,590 citations. Next come "LARGE AREA HYDROLOGIC MODELING AND ASSESSMENT PART I: MODEL DEVELOPMENT 1" (8,054) and "Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions" (7,151).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations Daniel N. Moriasi, Jeffery G. Arnold, Mike W. Van Liew et al. · Transactions of the ASABE 2007 13,590
2 LARGE AREA HYDROLOGIC MODELING AND ASSESSMENT PART I: MODEL DEVELOPMENT 1 J. G. Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, R. S. Muttiah et al. · JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association Feb 1998 8,054
3 Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions James N. Galloway, Alan R. Townsend, Jan Willem Erisman et al. · Science Open access 15 May 2008 7,151
4 NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN Stephen R. Carpenter, N. F. Caraco, David L. Correll et al. · Ecological Applications Aug 1998 5,882
5 Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future James N. Galloway, Frank J. Dentener, Douglas G. Capone et al. · Biogeochemistry Sep 2004 5,486
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lincoln, Reston and Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 551 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 169 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 89 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 64 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 55 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 41 works
  7. 7 OttawaCanada 40 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 36 works
  9. 9 HelsinkiFinland 36 works
  10. 10 LincolnNew Zealand 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LincolnNZ · 35.6 works73×
  2. RestonUS · 27.7 works24×
  3. YanglingCN · 30.8 works16×
  4. WageningenNL · 29.9 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, China Agricultural University and Wageningen University & Research score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 18.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F Univer…China Agricultural U…Wageningen Universit…University of Chines…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Northwest A&F UniversityChina 81.419.7%17.6×31 +21.7%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 74.418.9%13.5×34 +6.6%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 72.618.3%17.0×28 +7.1%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 70.517.1%8.0×59 -8.6%
5Beijing Normal UniversityChina 68.415.8%10.6×38 +12.3%
6China University of GeosciencesChina 66.320.1%8.1×17 +126.4%
7Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 60.016.6%9.8×15 +44.3%
8Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 58.520.2%7.7×13 -23.9%
9Nanjing Normal UniversityChina 58.115.8%10.3×17 +36.6%
10Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 57.518.7%13.6×10 +94.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, country by country

Is Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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