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Soil Management and Crop Yield

Soil Management and Crop Yield is a research topic within Soil Science. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of soil compaction on crop production, particularly in the context of no-till and integrated crop-livestock systems in subtropical regions. It investigates soil physical properties, soil degradation, gypsum and lime application, and their impact on root growth and overall soil quality.

  • Soil Compaction
  • No-till Crop Production
  • Soil Physical Properties
  • Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
  • Subtropical Soils
  • Soil Degradation
  • Soil Management
  • Gypsum and Lime Application
  • Root Growth
  • Soil Quality
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Soil Management and Crop Yield

Which countries lead Soil Management and Crop Yield research?

By volume, Brazil and China publish the most (2.1k and 388 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.1k works
  2. 2 China 388 works
  3. 3 United States 245 works
  4. 4 India 142 works
  5. 5 Australia 36 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 33 works
  7. 7 Germany 32 works
  8. 8 Mexico 32 works
  9. 9 Spain 30 works
  10. 10 ?? 29 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.

Brazil: 68.8%China: 12.5%United States: 7.9%India: 4.6%6 others listed: 6.2%69%largest
Brazil2,127 · 68.8%China388 · 12.5%United States245 · 7.9%India142 · 4.6%6 others listed191 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Soil Management and Crop Yield research?

By volume in 2022-now, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation publishes the most Soil Management and Crop Yield research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 106 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 88 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 55 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 47 works
  5. 5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 45 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil 38 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal Rural de PernambucoBrazil 36 works
  8. 8 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 35 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 34 works
  10. 10 Instituto Federal GoianoBrazil 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Soil Management and Crop Yield?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Soil Management and Crop Yield include George Davey Smith, Peter B. Reich and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  5. 5 Rattan Lal United States 126k citations
  6. 6 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k citations
  7. 7 L. Ju Australia 112k citations
  8. 8 Yakov V. Kuzyakov Germany 100k citations
  9. 9 Johannes C. Lehmann United States 98k 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 Management and Crop Yield?

The most cited paper in Soil Management and Crop Yield is "Soil structure and management: a review" (C. J. Bronick, Rattan Lal, 2004), with 4,447 citations. Next come "Soil macroaggregate turnover and microaggregate formation: a mechanism for C sequestration under no-tillage agriculture" (3,402) and "The fate of phosphorus during pedogenesis" (2,397).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soil structure and management: a review C. J. Bronick, Rattan Lal · Geoderma 28 Apr 2004 4,447
2 Soil macroaggregate turnover and microaggregate formation: a mechanism for C sequestration under no-tillage agriculture Johan Six, Edward T. Elliott, Keith H. Paustian · Soil Biology and Biochemistry Dec 2000 3,402
3 The fate of phosphorus during pedogenesis Travis W. Walker, J. Keith Syers · Geoderma 1976 2,397
4 Potential mechanisms for achieving agricultural benefits from biochar application to temperate soils: a review Christopher John Atkinson, J. Fitzgerald, Neil A. Hipps · Plant and Soil 29 Jun 2010 2,160
5 Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments Johannes C. Lehmann, José Pereira da Silva, Christoph Steiner et al. · Plant and Soil Feb 2003 1,907
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Soil Management and Crop Yield research done?

The largest centres of Soil Management and Crop Yield research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil), Beijing (China) and Belém (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Goiás, Dourados and Rio Branco.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 218 works
  2. 2 BrasíliaBrazil 147 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 85 works
  4. 4 BelémBrazil 69 works
  5. 5 RecifeBrazil 69 works
  6. 6 CuritibaBrazil 67 works
  7. 7 Santa MariaBrazil 59 works
  8. 8 CuiabáBrazil 49 works
  9. 9 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 48 works
  10. 10 ViçosaBrazil 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GoiásBR · 34.0 works143×
  2. DouradosBR · 36.8 works86×
  3. Rio BrancoBR · 20.1 works73×
  4. CáceresBR · 22.1 works69×
  5. LavrasBR · 37.7 works65×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Soil Management and Crop Yield than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Soil Management and Crop Yield?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Northwest A&F University and Nanjing Agricultural University 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%20%40%mean 17.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Agricultural…China Agricultural U…Northwest A&F Univer…Universidade Estadua…
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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
1China Agricultural UniversityChina 68.745.4%10.2×18 +65.8%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 61.343.3%8.0×10 +12.0%
3Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 54.346.8%7.3×9 +44.6%
4Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 46.36.0%33.6×88 -59.4%
5Universidade de São PauloBrazil 41.212.0%6.9×44 -33.4%
6Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 39.24.2%41.4×56 -55.3%
7Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 37.53.9%58.6×47 -56.9%
8Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil 36.46.2%72.0×38 -54.4%
9Universidade Federal Rural de PernambucoBrazil 33.52.9%70.5×36 -58.0%
10Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 32.86.4%20.1×32 -56.7%

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 Management and Crop Yield, country by country

Is Soil Management and Crop Yield research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Management and Crop Yield as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Soil Management and Crop Yield0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Soil Management and Crop Yield 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 Management and Crop Yield12.0% 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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