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Soil Science and Environmental Management

Soil Science and Environmental Management is a research topic within Soil Science. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1953. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of soil quality assessment, management, and related environmental and agricultural practices. It covers topics such as water productivity, conservation agriculture, crop residue management, quality management, desertification, and the use of Ishikawa diagrams in soil and agricultural contexts.

  • Soil Quality
  • Water Productivity
  • Conservation Agriculture
  • Quality Management
  • Desertification
  • Crop Residue
  • Ishikawa Diagram
  • Professional Standards
  • Statistical Methods
  • Spatial Trends
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
365
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Soil Science and Environmental Management

Which countries lead Soil Science and Environmental Management research?

By volume, Mexico and Ecuador publish the most (161 and 103 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 161 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 103 works
  3. 3 Peru 98 works
  4. 4 Colombia 89 works
  5. 5 Spain 35 works
  6. 6 Brazil 33 works
  7. 7 Argentina 24 works
  8. 8 India 21 works
  9. 9 Venezuela 20 works
  10. 10 ?? 20 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.

Mexico: 26.7%Ecuador: 17.1%Peru: 16.2%Colombia: 14.8%6 others listed: 25.3%27%largest
Mexico161 · 26.7%Ecuador103 · 17.1%Peru98 · 16.2%Colombia89 · 14.8%6 others listed153 · 25.3%

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

Which institutions lead Soil Science and Environmental Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Colegio de Postgraduados publishes the most Soil Science and Environmental Management research, followed by Tecnológico Nacional de México and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 18 works
  2. 2 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 15 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 13 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 11 works
  5. 5 Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y PecuariasMexico 10 works
  6. 6 Universidad César VallejoPeru 10 works
  7. 7 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 9 works
  8. 8 National University of San MarcosPeru 8 works
  9. 9 Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 8 works
  10. 10 Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexico 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Soil Science and Environmental Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Soil Science and Environmental Management include Rattan Lal.

  1. 1 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 Science and Environmental Management?

The most cited paper in Soil Science and Environmental Management is "Two-sided confidence intervals for the single proportion: comparison of seven methods" (Robert Gordon Newcombe, 1998), with 5,164 citations. Next come "Simple and Effective Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Differences of Proportions Result from Adding Two Successes and Two Failures" (513) and "Phytochemical profile of sugarcane and its potential health aspects" (218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Two-sided confidence intervals for the single proportion: comparison of seven methods Robert Gordon Newcombe · Statistics in Medicine 30 Apr 1998 5,164
2 Simple and Effective Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Differences of Proportions Result from Adding Two Successes and Two Failures Alan Agresti, Brian S. Caffo · The American Statistician Nov 2000 513
3 Phytochemical profile of sugarcane and its potential health aspects Amandeep Singh, Uma Ranjan Lal, Hayat Mohammad Mukhtar et al. · Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy review Open access 2015 218
4 Upper quaternary vegetational and climatic sequence of the fuquene area (Eastern Cordillera, Colombia) Bas Van Geel, T. van der Hammen · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Aug 1973 215
5 Explorations in statistics: the log transformation Douglas Curran‐Everett · AJP Advances in Physiology Education 15 May 2018 185
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Where is Soil Science and Environmental Management research done?

The largest centres of Soil Science and Environmental Management research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), Lima (Peru) and Trujillo (Peru).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 35 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 32 works
  3. 3 LimaPeru 31 works
  4. 4 TrujilloPeru 17 works
  5. 5 GuayaquilEcuador 14 works
  6. 6 MontecilloMexico 12 works
  7. 7 Panama CityPanama 12 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 11 works
  9. 9 QuitoEcuador 11 works
  10. 10 San JoséCosta Rica 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Soil Science and Environmental Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Colegio de Postgraduados 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 8.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Nacional…Universidad Autónoma…Colegio de Postgradu…Universidad Nacional…
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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
1Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 76.622.3%53.9×13 +18.6%
2Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 54.26.7%15.8×11 +44.3%
3Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 53.96.8%197.3×18 -42.4%
4Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 32.49.2%79.2×9 +16.8%
5Universidad César VallejoPeru 16.92.2%53.1×10 +127.8%
6National University of San MarcosPeru 14.03.5%49.0×8 -0.9%

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 Science and Environmental Management, country by country

Is Soil Science and Environmental Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Science and Environmental Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Soil Science and Environmental Management 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 Science and Environmental Management10.3% 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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