Soil Science

473.7k papers and 10.6M indexed citations i.

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473.7k papers covering Soil Science have received a total of 10.6M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport and Irrigation Practices and Water Management and also cover the fields of Plant Science, Ecology and Agronomy and Crop Science. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Plant Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. Some of the most active scholars covering Soil Science are Rattan Lal, Yakov Kuzyakov, Horst Marschner, D. S. Jenkinson, Robert B. Jackson, Johan Six, Peter M. Vitousek, Jean Poesen, Joshua P. Schimel and Philip C. Brookes.

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Fields of papers citing papers about Soil Science

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