Alex B. McBratney

56.0k total citations · 16 hit papers
493 papers, 35.1k citations indexed

About

Alex B. McBratney is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex B. McBratney has authored 493 papers receiving a total of 35.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 311 papers in Environmental Engineering, 172 papers in Soil Science and 118 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alex B. McBratney's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (292 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (128 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (116 papers). Alex B. McBratney is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (292 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (128 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (116 papers). Alex B. McBratney collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Alex B. McBratney's co-authors include Budiman Minasny, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Inakwu Odeh, R. Webster, José Padarian, Brendan Malone, Thomas F. A. Bishop, Véronique Bellon Maurel and D.J.J. Walvoort and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alex B. McBratney

474 papers receiving 33.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

On digital soil mapping

2003 2.6k citations Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny et al. Geoderma profile →
Visible, near infrared, mid infrared or combined diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for simultaneous assessment of various soil properties

2005 1.6k citations Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Alex B. McBratney et al. Geoderma profile →
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale

2021 775 citations Alex B. McBratney et al. profile →
Critical review of chemometric indicators commonly used for assessing the quality of the prediction of soil attributes by NIR spectroscopy

2010 770 citations Alex B. McBratney et al. profile →
A conditioned Latin hypercube method for sampling in the presence of ancillary information

2006 744 citations Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney profile →
Future Directions of Precision Agriculture

2005 556 citations Alex B. McBratney, Brett Whelan et al. profile →
Further results on prediction of soil properties from terrain attributes: heterotopic cokriging and regression-kriging

1995 545 citations Alex B. McBratney et al. Geoderma profile →
The dimensions of soil security

2013 528 citations Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field et al. Geoderma profile →
Digital soil mapping: A brief history and some lessons

2015 490 citations Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney Geoderma profile →
Soil organic carbon prediction by hyperspectral remote sensing and field vis-NIR spectroscopy: An Australian case study

2008 469 citations Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Alex B. McBratney et al. Geoderma profile →
Machine learning for digital soil mapping: Applications, challenges and suggested solutions

2020 401 citations Alexandre M.J.‐C. Wadoux, Budiman Minasny et al. profile →
Limited effect of organic matter on soil available water capacity

2017 376 citations Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney European Journal of Soil Science profile →
Near-infrared (NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopic techniques for assessing the amount of carbon stock in soils – Critical review and research perspectives

2011 375 citations Alex B. McBratney et al. profile →
Convolutional neural network for simultaneous prediction of several soil properties using visible/near-infrared, mid-infrared, and their combined spectra

2019 331 citations Wartini Ng, Budiman Minasny et al. Geoderma profile →
Using deep learning to predict soil properties from regional spectral data

2018 328 citations José Padarian, Budiman Minasny et al. profile →
Machine learning and soil sciences: a review aided by machine learning tools

2020 306 citations José Padarian, Budiman Minasny et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia 2025 ·International Soil and Water Conservation Research ·(unknown), Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Damien J. Field	0
2	The global pedogenon map: Combining and spatialising the factors of soil formation 2025 ·Geoderma ·Nicolas Francos, Amin Sharififar, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), José Padarian, Wartini Ng, Damien J. Field, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney	2
3	Modelling Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics at the Continental Extent Using Pedogenon Mapping 2025 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·(unknown), Budiman Minasny, (unknown), Alex B. McBratney	3
4	Agriculture over the Horizon: A Synthesis for the Mid-21st Century 2025 ·Sustainability ·Alex B. McBratney, (unknown)	1
5	Soil bacterial, fungal, and protistan assembly processes across a 1300 km climate and land-use transect 2025 ·CATENA ·(unknown), Peipei Xue, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, Yijia Tang	0
6	Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa 2024 ·Geoderma ·(unknown), Alexandre M.J.‐C. Wadoux, Budiman Minasny, Francis B.T. Silatsa, Martin Yemefack, Sabastine U. Ugbaje, Stephen Akpa, George van Zijl, Abdelkrim Bouasria, Yassine Bouslıhım, Lydia M. Chabala, (unknown), Alex B. McBratney	19
7	Do XRF local models have temporal stability for predicting plant-available nutrients in different years? A long-term study showing the effect of soil fertility management in a tropical field 2024 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Tiago Rodrigues Tavares, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, José Paulo Molin, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hudson Wallace Pereira de Carvalho, José Lavres	3
8	Linkages between Soil Security and One Health: implications for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 2024 ·Frontiers in Public Health ·(unknown), Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field	7
9	Digital Regenerative Agriculture 2024 ·(unknown), Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney	6
10	Distinctive role of soil type and land use in driving bacterial communities and carbon cycling functions down soil profiles 2023 ·CATENA ·Peipei Xue, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, N. L. Wilson, Yijia Tang, Yu Luo	20
11	Developing the new soil science—Advice for early-career soil scientists 2023 ·Pedosphere ·Alex B. McBratney	2
12	Australian soil microbiome: A first sightseeing regional prediction driven by cycles of soil temperature and pedogenic variations 2023 ·Molecular Ecology ·Vanessa Pino, Mario Fajardo, Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, (unknown), (unknown)	3
13	Incorporating soil knowledge into machine‐learning prediction of soil properties from soil spectra 2023 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Yuxin Ma, Budiman Minasny, José Alexandre Melo Demattê, Alex B. McBratney	27
14	Predicting soil properties in 3D: Should depth be a covariate? 2020 ·Geoderma ·Yuxin Ma, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, Laura Poggio, Mario Fajardo	58
15	Digital soil assessment: Guiding irrigation expansion in Tasmania, Australia 2012 ·eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Darren Kidd, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brendan Malone, Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, WE Cotching, (unknown), (unknown)	8
16	Variability and Uncertainty in Spatial, Temporal and Spatiotemporal Crop‐Yield and Related Data 2007 ·Novartis Foundation symposium ·Alex B. McBratney, Brett Whelan, (unknown)	14
17	Extending Site-Specific Crop Management from individual fields to an entire farm 2005 ·(unknown), Alex B. McBratney, Brett Whelan	5
18	Evaluating the benefits from precision agriculture: the economics of meeting traceability requirements and environmental targets 2005 ·Tihomir Ancev, B. M. Whelan, Alex B. McBratney	10
19	Field measurements of soil pH and lime requirement using an on-the-go soil pH and lime requirement measurement system 2005 ·Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alex B. McBratney	15
20	Obtaining ‘useful’ high-resolution soil data from proximally-sensed electrical conductivity/resistivity (PSEC/R) surveys 2005 ·Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, B. M. Whelan	35

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