Alon Ben‐Gal

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
181 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Alon Ben‐Gal is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alon Ben‐Gal has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Plant Science, 82 papers in Soil Science and 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alon Ben‐Gal's work include Irrigation Practices and Water Management (71 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (69 papers) and Horticultural and Viticultural Research (55 papers). Alon Ben‐Gal is often cited by papers focused on Irrigation Practices and Water Management (71 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (69 papers) and Horticultural and Viticultural Research (55 papers). Alon Ben‐Gal collaborates with scholars based in Israel, China and United States. Alon Ben‐Gal's co-authors include Uri Yermiyahu, Uri Shani, Arnon Dag, Naftali Lazarovitch, Nurit Agam, Dilia Kool, Ran Erel, Isaac Zipori, Joshua L. Heitman and Thomas J. Sauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alon Ben‐Gal

177 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A review of approaches for evapotranspiration partitioning

2013 604 citations Alon Ben‐Gal et al. profile →
Coping with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues

2019 283 citations Alon Ben‐Gal et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alon Ben‐Gal Israel	45	3.3k	2.1k	2.1k	773	753	181	6.1k
Michael D. Dukes United States	36	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	803 1.0×	534 0.7×	249	4.9k
Xiukang Wang China	48	4.1k 1.2×	974 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	728 0.9×	209 0.3×	198	8.2k
E. Fereres Spain	40	4.4k 1.3×	3.5k 1.6×	3.9k 1.8×	753 1.0×	264 0.4×	97	7.3k
J.E. Fernández Spain	43	3.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	187 0.2×	271 0.4×	134	5.5k
Jian Liu China	43	2.1k 0.6×	592 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	834 1.1×	285 0.4×	246	6.4k
Daniel T. Walters United States	36	3.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	3.7k 1.8×	330 0.4×	337 0.4×	79	8.2k
Wenjie Liu China	46	986 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	527 0.7×	396 0.5×	207	6.0k
Francisco J. Villalobos Spain	44	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	254 0.3×	222 0.3×	128	5.6k
Gianfranco Rana Italy	31	1.3k 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	410 0.5×	300 0.4×	85	3.0k
J.J. Alarcón Spain	48	4.3k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	449 0.6×	118 0.2×	153	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alon Ben‐Gal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alon Ben‐Gal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alon Ben‐Gal

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Zuo, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Multi-objective optimized allocation of arid saline farmlands and irrigation water resources for sustainable agriculture. Agricultural Water Management. 321. 109929–109929.

Sperling, Or, et al.. (2024). Potassium deficiency reduces grapevine transpiration through decreased leaf area and stomatal conductance. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 208. 108534–108534. 4 indexed citations

Peeters, Aviva, Yafit Cohen, Noa Ohana‐Levi, et al.. (2024). A spatial machine-learning model for predicting crop water stress index for precision irrigation of vineyards. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 227. 109578–109578. 5 indexed citations

Ben‐Gal, Alon, et al.. (2024). Effects of irrigation amounts and a deficit irrigation strategy on water status and yields of intensively cultivated jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis). Irrigation Science. 42(5). 891–905. 1 indexed citations

Dag, Arnon, et al.. (2023). Optimizing Nitrogen Application for Jojoba under Intensive Cultivation. Plants. 12(17). 3132–3132. 3 indexed citations

Erel, Ran, Uri Yermiyahu, Hagai Yasuor, et al.. (2023). Elevated fruit nitrogen impairs oil biosynthesis in olive (Olea europaea L.). Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1180391–1180391. 2 indexed citations

Zipori, Isaac, Uri Yermiyahu, Arnon Dag, et al.. (2022). Effect of macronutrient fertilization on olive oil composition and quality under irrigated, intensive cultivation management. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 103(1). 48–56. 4 indexed citations

Dag, Arnon, et al.. (2021). Long-Term Impact of Phosphorous Fertilization on Yield and Alternate Bearing in Intensive Irrigated Olive Cultivation. Plants. 10(9). 1821–1821. 12 indexed citations

Yasuor, Hagai, et al.. (2021). It takes two: Reciprocal scion-rootstock relationships enable salt tolerance in 'Hass' avocado. Plant Science. 312. 111048–111048. 6 indexed citations

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Cohen, Yafit, et al.. (2021). Rootstock-Dependent Response of Hass Avocado to Salt Stress. Plants. 10(8). 1672–1672. 8 indexed citations

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Zipori, Isaac, Ran Erel, Uri Yermiyahu, Alon Ben‐Gal, & Arnon Dag. (2020). Sustainable Management of Olive Orchard Nutrition: A Review. Agriculture. 10(1). 11–11. 84 indexed citations

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Dag, Arnon, et al.. (2019). Long-Term Impact of Potassium Fertilization on Soil and Productivity in Intensive Olive Cultivation. Agronomy. 9(9). 525–525. 17 indexed citations

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Basheer, Loai, Arnon Dag, Uri Yermiyahu, et al.. (2019). Effects of reclaimed wastewater irrigation and fertigation level on olive oil composition and quality. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 99(14). 6342–6349. 8 indexed citations

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Bar‐Tal, Asher, et al.. (2017). Optimization of calcium and magnesium concentrations for fertigation of tomato with desalinated water. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 64. 80–91. 11 indexed citations

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Yermiyahu, Uri & Alon Ben‐Gal. (2017). Boron in arid zone agriculture: Israeli case studies. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 2(3). 128–141. 3 indexed citations

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Yermiyahu, Uri, Alon Ben‐Gal, & Arnon Dag. (2014). Long term agronomic and environmental effects of irrigation with reclaimed wastewater. EGUGA. 1802. 2 indexed citations

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Yasuor, Hagai, Alon Ben‐Gal, Uri Yermiyahu, Elie Beit‐Yannai, & S. Cohen. (2013). Nitrogen Management of Greenhouse Pepper Production: Agronomic, Nutritional, and Environmental Implications. HortScience. 48(10). 1241–1249. 42 indexed citations

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Raviv, M., Yitzhak Hadar, Ibrahim Saadi, et al.. (2011). Effects of harvest date, irrigation level, cultivar type and fruit water content on olive mill wastewater generated by a laboratory scale ‘Abencor’ milling system. Bioresource Technology. 107. 87–96. 23 indexed citations

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Yermiyahu, Uri, Ran Erel, Alon Ben‐Gal, Amnon Schwartz, & Arnon Dag. (2009). The role of macro-nutrients in olive tree flowering and fruit set. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3 indexed citations

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Erel, Ran, Arnon Dag, Alon Ben‐Gal, Amnon Schwartz, & Uri Yermiyahu. (2008). Flowering and Fruit Set of Olive Trees in Response to Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 133(5). 639–647. 99 indexed citations

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