Andrew Sila

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Andrew Sila is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Sila has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Environmental Engineering, 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Andrew Sila's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (22 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (16 papers) and Soil and Land Suitability Analysis (12 papers). Andrew Sila is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (22 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (16 papers) and Soil and Land Suitability Analysis (12 papers). Andrew Sila collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, Germany and Ivory Coast. Andrew Sila's co-authors include Keith Shepherd, Jérôme Tondoh, Lulseged Tamene, Jorge Mendes de Jesus, J.G.B. Leenaars, Markus Walsh, Bas Kempen, R.A. MacMillan, G.B.M. Heuvelink and Tomislav Hengl and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Soil Science Society of America Journal and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Sila

36 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions

2015 662 citations Tomislav Hengl, G.B.M. Heuvelink et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Sila Kenya	17	672	551	304	242	240	36	1.5k
Skye Wills United States	21	1.1k 1.6×	873 1.6×	402 1.3×	372 1.5×	218 0.9×	41	1.8k
Shengxiang Xu China	21	613 0.9×	926 1.7×	291 1.0×	400 1.7×	139 0.6×	50	1.7k
Elsayed Said Mohamed Egypt	26	562 0.8×	335 0.6×	275 0.9×	218 0.9×	455 1.9×	68	1.5k
Calogero Schillaci Italy	20	444 0.7×	491 0.9×	142 0.5×	293 1.2×	165 0.7×	61	1.3k
Tor‐Gunnar Vågen Kenya	25	575 0.9×	787 1.4×	257 0.8×	439 1.8×	387 1.6×	57	1.9k
Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman Egypt	24	557 0.8×	395 0.7×	161 0.5×	255 1.1×	567 2.4×	71	1.5k
Oihane Fernández‐Ugalde Spain	20	450 0.7×	1.1k 2.0×	196 0.6×	363 1.5×	148 0.6×	28	2.3k
J. Mataix‐Beneyto Spain	21	365 0.5×	909 1.6×	194 0.6×	371 1.5×	138 0.6×	41	1.9k
Johanna Wetterlind Sweden	23	987 1.5×	432 0.8×	603 2.0×	332 1.4×	83 0.3×	48	1.5k
Ann Verdoodt Belgium	25	267 0.4×	593 1.1×	123 0.4×	255 1.1×	414 1.7×	82	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Sila

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rakotoson, Tovohery, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, Jean‐Martial Johnson, et al.. (2023). Estimating nutrient concentrations and uptake in rice grain in sub-Saharan Africa using linear mixed-effects regression. Field Crops Research. 299. 108987–108987. 4 indexed citations

Karuku, George N., et al.. (2022). Spatial approach for diagnosis of yield-limiting nutrients in smallholder agroecosystem landscape using population-based farm survey data. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0262754–e0262754. 4 indexed citations

Recha, John, et al.. (2022). Measuring Soil Quality Indicators under Different Climate-Smart Land Uses across East African Climate-Smart Villages. Agronomy. 12(2). 530–530. 9 indexed citations

Fromm, Sophie F. von, Alison M. Hoyt, Markus Lange, et al.. (2021). Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa. SOIL. 7(1). 305–332. 60 indexed citations

Johnson, Jean‐Martial, Andrew Sila, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, Keith Shepherd, & Kazuki Saito. (2021). Application of infrared spectroscopy for estimation of concentrations of macro- and micronutrients in rice in sub-Saharan Africa. Field Crops Research. 270. 108222–108222. 22 indexed citations

Lee, Juhwan, Emmanuel Frossard, Lucien Diby, et al.. (2021). Estimation of soil properties with mid-infrared soil spectroscopy across yam production landscapes in West Africa. SOIL. 7(2). 717–731. 9 indexed citations

Recha, John, et al.. (2021). Ensemble Modeling on Near-Infrared Spectra as Rapid Tool for Assessment of Soil Health Indicators for Sustainable Food Production Systems. Soil Systems. 5(4). 69–69. 6 indexed citations

Butler, Benjamin, Javier Palarea‐Albaladejo, Keith Shepherd, et al.. (2020). Mineral–nutrient relationships in African soils assessed using cluster analysis of X-ray powder diffraction patterns and compositional methods. Geoderma. 375. 114474–114474. 43 indexed citations

Jamnadass, Ramni, et al.. (2019). A simple field based method for rapid wood density estimation for selected tree species in Western Kenya. Scientific African. 5. e00149–e00149. 7 indexed citations

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Tamene, Lulseged, Gudeta W. Sileshi, Gift Ndengu, et al.. (2019). Soil structural degradation and nutrient limitations across land use categories and climatic zones in Southern Africa. Land Degradation and Development. 30(11). 1288–1299. 27 indexed citations

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Butler, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). Pre-treatment of soil X-ray powder diffraction data for cluster analysis. Geoderma. 337. 413–424. 14 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Keith, et al.. (2018). Fertilizer response and nitrogen use efficiency in African smallholder maize farms. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 113(1). 1–19. 66 indexed citations

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Sila, Andrew, Ganesh P. Pokhariyal, & Keith Shepherd. (2017). Evaluating regression-kriging for mid-infrared spectroscopy prediction of soil properties in western Kenya. Geoderma Regional. 10. 39–47. 11 indexed citations

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Sila, Andrew, Keith Shepherd, & Ganesh P. Pokhariyal. (2016). Evaluating the utility of mid-infrared spectral subspaces for predicting soil properties. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 153. 92–105. 54 indexed citations

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Tondoh, Jérôme, Issa Ouédraogo, Jules Bayala, et al.. (2016). Soil organic carbon stocks in semi-arid West African drylands: implications for climate change adaptation and mitigation. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 6 indexed citations

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Takoutsing, Bertin, John C. Weber, Ermias Aynekulu, et al.. (2016). Assessment of soil health indicators for sustainable production of maize in smallholder farming systems in the highlands of Cameroon. Geoderma. 276. 64–73. 58 indexed citations

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Kempen, Bas, Tomislav Hengl, G.B.M. Heuvelink, et al.. (2015). Soil property maps of Africa at 250 m resolution. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 17. 5649. 2 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Keith, et al.. (2015). Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy for rapid characterization of key soil properties for engineering land use. SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS. 55(5). 1181–1195. 27 indexed citations

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Hengl, Tomislav, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Bas Kempen, et al.. (2015). Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0125814–e0125814. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jamnadass, Ramni, et al.. (2013). Limitations to Use of Infrared Spectroscopy for Rapid Determination of Carbon-Nitrogen and Wood Density for Tropical Species. 3(3). 21–28. 7 indexed citations

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