Brandon Heung

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Brandon Heung is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brandon Heung has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Environmental Engineering, 20 papers in Soil Science and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Brandon Heung's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (39 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). Brandon Heung is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (39 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). Brandon Heung collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iran and Germany. Brandon Heung's co-authors include Margaret Schmidt, Chuck Bulmer, Anders Knudby, Jin Zhang, Ruhollah Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Thomas Scholten, Hung Chak Ho, Young Chang, Jaemyung Shin and Tri Nguyen-Quang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Brandon Heung

60 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

An overview and comparison of machine-learning techniques for classification purposes in digital soil mapping

2015 390 citations Brandon Heung, Jin Zhang et al. Geoderma profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brandon Heung Canada	20	1.0k	448	414	393	292	64	1.8k
Pierre Roudier New Zealand	19	1.1k 1.1×	704 1.6×	488 1.2×	382 1.0×	247 0.8×	45	2.0k
Alexandre M.J.‐C. Wadoux Australia	25	1.3k 1.3×	672 1.5×	474 1.1×	466 1.2×	104 0.4×	55	1.9k
Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh Iran	25	1.4k 1.4×	933 2.1×	546 1.3×	613 1.6×	213 0.7×	56	2.3k
Elia Scudiero United States	21	831 0.8×	362 0.8×	467 1.1×	179 0.5×	294 1.0×	56	1.6k
Xiaodong Song China	22	782 0.8×	691 1.5×	430 1.0×	248 0.6×	189 0.6×	48	1.9k
Shengxiang Xu China	21	613 0.6×	926 2.1×	400 1.0×	291 0.7×	244 0.8×	50	1.7k
Vera Leatitia Mulder Netherlands	21	1.6k 1.6×	889 2.0×	628 1.5×	585 1.5×	100 0.3×	42	2.1k
Scott T. Drummond United States	22	1.4k 1.4×	658 1.5×	598 1.4×	197 0.5×	845 2.9×	57	2.5k
Elpídio Inácio Fernandes Filho Brazil	25	874 0.8×	482 1.1×	599 1.4×	373 0.9×	272 0.9×	126	2.3k
Fabio Castaldi Italy	26	1.4k 1.3×	425 0.9×	1.0k 2.4×	718 1.8×	297 1.0×	48	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Brandon Heung

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brandon Heung

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brandon Heung. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brandon Heung based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brandon Heung. Brandon Heung is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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John, Kingsley, Daniel D. Saurette, & Brandon Heung. (2025). The problematic case of data leakage: A case for leave-profile-out cross-validation in 3-dimensional digital soil mapping. Geoderma. 455. 117223–117223. 3 indexed citations

Schmidt, Margaret, Daniel D. Saurette, Chuck Bulmer, et al.. (2025). Advancing digital soil mapping with multi-year crop cover data: Impacts on model accuracy and soil interpretation. Geoderma. 461. 117481–117481.

Comeau, Louis‐Pierre, et al.. (2025). The importance of zeros in digital soil mapping I: a review. Geoderma. 464. 117636–117636.

Heydari, Mehdi, et al.. (2024). Incorporating forest canopy openness and environmental covariates in predicting soil organic carbon in oak forest. Soil and Tillage Research. 244. 106220–106220. 9 indexed citations

Comeau, Louis‐Pierre, et al.. (2024). Characterization of carbon dioxide emissions from late stage windrow composting. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 1 indexed citations

Percival, David, et al.. (2024). Remote estimation of leaf nitrogen content, leaf area, and berry yield in wild blueberries. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 2 indexed citations

Kebonye, Ndiye Michael, Kingsley John, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2024). Major overlap in plant and soil organic carbon hotspots across Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175476–175476. 3 indexed citations

John, Kingsley, et al.. (2024). Effect of biochar treatment on soil pH and cucumber fruit: A demonstration of the importance of biochar amendment on the tropical soils of Nigeria. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 79(4). 202–210. 1 indexed citations

Schmidt, Margaret, et al.. (2024). Filling the gaps in soil data: A multi-model framework for addressing data gaps using pedotransfer functions and machine-learning with uncertainty estimates to estimate bulk density. CATENA. 245. 108310–108310. 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Margaret, et al.. (2024). A framework for optimizing environmental covariates to support model interpretability in digital soil mapping. Geoderma. 445. 116873–116873. 27 indexed citations

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Chang, Young, et al.. (2024). Application of a Real-Time Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Image-Processing System for Crop Monitoring in Precision Agriculture. AgriEngineering. 6(3). 3345–3361. 1 indexed citations

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Esau, Travis J., et al.. (2024). Enhancing surface drainage mapping in eastern Canada with deep learning applied to LiDAR-derived elevation data. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 10016–10016. 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Margaret, Daniel D. Saurette, Jin Zhang, et al.. (2023). A framework for recalibrating pedotransfer functions using nonlinear least squares and estimating uncertainty using quantile regression. Geoderma. 439. 116674–116674. 7 indexed citations

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Heydari, Mehdi, et al.. (2023). Species distribution models of Brant's oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.): The impact of spatial database on predicting the impacts of climate change. Ecological Engineering. 194. 107038–107038. 19 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Rodney, et al.. (2023). Incidence and prevalence of alopecia areata in the Australian primary care setting: A retrospective analysis of electronic health record data. Australasian Journal of Dermatology. 64(3). 330–338. 12 indexed citations

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Shin, Jaemyung, et al.. (2022). Trends and Prospect of Machine Vision Technology for Stresses and Diseases Detection in Precision Agriculture. AgriEngineering. 5(1). 20–39. 34 indexed citations

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Nabiollahi, Kamal, Masoud Davari, Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh, et al.. (2022). Spatial prediction of soil properties through hybridized random forest model and combination of reflectance spectroscopy and environmental covariates. Geocarto International. 37(27). 18172–18195. 7 indexed citations

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Fathizad, Hassan, Ruhollah Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Mohammad Ali Hakimzadeh Ardakani, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon Change Using Machine-Learning in Arid Regions. Agronomy. 12(3). 628–628. 23 indexed citations

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Saurette, Daniel D., et al.. (2022). Mapping the maximum peat thickness of cultivated organic soils in the southwest plain of Montreal. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 103(1). 103–120. 16 indexed citations

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Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Ruhollah, et al.. (2022). A Comparison of Model Averaging Techniques to Predict the Spatial Distribution of Soil Properties. Remote Sensing. 14(3). 472–472. 22 indexed citations

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