C. Belmans

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 858 citations indexed

About

C. Belmans is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Belmans has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 858 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in C. Belmans's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (5 papers) and Irrigation Practices and Water Management (4 papers). C. Belmans is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (5 papers) and Irrigation Practices and Water Management (4 papers). C. Belmans collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and India. C. Belmans's co-authors include R.A. Feddes, J.G. Wesseling, L.W. Dekker, J. Bouma, Jan Feyen, J. Bouma and Daniel Hillel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Soil Science Society of America Journal and Journal of Environmental Quality.

In The Last Decade

C. Belmans

10 papers receiving 716 citations

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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.

Simulation model of the water balance of a cropped soil: SWATRE

1983 501 citations C. Belmans, J.G. Wesseling et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Belmans Belgium	9	495	409	351	307	214	10	858
Pierre Ruelle France	18	510 1.0×	548 1.3×	409 1.2×	297 1.0×	136 0.6×	51	1.1k
R. Hartmann Belgium	12	264 0.5×	335 0.8×	150 0.4×	129 0.4×	119 0.6×	31	726
Roger Hartmann Belgium	12	362 0.7×	646 1.6×	242 0.7×	109 0.4×	103 0.5×	20	972
R.F.A. Hendriks Netherlands	13	323 0.7×	249 0.6×	279 0.8×	198 0.6×	245 1.1×	44	831
Harold R. Duke United States	17	284 0.6×	407 1.0×	412 1.2×	148 0.5×	149 0.7×	52	1.1k
J. B. WILLIAMS United Kingdom	14	332 0.7×	283 0.7×	200 0.6×	111 0.4×	63 0.3×	18	683
O.H. Boersma Netherlands	9	419 0.8×	272 0.7×	237 0.7×	216 0.7×	72 0.3×	11	765
H.W.G. Booltink Netherlands	16	412 0.8×	254 0.6×	420 1.2×	75 0.2×	92 0.4×	31	755
DR Scotter New Zealand	13	360 0.7×	243 0.6×	246 0.7×	220 0.7×	63 0.3×	23	738
H. R. Haise United States	6	164 0.3×	370 0.9×	205 0.6×	579 1.9×	335 1.6×	21	1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Belmans

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. Belmans. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. Belmans 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 C. Belmans. C. Belmans is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Feyen, Jan, et al.. (1988). Simulation of the soil-water dynamics and corn yields under deficit irrigation. Irrigation Science. 9(2). 14 indexed citations

2.

Feyen, Jan, et al.. (1987). Modelling of yield of winter wheat as a function of soil water availability. Agricultural Water Management. 12(4). 323–339. 16 indexed citations

3.

Bouma, J., et al.. (1983). Assessing the Suitability of Soils With Macropores for Subsurface Liquid Waste Disposal. Journal of Environmental Quality. 12(3). 305–311. 59 indexed citations

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Belmans, C., J.G. Wesseling, & R.A. Feddes. (1983). Simulation model of the water balance of a cropped soil: SWATRE. Journal of Hydrology. 63(3-4). 271–286. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bouma, J., C. Belmans, & L.W. Dekker. (1982). Water Infiltration and Redistribution in a Silt Loam Subsoil with Vertical Worm Channels. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 46(5). 917–921. 96 indexed citations

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Belmans, C., L.W. Dekker, & J. Bouma. (1982). Obtaining soil physical field data for simulating soil moisture regimes and associated potato growth. Agricultural Water Management. 5(4). 319–333. 4 indexed citations

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Feddes, R.A., et al.. (1981). ROOT WATER UPTAKE MODEL DEPENDING ON SOIL WATER PRESSURE HEAD AND MAXIMUM EXTRACTION RATE. Acta Horticulturae. 123–136. 110 indexed citations

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Belmans, C., J.G. Wesseling, & R.A. Feddes. (1981). Simulation model of the water balance of a cropped soil providing different types of boundary conditions (SWATRE). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 19 indexed citations

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Feyen, Jan, C. Belmans, & Daniel Hillel. (1980). COMPARISON BETWEEN MEASURED AND SIMULATED PLANT WATER POTENTIAL DURING SOIL WATER EXTRACTION BY POTTED RYEGRASS. Soil Science. 129(3). 180–185. 14 indexed citations

10.

Belmans, C., Jan Feyen, & Daniel Hillel. (1979). AN ATTEMPT AT EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF MACROSCOPIC-SCALE MODELS OF SOIL MOISTURE EXTRACTION BY ROOTS. Soil Science. 127(3). 174–186. 25 indexed citations

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