César Plaza

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

César Plaza is a scholar working on Soil Science, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, César Plaza has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Soil Science, 31 papers in Pollution and 30 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in César Plaza's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (70 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (25 papers) and Phosphorus and nutrient management (23 papers). César Plaza is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (70 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (25 papers) and Phosphorus and nutrient management (23 papers). César Plaza collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United States. César Plaza's co-authors include Alfredo Polo, Nicola Senesi, José M. Fernández, Juan Carlos García‐Gil, Gennaro Brunetti, Pedro Soler‐Rovira, Gabriel Gascó, Ana Méndez, Diana Hernández and N. Senesi 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

César Plaza

125 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Long-term effects of municipal solid waste compost application on soil enzyme activities and microbial biomass

2000 509 citations Juan Carlos García‐Gil, César Plaza et al. profile →
Dominance of particulate organic carbon in top mineral soils in cold regions

2024 61 citations Pablo García‐Palacios, Iria Benavente‐Ferraces et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
César Plaza	3.1k	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	980	129	5.9k
Marie‐France Dignac	3.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	960 0.7×	733 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	81	5.8k
Sabine Houot	3.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	179	6.8k
Qing Chen	2.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	976 1.0×	279	7.4k
Franz Zehetner	2.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	716 0.5×	517 0.5×	906 0.9×	122	4.8k
Riccardo Spaccini	3.1k 1.0×	878 0.6×	2.4k 1.9×	551 0.5×	832 0.8×	135	5.8k
Nicola Senesi	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	979 0.7×	803 0.8×	903 0.9×	103	5.2k
N. Wrage	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	941 0.7×	702 0.7×	2.3k 2.3×	187	7.0k
William C. Hockaday	3.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	679 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	67	7.5k
Pellegrino Conte	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	896 0.7×	616 0.6×	649 0.7×	138	5.5k
Mark G. Johnson	2.1k 0.7×	982 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	577 0.5×	619 0.6×	92	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by César Plaza

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Fields of papers citing papers by César Plaza

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of César Plaza

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All Works

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Goñi‐Urtiaga, Asier, et al.. (2025). Sustainability in urban agriculture: The role of biochar in enhancing the productive capacity of compost-based growing media for rooftop farming. Urban forestry & urban greening. 107. 128774–128774. 3 indexed citations

Keel, Sonja G., Alice Budai, Lars Elsgaard, et al.. (2025). Efficiency of Plant Biomass Processing Pathways for Long‐Term Soil Carbon Storage. European Journal of Soil Science. 76(2). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yanchuang, Sonia Kéfi, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2025). The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(8).

Kéfi, Sonia, Isabelle Gounand, Nicolas Gross, et al.. (2025). Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation. Global Change Biology. 31(7). e70345–e70345.

Plaza, César, et al.. (2025). Time and climate roles in driving soil carbon distribution and stability in particulate and mineral-associated organic matter pools. The Science of The Total Environment. 963. 178511–178511. 5 indexed citations

Valencia, Enrique, César Plaza, Gina Garland, et al.. (2024). The Positive Effects of Soil Organic Carbon on European Cereal Yields Level Off at 1.4%. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4).

Kaal, Joeri, Asier Goñi‐Urtiaga, Philip Wenig, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous molecular fingerprinting of natural organic matter and synthetic polymers (PE, PET, PP, PS and PVC) using analytical pyrolysis. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 175. 106159–106159. 9 indexed citations

Sáez‐Sandino, Tadeo, Pablo García‐Palacios, Fernando T. Maestre, et al.. (2023). The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe. Nature Climate Change. 13(12). 1382–1387. 61 indexed citations

Liu, Shengen, César Plaza, Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso, et al.. (2023). Litter and soil biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem functions. Global Change Biology. 29(22). 6276–6285. 57 indexed citations

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Giannetta, Beatrice, César Plaza, Iria Benavente‐Ferraces, et al.. (2023). Distribution of soil organic carbon between particulate and mineral-associated fractions as affected by biochar and its co-application with other amendments. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 360. 108777–108777. 21 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Leonor, Alice Budai, Lars Elsgaard, et al.. (2023). The importance of biochar quality and pyrolysis yield for soil carbon sequestration in practice. European Journal of Soil Science. 74(4). 35 indexed citations

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Goñi‐Urtiaga, Asier, et al.. (2022). Response of water-biochar interactions to physical and biochemical aging. Chemosphere. 307(Pt 4). 136071–136071. 17 indexed citations

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Plaza, César, Pablo García‐Palacios, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, et al.. (2022). Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 13 indexed citations

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García‐Delgado, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Synergistic effects of biochar and biostimulants on nutrient and toxic element uptake by pepper in contaminated soils. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 102(1). 167–174. 11 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Hueso, Raúl, César Plaza, Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez, & Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo. (2020). Soil element coupling is driven by ecological context and atomic mass. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 319–326. 24 indexed citations

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Giannetta, Beatrice, César Plaza, Matthew G. Siebecker, et al.. (2020). Iron Speciation in Organic Matter Fractions Isolated from Soils Amended with Biochar and Organic Fertilizers. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(8). 5093–5101. 29 indexed citations

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Plaza, César, Beatrice Giannetta, Iria Benavente‐Ferraces, Costantino Vischetti, & Claudio Zaccone. (2019). Density-based fractionation of soil organic matter: effects of heavy liquid and heavy fraction washing. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10146–10146. 32 indexed citations

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Liang, Junyi, Zheng Shi, Lifen Jiang, et al.. (2018). Biotic responses buffer warming‐induced soil organic carbon loss in Arctic tundra. Global Change Biology. 24(10). 4946–4959. 23 indexed citations

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Plaza, César, Claudio Zaccone, Ana Méndez, et al.. (2018). Soil resources and element stocks in drylands to face global issues. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13788–13788. 161 indexed citations

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Zaccone, Claudio, César Plaza, Claudio Ciavatta, Teodoro Miano, & William Shotyk. (2018). Advances in the determination of humification degree in peat since : Applications in geochemical and paleoenvironmental studies. Earth-Science Reviews. 185. 163–178. 54 indexed citations

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