Colin Skinner

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 895 citations indexed

About

Colin Skinner is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Skinner has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 895 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Soil Science and 4 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Colin Skinner's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (4 papers). Colin Skinner is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (4 papers). Colin Skinner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. Colin Skinner's co-authors include Andreas Gattinger, Paul Mäder, Adrian Müller, U. Niggli, Matthias Stolze, Nina Buchmann, Pete Smith, Nadia El‐Hage Scialabba, Andreas Fließbach and Matthias Haeni and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Colin Skinner

12 papers receiving 851 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.

Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming

2012 563 citations Andreas Gattinger, Adrian Müller et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Skinner Switzerland	5	515	351	293	202	164	12	895
Dries Roobroeck Kenya	16	526 1.0×	239 0.7×	285 1.0×	131 0.6×	132 0.8×	31	896
Håkan Marstorp Sweden	18	460 0.9×	288 0.8×	309 1.1×	147 0.7×	123 0.8×	23	1.0k
Philippe Leterme France	21	678 1.3×	331 0.9×	275 0.9×	251 1.2×	146 0.9×	29	1.2k
Emilio J. González-Sánchez Spain	16	432 0.8×	162 0.5×	315 1.1×	158 0.8×	153 0.9×	28	871
Taru Sandén Austria	21	559 1.1×	325 0.9×	234 0.8×	168 0.8×	152 0.9×	48	1.1k
Marina Azzaroli Bleken Norway	17	439 0.9×	220 0.6×	188 0.6×	252 1.2×	239 1.5×	35	836
R. Mihelič Slovenia	12	503 1.0×	197 0.6×	233 0.8×	134 0.7×	110 0.7×	40	925
Yawen Huang United States	10	528 1.0×	204 0.6×	172 0.6×	138 0.7×	167 1.0×	16	845
Daniel A. Kane United States	14	402 0.8×	161 0.5×	178 0.6×	121 0.6×	171 1.0×	18	664
Yulong Yin China	16	402 0.8×	199 0.6×	307 1.0×	205 1.0×	192 1.2×	38	923

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Skinner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Skinner

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

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Martins, Márcio dos Reis, Magdalena Necpálová, Christof Ammann, et al.. (2022). Modeling N2O emissions of complex cropland management in Western Europe using DayCent: Performance and scope for improvement. European Journal of Agronomy. 141. 126613–126613. 12 indexed citations

Skinner, Colin, Andreas Gattinger, Maike Krauss, et al.. (2019). The impact of long-term organic farming on soil-derived greenhouse gas emissions. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1702–1702. 113 indexed citations

Gattinger, Andreas, Colin Skinner, Maike Krauss, & Paul Mäder. (2019). Auswirkungen des langfristigen ökologischen Landbaus auf bodenbürtige Treibhausgasemissionen. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture). 1 indexed citations

Necpálová, Magdalena, Juhwan Lee, Colin Skinner, et al.. (2018). Potentials to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from Swiss agriculture. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 265. 84–102. 31 indexed citations

Müller, Adrian, Eduardo Aguilera, Colin Skinner, & Andreas Gattinger. (2016). Does certified organic farming reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production? Comment on the McGee study. Agriculture and Human Values. 33(4). 943–947. 1 indexed citations

Gattinger, Andreas, Colin Skinner, Adrian Müller, Paul Mäder, & U. Niggli. (2015). Soil organic carbon dynamics and non-CO2 gas fluxes from agricultural soils under organic and non-organic management - results of two meta-studies. EGUGA. 8334. 1 indexed citations

Skinner, Colin, et al.. (2014). Utilizing Electronic Health Record Information to Optimize Medication Infusion Devices: A Manual Data Integration Approach. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 38(6). 370–378. 1 indexed citations

Skinner, Colin, et al.. (2014). Soil GHG fluxes under organic & non-organic agriculture compared: First results from measurements taken in the DOK-Experiment. 1 indexed citations

Gattinger, Andreas, Colin Skinner, Adrian Müller, Hans‐Martin Krause, & Paul Mäder. (2014). GREENHOUSE GAS FLUXES IN AGRICULTURAL SOILS UNDER ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC MANAGEMENT. 3 indexed citations

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Skinner, Colin, Andreas Gattinger, Adrian Müller, et al.. (2013). Greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural soils under organic and non-organic management — A global meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 468-469. 553–563. 166 indexed citations

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Gattinger, Andreas, Adrian Müller, Matthias Haeni, et al.. (2012). Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(44). 18226–18231. 563 indexed citations breakdown →

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Saltstone, Robert, Colin Skinner, & Paul F. Tremblay. (2001). Conditional standard error of measurement and personality scale scores: an investigation of classical test theory estimates with four MMPI scales. Personality and Individual Differences. 30(4). 691–698. 2 indexed citations

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