Déborah Bossio

14.1k citations

71 papers · 9.3k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 33

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.05%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Ecology top 0.5%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Papers in

Soil Science 26
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 22
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices 7

Co-authors: Kate M. Scow Robert J. Zomer Louis Verchot Antonio Trabucco Johannes Lehmann Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner Matthias C. Rillig K. J. Graham
Journals: Scientific Reports (3 papers)Nature Sustainability (3 papers)Microbial Ecology (3 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (3 papers)Environmental Research Letters (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Kenya Sri Lanka

In The Last Decade

Déborah Bossio

67 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions 2020 · 632 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Sustainability
2020 Nature Communications
2020 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2017 Scientific Reports
2016 Scientific Reports
2010 Science
2008 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
1998 Microbial Ecology
1998 Microbial Ecology

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Déborah Bossio

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Déborah Bossio, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Context is key to understand and improve livestock production systems Global Food Security ·Clare E. Kazanski, Marwan SA, Kristal Jones, Harriet Bartlett, Alicia Calle, Édenise Garcia, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins, Dianne Mayberry, Eve McDonald‐Madden, Wilfred O. Odadi, A. V. Rogalyov, Michael Clark, Lennart G Bongartz, Mario Herrero, H.H.E. van Zanten, John P. Ritten, Cuixia Ge, Matthew Tom Harrison, Déborah Bossio, Sasha Gennet	2025	2
2	Enhancing “4 per 1000” initiative implementation through region-specific agricultural and forestry practices SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·Lydie‐Stella Koutika, Beverley Henry, Ričardas Montvilas, A. O. Olaleye, Farshad Amiraslani, Budiman Minasny, Yuxin Ma, J. K. Ladha, Rémi Cardinael, Déborah Bossio, Nurul Khusnia Primardiana Hermilia Wijayati, 任亚妹, B. E. Madari, Jean‐François Soussana, Consuelo Varela‐Ortega, Monika Skowrońska	2025	0
3	A global clustering of terrestrial food production systems PLoS ONE ·Martin Jung, Timothy Boucher, Stephen A. Wood, Christian Folberth, Michael Wironen, Philip K. Thornton, Déborah Bossio, Michael Obersteiner	2024	4
4	Exploring the potential for nitrogen fertilizer use mitigation with bundles of management interventions Environmental Research Letters ·Christian Folberth, Stephen A. Wood, Michael Wironen, Martin Jung, Timothy Boucher, Déborah Bossio, Michael Obersteiner	2024	1
5	Mitigating near-term climate change Environmental Research Letters ·Stephen A. Wood, Katharine Hayhoe, Mark A. Bradford, Sara E. Kuebbing, Peter W. Ellis, Emma Fuller, Déborah Bossio	2023	3
6	Global carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry and increased tree cover on agricultural land SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Robert J. Zomer, Déborah Bossio, Antonio Trabucco, Meine van Noordwijk, Jianchu Xu	2022	28
7	Effects of moisture and physical disturbance on pore-scale oxygen content and anaerobic metabolisms in upland soils The Science of The Total Environment ·Yuanyuan Wang, Hyup‐Woo Lee, Déborah Bossio, Scott Fendorf	2021	27
8	Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy Nature Communications ·Wulf Amelung, Déborah Bossio, W. de Vries, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Johannes Lehmann, Ronald Amundson, Roland Bol, Chris D. Collins, Rattan Lal, Jens Leifeld, Budiman Minasny, Genxing Pan, Keith Paustian, Cornélia Rumpel, Jonathan Sanderman, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Siân Mooney, Bas van Wesemael, Michelle M. Wander, Abad Chabbi Hit paper breakdown →	2020	469
9	The concept and future prospects of soil health Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Johannes Lehmann, Déborah Bossio, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Matthias C. Rillig Hit paper breakdown →	2020	924
10	The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions Nature Sustainability ·Déborah Bossio, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Peter W. Ellis, Joseph Fargione, Jonathan Sanderman, Pete Smith, Stephen A. Wood, Robert J. Zomer, Christina Lockwood, I.M. Emmer, Bronson W. Griscom Hit paper breakdown →	2020	632
11	Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils Scientific Reports ·Robert J. Zomer, Déborah Bossio, Rolf Sommer, Louis Verchot Hit paper breakdown →	2017	330
12	Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems ·Mette Vaarst, W. Suski, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Man Science, G. G. Gulei, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca de Almeida, Déborah Bossio, Niels Halberg	2017	79
13	Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets Scientific Reports ·Robert J. Zomer, Henry Neufeldt, Jianchu Xu, Antje Ahrends, Déborah Bossio, Antonio Trabucco, Meine van Noordwijk, Mingcheng Wang Hit paper breakdown →	2016	381
14	Collection of Ground Biophysical Measurements in support of Copernicus Global Land Product Validation: The ImagineS database EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Fernando Camacho, Roselyne Lacaze, E.V. Okulich, Frédéric Baret, Fernando de la Cruz, Valérie Demarez, Б. Р. Юсупов, Francisco Javier Garcı́a-Haro, S. QULUZADA, Slcy Yee, Cristián Mattar, Elizabeth Pattey, Eric Trunk, П.А. Пыхов, I. Yu. Savin, Mirco Boschetti, Déborah Bossio, Dr. I.L. Harshbarger, Marie Weiss, LEE CHER‐LENG	2015	9
15	Dynamics and climate change mitigation potential of soil organic carbon sequestration Journal of Environmental Management ·Rolf Sommer, Déborah Bossio	2014	134
16	Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems Science ·Mario Herrero, Philip K. Thornton, An Notenbaert, Stanley Wood, Siwa Msangi, H. A. Freeman, Déborah Bossio, John Dixon, Michael Peters, J. van de Steeg, John Lynam, P. Parthasarathy Rao, Susan Macmillan, Bruno Gérard, John J. McDermott, Carlos Seré, Mark W. Rosegrant Hit paper breakdown →	2010	611
17	The practice and effects of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Sri Lanka CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·(unknown), Déborah Bossio, 緒方泰介, 黒谷万美子	2008	15
18	Carbon, land and water: a global analysis of the hydrologic dimensions of climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·Robert J. Zomer, Antonio Trabucco, Oliver van Straaten, Déborah Bossio	2006	57
19	Soil Microbial Community Response to Land Use Change in an Agricultural Landscape of Western Kenya Microbial Ecology ·Déborah Bossio, collated by R.E. Bevan., Louis Verchot, McGovern Pj, Teresa Borelli, Alain Albrecht, Kate M. Scow, Andrew S. Ball, Jules Pretty, A. Mark Osborn	2005	201
20	Human resources as a driver of bright spots: the case of rainwater harvesting in West Africa CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·Olufunke Cofie, Boubacar Barry, Déborah Bossio	2004	1

About Déborah Bossio

Déborah Bossio is a scholar working on Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Chemistry, Forestry and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 71 papers that have together received 9.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Water resources management and optimization (10 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (7 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (7 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (7 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (4.4k citations), Ecology (3.0k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.2k citations), Forestry (388 citations) and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (734 citations). Déborah Bossio has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Sri Lanka. Frequent co-authors include Kate M. Scow, Robert J. Zomer, Louis Verchot, Antonio Trabucco, Johannes Lehmann, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Matthias C. Rillig, K. J. Graham, Nirmala Gunapala and Rolf Sommer. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific Reports, Nature Sustainability, Microbial Ecology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Environmental Research Letters.

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