Fernando E. Miguez

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
100 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Fernando E. Miguez is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando E. Miguez has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science, 42 papers in Plant Science and 32 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Fernando E. Miguez's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (28 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (28 papers). Fernando E. Miguez is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (28 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (28 papers). Fernando E. Miguez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and United Kingdom. Fernando E. Miguez's co-authors include Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Germán A. Bollero, Andrea Basche, T. C. Kaspar, Michael J. Castellano, David A. Laird, Guillermo S. Marcillo, Robert Horton, Stephen P. Long and Mark E. Westgate and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fernando E. Miguez

96 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Assessing potential of biochar for increasing water‐holding capacity of sandy soils

2012 435 citations Fernando E. Miguez, David A. Laird et al. GCB Bioenergy profile →
Nonlinear Regression Models and Applications in Agricultural Research

2013 400 citations Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Fernando E. Miguez profile →
Soil water improvements with the long-term use of a winter rye cover crop

2016 263 citations Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Fernando E. Miguez et al. profile →
The trouble with cover crops: Farmers’ experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption

2017 209 citations Fernando E. Miguez et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando E. Miguez United States	36	2.2k	1.9k	1.8k	760	696	100	5.2k
Mark A. Liebig United States	39	3.4k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	585 0.8×	538 0.8×	173	6.3k
Sotirios V. Archontoulis United States	43	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.7×	254 0.4×	151	5.4k
Wei Zhou China	48	3.6k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.6×	694 0.9×	284 0.4×	162	6.1k
David W. Archer United States	33	1.6k 0.7×	948 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	281 0.4×	465 0.7×	154	4.0k
W. W. Wilhelm United States	33	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	307 0.4×	754 1.1×	74	4.0k
Weidong Cao China	42	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	376 0.5×	419 0.6×	210	5.2k
Bruno José Rodrígues Alves Brazil	46	4.1k 1.9×	2.6k 1.4×	4.0k 2.3×	359 0.5×	596 0.9×	216	8.1k
Weijian Zhang China	44	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	166 0.2×	179	5.2k
S P Wani India	39	2.5k 1.1×	918 0.5×	2.8k 1.6×	534 0.7×	513 0.7×	309	6.7k
A. K. Nayak India	41	2.2k 1.0×	559 0.3×	2.6k 1.5×	538 0.7×	278 0.4×	268	6.0k

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Villarino, Sebastián Horacio, et al.. (2025). Carbon and nutrient release from anaerobic digestate solids applied as a soil amendment. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89(2). 1 indexed citations

Chiozza, Mariana V., et al.. (2025). Comprehensive assessment of soybean seed composition from field trials spanning 22 US states and 24 years: Predictive insights. Crop Science. 65(4).

Villarino, Sebastián Horacio, et al.. (2025). Adding anaerobic digestate to commercial farm fields increases soil organic carbon. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 21. 101942–101942. 1 indexed citations

Topp, Christopher N., et al.. (2024). Do newer maize hybrids grow roots faster and deeper?. Crop Science. 64(3). 1559–1576. 14 indexed citations

Chiozza, Mariana V., et al.. (2024). Changes in the leaf area-seed yield relationship in soybean driven by genetic, management and environments: implications for high-throughput phenotyping. 6(2).

Lee, Han, et al.. (2024). Key HPI axis receptors facilitate light adaptive behavior in larval zebrafish. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7759–7759. 2 indexed citations

Kyveryga, Peter, et al.. (2023). Late-season corn stalk nitrate measurements across the US Midwest from 2006 to 2018. Scientific Data. 10(1). 192–192. 2 indexed citations

Slaton, Nathan A., Carl H. Bolster, Tom Bruulsema, et al.. (2022). Defining relative yield for soil test correlation and calibration trials in the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 86(5). 1338–1353. 22 indexed citations

Miguez, Fernando E., et al.. (2022). Augmenting agroecosystem models with remote sensing data and machine learning increases overall estimates of nitrate-nitrogen leaching. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 114010–114010. 6 indexed citations

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Miguez, Fernando E. & Hanna Poffenbarger. (2022). How can we estimate optimum fertilizer rates with accuracy and precision?. Agricultural & Environmental Letters. 7(1). 25 indexed citations

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Jaiswal, Deepak, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, et al.. (2019). Reply to: Brazilian ethanol expansion subject to limitations. Nature Climate Change. 9(3). 211–212. 8 indexed citations

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Oddi, Facundo J., Fernando E. Miguez, Luciana Ghermandi, Lucas O. Bianchi, & Lucas A. Garibaldi. (2019). A nonlinear mixed‐effects modeling approach for ecological data: Using temporal dynamics of vegetation moisture as an example. Ecology and Evolution. 9(18). 10225–10240. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Wenqin, Jerome Dumortier, Hamze Dokoohaki, et al.. (2019). Regional techno‐economic and life‐cycle analysis of the pyrolysis‐bioenergy‐biochar platform for carbon‐negative energy. Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining. 13(6). 1428–1438. 27 indexed citations

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Poffenbarger, Hanna, Daniel W. Barker, Matthew J. Helmers, et al.. (2017). Maximum soil organic carbon storage in Midwest U.S. cropping systems when crops are optimally nitrogen-fertilized. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0172293–e0172293. 132 indexed citations

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Jaiswal, Deepak, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, et al.. (2017). Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use. Nature Climate Change. 7(11). 788–792. 117 indexed citations

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Wang, Dan, Jindong Sun, Xiaohui Feng, et al.. (2012). Impact of nitrogen allocation on growth and photosynthesis of Miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus). GCB Bioenergy. 4(6). 688–697. 59 indexed citations

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Miguez, Fernando E., Michael C. Dietze, Nigel G. Halford, et al.. (2011). Impacts of canopy position and nitrogen on nitrogen allocation and photosynthesis of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.).. Aspects of applied biology. 341–351. 2 indexed citations

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Miguez, Fernando E., Xin‐Guang Zhu, Stephen M. Humphries, Germán A. Bollero, & Stephen P. Long. (2009). A semimechanistic model predicting the growth and production of the bioenergy crop Miscanthus×giganteus: description, parameterization and validation. GCB Bioenergy. 1(4). 282–296. 61 indexed citations

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Toth, Amy L., Kranthi Varala, Thomas C. Newman, et al.. (2007). Wasp Gene Expression Supports an Evolutionary Link Between Maternal Behavior and Eusociality. Science. 318(5849). 441–444. 208 indexed citations

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Miguez, Fernando E.. (2007). Miscanthus X Giganteus Production: Meta-Analysis, Field Study and Mathematical Modeling. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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