Keith A. Smith

20.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
171 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Keith A. Smith is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith A. Smith has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Soil Science, 53 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Keith A. Smith's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (60 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (48 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Keith A. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (60 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (48 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Keith A. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Keith A. Smith's co-authors include K. E. Dobbie, Franz Conen, I. P. McTaggart, Paul J. Crutzen, Ute Skiba, A. R. Mosier, Wilfried Winiwarter, Tom Ball, D. Fowler and David Reay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Keith A. Smith

168 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

N ₂ O release from agro-biofuel production negates global warming reduction by replacing fossil fuels

2008 927 citations Paul J. Crutzen, A. R. Mosier et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
Exchange of greenhouse gases between soil and atmosphere: interactions of soil physical factors and biological processes

2003 779 citations Keith A. Smith, Tom Ball et al. European Journal of Soil Science profile →
Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions

2012 774 citations David Reay, Eric A. Davidson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Nitrous oxide emissions from intensive agricultural systems: Variations between crops and seasons, key driving variables, and mean emission factors

1999 613 citations K. E. Dobbie, Keith A. Smith et al. profile →
Exchange of greenhouse gases between soil and atmosphere: interactions of soil physical factors and biological processes

2018 315 citations Keith A. Smith, Tom Ball et al. European Journal of Soil Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith A. Smith United Kingdom	65	7.5k	5.1k	3.6k	3.0k	2.0k	171	14.9k
K. W. T. Goulding United Kingdom	60	9.8k 1.3×	5.7k 1.1×	4.4k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	5.1k 2.5×	250	18.8k
A. R. Mosier United States	79	11.2k 1.5×	6.7k 1.3×	5.7k 1.6×	5.3k 1.8×	4.2k 2.1×	210	20.9k
William R. Horwáth United States	58	8.2k 1.1×	3.1k 0.6×	3.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	3.8k 1.9×	266	14.4k
Ram C. Dalal Australia	62	8.9k 1.2×	3.1k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	3.2k 1.6×	311	13.5k
D. S. Powlson United Kingdom	74	15.2k 2.0×	5.9k 1.2×	5.6k 1.6×	2.3k 0.8×	5.2k 2.6×	214	21.7k
Jan Willem van Groenigen Netherlands	57	7.6k 1.0×	3.3k 0.6×	3.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.2×	159	13.0k
J. R. Freney Australia	48	5.7k 0.8×	4.5k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	3.5k 1.8×	156	12.8k
Timothy B. Parkin United States	44	5.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	94	9.6k
A. P. Whitmore United Kingdom	49	6.2k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	164	10.1k
Zhihong Xu China	73	7.6k 1.0×	2.4k 0.5×	4.4k 1.2×	2.6k 0.9×	8.0k 4.0×	612	20.3k

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Hennessey, Jason, et al.. (2019). FlexGroup Volumes: A Distributed {WAFL} File System. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 135–148. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Keith A., Tom Ball, Franz Conen, K. E. Dobbie, & Ana Rey. (2018). Smith, K.A., Ball, T., Conen, F., Dobbie, K.E., Massheder, J. & Rey, A. 2003. Exchange of greenhouse gases between soil and atmosphere: interactions of soil physical factors and biological processes. European Journal of Soil Science , 54, 779–791.. European Journal of Soil Science. 69(1). 2–4. 11 indexed citations

Smith, Keith A.. (2017). Changing views of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soil: key controlling processes and assessment at different spatial scales. European Journal of Soil Science. 68(2). 137–155. 163 indexed citations

Cardenas, L. M., T. H. Misselbrook, C. J. Hodgson, et al.. (2016). Effect of the application of cattle urine with or without the nitrification inhibitor DCD, and dung on greenhouse gas emissions from a UK grassland soil. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 235. 229–241. 64 indexed citations

Reay, David, Eric A. Davidson, Keith A. Smith, et al.. (2012). Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions. Nature Climate Change. 2(6). 410–416. 774 indexed citations breakdown →

Klemedtsson, Åsa Kasimir & Keith A. Smith. (2011). The significance of nitrous oxide emission due to cropping of grain for biofuel production: a Swedish perspective. Biogeosciences. 8(12). 3581–3591. 13 indexed citations

Schindler, Jiří, et al.. (2011). Improving throughput for small disk requests with proximal I/O. File and Storage Technologies. 10–10. 24 indexed citations

Dobbie, K. E., et al.. (2009). Evaluation of iron ochre from mine drainage treatment for removal of phosphorus from wastewater. Chemosphere. 75(6). 795–800. 63 indexed citations

Ellard, Daniel, et al.. (2008). FlexVol: flexible, efficient file volume virtualization in WAFL. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 129–142. 21 indexed citations

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Crutzen, Paul J., A. R. Mosier, Keith A. Smith, & Wilfried Winiwarter. (2008). N ₂ O release from agro-biofuel production negates global warming reduction by replacing fossil fuels. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(2). 389–395. 927 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chambers, B. J., et al.. (2006). Economic implications of minimising diffuse nitrogen pollution from livestock manures. Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository). 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A.. (2005). The impact of agriculture and other land uses on emissions of methane and nitrous and nitric oxides. 2(2-3). 101–108. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A. & K. E. Dobbie. (2001). The impact of sampling frequency and sampling times on chamber‐based measurements of N₂O emissions from fertilized soils. Global Change Biology. 7(8). 933–945. 138 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A. & Chris Mullins. (2000). Soil and environmental analysis : physical methods. 127 indexed citations

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Seltzer, Margo, et al.. (2000). Journaling versus soft updates: asynchronous meta-data protection in file systems. 6–6. 94 indexed citations

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Skiba, Ute & Keith A. Smith. (2000). The control of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural and natural soils. 2(3-4). 379–386. 202 indexed citations

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Parker, John, et al.. (1997). Automated Soil Monolith‐Flux Chamber System for the Study of Trace Gas Fluxes. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 61(5). 1323–1330. 25 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A.. (1990). Denitrification losses from manured and fertilized soils, and the problems of measurement.. 60. 153–158. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A. & J. R. M. Arah. (1990). Losses of nitrogen by denitrification and emissions of nitrogen oxides from soils.. 299(299). 40 indexed citations

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Smith, Keith A., et al.. (1987). Rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of propranolol in plasma. The Analyst. 112(4). 407–407. 11 indexed citations

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