Markus Walsh

6.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
27 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Markus Walsh is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Walsh has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Environmental Engineering, 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 9 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Markus Walsh's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (13 papers), Soil and Land Suitability Analysis (9 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers). Markus Walsh is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (13 papers), Soil and Land Suitability Analysis (9 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers). Markus Walsh collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and Tanzania. Markus Walsh's co-authors include Keith Shepherd, Tomislav Hengl, J.G.B. Leenaars, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Bas Kempen, Jorge Mendes de Jesus, R.A. MacMillan, M. D. Mays, David J. Brown and N.H. Batjes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Markus Walsh

25 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

SoilGrids1km — Global Soil Information Based on Automated Mapping

2014 873 citations Tomislav Hengl, Jorge Mendes de Jesus et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Development of Reflectance Spectral Libraries for Characterization of Soil Properties

2002 758 citations Keith Shepherd, Markus Walsh Soil Science Society of America Journal profile →
Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions

2015 662 citations Tomislav Hengl, G.B.M. Heuvelink et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Global soil characterization with VNIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

2005 600 citations Keith Shepherd, Markus Walsh et al. Geoderma profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Walsh Kenya	18	2.4k	1.3k	1.2k	902	608	27	4.2k
Cristine L.S. Morgan United States	34	1.7k 0.7×	950 0.7×	717 0.6×	560 0.6×	374 0.6×	125	3.2k
Antoine Stevens Belgium	23	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	643 1.1×	34	3.7k
Karsten Schmidt Germany	31	1.7k 0.7×	906 0.7×	633 0.5×	633 0.7×	342 0.6×	59	2.7k
Arwyn Jones Italy	39	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 1.6×	508 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	933 1.5×	81	5.4k
Joachim Hill Germany	40	2.2k 0.9×	485 0.4×	811 0.7×	2.7k 3.0×	1.9k 3.1×	111	5.0k
Nicolas Saby France	45	1.8k 0.8×	3.2k 2.4×	711 0.6×	2.2k 2.5×	592 1.0×	125	6.2k
Harm Bartholomeus Netherlands	42	3.7k 1.5×	527 0.4×	583 0.5×	2.3k 2.5×	1.0k 1.7×	122	5.8k
Dominique Arrouays France	52	3.7k 1.5×	5.4k 4.1×	1.1k 0.9×	2.3k 2.6×	846 1.4×	155	8.6k
Yu-Guo Zhao China	30	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	434 0.3×	745 0.8×	644 1.1×	78	3.2k
Laura Poggio United Kingdom	27	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	564 0.5×	968 1.1×	895 1.5×	65	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Forde, Taya, P. Johnson, Luca Nelli, et al.. (2022). Participatory mapping identifies risk areas and environmental predictors of endemic anthrax in rural Africa. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 10514–10514. 2 indexed citations

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Gashu, Dawd, R. M. Lark, Alice E. Milne, et al.. (2020). Spatial prediction of the concentration of selenium (Se) in grain across part of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The Science of The Total Environment. 733. 139231–139231. 25 indexed citations

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Walsh, Markus. (2019). AfSIS reference analyses. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).

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Walsh, Markus, et al.. (2018). Tanzania Soil Information Service (TanSIS). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).

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Hengl, Tomislav, Markus Walsh, Jonathan Sanderman, et al.. (2018). Global mapping of potential natural vegetation: an assessment of machine learning algorithms for estimating land potential. PeerJ. 6. e5457–e5457. 120 indexed citations

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Kempen, Bas, et al.. (2018). Mapping topsoil organic carbon concentrations and stocks for Tanzania. Geoderma. 337. 164–180. 54 indexed citations

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Walsh, Markus, et al.. (2018). GeoSurvey workflows. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Hengl, Tomislav, J.G.B. Leenaars, Keith Shepherd, et al.. (2017). Soil nutrient maps of Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment of soil nutrient content at 250 m spatial resolution using machine learning. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 109(1). 77–102. 223 indexed citations

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Kempen, Bas, Tomislav Hengl, G.B.M. Heuvelink, et al.. (2015). Soil property maps of Africa at 250 m resolution. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 17. 5649. 2 indexed citations

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Hengl, Tomislav, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Bas Kempen, et al.. (2015). Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0125814–e0125814. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hengl, Tomislav, Jorge Mendes de Jesus, R.A. MacMillan, et al.. (2014). SoilGrids1km — Global Soil Information Based on Automated Mapping. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e105992–e105992. 873 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shepherd, Keith, et al.. (2014). Land health surveillance and response: A framework for evidence-informed land management. Agricultural Systems. 132. 93–106. 48 indexed citations

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Palm, Cheryl, Sean Smukler, Clare Sullivan, et al.. (2010). Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(46). 19661–19666. 105 indexed citations

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Awiti, Alex, Markus Walsh, Keith Shepherd, & J. I. Kinyamario. (2007). Soil condition classification using infrared spectroscopy: A proposition for assessment of soil condition along a tropical forest-cropland chronosequence. Geoderma. 143(1-2). 73–84. 92 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Keith & Markus Walsh. (2007). Infrared Spectroscopy—Enabling an Evidence-Based Diagnostic Surveillance Approach to Agricultural and Environmental Management in Developing Countries. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy. 15(1). 1–19. 167 indexed citations

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Walsh, Markus, et al.. (2006). Land Degradation Surveillance: A Spatial Framework for Characterization, Research and Development. Soil Science. 160–168. 2 indexed citations

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Vågen, Tor‐Gunnar, Markus Walsh, & Keith Shepherd. (2006). Stable isotopes for characterisation of trends in soil carbon following deforestation and land use change in the highlands of Madagascar. Geoderma. 135. 133–139. 25 indexed citations

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Cohen, Matthew J., Keith Shepherd, & Markus Walsh. (2004). Empirical reformulation of the universal soil loss equation for erosion risk assessment in a tropical watershed. Geoderma. 124(3-4). 235–252. 109 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Keith & Markus Walsh. (2002). Development of Reflectance Spectral Libraries for Characterization of Soil Properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 66(3). 988–998. 758 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shepherd, Keith & Markus Walsh. (2002). Development of Reflectance Spectral Libraries for Characterization of Soil Properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 66(3). 988–988. 165 indexed citations

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