N. M. Alam

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

N. M. Alam is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, N. M. Alam has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Soil Science, 30 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in N. M. Alam's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (12 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers). N. M. Alam is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (12 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers). N. M. Alam collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Canada. N. M. Alam's co-authors include Glen T. Prusky, Robert M. Douglas, Debashis Mandal, Wayne W. Tschetter, Trevor J. McGill, N. K. Sharma, Shaoyi Liu, Surya V. Seshan, Yi Soong and Hazel H. Szeto and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

N. M. Alam

83 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit 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.

Rapid Quantification of Adult and Developing Mouse Spatial Vision Using a Virtual Optomotor System

2004 608 citations Glen T. Prusky, N. M. Alam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
N. M. Alam India	22	949	559	483	371	344	94	2.7k
Thomas Voigt United States	35	1.4k 1.5×	1.8k 3.3×	133 0.3×	452 1.2×	117 0.3×	112	4.2k
R. R. Duncan United States	37	1.9k 2.0×	494 0.9×	170 0.4×	1.3k 3.5×	28 0.1×	171	4.8k
Weiwei Dai China	25	325 0.3×	34 0.1×	739 1.5×	290 0.8×	105 0.3×	107	2.2k
Keith R. Edwards United States	31	299 0.3×	240 0.4×	171 0.4×	321 0.9×	35 0.1×	101	2.9k
Jinwei Zhang China	35	2.0k 2.1×	773 1.4×	90 0.2×	306 0.8×	37 0.1×	225	4.4k
Hannes Schmidt Germany	31	906 1.0×	528 0.9×	472 1.0×	588 1.6×	12 0.0×	79	2.8k
Chris Mullins United States	37	1.1k 1.1×	98 0.2×	603 1.2×	1.1k 2.9×	9 0.0×	87	4.6k
István Fekete Hungary	27	222 0.2×	159 0.3×	752 1.6×	284 0.8×	9 0.0×	167	2.4k
R. Michael Lehman United States	37	479 0.5×	156 0.3×	937 1.9×	837 2.3×	12 0.0×	126	3.8k
John H. Kim United States	16	215 0.2×	180 0.3×	255 0.5×	174 0.5×	9 0.0×	29	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by N. M. Alam

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of N. M. Alam's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by N. M. Alam with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites N. M. Alam more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by N. M. Alam

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by N. M. Alam. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by N. M. Alam. The network helps show where N. M. Alam may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. M. Alam

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kundu, Aditi, Gopal Krishna, C. Viswanathan, et al.. (2025). Bacillus sp. MRD-17 volatiles promote mustard (Brassica juncea L.) seedling growth under osmotic and nutrient stress. Rhizosphere. 35. 101121–101121. 1 indexed citations

Roy, Suman, Pratik Satya, N. M. Alam, et al.. (2024). Exogenous ascorbic acid application ameliorates drought stress through improvement in morpho-physiology, nutrient dynamics, stress metabolite production and antioxidant activities recovering cellulosic fibre production in jute (Corchorus olitorius L.). Industrial Crops and Products. 217. 118808–118808. 7 indexed citations

Abraham, Gerard, C. Viswanathan, Rakesh Pandey, et al.. (2024). Interactive effect of rhizobacterium Bacillus sp. strain MRD‐17 and macro‐nutrients on the amelioration of drought stress in mustard ( Brassica juncea L.). New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. 53(5). 1476–1495. 1 indexed citations

Alam, N. M., et al.. (2024). Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Rainfall Forecasting: A High-Resolution Grid Analysis. Water. 16(13). 1891–1891. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan, Mrinmoy Ray, Samir Barman, et al.. (2024). Transformer-based deep learning architecture for time series forecasting. Software Impacts. 22. 100716–100716. 10 indexed citations

Dey, Piyali, et al.. (2021). First Report of Papaya ring spot virus (PRSV) Infecting Jute (Corchorus olitorius) in India. Plant Disease. 106(1). 337–337. 1 indexed citations

Datta, Jhuma, et al.. (2020). Effect of quizalofop and fenoxaprop on nutrient and antinutrient contents during seed development of mung bean (Vigna radiate L.). Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 9(2). 664–669. 1 indexed citations

Jana, Chayna, Debashis Mandal, N. M. Alam, et al.. (2020). Assessment of urban growth effects on green space and surface temperature in Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 192(4). 257–257. 20 indexed citations

Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan, Kehar Singh, Ranjit Kumar Paul, et al.. (2018). Forecasting of crop yield using weather parameters - two step nonlinear regression model approach. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 88(10). 1597–1599. 5 indexed citations

10.

Ranjan, Rajeev, et al.. (2016). Dynamics of soil physical and chemical properties under wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - poplar (Populus deltoides M.) based agroforestry system. 18(2). 41–46. 3 indexed citations

11.

Natarajan, A., et al.. (2016). Clay Dispersion Induced by Changes in Some Soil Properties in Undulating Salt-Affected Landscapes of Southern Karnataka, India. Current Science. 110(5). 874–883. 4 indexed citations

12.

Kumar, Raj, et al.. (2016). Regeneration complexities of Pinus gerardiana in dry temperate forests of Indian Himalaya. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(8). 7732–7743. 15 indexed citations

13.

Ranjan, Rajeev, et al.. (2015). Resource conservation in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under different waterand nitrogen stress levels. Indian Journal of Soil Conservation. 43(2). 159–165. 1 indexed citations

14.

Patra, Sridhar, Debashis Mandal, P. K. Mishra, et al.. (2015). Watershed-Scale Runoff-Erosion-Carbon Flux Dynamics: Current Scope and Future Direction of Research. Current Science. 109(10). 1773–1774. 1 indexed citations

15.

Tomar, J. M. S., et al.. (2015). Influence of Canopy Architecture on Stemflow in Agroforestry Trees in Western Himalayas. Current Science. 109(4). 759–764. 11 indexed citations

16.

Patra, Sridhar, et al.. (2014). Comparative estimation of litter carbon inputs by two different modeling approaches in central himalayan forests. Indian Journal of Soil Conservation. 42(2). 135–142. 1 indexed citations

17.

Alam, N. M., et al.. (2014). Stochastic model for drought forecasting for Bundelkhand region in Central India. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 84(2). 17 indexed citations

18.

Kaushal, Richa, et al.. (2012). Leaf litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in four multipurpose tree species. Range Management and Agroforestry. 33(1). 20–27. 10 indexed citations

19.

Biswas, Biplob Kumar, et al.. (2011). Disease index construction against prevalence of major diseases in fine rice. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6(21). 4954–4959. 1 indexed citations

20.

Jacobs, Adam, Robert M. Douglas, N. M. Alam, et al.. (2009). Ruling out and ruling in neural codes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(14). 5936–5941. 128 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact