Nicolas Francos

489 total citations
27 papers, 268 citations indexed

About

Nicolas Francos is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Francos has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 268 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Environmental Engineering, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Francos's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (24 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Nicolas Francos is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (24 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Nicolas Francos collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Australia and Czechia. Nicolas Francos's co-authors include Eyal Ben‐Dor, Eyal Ben Dor, Yaron Ogen, Nunzio Romano, Paolo Nasta, Salvatore Manfreda, Yijian Zeng, Ruodan Zhuang, Brigitta Szabó and Gila Notesco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Francos

22 papers receiving 265 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Francos Israel 9 159 90 47 43 38 27 268
Yingqiang Song China 9 140 0.9× 93 1.0× 42 0.9× 75 1.7× 15 0.4× 27 291
Zeynal Tümsavaş Türkiye 7 202 1.3× 106 1.2× 102 2.2× 53 1.2× 42 1.1× 23 352
Hamid Sodaiezadeh Iran 9 156 1.0× 79 0.9× 78 1.7× 74 1.7× 25 0.7× 20 361
Mohammad Ali Hakimzadeh Ardakani Iran 9 172 1.1× 85 0.9× 90 1.9× 85 2.0× 27 0.7× 25 373
I. Esfandiarpour-Boroujeni Iran 12 129 0.8× 56 0.6× 86 1.8× 37 0.9× 12 0.3× 29 330
Van Liedekerke Marc 4 70 0.4× 35 0.4× 52 1.1× 29 0.7× 15 0.4× 5 259
Yingcong Ye China 11 78 0.5× 45 0.5× 86 1.8× 78 1.8× 13 0.3× 30 341
Fuat Kaya Türkiye 11 190 1.2× 74 0.8× 75 1.6× 65 1.5× 20 0.5× 21 282
Clécia Cristina Barbosa Guimarães Brazil 8 117 0.7× 78 0.9× 58 1.2× 35 0.8× 13 0.3× 19 174
A. Bayer Germany 5 69 0.4× 55 0.6× 25 0.5× 38 0.9× 32 0.8× 14 181

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Francos

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Francos, Nicolas, Amin Sharififar, José Padarian, et al.. (2025). The global pedogenon map: Combining and spatialising the factors of soil formation. Geoderma. 460. 117462–117462. 2 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Advancing Soil Security with Soil Spectroscopy: The efficient estimation of indicators. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21. 100211–100211.
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McBratney, Alex B., et al.. (2025). The Evolution of (Digital) Pedology – drawing from the past, adapting to the future. Geoderma. 463. 117588–117588.
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Sharififar, Amin, Nicolas Francos, Wartini Ng, et al.. (2025). Navigating the challenges of spectral soil sensing: Key solutions for success. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 100160–100160.
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Francos, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Soil type classification using Landsat 8: A comparison between the USDA and a local system in Israel. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 13(3). 576–588.
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Francos, Nicolas, Paolo Nasta, Guido D’Urso, et al.. (2024). Mapping Soil Organic Carbon Stock Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Sele River Plain in Southern Italy. Remote Sensing. 16(5). 897–897. 4 indexed citations
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Dor, Eyal Ben, Nicolas Francos, Vahid Khosravi, et al.. (2024). A standard and protocol for in-situ measurement of surface soil reflectance. Geoderma. 447. 116920–116920. 5 indexed citations
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Ng, Wartini, José Padarian, Tom O’Donoghue, et al.. (2024). Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data. Soil Research. 62(2). 6 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field, et al.. (2024). Valuing and integrating soil roles in assessing the capital dimension of soil security: An Australian case study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16. 100141–100141. 5 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field, & Budiman Minasny. (2024). Mapping available water capacity as a soil production capital metric in Australia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16. 100157–100157. 2 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, Sabine Chabrillat, Nikolaos Tziolas, et al.. (2023). Estimation of water-infiltration rate in Mediterranean sandy soils using airborne hyperspectral sensors. CATENA. 233. 107476–107476. 6 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, José Alexandre Melo Demattê, Bas van Wesemael, et al.. (2023). A Spectral Transfer Function to Harmonize Existing Soil Spectral Libraries Generated by Different Protocols. Applied and Environmental Soil Science. 2023. 1–17. 3 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). Estimation of Iron Content Using Reflectance Spectroscopy in a Complex Soil System After a Loss-on-Ignition Pre-treatment. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition. 23(4). 6866–6873. 6 indexed citations
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Dor, Eyal Ben, et al.. (2023). Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies. Geoderma. 438. 116636–116636. 10 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, Nunzio Romano, Paolo Nasta, et al.. (2021). Mapping Water Infiltration Rate Using Ground and UAV Hyperspectral Data: A Case Study of Alento, Italy. Remote Sensing. 13(13). 2606–2606. 18 indexed citations
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Francos, Nicolas, Yaron Ogen, & Eyal Ben Dor. (2021). Spectral Assessment of Organic Matter with Different Composition Using Reflectance Spectroscopy. Remote Sensing. 13(8). 1549–1549. 14 indexed citations
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Ciraolo, Giuseppe, Fulvio Capodici, Salvatore Manfreda, et al.. (2020). A Geostatistical Approach to Map Near-Surface Soil Moisture Through Hyperspatial Resolution Thermal Inertia. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(6). 5352–5369. 16 indexed citations
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Su, Zhongbo, Yijian Zeng, Nunzio Romano, et al.. (2020). An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources. Water. 12(5). 1495–1495. 86 indexed citations
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Chabrillat, Sabine, Thomas Ruhtz, Eyal Ben‐Dor, et al.. (2020). EnMAP airborne soil Greece campaign 2019. 3 indexed citations

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