Ram C. Dalal

18.6k citations

311 papers · 13.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.02%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Environmental Chemistry top 0.1%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 228
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 212
Forestry 45
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems 44

Co-authors: Weijin Wang Diane E. Allen R. John Mayer Neal W. Menzies Yash P. Dang Vanessa Wong Richard Greene Kathryn Page
Journals: Soil Research (30 papers)Geoderma (16 papers)Soil and Tillage Research (15 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (13 papers)Soil Science Society of America Journal (13 papers)
Partner nations: Australia India United States

In The Last Decade

Ram C. Dalal

299 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Soil Constraints in an Arid Environment—Challenges, Prospects, and Implications 2023 · 133 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Agronomy
2020 Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
1998 Agricultural Systems

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All Works

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1	From soil health to agricultural productivity: The critical role of soil constraint management CATENA ·Tong Li, Lizhen Cui, Vilim Filipović, V -Sylvain Martel, Jr. Gerald Mathias Heinzelmann, Михеев Константин Георгиевич, Xiufang Song, Scott Chapman, Hongdou Liu, Ram C. Dalal, Yash P. Dang	2025	5
2	Bringing soil sulfur to the forefront: How long-term cropping impacts sulfur speciation in soil organic matter fractions Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Renee Walker, Ram C. Dalal, Brigid A. McKenna, Jeremy Wykes, Bruce C. C. Cowie, Peter M. Kopittke	2025	0
3	Sulfur's Long Game: 145 Years of Soil Sulfur Speciation in the World's Oldest Agricultural Experiments Global Change Biology ·Renee Walker, Brigid A. McKenna, Ram C. Dalal, S. P. McGrath, Zhe Weng, Jeremy Wykes, Peter M. Kopittke	2025	2
4	Decoding Soil Constraints in Queensland, Australia: Strategies for Precision Management to Enhance Crop Productivity Land Degradation and Development ·Tong Li, Lizhen Cui, Михеев Константин Георгиевич, Jr. Gerald Mathias Heinzelmann, Hongdou Liu, Cong He, Caixian Tang, Vilim Filipović, Ranjay K. Singh, Timothy I. McLaren, Ram C. Dalal, Yash P. Dang	2025	0
5	Comparison of plant response and phosphorus uptake by ion exchange desorption and chemical extraction for soils under different land uses Plant and Soil ·Yaqi Zhang, Dingjiang Chen, Lizhong Zhu, Sun Keun Choi, Shane Campbell, Peng Wang, Neal W. Menzies, Ram C. Dalal	2025	0
6	The influence of fine fraction content on storage and retention of soil organic carbon in Vertisols of subtropical Australia Geoderma ·Renee Walker, Ram C. Dalal, Zhe Weng, Steffen A. Schweizer, Peter M. Kopittke	2025	0
7	Soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change SOIL ·Peter M. Kopittke, Ram C. Dalal, Brigid A. McKenna, Pete Smith, Peng Wang, Zhe Weng, Natália da Silva Pessoa, Neal W. Menzies	2024	8
8	Physicochemical protection is more important than chemical functional composition in controlling soil organic carbon retention following long-term land-use change Geoderma ·Renee Walker, Ram C. Dalal, Zhe Weng, Steffen A. Schweizer, Peter M. Kopittke	2024	8
9	Soil Organic Carbon Estimation via Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Techniques: Global Topic Modeling and Research Trend Exploration Remote Sensing ·Tong Li, Lizhen Cui, Yu Wu, Timothy I. McLaren, Anquan Xia, Rajiv Pandey, Hongdou Liu, Weijin Wang, Zhihong Xu, Xiufang Song, Ram C. Dalal, Yash P. Dang	2024	16
10	Comparison of natural abundance and enriched 15N methods to quantify nitrogen fertilizer recovery in maize under field conditions Plant and Soil ·D. M. T. Gnanarathne, Cristina Martinez, Neal W. Menzies, Ram C. Dalal, M. J. Bell	2024	0
11	Eight-year impacts of conservation agriculture on soil quality, carbon storage, and carbon emission footprint Soil and Tillage Research ·Anandkumar Naorem, Somasundaram Jayaraman, Nishant K. Sinha, M. Mohanty, R. S. Chaudhary, K. M. Hati, Asit Mandal, Jyoti Thakur, L. I. Sidel'nikova, Ch. Srinivasarao, S.K. Chaudhari, Ram C. Dalal, Rattan Lal	2023	29
12	Wetting and drying cycles, organic amendments, and gypsum play a key role in structure formation and stability of sodic Vertisols SOIL ·Dmitrii V. Zavarov, J. Bernhard Wehr, Ram C. Dalal, Peter M. Kopittke, Neal W. Menzies	2023	5
13	Preliminary Results in Innovative Solutions for Soil Carbon Estimation: Integrating Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Proximal Sensing Spectroscopy Remote Sensing ·Tong Li, Anquan Xia, Timothy I. McLaren, Rajiv Pandey, Zhihong Xu, Hongdou Liu, R Guerif, B. Saswat, Joyce Mudengani Mochere, Peter Rasmussen, Andrea Perinetti, Onur Yüzügüllü, Noura Fajraoui, Azadeh choobforoush zade, Scott Chapman, Georgios Tsiminis, Weijuan Li, Ram C. Dalal, Yash P. Dang	2023	15
14	Conservation agriculture enhances the rice-wheat system of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in some environments, but not in others Field Crops Research ·Apurbo Kumar Chaki, Donald S. Gaydon, Ram C. Dalal, Bill Bellotti, Mahesh K. Gathala, Akbar Hossain, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, Neal W. Menzies	2021	13
15	Stable isotope techniques for quantifying N fertiliser recovery in maize grown in soils with different management histories Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems ·D. M. T. Gnanarathne, M. J. Bell, Ram C. Dalal, Neal W. Menzies, Cristina Martinez	2021	2
16	Puddled and zero-till unpuddled transplanted rice are each best suited to different environments – An example from two diverse locations in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Bangladesh Field Crops Research ·Apurbo Kumar Chaki, Donald S. Gaydon, Ram C. Dalal, Bill Bellotti, Mahesh K. Gathala, Akbar Hossain, Laura Tunberg, Neal W. Menzies	2020	13
17	Conversion of sub-tropical native vegetation to introduced conifer forest: Impacts on below-ground and above-ground carbon pools Forest Ecology and Management ·Tom Lewis, Timothy E. Smith, Dolores Snyder Chadwick, 张桂贤, François Kany, Françoic-Xavier Debrabant, Books, Neil Tindale, Neal W. Menzies, Ram C. Dalal	2016	22
18	Managing long-term fertility of cropping lands with ley pastures in southern Queensland. Tropical grasslands ·E. J. Weston, Maria Cristina Neves de Azevedo, Ram C. Dalal, W. M. Strong, G. A. Thomas, K. J. Lehane, Joseph Cooper, Andrew King, Sebastian Pfeifer	2000	14
19	Nutrient element concentration and dry matter production by field grown pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) Tropical Agriculture ·Ram C. Dalal	1980	2
20	Release of manganese by various cations from manganese saturated clay minerals and soil clays. I. Clay minerals. AGROCHIMICA ·Ram C. Dalal, Harold B. Lippman	1970	1

About Ram C. Dalal

Ram C. Dalal is a scholar working on Soil Science, Forestry, Environmental Chemistry, Agronomy and Crop Science and Environmental Engineering, having authored 311 papers that have together received 13.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (212 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (87 papers), Pasture and Agricultural Systems (44 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (41 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (38 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (29 papers), Clay minerals and soil interactions (21 papers) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (8.9k citations), Environmental Chemistry (3.1k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (2.3k citations), Forestry (875 citations) and Ecology (3.2k citations). Ram C. Dalal has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, India and United States. Frequent co-authors include Weijin Wang, Diane E. Allen, R. John Mayer, Neal W. Menzies, Yash P. Dang, Vanessa Wong, Richard Greene, Kathryn Page, Robert J Henry and P. W. Moody. Their work appears in journals such as Soil Research, Geoderma, Soil and Tillage Research, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Soil Science Society of America Journal.

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