Rattan Lal

120.0k citations
965 papers · 78.8k indexed · 35 hit papers · h-index 137
Topics
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (546 papers)Soil erosion and sediment transport (209 papers)Soil and Unsaturated Flow (138 papers)
Journals
ScienceNature CommunicationsSHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Partner nations
United StatesIndiaChina

In The Last Decade

Rattan Lal

952 papers receiving 74.3k citations

Hit Papers

Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Chang...19972026200620162004200420042003200410002.0k3.0k4.0k5.0k

Peers

Rattan Lal
Comparison fields: 5 of 205
  • Soil Science 51.3k
  • Ecology 18.3k
  • Plant Science 15.0k
  • Agronomy and Crop Science 11.7k
  • Environmental Chemistry 10.7k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Rattan Lal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rattan Lal

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

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About Rattan Lal

Rattan Lal is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Agronomy and Crop Science, having authored 965 papers that have together received 78.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (546 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (209 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (138 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (51.3k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (11.7k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (10.7k citations). Rattan Lal has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and China. Frequent co-authors include C. J. Bronick, Humberto Blanco‐Canqui, Klaus Lorenz, Ruiqiang Liu, J. M. Kimble, Atanu Mukherjee, David A.N. Ussiri, Pierre-André Jacinthe, Raj K. Shrestha and Bal Ram Singh. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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