Richard Ferguson

865 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

Richard Ferguson is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Ferguson has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Environmental Engineering, 7 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Richard Ferguson's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (9 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers) and Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (4 papers). Richard Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (9 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers) and Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (4 papers). Richard Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and India. Richard Ferguson's co-authors include Wartini Ng, Alex B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Maryam Montazerolghaem, José Padarian, Euro Solari, Corrado Rizzoli, Angiola Chiesi‐Villa, Carlo Floriani and L. T. West and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, PLoS ONE and Soil Science Society of America Journal.

In The Last Decade

Richard Ferguson

20 papers receiving 639 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.

  1. Convolutional neural network for simultaneous prediction of several soil properties using visible/near-infrared, mid-infrared, and their combined spectra
    2019 331 citations Wartini Ng, Budiman Minasny et al. Geoderma profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Ferguson United States 11 242 188 150 119 109 22 656
Xiaoyan Shi China 17 90 0.4× 72 0.4× 44 0.3× 19 0.2× 41 0.4× 48 864
Guangping Fan China 19 52 0.2× 49 0.3× 21 0.1× 31 0.3× 57 0.5× 39 1.1k
Rezvan Karimi Iran 12 34 0.1× 33 0.2× 51 0.3× 26 0.2× 37 0.3× 23 497
Weijia Li China 19 74 0.3× 128 0.7× 7 0.0× 97 0.8× 28 0.3× 46 744
Stéphane Marcotte France 17 100 0.4× 36 0.2× 24 0.2× 35 0.3× 179 1.6× 50 823
Yiling Chen China 17 77 0.3× 17 0.1× 31 0.2× 88 0.7× 46 0.4× 37 924
Liquan Sun China 13 27 0.1× 108 0.6× 20 0.1× 75 0.6× 35 0.3× 70 756
Hongrui Ma China 11 145 0.6× 86 0.5× 154 1.0× 5 0.0× 11 0.1× 18 429
Yuguang Li China 14 215 0.9× 26 0.1× 19 0.1× 62 0.5× 170 1.6× 25 698
Ali Reza Akbarzadeh Iran 17 81 0.3× 10 0.1× 27 0.2× 98 0.8× 204 1.9× 59 877

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Ferguson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Ferguson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Ferguson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sanderman, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Application of a Handheld Near Infrared Spectrophotometer to Farm‐Scale Soil Carbon Monitoring. European Journal of Soil Science. 76(1). 2 indexed citations
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Safanelli, José Lucas, et al.. (2024). Building a near-infrared (NIR) soil spectral dataset and predictive machine learning models using a handheld NIR spectrophotometer. Data in Brief. 58. 111229–111229. 2 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Richard, et al.. (2024). Using combustion analysis to simultaneously measure soil organic and inorganic carbon. Geoderma. 451. 117066–117066. 5 indexed citations
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Shahbazi, Karim, et al.. (2024). The Optimization and Comparison of Calcimetry and Back Titration Methods for Determination of Calcium Carbonate Equivalent in Calcareous Soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 55(13). 1942–1955. 1 indexed citations
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Sanderman, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). Transferability of a large mid‐infrared soil spectral library between two Fourier‐transform infrared spectrometers. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87(3). 586–599. 10 indexed citations
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Wijewardane, Nuwan K., Yufeng Ge, Jonathan Sanderman, & Richard Ferguson. (2020). Fine grinding is needed to maintain the high accuracy of mid‐infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for soil property estimation. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 85(2). 263–272. 20 indexed citations
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Comstock, J., Richard Ferguson, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller, et al.. (2019). Carbonate determination in soils by mid-IR spectroscopy with regional and continental scale models. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0210235–e0210235. 29 indexed citations
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Ng, Wartini, Budiman Minasny, Maryam Montazerolghaem, et al.. (2019). Convolutional neural network for simultaneous prediction of several soil properties using visible/near-infrared, mid-infrared, and their combined spectra. Geoderma. 352. 251–267. 331 indexed citations breakdown →
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Libohova, Zamir, Skye Wills, Nathan Odgers, et al.. (2013). Converting pH1:1 H2O and 1:2CaCl2 to 1:5 H2O to contribute to a harmonized global soil database. Geoderma. 213. 544–550. 34 indexed citations
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Stiles, Cynthia A., Richard Hammer, Mark G. Johnson, et al.. (2011). Validation Testing of a Portable Kit for Measuring an Active Soil Carbon Fraction. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 75(6). 2330–2340. 17 indexed citations
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Eigenberg, Roger A., Bryan L. Woodbury, Richard Ferguson, J. A. Nienaber, & Mindy J. Spiehs. (2009). Use of Alfalfa for Soil Phosphorus Removal Following Long-Term Manure Application. 2009 Reno, Nevada, June 21 - June 24, 2009. 1 indexed citations
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Elrashidi, M. A., et al.. (2009). Nonpoint Source of Nitrogen Contamination From Land Management Practices in Lost River Basin, West Virginia. Soil Science. 174(3). 180–192. 2 indexed citations
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Elrashidi, M. A., et al.. (2008). PHOSPHORUS IN RUNOFF FROM TWO WATERSHEDS IN LOST RIVER BASIN, WEST VIRGINIA. Soil Science. 173(11). 792–806. 6 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Richard, et al.. (2005). Extractable Acidity by a Centrifuge Method. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 36(15-16). 2067–2083. 8 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Richard, Euro Solari, Carlo Floriani, et al.. (1997). Stepwise Reduction of Dinitrogen Occurring on a Divanadium Model Compound:  A Synthetic, Structural, Magnetic, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Investigation on the [VNNV]n+[n= 4−6] Based Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(42). 10104–10115. 64 indexed citations
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Solari, Euro, et al.. (1995). Hydrocarbon Activation with Metal Halides: Catalysis of the Jacobsen Rearrangement by (ZrCl4)nin the Presence of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 34(13-14). 1510–1512. 15 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Richard, Euro Solari, Carlo Floriani, Angiola Chiesi‐Villa, & Corrado Rizzoli. (1993). Fixation and Reduction of Dinitrogen by Vanadium(II) and Vanadium(III): Synthesis and Structure of Dinitrogenmesitylvanadium Complexes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 32(3). 396–397. 45 indexed citations
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