Stephen McNeill

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Stephen McNeill is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen McNeill has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Environmental Engineering, 15 papers in Soil Science and 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen McNeill's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (20 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (15 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (15 papers). Stephen McNeill is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (20 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (15 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (15 papers). Stephen McNeill collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Spain. Stephen McNeill's co-authors include Stella Belliss, Karen E. Joyce, Sergey Samsonov, Phil Glassey, D. Pairman, Jorge Álvaro‐Fuentes, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Fenny van Egmond, Katja Klumpp and N.H. Batjes and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Stephen McNeill

50 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

2019 443 citations Pete Smith, Jean‐François Soussana et al. Global Change Biology profile →
A review of the status of satellite remote sensing and image processing techniques for mapping natural hazards and disasters

2009 362 citations Stella Belliss, Stephen McNeill et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen McNeill New Zealand	17	522	498	477	366	209	55	1.6k
H.I. Reuter Germany	18	295 0.6×	650 1.3×	268 0.6×	398 1.1×	413 2.0×	34	1.8k
Jean‐Stéphane Bailly France	30	407 0.8×	1.1k 2.3×	956 2.0×	694 1.9×	145 0.7×	91	2.2k
Johannes B. Ries Germany	24	1.1k 2.0×	554 1.1×	722 1.5×	318 0.9×	118 0.6×	67	1.9k
Camilo Daleles Rennó Brazil	20	254 0.5×	526 1.1×	636 1.3×	1.2k 3.3×	436 2.1×	72	2.2k
John Gallant Australia	20	867 1.7×	1.2k 2.4×	836 1.8×	845 2.3×	374 1.8×	58	2.9k
Gilles Belaud France	21	195 0.4×	754 1.5×	450 0.9×	605 1.7×	319 1.5×	77	1.8k
Jaroslav Hofierka Slovakia	17	681 1.3×	927 1.9×	452 0.9×	592 1.6×	242 1.2×	44	2.4k
Giulia Sofia Italy	26	785 1.5×	703 1.4×	662 1.4×	691 1.9×	277 1.3×	65	2.1k
Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso Gomes Brazil	26	285 0.5×	423 0.8×	710 1.5×	655 1.8×	329 1.6×	123	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen McNeill

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen McNeill

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

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McNally, Sam, Jack Pronger, Jordan P. Goodrich, et al.. (2025). Reconciling historic and contemporary sampling of soil organic carbon stocks: Does sampling approach create systematic bias?. Geoderma. 458. 117338–117338. 1 indexed citations

Pollacco, Joseph Alexander Paul, Jesús Fernández‐Gálvez, T. H. Webb, et al.. (2024). Derivation of physically based soil hydraulic parameters in New Zealand by combining soil physics and hydropedology. European Journal of Soil Science. 75(3). 1 indexed citations

Drewry, John J., Bryan Stevenson, Stephen McNeill, Jo Cavanagh, & Matthew D. Taylor. (2021). Impact of volumetric versus gravimetric assessment on Olsen P concentrations. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 65(6). 463–483. 2 indexed citations

Drewry, John J., et al.. (2021). Long-term monitoring of soil quality and trace elements to evaluate land use effects and temporal change in the Wellington region, New Zealand. Geoderma Regional. 25. e00383–e00383. 14 indexed citations

Fernández‐Gálvez, Jesús, Joseph Alexander Paul Pollacco, Stephen McNeill, et al.. (2021). Reducing non-uniqueness of inverting bimodal soil Kosugi hydraulic parameters.

Fernández‐Gálvez, Jesús, Joseph Alexander Paul Pollacco, Linda Lilburne, et al.. (2021). Deriving physical and unique bimodal soil Kosugi hydraulic parameters from inverse modelling. Advances in Water Resources. 153. 103933–103933. 15 indexed citations

Carrick, Sam, et al.. (2021). Predicting field capacity in undisturbed stony soils. Geoderma. 401. 115346–115346. 2 indexed citations

Drewry, John J., Stephen McNeill, Sam Carrick, et al.. (2019). Temporal trends in soil physical properties under cropping with intensive till and no‐till management. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 64(2). 223–244. 14 indexed citations

Smith, Pete, Jean‐François Soussana, Denis A. Angers, et al.. (2019). How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal. Global Change Biology. 26(1). 219–241. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pollacco, Joseph Alexander Paul, T. H. Webb, Stephen McNeill, et al.. (2017). Saturated hydraulic conductivity model computed from bimodal water retention curves for a range of New Zealand soils. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(6). 2725–2737. 32 indexed citations

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Pollacco, Joseph Alexander Paul, T. H. Webb, Stephen McNeill, et al.. (2016). Physical pedotransfer functions to compute saturated hydraulic conductivity from bimodal characteristic curves for a range of New Zealand soils. 1 indexed citations

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Lyver, Phil O’B., M. C. Barron, Kerry J. Barton, et al.. (2014). Trends in the Breeding Population of Adélie Penguins in the Ross Sea, 1981–2012: A Coincidence of Climate and Resource Extraction Effects. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e91188–e91188. 92 indexed citations

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Cubrinovski, Misko, et al.. (2014). Performance of horizontal infrastructure in Christchurch city through the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 17 indexed citations

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McNeill, Stephen, Kerry J. Barton, Phil O’B. Lyver, & D. Pairman. (2011). Semi-automated penguin counting from digital aerial photographs. 4312–4315. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zheng-Shu, Peter Caccetta, Eric Lehmann, et al.. (2011). Dual polarised Entropy/alpha decomposition and coherence optimisation for improved forest height mapping. 3951–3954. 5 indexed citations

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McNeill, Stephen & Stella Belliss. (2009). Assessment of digital elevation model accuracy using ALOS-PRISM stereo imagery. 32. 29–34. 2 indexed citations

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Bones, Philip J., et al.. (2000). Tomographic blur identification using image edges. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4123. 133–133. 4 indexed citations

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Pairman, D., Stephen McNeill, Neal A. Scott, & Stella Belliss. (1999). Vegetation Identification and Biomass Estimation Using AIRSAR Data. Geocarto International. 14(3). 69–77. 15 indexed citations

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McNeill, Stephen, D. Pairman, Stella Belliss, & Neal A. Scott. (1998). Bound carbon estimates from biomass measurement using multi-polarisation, multi-wavelength (AIRSAR) radar data in the North Island, New Zealand. 115–117 vol.1. 1 indexed citations

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McNeill, Stephen, et al.. (1997). Correlation and relaxation labelling: An experimental investigation on fast algorithms. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 18(3). 651–662. 14 indexed citations

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