W.G. Sombroek
- Soil Science top 0.5%
- Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Ecology top 5%
- Nature and Landscape Conservation top 5%
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 1%
- Co-authors
- L.R. OldemanR.T.A. HakkelingN.H. BatjesFreddy NachtergaeleAndrew WarrenAli AyoubL.P. van ReeuwijkMarrit van den Berg
- Topics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield (3 papers)Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (2 papers)Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 papers)
- Journals
- Global Change BiologyGeodermaAMBIO
- Partner nations
- NetherlandsItalyBrazil
In The Last Decade
W.G. Sombroek
26 papers receiving 2.5k citations
Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 115
- Soil Science 1.2k
- Global and Planetary Change 816
- Ecology 633
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 413
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 407
Countries citing papers authored by W.G. Sombroek
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Fields of papers citing papers by W.G. Sombroek
This network shows the impact of papers produced by W.G. Sombroek. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by W.G. Sombroek. The network helps show where W.G. Sombroek may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of W.G. Sombroek
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W.G. Sombroek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W.G. Sombroek 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 W.G. Sombroek. W.G. Sombroek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terra preta and terra mulata: pre-columbian Amazon Kitchen middens and agricultural fields, their sustainability and their replication. | 29 |
| 2 | 277 | |
| 3 | 193 | |
| 4 | 116 | |
| 5 | 230 | |
| 6 | 137 | |
| 7 | 5 | |
| 8 | Amounts, dynamics and sequestering of carbon in tropical and subtropical soils | 301 |
| 9 | Biomass and carbon storage in the amazon ecosystems | 11 |
| 10 | World map of the status of human-induced soil degradation : | 211 |
| 11 | World map of the status of human-induced soil degradation : an explanatory note, 2nd. rev. ed. | 29 |
| 12 | World map of the status of human-induced soil degradation: an explanatory note.breakdown → | 485 |
| 13 | Inputs to climatic change by soil and agriculture related activities. | 5 |
| 14 | Exploratory soil map and agro-climatic zone map of Kenya, 1980, scale 1:1,000,000 | 89 |
| 15 | 1 | |
| 16 | Soils of the Amazon region and their ecological stability. | 1 |
| 17 | Soils of semi-arid savanna zone of the north-eastern Kenya : site evaluation report | 2 |
| 18 | Report on a site evaluation of the irrigation suitability of the soils and waters of the Merti area (Isiolo district) | 1 |
| 19 | Ancient dune fields and fluviatile deposits in the Rima-Sokoto river basin (N.W.Nigeria) : geomorphologic phenomena in relation to Quaternary changes in climate at the southern edge of the Sahara | 21 |
| 20 | 175 |
About W.G. Sombroek
W.G. Sombroek is a scholar working on Soil Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Environmental Engineering, having authored 29 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Management and Crop Yield (3 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (2 papers) and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (1.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (816 citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (407 citations). W.G. Sombroek has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include L.R. Oldeman, R.T.A. Hakkeling, N.H. Batjes, Freddy Nachtergaele, Andrew Warren, Ali Ayoub, L.P. van Reeuwijk, Marrit van den Berg, E. Klamt and Walter Baethgen. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Geoderma and AMBIO.
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