W.G. Sombroek

50 total papers · 5.4k total citations
29 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

W.G. Sombroek is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, W.G. Sombroek has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Soil Science, 5 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in W.G. Sombroek's work include Soil Management and Crop Yield (3 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (2 papers) and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 papers). W.G. Sombroek is often cited by papers focused on Soil Management and Crop Yield (3 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (2 papers) and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 papers). W.G. Sombroek collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Brazil and Italy. W.G. Sombroek's co-authors include L.R. Oldeman, R.T.A. Hakkeling, N.H. Batjes, Freddy Nachtergaele, Andrew Warren, Ali Ayoub, E. Klamt, L.P. van Reeuwijk, Marrit van den Berg and John K. Westbrook and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Geoderma and AMBIO.

In The Last Decade

W.G. Sombroek

26 papers receiving 2.5k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. World map of the status of human-induced soil degradation: an explanatory note.
    1990 483 citations L.R. Oldeman, R.T.A. Hakkeling et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
W.G. Sombroek 1.2k 812 633 409 406 29 2.9k
Freddy Rey 1.2k 1.0× 944 1.2× 673 1.1× 394 1.0× 392 1.0× 56 2.7k
S. Mantel 815 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 814 1.3× 463 1.1× 351 0.9× 33 3.2k
Miguel Angel Ayarza 926 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 837 1.3× 471 1.2× 532 1.3× 27 2.9k
Klaus Lorenz 1.9k 1.6× 801 1.0× 901 1.4× 352 0.9× 234 0.6× 50 3.5k
Mário Guevara 787 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 869 1.4× 508 1.2× 326 0.8× 40 3.3k
Yunfan Wan 983 0.8× 986 1.2× 1.1k 1.7× 388 0.9× 386 1.0× 73 2.9k
Roland Hiederer 1.6k 1.3× 995 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 239 0.6× 213 0.5× 35 3.2k
Anwar Mohammat 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.9× 640 1.6× 333 0.8× 32 2.7k
Ilan Stavi 995 0.8× 631 0.8× 560 0.9× 295 0.7× 349 0.9× 98 2.4k
Xiaofeng Chang 1.8k 1.5× 692 0.9× 1.2k 1.9× 444 1.1× 469 1.2× 53 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by W.G. Sombroek

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Fields of papers citing papers by W.G. Sombroek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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.

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