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Alex B. McBratney

Alex B. McBratney

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Earth Science
Australia
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
122
Citations
63218
World Ranking
38
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Alex B. McBratney is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and focuses their research within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, primarily centered on soil and environmental systems. These topics include:

  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Alex B. McBratney has contributed to numerous publications in prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Soil Security
  • Geoderma
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Geoderma Regional

Recent papers coauthored with colleagues elucidate a broad spectrum of environmental and soil science challenges, including:

  • Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale (2021), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Machine learning for digital soil mapping: Applications, challenges and suggested solutions (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Machine learning and soil sciences: a review aided by machine learning tools (2020), published in SOIL
  • The global environmental hazard of glyphosate use (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils (2022), published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

The frequent collaborators who have coauthored multiple papers with Alex B. McBratney include:

  • Budiman Minasny
  • Alexandre M.J.-C. Wadoux
  • Wartini Ng
  • Mercedes Román Dobarco
  • José Padarian

In addition to journal articles, Alex B. McBratney has contributed to book publications with Springer International Publishing. Notable titles include:

  • Soil Spectral Inference with R (2021)
  • Urban Soils (2022)

Alex B. McBratney was recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.

Best Publications

  • On digital soil mapping

    A.B McBratney;M.L Mendonça Santos;B Minasny

  • Visible, near infrared, mid infrared or combined diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for simultaneous assessment of various soil properties

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;D.J.J. Walvoort;A.B. McBratney;L.J. Janik

  • Soil carbon 4 per mille

    Budiman Minasny;Brendan P. Malone;Alex B. McBratney;Denis A. Angers

  • The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Uta Stockmann;Mark A. Adams;John W. Crawford;Damien J. Field

  • A conditioned Latin hypercube method for sampling in the presence of ancillary information

    Budiman Minasny;Alex B. McBratney

  • Future Directions of Precision Agriculture

    Alex B. McBratney;Brett Whelan;Tihomir Ancev;Johan Bouma

  • Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale

    Fiona H. M. Tang;Manfred Lenzen;Alexander McBratney;Federico Maggi

  • Choosing functions for semi‐variograms of soil properties and fitting them to sampling estimates

    A. B. McBRATNEY;R. Webster

  • The dimensions of soil security

    Alex McBratney;Damien J. Field;Andrea Koch

  • Critical review of chemometric indicators commonly used for assessing the quality of the prediction of soil attributes by NIR spectroscopy

    Véronique Bellon-Maurel;Elvira Fernandez-Ahumada;Bernard Palagos;Jean-Michel Roger

  • Further results on prediction of soil properties from terrain attributes: heterotopic cokriging and regression-kriging

    I.O.A. Odeh;I.O.A. Odeh;A.B. McBratney;D.J. Chittleborough

  • An overview of pedometric techniques for use in soil survey

    Alex B. McBratney;Inakwu O.A. Odeh;Thomas F.A. Bishop;Marian S. Dunbar

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Digital soil mapping: A brief history and some lessons

    Budiman Minasny;Alex.B. McBratney

  • Soil organic carbon prediction by hyperspectral remote sensing and field vis-NIR spectroscopy: An Australian case study

    Cécile Gomez;Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel;Alex B. McBratney

  • Digital Soil Map of the World

    Pedro A. Sanchez;Sonya Ahamed;Florence Carré;Alfred E. Hartemink

  • Application of fuzzy sets in soil science: fuzzy logic, fuzzy measurements and fuzzy decisions

    Alex.B. McBratney;Inakwu O.A. Odeh

  • Determining the composition of mineral-organic mixes using UV–vis–NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;R.N. McGlynn;A.B. McBratney

  • Mapping continuous depth functions of soil carbon storage and available water capacity

    Brendan Malone;Alexander McBratney;Budiman Minasny;G M Laslett

  • Spatial prediction of soil properties from landform attributes derived from a digital elevation model

    I.O.A. Odeha;A.B. McBratney;D.J. Chittleborough

  • From pedotransfer functions to soil inference systems

    Alex B McBratney;Budiman Minasny;Stephen R Cattle;R.Willem Vervoort

Frequent Co-Authors

Budiman Minasny
Budiman Minasny University of Sydney
Inakwu O. A. Odeh
Inakwu O. A. Odeh University of Sydney
Alfred E. Hartemink
Alfred E. Hartemink University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
R. A. Viscarra Rossel
R. A. Viscarra Rossel Curtin University
John Triantafilis
John Triantafilis University of New South Wales
Cristine L.S. Morgan
Cristine L.S. Morgan Texas A&M University
Chris Moran
Chris Moran Curtin University
Philippe Lagacherie
Philippe Lagacherie University of Montpellier
Christian Walter
Christian Walter Institut Agro, France

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