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Astrid Oberson

Astrid Oberson

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
52
Citations
10084
World Ranking
1907
National Ranking
38

Astrid Oberson publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Astrid Oberson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 175 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Astrid Oberson D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Astrid Oberson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Agronomy

Astrid Oberson mainly investigates Soil water, Environmental chemistry, Agronomy, Mineralization and Soil fertility. Her Soil water study incorporates themes from Nutrient, Crop rotation, Phosphate and Organic farming. Her study looks at the relationship between Nutrient and topics such as Fertilizer, which overlap with Field experiment, Extraction, Tropical soils, Nuclear chemistry and Ion-exchange resin.

Her research in Crop rotation intersects with topics in Soil classification, Soil contamination, Environmental engineering and Biogeochemical cycle. Her studies in Environmental chemistry integrate themes in fields like Mineralogy, Soil respiration, Incubation and Cycling. Astrid Oberson has researched Agronomy in several fields, including Agriculture, Agricultural productivity and Rhizosphere.

Her most cited work include:

  • Plant and microbial strategies to improve the phosphorus efficiency of agriculture (476 citations)
  • Processes governing phosphorus availability in temperate soils (403 citations)
  • Phosphorus Transformations in an Oxisol under contrasting land-use systems: The role of the soil microbial biomass (236 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Astrid Oberson focuses on Agronomy, Soil water, Environmental chemistry, Fertilizer and Manure. Her Agronomy research incorporates themes from Organic farming, Nutrient, Soil fertility and Topsoil. In Soil water, Astrid Oberson works on issues like Cycling, which are connected to Soil phosphorus.

Her Environmental chemistry research integrates issues from Sludge, Soil biology, Tropical soils, Soil organic matter and Incubation. The concepts of her Fertilizer study are interwoven with issues in Lolium multiflorum, Extraction, Nuclear chemistry, Soil pH and Mineralogy. Her Manure research focuses on Cropping system and how it relates to Field experiment and Crop rotation.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (54.78%)
  • Soil water (33.12%)
  • Environmental chemistry (23.57%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Agronomy (54.78%)
  • Environmental chemistry (23.57%)
  • Soil quality (7.01%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Agronomy, Environmental chemistry, Soil quality, Microorganism and Cropping. The study incorporates disciplines such as Residual nitrogen, Nitrogen fixation and Soil fertility in addition to Agronomy. The various areas that Astrid Oberson examines in her Environmental chemistry study include Isotopes of oxygen and Lixisol.

Her research integrates issues of Fertilizer, Organic fertilizer, Manure and Soil horizon in her study of Soil quality. Her study looks at the intersection of Cropping and topics like Field experiment with Topsoil. Astrid Oberson works mostly in the field of Crop rotation, limiting it down to topics relating to Human fertilization and, in certain cases, Soil water.

Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Residual phosphorus availability after long-term soil application of organic waste (15 citations)
  • Estimates of mean residence times of phosphorus in commonly considered inorganic soil phosphorus pools (12 citations)
  • Influence of long-term phosphorus fertilisation history on the availability and chemical nature of soil phosphorus (12 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Fertilizer

Astrid Oberson spends much of her time researching Animal science, Microorganism, Topsoil, Crop and Cycling. Her Microorganism research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Calcareous, Rhizosphere, Gluconic acid and Microbial inoculant. Her Topsoil research includes themes of Sludge, Field trial, Biodegradable waste and Soil horizon.

Astrid Oberson combines subjects such as Loam and Organic fertilizer with her study of Crop. Her study explores the link between Cycling and topics such as Environmental chemistry that cross with problems in Soil water. Her Soil water study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Abiotic component, Grassland, Incubation and Respiration.

Best Publications

  • Plant and microbial strategies to improve the phosphorus efficiency of agriculture

    Alan E. Richardson;Alan E. Richardson;Jonathan P. Lynch;Peter R. Ryan;Emmanuel Delhaize

  • Processes governing phosphorus availability in temperate soils

    E. Frossard;L. M. Condron;A. Oberson;S. Sinaj

  • Strategies and agronomic interventions to improve the phosphorus-use efficiency of farming systems

    Richard J. Simpson;Astrid Oberson;Richard A. Culvenor;Megan H. Ryan

  • Phosphorus Transformations in an Oxisol under contrasting land-use systems: The role of the soil microbial biomass

    Astrid Oberson;Dennis Keith Friesen;Idupulapati Madhusudana Rao;S. Bühler

  • Phosphorus in action : biological processes in soil phosphorus cycling

    Else K. Bünemann;Astrid Oberson;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Microbial community composition and substrate use in a highly weathered soil as affected by crop rotation and P fertilization

    E.K. Bunemann;Deborah A. Bossio;P.C. Smithson;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Microbial turnover of phosphorus in soil.

    Astrid Oberson;Erik J. Joner

  • Basal organic phosphorus mineralization in soils under different farming systems

    Fritz Oehl;Emmanuel Frossard;Andreas Fliessbach;David Dubois

  • Kinetics of microbial phosphorus uptake in cultivated soils

    Fritz Oehl;Astrid Oberson;Mirijam Probst;Andreas Fliessbach

  • Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment.

    Nelly S Raymond;Beatriz Gómez-Muñoz;Frederik J T van der Bom;Ole Nybroe

  • Rapid microbial phosphorus immobilization dominates gross phosphorus fluxes in a grassland soil with low inorganic phosphorus availability

    Else K. Bünemann;A. Oberson;Frank Liebisch;F. Keller

  • Phosphorus budget and phosphorus availability in soils under organic and conventional farming

    F. Oehl;A. Oberson;H.U. Tagmann;J.M. Besson

  • Sequential phosphorus extraction of a 33P-labeled oxisol under contrasting agricultural systems

    S. Buehler;Astrid Oberson;Idupulapati Madhusudana Rao;Dennis Keith Friesen

  • Phosphorus acquisition and cycling in crop and pasture systems in low fertility tropical soils

    D. K. Friesen;I. M. Rao;R. J. Thomas;A. Oberson

  • The Use of Tracers to Investigate Phosphate Cycling in Soil–Plant Systems

    Emmanuel Frossard;David L. Achat;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Else K. Bünemann

  • Phosphorus Dynamics in a Highly Weathered Soil as Revealed by Isotopic Labeling Techniques

    Else Katrin Bunemann;F. Steinebrunner;P. C. Smithson;E. Frossard

  • Organic Phosphorus Mineralization Studies Using Isotopic Dilution Techniques

    F. Oehl;A. Oberson;S. Sinaj;E. Frossard

  • Soil phosphorus dynamics in cropping systems managed according to conventional and biological agricultural methods

    A. Oberson;J. C. Fardeau;J. M. Besson;H. Sticher

  • Microbiological processes in soil organic phosphorus transformations in conventional and biological cropping systems

    A. Oberson;J. M. Besson;N. Maire;H. Sticher

  • Pasture degradation impacts soil phosphorus storage via changes to aggregate-associated soil organic matter in highly weathered tropical soils

    Steven J. Fonte;Maike Nesper;Django Hegglin;Jaime E. Velásquez

  • Nitrogen fixation and transfer in grass-clover leys under organic and conventional cropping systems

    A. Oberson;E. Frossard;C. Bühlmann;J. Mayer

  • Plant uptake of phosphorus and nitrogen recycled from synthetic source-separated urine.

    Christophe Bonvin;Bastian Etter;Kai M. Udert;Emmanuel Frossard

Frequent Co-Authors

Else K. Bünemann
Else K. Bünemann Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Paul Mäder
Paul Mäder Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau
Idupulapati M. Rao
Idupulapati M. Rao Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Jakob Magid
Jakob Magid University of Copenhagen
Lars Stoumann Jensen
Lars Stoumann Jensen University of Copenhagen
Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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