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Bas van Wesemael publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bas van Wesemael sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 275 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Bas van Wesemael D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bas van Wesemael sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bas van Wesemael is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Soil Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Analytical Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, including:

  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses

Bas van Wesemael has published extensively in various scientific journals. Some of the frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Geoderma
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Soil and Tillage Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent notable papers include:

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Satellite Imagery to Map Topsoil Organic Carbon Content over Cultivated Areas: An Overview, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • Improving soil organic carbon predictions from a Sentinel-2 soil composite by assessing surface conditions and uncertainties, 2022, Geoderma
  • Earth Observation Data-Driven Cropland Soil Monitoring: A Review, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Sentinel-2 Exposed Soil Composite for Soil Organic Carbon Prediction, 2021, Remote Sensing

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sabine Chabrillat
  • Asa Gholizadeh
  • Nikolaos Tziolas
  • Nikolaos Tsakiridis
  • José Alexandre Melo Demattê

Best Publications

  • Soil carbon 4 per mille

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

  • Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

    Martin Wiesmeier;Livia Urbanski;Eleanor Hobley;Birgit Lang

  • Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone ― carbon response functions as a model approach

    Christopher Poeplau;Axel Don;Lars Vesterdal;Jens Leifeld

  • Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils : a comprehensive method comparison

    Christopher Poeplau;Axel Don;Johan Six;Michael Kaiser;Michael Kaiser

  • Soil Spectroscopy: An Alternative to Wet Chemistry for Soil Monitoring

    Marco Nocita;Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Matt Aitkenhead

  • Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon at the European Scale by Visible and Near InfraRed Reflectance Spectroscopy

    Antoine Stevens;Marco Nocita;Gergely Tóth;Luca Montanarella

  • Prediction of soil organic carbon for different levels of soil moisture using Vis-NIR spectroscopy

    Marco Nocita;Antoine Stevens;Carole Noon;Bas van Wesemael

  • Laboratory, field and airborne spectroscopy for monitoring organic carbon content in agricultural soils

    Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Harm Bartholomeus;Damien Rosillon

  • Contribution of gully erosion to sediment production in cultivated lands and rangelands

    Jean Poesen;Karel Vandaele;Bas van Wesemael

  • Measuring soil organic carbon in croplands at regional scale using airborne imaging spectroscopy

    Antoine Stevens;Thomas Udelhoven;Antoine Denis;Bernard Tychon

  • Prediction of soil organic carbon content by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy using a local partial least square regression approach

    Marco Nocita;Antoine Stevens;Gergely Toth;Panos Panagos

  • Magnitude and sources of uncertainties in soil organic carbon (SOC) stock assessments at various scales.

    E. Goidts;B. Van Wesemael;M. Crucifix

  • Geomorphic threshold conditions for ephemeral gully incision

    Karel Vandaele;Jean Poesen;Jean Poesen;Gerard Govers;Gerard Govers;Bas van Wesemael

  • Evaluating the capability of the Sentinel 2 data for soil organic carbon prediction in croplands

    Fabio Castaldi;Andreas Hueni;Sabine Chabrillat;Kathrin Ward

  • A map of the topsoil organic carbon content of Europe generated by a generalized additive model

    D. de Brogniez;C. Ballabio;A. Stevens;R. J. A. Jones

  • Carbon sequestration potential in European croplands has been overestimated

    Pete Smith;Olof Andrén;Thord Karlsson;Paula Perälä

  • Carbon cycling in eroding landscapes: geomorphic controls on soil organic C pool composition and C stabilization

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Johan Six;Bas Van Wesemael;Kristof Van Oost

  • Current status, uncertainty and future needs in soil organic carbon monitoring.

    Robert Jandl;Mirco Rodeghiero;Cristina Martinez;M. Francesca Cotrufo

  • Patterns of rock fragment cover generated by tillage erosion

    Jean Poesen;Jean Poesen;Bas van Wesemael;Gerard Govers;Gerard Govers;José Martinez-Fernandez

  • Historical land use change has lowered terrestrial silica mobilization

    Eric Struyf;Adriaan Smis;Stefan Van Damme;Josette Garnier

  • Laboratory, field and airborne spectroscopy for monitoring organic carbon content in agricultural soils

    Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Harm Bartholomeus

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Kristof Van Oost
Kristof Van Oost Université Catholique de Louvain
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Olivier Evrard
Olivier Evrard University of Paris-Saclay
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Nigussie Haregeweyn
Nigussie Haregeweyn Tottori University
Charles Bielders
Charles Bielders Université Catholique de Louvain
Jan Nyssen
Jan Nyssen Ghent University
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven

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