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Chris W. Watts 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 Chris W. Watts sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 97 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chris W. Watts 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 Chris W. Watts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Chris W. Watts is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with a particular focus on Soil Science, Environmental Engineering, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Soil and Unsaturated Flow.

Frequent co-authors in Chris W. Watts's publications are Johannes Lund Jensen, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Guillaume Blanchy, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, and W. R. Whalley.

Several publication venues have featured their research repeatedly. These include Geoderma, Vadose Zone Journal, Soil and Tillage Research, Near Surface Geophysics, and the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Chris W. Watts include:

  • Soil organic carbon, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and soil structural stability as affected by previous and current land-use (2020, Geoderma)
  • Soil degradation and recovery - Changes in organic matter fractions and structural stability (2020, Geoderma)
  • Short-term changes in soil pore size distribution: Impact of land use (2020, Soil and Tillage Research)
  • Time-lapse geophysical assessment of agricultural practices on soil moisture dynamics (2020, Vadose Zone Journal)
  • Accounting for heterogeneity in the θ-σ relationship: Application to wheat phenotyping using EMI (2020, Vadose Zone Journal)

Best Publications

  • Soil friability: theory, measurement and the effects of management and organic carbon content

    C. W. Watts;A. R. Dexter

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services, developing an appropriate soils framework as a basis for valuation

    D.A. Robinson;N. Hockley;D.M. Cooper;B.A. Emmett

  • The influence of organic matter in reducing the destabilization of soil by simulated tillage

    C.W. Watts;A.R. Dexter

  • Calculation of the compression index and precompression stress from soil compression test data

    A.S. Gregory;W.R. Whalley;C.W. Watts;N.R.A. Bird

  • The effect of soil strength on the yield of wheat

    W. Richard Whalley;Chris W. Watts;Andrew S. Gregory;Sacha J. Mooney

  • The effect of long-term soil management on the physical and biological resilience of a range of arable and grassland soils in England

    Andrew S. Gregory;Chris W. Watts;Bryan S. Griffiths;Paul D. Hallett

  • Relating soil C and organic matter fractions to soil structural stability

    Johannes L. Jensen;Per Schjønning;Christopher W. Watts;Bent T. Christensen

  • Deep roots and soil structure

    W. Gao;Laura Hodgkinson;K. Jin;Chris W. Watts

  • Tensile Strength and Friability

    A. R. Dexter;Chris W. Watts

  • Functional resilience of soil microbial communities depends on both soil structure and microbial community composition

    B. S. Griffiths;P. D. Hallett;H. L. Kuan;A. S. Gregory

  • In situ measurements of erosion shear stress and geotechnical shear strength of the intertidal sediments of the experimental managed realignment scheme at Tollesbury, Essex, UK

    C.W Watts;T.J Tolhurst;T.J Tolhurst;K.S Black;A.P Whitmore

  • Physical resilience of soil to field compaction and the interactions with plant growth and microbial community structure

    A. S. Gregory;C. W. Watts;W. R. Whalley;H. L. Kuan

  • The Use of Electromagnetic Induction to Monitor Changes in Soil Moisture Profiles beneath Different Wheat Genotypes

    Peter W. Shanahan;Andrew Binley;W. Richard Whalley;Christopher W. Watts

  • Soil organic carbon, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and soil structural stability as affected by previous and current land-use

    M. Redmile-Gordon;A.S. Gregory;R.P. White;C.W. Watts

  • The biological and physical stability and resilience of a selection of Scottish soils to stresses

    H. L. Kuan;P. D. Hallett;B. S. Griffiths;A. S. Gregory

  • An assessment of the vulnerability of soil structure to destabilisation during tillage. Part I. A laboratory test

    C.W. Watts;A.R. Dexter;E. Dumitru;J. Arvidsson

  • Root growth in field-grown winter wheat: Some effects of soil conditions, season and genotype.

    L. Hodgkinson;I.C. Dodd;A. Binley;R.W. Ashton

  • Influence of organic matter on rheological properties of soil

    Wibke Markgraf;Chris W. Watts;W. Richard Whalley;Tomislav Hrkac

  • Assessment of a wide span vehicle (gantry), and soil and cereal crop responses to its use in a zero traffic regime

    W.C.T. Chamen;C.W. Watts;P.R. Leede;D.J. Longstaff

  • Methods to estimate changes in soil water for phenotyping root activity in the field

    William R. Whalley;Andrew Mark Binley;C. W. Watts;Peter Shanahan

  • The role of clay, organic carbon and long-term management on mouldboard plough draught measured on the Broadbalk wheat experiment at Rothamsted

    C. W. Watts;L. J. Clark;P. R. Poulton;D. S. Powlson

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Whalley
William R. Whalley Rothamsted Research
Andrew P. Whitmore
Andrew P. Whitmore Rothamsted Research
Andrew Binley
Andrew Binley Lancaster University
Anthony R. Dexter
Anthony R. Dexter Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation
Lars J. Munkholm
Lars J. Munkholm Aarhus University
Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Malcolm J. Hawkesford Rothamsted Research
Ian C. Dodd
Ian C. Dodd Lancaster University
Bent T. Christensen
Bent T. Christensen Aarhus University
Paul D. Hallett
Paul D. Hallett University of Aberdeen
Per Schjønning
Per Schjønning Aarhus University

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