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José Alexandre Melo Demattê

José Alexandre Melo Demattê

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 57 3428 3277 16 16 292 12602

José Alexandre Melo Demattê publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by José Alexandre Melo Demattê between 1990 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. José Alexandre Melo Demattê published across 37 years, from 1990 to 2026, averaging 11.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 45 publications in 2022. 46 of the 424 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1990 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 45. Peak 45 publications in 2022. 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 4 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 4 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 42 publications 2022: 45 publications 2023: 41 publications 2024: 33 publications 2025: 45 publications 2026: 1 publication
1990 2026

424 publications in total across all disciplines

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José Alexandre Melo Demattê: publications per year, 1990 to 2026
Year Publications
1990 1
1991 0
1992 1
1993 4
1994 0
1995 2
1996 4
1997 0
1998 7
1999 7
2000 4
2001 2
2002 3
2003 6
2004 6
2005 2
2006 5
2007 4
2008 4
2009 8
2010 8
2011 9
2012 5
2013 16
2014 12
2015 12
2016 15
2017 4
2018 17
2019 21
2020 28
2021 42
2022 45
2023 41
2024 33
2025 45
2026 1
Total 424
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José Alexandre Melo Demattê 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 José Alexandre Melo Demattê sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 291–300 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 292 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127 292
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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José Alexandre Melo Demattê 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 José Alexandre Melo Demattê sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 57 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204 57
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

José Alexandre Melo Demattê is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively to both fields.

The scientist has a strong presence in several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Analytical Chemistry. Their work covers diverse topics such as Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Mineral Processing and Grinding, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The influence of training sample size on the accuracy of deep learning models for the prediction of soil properties with near-infrared spectroscopy data" (2020), published in SOIL
  • "Soil variability and quantification based on Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 bare soil images: A comparison" (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Bare Earth's Surface Spectra as a Proxy for Soil Resource Monitoring" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Terrain Analysis in Google Earth Engine: A Method Adapted for High-Performance Global-Scale Analysis" (2020), published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • "Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century" (2022), published in European Journal of Soil Science

José Alexandre Melo Demattê collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Raúl Roberto Poppiel, Nícolas Augusto Rosin, Danilo César de Mello, Nélida Elizabet Quiñonez Silvero, and Renan Falcioni. These collaborations have contributed to a large body of work over time.

Their work has been published frequently in several venues, with notable counts in Geoderma, Remote Sensing, CATENA, Geoderma Regional, and the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

In addition to journal articles, José Alexandre Melo Demattê has authored multiple books published by RFB Editora eBooks and Home Editora eBooks. Titles include:

  • ESTRUTURA POPULACIONAL EM BANCOS DE GERMOPLASMAS: Contextualização Histórica e Perspectivas Futuras (2025)
  • SEQUENCIAMENTO GENÔMICO APLICADO À FISIOLOGIA DE PLANTAS CULTIVADAS: Contextualização Histórica e Perspectivas Futuras (2025)
  • DESENVOLVIMENTO DE NOVAS CULTIVARES UTILIZANDO FERRAMENTAS GENÔMICAS: Perspectivas em Fisiologia de Plantas Cultivadas (2025)
  • MARCADORES MOLECULARES APLICADOS AO MELHORAMENTO DE PLANTAS: Contextualização Histórica e Perspectivas Agronômicas (2025)
  • SELEÇÃO GENÔMICA RECORRENTE EM PLANTAS CULTIVADAS: Perspectivas integradas (2025)
  • SELEÇÃO ASSISTIDA POR MARCADORES MOLECULARES APLICADA AO MELHORAMENTO DE PLANTAS CULTIVADAS (2025)

Best Publications

  • A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;T. Behrens;E. Ben-Dor;D.J. Brown

  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to study soil properties

    E. Ben-Dor;S. Chabrillat;J.A.M. Demattê;G.R. Taylor

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

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

  • Spectral Reflectance Methodology in Comparison to Traditional Soil Analysis

    Marcos Rafael Nanni;José Alexandre M. Demattê

  • Visible-NIR reflectance: a new approach on soil evaluation

    José A.M Demattê;Rogério C Campos;Marcelo C Alves;Peterson R Fiorio

  • Geospatial Soil Sensing System (GEOS3): a powerful data mining procedure to retrieve soil spectral reflectance from satellite images.

    José Alexandre Melo Demattê;Caio Troula Fongaro;Rodnei Rizzo;José Lucas Safanelli

  • Spectral libraries for quantitative analyses of tropical Brazilian soils: Comparing vis–NIR and mid-IR reflectance data

    Fabrício S. Terra;José A.M. Demattê;Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel

  • Alteration of Soil Properties through a Weathering Sequence as Evaluated by Spectral Reflectance

    José Alexandre M. Demattê;Gilberto J. Garcia

  • The spectrum-based learner: A new local approach for modeling soil vis–NIR spectra of complex datasets

    Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Thosten Behrens;Karsten Schmidt;Antoine Stevens

  • Imaging Spectrometry for Soil Applications

    E. Ben‐Dor;R.G. Taylor;J. Hill;J.A.M. Demattê

  • Improving the prediction performance of a large tropical vis-NIR spectroscopic soil library from Brazil by clustering into smaller subsets or use of data mining calibration techniques

    S. R. Araújo;J. Wetterlind;J. A. M. Demattê;B. Stenberg

  • Soil spectral library and its use in soil classification

    Henrique Bellinaso;José Alexandre Melo Demattê;Suzana Araújo Romeiro

  • Spectral pedology: A new perspective on evaluation of soils along pedogenetic alterations

    José A.M. Demattê;Fabrício da Silva Terra

  • The Brazilian Soil Spectral Library (BSSL): A general view, application and challenges

    José A.M. Demattê;André Carnieletto Dotto;Ariane F.S. Paiva;Marcus V. Sato

  • Soil classification using visible/near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectra from multiple depths

    G.M. Vasques;J.A.M. Demattê;Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel;L. Ramírez-López;L. Ramírez-López;L. Ramírez-López

  • Sampling optimal calibration sets in soil infrared spectroscopy

    Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Karsten Schmidt;Thorsten Behrens;Bas van Wesemael

  • Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century

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  • Soil variability and quantification based on Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 bare soil images: A comparison

    Nélida Elizabet Quiñonez Silvero;José Alexandre Melo Demattê;Merilyn Taynara Accorsi Amorim;Natasha Valadares dos Santos

  • Bare Earth's Surface Spectra as a Proxy for Soil Resource Monitoring

    José A M Demattê;José Lucas Safanelli;Raul Roberto Poppiel;Rodnei Rizzo

  • Determining soil water status and other soil characteristics by spectral proximal sensing

    J.A.M. Demattê;Antonio A. Sousa;Marcelo C. Alves;Marcos R. Nanni

  • Optimum size in grid soil sampling for variable rate application in site-specific management

    Marcos Rafael Nanni;Fabrício Pinheiro Povh;José Alexandre Melo Demattê;Roney Berti de Oliveira

  • Multi-Temporal Satellite Images on Topsoil Attribute Quantification and the Relationship with Soil Classes and Geology

    Bruna Cristina Gallo;Jose Alexandre Melo Demattê;Rodnei Rizzo;José Lucas Safanelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Eyal Ben-Dor
Eyal Ben-Dor Tel Aviv University
Nilton Curi
Nilton Curi Federal University of Lavras
Shamsollah Ayoubi
Shamsollah Ayoubi Isfahan University of Technology
Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri
Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri Universidade de São Paulo
Thorsten Behrens
Thorsten Behrens University of Tübingen
R. A. Viscarra Rossel
R. A. Viscarra Rossel Curtin University
Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt University of Tübingen
Harm Bartholomeus
Harm Bartholomeus Wageningen University & Research
Bas van Wesemael
Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain
Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú Alleoni
Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú Alleoni Universidade de São Paulo

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