2026 Nicholas M. Holden: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	48	2434	2250	4	4	207	7702
Environmental Sciences	53	4316	4134	11	11	236	8653

Overview

Nicholas M. Holden is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and focuses on research primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work engages extensively with several related subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Strategy and Management, Soil Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas notably:

Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability

Among recent papers to which they have contributed are:

Biocircularity: a Framework to Define Sustainable, Circular Bioeconomy, 2022, Circular Economy and Sustainability
The effects of grazer exclosure duration on soil microbial communities on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
Communicating Nitrogen Loss Mechanisms for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency Management, Focused on Global Wheat, 2022, Nitrogen
Soil properties and microbiome of annual and perennial cultivated grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Land Degradation and Development
Hybrid life cycle assessment of potato pulp valorisation in biocomposite production, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Asim Biswas, Jianjun Cao, Xiaofang Zhang, Jan Adamowski, and Wenhao Chen.

Their research has appeared frequently in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Sustainable Production and Consumption, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Circular Economy and Sustainability.

Nicholas M. Holden has also contributed to book publications with titles including:

Integration of environment and nutrition in life cycle assessment of food Items: opportunities and challenges (2021) published by FAO eBooks
Introduction to Biosystems Engineering (2020) published by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, Virginia Tech Libraries eBooks
Introduction to Biosystems Engineering II (2022) published by Virginia Tech Publishing eBooks

Best Publications

Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from the average Irish milk production system

J.W. Casey;N.M. Holden

319
Citations
Indices for quantitative evaluation of soil quality under grassland management

Mohammad Sadegh Askari;Nicholas M. Holden

271
Citations
Quantification of GHG emissions from sucker-beef production in Ireland

J.W. Casey;N.M. Holden

261
Citations
Reach scale floodplain inundation dynamics observed using airborne synthetic aperture radar imagery: Data analysis and modelling

Paul D. Bates;Matthew D. Wilson;Matthew S. Horritt;David C. Mason

236
Citations
Predicting the soil moisture conditions of Irish grasslands

Rogier P. Schulte;J. Diamond;K. Finkele;Nicholas M. Holden

203
Citations
Quantitative soil quality indexing of temperate arable management systems

Mohammad Sadegh Askari;Nicholas M. Holden

202
Citations
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventional, Agri-Environmental Scheme, and Organic Irish Suckler-Beef Units

J. W. Casey;N. M. Holden

200
Citations
Soil organic carbon across scales.

Sharon M. O'Rourke;Sharon M. O'Rourke;Denis A. Angers;Nicholas M. Holden;Alex B. McBratney

189
Citations
An evaluation of life cycle assessment of European milk production.

Ming-Jia Yan;James Humphreys;Nicholas M. Holden

181
Citations
A hybrid PSO/ACO algorithm for discovering classification rules in data mining

Nicholas Holden;Alex A. Freitas

176
Citations
Possible change in Irish climate and its impact on barley and potato yields

N.M. Holden;A.J. Brereton;R. Fealy;J. Sweeney

165
Citations
An assessment of model averaging to improve predictive power of portable vis-NIR and XRF for the determination of agronomic soil properties

S.M. O'Rourke;S.M. O'Rourke;U. Stockmann;N.M. Holden;A.B. McBratney

162
Citations
Biochar, compost and biochar-compost blend as options to recover nutrients and sequester carbon

Thomas L. Oldfield;Nataša Sikirica;Claudio Mondini;Guadalupe López

149
Citations
The impact of manure, straw and biochar amendments on aggregation and erosion in a hillslope Ultisol

Xinhua Peng;Q. H. Zhu;Zubin Xie;Frédéric Darboux

145
Citations
The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and the intensity of milk production in Ireland.

J. W. Casey;N. M. Holden

139
Citations
Soil Fertility in Relation to Slope Position and Agricultural Land Use: A Case Study of Umbulo Catchment in Southern Ethiopia

Awdenegest Moges;Awdenegest Moges;Nicholas M. Holden

130
Citations
An environmental analysis of options for utilising wasted food and food residue.

Thomas L. Oldfield;Eoin White;Nicholas M. Holden

127
Citations
Effect of Biochar Addition on Maize Growth and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Acidic Red Soils

Qiao-Hong Zhu;Xin-Hua Peng;Tai-Qing Huang;Zu-Bin Xie

117
Citations
Variation in soil organic carbon by slope aspect in the middle of the Qilian Mountains in the upper Heihe River Basin, China

Yanyan Qin;Qi Feng;Nicholas M. Holden;Jianjun Cao

117
Citations
Evaluation of soil structural quality using VIS-NIR spectra

Mohammad Sadegh Askari;Junfang Cui;Sharon M. O’Rourke;Sharon M. O’Rourke;Nicholas M. Holden

115
Citations
Farmers' perceptions of soil erosion and soil fertility loss in Southern Ethiopia

Awdenegest Moges;N. M. Holden

110
Citations
Evaluation of the Effect of Temperature on the Die-Off Rate for Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in Water, Soils, and Feces

X. Peng;T. Murphy;N. M. Holden

103
Citations