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Richard W. Bell

Richard W. Bell

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
47
Citations
8158
World Ranking
2535
National Ranking
196

Richard W. Bell 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 Richard W. Bell sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 706 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard W. Bell 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 Richard W. Bell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% 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 he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Botany

His main research concerns Agronomy, Soil water, Horticulture, Botany and Nutrient. Richard W. Bell has included themes like Oryza sativa and Pollen in his Agronomy study. His studies deal with areas such as Environmental chemistry and Sowing as well as Soil water.

His study looks at the relationship between Environmental chemistry and fields such as Boron, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. Within one scientific family, he focuses on topics pertaining to Dry matter under Horticulture, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Plant nutrition and Vegetative reproduction. His study in Nutrient is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Field experiment, Phosphorus and Shoot.

His most cited work include:

  • Dryland salinity in south-western Australia: its origins, remedies, and future research directions (138 citations)
  • Conservation agriculture for small holder rainfed farming: Opportunities and constraints of new mechanized seeding systems (104 citations)
  • Diagnosis and prediction of boron deficiency for plant production (82 citations)

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

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Agronomy, Soil water, Horticulture, Nutrient and Agroforestry. His Agronomy study is mostly concerned with Crop, Sowing, Tillage, Fertilizer and Transplanting. His studies in Tillage integrate themes in fields like No-till farming, Crop residue and Conservation agriculture.

Soil water is often connected to Irrigation in his work. His work deals with themes such as Botany and Boron, which intersect with Horticulture. His Nutrient research includes themes of Phosphorus and Crop yield.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (52.32%)
  • Soil water (26.09%)
  • Horticulture (20.58%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Agronomy (52.32%)
  • Crop (12.32%)
  • Sowing (10.58%)

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

His primary areas of study are Agronomy, Crop, Sowing, Tillage and Conservation agriculture. The various areas that Richard W. Bell examines in his Agronomy study include Soil water and Nutrient. His Crop research integrates issues from Cropping, Soil test, Growing season and Wet season.

The concepts of his Sowing study are interwoven with issues in Dry season, Fertilizer and Cultivar. His research integrates issues of No-till farming, Crop residue, Weed control and Weed in his study of Tillage. His Conservation agriculture research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Agroforestry and Mechanization.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Minimum tillage unpuddled transplanting: An alternative crop establishment strategy for rice in conservation agriculture cropping systems (35 citations)
  • Dissolved reactive phosphorus played a limited role in phosphorus transport via runoff, throughflow and leaching on contrasting cropping soils from southwest Australia. (31 citations)
  • Greenhouse gas implications of novel and conventional rice production technologies in the Eastern-Gangetic plains (22 citations)

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Agronomy

His primary scientific interests are in Agronomy, Sowing, Crop, Soil water and Tillage. The Agronomy study combines topics in areas such as Nutrient and Conservation agriculture. His work carried out in the field of Sowing brings together such families of science as Salinity, Dry matter and Conventional tillage.

His Crop study incorporates themes from Dry season, Cultivar, Growing season and Wet season. The Soil water study which covers Surface runoff that intersects with Ecosystem, Applied ecology, Environmental planning and Restoration ecology. As a part of the same scientific family, Richard W. Bell mostly works in the field of Tillage, focusing on No-till farming and, on occasion, Field capacity.

Best Publications

  • Conservation agriculture for small holder rainfed farming: Opportunities and constraints of new mechanized seeding systems

    C. Johansen;M.E. Haque;R.W. Bell;Christian Thierfelder

  • Micronutrients for Sustainable Food, Feed, Fibre and Bioenergy Production

    R.W. Bell;B. Dell

  • Dryland salinity in south-western Australia: its origins, remedies, and future research directions

    C. J. Clarke;R. J. George;R. W. Bell;T. J. Hatton

  • Diagnosis and prediction of boron deficiency for plant production

    Richard W. Bell

  • Effects of Boron Deficiency on Anther Development and Floret Fertility in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ‘Wilgoyne’)

    Longbin Huang;J. Pant;Bernie Dell;Richard W. Bell

  • Rapid Nitric Acid Digestion of Plant Material with an Open-Vessel Microwave System

    L. Huang;R. W. Bell;B. Dell;J. Woodward

  • Minimum tillage unpuddled transplanting: An alternative crop establishment strategy for rice in conservation agriculture cropping systems

    M.E. Haque;R.W. Bell;M.A. Islam;M.A. Rahman

  • Boron nutrition and chilling tolerance of warm climate crop species

    Longbin Huang;Zhengqian Ye;Richard W. Bell;Bernard Dell

  • Boron nutrition of rice in different production systems. A review

    Atique-ur-Rehman;Atique-ur-Rehman;Muhammad Farooq;Abdul Rashid;Faisal Nadeem

  • Soil boron fractions and their relationship to soil properties

    J.M. Xu;K. Wang;R.W. Bell;Y.A. Yang

  • Agronomic biofortification of zinc in rice: Influence of cultivars and zinc application methods on grain yield and zinc bioavailability

    Susmit Saha;Mahasweta Chakraborty;Dhaneshwar Padhan;Bholanath Saha

  • Boron in Soils and Plants

    R. W. Bell;B. Rerkasem

  • Landscape-scale disturbances and regeneration in semi-arid woodlands of southwestern Australia

    Colin J. Yates;Richard J. Hobbs;Richard W. Bell

  • Boron in plant and animal nutrition

    H.E. Goldbach;B. Rerkasem;Wimmer;P.H. Brown

  • Boron: an essential element for vascular plants: A comment on Lewis (2019) 'Boron: the essential element for vascular plants that never was'.

    Monika A Wimmer;Isidro Abreu;Richard W Bell;Manuela D Bienert

  • Plant density effects on growth, yield and yield components of two soybean varieties under equidistant planting arrangement

    M. Rahman;M. Hossain;R.W. Bell

  • Advances in plant and animal boron nutrition

    Fangsen Xu;Heiner E. Goldbach;Patrick H. Brown;Richard W. Bell

  • Factors Limiting the Recruitment of Eucalyptus salmonophloia in Remnant Woodlands .II. Postdispersal Seed Predation and Soil Seed Reserves

    Colin J. Yates;Colin J. Yates;Ross Taplin;Richard J. Hobbs;Richard W. Bell;Richard W. Bell

  • Fertiliser strategies for improved nutrient use efficiency on sandy soils in high rainfall regimes

    S. Sitthaphanit;V. Limpinuntana;B. Toomsan;S. Panchaban

  • Conservation Agriculture for Rice-Based Intensive Cropping by Smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain

    Richard W. Bell;Md. Enamul Haque;M. Jahiruddin;Md. Moshiur Rahman

  • Response of soil microbial activity to temperature, moisture, and litter leaching on a wetland transect during seasonal refilling

    Song Qiu;Arthur J. McComb;Richard W. Bell;Jenny A. Davis

  • Groundwater response to reforestation in the Darling Range of Western Australia

    R.W. Bell;N.J. Schofield;I.C. Loh;M.A. Bari

  • Division S-4 - Soil fertility & plant nutrition: Soil boron fractions and their relationship to soil properties

    J.M. Xu;K. Wang;R.W. Bell;Y.A. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Dell
Bernard Dell Murdoch University
Benjavan Rerkasem
Benjavan Rerkasem Chiang Mai University
Edward G. Barrett-Lennard
Edward G. Barrett-Lennard University of Western Australia
Arthur J. McComb
Arthur J. McComb Murdoch University
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Goen Ho
Goen Ho Murdoch University
Guy J. D. Kirk
Guy J. D. Kirk Cranfield University
Graham O’Hara
Graham O’Hara Murdoch University
Donald S. Gaydon
Donald S. Gaydon Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Colin J. Asher
Colin J. Asher University of Queensland

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