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Tapan Kumar Adhya

Tapan Kumar Adhya

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
49
Citations
9166
World Ranking
2262
National Ranking
57

Tapan Kumar Adhya 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 Tapan Kumar Adhya sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 167 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tapan Kumar Adhya 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 Tapan Kumar Adhya sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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
  • Bacteria

His primary areas of investigation include Agronomy, Paddy field, Methane, Greenhouse gas and Rhizosphere. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Soil water and Total organic carbon. His Paddy field research includes elements of Oryza sativa and Rainfed agriculture, Irrigation.

Tapan Kumar Adhya has researched Methane in several fields, including Nitrous oxide, Environmental engineering and Biogeochemical cycle. Tapan Kumar Adhya is studying Rhizobacteria, which is a component of Rhizosphere. His research in Rhizobacteria intersects with topics in Botany, Herbaceous plant, Germination, Plant physiology and Seedling.

His most cited work include:

  • Global change pressures on soils from land use and management. (294 citations)
  • Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils (192 citations)
  • Isolation of ACC deaminase producing PGPR from rice rhizosphere and evaluating their plant growth promoting activity under salt stress (162 citations)

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

Tapan Kumar Adhya mostly deals with Agronomy, Paddy field, Soil water, Methane and Rhizosphere. Tapan Kumar Adhya has included themes like Nitrogen fixation, Oryza sativa and Nitrification in his Agronomy study. His work in Paddy field tackles topics such as Wet season which are related to areas like Tropics.

His study in Soil water is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Environmental chemistry, Methanogenesis and Water content. His research investigates the connection between Methane and topics such as Nitrous oxide that intersect with problems in Denitrification. His Rhizosphere research integrates issues from Soil biology and Botany.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (46.51%)
  • Paddy field (31.01%)
  • Soil water (22.48%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Agriculture (7.75%)
  • Reactive nitrogen (6.20%)
  • Natural resource economics (3.10%)

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

Tapan Kumar Adhya focuses on Agriculture, Reactive nitrogen, Natural resource economics, Ecology and Greenhouse gas. His work deals with themes such as Agroforestry, Fertilizer, Surface water and Water resources, which intersect with Agriculture. His research on Surface water frequently links to adjacent areas such as Agronomy.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Cropping, Nitrogen fixation, Crop residue and Nutrient management. Paddy field, Archaea and Ecology is closely connected to Methane in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Greenhouse gas. As a part of the same scientific family, Tapan Kumar Adhya mostly works in the field of Sustainable agriculture, focusing on Soil microbiology and, on occasion, Rhizosphere.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Salinity and macrophyte drive the biogeography of the sedimentary bacterial communities in a brackish water tropical coastal lagoon. (24 citations)
  • “More crop per drop”: Exploring India's cereal water use since 2005 (19 citations)
  • Molecular ecological perspective of methanogenic archaeal community in rice agroecosystem. (16 citations)

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Bacteria

His scientific interests lie mostly in Nutrient cycle, Ecology, Community structure, Agriculture and Nitrogen cycle. The study incorporates disciplines such as Soil biology, Agroecosystem and Rhizosphere in addition to Nutrient cycle. His Salinity, Biogeochemical cycle, Brackish water and Biotic component study in the realm of Ecology interacts with subjects such as Environmental gradient.

His Biogeochemical cycle research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Ecology, Archaea, Methane, Paddy field and Biogeochemistry. His Community structure research incorporates elements of Community, Abiotic component and Botany. His work carried out in the field of Agriculture brings together such families of science as Water use, Agronomy, Irrigation, Surface water and Evapotranspiration.

Best Publications

  • Global change pressures on soils from land use and management.

    Pete Smith;Joanna Isobel House;Mercedes Bustamante;Jaroslava Sobocká

  • Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils

    P. Smith;M. F. Cotrufo;C. Rumpel;K. Paustian

  • Isolation of ACC deaminase producing PGPR from rice rhizosphere and evaluating their plant growth promoting activity under salt stress

    Himadri Bhusan Bal;Lipika Nayak;Subhasis Das;Tapan K. Adhya;Tapan K. Adhya

  • Effects of rice straw and nitrogen fertilization on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in tropical flooded soil planted with rice

    P. Bhattacharyya;K.S. Roy;S. Neogi;T.K. Adhya

  • Long-term application of compost influences microbial biomass and enzyme activities in a tropical Aeric Endoaquept planted to rice under flooded condition

    Dali Rani Nayak;Y. Jagadeesh Babu;T. K. Adhya

  • Effect of combine application of organic manure and inorganic fertilizer on methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a tropical flooded soil planted to rice

    Suvendu Das;Tapan K. Adhya

  • Potential of double-cropped rice ecology to conserve organic carbon under subtropical climate

    Biswapati Mandal;Bidisha Majumder;T. K. Adhya;P. K. Bandyopadhyay

  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision.

    Pete Smith;Christian A. Davies;Stephen Ogle;Giuliana Zanchi

  • ACC deaminase and IAA producing growth promoting bacteria from the rhizosphere soil of tropical rice plants.

    Himadri Bhusan Bal;Subhasis Das;Tushar K. Dangar;Tapan K. Adhya

  • Methane emission from flooded rice fields under irrigated conditions

    T. K. Adhya;Amarendra K. Rath;P. K. Gupta;V. R. Rao

  • Field Validation of DNDC Model for Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Rice-based Production Systems of India

    Y Jagadeesh Babu;C Li;Steve Frolking;D R Nayak

  • Methane emission from rice fields at Cuttack, India.

    T. K. Adhya;K. Bharati;S. R. Mohanty;B. Ramakrishnan

  • Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from an integrated rainfed rice-fish farming system of Eastern India.

    A. Datta;A. Datta;D.R. Nayak;D.P. Sinhababu;T.K. Adhya

  • Effect of continuous and alternate water regimes on methane efflux from rice under greenhouse conditions

    S. Mishra;A. K. Rath;T. K. Adhya;V. R. Rao

  • Dehydrogenase and invertase activities of flooded soils.

    K. Chendrayan;T.K. Adhya;N. Sethunathan

  • Influence of fertilizer management and water regime on methane emission from rice fields

    Arun Kumar Rath;B. Swain;B. Ramakrishnan;D. Panda

  • Influence of incorporation or dual cropping of Azolla on methane emission from a flooded alluvial soil planted to rice in eastern India

    K Bharati;S.R Mohanty;D.P Singh;V.R Rao

  • Hydrolysis of Selected Organophosphorus Insecticides by Two Bacteria Isolated from Flooded Soil

    T. K. Adhya;Sudhakar Barik;N. Sethunathan

  • Methane budget from paddy fields in India

    D.C. Parashar;A.P. Mitra;Prabhat K. Gupta;J. Rai

  • Combined effect of elevated CO2 and temperature on dry matter production, net assimilation rate, C and N allocations in tropical rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    K.S. Roy;P. Bhattacharyya;S. Neogi;K.S. Rao

  • Microbial Mobilization of Soil Phosphorus and Sustainable P Management in Agricultural Soils

    Tapan Kumar Adhya;Naresh Kumar;Gopal Reddy;Appa Rao Podile

  • Methane budget from paddy fields in India

    D. C. Parashar;A. P. Mitra;P. K. Gupta;J. Rai

Frequent Co-Authors

N. Sethunathan
N. Sethunathan Central Rice Research Institute
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Mark A. Sutton
Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council
Himanshu Pathak
Himanshu Pathak Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Kulamani Parida
Kulamani Parida Siksha O Anusandhan University
Saskia Keesstra
Saskia Keesstra Wageningen University & Research
Prabhat K. Gupta
Prabhat K. Gupta National Physical Laboratory
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Pratap Bhattacharyya
Pratap Bhattacharyya Indian Council of Agricultural Research
M.N.S. Swamy
M.N.S. Swamy Concordia University

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