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D-Index
41
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12607
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7557
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572

William Salas 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 William Salas sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 119 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

William Salas 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 William Salas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

William Salas is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work focuses on several subfields including Plant Science, Soil Science, Education, Animal Science and Zoology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their recent publications include studies on various aspects of plant adaptability, soil treatment, and fertilization methods. Notable papers are:

  • Plant adaptability to climate change and drought stress for crop growth and production (2023) published in CABI Reviews
  • Recent and historical developments in chelated fertilizers as plant nutritional sources, their usage efficiency, and application methods (2023) published in PubMed
  • Conditioning of desert sandy soil and investigation of the ameliorative effects of poultry manure and bentonite treatment rate on plant growth (2022) published in Brazilian Journal of Biology
  • DOI Withdrawn: Plant adaptability to climate change and drought stress for crop growth and production (2023) published in CABI Reviews
  • Fitorremediación de Suelos Contaminados por Metales Pesados (2021) published in Scientific Research Journal CIDI

William Salas has worked alongside multiple frequent coauthors, including:

  • Franklin Oré Areche
  • Guillermo Gomer Cotrina Cabello
  • Alfonso Ruiz Rodríguez
  • Aqarab Husnain Gondal
  • Denis Dante Corilla Flores

Their research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with multiple papers in:

  • CABI Reviews
  • Brazilian Journal of Biology
  • GnosisWisdom
  • PubMed
  • Scientific Research Journal CIDI

William Salas has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled Data mining para determinar patrones del comportamiento de datos meteorológicos (2022), published by Instituto Universitario de Innovación Ciencia y Tecnología Inudi Perú eBooks.

The scientist's main research topics address plant and agricultural sciences, with particular attention to:

  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Agricultural Science and Fertilization
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects

Best Publications

  • Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.

    Sassan S Saatchi;Nancy L Harris;Sandra Brown;Michael A Lefsky

  • Mapping paddy rice agriculture in southern China using multi-temporal MODIS images

    Xiangming Xiao;Stephen Boles;Jiyuan Liu;Dafang Zhuang

  • Mapping paddy rice agriculture in South and Southeast Asia using multi-temporal MODIS images

    Xiangming Xiao;Stephen Boles;Steve Frolking;Changsheng Li

  • Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

    Nancy L. Harris;Sandra Brown;Stephen C. Hagen;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi

  • Physical and human dimensions of deforestation in Amazonia

    D. L. Skole;W. H. Chomentowski;W. A. Salas;A. D. Nobre

  • Observation of flooding and rice transplanting of paddy rice fields at the site to landscape scales in China using VEGETATION sensor data

    X. Xiao;S. Boles;S. Frolking;W. Salas

  • First 20 years of DNDC (DeNitrification DeComposition): Model evolution

    Sarah L. Gilhespy;Steven Anthony;Laura Cardenas;David Chadwick

  • Monitoring Rice Agriculture across Myanmar Using Time Series Sentinel-1 Assisted by Landsat-8 and PALSAR-2

    Nathan Torbick;Diya Chowdhury;William Salas;Jiaguo Qi

  • Manure-DNDC: a biogeochemical process model for quantifying greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from livestock manure systems

    Changsheng Li;William Salas;Ruihong Zhang;Charley Krauter

  • Modeling nitrate leaching with a biogeochemical model modified based on observations in a row-crop field in Iowa

    Changsheng Li;Neda Farahbakhshazad;Dan B. Jaynes;Dana L. Dinnes

  • Reduced methane emissions from large‐scale changes in water management of China's rice paddies during 1980–2000

    Changsheng Li;Jianjun Qiu;Steve Frolking;Xiangming Xiao

  • Assessing alternatives for mitigating net greenhouse gas emissions and increasing yields from rice production in China over the next twenty years.

    Changsheng Li;William Salas;Benjamin DeAngelo;Steven Rose

  • Mapping deforestation and secondary growth in Rondonia, Brazil, using imaging radar and thematic mapper data

    Eric Rignot;William A. Salas;David L. Skole

  • Modeling impacts of farming management alternatives on CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions: A case study for water management of rice agriculture of China

    Changsheng Li;Steve Frolking;Xiangming Xiao;Berrien Moore

  • Secondary Forest Age and Tropical Forest Biomass Estimation Using Thematic Mapper Imagery

    Ross F. Nelson;Daniel S. Kimes;William A. Salas;Michael Routhier

  • Fourier analysis of multi-temporal AVHRR data applied to a land cover classification

    Ludovic Andres;William A. Salas;David Skole

  • Comparing a process-based agro-ecosystem model to the IPCC methodology for developing a national inventory of N2O emissions from arable lands in China

    Changsheng Li;Yahui Zhuang;Meiqio Cao;Patrick Crill

  • Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Natural Sources

    Brian Anderson;Karen B Bartlett;Steve Frolking;Katharine Hayhoe

  • Mapping paddy rice with multitemporal ALOS/PALSAR imagery in southeast China

    Yuan Zhang;Cuizhen Wang;Jiaping Wu;Jiaguo Qi

  • Mitigation potential and costs for global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

    Robert H. Beach;Benjamin J. DeAngelo;Steven Rose;Changsheng Li

  • Agricultural land‐use in China: a comparison of area estimates from ground‐based census and satellite‐borne remote sensing

    Steve Frolking;Xiangming Xiao;Yahui Zhuang;William A Salas

Frequent Co-Authors

Changsheng Li
Changsheng Li University of New Hampshire
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Berrien Moore
Berrien Moore University of Oklahoma
David L. Skole
David L. Skole Michigan State University
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
R. Cesar Izaurralde
R. Cesar Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park
Jiyuan Liu
Jiyuan Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Nancy Lee Harris
Nancy Lee Harris World Resources Institute

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