Lucia Helena Cunha dos Anjos

@ufrrj.br

Prof. Ph.D.
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Has experience in Agronomy, focusing on Soil Genesis, Morphology and Classification, Soil Management, Soil Organic Matter, and Ethnopedology. Member of SSSA since 1979, and Head of Soil in Space and Time Division of Brazilian Soil Science Society, from 2011 to July 2019. Member of IUSS WG for developing the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Innovation in Agriculture (UFRRJ and Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto - UNRC), Brasil-Argentina, from 2009 to 2016. Organizing committee of 21st World Congress of Soil Science, held in Rio in August 2018. Member of the National Executive Committee of PronaSolos (MAPA), 2020 to July 2021. Expert member of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) - FAO/ Global Soil Partnership (GSP), 2018 - 2025. Lead of ITPS working group - Black Soils Report, 2020_2022. President of Brazilian Soil Science Society (SBCS), 2019 to 2023.

EDUCATION

Graduate in Agronomy from Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ, Master Science in Agronomy from UFRRJ, and Ph.D and Pos-doctorate in Agronomy - Soil Science from Purdue University, USA.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Multidisciplinary, General Earth and Planetary Sciences
152

Scopus Publications

19151

Scholar Citations

45

Scholar h-index

167

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Anthropic soils in SiBCS and WRB: Review of criteria and conceptualization of the Anthropic horizon
    FR Cordeiro, A Fontana, LHC Anjos, WG Teixeira
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 50 (spe1), e0250048 , 2026
    2026
  • Exchangeable cations determined by different methods: Implications for soil classification and evaluation
    A Fontana, LHC Anjos, VP Almeida, DLK Kempner, TZ Horst, ...
    Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo 50, - , 2026
    2026
  • Anthropogenic soils of Sambaqui middens in Maranhão, Brazil: P forms, genesis and classification
    AS Alves, MG Pereira, MS Farias Filho, MS Carvalho, AMG Ribeiro, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 50 (spe1), e0250036 , 2026
    2026
  • USE OF THE NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) IN MAPPING LAND COVER CHANGES IN MINING AREAS IN THE SERTÃO OF PARAÍBA.
    JC de Amorim, DD de Araújo Ferreira, AC de Souza Ferreira, ...
    Environmental & Social Management Journal/Revista de Gestão Social e … , 2025
    2025
  • Atlantic Forest Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics: Remote Sensing and Micrometeorological Perspective
    RO de Santana, RC Delgado, HS Wanderley, RS de Souza, MG Pereira, ...
    Rangeland Ecology & Management 101, 1-12 , 2025
    2025
  • Espodossolos of Brazil: A review of structure and composition of classes
    AR Menezes, A Fontana, LHC Anjos
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 49, e0240117 , 2025
    2025
  • Espodossolos in Brazil: A review of the criteria and conceptualization of the spodic B horizons
    AR Menezes, A Fontana, LHC Anjos
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 49, e0240116 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Classes de solos do estado do Maranhão.
    MG PEREIRA, LHC dos ANJOS, MB SILVA, ML MENDONÇA-SANTOS, ...
    2025
  • Distribuição das substâncias húmicas e a relação com as propriedades químicas em horizontes diagnósticos superficiais de solos brasileiros.
    EP FERREIRA, A FONTANA, MG PEREIRA, VM BENITES, ...
    2025
  • Espodossolos in Brazil: a review of the criteria and conceptualization of the spodic B horizons.
    AR de Menezes, A Fontana, LHC dos Anjos
    2025
  • Saturated hydraulic conductivity and steady-state infiltration rate database for Brazilian soils
    MV Ottoni, WG Teixeira, AMH Reis, LG Pimentel, LR Souza, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 49, e0240003 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 13
  • Importância e aplicações do nível de subgrupo do Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação de Solos-SiBCS.
    HG dos SANTOS, LHC dos ANJOS, VA de OLIVEIRA, PKT JACOMINE, ...
    2025
  • Humic fractions as support for the classification of high-mountain Organossolos in the southeast of Brazil
    MM Ziviani, LH Silva, JPC Scott, AS Alves, LASR Pinto, MS Motta, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 48, e0240005 , 2024
    2024
  • Análise espacial da estrutura da paisagem no entorno da Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico (ARIE) Floresta da Cicuta, sul do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    MFV Junior, ERP Junior, WK de Freitas, LHC dos Anjos
    REVISTA DELOS 17 (62), e3014-e3014 , 2024
    2024
  • Drivers of carbon stabilization and sequestration in Brazil’s black soils
    CRP Junior, LP Canisares, MC Abreu, GB Lyra, AP de Oliveira, ...
    Catena 246, 108451 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Status of the World's Soils
    P Smith, RM Poch, DA Lobb, R Bhattacharyya, G Alloush, GD Eudoxie, ...
    Annual review of environment and resources 49 (1), 73-104 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 143
  • Aerogeophysical Data to Modeling Soil Properties: A Study Case in Bom Jardim—RJ
    BP Bastos, HSK Pinheiro, W de Carvalho Junior, LHC dos Anjos
    Pedometrics in Brazil, 159-170 , 2024
    2024
  • MultiSoils: A Digital Platform for Information Search and Project Management in Soil Science
    MB Ceddia, EFM Pinheiro, JP Larangeira, J de Abreu Soares, RC Mauro, ...
    Pedometrics in Brazil, 1-14 , 2024
    2024
  • Aerogeophysical Data to Modeling Soil Properties: A Study Case in Bom
    W de Carvalho Junior, LHC dos Anjos
    Pedometrics in Brazil, 159 , 2024
    2024
  • Proximal sensor characterization of Haitian agricultural soils: A case study in the Central Plateau
    R Cean, M Mancini, SHG Silva, N Bakr, S Chakraborty, B Li, A Acree, ...
    Journal of South American Earth Sciences 143, 105007 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação de Solos
    HG SANTOS, PKT JACOMINE, LHC ANJOS, VÁ OLIVEIRA, ...
    2018.0
    Citations: 9605
  • World reference base for soil resources
    FAO ISRIC
    World soil resources reports 84 , 1998
    1998.0
    Citations: 1838
  • Brazilian Soil Classification System
    HG SANTOS, PKT JACOMINE, LHC ANJOS, VÁ OLIVEIRA, ...
    2018.0
    Citations: 464
  • Aggregate distribution and soil organic matter under different tillage systems for vegetable crops in a Red Latosol from Brazil
    EFM Pinheiro, MG Pereira, LHC Anjos
    Soil and Tillage research 77 (1), 79-84 , 2004
    2004.0
    Citations: 347
  • Agregação, carbono e nitrogênio em agregados do solo sob plantio direto com integração lavoura-pecuária
    A Loss, MG Pereira, SG Giácomo, A Perin, LHC Anjos
    Pesquisa agropecuária brasileira 46 (10), 1269-1276 , 2011
    2011.0
    Citations: 187
  • The Brazilian soil spectral library (BSSL): A general view, application and challenges
    JAM Demattê, AC Dotto, AFS Paiva, MV Sato, RSD Dalmolin, ...
    Geoderma 354, 113793 , 2019
    2019.0
    Citations: 174
  • Do more detailed environmental covariates deliver more accurate soil maps?
    A Samuel-Rosa, GBM Heuvelink, GM Vasques, LHC Anjos
    Geoderma 243, 214-227 , 2015
    2015.0
    Citations: 160
  • Brazilian system of soil classification
    HG Santos, PKT Jacomine, LHC Anjos, VA Oliveira, JF Lumbreras, ...
    Rio de Janeiro: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária , 2018
    2018.0
    Citations: 153
  • Topography and spatial variability of soil physical properties
    MB Ceddia, SR Vieira, ALO Villela, LS Mota, LHC Anjos, DF Carvalho
    Scientia Agricola 66 (3), 338-352 , 2009
    2009.0
    Citations: 147
  • Status of the World's Soils
    P Smith, RM Poch, DA Lobb, R Bhattacharyya, G Alloush, GD Eudoxie, ...
    Annual review of environment and resources 49 (1), 73-104 , 2024
    2024.0
    Citations: 143
  • Dynamics of soil aggregation and organic carbon fractions over 23 years of no-till management
    C dos Reis Ferreira, EC da Silva Neto, MG Pereira, ...
    Soil and Tillage Research 198, 104533 , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 136
  • Proposição de valores de referência para a concentração natural de metais pesados em solos brasileiros
    FS Fadigas, N Sobrinho, A MB, N Mazur, LHC dos Anjos, AA Freixo
    Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental 10, 699-705 , 2006
    2006.0
    Citations: 114
  • Propriedades químicas e biológicas de solo de tabuleiro cultivado com cana-de-açúcar com e sem queima da palhada
    HNS Mendonza, E Lima, LHC Anjos, LA Silva, MB Ceddia, MVM Antunes
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 24 (1), 201-207 , 2000
    2000.0
    Citations: 112
  • JF (2018)
    HG Santos, PKT Jacomine, LHC Anjos, VA Oliveira, JF Lumbreras, ...
    Sistema brasileiro de classificação de solos 5 , 0
    Citations: 108
  • Relação entre acidez e outros atributos químicos em solos com teores elevados de matéria orgânica
    AG Ebeling, LHC Anjos, DV Perez, MG Pereira, GS Valladares
    Bragantia 67 (2), 429-439 , 2008
    2008.0
    Citations: 100
  • Adsorção de fósforo em solos de argila de atividade baixa
    GS Valladares, MG Pereira, LHC Anjos
    Bragantia 62 (1), 111-118 , 2003
    2003.0
    Citations: 94
  • Concentrações naturais de metais pesados em algumas classes de solos brasileiros
    FS Fadigas, NMB Amaral-Sobrinho, N Mazur, LHC Anjos, AA Freixo
    Bragantia 61 (2), 151-159 , 2002
    2002.0
    Citations: 92
  • Sistemas de colheita da cana-de-açúcar e alterações nas propriedades físicas de um solo Podzólico Amarelo no Estado do Espírito Santo
    MB Ceddia, LHC Anjos, E Lima, A Ravelli Neto, LA Silva
    Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 34, 1467-1473 , 1999
    1999.0
    Citations: 92
  • Análise dos componentes principais e métodos multicritério ordinais no estudo de Organossolos e solos afins
    GS Valladares, EG Gomes, JCCB Soares de Mello, MG Pereira, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 32, 285-296 , 2008
    2008.0
    Citations: 88
  • Macrofauna edáfica em estádios sucessionais de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual e pastagem mista em Pinheiral (RJ): Rio de Janeiro State
    CEG Menezes, MEF Correia, MG Pereira, I Batista, KM Rodrigues, ...
    Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 33, 1647-1656 , 2009
    2009.0
    Citations: 86