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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Amanda Joy Ashworth

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High Impact

Soil Scientist

Also affiliated: American Sociological Association (2022); Agricultural Research Service (2016–2026); United States Department of Agriculture (2016–2025); Shenyang Agricultural University (2021); Government of the United States of America (2022–2024); Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center (2016–2021); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2013–2016); University of Missouri (2023)

35 h-index 208 pubs 3,909 cited

  • Soil
  • Animals
  • Fertilizers
  • Manure
  • Agriculture
  • Poultry
  • Phosphorus
  • Composting
  • Nitrogen
  • Ecosystem
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • United States
  • Triticum
  • Droughts
  • Chickens

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Amanda Joy Ashworth's research focuses on soil science, with a particular emphasis on soil health indicators, nutrient dynamics, and the impact of agricultural practices on soil microbial communities. Her work has investigated carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments and explored how cropping sequences and poultry litter influence microbial community structure under no-tillage conditions. Ashworth has also examined methods for evaluating aggregate stability as a measure of soil health and has studied the carbon-sensitive pedotransfer functions for plant available water.

Her research extends to the characteristics of poultry manure and litter, as well as a review of antibiotic resistance in U.S. broiler poultry systems and historical antibiotic resistance of foodborne Campylobacter. Ashworth has also conducted research on the characterization of biochar from switchgrass carbonization. She is a highly cited researcher with an h-index of 35 and has authored over 200 publications. She has received federal funding from the NSF for a collaborative research project on marine epizoic diatoms. Ashworth leads a research group at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and collaborates with several colleagues, including P. Moore, D. Philipp, Kelsey L.H. Greub, and Helen C. S. Amorim.

Metrics

  • h-index: 35
  • Publications: 208
  • Citations: 3,909

Positions

  • Soil Scientist 2016–present
    USDA-ARS ORCID
  • Soil Scientist publications 2008–2026
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Recycling waste via insect agriculture: Frass impacts on soil and plant health (2025)
    Journal of Environmental Quality DOI OpenAlex
  • Conservation management effects on soil and agronomic properties in a furrow‐irrigated corn system in east‐central Arkansas (2025)
    Agronomy Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Knowledge graph applications for identifying resilient forage systems (2025)
    Agricultural & Environmental Letters DOI OpenAlex
  • Interpreting the spatial distribution of soil properties with a physically-based distributed hydrological model (2024)
    Geoderma Regional 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Agronomic and economic productivity of summer annual forage systems under different poultry litter application methods (2024)
    Crop Forage & Turfgrass Management 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Nutrient transformations based on sampling scheme and cropping system following subsurface‐banded poultry litter (2024)
    Soil Science Society of America Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Framework to develop an open‐source forage data network to improve primary productivity and enhance system resiliency (2023)
    Agronomy Journal 4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $918,053 total

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83 Collaborators 38 Institutions 7 Countries

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