Alexander Heim

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Heim is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Heim has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Soil Science, 9 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Heim's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers), Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (5 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (4 papers). Alexander Heim is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers), Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (5 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (4 papers). Alexander Heim collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and China. Alexander Heim's co-authors include Michael W. Schmidt, Beat Frey, Pieter Meiert Grootes, Gerald Jandl, Lorenz Schwark, Karsten Kalbitz, Klaus Kaiser, Rong Ji, Gerd Gleixner and Alexander Dreves and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Soil Science Society of America Journal and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Heim

23 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?

2008 576 citations Bernd Marschner, Sonja Brodowski et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Heim Switzerland	17	870	473	321	265	212	23	1.4k
C. Kramer Germany	11	1.2k 1.4×	814 1.7×	276 0.9×	370 1.4×	185 0.9×	12	1.7k
Sandra Spielvogel Germany	23	782 0.9×	462 1.0×	373 1.2×	197 0.7×	126 0.6×	57	1.4k
Francisco Matus Chile	22	880 1.0×	398 0.8×	352 1.1×	256 1.0×	182 0.9×	77	1.7k
Erick Zagal Chile	22	1.3k 1.5×	508 1.1×	532 1.7×	268 1.0×	248 1.2×	89	2.1k
María‐Belén Turrión Spain	22	842 1.0×	416 0.9×	263 0.8×	241 0.9×	302 1.4×	50	1.4k
Victoria B. Willett United Kingdom	8	1.1k 1.3×	657 1.4×	515 1.6×	513 1.9×	117 0.6×	9	1.8k
Mirjam Helfrich Germany	23	1.4k 1.6×	646 1.4×	246 0.8×	512 1.9×	138 0.7×	45	2.0k
Kongcao Xiao China	22	1.2k 1.4×	610 1.3×	475 1.5×	316 1.2×	110 0.5×	39	1.7k
Judith Prommer Austria	14	809 0.9×	508 1.1×	424 1.3×	194 0.7×	110 0.5×	21	1.3k
C.W. Feltham New Zealand	10	1.0k 1.2×	408 0.9×	243 0.8×	358 1.4×	116 0.5×	13	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Heim

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Heim

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Griepentrog, Marco, Samuel Bodé, Pascal Boeckx, et al.. (2013). Nitrogen deposition promotes the production of new fungal residues but retards the decomposition of old residues in forest soil fractions. Global Change Biology. 20(1). 327–340. 103 indexed citations

Lapenis, Andrei G., Gregory B. Lawrence, Alexander Heim, Chengyang Zheng, & Walter C. Shortle. (2012). Climate warming shifts carbon allocation from stemwood to roots in calcium‐depleted spruce forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 27(1). 101–107. 35 indexed citations

Abiven, Samuel, Alexander Heim, & Michael W. Schmidt. (2011). Lignin content and chemical characteristics in maize and wheat vary between plant organs and growth stages: consequences for assessing lignin dynamics in soil. Plant and Soil. 343(1-2). 369–378. 44 indexed citations

Hagedorn, Frank, Alexander Heim, Anna K. Gilgen, et al.. (2010). Summer drought reduces total and litter-derived soil CO ₂ effluxes in temperate grassland – clues from a ¹³ C litter addition experiment. Biogeosciences. 7(3). 1031–1041. 41 indexed citations

Pannatier, Elisabeth Graf, Matthias Dobbertin, Alexander Heim, et al.. (2010). Response of carbon fluxes to the 2003 heat wave and drought in three mature forests in Switzerland. Biogeochemistry. 107(1-3). 295–317. 21 indexed citations

Heim, Alexander, et al.. (2010). Forest-derived lignin biomarkers in an Australian oxisol decrease substantially after 90years of pasture. Organic Geochemistry. 41(11). 1219–1224. 8 indexed citations

Heim, Alexander, et al.. (2009). How far do experimentally elevated CO2 levels reach into the surrounding?: an example using the13C label of soil organic matter as an archive. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 4 indexed citations

Heim, Alexander, et al.. (2009). Mineral fertilization did not affect decay of old lignin and SOC in a ¹³ C-labeled arable soil over 36 years. Biogeosciences. 6(7). 1139–1148. 16 indexed citations

Heim, Alexander, et al.. (2009). How far do experimentally elevated CO₂ levels reach into the surrounding? – An example using the ¹³C label of soil organic matter as an archive. Global Change Biology. 15(6). 1598–1602. 6 indexed citations

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Heim, Alexander, L. Wehrli, Werner Eugster, & Michael W. Schmidt. (2009). Effects of sampling design on the probability to detect soil carbon stock changes at the Swiss CarboEurope site Lägeren. Geoderma. 149(3-4). 347–354. 50 indexed citations

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Saurer, Matthias, et al.. (2008). Can we use the CO₂concentrations determined by continuous‐flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry from small samples for the Keeling plot approach?. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 22(24). 4029–4034. 23 indexed citations

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Marschner, Bernd, Sonja Brodowski, Alexander Dreves, et al.. (2008). How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 171(1). 91–110. 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heim, Alexander & Michael W. Schmidt. (2006). Lignin turnover in arable soil and grassland analysed with two different labelling approaches. European Journal of Soil Science. 58(3). 599–608. 105 indexed citations

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Göttlein, Axel, Alexander Heim, A. J. Kuhn, & W. H. Schröder. (2005). In-situ application of stable isotope tracers in the rhizosphere of an oak seedling. European Journal of Forest Research. 124(2). 83–86. 8 indexed citations

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Heim, Alexander & Beat Frey. (2004). Early stage litter decomposition rates for Swiss forests. Biogeochemistry. 70(3). 299–313. 80 indexed citations

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Heim, Alexander, Ivano Brunner, Emmanuel Frossard, & Jörg Luster. (2003). Aluminum Effects on Picea abies at Low Solution Concentrations. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 67(3). 895–898. 17 indexed citations

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Küçükay, Ferit, et al.. (2001). Optimum Design of Return and Cushion Springs for Automatic Transmission Clutches. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 1. 5 indexed citations

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Göttlein, Axel, Alexander Heim, & E. Matzner. (1999). Mobilization of aluminium in the rhizosphere soil solution of growing tree roots in an acidic soil. Plant and Soil. 211(1). 41–49. 65 indexed citations

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Heim, Alexander, Jörg Luster, Ivano Brunner, Beat Frey, & Emmanuel Frossard. (1999). Effects of aluminium treatment on Norway spruce roots: Aluminium binding forms, element distribution, and release of organic substances. Plant and Soil. 216(1-2). 103–116. 53 indexed citations

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Heim, Alexander, et al.. (1997). Biomimetische Synthese von Lamellarin‐G‐trimethylether. Angewandte Chemie. 109(1-2). 158–159. 21 indexed citations

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