Barbara Sturm

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Barbara Sturm is a scholar working on Food Science, Analytical Chemistry and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Sturm has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Food Science, 35 papers in Analytical Chemistry and 31 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Barbara Sturm's work include Food Drying and Modeling (36 papers), Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (34 papers) and Meat and Animal Product Quality (16 papers). Barbara Sturm is often cited by papers focused on Food Drying and Modeling (36 papers), Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (34 papers) and Meat and Animal Product Quality (16 papers). Barbara Sturm collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Ghana. Barbara Sturm's co-authors include Oliver Hensel, S.A. Edwards, Abozar Nasirahmadi, Joseph Kudadam Korese, Richard Pacher, Aditya Parmar, Boris Kulig, Werner Hofacker, Brigitte Stanek and Stuart Crichton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Sturm

125 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Smart integrated biorefineries in bioeconomy: A concept toward zero-waste, emission reduction, and self-sufficient energy production

2025 12 citations Nader Marzban, Marios Psarianos et al. Biofuel Research Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Sturm Germany	34	1.2k	677	535	490	457	131	3.5k
Zhenhua Zhu China	43	276 0.2×	428 0.6×	36 0.1×	71 0.1×	65 0.1×	325	6.5k
Yujun Wu China	29	205 0.2×	506 0.7×	185 0.3×	54 0.1×	48 0.1×	134	3.1k
Bin Xu China	42	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	291 0.5×	9 0.0×	56 0.1×	179	4.9k
Fei Lü China	36	920 0.8×	594 0.9×	621 1.2×	5 0.0×	1.2k 2.5×	87	3.7k
Vincenzo Musolino Italy	32	214 0.2×	362 0.5×	59 0.1×	53 0.1×	261 0.6×	136	3.3k
Xuefeng Han China	26	158 0.1×	191 0.3×	387 0.7×	174 0.4×	63 0.1×	151	2.5k
R. Paul Singh United States	45	3.8k 3.1×	1.1k 1.7×	855 1.6×	25 0.1×	9 0.0×	159	6.5k
Hyeon Tae Kim South Korea	24	148 0.1×	777 1.1×	206 0.4×	149 0.3×	10 0.0×	189	2.1k
Ahmad Banakar Iran	26	417 0.3×	624 0.9×	117 0.2×	77 0.2×	4 0.0×	90	1.9k
Juan Wang China	29	524 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	252 0.5×	7 0.0×	22 0.0×	189	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Sturm

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Sturm

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Sturm

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Barbara Sturm. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Barbara Sturm based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Barbara Sturm. Barbara Sturm is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Marzban, Nader, Marios Psarianos, Christiane Herrmann, et al.. (2025). Smart integrated biorefineries in bioeconomy: A concept toward zero-waste, emission reduction, and self-sufficient energy production. Biofuel Research Journal. 12(1). 2319–2349. 12 indexed citations breakdown →

Hoffmann, Tuany Gabriela, Ulrike Praeger, Manfred Linke, et al.. (2025). Influence of air flow rate on the cooling characteristics of a single and batch apple fruits. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 59. 103257–103257.

Hoffmann, Tuany Gabriela, Carolina Krebs de Souza, Ulrike Praeger, et al.. (2025). Challenges and future perspectives in postharvest cold storage: technological review on sustainable and efficient cold storage of fresh produce. Food Research International. 221(Pt 3). 117406–117406. 1 indexed citations

Sturm, Barbara, et al.. (2025). Mapping the most effective measures to optimize carrot slice tray drying using physics-based and Monte Carlo simulations. International Journal of Thermofluids. 27. 101221–101221.

Arefi, Arman, et al.. (2025). Interpretable domain adaptation enables robust lactic acid fermentation monitoring from waste. Results in Engineering. 29. 108477–108477.

Arefi, Arman, Barbara Sturm, & Thomas Hoffmann. (2024). Explainability of deep convolutional neural networks when it comes to NIR spectral data: A case study of starch content estimation in potato tubers. Food Control. 169. 110979–110979. 6 indexed citations

Lefsrud, Mark, et al.. (2024). Diagnosing Fungal Infection in Wheat Kernels by Integrating Spectroscopic Technology and Digital Color Imaging System: Artificial Neural Network, Principal Component Analysis and Correlation Feature Selection Techniques. Journal of Food Process Engineering. 47(11).

Marzban, Nader, Judy A. Libra, Kyoung S. Ro, et al.. (2024). Hydrochar stability: understanding the role of moisture, time and temperature in its physiochemical changes. Biochar. 6(1). 7 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Tuany Gabriela, Manfred Linke, Ulrike Praeger, et al.. (2024). Heat transfer in large bins during the apples cool-down process. International Journal of Refrigeration. 170. 60–69. 3 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Tuany Gabriela, Pramod V. Mahajan, Ulrike Praeger, et al.. (2023). Small Peltier element to detect real-time heat flux between apple and environment during postharvest storage. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 213. 108247–108247. 4 indexed citations

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Aderibigbe, Olaide Ruth, et al.. (2020). Comparative evaluation of instant 'poundo' cocoyam ( Colocasia esculenta ) and yam ( Dioscorea rotundata ) flours produced by flash and cabinet drying. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 56(3). 1482–1490. 5 indexed citations

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Crichton, Stuart, et al.. (2019). Comparative analysis of methods and model prediction performance evaluation for continuous online non-invasive quality assessment during drying of apples from two cultivars. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 18. 100461–100461. 21 indexed citations

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Forsido, Sirawdink Fikreyesus, et al.. (2019). Nutritional and sensory quality of composite extruded complementary food. Food Science & Nutrition. 7(2). 882–889. 26 indexed citations

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Aderibigbe, Olaide Ruth, et al.. (2019). Nutritional Characteristics of Four Underutilized Edible Wild Fruits of Dietary Interest in Ghana. Foods. 8(3). 104–104. 50 indexed citations

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Nasirahmadi, Abozar, Barbara Sturm, Anne-Charlotte Olsson, et al.. (2018). Automatic scoring of lateral and sternal lying posture in grouped pigs using image processing and Support Vector Machine. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 156. 475–481. 88 indexed citations

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Reay, David & Barbara Sturm. (2017). Welcome to Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (TSEP). Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 1. iii–iii. 1 indexed citations

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Lebbie, Aiah, et al.. (2017). Comparative studies of fish smoking and solar drying in the Sierra Leone artisanal fishing industry. 8(3). 40–48. 8 indexed citations

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Hensel, Oliver, et al.. (2016). Automatic detection of mounting behaviours among pigs using image analysis. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 124. 295–302. 85 indexed citations

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Hensel, Oliver, et al.. (2015). Using machine vision for investigation of changes in pig group lying patterns. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 119. 184–190. 104 indexed citations

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Hülsmann, Martin, Brigitte Stanek, Bernhard Frey, et al.. (1998). Value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and big endothelin plasma levels to predict short-term prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 32(6). 1695–1700. 86 indexed citations

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