Benjamin Wolf

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Wolf is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Wolf has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Soil Science, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Wolf's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (40 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (15 papers). Benjamin Wolf is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (40 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (15 papers). Benjamin Wolf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Switzerland. Benjamin Wolf's co-authors include Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Ralf Kiese, Nicolas Brüggemann, Xunhua Zheng, Zhisheng Yao, Michael Dannenmann, Weiwei Chen, Joachim Mohn, Longlong Xia and Deli Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Wolf

80 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A comprehensive system of leaf analyses and its use for diagnosing crop nutrient status

1982 875 citations Benjamin Wolf profile →
Trade‐offs between soil carbon sequestration and reactive nitrogen losses under straw return in global agroecosystems

2018 374 citations Longlong Xia, Shu Kee Lam et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Wolf Germany	35	2.2k	1.6k	1.2k	1.0k	920	84	4.9k
Vanessa Bailey United States	32	3.1k 1.4×	862 0.5×	1.9k 1.6×	814 0.8×	878 1.0×	97	5.4k
Pierre Barré France	48	4.2k 1.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	649 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	154	8.6k
Pierre-André Jacinthe United States	37	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	724 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	92	5.0k
Ryusuke Hatano Japan	40	2.8k 1.3×	814 0.5×	2.1k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	237	6.0k
Xingchang Zhang China	38	3.6k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.4×	511 0.5×	819 0.9×	131	5.3k
Sylvie A. Quideau Canada	35	1.9k 0.8×	616 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	947 0.9×	499 0.5×	134	3.9k
Paul W. Hill United Kingdom	37	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	365 0.4×	992 1.1×	116	4.4k
G. J. D. Kirk United Kingdom	43	2.4k 1.1×	3.5k 2.1×	1.2k 1.0×	506 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	133	6.7k
Andreas Fangmeier Germany	41	2.1k 1.0×	3.7k 2.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	920 1.0×	140	7.2k
Bo Zhu China	36	2.9k 1.3×	919 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	518 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	184	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Wolf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Wolf

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Bauters, Marijn, Matti Barthel, Johan Six, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variability of CO ₂ , N ₂ O and CH ₄ fluxes from a semi-deciduous tropical forest soil in the Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 22(6). 1529–1542.

Khan, Fawad, Michael Dannenmann, Rainer Gasché, et al.. (2025). Effect of preceding integrated and organic farming on ¹⁵ N recovery and the N balance, including emissions of NH ₃ , N ₂ O, and N ₂ and leaching of NO ₃ ⁻. Biogeosciences. 22(18). 5081–5102.

Dyck, Ondrej, Kai Xiao, Benjamin Wolf, et al.. (2025). A Versatile Side Entry Laser System for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(5). 1 indexed citations

Hauschild, Michael, et al.. (2024). Regulating soil microclimate and greenhouse gas emissions with rye mulch in cabbage cultivation. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 367. 108951–108951. 9 indexed citations

García-Franco, Noelia, Martin Wiesmeier, Bernd J. Berauer, et al.. (2024). Rapid loss of organic carbon and soil structure in mountainous grassland topsoils induced by simulated climate change. Geoderma. 442. 116807–116807. 8 indexed citations

Wolf, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Small-Scale Wind Tunnel for the Investigation of the Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Performance of Building Materials. Experimental Techniques. 48(3). 485–499.

Leitner, Sonja, et al.. (2021). Enteric methane emission estimates for Kenyan cattle in a nighttime enclosure using a backward Lagrangian Stochastic dispersion technique. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 147(3-4). 1091–1103. 6 indexed citations

Merbold, Lutz, Charlotte Decock, Werner Eugster, et al.. (2021). Are there memory effects on greenhouse gas emissions (CO ₂ , N ₂ O and CH ₄ ) following grassland restoration?. Biogeosciences. 18(4). 1481–1498. 12 indexed citations

Xia, Longlong, Shu Kee Lam, Benjamin Wolf, et al.. (2018). Trade‐offs between soil carbon sequestration and reactive nitrogen losses under straw return in global agroecosystems. Global Change Biology. 24(12). 5919–5932. 374 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harris, Eliza, Thomas Ladreiter‐Knauss, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Benjamin Wolf, & Michael Bahn. (2018). Land-use and abandonment alters methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in mountain grasslands. The Science of The Total Environment. 628-629. 997–1008. 16 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xunhua, et al.. (2017). The Potential of Soil Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide Exchanges of Differently Grazed Semiarid Steppes : Based on Soil Core Experiment. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 26(4). 2571. 2 indexed citations

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Díaz‐Pinés, Eugenio, Haiyan Lu, Jianyu Fu, et al.. (2016). Combined Effect of Management Intensity and Climate Change on the Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Balance of Montane Grassland Ecosystems. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Díaz‐Pinés, Eugenio, Michael Dannenmann, Judith Braun, et al.. (2016). Nitrate leaching and soil nitrous oxide emissions diminish with time in a hybrid poplar short‐rotation coppice in southern Germany. GCB Bioenergy. 9(3). 613–626. 23 indexed citations

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Wolf, Benjamin, Lutz Merbold, Charlotte Decock, et al.. (2015). First on-line isotopic characterization of N ₂ O emitted from intensively managed grassland. 3 indexed citations

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Wolf, Benjamin, Lutz Merbold, Charlotte Decock, et al.. (2015). First on-line isotopic characterization of N ₂ O above intensively managed grassland. Biogeosciences. 12(8). 2517–2531. 45 indexed citations

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Díaz‐Pinés, Eugenio, Benjamin Wolf, Ralf Kiese, & Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl. (2012). Towards accurate assessments of CH4 and N2O soil-atmosphere exchange rates with the combination of automated systems and new detection techniques. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7171. 1 indexed citations

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Luo, G. J., et al.. (2012). Decadal variability of soil CO2, NO, N2O, and CH4 fluxes at the H¨ oglwald Forest, Germany. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 8843. 2 indexed citations

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Merceron, Agathe, et al.. (2010). When Data Exploration and Data Mining meet while Analysing Usage Data of a Course. Educational Data Mining. 305–306. 1 indexed citations

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Merceron, Agathe, et al.. (2010). Leichtere Datenanalyse zur Optimierung der Lehre am Beispiel Moodle. DeLFI. 215–226. 2 indexed citations

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Merceron, Agathe, et al.. (2010). A Data Model to Ease Analysis and Mining of Educational Data.. Educational Data Mining. 131–140. 36 indexed citations

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