Birgit Wild

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Birgit Wild is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Wild has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 27 papers in Soil Science and 26 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Birgit Wild's work include Climate change and permafrost (29 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers). Birgit Wild is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (29 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers). Birgit Wild collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Sweden and Russia. Birgit Wild's co-authors include Andreas Richter, Jörg Schnecker, Wolfgang Wanek, Maria Mooshammer, Florian Hofhansl, Mounir Takriti, Anna Knoltsch, Sophie Zechmeister‐Boltenstern, Katharina Keiblinger and Lucia Fuchslueger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Wild

58 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

2014 718 citations Maria Mooshammer, Wolfgang Wanek et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Wild Austria	33	2.2k	1.7k	1.1k	980	901	62	4.2k
Jörg Schnecker Austria	29	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	737 0.7×	963 1.0×	827 0.9×	50	3.9k
Marion Schrumpf Germany	37	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	464 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	770 0.9×	104	4.5k
Olga Shibistova Germany	35	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	861 0.9×	494 0.5×	76	3.7k
Claudia M. Boot United States	21	2.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	331 0.3×	769 0.8×	765 0.8×	38	4.2k
Romain L. Barnard France	26	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	508 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	480 0.5×	42	3.9k
Jennifer L. Soong United States	23	3.6k 1.7×	2.1k 1.2×	434 0.4×	750 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	37	4.8k
David A. Lipson United States	41	2.5k 1.1×	3.4k 1.9×	2.1k 2.0×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	91	6.9k
Sarah E. Evans United States	27	2.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	382 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	586 0.7×	58	4.7k
Paul W. Hill United Kingdom	37	2.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	336 0.3×	1.4k 1.4×	992 1.1×	116	4.4k
Maria Mooshammer Austria	22	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	302 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	33	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Birgit Wild

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Fields of papers citing papers by Birgit Wild

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Wild

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Plassmann, Merle, et al.. (2025). Back to the roots: Characterizing root exudates of dominant tundra plants to improve the understanding of plant-soil interactions in a changing arctic. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 209. 109897–109897. 3 indexed citations

Ray, Nicholas E., Jannik Martens, Tommaso Tesi, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial Organic Matter Contributes to CO₂ Production From Siberian Shelf Sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(1).

Broman, Elias, Francisco J. A. Nascimento, Tommaso Tesi, et al.. (2025). Environmental Gradients, Not Geographic Boundaries, Structure Meiofaunal Communities in Siberian Seas. Environmental DNA. 7(3).

Ray, Nicholas E., Jannik Martens, Tommaso Tesi, et al.. (2024). The Role of Coastal Yedoma Deposits and Continental Shelf Sediments in the Arctic Ocean Silicon Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38(1). 2 indexed citations

Blume‐Werry, Gesche, Ellen Dorrepaal, Frida Keuper, et al.. (2023). Arctic rooting depth distribution influences modelled carbon emissions but cannot be inferred from aboveground vegetation type. New Phytologist. 240(2). 502–514. 5 indexed citations

Wild, Birgit, Nicholas E. Ray, Amelia Davies, et al.. (2023). Nitrous Oxide Dynamics in the Siberian Arctic Ocean and Vulnerability to Climate Change. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(5). 8 indexed citations

Mikutta, Robert, Birgit Wild, Leopold Sauheitl, et al.. (2023). How temperature and aridity drive lignin decomposition along a latitudinal transect in western Siberia. European Journal of Soil Science. 74(5). 4 indexed citations

Wild, Birgit, Natalia Shakhova, Oleg Dudarev, et al.. (2022). Organic matter composition and greenhouse gas production of thawing subsea permafrost in the Laptev Sea. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5057–5057. 25 indexed citations

Keuper, Frida, Birgit Wild, Matti Kummu, et al.. (2020). Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming. Nature Geoscience. 13(8). 560–565. 100 indexed citations

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Adamczyk, Bartosz, Outi‐Maaria Sietiö, Petra Straková, et al.. (2019). Plant roots increase both decomposition and stable organic matter formation in boreal forest soil. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3982–3982. 159 indexed citations

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Wild, Birgit, Ricardo Eloy Alves, Jiří Bárta, et al.. (2018). Amino acid production exceeds plant nitrogen demand in Siberian tundra. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 34002–34002. 30 indexed citations

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Wild, Birgit, Natalia Shakhova, Oleg Dudarev, et al.. (2018). Organic matter across subsea permafrost thaw horizons on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 6 indexed citations

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Wild, Birgit, Jörg Schnecker, Anna Knoltsch, et al.. (2015). Microbial nitrogen dynamics in organic and mineral soil horizons along a latitudinal transect in western Siberia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 567–582. 90 indexed citations

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Gentsch, Norman, Robert Mikutta, Ricardo Eloy Alves, et al.. (2015). Storage and transformation of organic matter fractions in cryoturbated permafrost soils across the Siberian Arctic. Biogeosciences. 12(14). 4525–4542. 78 indexed citations

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Alves, Ricardo Eloy, Jiří Bárta, Kateřina Diáková, et al.. (2014). Temperature and moisture effects on ammonia oxidizer communities in cryoturbated Arctic soils. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14788. 2 indexed citations

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Bahn, Michael, Fernando Alfredo Lattanzi, Roland Hasibeder, et al.. (2013). Responses of belowground carbon allocation dynamics to extended shading in mountain grassland. New Phytologist. 198(1). 116–126. 85 indexed citations

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Schnecker, Jörg, Birgit Wild, Lucia Fuchslueger, & Andreas Richter. (2012). A field method to store samples from temperate mountain grassland soils for analysis of phospholipid fatty acids. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 51(2). 81–83. 25 indexed citations

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Shibistova, Olga, et al.. (2012). Rate of Belowground Carbon Allocation Differs with Successional Habit of Two Afromontane Trees. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45540–e45540. 12 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, Wolfgang Wanek, Jörg Schnecker, et al.. (2011). Stoichiometric controls of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in decomposing beech leaf litter. Ecology. 93(4). 770–782. 236 indexed citations

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Wild, Birgit, et al.. (2010). Contribution of carbon fixed by Rubisco and PEPC to phloem export in the Crassulacean acid metabolism plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana. Journal of Experimental Botany. 61(5). 1375–1383. 43 indexed citations

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