Carsten W. Mueller

10.9k citations

157 papers · 7.5k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.05%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.5%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 91
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 86
Environmental Chemistry 33
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 24

Co-authors: Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner Gerrit Angst Carmen Höschen Carmen Hoeschen Franz Buegger Steffen A. Schweizer Alix Vidal Janet Rethemeyer
Journals: Soil Biology and Biochemistry (21 papers)Geoderma (10 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (8 papers)Global Change Biology (8 papers)Scientific Reports (7 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Denmark United States

In The Last Decade

Carsten W. Mueller

153 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Dominance of particulate organic carbon in top mineral soils in cold regions 2024 · 61 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Geoscience
2024 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2023 Nature Communications
2022 Functional Ecology
2022 Nature Communications
2021 Nature Communications
2014 Nature Communications

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1	Minerals provide divergent protection to carbon- and nitrogen-rich organic matter in fluvial sediments Communications Earth & Environment ·Naiyu Zhang, Zhifei Liu, Baozhi Lin, Jiawang Wu, Guanghui Yu, Bohao Yin, Chen‐Feng You, Fernando P. Siringan, Charlotte Thompson, Carsten W. Mueller	2025	0
2	The role of death and lysis of microbial and plant cells in the formation of soil organic matter Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·P. Nannipieri, Gerrit Angst, Carsten W. Mueller, Giacomo Pietramellara	2025	9
3	Soil drying shapes rhizosheath properties and their link with maize yields across different soils Plant and Soil ·Franziska Steiner, Shu‐Yin Tung, Andreas J. Wild, Tina Koehler, Nicolas Tyborski, Andrea Carminati, Johanna Pausch, Tillmann Lueders, Sebastian Wolfrum, Carsten W. Mueller, Alix Vidal	2025	1
4	Toward soil carbon storage: The influence of parent material and vegetation on profile-scale microbial community structure and necromass accumulation Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Yuzhu Li, Xuelian Bao, Shixin Tang, Ke‐Qing Xiao, Chengjun Ge, Hongtu Xie, Hongbo He, Carsten W. Mueller, Chao Liang	2024	25
5	Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide Nature Climate Change ·Tadeo Sáez‐Sandino, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, Antonio Gallardo, César Plaza, Pablo García‐Palacios, Emilio Guirado, Guiyao Zhou, Carsten W. Mueller, Leho Tedersoo, Thomas W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo	2024	21
6	Organic carbon loading of soils determines the fate of added fresh plant-derived organic matter Geoderma ·Tianyi Wu, Florian Wichern, Martin Wiesmeier, Franz Buegger, Lingling Shi, Michaela A. Dippold, Carmen Höschen, Carsten W. Mueller	2024	10
7	High nitrous oxide emissions from temporary flooded depressions within croplands Communications Earth & Environment ·Bo Elberling, Gyula Mate Kovács, Hans Frederik Engvej Hansen, Rasmus Fensholt, Per Ambus, Xiaoye Tong, Dimitri Gominski, Carsten W. Mueller, Daniel Poultney, Stefan Oehmcke	2023	6
8	High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia Communications Earth & Environment ·Björn Klaes, Gerhard Wörner, Katrina Kremer, Klaus Simon, Andreas Kronz, Denis Scholz, Carsten W. Mueller, Carmen Höschen, Julian Struck, Helge W. Arz, Sören Thiele‐Bruhn, Daniel Schimpf, Rolf Kilian	2022	8
9	Biocrust-linked changes in soil aggregate stability along a climatic gradient in the Chilean Coastal Range SOIL ·Nicolás Riveras-Muñoz, Steffen Seitz, Kristina Witzgall, Victoria Rodríguez, Peter Kühn, Carsten W. Mueller, Rómulo Oses, Óscar Seguel, Dirk Wagner, Thomas Scholten	2022	22
10	Microscale carbon distribution around pores and particulate organic matter varies with soil moisture regime Nature Communications ·Steffen Schlüter, Frederic Leuther, Lukas Albrecht, Carmen Hoeschen, Rüdiger Kilian, Ronny Surey, Robert Mikutta, Klaus Kaiser, Carsten W. Mueller, Hans J. Vogel Hit paper breakdown →	2022	114
11	Probing the nature of soil organic matter Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology ·Zhe Weng, Johannes Lehmann, Lukas Van Zwieten, Stephen Joseph, Bráulio S. Archanjo, Bruce C. C. Cowie, Lars Thomsen, Mark J. Tobin, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Annaleise R. Klein, Casey L. Doolette, Helen Hou, Carsten W. Mueller, Enzo Lombi, Peter M. Kopittke	2021	72
12	A review of the importance of mineral nitrogen cycling in the plant-soil-microbe system of permafrost-affected soils—changing the paradigm Environmental Research Letters ·Elisabeth Ramm, Chunyan Liu, Per Ambus, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Bin Hu, Pertti J. Martikainen, Maija E. Marushchak, Carsten W. Mueller, Heinz Rennenberg, Michael Schloter, Henri Siljanen, Carolina Voigt, Christian Werner, Christina Biasi, Michael Dannenmann	2021	51
13	Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability Journal of Ecology ·Rafaella Canessa, Liesbeth van den Brink, Alfredo Saldaña, Rodrigo S. Ríos, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Carsten W. Mueller, Isabel Prater, Katja Tielbörger, Maaike Y. Bader	2020	66
14	Pedogenic and microbial interrelation in initial soils under semiarid climate on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula region Biogeosciences ·Lars Arne Meier, Patryk Krauze, Isabel Prater, Fabian Horn, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer, Thomas Scholten, Dirk Wagner, Carsten W. Mueller, Peter Kühn	2019	26
15	Fast accrual of C and N in soil organic matter fractions following post-mining reclamation across the USA Journal of Environmental Management ·Gerrit Angst, Carsten W. Mueller, Šárka Angst, Martin Pivokonský, Jennifer Franklin, Peter D. Stahl, Jan Frouz	2018	17
16	Artificial rhizospheres: Exudate effects on soil organic carbon content, aggregation and microbial community composition in topsoil vs. subsoil EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Vera Baumert, Ina C. Meier, Stefanie Schulz, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Carsten W. Mueller	2018	1
17	Stabilization of soil organic matter by earthworms is connected with physical protection rather than with chemical changes of organic matter Geoderma ·Šárka Angst, Carsten W. Mueller, Tomáš Cajthaml, Gerrit Angst, Zuzana Lhotáková, Martin Bartuška, Alexandra Špaldoňová, Jan Frouz	2016	89
18	Methods for Visualising Active Microbial Toluene and Benzene Degraders in in Situ Microcosms Christian Schurig, Carsten W. Mueller, Carmen Hoeschen, Andrea Prager, Erika Kothe, Henrike Beck, Anja Miltner, Matthias Kaestner	2014	1
19	Enhanced ozone exposure of European beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) stimulates nitrogen mobilization from leaf litter and nitrogen accumulation in the soil Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology ·Gunda Stoelken, Karin Pritsch, Judy Simon, Carsten W. Mueller, Thorsten E. E. Grams, J. Esperschuetz, Sebastian Gayler, Franz Buegger, N. Brueggemann, Rudolf Meier, Bernd Zeller, Jana Barbro Winkler, Heinz Rennenberg	2010	9
20	Stability of Soil Carbon Fractions - Aggregation Versus Mineral Association AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Carsten W. Mueller, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner	2007	1

About Carsten W. Mueller

Carsten W. Mueller is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Geochemistry and Petrology, having authored 157 papers that have together received 7.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (86 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (33 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (24 papers), Climate change and permafrost (21 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (4.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.4k citations), Ecology (2.6k citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (376 citations) and Atmospheric Science (1.1k citations). Carsten W. Mueller has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United States. Frequent co-authors include Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Gerrit Angst, Carmen Höschen, Carmen Hoeschen, Franz Buegger, Steffen A. Schweizer, Alix Vidal, Janet Rethemeyer, Cordula Vogel and Kevin E. Mueller. Their work appears in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Geoderma, Environmental Science & Technology, Global Change Biology and Scientific Reports.

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