Christian Griebler

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Griebler is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Griebler has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Ecology, 38 papers in Pollution and 37 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian Griebler's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (52 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (28 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (21 papers). Christian Griebler is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (52 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (28 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (21 papers). Christian Griebler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Christian Griebler's co-authors include Rainer U. Meckenstock, Tillmann Lueders, Maria Avramov, Hans H. Richnow, Claudia Kellermann, Michael Safinowski, Barbara Morasch, Dan L. Danielopol, Jos Notenboom and Amara Gunatilaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Christian Griebler

119 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Global groundwater warming due to climate change

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Griebler Germany	42	2.3k	1.8k	1.7k	1.0k	881	125	5.6k
Kai Uwe Totsche Germany	42	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	656 0.7×	178	6.8k
Josef Zeyer Switzerland	58	3.5k 1.5×	2.7k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	939 1.1×	184	9.2k
Aaron L. Mills United States	40	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	722 0.8×	97	6.9k
Jakob Zopfi Switzerland	37	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	607 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	633 0.7×	77	4.2k
Kirsten Küsel Germany	51	3.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.6k 2.6×	515 0.6×	188	8.2k
Brent Peyton United States	47	857 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	770 0.5×	914 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	154	5.8k
Colleen M. Hansel United States	46	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 2.5×	1.5k 1.7×	115	8.8k
Paul M. Bradley United States	50	1.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	2.6k 3.0×	220	7.2k
Mark E. Conrad United States	41	1.3k 0.6×	932 0.5×	974 0.6×	984 1.0×	583 0.7×	129	4.6k
William P. Inskeep United States	51	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	883 0.5×	3.0k 3.0×	1.1k 1.2×	135	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Griebler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Griebler

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20 of 20 papers shown

Griebler, Christian, et al.. (2025). Leaf Conditioning and Shredder Activity Shape Microbial Dynamics on Fine Particulate Organic Matter Produced During Decomposition of Different Leaf Litter in Streams. Microbial Ecology. 88(1). 18–18.

Mori, Nataša, Traian Brad, Gergely Balázs, et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

Fišer, Cene, Maja Zagmajster, Anita Jemec Kokalj, et al.. (2025). Toward sustainable irrigation practices safeguarding groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services. BioScience. 2 indexed citations

Laaha, Gregor, et al.. (2025). Increasing Trends of Shallow Groundwater Warming in Vienna's Urban Aquifers. Hydrological Processes. 39(2). 2 indexed citations

Griebler, Christian, et al.. (2025). Recharge and redox processes drive urban groundwater quality in Vienna’s shallow aquifers. Journal of Hydrology. 662. 133931–133931.

Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2024). Environmental impact of an anthropogenic groundwater temperature hotspot. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 177153–177153. 2 indexed citations

Dwivedi, Dipankar, et al.. (2023). Numerical investigations to identify environmental factors for field-scale reactive transport of pathogens at riverbank filtration sites. Advances in Water Resources. 173. 104389–104389. 5 indexed citations

Poll, Christian, Holger Pagel, Ellen Kandeler, et al.. (2022). Heavy rainfall following a summer drought stimulates soil redox dynamics and facilitates rapid and deep translocation of glyphosate in floodplain soils. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 24(5). 825–838. 6 indexed citations

Weigelhofer, Gabriele, et al.. (2022). Small rain events during drought alter sediment dissolved organic carbon leaching and respiration in intermittent stream sediments. Biogeochemistry. 159(2). 159–178. 15 indexed citations

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Braun, Alexander, Maria Avramov, Martin Elsner, et al.. (2021). Reviews and syntheses: Heterotrophic fixation of inorganic carbon – significant but invisible flux in environmental carbon cycling. Biogeosciences. 18(12). 3689–3700. 46 indexed citations

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Schelker, Jakob, et al.. (2021). Experimental desiccation indicates high moisture content maintains hyporheic biofilm processes during drought in temperate intermittent streams. Aquatic Sciences. 83(3). 10 indexed citations

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Kundu, K., et al.. (2020). Phenotypic heterogeneity as key factor for growth and survival under oligotrophic conditions. Environmental Microbiology. 22(8). 3339–3356. 16 indexed citations

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Fillinger, Lucas, et al.. (2019). The D-A-(C) index: A practical approach towards the microbiological-ecological monitoring of groundwater ecosystems. Water Research. 163. 114902–114902. 20 indexed citations

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Saccò, Mattia, Alison J. Blyth, Philip W. Bateman, et al.. (2019). New light in the dark - a proposed multidisciplinary framework for studying functional ecology of groundwater fauna. The Science of The Total Environment. 662. 963–977. 40 indexed citations

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Fillinger, Lucas, Yuxiang Zhou, Claudia Kellermann, & Christian Griebler. (2018). Non‐random processes determine the colonization of groundwater sediments by microbial communities in a pristine porous aquifer. Environmental Microbiology. 21(1). 327–342. 28 indexed citations

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Cirpka, Olaf A., et al.. (2018). Contaminant concentration versus flow velocity: drivers of biodegradation and microbial growth in groundwater model systems. Biodegradation. 29(3). 211–232. 26 indexed citations

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Fillinger, Lucas, Piotr Małoszewski, Susanne I. Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Response and recovery of a pristine groundwater ecosystem impacted by toluene contamination – A meso-scale indoor aquifer experiment. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 207. 17–30. 23 indexed citations

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Meckenstock, Rainer U., et al.. (2009). Anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH): From lab to field. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 73. 1 indexed citations

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Griebler, Christian, et al.. (2009). Thermal use of groundwater: International legislation and ecological considerations. Site cant be reached. 11963. 2 indexed citations

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Rolle, Massimo, Robert Bauer, Christian Griebler, et al.. (2008). Aerobic degradation of a toluene plume in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media. Site cant be reached. 356–363. 1 indexed citations

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