Cornélia Rumpel

26.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
259 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

Cornélia Rumpel is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornélia Rumpel has authored 259 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 184 papers in Soil Science, 84 papers in Ecology and 46 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Cornélia Rumpel's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (167 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (36 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (31 papers). Cornélia Rumpel is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (167 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (36 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (31 papers). Cornélia Rumpel collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Cornélia Rumpel's co-authors include Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Marie‐France Dignac, Daniel P. Rasse, Abad Chabbi, Karin Eusterhues, Pierre Barré, Sébastien Barot, Bruno Mary, Sébastien Fontaine and André Mariotti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Cornélia Rumpel

250 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

Stability of organic carb... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2007 2005 2010 2010 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Stability of organic carbon in deep soil layers controlled by fresh carbon supply
    2007 1.8k citations Cornélia Rumpel et al. profile →
  2. Is soil carbon mostly root carbon? Mechanisms for a specific stabilisation
    2005 1.4k citations Daniel P. Rasse, Cornélia Rumpel et al. profile →
  3. Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle
    2010 1.4k citations Cornélia Rumpel, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner profile →
  4. Fate of lignins in soils: A review
    2010 563 citations Marie‐France Dignac, Cornélia Rumpel et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
  5. Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy
    2020 469 citations Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Cornélia Rumpel et al. profile →
  6. Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils
    2015 323 citations Cornélia Rumpel et al. SOIL profile →
  7. Impact of compost, vermicompost and biochar on soil fertility, maize yield and soil erosion in Northern Vietnam: A three year mesocosm experiment
    2015 274 citations Cornélia Rumpel, Pascal Jouquet et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  8. Aligning agriculture and climate policy
    2017 234 citations Cornélia Rumpel et al. profile →
  9. The 4p1000 initiative: Opportunities, limitations and challenges for implementing soil organic carbon sequestration as a sustainable development strategy
    2019 233 citations Cornélia Rumpel, Farshad Amiraslani et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Cornélia Rumpel 11.8k 5.7k 3.0k 2.7k 2.4k 259 18.0k
Jeff Baldock 9.2k 0.8× 5.8k 1.0× 3.2k 1.1× 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 212 16.4k
Roland Bol 8.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.9× 4.1k 1.4× 3.1k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 413 15.7k
Scott X. Chang 10.5k 0.9× 5.5k 1.0× 3.1k 1.0× 5.0k 1.8× 3.0k 1.3× 532 23.3k
Claire Chenu 10.3k 0.9× 4.2k 0.7× 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 163 14.3k
Wulf Amelung 10.1k 0.9× 5.4k 0.9× 4.1k 1.4× 3.5k 1.3× 1.7k 0.7× 352 22.8k
Bruno Glaser 9.1k 0.8× 3.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 3.2k 1.2× 1.9k 0.8× 247 20.0k
Wolfgang Zech 8.6k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 2.6k 0.9× 2.8k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 266 17.5k
Roel Merckx 10.2k 0.9× 3.9k 0.7× 3.9k 1.3× 4.9k 1.8× 2.1k 0.9× 350 18.8k
K. W. T. Goulding 9.8k 0.8× 4.4k 0.8× 5.7k 1.9× 5.1k 1.9× 2.1k 0.9× 250 18.8k
William R. Horwáth 8.2k 0.7× 3.8k 0.7× 3.1k 1.0× 3.8k 1.4× 2.0k 0.8× 266 14.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cornélia Rumpel

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All Works

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Dang, Hoang X., et al.. (2025). Earthworm impacts on soil carbon storage: the importance of quantifying all drilosphere compartments. Applied Soil Ecology. 215. 106448–106448. 1 indexed citations
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Raclot, Damien, Mohamed Annabi, Guillaume Coulouma, et al.. (2025). Evidence of high carbon biodegradability in the subsoil of Mediterranean croplands. Geoderma. 455. 117212–117212.
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Calabi-Floody, Marcela, Jorge Medina, Alan E. Richardson, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Soil Carbon Sequestration with C-Rich Carrier Materials from Spent Mushroom Substrate and Composted Wheat Straw: Implications for Smart Fertilizer Design. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition. 24(4). 6691–6706. 1 indexed citations
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Rumpel, Cornélia, Еvgenia Blagodatskaya, Katja Klumpp, et al.. (2023). Is plant biomass input driving soil organic matter formation processes in grassland soil under contrasting management?. The Science of The Total Environment. 893. 164550–164550. 12 indexed citations
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Ruíz, Francisco, Matheus Sampaio Carneiro Barreto, Cornélia Rumpel, et al.. (2023). Adsorption and thermal stability of dissolved organic matter on Ca- and Mg-exchanged montmorillonite: Implications for persistence in soils and sediments. Chemical Geology. 643. 121813–121813. 12 indexed citations
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Song, Chao, et al.. (2023). Land use determines the composition and stability of organic carbon in earthworm casts under tropical conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 190. 109291–109291. 4 indexed citations
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Ruíz, Francisco, Cornélia Rumpel, Marie‐France Dignac, François Baudin, & Tiago Osório Ferreira. (2023). Combining thermal analyses and wet-chemical extractions to assess the stability of mixed-nature soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 187. 109216–109216. 3 indexed citations
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Amiraslani, Farshad, Deirdre Dragovich, Beverley Henry, & Cornélia Rumpel. (2022). The ‘net zero’ carbon needs ‘billions of zeros’ capital. But what about cheaper solutions?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 282–284. 6 indexed citations
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Bertrand, Isabelle, et al.. (2021). Spatial heterogeneity of soil quality within a Mediterranean alley cropping agroforestry system: Comparison with a monocropping system. European Journal of Soil Biology. 105. 103330–103330. 37 indexed citations
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Poblete-Grant, Patricia, Jonathan Suazo-Hernández, Leo M. Condron, et al.. (2020). Soil available P, soil organic carbon and aggregation as affected by long-term poultry manure application to Andisols under pastures in Southern Chile. Geoderma Regional. 21. e00271–e00271. 27 indexed citations
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Panettieri, Marco, Denis Courtier‐Murias, Cornélia Rumpel, et al.. (2020). Land-use perturbations in ley grassland decouple the degradation of ancient soil organic matter from the storage of newly derived carbon inputs. SOIL. 6(2). 435–451. 6 indexed citations
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Herzog, Claude, Martin Hartmann, Beat Frey, et al.. (2019). Microbial succession on decomposing root litter in a drought-prone Scots pine forest. The ISME Journal. 13(9). 2346–2362. 88 indexed citations
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Xu, Yilu, Balaji Seshadri, Nanthi Bolan, et al.. (2019). Microbial functional diversity and carbon use feedback in soils as affected by heavy metals. Environment International. 125. 478–488. 157 indexed citations
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Kupryianchyk, D., Sarah E. Hale, Andrew R. Zimmerman, et al.. (2015). Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds to a diverse suite of carbonaceous materials with emphasis on biochar. Chemosphere. 144. 879–887. 66 indexed citations
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Andriuzzi, Walter S., Phuong-Thi Ngo, Stefan Geisen, et al.. (2015). Organic matter composition and the protist and nematode communities around anecic earthworm burrows. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 52(1). 91–100. 31 indexed citations
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Calabi-Floody, Marcela, Cornélia Rumpel, & Marı́a de la Luz Mora. (2014). Stability of Soil Organic Matter in Particle Size Fractions in Top And Subsoil of Chilean Andisols. 334–334. 1 indexed citations
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Rumpel, Cornélia, Karin Eusterhues, & Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner. (2010). Non-cellulosic neutral sugar contribution to mineral associated organic matter in top- and subsoil horizons of two acid forest soils. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 8018. 2 indexed citations
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Mendez‐Millan, Mercedes, Marie‐France Dignac, Cornélia Rumpel, Daniel P. Rasse, & Sylvie Derenne. (2010). Dynamics of shoot vs. root C assessed by natural 13C abundance of their biomarkers. EGUGA. 9968. 1 indexed citations

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