Dani Or

31.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
439 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Dani Or is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Dani Or has authored 439 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 164 papers in Environmental Engineering and 80 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Dani Or's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (154 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (84 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (76 papers). Dani Or is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (154 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (84 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (76 papers). Dani Or collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Israel. Dani Or's co-authors include Peter Lehmann, Markus Tuller, Jon M. Wraith, Markus Berli, Scott B. Jones, Nima Shokri, S. Assouline, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Robin Tecon and Massimiliano Schwarz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Dani Or

426 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. 1999 2026 2008 2017 2005 2003 1999 2008 2013 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.
    2005 1.1k citations Markus Berli, Dani Or profile →
  2. A Review of Advances in Dielectric and Electrical Conductivity Measurement in Soils Using Time Domain Reflectometry
    2003 691 citations Scott B. Jones, Jon M. Wraith et al. profile →
  3. Adsorption and capillary condensation in porous media: Liquid retention and interfacial configurations in angular pores
    1999 533 citations Dani Or et al. profile →
  4. Characteristic lengths affecting evaporative drying of porous media
    2008 402 citations Peter Lehmann, Dani Or et al. profile →
  5. Advances in Soil Evaporation Physics—A Review
    2013 344 citations Dani Or, Peter Lehmann et al. profile →
  6. Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil
    2017 335 citations Robin Tecon, Dani Or profile →
  7. Historical increase in agricultural machinery weights enhanced soil stress levels and adversely affected soil functioning
    2019 277 citations Thomas Keller, Tino Colombi et al. profile →
  8. The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions
    2020 216 citations Dani Or et al. profile →
  9. Soil hydrology in the Earth system
    2022 189 citations Harry Vereecken, Andrea Carminati et al. profile →
  10. Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation
    2024 58 citations Peter Lehmann, Martin Baur et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dani Or Switzerland 78 8.5k 7.0k 4.2k 3.5k 2.7k 439 21.5k
Harry Vereecken Germany 81 8.3k 1.0× 13.8k 2.0× 4.8k 1.1× 4.6k 1.3× 4.5k 1.7× 794 28.1k
Jiřı́ Šimůnek United States 80 12.7k 1.5× 13.6k 1.9× 6.7k 1.6× 3.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.4× 546 26.5k
Tammo S. Steenhuis United States 78 4.0k 0.5× 6.5k 0.9× 6.1k 1.4× 4.7k 1.3× 1.8k 0.7× 518 20.2k
J. W. Hopmans United States 63 6.0k 0.7× 6.3k 0.9× 4.1k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 207 13.0k
Robert Horton United States 58 7.8k 0.9× 4.7k 0.7× 5.0k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 593 0.2× 425 16.2k
Ian D. Moore Canada 51 5.1k 0.6× 3.9k 0.6× 4.3k 1.0× 3.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.4× 359 14.9k
Martinus Th. van Genuchten United States 87 30.9k 3.6× 29.3k 4.2× 9.4k 2.2× 6.2k 1.8× 3.3k 1.2× 335 51.9k
Yakov Pachepsky United States 58 5.9k 0.7× 7.5k 1.1× 4.0k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 543 0.2× 349 15.1k
Jan Vanderborght Germany 51 3.8k 0.5× 5.3k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 280 10.3k
Per Møldrup Denmark 57 5.7k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 483 0.2× 349 11.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dani Or

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dani Or

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lehmann, Peter, Martin Baur, Sebastian Wolf, et al.. (2024). Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation. Nature. 635(8039). 631–638. 58 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Kidron, Giora J., et al.. (2024). Vapor flux induced by temperature gradient is responsible for providing liquid water to hypoliths. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 23140–23140. 1 indexed citations
3.
Breitenstein, Daniel, Ali Al‐Maktoumi, Peter Lehmann, et al.. (2023). Soil water distribution and dynamics across prescribed capillary barriers under evaporating surfaces. Biosystems Engineering. 226. 55–70. 4 indexed citations
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Or, Dani, et al.. (2023). Review of wildfire modeling considering effects on land surfaces. Earth-Science Reviews. 245. 104569–104569. 22 indexed citations
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Aminzadeh, Milad, Dani Or, Björn Stevens, Amir AghaKouchak, & Nima Shokri. (2023). Upper Bounds of Maximum Land Surface Temperatures in a Warming Climate and Limits to Plant Growth. Earth s Future. 11(9). 7 indexed citations
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Weihermüller, Lutz, Peter Lehmann, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2021). Choice of Pedotransfer Functions Matters when Simulating Soil Water Balance Fluxes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(3). 36 indexed citations
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Keller, Thomas, Tino Colombi, Siul Ruiz, et al.. (2021). Soil structure recovery following compaction: Short‐term evolution of soil physical properties in a loamy soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 85(4). 1002–1020. 41 indexed citations
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Tecon, Robin, et al.. (2018). Cell-to-cell bacterial interactions promoted by drier conditions on soil surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(39). 9791–9796. 78 indexed citations
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Schymanski, Stanislaus J. & Dani Or. (2017). Leaf-scale experiments reveal an important omission in the Penman–Monteith equation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(2). 685–706. 35 indexed citations
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Schymanski, Stanislaus J., Daniel Breitenstein, & Dani Or. (2017). Technical note: An experimental set-up to measure latent and sensible heat fluxes from (artificial) plant leaves. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(7). 3377–3400. 8 indexed citations
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Schymanski, Stanislaus J. & Dani Or. (2016). Leaf-scale experiments reveal important omission in thePenman-Monteith equation. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 3 indexed citations
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Schymanski, Stanislaus J. & Dani Or. (2015). Wind increases "evaporative demand" but reduces plant water requirements. AGUFM. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Ruiz, Siul, Dani Or, & Stanislaus J. Schymanski. (2014). Soil bioturbation by earthworms and plant roots- mechanical and energetic considerations. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Kienzler, Peter, Peter Lehmann, Amin Askarinejad, et al.. (2010). Water flow and saturation of hillslopes prone to shallow landslides. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 34(2). 209–22. 1 indexed citations
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Or, Dani, et al.. (2001). Unsaturated flow through fractured and nonwelded tuff. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2001. 1 indexed citations
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Wraith, Jon M., Dani Or, & Scott B. Jones. (2001). Dielectric Properties of Bound Water: Application to Porous Media Surface Area and Grain Moisture Determination. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 52(3). 582–585.
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Jones, Scott B. & Dani Or. (2001). Automated Frequency Domain Analysis for Extending TDR Measurement Range in Saline Soils. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 46(1). 88–91. 1 indexed citations
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Or, Dani, et al.. (1999). Frequency analysis of time-domain reflectometry (TDR) with application to dielectric spectroscopy of soil constituents. Geophysics. 64(3). 707–718. 67 indexed citations
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Or, Dani & Eyal Zadicario. (1998). Visiblity Streaming for Network-based Walkthroughs.. Graphics Interface. 1–7. 20 indexed citations
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Coelho, E. F., et al.. (1995). Avaliação de regime permanente em irrigação por gotejamento e posicionamento de sensores de umidade e de potencial matricial no bulbo molhado. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira. 30(11). 1327–1333. 1 indexed citations

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