Doris Vetterlein

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Doris Vetterlein is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Doris Vetterlein has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Plant Science, 43 papers in Soil Science and 25 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Doris Vetterlein's work include Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (49 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (33 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (25 papers). Doris Vetterlein is often cited by papers focused on Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (49 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (33 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (25 papers). Doris Vetterlein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Doris Vetterlein's co-authors include Andrea Carminati, A. Glyn Bengough, Iain M. Young, Philippe Hinsinger, Hans J. Vogel, Steffen Schlüter, Reinhold Jahn, Ulrich Weller, Sascha E. Oswald and Maik Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Doris Vetterlein

117 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Rhizosphere: biophysics, biogeochemistry and ecological relevance

2009 855 citations Doris Vetterlein et al. Plant and Soil profile →
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota

2024 52 citations Andrea Carminati, Stephan Peth et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doris Vetterlein Germany	39	3.2k	1.9k	810	613	518	119	5.2k
Mohsen Zarebanadkouki Germany	37	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	562 0.7×	482 0.8×	619 1.2×	87	3.7k
Sacha J. Mooney United Kingdom	53	4.1k 1.3×	3.2k 1.7×	1.9k 2.4×	784 1.3×	590 1.1×	202	8.6k
W. R. Whalley United Kingdom	48	3.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	1.8k 2.2×	545 0.9×	570 1.1×	157	7.3k
Andrea Carminati Germany	47	3.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	470 0.8×	1.5k 2.9×	149	6.1k
Xiaobing Liu China	44	3.1k 1.0×	3.4k 1.8×	353 0.4×	2.1k 3.4×	279 0.5×	232	7.2k
Naoise Nunan France	46	1.4k 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	755 0.9×	2.7k 4.3×	529 1.0×	94	7.0k
Stephen A. Prior United States	37	3.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	213 0.3×	673 1.1×	1.5k 2.9×	192	6.2k
Vanessa Bailey United States	32	862 0.3×	3.1k 1.6×	739 0.9×	1.9k 3.1×	814 1.6×	97	5.4k
A. J. M. Smucker United States	34	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	397 0.6×	325 0.6×	94	3.5k
Melanie A. Mayes United States	34	909 0.3×	2.6k 1.4×	343 0.4×	1.7k 2.8×	553 1.1×	94	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doris Vetterlein

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Phalempin, Maxime, et al.. (2025). Soil structure development in a five-year chronosequence of maize cropping on two contrasting soil textures. Soil and Tillage Research. 251. 106561–106561. 4 indexed citations

Phalempin, Maxime, Hannah Schneider, Eusun Han, Lingyun Cheng, & Doris Vetterlein. (2025). Designing future roots with the power of databases. Trends in Plant Science. 30(5). 439–441. 1 indexed citations

Yim, Bunlong, Eva Lippold, Eva Oburger, et al.. (2025). Drought response of the maize plant–soil–microbiome system is influenced by plant size and presence of root hairs. Annals of Botany. 136(5-6). 1013–1030. 5 indexed citations

Yim, Bunlong, Marie‐Lara Bouffaud, Doris Vetterlein, et al.. (2025). Responses of maize roots, rhizosphere enzyme kinetics and prokaryote diversity to alternating precipitation: insights from a three-year field study. Annals of Botany. 136(5-6). 1081–1099. 1 indexed citations

Phalempin, Maxime, et al.. (2023). Can we use X-ray CT to generate 3D penetration resistance data?. Geoderma. 439. 116700–116700. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Kai, Yan Chen, Ruibo Sun, et al.. (2023). Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 181. 109026–109026. 16 indexed citations

Lippold, Eva, Manuela Désirée Bienert, Marie‐Lara Bouffaud, et al.. (2022). Plant Age and Soil Texture Rather Than the Presence of Root Hairs Cause Differences in Maize Resource Allocation and Root Gene Expression in the Field. Plants. 11(21). 2883–2883. 8 indexed citations

Landl, Magdalena, Daniel Leitner, Eva Kroener, et al.. (2021). Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems. Lirias (KU Leuven). 3(2). 16 indexed citations

Vetterlein, Doris, et al.. (2021). Transcriptome sequencing analysis of maize roots reveals the effects of substrate and root hair formation in a spatial context. Plant and Soil. 478(1-2). 211–228. 12 indexed citations

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Bilyera, Nataliya, Xuechen Zhang, Jakob Santner, et al.. (2021). Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 165. 108497–108497. 42 indexed citations

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Jacquiod, Samuel, Benye Liu, Henryk Flachowsky, et al.. (2021). Root exposure to apple replant disease soil triggers local defense response and rhizoplane microbiome dysbiosis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(4). 34 indexed citations

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Phalempin, Maxime, Eva Lippold, Doris Vetterlein, & Steffen Schlüter. (2021). An improved method for the segmentation of roots from X-ray computed tomography 3D images: Rootine v.2. Plant Methods. 17(1). 39–39. 30 indexed citations

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Phalempin, Maxime, Eva Lippold, Doris Vetterlein, & Steffen Schlüter. (2021). Soil texture and structure heterogeneity predominantly governs bulk density gradients around roots. Vadose Zone Journal. 20(5). 38 indexed citations

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Lippold, Eva, Maxime Phalempin, Steffen Schlüter, & Doris Vetterlein. (2021). Does the lack of root hairs alter root system architecture of Zea mays?. Plant and Soil. 467(1-2). 267–286. 25 indexed citations

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Yim, Bunlong, Manuela Désirée Bienert, Eva Lippold, et al.. (2020). Compatibility of X-ray computed tomography with plant gene expression, rhizosphere bacterial communities and enzyme activities. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(18). 5603–5614. 19 indexed citations

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Gao, Wei, Sebastian R. G. A. Blaser, Steffen Schlüter, Jianbo Shen, & Doris Vetterlein. (2019). Effect of localised phosphorus application on root growth and soil nutrient dynamics in situ – comparison of maize (Zea mays) and faba bean (Vicia faba) at the seedling stage. Plant and Soil. 441(1-2). 469–483. 39 indexed citations

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Lucas, Maik, Steffen Schlüter, Hans J. Vogel, & Doris Vetterlein. (2019). Roots change the pore structure only if they have to - development of biopores and compaction around roots.. EGUGA. 7201. 1 indexed citations

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Vetterlein, Doris. (2018). Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organisation - a key to rhizosphere functions. EGUGA. 12088. 1 indexed citations

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Schneider, Christoph, et al.. (2014). Effect of parameter choice in root water uptake models – the arrangement of root hydraulic properties within the root architecture affects dynamics and efficiency of root water uptake. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(10). 4189–4206. 19 indexed citations

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Vetterlein, Doris, Reinhold Jahn, & Jürgen Mattusch. (2009). Comparison of corn and lupin in respect to As mobilisation, uptake and release in an arsenic contaminated floodplain soil.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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