Gerty Gielen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Gerty Gielen is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerty Gielen has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Pollution, 8 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 7 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Gerty Gielen's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (8 papers), Heavy metals in environment (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers). Gerty Gielen is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (8 papers), Heavy metals in environment (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers). Gerty Gielen collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, China and Australia. Gerty Gielen's co-authors include Hailong Wang, Nanthi Bolan, Xiaokai Zhang, Xing Yang, Song Xu, Zhaoliang Song, Kouping Lu, Yong Sik Ok, Dan Liu and Guodong Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Gerty Gielen

26 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Effect of bamboo and rice straw biochars on the mobility ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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. Effect of bamboo and rice straw biochars on the mobility and redistribution of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) in contaminated soil
    2016 562 citations Kouping Lu, Xing Yang et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →

Peers

Gerty Gielen
Zygmunt M. Gusiatin Poland
Paramsothy Jeyakumar New Zealand
Hamada Abdelrahman Egypt
Ninglin Luo China
Xiaokai Zhang China
Muhammad Azeem Pakistan
Tatiana Bauer Russia
Shunan Zheng China
Yasser M. Awad South Korea
Changyin Tan China
Zygmunt M. Gusiatin Poland
Gerty Gielen
Citations per year, relative to Gerty Gielen Gerty Gielen (= 1×) peers Zygmunt M. Gusiatin

Countries citing papers authored by Gerty Gielen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerty Gielen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gerty Gielen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gerty Gielen. The network helps show where Gerty Gielen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerty Gielen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerty Gielen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerty Gielen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gerty Gielen. Gerty Gielen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kim, Nicholas, Patrick J. Biggs, Jacqui Horswell, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance in Bacteria from Contaminated Agricultural Soil: Insights from a New Zealand Airstrip. Antibiotics. 14(2). 192–192. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Nick, Patrick J. Biggs, Jacqui Horswell, et al.. (2023). Co-Selection of Bacterial Metal and Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Laboratory Microcosms. Antibiotics. 12(4). 772–772. 3 indexed citations
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Gielen, Gerty, et al.. (2022). Hydrothermal conversion of toilet waste: effect of processing conditions on gas phase emissions. Heliyon. 8(6). e09708–e09708. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Nick, Jacqui Horswell, Gerty Gielen, et al.. (2022). Co-Selection of Heavy Metal and Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Bacteria from Agricultural Soils in New Zealand. Sustainability. 14(3). 1790–1790. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Tao, Jingzi Beiyuan, Gerty Gielen, et al.. (2020). Optimizing extraction procedures for better removal of potentially toxic elements during EDTA-assisted soil washing. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 20(9). 3417–3426. 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Hanbo, Xing Yang, Gerty Gielen, et al.. (2019). Effect of biochars on the bioavailability of cadmium and di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate to Brassica chinensis L. in contaminated soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 678. 43–52. 87 indexed citations
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Dai, Wei, Keli Zhao, Weijun Fu, et al.. (2018). Spatial variation of organic carbon density in topsoils of a typical subtropical forest, southeastern China. CATENA. 167. 181–189. 57 indexed citations
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Lu, Kouping, Xing Yang, Gerty Gielen, et al.. (2016). Effect of bamboo and rice straw biochars on the mobility and redistribution of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) in contaminated soil. Journal of Environmental Management. 186(Pt 2). 285–292. 562 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gielen, Gerty, Andrew P. van Schaik, Grant L. Northcott, & Jacqui Horswell. (2016). Effect of copper and zinc on microbial tolerance to triclosan in two soil types. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 16(7). 1944–1959. 2 indexed citations
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Xue, Jianming, Mark O. Kimberley, Craig Ross, et al.. (2015). Ecological impacts of long-term application of biosolids to a radiata pine plantation. The Science of The Total Environment. 530-531. 233–240. 27 indexed citations
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Wu, Mengxiong, et al.. (2015). Rice (Oryza sativa L) plantation affects the stability of biochar in paddy soil. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10001–10001. 67 indexed citations
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Mao, Xiali, Kouping Lu, Gerty Gielen, et al.. (2015). Effect of 17 years of organic and inorganic fertilizer applications on soil phosphorus dynamics in a rice–wheat rotation cropping system in eastern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 15(9). 1889–1899. 41 indexed citations
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He, Lizhi, Gerty Gielen, Nanthi Bolan, et al.. (2014). Contamination and remediation of phthalic acid esters in agricultural soils in China: a review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 35(2). 519–534. 228 indexed citations
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Gielen, Gerty, et al.. (2011). Influence of sewage and pharmaceuticals on soil microbial function. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 30(5). 1086–1095. 16 indexed citations
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Gielen, Gerty, et al.. (2010). Wet oxidation technology: a potential biosolids management alternative. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2011(2). 3 indexed citations
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Gielen, Gerty, et al.. (2008). Factors impacting on pharmaceutical leaching following sewage application to land. Chemosphere. 74(4). 537–542. 39 indexed citations
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Wang, Hailong, G. N. Magesan, Mark O. Kimberley, Gerty Gielen, & Stephen H. Pearce. (2005). Chemical properties of two soils irrigated with thermo-mechanical pulp mill effluent. Soil Research. 43(8). 929–934. 1 indexed citations
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