Heidi Birch

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Heidi Birch is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heidi Birch has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Pollution, 20 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 16 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Heidi Birch's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (15 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (12 papers). Heidi Birch is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (15 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (12 papers). Heidi Birch collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Uganda and Kenya. Heidi Birch's co-authors include M. T. Friend, Philipp Mayer, Søren Brunak, Jan Erik Hansen, Ramneek Gupta, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, Ellis Griffiths, Aaron D. Redman, C. G. Trapnell and Hans‐Christian Holten Lützhøft and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Heidi Birch

68 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The effect of soil drying on humus decomposition and nitr... 1958 2026 1980 2003 1958 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. The effect of soil drying on humus decomposition and nitrogen availability
    1958 1.2k citations Heidi Birch Plant and Soil profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heidi Birch Denmark 23 1.5k 674 583 530 510 70 3.1k
H. Bolton United States 30 1.7k 1.1× 1.0k 1.5× 296 0.5× 873 1.6× 597 1.2× 54 3.4k
Oliver Dilly Germany 25 1.4k 0.9× 701 1.0× 300 0.5× 575 1.1× 396 0.8× 52 2.4k
Claire Chenu France 24 1.5k 1.0× 794 1.2× 318 0.5× 516 1.0× 386 0.8× 46 2.8k
Mary E. Stromberger United States 23 1.9k 1.3× 964 1.4× 311 0.5× 1.0k 2.0× 505 1.0× 49 3.3k
P. A. Roger Philippines 23 883 0.6× 1.0k 1.5× 660 1.1× 582 1.1× 830 1.6× 42 2.8k
Ute Hamer Germany 26 2.0k 1.3× 962 1.4× 363 0.6× 623 1.2× 537 1.1× 50 3.0k
Alan J. Sexstone United States 21 988 0.7× 938 1.4× 231 0.4× 342 0.6× 906 1.8× 40 2.7k
Bruce A. Caldwell United States 29 2.8k 1.8× 1.6k 2.4× 584 1.0× 1.1k 2.1× 1.0k 2.0× 51 4.6k
Pere Rovira Spain 33 1.7k 1.2× 920 1.4× 405 0.7× 576 1.1× 532 1.0× 72 3.2k
Elke Schulz Germany 29 1.7k 1.1× 916 1.4× 183 0.3× 791 1.5× 516 1.0× 59 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heidi Birch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heidi Birch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heidi Birch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heidi Birch 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 Heidi Birch. Heidi Birch 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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Birch, Heidi, Stefano Papazian, Bénilde Bonnefille, et al.. (2025). Persistence-Directed Testing of Chemicals Discharged from Offshore Oil Platforms Combined with Nontargeted Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(44). 24000–24011. 1 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, et al.. (2023). Technical guidance on biodegradation testing of difficult substances and mixtures in surface water. MethodsX. 10. 102138–102138. 5 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, et al.. (2023). Closed aerobic biodegradation kinetics test with activated sludge and low concentration chemical mixtures. Chemosphere. 330. 138752–138752. 4 indexed citations
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Letinski, Daniel J., Aaron D. Redman, Heidi Birch, & Philipp Mayer. (2021). Inter-laboratory comparison of water solubility methods applied to difficult-to-test substances. BMC Chemistry. 15(1). 52–52. 7 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, et al.. (2020). Accelerated Passive Dosing of Hydrophobic Complex Mixtures–Controlling the Level and Composition in Aquatic Tests. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(8). 4974–4983. 23 indexed citations
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Mayer, Philipp, et al.. (2019). Biodegradation testing of volatile hydrophobic chemicals in water-sediment systems – Experimental developments and challenges. Chemosphere. 238. 124516–124516. 11 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, Aaron D. Redman, Daniel J. Letinski, Delina Y. Lyon, & Philipp Mayer. (2019). Determining the water solubility of difficult-to-test substances: A tutorial review. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1086. 16–28. 32 indexed citations
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Klein, Michael, et al.. (2018). Biodegradation of Volatile Chemicals in Soil: Separating Volatilization and Degradation in an Improved Test Setup (OECD 307). Environmental Science & Technology. 53(1). 20–28. 10 indexed citations
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Fryd, Ole, et al.. (2012). Potentials and limitations for Water Sensitive Urban Design in Copenhagen: a multidisciplinary case study. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 686. 3 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, Varvara Gouliarmou, Hans‐Christian Holten Lützhøft, Peter Steen Mikkelsen, & Philipp Mayer. (2010). Passive Dosing to Determine the Speciation of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals in Aqueous Samples. Analytical Chemistry. 82(3). 1142–1146. 57 indexed citations
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Gupta, Ramneek, et al.. (1999). O-GLYCBASE version 4.0: a revised database of O-glycosylated proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(1). 370–372. 219 indexed citations
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Dougall, H. W. & Heidi Birch. (1966). pH of Grasses in Relation to Genera. Nature. 210(5038). 844–844. 1 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi, et al.. (1964). The build-up and decline of ammonia and acidity during the growth of a grass (Setaria sphacelata). Plant and Soil. 20(3). 287–301. 3 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi. (1960). Soil drying and soil fertility.. 37(1). 3–10. 17 indexed citations
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Birch, Heidi. (1953). The relationship in acid soils between base saturation and phosphorus uptake by grasses. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 43(3). 329–333. 5 indexed citations

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