Horst H. Gerke

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
184 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Horst H. Gerke is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Horst H. Gerke has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 94 papers in Environmental Engineering and 78 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Horst H. Gerke's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (117 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (67 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (44 papers). Horst H. Gerke is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (117 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (67 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (44 papers). Horst H. Gerke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Czechia. Horst H. Gerke's co-authors include Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Ruth H. Ellerbrock, John Maximilian Köhne, Michael Sommer, Abdallah Alaoui, Martin Leue, Jerzy Lipiec, Tomáš Vogel, Reinhard F. Hüttl and Jörg Bachmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Water Resources Research and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Horst H. Gerke

177 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

A dual‐porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water and solutes in structured porous media

1993 934 citations Horst H. Gerke et al. Water Resources Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Horst H. Gerke Germany	41	3.7k	3.0k	2.1k	970	967	184	6.9k
Nicholas Jarvis Sweden	49	5.0k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	172	8.4k
Per Møldrup Denmark	57	5.7k 1.5×	4.9k 1.6×	3.2k 1.5×	899 0.9×	812 0.8×	349	11.4k
S. Assouline Israel	42	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	668 0.7×	158	6.1k
Feike J. Leij United States	39	5.5k 1.5×	5.3k 1.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.8×	885 0.9×	80	8.3k
Bingcheng Si Canada	51	3.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	671 0.7×	262	7.8k
Markus Tuller United States	38	3.0k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	433 0.4×	636 0.7×	150	6.5k
Jan Feyen Belgium	51	3.2k 0.9×	3.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	2.2k 2.3×	652 0.7×	261	7.3k
Jan Vanderborght Germany	51	3.8k 1.0×	5.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	603 0.6×	280	10.3k
G.W. Gee United States	33	2.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	788 0.8×	391 0.4×	119	5.2k
Wolfgang Durner Germany	38	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	881 0.4×	935 1.0×	570 0.6×	129	5.1k

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Groh, Jannis, et al.. (2025). Effects of different climatic conditions on soil water storage patterns. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(1). 313–334.

Gerke, Kirill M., Siarhei Khirevich, Roman Vasilyev, et al.. (2025). Soil hydraulic properties derived from pore-scale simulations: Digital assessment of K s a t through model intercomparison and verification with experimental data. Soil and Tillage Research. 255. 106790–106790. 1 indexed citations

Lima, Fernando V., et al.. (2024). Neutron imaging of exchange flow between biopore and matrix for Bt versus C horizons. Vadose Zone Journal. 23(4).

Villarreal, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Hydraulic characterization of earthworm macropore surfaces using miniaturized infiltration data. Soil and Tillage Research. 236. 105954–105954. 3 indexed citations

Filipović, Lana, Rui Chen, Horst H. Gerke, et al.. (2023). Leached Copper Correlation with Dissolved Organic Carbon in Sloped Vineyard Soil. Water. 15(4). 800–800. 8 indexed citations

Filipović, Lana, Rui Chen, Zoran Kovač, et al.. (2023). Quantification of Intra- vs. Inter-Row Leaching of Major Plant Nutrients in Sloping Vineyard Soils. Water. 15(4). 759–759. 5 indexed citations

Groh, Jannis, Lana Filipović, Horst H. Gerke, et al.. (2023). Soil–Water Dynamics Investigation at Agricultural Hillslope with High-Precision Weighing Lysimeters and Soil–Water Collection Systems. Water. 15(13). 2398–2398. 4 indexed citations

Groh, Jannis, Markus Herndl, Harry Vereecken, et al.. (2021). Response of water balance components to climate change inpermanent grassland soil ecosystems. 5 indexed citations

Groh, Jannis, Markus Herndl, Harry Vereecken, et al.. (2021). Response of water fluxes and biomass production to climate change in permanent grassland soil ecosystems. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(12). 6087–6106. 15 indexed citations

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Groh, Jannis, Jan Vanderborght, Thomas Pütz, et al.. (2020). Responses of soil water storage and crop water use efficiency to changing climatic conditions: a lysimeter-based space-for-time approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1211–1225. 33 indexed citations

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Bogaard, Thom, et al.. (2020). Dual‐Permeability Model Improvements for Representation of Preferential Flow in Fractured Clays. Water Resources Research. 56(8). 33 indexed citations

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Groh, Jannis, Thomas Pütz, Horst H. Gerke, Jan Vanderborght, & Harry Vereecken. (2019). Quantification and Prediction of Nighttime Evapotranspiration for Two Distinct Grassland Ecosystems. Water Resources Research. 55(4). 2961–2975. 47 indexed citations

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Horn, Rainer, et al.. (2018). Permeabilidad y difusión de aire en el subsuelo de un Andisol sujeto a distintas estrategias de mejoramiento de praderas. Agro Sur. 46(2). 23–34. 8 indexed citations

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Lichner, Ľubomír, Vincent J.M.N.L. Felde, Burkhard Büdel, et al.. (2018). Effect of vegetation and its succession on water repellency in sandy soils. Ecohydrology. 11(6). 42 indexed citations

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Pütz, Thomas, Ralf Kiese, Ute Wollschläger, et al.. (2016). TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change. Environmental Earth Sciences. 75(18). 79 indexed citations

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Ellerbrock, Ruth H. & Horst H. Gerke. (2013). Characterization of soil organic matter composition in of top and sub soil samples from colluvial and eroded sites. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Maurer, Tessa, Anna Schneider, & Horst H. Gerke. (2011). A structure generator for modelling the initial sediment distribution of an artificial hydrologic catchment. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(12). 3617–3638. 11 indexed citations

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Leue, Martin, Ruth H. Ellerbrock, & Horst H. Gerke. (2010). DRIFT Mapping of Organic Matter Composition at Intact Soil Aggregate Surfaces. Vadose Zone Journal. 9(2). 317–324. 58 indexed citations

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Gerke, Horst H., et al.. (2008). Modelling field-data of preferential flow in paddy soil induced by earthworm burrows. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 104(1-4). 126–136. 41 indexed citations

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Gies, Hermann, Horst H. Gerke, & F. Liebau. (1982). Chemical composition and synthesis of melanophlogite, a clathrate compound of silica. 119–124. 9 indexed citations

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