Kai Uwe Totsche

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Uwe Totsche is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Uwe Totsche has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Environmental Engineering, 39 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 38 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kai Uwe Totsche's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (47 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers). Kai Uwe Totsche is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (47 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers). Kai Uwe Totsche collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Kai Uwe Totsche's co-authors include Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Kirsten Küsel, Karin Eusterhues, Thilo Rennert, Robert Lehmann, Heike Knicker, Markus Steffens, Angelika Kölbl, Markus Wehrer and Martina Herrmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kai Uwe Totsche

169 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Microaggregates in soils 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 250 500 750
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. Microaggregates in soils
    2017 753 citations Kai Uwe Totsche, Robert Mikutta et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kai Uwe Totsche 1.7k 1.7k 1.5k 1.4k 1.2k 178 6.8k
Peter Nico 2.4k 1.4× 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 123 8.7k
Marco Keiluweit 3.3k 1.9× 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 716 0.6× 59 9.0k
Reinhold Jahn 2.8k 1.6× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 533 0.4× 92 6.5k
Martin H. Gerzabek 3.8k 2.2× 2.1k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 733 0.6× 217 10.0k
Robert Mikutta 3.9k 2.3× 2.3k 1.4× 1.9k 1.3× 959 0.7× 649 0.5× 107 7.9k
James E. Amonette 3.3k 1.9× 799 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 108 11.8k
Aaron Thompson 1.7k 1.0× 982 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 595 0.4× 501 0.4× 113 4.8k
S.E.A.T.M. van der Zee 1.3k 0.8× 749 0.4× 1.5k 1.0× 2.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.6× 233 7.2k
Jon Chorover 2.7k 1.5× 1.9k 1.1× 3.0k 2.0× 2.3k 1.6× 1.4k 1.1× 269 12.8k
Ronald J. Smernik 4.1k 2.4× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.2× 358 0.3× 175 10.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Uwe Totsche

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Uwe Totsche

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All Works

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Schöning, Ingo, Christian Poll, Ellen Kandeler, et al.. (2025). Land use and mineral type determine stability of newly formed mineral-associated organic matter. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Lehmann, Katharina, Robert Lehmann, Narendrakumar M. Chaudhari, et al.. (2025). Hydroclimatic extremes threaten groundwater quality and stability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 720–720. 12 indexed citations
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Gałkowski, Michał, Friedemann Reum, Santiago Botía, et al.. (2024). Recommended coupling to global meteorological fields for long-term tracer simulations with WRF-GHG. Geoscientific model development. 17(20). 7401–7422.
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Wegner, Carl‐Eric, Raphaela Stahl, Irina M. Velsko, et al.. (2023). A glimpse of the paleome in endolithic microbial communities. Microbiome. 11(1). 210–210. 4 indexed citations
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Eusterhues, Karin, Jürgen Thieme, Tohru Araki, et al.. (2023). Importance of inner-sphere P-O-Fe bonds in natural and synthetic mineral-organic associations. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167232–167232. 4 indexed citations
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Ritschel, Thomas & Kai Uwe Totsche. (2023). Reductive transformation of birnessite by low-molecular-weight organic acids. Chemosphere. 325. 138414–138414. 9 indexed citations
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Monteil, Guillaume, Marko Scholze, Ute Karstens, et al.. (2023). Why do inverse models disagree? A case study with two European CO 2 inversions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(4). 2813–2828. 17 indexed citations
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Rödenbeck, Christian, Thomas Koch, Kai Uwe Totsche, et al.. (2021). NEE estimates 2006–2019 over Europe from a pre-operational ensemble-inversion system. 1 indexed citations
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Totsche, Kai Uwe, et al.. (2021). Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 164. 108483–108483. 115 indexed citations
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Fritzsche, Andreas, Julian Bosch, Michael Sander, et al.. (2021). Organic Matter from Redoximorphic Soils Accelerates and Sustains Microbial Fe(III) Reduction. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(15). 10821–10831. 38 indexed citations
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Yan, Lijuan, Martina Herrmann, Bernd Kampe, et al.. (2019). Environmental selection shapes the formation of near-surface groundwater microbiomes. Water Research. 170. 115341–115341. 99 indexed citations
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Schwab, Valérie F., Clayton D. Elder, Susan Trumbore, et al.. (2019). 14C‐Free Carbon Is a Major Contributor to Cellular Biomass in Geochemically Distinct Groundwater of Shallow Sedimentary Bedrock Aquifers. Water Resources Research. 55(3). 2104–2121. 19 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Martina, Patricia Geesink, Lijuan Yan, et al.. (2019). Complex food webs coincide with high genetic potential for chemolithoautotrophy in fractured bedrock groundwater. Water Research. 170. 115306–115306. 24 indexed citations
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Schwab, Valérie F., Susan Trumbore, Xiaomei Xu, et al.. (2019). Isolation of Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Derived From Groundwater Phospholipids by Preparative High‐Pressure Liquid Chromatography for Compound‐Specific Radiocarbon Analyses. Water Resources Research. 55(3). 2521–2531. 6 indexed citations
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Cooper, Rebecca E., Karin Eusterhues, Carl‐Eric Wegner, Kai Uwe Totsche, & Kirsten Küsel. (2017). Ferrihydrite-associated organic matter (OM) stimulates reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and a complex microbial consortia. Biogeosciences. 14(22). 5171–5188. 51 indexed citations
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Schwab, Valérie F., Martina Herrmann, Vanessa-Nina Roth, et al.. (2017). Functional diversity of microbial communities in pristine aquifers inferred by PLFA- and sequencing-based approaches. Biogeosciences. 14(10). 2697–2714. 52 indexed citations
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Lehmann, Robert, et al.. (2017). Aquifer configuration and geostructural links control the groundwater quality in thin-bedded carbonate–siliciclastic alternations of the Hainich CZE, central Germany. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(12). 6091–6116. 58 indexed citations
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Gerbig, Christoph, Kai Uwe Totsche, A. J. Dolman, et al.. (2015). An objective prior error quantification for regional atmospheric inverse applications. Biogeosciences. 12(24). 7403–7421. 13 indexed citations

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