Kate Maher

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Kate Maher is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Maher has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Environmental Engineering, 46 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kate Maher's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (31 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (29 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Kate Maher is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (31 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (29 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Kate Maher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Kate Maher's co-authors include Donald J. DePaolo, C. Page Chamberlain, Carl I. Steefel, John Bargar, Gordon E. Brown, Daniel Ibarra, Matthew Winnick, Gordon E. Brown, Kimberly Lau and John N. Christensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Kate Maher

126 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

2020 591 citations Kate Maher et al. profile →
Hydrologic Regulation of Chemical Weathering and the Geologic Carbon Cycle

2014 456 citations Kate Maher et al. profile →
The dependence of chemical weathering rates on fluid residence time

2010 386 citations Kate Maher profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kate Maher	2.2k	2.0k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	130	7.2k
Susan L. Brantley	3.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.7×	1.9k 1.5×	2.4k 2.2×	154	10.9k
Pascale Louvat	4.1k 1.9×	2.6k 1.2×	922 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	103	6.7k
Rachael H. James	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	566 0.3×	1.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	126	6.2k
Juske Horita	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	768 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	85	5.8k
Art F. White	3.4k 1.5×	2.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	63	8.3k
Oleg S. Pokrovsky	3.9k 1.8×	4.3k 2.1×	2.8k 1.4×	3.4k 2.8×	1.1k 1.1×	371	15.4k
James I. Drever	3.6k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	2.4k 2.0×	964 0.9×	84	9.2k
Thomas D. Bullen	3.8k 1.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	827 0.7×	2.9k 2.8×	97	8.6k
Sigurður R. Gíslason	3.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	4.6k 2.4×	2.7k 2.2×	2.5k 2.4×	126	10.6k
Romain Millot	2.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	680 0.4×	696 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	88	4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Maher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Maher

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maher, Kate, et al.. (2025). Hydrogeochemical modeling of hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs: Insights from local and global sensitivity analysis. Applied Energy. 391. 125940–125940. 1 indexed citations

Langenfeld, Kathryn, Bradley B. Tolar, Kate Maher, et al.. (2025). Floodplain nitrifiers harbor the genetic potential for utilizing a wide range of organic nitrogen compounds. mSystems. 10(11). e0082925–e0082925.

Maher, Kate, et al.. (2023). Controls on flood managed aquifer recharge through a heterogeneous vadose zone: hydrologic modeling at a site characterized with surface geophysics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(5). 969–990. 22 indexed citations

Maher, Kate & Friedhelm von Blanckenburg. (2023). The circular nutrient economy of terrestrial ecosystems and the consequences for rock weathering. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 6 indexed citations

Winnick, Matthew, Jennifer L. Druhan, & Kate Maher. (2022). Weathering intensity and lithium isotopes: A reactive transport perspective. American Journal of Science. 322(5). 647–682. 12 indexed citations

Noël, Vincent, Kimberly Lau, K. L. Weaver, et al.. (2019). Isotopic Fingerprint of Uranium Accumulation and Redox Cycling in Floodplains of the Upper Colorado River Basin. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(7). 3399–3409. 12 indexed citations

Winnick, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbialcarbon respiration. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

Jost, A. B., Aviv Bachan, Bas van de Schootbrugge, et al.. (2017). Uranium isotope evidence for an expansion of marine anoxia during the end‐Triassic extinction. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(8). 3093–3108. 73 indexed citations

Wymore, Adam S., Nicole West, Kate Maher, et al.. (2017). Growing new generations of critical zone scientists. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(14). 2498–2502. 9 indexed citations

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Wymore, Adam S., et al.. (2017). Critical zone structure controls concentration‐discharge relationships and solute generation in forested tropical montane watersheds. Water Resources Research. 53(7). 6279–6295. 64 indexed citations

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Harrison, Anna L., Adam D. Jew, M. K. Dustin, et al.. (2017). Element release and reaction-induced porosity alteration during shale-hydraulic fracturing fluid interactions. Applied Geochemistry. 82. 47–62. 118 indexed citations

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Szilas, Kristoffer, Kate Maher, & Dennis K. Bird. (2016). Aluminous gneiss derived by weathering of basaltic source rocks in the Neoarchean Storø Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland. Chemical Geology. 441. 63–80. 18 indexed citations

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Joe-Wong, Claresta, Anna L. Harrison, Dana L. Thomas, et al.. (2015). Coupled Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation Reactions in Shale-Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Systems. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Dustin, M. K., Adam D. Jew, Anna L. Harrison, et al.. (2015). Kerogen-Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Interactions: Reactivity and Contaminant Release. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Maxwell, R. M., et al.. (2015). The imprint of climate and geology on the residence times of groundwater. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(2). 701–708. 94 indexed citations

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Nielsen, L. C., et al.. (2012). Abiotic CO 2 reduction during geologic carbon sequestration facilitated by Fe(II)-bearing minerals. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Real, Pablo García del, Kate Maher, D. K. Bird, & G. E. Brown. (2010). CO2 Sequestration in Ultramafic Rocks: Insights from the Red Mountain Magnesite District, California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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DePaolo, Donald J., Kate Maher, John N. Christensen, & Jerry F McManus. (2006). Sediment transport time measured with U-Series isotopes: Results from ODP North Atlantic Drill Site 984. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2 indexed citations

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DePaolo, Donald J., Kate Maher, & John N. Christensen. (2003). Measuring the timescales of sediment production, transport, and deposition - U-234 sediment comminution ages. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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DePaolo, Donald J., Mark E. Conrad, Kate Maher, & G.W. Gee. (2002). Evaporation effects on O and H isotopes in deep vadose zone pore fluids at Hanford, Washington: Implications for recharge and horizontal fluid movement. Vadose Zone Journal. 3. 2 indexed citations

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