Kathrin Menberg

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kathrin Menberg is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathrin Menberg has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 30 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Kathrin Menberg's work include Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (32 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (15 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (13 papers). Kathrin Menberg is often cited by papers focused on Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (32 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (15 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (13 papers). Kathrin Menberg collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Kathrin Menberg's co-authors include Philipp Blum, Peter Bayer, Ruchi Choudhary, Yeonsook Heo, Adrian Chong, Susanne A. Benz, Barret L. Kurylyk, Kai Zoßeder, Guillaume Attard and Hagen Steger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Kathrin Menberg

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global groundwater warming due to climate change 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40
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. Global groundwater warming due to climate change
    2024 49 citations Susanne A. Benz, Peter Bayer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kathrin Menberg Germany 20 865 805 444 311 193 49 1.6k
Antonio Galgaro Italy 27 877 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 281 0.6× 411 1.3× 447 2.3× 115 2.5k
Kai Zoßeder Germany 19 411 0.5× 449 0.6× 76 0.2× 225 0.7× 177 0.9× 64 1.2k
Alexandros Daniilidis Netherlands 15 638 0.7× 792 1.0× 74 0.2× 81 0.3× 483 2.5× 30 2.2k
Kathleen M. Smits United States 22 764 0.9× 457 0.6× 100 0.2× 387 1.2× 138 0.7× 90 1.8k
Stefano Lo Russo Italy 17 413 0.5× 380 0.5× 85 0.2× 71 0.2× 94 0.5× 60 791
Ryuichi Itoi Japan 24 470 0.5× 893 1.1× 40 0.1× 133 0.4× 470 2.4× 98 1.7k
Wei Xiang China 25 407 0.5× 726 0.9× 184 0.4× 334 1.1× 435 2.3× 66 1.9k
Peter John Cleall United Kingdom 23 379 0.4× 166 0.2× 119 0.3× 284 0.9× 120 0.6× 97 1.5k
Neil Burnside United Kingdom 16 474 0.5× 293 0.4× 73 0.2× 71 0.2× 215 1.1× 43 968
G. V. Ramana India 26 208 0.2× 96 0.1× 315 0.7× 101 0.3× 164 0.8× 122 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kathrin Menberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kathrin Menberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathrin Menberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kathrin Menberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kathrin Menberg 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 Kathrin Menberg. Kathrin Menberg 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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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive life cycle assessment of selected seasonal thermal energy storage systems. Renewable Energy. 256. 124232–124232. 1 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Sustainable potential of shallow geothermal heat recycling in Dresden, Germany. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 383(2308). 20250013–20250013. 1 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, Peter Bayer, Asal Bidarmaghz, et al.. (2025). Opportunities, benefits and impacts of shallow geothermal energy. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(12). 808–823.
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Identifying aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) key locations for hospitals in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geothermics. 130. 103334–103334.
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2024). Environmental impact of an anthropogenic groundwater temperature hotspot. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 177153–177153. 2 indexed citations
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Blum, Philipp, et al.. (2024). City-scale heating and cooling with aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES). Geothermal Energy. 12(1). 18 indexed citations
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Blum, Philipp, et al.. (2024). Temporal shift in groundwater fauna in southwestern Germany. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(22). 4927–4946. 1 indexed citations
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Barth, Florian, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the cooling demand of urban areas using aerial images. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18. 1 indexed citations
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Makasis, Nikolas, et al.. (2023). Finding common ground: A methodology for city-scale subsurface thermal modelling. Urban Climate. 49. 101513–101513. 7 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2023). Thermal impact of underground car parks on urban groundwater. The Science of The Total Environment. 903. 166572–166572. 16 indexed citations
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Blum, Philipp, et al.. (2023). Global overview on groundwater fauna. Ecohydrology. 17(1). 12 indexed citations
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Class, Holger, et al.. (2022). Berechnung von Temperaturfahnen im Grundwasser mit analytischen und numerischen Modellen. Grundwasser. 27(2). 113–129. 5 indexed citations
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Benz, Susanne A., Kathrin Menberg, Peter Bayer, & Barret L. Kurylyk. (2022). Shallow subsurface heat recycling is a sustainable global space heating alternative. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3962–3962. 34 indexed citations
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Blum, Philipp, et al.. (2021). Is thermal use of groundwater a pollution?. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 239. 103791–103791. 39 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2021). Quantifying biodegradation rate constants of o-xylene by combining compound-specific isotope analysis and groundwater dating. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 238. 103757–103757. 3 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2021). Groundwater fauna in an urban area – natural or affected?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 3053–3070. 22 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, Yeonsook Heo, Wonjun Choi, et al.. (2017). Exergy Analysis of a Ground-Source Heat Pump System. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 15. 3 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, Philipp Blum, Barret L. Kurylyk, & Peter Bayer. (2014). Observed groundwater temperature response to recent climate change. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(11). 4453–4466. 116 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2013). Long-Term Evolution of Anthropogenic Heat Fluxes into a Subsurface Urban Heat Island. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(17). 9747–9755. 120 indexed citations
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Menberg, Kathrin, et al.. (2012). Urban heat islands in the subsurface of German cities. EGUGA. 9772. 1 indexed citations

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