Katrin Meusburger

13.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
115 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Katrin Meusburger is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Katrin Meusburger has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Soil Science, 39 papers in Ecology and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Katrin Meusburger's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (67 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (21 papers). Katrin Meusburger is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (67 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (21 papers). Katrin Meusburger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Katrin Meusburger's co-authors include Christine Alewell, Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli, Cristiano Ballabio, Luca Montanarella, Emanuele Lugato, Jean Poesen, Kristof Van Oost, Lionel Mabit and David A. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Katrin Meusburger

105 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

2017 1.8k citations Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson et al. Nature Communications profile →
The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

2015 905 citations Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →
Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

2015 580 citations Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →
Using the USLE: Chances, challenges and limitations of soil erosion modelling

2019 524 citations Christine Alewell, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →
Rainfall erosivity in Europe

2015 500 citations Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio et al. profile →
Soil erodibility in Europe: A high-resolution dataset based on LUCAS

2014 417 citations Panos Panagos, Katrin Meusburger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katrin Meusburger Switzerland	42	6.5k	3.4k	3.0k	2.2k	1.9k	115	8.9k
Gert Verstraeten Belgium	54	7.0k 1.1×	5.2k 1.6×	3.7k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	182	10.0k
Christian Valentin France	46	5.5k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	152	8.2k
Yves Le Bissonnais France	57	8.4k 1.3×	3.8k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	136	10.8k
Kristof Van Oost Belgium	53	10.1k 1.5×	5.8k 1.7×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	193	13.7k
Christine Alewell Switzerland	53	8.1k 1.2×	5.1k 1.5×	3.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	232	14.0k
John Wainwright United Kingdom	47	4.1k 0.6×	3.9k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	160	7.2k
M. A. Nearing United States	68	11.1k 1.7×	7.4k 2.2×	6.6k 2.2×	3.0k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	227	14.2k
Xingmin Mu China	49	4.0k 0.6×	3.1k 0.9×	4.3k 1.4×	4.2k 1.9×	672 0.4×	162	8.6k
Hervé Piégay France	54	5.9k 0.9×	7.9k 2.4×	2.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	288	10.0k
D. K. McCool United States	24	5.7k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	3.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	71	7.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katrin Meusburger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lombardo, Michael, et al.. (2025). Capillary suction across the soil–snow interface as a mechanism for the formation of wet basal layers under gliding snowpacks. Journal of Glaciology. 71. 2 indexed citations

Meusburger, Katrin, et al.. (2025). Predicting drought-induced tree mortality in Swiss beech forests hinges upon predisposing and inciting factors. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Portier, Jeanne, Brigitte Rohner, Andri Baltensweiler, et al.. (2024). Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests. Ecography. 2024(7). 2 indexed citations

Schönbeck, Leonie, Charlotte Grossiord, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2022). Photosynthetic acclimation and sensitivity to short- and long-term environmental changes in a drought-prone forest. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(8). 2576–2588. 24 indexed citations

Frei, Esther R., Martin M. Goßner, Yann Vitasse, et al.. (2022). European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland. Plant Biology. 24(7). 1132–1145. 66 indexed citations

Guidi, Claudia, Beat Frey, Ivano Brunner, et al.. (2022). Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long‐term irrigated dry pine forest. Global Change Biology. 28(9). 3145–3160. 29 indexed citations

Meusburger, Katrin, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Paul Schmidt‐Walter, et al.. (2022). Soil–plant interactions modulated water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts. Global Change Biology. 28(20). 5928–5944. 28 indexed citations

Gao, Decai, Jobin Joseph, Roland A. Werner, et al.. (2021). Drought alters the carbon footprint of trees in soils—tracking the spatio‐temporal fate of ¹³C‐labelled assimilates in the soil of an old‐growth pine forest. Global Change Biology. 27(11). 2491–2506. 38 indexed citations

D’Odorico, Petra, Leonie Schönbeck, Valentina Vitali, et al.. (2021). Drone‐based physiological index reveals long‐term acclimation and drought stress responses in trees. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(11). 3552–3570. 45 indexed citations

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Meusburger, Katrin, et al.. (2021). Investigating causal factors of shallow landslides in grassland regions of Switzerland. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(11). 3421–3437. 5 indexed citations

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Tresch, Simon, et al.. (2019). Modification of the RUSLE slope length and steepness factor (LS-factor) based on rainfall experiments at steep alpine grasslands. MethodsX. 6. 219–229. 77 indexed citations

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Alewell, Christine, et al.. (2019). Monthly RUSLE soil erosion risk of Swiss grasslands. Journal of Maps. 15(2). 247–256. 37 indexed citations

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Alewell, Christine, et al.. (2018). Mapping spatio-temporal dynamics of the cover and management factor (C-factor) for grasslands in Switzerland. Remote Sensing of Environment. 211. 89–104. 57 indexed citations

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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2018). Quo vadis soil erosion? Global impacts of 21st century land use change. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9180.

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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Emanuele Lugato, et al.. (2017). An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2013–2013. 1798 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meusburger, Katrin, et al.. (2016). Modelling Hot Spots of Soil Loss by Wind Erosion (SoLoWind) in Western Saxony, Germany. Land Degradation and Development. 28(3). 1100–1112. 14 indexed citations

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Alewell, Christine, et al.. (2016). Regionalization of monthly rainfall erosivity patterns in Switzerland. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(10). 4359–4373. 49 indexed citations

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Alewell, Christine, et al.. (2016). Seasonal Dynamics of Rainfall Erosivity in Switzerland. 3 indexed citations

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Mabit, Lionel, Xu Chen, Katrin Meusburger, et al.. (2015). Preliminary use of compound-specific stable isotope (CSSI) technique to identify and apportion sediment origin in a small Austrian catchment. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11021. 1 indexed citations

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Meusburger, Katrin & Christine Alewell. (2009). On the influence of temporal change on the validity of landslide susceptibility maps in an alpine catchment, Switzerland. EGUGA. 12402. 1 indexed citations

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