Kevin E. Mueller

7.9k citations

60 papers · 5.5k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 1%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Soil Science 20
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 18
Nature and Landscape Conservation 20
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 20

Co-authors: Gerrit Angst Sarah E. Hobbie Katherine H. Freeman Myrna J. Simpson Klaas G.J. Nierop Michael J. Castellano David Tilman Peter B. Reich
Journals: Journal of Ecology (4 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (4 papers)Global Change Biology (4 papers)Ecology (3 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Australia

In The Last Decade

Kevin E. Mueller

55 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key 2023 · 227 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Communications
2021 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2015 Global Change Biology
2012 Science
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kevin E. Mueller, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Un(der)explored links between plant diversity and particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in soil Nature Communications ·Šárka Angst, Gerrit Angst, Kevin E. Mueller, Markus Lange, Nico Eisenhauer	2025	1
2	Gymnosperms demonstrate patterns of fine‐root trait coordination consistent with the global root economics space Journal of Ecology ·Betty J. Mathis, Marcin Zadworny, Karl Andraczek, O. B. Kolmachikhina, Susan G. Sawyer, Teoh Bak Aun, Joanna Mucha, Kevin E. Mueller, Michael McCormack	2024	4
3	Coordination of leaf, root, and seed traits shows the importance of whole plant economics in two semiarid grasslands New Phytologist ·Kevin E. Mueller, Julie A. Kray, Dana M. Blumenthal	2024	22
4	Functional traits and size interact to influence growth and carbon sequestration among trees in urban greenspaces Functional Ecology ·純雄亀谷, Kevin E. Mueller, Sean M. McMahon, Juliana S. Medeiros	2024	8
5	Shower thoughts: why scientists should spend more time in the rain BioScience ·John T. Van Stan, Scott T. Allen, Doug P. Aubrey, Z. Carter Berry, K. de Long, Miriam Coenders‐Gerrits, Paolo Giordani, Sybil G. Gotsch, E. D. Gutmann, Yakov Kuzyakov, Donát Magyar, Valentina S. A. Mella, Kevin E. Mueller, Alexandra G. Ponette‐González, Philipp Porada, Анастасія Олександрівна Крамаренко, Jack Simmons, Kandikere R. Sridhar, Aron Stubbins, Travis Swanson	2023	7
6	A LiDAR-driven pruning algorithm to delineate canopy drainage areas of stemflow and throughfall drip points. SSRN Electronic Journal ·Jassim M. Al-A, Travis Swanson, Kevin E. Mueller, Nick Lewis, حسن يوسف صوفي, John T. Van Stan	2023	0
7	Overstory Thinning Impacts Fruit Production and Handling of the Nonnative Shrub, Rhamnus frangula, in a Young Temperate Forest Natural Areas Journal ·连海霞, Kevin E. Mueller, Katharine L. Stuble	2023	1
8	Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Yude Pan, Robert B. Jackson, David Y. Hollinger, Oliver L. Phillips, Robert S. Nowak, Richard J. Norby, Ram Oren, Peter B. Reich, A. Lüscher, Kevin E. Mueller, Clenton E. Owensby, Richard A. Birdsey, John Hom, Yiqi Luo	2022	29
9	Vocabulary learning outside of the classroom: Institutional use of a spaced repetition SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Kevin E. Mueller, Ronald A. Yonekawa	2022	0
10	Water availability dictates how plant traits predict demographic rates Ecology ·Emilie Morinière, Peter B. Adler, Dana M. Blumenthal, Julie A. Kray, Kevin E. Mueller, Troy W. Ocheltree, Kevin R. Wilcox, Daniel C. Laughlin	2022	12
11	Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content Journal of Ecology ·Dana M. Blumenthal, Kevin E. Mueller, Julie A. Kray, Troy W. Ocheltree, David J. Augustine, Kevin R. Wilcox	2020	103
12	On geologic timescales, plant carbon isotope fractionation responds to precipitation similarly to modern plants and has a small negative correlation with pCO2 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Tamás Tari, Aaron F. Diefendorf, David R. Greenwood, Kevin E. Mueller, Christopher K. West, Durba Ahamed, James F. Basinger, Ellen D. Currano, 和沙大岩, Henry Fricke, سمية ثنيو, Herbert W. Meyer, Daniel J. Peppe	2019	20
13	Extending the osmometer method for assessing drought tolerance in herbaceous species Oecologia ·Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan, Troy W. Ocheltree, Kevin E. Mueller, Dana M. Blumenthal, Julie A. Kray, Alan K. Knapp	2019	49
14	Root responses to elevated CO₂, warming and irrigation in a semi‐arid grassland: Integrating biomass, length and life span in a 5‐year field experiment Journal of Ecology ·Kevin E. Mueller, Daniel R. LeCain, Michael McCormack, Elise Pendall, M. Carlson, Dana M. Blumenthal	2018	49
15	Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades Science ·Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Forest Isbell, Kevin E. Mueller, Sarah E. Hobbie, Dan F. B. Flynn, Nico Eisenhauer Hit paper breakdown →	2012	605
16	Do evergreen and deciduous trees have different effects on net N mineralization in soil? Ecology ·Kevin E. Mueller, Sarah E. Hobbie, Jacek Oleksyn, Peter B. Reich, David M. Eissenstat	2012	52
17	Appraising the roles of nutrient availability, global change, and functional traits during the angiosperm rise to dominance Ecology Letters ·Kevin E. Mueller, Aaron F. Diefendorf, Katherine H. Freeman, David M. Eissenstat	2010	21
18	Accessibility of polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners in aging soil Journal of Environmental Monitoring ·P. E. Karchin, Kevin E. Mueller, NI MADE LASTI LISPANI, Anne P. Vonderheide, Jodi R. Shann	2009	11
19	INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE USE OF TREES FOR PHYTOREMEDIATION OF PAH CONTAMINATED SOILS OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) ·Kevin E. Mueller	2005	0
20	Preventing Bacterial Contamination and Proliferation During the Harvest, Storage, and Feeding of Fresh Bovine Colostrum Journal of Dairy Science ·Steven Stewart, S. Godden, R. Bey, Paul Rapnicki, John Fetrow, R. J. Farnsworth, Mark Scanlon, 강선리, Jochen Koschizke, Kevin E. Mueller, Gerrit Vogt	2005	117

About Kevin E. Mueller

Kevin E. Mueller is a scholar working on Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 60 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (6 papers), Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (5 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (5 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (2.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.3k citations), Ecology (1.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (603 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (1.1k citations). Kevin E. Mueller has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Gerrit Angst, Sarah E. Hobbie, Katherine H. Freeman, Myrna J. Simpson, Klaas G.J. Nierop, Michael J. Castellano, David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, Aaron F. Diefendorf and Scott L. Wing. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Ecology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Global Change Biology, Ecology and Nature Communications.

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