Kurt Roth

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Kurt Roth is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Roth has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Environmental Engineering, 37 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 30 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kurt Roth's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (45 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (37 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (27 papers). Kurt Roth is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (45 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (37 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (27 papers). Kurt Roth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Kurt Roth's co-authors include Hans J. Vogel, H. Flühler, Werner Attinger, William A. Jury, Rainer Schulin, Julia Boike, Ute Wollschläger, H. Hoffmann, Olaf Ippisch and Qihao Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Roth

91 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Calibration of time domain reflectometry for water conten... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 200 400 600
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. Calibration of time domain reflectometry for water content measurement using a composite dielectric approach
    1990 668 citations Kurt Roth, H. Flühler 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
Kurt Roth Germany 33 2.2k 1.7k 1.1k 999 563 91 4.2k
Ty P. A. Ferré United States 37 2.8k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 820 0.8× 1.4k 2.4× 198 5.0k
Markus Tuller United States 38 3.1k 1.4× 3.0k 1.8× 753 0.7× 864 0.9× 272 0.5× 150 6.5k
T.‐C. Jim Yeh United States 34 3.2k 1.5× 2.1k 1.3× 776 0.7× 345 0.3× 1.2k 2.1× 70 4.3k
Jan M. H. Hendrickx United States 31 1.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 659 0.6× 729 0.7× 645 1.1× 118 4.1k
Marco Bittelli Italy 35 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 299 0.3× 985 1.0× 206 0.4× 80 3.9k
Behzad Ataie‐Ashtiani Iran 45 2.6k 1.2× 1.8k 1.0× 916 0.9× 404 0.4× 815 1.4× 142 6.7k
H. Flühler Switzerland 44 3.6k 1.6× 3.1k 1.9× 829 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 482 0.9× 156 7.0k
Ghislain de Marsily France 44 4.4k 2.0× 1.7k 1.0× 1.5k 1.4× 401 0.4× 1.6k 2.8× 153 7.6k
Pietro Teatini Italy 44 1.8k 0.8× 574 0.3× 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 236 6.3k
S. W. Tyler United States 43 2.8k 1.3× 2.2k 1.3× 428 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 543 1.0× 144 7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kurt Roth

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Roth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Roth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kurt Roth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kurt Roth 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 Kurt Roth. Kurt Roth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Berg, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Technical Note: Sequential ensemble data assimilation in convergent and divergent systems. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 3319–3329. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Xicai, et al.. (2019). Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(9). 3653–3663. 5 indexed citations
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Boike, Julia, Inge Juszak, Stephan Lange, et al.. (2018). A 20-year record (1998–2017) of permafrost, active layer and meteorological conditions at a high Arctic permafrost research site (Bayelva, Spitsbergen). Earth system science data. 10(1). 355–390. 60 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, et al.. (2018). Soil hydraulic material properties and layered architecture from time-lapse GPR. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(4). 2551–2573. 16 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, et al.. (2015). Quantitative high-resolution observations of soil water dynamics in a complicated architecture using time-lapse ground-penetrating radar. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(3). 1125–1139. 32 indexed citations
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Pan, Xicai, Ju Zhang, Ping Huang, & Kurt Roth. (2012). Estimating field-scale soil water dynamics at a heterogeneous site using multi-channel GPR. 1 indexed citations
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Wollschläger, Ute, et al.. (2010). Determining the Influence of Soil Water Content Variability on GPR Measurements with Numerical Simulations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3275. 1 indexed citations
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Wollschläger, Ute, et al.. (2008). Continuous and simultaneous measurement of reflector depth and average soil-water content with multichannel ground-penetrating radar. Geophysics. 73(4). J15–J23. 63 indexed citations
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Doetsch, Joseph, et al.. (2006). A new computational technique for processing transmission-line measurements to determine dispersive dielectric properties. Geophysics. 71(2). K31–K35. 14 indexed citations
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Christl, Marcus, Stefan Rahmstorf, A. Ganopolski, et al.. (2004). Solar Forcing of Abrupt Glacial Climate Change in a Coupled Climate System Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 3 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, et al.. (2004). Exploring Soil Layers and Water Tables with Ground-Penetrating Radar. 土壤圈：英文版. 14(3). 273–282. 17 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, et al.. (2004). Estimating the three-dimensional hydraulic structure of soils from ground-penetrating radar measurements. 501–504. 1 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, H. Flühler, & Hans J. Vogel. (1999). Wasserfluß und Transport gelöster Stoffe im Boden. Physikalische Blätter. 55(1). 35–38. 1 indexed citations
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Roth, Kurt, et al.. (1990). Field-Scale Water and Solute Flux in Soils. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 41 indexed citations

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