Loes van Schaik

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Loes van Schaik is a scholar working on Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Loes van Schaik has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Soil Science, 12 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Loes van Schaik's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (12 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers). Loes van Schaik is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (12 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers). Loes van Schaik collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. Loes van Schaik's co-authors include Violette Geissen, Boris Schröder, M. Leistra, Saskia Keesstra, Kim P.M. Mosse, Elia Scudiero, Erwin Zehe, Susanne Schnabel, Frederick Büks and Martin Kaupenjohann and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Loes van Schaik

32 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Review of microplastic sources, transport pathways and correlations with other soil stressors: a journey from agricultural sites into the environment

2022 187 citations Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Nicolas Bériot et al. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Loes van Schaik Germany	16	413	377	297	283	283	35	1.3k
Toshiyuki Wakatsuki Japan	26	270 0.7×	602 1.6×	121 0.4×	393 1.4×	123 0.4×	127	1.9k
Georg J. Lair Austria	22	319 0.8×	785 2.1×	240 0.8×	138 0.5×	95 0.3×	37	1.6k
Gary W. Feyereisen United States	28	446 1.1×	775 2.1×	200 0.7×	400 1.4×	747 2.6×	102	2.2k
Brigitta Tóth Hungary	12	133 0.3×	670 1.8×	539 1.8×	223 0.8×	213 0.8×	25	1.4k
Marcos Lado Spain	21	99 0.2×	902 2.4×	515 1.7×	263 0.9×	204 0.7×	46	1.7k
Rongjiang Yao China	26	134 0.3×	938 2.5×	378 1.3×	138 0.5×	118 0.4×	94	1.9k
T. B. Parkin United States	22	304 0.7×	888 2.4×	228 0.8×	172 0.6×	291 1.0×	29	1.9k
O. O. Akinremi Canada	28	178 0.4×	1.0k 2.7×	221 0.7×	633 2.2×	174 0.6×	94	2.2k
Minghua Zhou China	27	210 0.5×	1.5k 4.1×	210 0.7×	275 1.0×	215 0.8×	79	2.4k
Teógenes Senna de Oliveira Brazil	26	180 0.4×	1.0k 2.7×	103 0.3×	97 0.3×	115 0.4×	119	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Loes van Schaik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Loes van Schaik

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Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2025). Estimating the emission of microplastics from urban surfaces into the atmosphere using the PI-SWERL. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 492. 138170–138170.

Eiter, Sebastian, Wendy Fjellstad, & Loes van Schaik. (2025). Monitoring sustainability of urban agriculture: Who is going to do it and how?. Landscape and Urban Planning. 257. 105300–105300. 2 indexed citations

Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2024). Accumulation of airborne microplastics on leaves of different tree species in the urban environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 948. 174907–174907. 10 indexed citations

Stolte, Jannes, et al.. (2023). A pedo‐climatic approach towards soil health assessment: Soil texture‐specific scoring curves on arable land in Norway. Soil Use and Management. 40(1). 1 indexed citations

Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Nicolas Bériot, Fabio Corradini, et al.. (2022). Review of microplastic sources, transport pathways and correlations with other soil stressors: a journey from agricultural sites into the environment. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture. 9(1). 187 indexed citations breakdown →

Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2022). The Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in Topsoils of an Urban Environment - Coimbra City Case-Study. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2022). The spatial distribution of microplastics in topsoils of an urban environment - Coimbra city case-study. Environmental Research. 218. 114961–114961. 67 indexed citations

Jackisch, Conrad, Sibylle K. Haßler, Tobias L. Hohenbrink, et al.. (2021). Preface: Linking landscape organisation and hydrological functioning: from hypotheses and observations to concepts, models and understanding. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 5277–5285. 4 indexed citations

Büks, Frederick, Loes van Schaik, & Martin Kaupenjohann. (2020). What do we know about how the terrestrial multicellular soil fauna reacts to microplastic?. SOIL. 6(2). 245–267. 80 indexed citations

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Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2020). Simulating future salinity dynamics in a coastal marshland under different climate scenarios. Vadose Zone Journal. 19(1). 3 indexed citations

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Nehls, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Do earthworms (D. veneta) influence plant-available water in technogenic soil-like substrate from bricks and compost?. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21(5). 2013–2024. 3 indexed citations

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Mwampamba, Tuyeni H., et al.. (2018). Incorporating Ecohydrological Processes Into an Analysis of Charcoal-Livestock Production Systems in the Tropics: An Alternative Interpretation of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 6. 8 indexed citations

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Loritz, Ralf, Sibylle K. Haßler, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2017). Picturing and modeling catchments by representative hillslopes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(2). 1225–1249. 48 indexed citations

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Schneider, Anne‐Kathrin, Loes van Schaik, Anne Zangerlé, Tobias L. Hohenbrink, & Boris Schröder. (2017). Linking earthworm activity and hydrologically effective macropores in space and time. EGUGA. 9770. 1 indexed citations

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Loritz, Ralf, Sibylle K. Haßler, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2016). Picturing and modelling catchments by representative hillslopes. 2 indexed citations

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Allroggen, Niklas, Loes van Schaik, & Jens Tronicke. (2015). 4D ground-penetrating radar during a plot scale dye tracer experiment. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 118. 139–144. 30 indexed citations

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Zehe, Erwin, Uwe Ehret, Laurent Pfister, et al.. (2014). HESS Opinions: From response units to functional units: a thermodynamic reinterpretation of the HRU concept to link spatial organization and functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(11). 4635–4655. 82 indexed citations

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Schaik, Loes van, et al.. (2013). Linking spatial earthworm distribution to macropore numbers and hydrological effectiveness. Ecohydrology. 7(2). 401–408. 69 indexed citations

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Keesstra, Saskia, Violette Geissen, Kim P.M. Mosse, et al.. (2012). Soil as a filter for groundwater quality. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 4(5). 507–516. 301 indexed citations

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Klaus, Julian, et al.. (2010). Modelling spatiotemporal distribution patterns of earthworms in order to indicate hydrological soil processes.. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 12. 10837. 1 indexed citations

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