Lutz Merbold

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Lutz Merbold is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lutz Merbold has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Lutz Merbold's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers). Lutz Merbold is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers). Lutz Merbold collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Kenya and Germany. Lutz Merbold's co-authors include Werner Eugster, Nina Buchmann, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Werner L. Kutsch, Sebastian Wolf, Alessandro Cescatti, Gerard Kiely, Dario Papale, Jacqueline Stieger and Markus Reichstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Lutz Merbold

106 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms

2016 531 citations Gianluca Tramontana, Martin Jung et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Friend or Foe? The Role of Animal-Source Foods in Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Diets

2023 110 citations Lutz Merbold, Anne Mottet et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lutz Merbold Switzerland	34	2.1k	1.3k	678	655	370	108	3.4k
Nicolas Vuichard France	34	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	794 1.2×	365 1.0×	77	3.7k
Jia Yang United States	33	1.6k 0.8×	952 0.8×	616 0.9×	562 0.9×	420 1.1×	85	3.1k
Jinfeng Chang China	34	1.2k 0.6×	887 0.7×	602 0.9×	508 0.8×	509 1.4×	105	3.1k
Yuecun Ma China	7	2.0k 1.0×	845 0.7×	623 0.9×	723 1.1×	427 1.2×	9	3.5k
Yunfan Wan China	33	989 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	991 1.5×	469 0.7×	250 0.7×	73	2.9k
Jagtar S. Bhatti Canada	31	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	723 1.1×	680 1.0×	304 0.8×	77	2.8k
Yuqing Zhang China	32	1.7k 0.8×	704 0.6×	804 1.2×	679 1.0×	382 1.0×	142	3.3k
Pierluigi Calanca Switzerland	35	2.4k 1.1×	832 0.7×	683 1.0×	1.3k 1.9×	526 1.4×	111	4.4k
Shijie Han China	34	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 2.0×	734 1.1×	398 1.1×	209	4.2k
Chuanyan Zhao China	30	1.8k 0.9×	780 0.6×	638 0.9×	700 1.1×	315 0.9×	131	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Lutz Merbold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lutz Merbold

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lutz Merbold

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All Works

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Wilkes, Andreas, Michael W. Graham, Sonja Leitner, et al.. (2024). Comparison of methodologies for estimating enteric methane emission factors from sheep in smallholder systems in Africa: A case study from Ethiopia. Small Ruminant Research. 240. 107362–107362. 1 indexed citations

Graham, Michael W., Claudia Arndt, Lutz Merbold, et al.. (2024). Toward compatibility with national dairy production and climate goals through locally appropriate mitigation interventions in Kenya. Agricultural Systems. 220. 104098–104098. 1 indexed citations

Leitner, Sonja, et al.. (2024). Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle enclosures in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The case of a rangeland in South-Central Kenya. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 367. 108980–108980. 4 indexed citations

Lohila, Annalea, Lutz Merbold, Matti Räsänen, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem-scale crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) gas exchange of a sisal (Agave sisalana) plantation. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 381. 109435–109435. 3 indexed citations

Mwangi, Paul, Richard Eckard, Ilona Gluecks, et al.. (2024). Supplementation of a tropical low-quality forage with Calliandra calothyrsus improves sheep health and performance, and reduces methane emission. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 1 indexed citations

Fang, Xiantao, Stephen J. Harris, Sonja Leitner, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms behind high N2O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 196. 109505–109505.

Butterbach‐Bahl, Klaus, et al.. (2023). Greenhouse gas emissions from sheep excreta deposited onto tropical pastures in Kenya. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 359. 108724–108724. 8 indexed citations

Merbold, Lutz, Timo Vesala, Janne Rinne, et al.. (2021). Soil greenhouse gas emissions from a sisal chronosequence in Kenya. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 307. 108465–108465. 16 indexed citations

Leitner, Sonja, Daniel Korir, David E. Pelster, et al.. (2021). Effect of feeding practices and manure quality on CH4 and N2O emissions from uncovered cattle manure heaps in Kenya. Waste Management. 126. 209–220. 16 indexed citations

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Merbold, Lutz, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen cycling in pastoral livestock systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa: knowns and unknowns. Ecological Applications. 31(6). e02368–e02368. 11 indexed citations

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Joergensen, Rainer Georg, Daniel Korir, J. P. Goopy, et al.. (2021). Feed Quality and Feeding Level Effects on Faecal Composition in East African Cattle Farming Systems. Animals. 11(2). 564–564. 7 indexed citations

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Leitner, Sonja, et al.. (2021). Enteric methane emission estimates for Kenyan cattle in a nighttime enclosure using a backward Lagrangian Stochastic dispersion technique. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 147(3-4). 1091–1103. 6 indexed citations

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Leitner, Sonja, et al.. (2020). Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from cattle manure heaps in Kenya. 1 indexed citations

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Delon, Claire, Ousmane Ndiaye, Corinne Galy‐Lacaux, et al.. (2020). Understanding N2O Emissions in African Ecosystems: Assessments from a Semi-Arid Savanna Grassland in Senegal and Sub-Tropical Agricultural Fields in Kenya. Sustainability. 12(21). 8875–8875. 7 indexed citations

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Butterbach‐Bahl, Klaus, Gretchen M. Gettel, Ralf Kiese, et al.. (2020). Livestock enclosures in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa are overlooked hotspots of N2O emissions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4644–4644. 38 indexed citations

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Fuchs, Kathrin, Lukas Hörtnagl, Nina Buchmann, et al.. (2018). Management matters: Testing a mitigation strategy for nitrous oxide emissions on intensively managed grassland. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 6 indexed citations

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López‐Ballesteros, Ana, Johannes Beck, Antonio Bombelli, et al.. (2018). Towards a feasible and representative pan-African research infrastructure network for GHG observations. Environmental Research Letters. 13(8). 85003–85003. 23 indexed citations

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Tramontana, Gianluca, Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm, et al.. (2016). Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms. Biogeosciences. 13(14). 4291–4313. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wolf, Benjamin, Lutz Merbold, Charlotte Decock, et al.. (2015). First on-line isotopic characterization of N ₂ O emitted from intensively managed grassland. 3 indexed citations

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Kutsch, W., Lutz Merbold, & M. M. Mukelabai. (2012). The Charcoal Trap: Miombo Woddlands and the Energy Demands of People. EGUGA. 12318. 1 indexed citations

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