Marcel G. Schaap

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Marcel G. Schaap is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel G. Schaap has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Environmental Engineering, 51 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 12 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Marcel G. Schaap's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (50 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (32 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (26 papers). Marcel G. Schaap is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (50 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (32 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (26 papers). Marcel G. Schaap collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. Marcel G. Schaap's co-authors include Feike J. Leij, Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Yonggen Zhang, Willem Bouten, Attila Nemes, J.H.M. Wösten, Jiřı́ Šimůnek, Mark L. Porter, D. Wildenschild and Yakov Pachepsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Marcel G. Schaap

85 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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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.

rosetta : a computer program for estimating soil hydraulic parameters with hierarchical pedotransfer functions

2001 2.0k citations Marcel G. Schaap, Martinus Th. van Genuchten et al. profile →
Neural Network Analysis for Hierarchical Prediction of Soil Hydraulic Properties

1998 501 citations Marcel G. Schaap, Martinus Th. van Genuchten et al. Soil Science Society of America Journal profile →
Pedotransfer Functions in Earth System Science: Challenges and Perspectives

2017 377 citations Attila Nemes, Yakov Pachepsky et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcel G. Schaap United States	41	5.3k	5.1k	2.0k	1.9k	1.2k	91	8.4k
Feike J. Leij United States	39	5.5k 1.0×	5.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	891 0.7×	80	8.3k
Yechezkel Mualem Israel	13	5.0k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	866 0.5×	775 0.6×	15	7.2k
H. Flühler Switzerland	44	3.1k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	558 0.4×	156	7.0k
Michel Vauclin France	37	3.0k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	115	5.6k
Wolfgang Durner Germany	38	3.3k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	881 0.4×	935 0.5×	663 0.5×	129	5.1k
A. W. Warrick United States	43	3.7k 0.7×	3.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	674 0.4×	784 0.6×	203	5.9k
S. Assouline Israel	42	2.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	158	6.1k
Markus Tuller United States	38	3.0k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	433 0.2×	733 0.6×	150	6.5k
Nicholas Jarvis Sweden	49	5.0k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	730 0.6×	172	8.4k
D. R. Nielsen United States	41	4.2k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	971 0.5×	707 0.6×	138	7.0k

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Crimmins, Michael A., et al.. (2023). Defining the Multiscalar Index Timescale—Soil Water Depth Continuum for the Southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(23). 1 indexed citations

Schaap, Marcel G., et al.. (2018). Understanding Critical Zone Evolution through Predicting the Three‐Dimensional Soil Chemical Properties of a Small Forested Catchment. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 82(6). 1538–1550. 1 indexed citations

Schaap, Marcel G., et al.. (2017). A probabilistic approach to quantifying soil physical properties via time-integrated energy and mass input. SOIL. 3(1). 67–82. 4 indexed citations

Naveed, Muhammad, Per Møldrup, Marcel G. Schaap, et al.. (2016). Prediction of biopore- and matrix-dominated flow from X-ray CT-derivedmacropore network characteristics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(10). 4017–4030. 35 indexed citations

Schaap, Marcel G., et al.. (2015). Probabilistic modeling of soil development variability with time. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015.

Naveed, Muhammad, Per Møldrup, Marcel G. Schaap, et al.. (2015). Macropore flow at the field scale: predictive performance of empirical models and X-ray CT analyzed macropore characteristics. UWL Repository (University of West London). 9 indexed citations

Perdrial, Julia, A. A. Harpold, Craig Rasmussen, et al.. (2012). Rare earth elements as reactive tracers of biogeochemical weathering in the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

Schaap, Marcel G., et al.. (2012). Hydrology Simulations on Basalt Soil for the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO). AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

Vereecken, Harry, Mélanie Weynants, Mathieu Javaux, et al.. (2010). Using Pedotransfer Functions to Estimate the van Genuchten–Mualem Soil Hydraulic Properties: A Review. Vadose Zone Journal. 9(4). 795–820. 377 indexed citations

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Berger, Pierre, Robert Heinse, H. Abdu, et al.. (2008). Geophysical Characterization of Inactive Mine Tailings: A First Step for Economical Design of Vegetative Covers. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Tóth, Tibor, Marcel G. Schaap, & Zsolt Molnár. (2008). Utilization of soil-plant interrelations through the use of multiple regression and artificial neural network in order to predict soil properties in Hungarian solonetzic grasslands. Cereal Research Communications. 36. 1447–1450. 2 indexed citations

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Schaap, Marcel G., et al.. (2007). Macropore Flow in Soil Columns: Investigations with Computer Tomography and Lattice Boltzmann Simulations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Haibo, Daniel T. Thorne, Marcel G. Schaap, & Michael C. Sukop. (2007). Proposed approximation for contact angles in Shan-and-Chen-type multicomponent multiphase lattice Boltzmann models. Physical Review E. 76(6). 66701–66701. 273 indexed citations

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Schaap, Marcel G., Mark L. Porter, B. S. Christensen, & D. Wildenschild. (2007). Comparison of pressure‐saturation characteristics derived from computed tomography and lattice Boltzmann simulations. Water Resources Research. 43(12). 106 indexed citations

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Porter, Mark L., D. Wildenschild, & Marcel G. Schaap. (2005). Investigating Dynamic Behavior in Experimental Capillary Pressure-Saturation Curves Using a Lattice-Boltzmann Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Anderson, Robert C., et al.. (2005). Dielectric Constant Measurements for Characterizing Lunar Soils. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1969. 6 indexed citations

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Schaap, Marcel G., Attila Nemes, & Martinus Th. van Genuchten. (2004). Comparison of Models for Indirect Estimation of Water Retention and Available Water in Surface Soils. Vadose Zone Journal. 3(4). 1455–1463. 50 indexed citations

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Robinson, D. A., Marcel G. Schaap, Scott B. Jones, Shmulik P. Friedman, & C. M. K. Gardner. (2003). Considerations for Improving the Accuracy of Permittivity Measurement Using TDR: Air/Water Calibration, Effects of Cable Length. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 62–70. 11 indexed citations

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Nemes, Attila, Marcel G. Schaap, & J.H.M. Wösten. (2002). Validation of international scale soil hydraulic pedotransfer functions for national scale applications. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 11017. 8 indexed citations

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Šimůnek, Jiřı́, et al.. (1998). Using an inverse method to estimate the hydraulic properties of crusted soils from tension-disc infiltrometer data. Geoderma. 86(1-2). 61–81. 126 indexed citations

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