Markus Flury

17.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
177 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Markus Flury is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Flury has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Environmental Engineering, 46 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 46 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Markus Flury's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (53 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (44 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (35 papers). Markus Flury is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (53 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (44 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (35 papers). Markus Flury collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Markus Flury's co-authors include H. Flühler, James B. Harsh, Marco Bittelli, William A. Jury, Henry Y. Sintim, J. Leuenberger, Jianying Shang, Carol Miles, Gaylon S. Campbell and Yingxue Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Nature Nanotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Markus Flury

172 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Susceptibility of soils to preferential flow of water: A field study

1994 688 citations Markus Flury et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Nano-enabled pesticides for sustainable agriculture and global food security

2022 519 citations Markus Flury et al. profile →
Macro- and microplastic accumulation in soil after 32 years of plastic film mulching

2022 304 citations Shitong Li, Fan Ding et al. profile →
Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Subsurface Environments: Occurrence, Fate, Transport, and Research Prospect

2022 131 citations Markus Flury et al. profile →
Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture

2023 130 citations Markus Flury et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Markus Flury	3.5k	3.3k	2.7k	2.2k	2.0k	177	12.2k
David A. Laird	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	5.8k 2.8×	156	15.7k
Cliff T. Johnston	2.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	3.7k 1.8×	162	14.9k
J. M. Novak	2.8k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	7.7k 3.8×	241	17.1k
Rainer Schulin	6.2k 1.8×	2.3k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	879 0.4×	2.8k 1.4×	339	16.9k
Jon Chorover	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	920 0.3×	700 0.3×	2.7k 1.3×	269	12.8k
Willie G. Harris	3.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	743 0.3×	2.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	156	10.6k
Balwant Singh	2.6k 0.7×	991 0.3×	1.5k 0.5×	949 0.4×	3.6k 1.8×	238	11.1k
Krishna R. Reddy	2.0k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	5.2k 1.9×	4.8k 2.2×	633 0.3×	436	14.9k
Qiaoyun Huang	4.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.3×	516 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	2.6k 1.3×	424	14.2k
James E. Amonette	1.1k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	876 0.4×	3.3k 1.6×	108	11.8k

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Shokri, Nima, Milad Aminzadeh, Markus Flury, et al.. (2025). Sustainability Nexus AID: soil health. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 33(1). 3 indexed citations

Flury, Markus. (2025). On the use and misuse of abbreviations in scientific writing. Vadose Zone Journal. 24(1).

Yu, Yingxue, Odeta Qafoku, Libor Kovařík, et al.. (2024). Mobility of soil-biodegradable nanoplastics in unsaturated porous media affected by protein-corona. Environmental Science Nano. 11(8). 3522–3532. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Yingxue, et al.. (2023). Predawn leaf water potential of grapevines is not necessarily a good proxy for soil moisture. BMC Plant Biology. 23(1). 369–369. 8 indexed citations

Adhikari, Kaushik, Anton F. Astner, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, et al.. (2023). Earthworms Exposed to Polyethylene and Biodegradable Microplastics in Soil: Microplastic Characterization and Microbial Community Analysis. ACS Agricultural Science & Technology. 3(4). 340–349. 27 indexed citations

Yu, Yingxue, et al.. (2023). Aggregation kinetics and stability of biodegradable nanoplastics in aquatic environments: Effects of UV-weathering and proteins. Water Research. 239. 120018–120018. 33 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, Stephen Joseph, Xiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Inducing Inorganic Carbon Accrual in Subsoil through Biochar Application on Calcareous Topsoil. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(4). 1837–1847. 46 indexed citations

Yu, Yingxue, Anil Krishna Battu, Tamás Varga, et al.. (2023). Minimal Impacts of Microplastics on Soil Physical Properties under Environmentally Relevant Concentrations. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(13). 5296–5304. 115 indexed citations

Li, Shitong, Fan Ding, Markus Flury, & Jingkuan Wang. (2023). Dynamics of macroplastics and microplastics formed by biodegradable mulch film in an agricultural field. The Science of The Total Environment. 894. 164674–164674. 51 indexed citations

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Yu, Yingxue, Henry Y. Sintim, Anton F. Astner, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Transport of TiO₂ in Unsaturated Sand and Soil after Release from Biodegradable Plastic during Composting. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(4). 2398–2406. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Yingxue & Markus Flury. (2021). Current understanding of subsurface transport of micro‐ and nanoplastics in soil. Vadose Zone Journal. 20(2). 71 indexed citations

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Flury, Markus, et al.. (2020). Negatively Charged Lipids Exhibit Negligible Effects on the Water Repellency of Montmorillonite Films. ACS Omega. 5(21). 12154–12161. 3 indexed citations

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Flury, Markus, et al.. (2020). Soil-Biodegradable Plastic Mulches Undergo Minimal in-Soil Degradation in a Perennial Raspberry System after 18 Months. Horticulturae. 6(3). 47–47. 12 indexed citations

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Yu, Yingxue, Marianne Elliott, Indranil Chowdhury, & Markus Flury. (2020). Transport Mechanisms of Motile and Nonmotile Phytophthora cactorum Zoospores in Unsaturated Porous Media. Water Resources Research. 57(2). 7 indexed citations

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Taylor, Stephen E., Carolyn I. Pearce, Indranil Chowdhury, et al.. (2020). Long‐term accumulation, depth distribution, and speciation of silver nanoparticles in biosolids‐amended soils. Journal of Environmental Quality. 49(6). 1679–1689. 10 indexed citations

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Sintim, Henry Y., Andy I. Bary, Douglas G. Hayes, et al.. (2020). In situ degradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films in compost and agricultural soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 727. 138668–138668. 268 indexed citations

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Yang, Wen, Jianying Shang, Baoguo Li, & Markus Flury. (2019). Surface and colloid properties of biochar and implications for transport in porous media. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 50(23). 2484–2522. 88 indexed citations

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Flury, Markus, et al.. (2017). Nanoparticles from Degradation of Biodegradable Plastic Mulch. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4138. 1 indexed citations

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Shang, Jianying, Markus Flury, James B. Harsh, & Richard Zollars. (2009). Contact angles of aluminosilicate clays as affected by relative humidity and exchangeable cations. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 353(1). 1–9. 81 indexed citations

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Harsh, James B., et al.. (2005). Clay Mineralogical Transformations over Time in Hanford Sediments Reacted with Simulated Tank Waste. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69(2). 531–538. 13 indexed citations

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