Markus Kleber

33.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
122 papers, 24.5k citations indexed

About

Markus Kleber is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Kleber has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 24.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Soil Science, 32 papers in Ecology and 30 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Markus Kleber's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (57 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (24 papers). Markus Kleber is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (57 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (24 papers). Markus Kleber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Markus Kleber's co-authors include Johannes Lehmann, Marco Keiluweit, Peter Nico, Reinhold Jahn, Margaret Torn, Mark G. Johnson, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Robert Mikutta, Georg Guggenberger and Phillip Sollins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Markus Kleber

120 papers receiving 24.0k citations

Hit Papers

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property 2006 2026 2012 2019 2011 2015 2010 2008 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property
    2011 4.4k citations Margaret Torn, Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  2. The contentious nature of soil organic matter
    2015 3.0k citations Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  3. Dynamic Molecular Structure of Plant Biomass-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar)
    2010 2.5k citations Marco Keiluweit, Peter Nico et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  4. Organo‐mineral associations in temperate soils: Integrating biology, mineralogy, and organic matter chemistry
    2008 973 citations Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  5. A conceptual model of organo-mineral interactions in soils: self-assembly of organic molecular fragments into zonal structures on mineral surfaces
    2007 948 citations Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  6. Redox Properties of Plant Biomass-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar)
    2014 917 citations Marco Keiluweit, Markus Kleber et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  7. Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates
    2015 835 citations Marco Keiluweit, Peter Nico et al. profile →
  8. Dynamic interactions at the mineral–organic matter interface
    2021 710 citations Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  9. Stabilization of Soil Organic Matter: Association with Minerals or Chemical Recalcitrance?
    2006 706 citations Robert Mikutta, Markus Kleber et al. profile →
  10. Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity
    2020 591 citations Markus Kleber, Margaret Torn et al. profile →
  11. Molecular-Level Interactions in Soils and Sediments: The Role of Aromatic π-Systems
    2009 483 citations Marco Keiluweit, Markus Kleber Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  12. Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization
    2017 355 citations Marco Keiluweit, Markus Kleber 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
Markus Kleber United States 52 12.6k 6.9k 4.6k 3.0k 3.0k 122 24.5k
Georg Guggenberger Germany 78 17.6k 1.4× 10.0k 1.5× 7.1k 1.5× 3.1k 1.0× 3.3k 1.1× 335 29.7k
Wulf Amelung Germany 77 10.1k 0.8× 5.4k 0.8× 4.1k 0.9× 5.8k 1.9× 1.8k 0.6× 352 22.8k
Cornélia Rumpel France 64 11.8k 0.9× 5.7k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 259 18.0k
Wolfgang Zech Germany 60 8.6k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 2.6k 0.6× 3.1k 1.0× 2.4k 0.8× 266 17.5k
Bruno Glaser Germany 67 9.1k 0.7× 3.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.4× 2.4k 0.8× 2.6k 0.9× 247 20.0k
Karsten Kalbitz Germany 56 7.8k 0.6× 6.1k 0.9× 5.3k 1.1× 3.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.5× 187 16.7k
Klaus Kaiser Germany 61 7.4k 0.6× 4.6k 0.7× 4.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 210 15.5k
Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner Germany 96 26.2k 2.1× 13.7k 2.0× 8.4k 1.8× 4.4k 1.5× 4.2k 1.4× 379 41.1k
Roland Bol Germany 64 8.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 4.1k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 965 0.3× 413 15.7k
Jeff Baldock Australia 67 9.2k 0.7× 5.8k 0.8× 3.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 212 16.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Kleber

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schaller, Jörg, Markus Kleber, Daniel Puppe, et al.. (2025). The importance of reactive silica for maintaining soil health. Plant and Soil. 513(2). 1651–1662. 5 indexed citations
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Kleber, Markus, et al.. (2025). Bacterial tyrosinases as extracellular sources of quinone-based electron shuttles in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 210. 109903–109903.
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Torabian, Shahram, Esther Kim, Ruijun Qin, et al.. (2024). Soil microbial biomass influenced by cover crop after fumigation of potato fields. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177910–177910. 2 indexed citations
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Myrold, David D., Ryan Mueller, Thomas Wanzek, et al.. (2024). Drainage gradient versus seasonal cycles: Differential response of microbial community composition to variations in soil moisture. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 88(6). 2123–2134.
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Lybrand, Rebecca A., et al.. (2023). Organic carbon enables the biotic engineering of beneficial soil structure in Profundihumic and Haplic Ferralsols. European Journal of Soil Science. 74(5). 4 indexed citations
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Zheljazkov, Valtcho D., et al.. (2019). Micronutrients in the Soil and Wheat: Impact of 84 Years of Organic or Synthetic Fertilization and Crop Residue Management. Agronomy. 9(8). 464–464. 12 indexed citations
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Zheljazkov, Valtcho D., et al.. (2019). Micronutrients decline under long-term tillage and nitrogen fertilization. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12020–12020. 35 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Trang, Markus Kleber, & David D. Myrold. (2019). Contribution of different catalytic types of peptidases to soil proteolytic activity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 138. 107578–107578. 6 indexed citations
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Zheljazkov, Valtcho D., et al.. (2019). Micronutrient Concentrations in Soil and Wheat Decline by Long-Term Tillage and Winter Wheat–Pea Rotation. Agronomy. 9(7). 359–359. 9 indexed citations
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Wanzek, Thomas, Marco Keiluweit, Tamás Varga, et al.. (2018). The Ability of Soil Pore Network Metrics to Predict Redox Dynamics Is Scale Dependent. Soil Systems. 2(4). 66–66. 16 indexed citations
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Chacon, Stephany S., et al.. (2018). Differential capacity of kaolinite and birnessite to protect surface associated proteins against thermal degradation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 119. 101–109. 11 indexed citations
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Gray, Myles, Mark G. Johnson, M. I. Dragila, & Markus Kleber. (2014). Water uptake in biochars: The roles of porosity and hydrophobicity. Biomass and Bioenergy. 61. 196–205. 395 indexed citations
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Riley, W. J., Federico Maggi, Markus Kleber, et al.. (2014). Long residence times of rapidly decomposable soil organic matter: application of a multi-phase, multi-component, and vertically resolved model (BAMS1) to soil carbon dynamics. Geoscientific model development. 7(4). 1335–1355. 103 indexed citations
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Torn, Margaret, Markus Kleber, Erika S. Zavaleta, et al.. (2013). A dual isotope approach to isolate soil carbon pools of different turnover times. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8067–8081. 56 indexed citations
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Moni, Christophe, Delphine Derrien, Pierre‐Joseph Hatton, Bernd Zeller, & Markus Kleber. (2012). Density fractions versus size separates: does physical fractionation isolate functional soil compartments?. Biogeosciences. 9(12). 5181–5197. 68 indexed citations
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Moni, Christophe, Delphine Derrien, Pierre‐Joseph Hatton, Bernd Zeller, & Markus Kleber. (2012). Density fractions versus size separates: does physical fractionation isolate functional soil compartments?. 3 indexed citations
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Keiluweit, Marco, Peter Nico, Mark G. Johnson, & Markus Kleber. (2010). Dynamic Molecular Structure of Plant Biomass-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar). Environmental Science & Technology. 44(4). 1247–1253. 2506 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rodionov, A. A., Wulf Amelung, N. Peinemann, et al.. (2010). Black carbon in grassland ecosystems of the world. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 24(3). 80 indexed citations
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Mikutta, Robert, Markus Kleber, Klaus Kaiser, & Reinhold Jahn. (2005). Review: organic matter removal from soils using hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite, and disodium peroxodisulfate. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69(1). 120–135. 307 indexed citations
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Kozhuharov, C., P. Kienle, D. H. Jakubaßa-Amundsen, & Markus Kleber. (1977). Gamma-rays from K-shell ionisation induced by heavy-ion collision. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations

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