Matti Barthel

2.5k total citations
56 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Matti Barthel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matti Barthel has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Soil Science and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Matti Barthel's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Matti Barthel is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Matti Barthel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Belgium and Germany. Matti Barthel's co-authors include Johan Six, Pascal Boeckx, Nina Buchmann, Marijn Bauters, Michael Bahn, Alexander Knohl, Travis W. Drake, Landry Cizungu Ntaboba, Samuel Bodé and Sara Palacio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Water Research and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Matti Barthel

53 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matti Barthel Switzerland 21 552 551 478 282 275 56 1.5k
Philippe Ciais France 12 603 1.1× 813 1.5× 561 1.2× 394 1.4× 450 1.6× 14 1.9k
Kerou Zhang China 20 369 0.7× 341 0.6× 619 1.3× 232 0.8× 156 0.6× 44 1.2k
J. A. Hatten United States 20 466 0.8× 419 0.8× 516 1.1× 171 0.6× 88 0.3× 57 1.2k
Yongheng Gao China 23 483 0.9× 470 0.9× 787 1.6× 260 0.9× 165 0.6× 52 1.5k
Philip G. Taylor United States 14 556 1.0× 268 0.5× 449 0.9× 393 1.4× 162 0.6× 17 1.2k
Jens Boy Germany 22 458 0.8× 347 0.6× 349 0.7× 191 0.7× 409 1.5× 57 1.4k
Congsheng Zeng China 23 386 0.7× 302 0.5× 950 2.0× 266 0.9× 272 1.0× 62 1.5k
Henning Meesenburg Germany 15 355 0.6× 250 0.5× 321 0.7× 320 1.1× 188 0.7× 37 988
James M. Sulzman United States 7 494 0.9× 690 1.3× 431 0.9× 300 1.1× 237 0.9× 8 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matti Barthel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matti Barthel

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All Works

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Bauters, Marijn, Matti Barthel, Johan Six, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variability of CO 2 , N 2 O and CH 4 fluxes from a semi-deciduous tropical forest soil in the Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 22(6). 1529–1542.
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Yang, Tong, et al.. (2024). Impact of rice-crab and rice-fish co-cultures on the methane emission and its transport in aquaculture ponds. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 378. 109281–109281. 5 indexed citations
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Ho, Long, Matti Barthel, Stephen J. Harris, et al.. (2024). Unravelling CH4 and N2O dynamics in tidal wetlands using natural abundance isotopes and functional genes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 196. 109497–109497. 5 indexed citations
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Drake, Travis W., S. Baumgartner, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2024). Agricultural Land‐Use Increases Carbon Yields in Lowland Streams of the Congo Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 2 indexed citations
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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.
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Trew, Brittany T., David P. Edwards, Alexander Charles Lees, et al.. (2024). Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies. Nature Climate Change. 14(7). 753–759. 15 indexed citations
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Amundson, Ronald, Laura N. Lammers, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous Production and Consumption of Soil N2O Creates Complex Effects on Its Stable Isotope Composition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(9). 2 indexed citations
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Drake, Travis W., Matti Barthel, S. Baumgartner, et al.. (2023). Hydrology drives export and composition of carbon in a pristine tropical river. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(11). 2476–2491. 8 indexed citations
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Ho, Long, Matti Barthel, Stijn Bruneel, et al.. (2023). Impact of salinity gradient, water pollution and land use types on greenhouse gas emissions from an urbanized estuary. Environmental Pollution. 336. 122500–122500. 18 indexed citations
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Bauters, Marijn, Ivan A. Janssens, Sebastian Döetterl, et al.. (2022). Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1122–1131. 36 indexed citations
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Barthel, Matti, et al.. (2022). Stable Isotope Analysis of Greenhouse Gases Requires Analyte Preconcentration. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 76(7-8). 656–656. 1 indexed citations
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Griepentrog, Marco, Laban F. Turyagyenda, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2021). Nutrient limitations regulate soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical forests: evidence from an ecosystem-scale nutrient manipulation experiment in Uganda. SOIL. 7(2). 433–451. 13 indexed citations
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Baumgartner, S., Marijn Bauters, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2021). Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin. SOIL. 7(1). 83–94. 12 indexed citations
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Barthel, Matti, Elizabeth Verhoeven, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, et al.. (2021). In-depth analysis of N2O fluxes in tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin combining isotope and functional gene analysis. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3357–3374. 32 indexed citations
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Baumgartner, S., Matti Barthel, Travis W. Drake, et al.. (2020). Seasonality, drivers, and isotopic composition of soil CO 2 fluxes from tropical forests of the Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 17(23). 6207–6218. 8 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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Bauters, Marijn, Sofie Meeus, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2020). Century‐long apparent decrease in intrinsic water‐use efficiency with no evidence of progressive nutrient limitation in African tropical forests. Global Change Biology. 26(8). 4449–4461. 22 indexed citations
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Drake, Travis W., Kristof Van Oost, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2019). Mobilization of aged and biolabile soil carbon by tropical deforestation. Nature Geoscience. 12(7). 541–546. 112 indexed citations
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Verhoeven, Elizabeth, Matti Barthel, Longfei Yu, et al.. (2019). Early season N 2 O emissions under variable water management in rice systems: source-partitioning emissions using isotope ratios along a depth profile. Biogeosciences. 16(2). 383–408. 37 indexed citations
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Sturm, Patrick, Matti Barthel, Sophia Etzold, et al.. (2008). Ecosystem Fluxes of Stable Isotopes in Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Above a Forest Measured by Laser Spectroscopy. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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