Michael Herbst

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Herbst is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Herbst has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 50 papers in Environmental Engineering and 32 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Herbst's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (49 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers). Michael Herbst is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (49 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers). Michael Herbst collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Herbst's co-authors include Harry Vereecken, Lutz Weihermüller, Johan Alexander Huisman, Jan Vanderborght, Heye Bogena, Yakov Pachepsky, Carsten Montzka, Bernd Diekkrüger, Alexander Graf and U. Rosenbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michael Herbst

112 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

On the spatio-temporal dy... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2017 100 200 300
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. On the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil moisture at the field scale
    2013 398 citations Harry Vereecken, Johan Alexander Huisman et al. profile →
  2. Pedotransfer Functions in Earth System Science: Challenges and Perspectives
    2017 377 citations Michael Herbst, Anne Verhoef et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Herbst 2.4k 1.7k 1.3k 1.2k 955 122 4.7k
Todd H. Skaggs 2.9k 1.2× 2.0k 1.2× 859 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 691 0.7× 103 4.6k
Ole Wendroth 2.5k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 591 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 608 0.6× 139 4.3k
Keith L. Bristow 1.8k 0.7× 2.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.7k 1.4× 627 0.7× 123 5.8k
S. Assouline 1.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 2.3k 2.0× 1.4k 1.4× 158 6.1k
Carsten Montzka 3.1k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 973 0.8× 467 0.4× 856 0.9× 117 4.4k
Michel Vauclin 2.9k 1.2× 3.0k 1.8× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 115 5.6k
Lutz Weihermüller 2.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 618 0.5× 791 0.7× 549 0.6× 113 3.9k
Trenton E. Franz 2.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 431 0.4× 798 0.8× 117 3.9k
J.C. van Dam 1.8k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 128 4.5k
Wei Hu 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 907 0.9× 138 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Herbst

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Herbst

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Herbst

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Herbst. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Herbst based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Herbst. Michael Herbst is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Siebers, Nina, et al.. (2024). Simulation of soil phosphorus dynamics and crop yield for organic and mineral fertilization treatments at two long-term field sites. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177517–177517. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yue, Michael Herbst, Zhijun Chen, et al.. (2024). Long term response and adaptation of farmland water, carbon and nitrogen balances to climate change in arid to semi-arid regions. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 364. 108882–108882. 6 indexed citations
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Weihermüller, Lutz, Peter Lehmann, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2021). Choice of Pedotransfer Functions Matters when Simulating Soil Water Balance Fluxes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(3). 36 indexed citations
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Brogi, Cosimo, Johan Alexander Huisman, Lutz Weihermüller, Michael Herbst, & Harry Vereecken. (2021). Added value of geophysics-based soil mapping in agro-ecosystem simulations. SOIL. 7(1). 125–143. 12 indexed citations
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Huang, Yafei, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks Franssen, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of different methods for gap filling of long‐term actual evapotranspiration time series measured by lysimeters. Vadose Zone Journal. 19(1). 19 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael, et al.. (2019). Assessing Crop Water Relations in a Changing Climate Using the AMBAV Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Marushchak, Maija E., Thomas Friborg, Christina Biasi, et al.. (2016). Methane dynamics in the subarctic tundra: combining stable isotope analyses, plot- and ecosystem-scale flux measurements. Biogeosciences. 13(2). 597–608. 28 indexed citations
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Marushchak, Maija E., Thomas Friborg, Christina Biasi, et al.. (2015). Methane dynamics in warming tundra of Northeast European Russia. 1 indexed citations
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Vanderborght, Jan, et al.. (2013). 20 years of long-term atrazine monitoring in a shallow aquifer in western Germany. Water Research. 50. 294–306. 148 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael, Thomas Friborg, Kirsten Schelde, et al.. (2013). Climate and site management as driving factors for the atmospheric greenhouse gas exchange of a restored wetland. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 39–52. 50 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael, Thomas Friborg, Kirsten Schelde, et al.. (2012). Climate and site management as driving factors for the atmospheric greenhouse gas exchange of a restored wetland. GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 3 indexed citations
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Scharnagl, B., Jasper A. Vrugt, Harry Vereecken, & Michael Herbst. (2011). Bayesian inverse modelling of in situ soil water dynamics: using prior information about the soil hydraulic properties. 16 indexed citations
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Vanderborght, Jan, et al.. (2010). Using IR-measured soil surface temperatures to estimate hydraulic properties of the top soil layer. EGUGA. 15021. 1 indexed citations
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Scharnagl, B., Jasper A. Vrugt, Harry Vereecken, & Michael Herbst. (2010). Information content of incubation experiments for inverse estimation of pools in the Rothamsted carbon model: a Bayesian perspective. Biogeosciences. 7(2). 763–776. 31 indexed citations
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Bechtold, Michel, Jan Vanderborght, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2009). Lateral water redistribution during evaporative-driven upward flow and its effect on solute transport. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael, Hoshin V. Gupta, & Markus Casper. (2009). Mapping model behaviour using Self-Organizing Maps. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(3). 395–409. 32 indexed citations
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Graf, Alexander, Lutz Weihermüller, Johan Alexander Huisman, et al.. (2008). Measurement depth effects on the apparent temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in field studies. Biogeosciences. 5(4). 1175–1188. 69 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael & Markus Casper. (2007). Towards model evaluation and identification using Self-Organizing Maps. 2 indexed citations
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Hardelauf, H., Mathieu Javaux, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2007). PARSWMS: a parallelized model for simulating 3-D water flow and solute transport in soils. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations
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Herbst, Michael, et al.. (2005). Missionarische Perspektiven für eine Kirche der Zukunft.

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