Moritz Bigalke

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Moritz Bigalke is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moritz Bigalke has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Pollution, 15 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 15 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Moritz Bigalke's work include Heavy metals in environment (30 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (17 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers). Moritz Bigalke is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (30 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (17 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers). Moritz Bigalke collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Ecuador. Moritz Bigalke's co-authors include Michael E. Scheurer, Wolfgang Wilcke, Stefan Weyer, Armin Keller, Matthias Wiggenhauser, Martin Imseng, Emmanuel Frossard, Jozef Kobža, Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe and Michael Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Moritz Bigalke

67 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Microplastics in Swiss Floodplain Soils

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moritz Bigalke Switzerland	26	2.3k	1.1k	640	526	450	69	3.4k
Bin Huang China	25	1.5k 0.7×	472 0.4×	540 0.8×	323 0.6×	288 0.6×	67	3.1k
Michele Arienzo Italy	31	1.9k 0.8×	406 0.4×	828 1.3×	318 0.6×	168 0.4×	90	3.5k
F.A. Vega Spain	37	2.4k 1.0×	295 0.3×	677 1.1×	573 1.1×	402 0.9×	90	3.6k
Ganga M. Hettiarachchi United States	30	1.8k 0.8×	391 0.4×	918 1.4×	404 0.8×	222 0.5×	111	3.2k
Jie Ma China	35	1.4k 0.6×	411 0.4×	419 0.7×	342 0.7×	238 0.5×	148	3.7k
Zeng‐Yei Hseu Taiwan	30	1.6k 0.7×	208 0.2×	663 1.0×	511 1.0×	375 0.8×	132	3.0k
María Luisa Andrade Couce Spain	35	2.0k 0.9×	225 0.2×	585 0.9×	592 1.1×	347 0.8×	83	3.1k
Changzhou Yan China	36	2.3k 1.0×	563 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	216 0.4×	251 0.6×	146	3.9k
Shenggao Lu China	35	1.1k 0.5×	405 0.4×	285 0.4×	515 1.0×	475 1.1×	102	3.8k
Francisco Cabrera Spain	35	2.1k 0.9×	431 0.4×	498 0.8×	557 1.1×	266 0.6×	92	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moritz Bigalke

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Kundel, Dominika, et al.. (2025). Tracks of travel: unveiling tire particle concentrations in Swiss cantonal road soils. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 4 indexed citations

Weinbruch, Stephan, et al.. (2025). Deposition rates and air concentrations of tire and road wear particles near a motorway in Germany. Atmospheric Environment. 352. 121228–121228. 2 indexed citations

Kuster, B.F.M., et al.. (2024). All black: a microplastic extraction combined with colour-based analysis allows identification and characterisation of tire wear particles (TWP) in soils. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 25–25. 6 indexed citations

Schlaeppi, Klaus, et al.. (2024). Soil Indigenous Microbes Interact with Maize Plants in High-Arsenic Soils to Limit the Translocation of Inorganic Arsenic Species to Maize Upper Tissues. Exposure and Health. 17(1). 201–219.

Fischer, Daniela, Xiaowen Liu, Klaus Schlaeppi, et al.. (2023). The Effects of Soil Microbial Disturbance and Plants on Arsenic Concentrations and Speciation in Soil Water and Soils. Exposure and Health. 16(3). 805–820. 5 indexed citations

Filella, Montserrat, et al.. (2023). After the sun: a nanoscale comparison of the surface chemical composition of UV and soil weathered plastics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 18–18. 6 indexed citations

Weber, Collin J., Matthias C. Rillig, & Moritz Bigalke. (2023). Mind the gap: forest soils as a hidden hub for global micro- and nanoplastic pollution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 14 indexed citations

Mitrano, Denise M., Moritz Bigalke, Andy M. Booth, et al.. (2023). Training the next generation of plastics pollution researchers: tools, skills and career perspectives in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 24–24. 7 indexed citations

Gfeller, Valentin, Selma Cadot, Jan Waelchli, et al.. (2023). Soil chemical and microbial gradients determine accumulation of root‐exuded secondary metabolites and plant–soil feedbacks in the field. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 173–188. 3 indexed citations

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Zarei, Mehdi, et al.. (2022). Geochemistry of groundwater and metal(loid) behavior in the costal aquifers of the Maharlu Lake, Iran. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(49). 74861–74876. 1 indexed citations

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Weber, Collin J. & Moritz Bigalke. (2022). Opening Space for Plastics—Why Spatial, Soil and Land Use Data Are Important to Understand Global Soil (Micro)Plastic Pollution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 610–625. 14 indexed citations

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Cadot, Selma, Moritz Bigalke, Jean‐Claude Walser, et al.. (2021). Specific and conserved patterns of microbiota-structuring by maize benzoxazinoids in the field. Microbiome. 9(1). 103–103. 71 indexed citations

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Langa, Xavier, Peter Aleström, Eduardo Dı́az, et al.. (2021). A Systematic Analysis of Metal and Metalloid Concentrations in Eight Zebrafish Recirculating Water Systems. Zebrafish. 18(4). 252–264. 2 indexed citations

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Bigalke, Moritz, et al.. (2021). Microplastics in agricultural drainage water: A link between terrestrial and aquatic microplastic pollution. The Science of The Total Environment. 806(Pt 4). 150709–150709. 60 indexed citations

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Bigalke, Moritz, Adrian Gilli, Fabian Rey, et al.. (2020). Variations of sedimentary Fe and Mn fractions under changing lake mixing regimes, oxygenation and land surface processes during Late-glacial and Holocene times. The Science of The Total Environment. 755(Pt 2). 143418–143418. 41 indexed citations

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Schneider, Tobias, Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe, Moritz Bigalke, et al.. (2020). 250-year records of mercury and trace element deposition in two lakes from Cajas National Park, SW Ecuadorian Andes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(13). 16227–16243. 9 indexed citations

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Wilcke, Wolfgang, Andre Velescu, Sophia Leimer, et al.. (2019). Temporal Trends of Phosphorus Cycling in a Tropical Montane Forest in Ecuador During 14 Years. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(5). 1370–1386. 21 indexed citations

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Bigalke, Moritz, Stefan Weyer, & Wolfgang Wilcke. (2009). Isotopic fractionation of copper during soil genesis. GeCAS. 73. 2 indexed citations

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Bigalke, Moritz, et al.. (1981). Breeding, social behaviour and management of greywing and redwing francolins. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 11. 133–139. 9 indexed citations

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Bigalke, Moritz, et al.. (1979). Some effects of fire on two grassland francolins in the Natal Drakensberg. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 9. 1–8. 11 indexed citations

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