Olaf Kolditz

13.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
365 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

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Olaf Kolditz is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Kolditz has authored 365 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 193 papers in Environmental Engineering, 97 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 88 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Olaf Kolditz's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (137 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (82 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (77 papers). Olaf Kolditz is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (137 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (82 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (77 papers). Olaf Kolditz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Olaf Kolditz's co-authors include Wenqing Wang, Haibing Shao, H.-J. G. Diersch, Thomas Nagel, Sebastian Bauer, Thomas Kalbacher, Uwe–Jens Görke, Hua Shao, Norihiro Watanabe and Dmitri Naumov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Kolditz

355 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Reactive transport codes for subsurface environmental simulation

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Author						Papers	Cites
Olaf Kolditz	4.9k	2.4k	2.0k	1.8k	1.6k	365	9.4k
Dongxiao Zhang	5.1k 1.1×	3.9k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	528 0.3×	392	13.4k
Zhenxue Dai	5.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	316 0.2×	249	8.5k
Michael A. Celia	8.4k 1.7×	4.0k 1.7×	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	566 0.3×	192	12.6k
John L. Wilson	4.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	3.9k 1.9×	414 0.2×	587 0.4×	386	10.9k
Philipp Blum	4.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	648 0.4×	4.3k 2.7×	207	7.7k
Jacob Bear	8.2k 1.7×	3.6k 1.5×	4.2k 2.0×	2.3k 1.3×	545 0.3×	109	16.8k
Chin‐Fu Tsang	5.9k 1.2×	4.6k 1.9×	2.8k 1.3×	4.0k 2.2×	622 0.4×	173	10.1k
Peter Bayer	4.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	363 0.2×	3.8k 2.3×	186	7.6k
Martin Sauter	3.0k 0.6×	813 0.3×	519 0.3×	630 0.4×	702 0.4×	249	6.7k
Tianfu Xu	6.8k 1.4×	2.9k 1.2×	773 0.4×	2.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	283	9.4k

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Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2025). Environmental earth sciences. Environmental Earth Sciences. 84(19). 1 indexed citations

Hu, Mengsu, Jeoung Seok Yoon, T. SASAKI, et al.. (2025). Benchmark study of a new simplified DFN model for shearing of intersecting fractures and faults. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 41. 100644–100644. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Wenqing, et al.. (2025). The relevance of two-phase flow in the thermo-hydro-mechanical evolution of clay formations exposed to high temperatures by heat-emitting waste. Applied Thermal Engineering. 264. 125379–125379.

Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2024). Clay rocks—characterization of natural and engineered barriers. Environmental Earth Sciences. 83(21).

Shao, Hua, et al.. (2024). Shear-induced fluid localization, episodic fluid release and porosity wave in deformable low-permeability rock salt. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 40. 100600–100600. 2 indexed citations

Shao, Haibing, et al.. (2024). The value of simplified models of radionuclide transport for the safety assessment of nuclear waste repositories: A benchmark study. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 267. 104417–104417. 2 indexed citations

Zheng, Tianyuan, Xiaoping Yu, Qinpeng Chang, et al.. (2024). Transient behavior of the freshwater-saltwater mixing zone after land reclamation in coastal aquifers. Advances in Water Resources. 189. 104728–104728. 6 indexed citations

Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2023). GeomInt—Discontinuities in Geosystems From Lab to Field Scale. 2 indexed citations

Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2023). Design-of-Experiment (DoE) based history matching for probabilistic integrity analysis—A case study of the FE-experiment at Mont Terri. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 244. 109903–109903. 8 indexed citations

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Rink, Karsten, et al.. (2022). An environmental information system for the exploration of energy systems. Geothermal Energy. 10(1). 8 indexed citations

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Peng, Wenqi, Shuanghu Zhang, Xiaobo Liu, et al.. (2021). Modeling the impacts of plants and internal organic carbon on remediation performance in the integrated vertical flow constructed wetland. Water Research. 204. 117635–117635. 15 indexed citations

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Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2021). Hydro-mechanical continuum modelling of fluid percolation through rock salt. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 147. 104879–104879. 11 indexed citations

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Kolditz, Olaf, et al.. (2021). ogs6py and VTUinterface: streamlining OpenGeoSys workflows in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 6(67). 3673–3673. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Min, et al.. (2020). Monitoring and modeling of water ecologic security in large river-lake systems. Journal of Hydrology. 591. 125576–125576. 5 indexed citations

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Jing, Miao, Falk Heße, Rohini Kumar, et al.. (2019). Influence of input and parameter uncertainty on the prediction of catchment-scale groundwater travel time distributions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(1). 171–190. 27 indexed citations

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Jing, Miao, Falk Heße, Rohini Kumar, et al.. (2018). Improved regional-scale groundwater representation by the coupling of the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM v5.7) to the groundwater model OpenGeoSys (OGS). Geoscientific model development. 11(5). 1989–2007. 28 indexed citations

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Jing, Miao, Falk Heße, Rohini Kumar, et al.. (2018). mHM#OGS v1.0: the coupling interface between the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) and the groundwater model OpenGeoSys (OGS). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

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Jing, Miao, Falk Heße, Wenqing Wang, et al.. (2017). Improved representation of groundwater at a regional scale – coupling of mesocale Hydrologic Model (mHM) with OpeneGeoSys (OGS). 3 indexed citations

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Görke, Uwe–Jens, Thomas Nagel, & Olaf Kolditz. (2013). On the necessity and a generalized conceptual model for the consideration of large strains in rock mechanics. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 80–91. 1 indexed citations

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Sauter, Martin, et al.. (2006). Reducing ambiguity in fractured-porous media characterization using single-well tracer tests. IAHS-AISH publication. 17–24. 4 indexed citations

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