Peter C. Lichtner

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

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Peter C. Lichtner is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter C. Lichtner has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Environmental Engineering, 25 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 22 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter C. Lichtner's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (47 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (46 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (18 papers). Peter C. Lichtner is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (47 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (46 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (18 papers). Peter C. Lichtner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Peter C. Lichtner's co-authors include Carl I. Steefel, Qinjun Kang, Glenn Hammond, Dongxiao Zhang, Éric H. Oelkers, Donald J. DePaolo, Richard T. Mills, Ioannis N. Tsimpanogiannis, J. William Carey and James J. Griffin and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Peter C. Lichtner

126 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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

2014 612 citations Carl I. Steefel, Diederik Jacques et al. profile →
Analysis and performance of oil well cement with 30 years of CO2 exposure from the SACROC Unit, West Texas, USA

2007 380 citations Peter C. Lichtner et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter C. Lichtner	4.3k	1.6k	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	133	7.1k
Albert J. Valocchi	4.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	381 0.3×	1.6k 1.6×	190	8.1k
Linda M. Abriola	5.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.1×	777 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	180	7.6k
Carl I. Steefel	7.1k 1.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	2.3k 2.0×	1.5k 1.5×	195	11.9k
Emil O. Frind	5.8k 1.3×	947 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	993 0.9×	2.4k 2.4×	95	7.3k
Ghislain de Marsily	4.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	564 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	153	7.6k
Zhenxue Dai	5.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.9×	2.4k 1.7×	874 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	249	8.5k
Marco Dentz	6.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	415 0.4×	2.3k 2.2×	212	8.5k
Olaf A. Cirpka	4.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	940 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	983 1.0×	215	7.7k
Nicolas Spycher	4.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	681 0.7×	114	6.8k
Mohamad Reza Soltanian	2.8k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	887 0.8×	539 0.5×	160	5.1k

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Benavidez, Angelica, Drew E. Latta, Fernando H. Garzón, et al.. (2025). Cr(VI) Reduction on Fe(III) Solid Surfaces at Vacuum Pressures. Surface and Interface Analysis. 57(6). 430–438.

Molins, Sergi, Jeffrey Johnson, Glenn Hammond, et al.. (2025). Alquimia v1.0: a generic interface to biogeochemical codes – a tool for interoperable development, prototyping and benchmarking for multiphysics simulators. Geoscientific model development. 18(11). 3241–3263.

González-Estrella, Jorge, Peter C. Burns, Ginger E. Sigmon, et al.. (2023). Kinetics of Na- and K- uranyl arsenate dissolution. Chemical Geology. 636. 121642–121642. 2 indexed citations

Garzón, Fernando H., et al.. (2022). Effect of Organic Compounds and Copper on Chromium(VI) Reduction: Electrochemical Investigation of Electron Transfer Rates. ACS ES&T Water. 2(12). 2471–2480. 7 indexed citations

Zhou, Dan, et al.. (2018). Numerical modelling of stream–aquifer interaction: Quantifying the impact of transient streambed permeability and aquifer heterogeneity. Hydrological Processes. 32(14). 2279–2292. 15 indexed citations

Jacques, Diederik, et al.. (2018). Development of a Fully Coupled Biogeochemical Reactive Transport Model to Simulate Microbial Oxidation of Organic Carbon and Pyrite Under Nitrate‐Reducing Conditions. Water Resources Research. 54(11). 9264–9286. 16 indexed citations

Tang, Guoping, Fengming Yuan, Gautam Bisht, et al.. (2016). Addressing numerical challenges in introducing a reactive transport code into a land surface model: a biogeochemical modeling proof-of-concept with CLM–PFLOTRAN 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 9(3). 927–946. 22 indexed citations

Tang, Guoping, Fengming Yuan, Gautam Bisht, et al.. (2015). Using reactive transport codes to provide mechanistic biogeochemistry representations in global land surface models: CLM-PFLOTRAN 1.0. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

Karra, Satish, Scott Painter, & Peter C. Lichtner. (2014). Three-phase numerical model for subsurface hydrology in permafrost-affected regions (PFLOTRAN-ICE v1.0). The cryosphere. 8(5). 1935–1950. 70 indexed citations

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Karra, Satish, Scott Painter, & Peter C. Lichtner. (2014). Three-phase numerical model for subsurface hydrology in permafrost-affected regions. 21 indexed citations

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Gardner, W. Payton, Glenn Hammond, & Peter C. Lichtner. (2013). High Performance Simulation of Multiple Environmental Tracers: Exploring Groundwater Age and Tracer Systematics in High Resolution Heterogeneous Domains.. Ground Water. 1 indexed citations

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Karra, Satish, Gautam Bisht, Peter C. Lichtner, & Glenn Hammond. (2013). Coupling geomechanics with flow and reactive transport in PFLOTRAN for subsurface applications. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Mills, Robert, Gautam Bisht, Satish Karra, et al.. (2012). Progress Towards Coupled Simulation of Surface/Subsurface Hydrologic Processes and Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics Using the Community Models PFLOTRAN and CLM. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Newell, Dennis L., et al.. (2011). Experimental Determination of Supercritical CO 2 Mass Transfer Rates into Brine. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 4 indexed citations

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Tsimpanogiannis, Ioannis N., et al.. (2005). Pore-Network Approach for Upscaling Continuum Reactive Transport Equations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005.

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Kang, Qinjun & Peter C. Lichtner. (2005). Lattice Boltzmann pore-scale model for coupled multi-component flow diffusion, and reaction. GeCAS. 69(10). 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Chuan, Peter C. Lichtner, & Ioannis N. Tsimpanogiannis. (2005). Parametric Study of CO2 Sequestration in Geologic Media Using the Massively Parallel Computer Code PFLOTRAN. AGUFM. 2005. 4 indexed citations

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Macdonald, Daniel, A. Cuevas, Stefan Rein, Peter C. Lichtner, & Stefan W. Glunz. (2003). Temperature- and injection-dependent lifetime spectroscopy of copper-related defects in silicon. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1. 87–90. 6 indexed citations

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Lichtner, Peter C.. (2003). A Pore-Network Study of Methane Clathrate Hydrate Dissociation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 2 indexed citations

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Steefel, Carl I., Susan Carroll, Steven B. Yabusaki, & Peter C. Lichtner. (2001). Evaluation of the Field Exchange Capacity of Hanford Sediments with Implications for 137Cs Migration. 3750. 1 indexed citations

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