Rainer Horn

23.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
385 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Rainer Horn is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Horn has authored 385 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 278 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 192 papers in Soil Science and 59 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rainer Horn's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (204 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (105 papers) and Soil Management and Crop Yield (86 papers). Rainer Horn is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (204 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (105 papers) and Soil Management and Crop Yield (86 papers). Rainer Horn collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Chile and China. Rainer Horn's co-authors include Stephan Peth, Heiner Fleige, José Dörner, A. J. M. Smucker, Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Thomas Baumgartl, Dörthe Holthusen, José Miguel Reichert, Xinhua Peng and Ying Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Horn

377 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

Reference bulk density and critical degree-of-compactness for no-till crop production in subtropical highly weathered soils

2008 445 citations José Miguel Reichert, Dalvan José Reinert et al. Soil and Tillage Research profile →
Historical increase in agricultural machinery weights enhanced soil stress levels and adversely affected soil functioning

2019 277 citations Rainer Horn et al. Soil and Tillage Research profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Horn

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Soil Pore System Functionality in a Micro‐Watershed Formed by Wet Meadows (Vegas) in the Southernmost Chilean Patagonia 2025 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), José Dörner, José Luis Arumí, Susana Valle, Jorge Valenzuela, Enrique Muñoz, Dorota Dec, Rainer Horn	2
2	Pore rigidity as an undervalued process in soil structure development 2024 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Rainer Horn, Heiner Fleige, José Dörner, (unknown), Ole Wendroth	6
3	Changes in mechanical and resilience characteristics of degraded arable land under long-term grassland management 2024 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Oluwaseun Temitope Faloye, Jens Rostek, (unknown), (unknown), Rainer Horn	0
4	Soil water diffusivity as function of the pore size distribution and precompression stress 2023 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Anneka Mordhorst, Heiner Fleige, Rainer Horn	2
5	Mechanical Soil Database – Part II: Dependence of air conductivity on soil texture, type, structure, and cohesion: Results from a database obtained over three decades 2023 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), Heiner Fleige, Mario Hasler, Rainer Horn	5
6	Protecting the soil is protecting the climate WASWAC and IUSS position paper on the inter linkages of soil and climate change 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·José Luis Rubio, Laura Bertha Reyes‐Sánchez, (unknown), Edoardo A.C. Costantini, Rainer Horn, (unknown)	4
7	Analyzing the impact of grazing and short-term irrigation management on soil mechanical strength of a volcanic ash soil under different types of pastures 2021 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Dorota Dec, (unknown), Rainer Horn, Daniel Uteau, Stephan Peth, Felipe Zúñiga, (unknown), (unknown), Óscar Martínez, Óscar Balocchi, (unknown), José Dörner	6
8	Consequences of gas pipeline hauling on changes in soil properties over 3 years 2021 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Rainer Horn, Anneka Mordhorst, Heiner Fleige	5
9	Effective stress and pore water dynamics in unsaturated soils: Influence of soil compaction history and soil properties 2021 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Oluwaseun Temitope Faloye, Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, (unknown), Heiner Fleige, José Dörner, Rainer Horn	17
10	Natural and anthropogenic compaction in North Germany (Schleswig‐Holstein): Verification of harmful subsoil compactions 2020 ·Soil Use and Management ·Anneka Mordhorst, Heiner Fleige, (unknown), (unknown), Rainer Horn	13
11	Soil type and land use effects on tensorial properties of saturated hydraulic conductivity in northern Germany 2019 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Rainer Horn, Anneka Mordhorst, Heiner Fleige, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	19
12	Evaluation of temporal changes in hydrostructural properties of regenerating permanent grassland soils based on shrinkage properties and μCT analysis 2018 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Rainer Horn, Jens Rostek, Daniel Uteau, Stephan Peth	22
13	Permeabilidad y difusión de aire en el subsuelo de un Andisol sujeto a distintas estrategias de mejoramiento de praderas 2018 ·Agro Sur ·(unknown), Rainer Horn, Horst H. Gerke, Dorota Dec, (unknown), José Dörner	8
14	Transformation of ex-arable land to permanent grassland promotes pore rigidity and mechanical soil resilience 2016 ·Ecological Engineering ·Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Rainer Horn	25
15	Modification of chemical and hydrophysical properties of two texturally differentiated soils due to varying magnitudes of added biochar 2016 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Rainer Horn	111
16	Conceptual framework for capacity and intensity physical soil properties affected by short and long-term (14 years) continuous no-tillage and controlled traffic 2015 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·José Miguel Reichert, (unknown), Eduardo Saldanha Vogelmann, (unknown), Rainer Horn, Dalvan José Reinert, (unknown), J. E. Denardin	149
17	Swelling-shrinkage properties and hydraulic conductivity of a compacted coal mine tailing rock likely to be used for landfill capping 2007 ·International Agrophysics ·(unknown), Witold Stępniewski, Rainer Horn	3
18	Shrinkage properties of three clay materials at different temperatures 2006 ·International Agrophysics ·(unknown), Witold Stępniewski, Rainer Horn	3
19	Modelling the effects of repeated wheel loads on soil profiles 1997 ·International Agrophysics ·B G Richards, Thomas Baumgartl, Rainer Horn, (unknown)	11
20	Denitrification rate and microbial distribution within homogeneous model soil aggregates 1994 ·International Agrophysics ·Rainer Horn, Witold Stępniewski, T. Włodarczyk, (unknown), Friedrich E. W. Eckhardt	32

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