Raphaël Wittwer

3.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Raphaël Wittwer is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaël Wittwer has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Soil Science, 17 papers in Plant Science and 12 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Raphaël Wittwer's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers), Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (8 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers). Raphaël Wittwer is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers), Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (8 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers). Raphaël Wittwer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. Raphaël Wittwer's co-authors include Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Samiran Banerjee, Klaus Schlaeppi, Kyle Hartman, Jean‐Claude Walser, Brigitte Dorn, W. Jossi, Johan Six, Thomas Scholten and Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Raphaël Wittwer

32 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming

2018 534 citations Kyle Hartman, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al. profile →
A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review

2020 240 citations Gina Garland, Samiran Banerjee et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality

2021 204 citations Raphaël Wittwer, S. Franz Bender et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raphaël Wittwer Switzerland	16	923	811	538	405	220	34	1.9k
N.J.M. van Eekeren Netherlands	19	586 0.6×	911 1.1×	625 1.2×	300 0.7×	297 1.4×	94	1.7k
Haishui Yang China	25	1.2k 1.3×	854 1.1×	313 0.6×	273 0.7×	497 2.3×	84	2.2k
P. Maeder Switzerland	2	1.1k 1.1×	861 1.1×	510 0.9×	345 0.9×	259 1.2×	4	2.0k
Laëtitia Bernard France	19	894 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	868 1.6×	456 1.1×	237 1.1×	35	2.3k
Göran Bergkvist Sweden	26	1.0k 1.1×	942 1.2×	570 1.1×	830 2.0×	287 1.3×	87	2.4k
Stefan Hauser Nigeria	23	743 0.8×	836 1.0×	256 0.5×	417 1.0×	356 1.6×	120	2.1k
Hans‐Rudolf Oberholzer Switzerland	19	1.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	629 1.2×	313 0.8×	248 1.1×	36	2.5k
Mitchell C. Hunter United States	16	781 0.8×	552 0.7×	257 0.5×	587 1.4×	168 0.8×	31	1.6k
Emily E. Oldfield United States	20	570 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	753 1.4×	238 0.6×	254 1.2×	31	2.2k
Jean‐Christophe Lata France	21	754 0.8×	712 0.9×	560 1.0×	202 0.5×	248 1.1×	52	1.9k

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Sun, Qing, Anna K. Gilgen, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2024). Drought effects on trait space of winter wheat are independent of land management. New Phytologist. 243(2). 591–606. 5 indexed citations

Wittwer, Raphaël, et al.. (2024). Effects of conventional, organic and conservation agriculture on soil physical properties, root growth and microbial habitats in a long-term field experiment. Geoderma. 447. 116927–116927. 12 indexed citations

Wittwer, Raphaël, Valentin H. Klaus, Qing Sun, et al.. (2023). Limited capability of organic farming and conservation tillage to enhance agroecosystem resilience to severe drought. Agricultural Systems. 211. 103721–103721. 11 indexed citations

Wittwer, Raphaël, Valentin H. Klaus, Qing Sun, et al.. (2023). Limited Capability of Organic Farming and Conservation Tillage to Enhance Agroecosystem Resilience to Severe Drought. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Sun, Qing, Valentin H. Klaus, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2022). Water uptake patterns of pea and barley responded to drought but not to cropping systems. Biogeosciences. 19(6). 1853–1869. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Yujie, Qing Sun, Anna K. Gilgen, et al.. (2022). Severe drought rather than cropping system determines litter decomposition in arable systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 338. 108078–108078. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Qing, Valentin H. Klaus, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2021). Water uptake patterns of pea and barley responded to drought but not to cropping systems. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 4 indexed citations

Wittwer, Raphaël, S. Franz Bender, Kyle Hartman, et al.. (2021). Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality. Science Advances. 7(34). 204 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Yujie, Christoph Bachofen, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2021). Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield. Agricultural Systems. 195. 103306–103306. 29 indexed citations

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Krauss, Maike, Martin Wiesmeier, Axel Don, et al.. (2021). Reduced tillage in organic farming affects soil organic carbon stocks in temperate Europe. Soil and Tillage Research. 216. 105262–105262. 79 indexed citations

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Garland, Gina, Samiran Banerjee, Anna Edlinger, et al.. (2020). A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 600–613. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bergkvist, Göran, Sally Westaway, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2019). Interactive Effects of Subsidiary Crops and Weed Pressure in the Transition Period to Non-Inversion Tillage, A Case Study of Six Sites Across Northern and Central Europe. Agronomy. 9(9). 495–495. 13 indexed citations

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Wittwer, Raphaël, Florian Walder, Klaus Schlaeppi, et al.. (2018). Impact of conventional, organic and conservation agriculture on soil functions and multifunctionality. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture). 17002. 2 indexed citations

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Šišić, Adnan, Petr Karlovský, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2018). Roots of symptom-free leguminous cover crop and living mulch species harbor diverse Fusarium communities that show highly variable aggressiveness on pea (Pisum sativum). PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0191969–e0191969. 30 indexed citations

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Pereira, Engil Isadora Pujol, et al.. (2018). Improvement of soil structure through organic crop management, conservation tillage and grass-clover ley. Soil and Tillage Research. 180. 1–9. 60 indexed citations

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Walder, Florian, et al.. (2017). Community Profiling of Fusarium in Combination with Other Plant-Associated Fungi in Different Crop Species Using SMRT Sequencing. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 2019–2019. 46 indexed citations

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Prechsl, Ulrich E., Raphaël Wittwer, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, et al.. (2017). Assessing the environmental impacts of cropping systems and cover crops: Life cycle assessment of FAST, a long-term arable farming field experiment. Agricultural Systems. 157. 39–50. 56 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Jan Henrik, Göran Bergkvist, Enio Campiglia, et al.. (2017). Effect of tillage, subsidiary crops and fertilisation on plant‐parasitic nematodes in a range of agro‐environmental conditions within Europe. Annals of Applied Biology. 171(3). 477–489. 14 indexed citations

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Wittwer, Raphaël, Brigitte Dorn, W. Jossi, & Marcel G. A. van der Heijden. (2017). Cover crops support ecological intensification of arable cropping systems. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 41911–41911. 212 indexed citations

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Wittwer, Raphaël, et al.. (2014). Effects à long terme d'une conversion à l'agriculture biologique. Agrarforschung Schweiz. 5(2). 44–51. 1 indexed citations

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