Roland Baatz

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 986 citations indexed

About

Roland Baatz is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Baatz has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 986 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Environmental Engineering, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roland Baatz's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (13 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Roland Baatz is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (13 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Roland Baatz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Kenya. Roland Baatz's co-authors include Harry Vereecken, Heye Bogena, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks Franssen, Johan Alexander Huisman, Carsten Montzka, Robert Finger, Frank Ewert, Michael Herbst, Wei Qu and Peter Fiener and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Roland Baatz

26 papers receiving 953 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.

Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption

2023 77 citations Frank Ewert, Roland Baatz et al. Annual Review of Resource Economics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roland Baatz Germany	15	626	365	350	213	194	28	986
Qi Gao Spain	9	563 0.9×	406 1.1×	79 0.2×	224 1.1×	89 0.5×	31	893
A. J. Purdy United States	12	235 0.4×	147 0.4×	80 0.2×	497 2.3×	287 1.5×	19	767
Mousong Wu China	19	154 0.2×	465 1.3×	171 0.5×	461 2.2×	81 0.4×	77	959
Ross Morrison United Kingdom	15	290 0.5×	292 0.8×	99 0.3×	350 1.6×	68 0.4×	37	760
Mariëtte Vreugdenhil Austria	21	1.2k 1.9×	923 2.5×	217 0.6×	452 2.1×	245 1.3×	58	1.7k
Lindsey E. Gulden United States	11	354 0.6×	479 1.3×	166 0.5×	774 3.6×	715 3.7×	12	1.2k
N. A. Speranskaya Russia	9	796 1.3×	1.0k 2.8×	246 0.7×	1.1k 5.0×	520 2.7×	16	1.8k
János Józsa Hungary	19	185 0.3×	158 0.4×	128 0.4×	475 2.2×	456 2.4×	58	1.1k
Luc Séguis France	18	300 0.5×	179 0.5×	53 0.2×	507 2.4×	450 2.3×	53	951
Simon Munier France	18	325 0.5×	456 1.2×	76 0.2×	697 3.3×	355 1.8×	40	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Baatz

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Raza, Ahsan, Masahiro Ryo, Gohar Ghazaryan, et al.. (2025). Predicting regional-scale groundwater levels at high spatial resolution using spatial Random Forest models. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 144. 104918–104918.

Naz, Bibi S., et al.. (2025). Systematic underestimation of type-specific ecosystem process variability in the Community Land Model v5 over Europe. Geoscientific model development. 18(2). 287–317. 1 indexed citations

Baatz, Roland, Gohar Ghazaryan, Michael Hagenlocher, et al.. (2025). Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(5). 1379–1393. 1 indexed citations

Nasta, Paolo, Günter Blöschl, Heye Bogena, et al.. (2025). HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(2). 465–483. 2 indexed citations

Baatz, Roland, et al.. (2025). Data-driven scaling methods for soil moisture cosmic ray neutron sensors. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(12). 2583–2597. 1 indexed citations

Bellingrath‐Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea, Marcos Lana, Gohar Ghazaryan, et al.. (2024). Agronomic management response in maize (Zea mays L.) production across three agroecological zones of Kenya. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 7(1). 4 indexed citations

Bellingrath‐Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea, Marcos Lana, Gohar Ghazaryan, et al.. (2024). Maize yield prediction and condition monitoring at the sub-county scale in Kenya: synthesis of remote sensing information and crop modeling. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14227–14227. 6 indexed citations

Baatz, Roland, Mathias Hoffmann, Ottfried Dietrich, et al.. (2024). Evaluating MONICA's capability to simulate water, carbon and nitrogen fluxes in a wet grassland at contrasting water tables. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174995–174995. 3 indexed citations

Naz, Bibi S., Alexander Graf, Yuquan Qu, et al.. (2023). Rising water-use efficiency in European grasslands is driven by increased primary production. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 28 indexed citations

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Ewert, Frank, Roland Baatz, & Robert Finger. (2023). Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 15(1). 351–381. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baatz, Roland, et al.. (2022). Optimal Temporal Filtering of the Cosmic-Ray Neutron Signal to Reduce Soil Moisture Uncertainty. Sensors. 22(23). 9143–9143. 8 indexed citations

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Montzka, Carsten, et al.. (2021). The Importance of Subsurface Processes in Land Surface Modeling over a Temperate Region: An Analysis with SMAP, Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing and Triple Collocation Analysis. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3068–3068. 9 indexed citations

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Köhli, Markus, Jannis Weimar, Martin Schrön, Roland Baatz, & Ulrich Schmidt. (2021). Soil Moisture and Air Humidity Dependence of the Above-Ground Cosmic-Ray Neutron Intensity. Frontiers in Water. 2. 46 indexed citations

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Schönbrodt‐Stitt, Sarah, Paolo Nasta, Christopher Conrad, et al.. (2020). Mapping near-surface soil moisture in a Mediterranean agroforestry ecosystem using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe and Sentinel-1 Data. 201–206. 2 indexed citations

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Post, H., Harrie‐Jan Hendricks Franssen, Xujun Han, et al.. (2018). Evaluation and uncertainty analysis of regional-scale CLM4.5 net carbon flux estimates. Biogeosciences. 15(1). 187–208. 18 indexed citations

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Bogena, Heye, Carsten Montzka, Johan Alexander Huisman, et al.. (2018). The TERENO‐Rur Hydrological Observatory: A Multiscale Multi‐Compartment Research Platform for the Advancement of Hydrological Science. Vadose Zone Journal. 17(1). 1–22. 99 indexed citations

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Baatz, Roland, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks Franssen, Xujun Han, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of a cosmic-ray neutron sensor network for improved land surface model prediction. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(5). 2509–2530. 42 indexed citations

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Baatz, Roland, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks Franssen, Xujun Han, et al.. (2016). Evaluating the value of a network of cosmic-ray probes for improving land surface modelling. 1 indexed citations

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Iwema, Joost, Rafael Rosolem, Roland Baatz, Thorsten Wagener, & Heye Bogena. (2015). Investigating temporal field sampling strategies for site-specific calibration of three soil moisture–neutron intensity parameterisation methods. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(7). 3203–3216. 37 indexed citations

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Korres, Wolfgang, Tim G. Reichenau, Peter Fiener, et al.. (2014). Spatio-temporal soil moisture patterns – A meta-analysis using plot to catchment scale data. Journal of Hydrology. 520. 326–341. 130 indexed citations

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