Ronny Lauerwald

12.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Ronny Lauerwald is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronny Lauerwald has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Oceanography, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ronny Lauerwald's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (16 papers). Ronny Lauerwald is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (16 papers). Ronny Lauerwald collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Ronny Lauerwald's co-authors include Jens Hartmann, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Regnier, Peter A. Raymond, Hans H. Dürr, Goulven G. Laruelle, Nils Moosdorf, Taylor Maavara, Sebastian Sobek and Peter L. Guth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ronny Lauerwald

58 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

2013 1.8k citations Peter A. Raymond, Jens Hartmann et al. Nature profile →
Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming

2017 317 citations Taylor Maavara, Ronny Lauerwald et al. Nature Communications profile →
River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

2023 271 citations Tom J. Battin, Ronny Lauerwald et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronny Lauerwald France	29	2.7k	1.8k	1.6k	1.4k	1.0k	64	5.0k
A. K. Aufdenkampe United States	30	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.9×	1.2k 1.1×	71	6.2k
David Butman United States	32	3.9k 1.4×	2.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	75	7.0k
Ishi Buffam Sweden	37	2.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	71	6.2k
Gwénaël Abril France	53	4.5k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	2.6k 1.9×	889 0.9×	122	7.2k
Sebastian Sobek Sweden	39	4.7k 1.7×	2.9k 1.6×	2.8k 1.7×	2.6k 1.8×	1.4k 1.4×	77	7.5k
Eran Hood United States	38	2.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	959 0.6×	3.1k 2.2×	2.8k 2.7×	104	7.5k
Jason B. Fellman United States	29	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	567 0.3×	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	71	4.8k
Shuh‐Ji Kao China	46	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.9×	2.7k 2.6×	223	7.0k
Emilio Mayorga United States	23	3.2k 1.2×	3.5k 2.0×	1.9k 1.2×	2.7k 2.0×	1.0k 1.0×	41	7.8k
Simone R. Alin United States	32	3.2k 1.2×	982 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	841 0.8×	77	4.8k

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Cardinael, Rémi, Ronny Lauerwald, Morgan Ferlicoq, et al.. (2025). Surface albedo and thermal radiation dynamics under conservation and conventional agriculture in subhumid Zimbabwe. Soil and Tillage Research. 255. 106804–106804. 1 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Jingxiong Zhou, et al.. (2025). Expanding scales: Achieving prediction of van Genuchten model hydraulic parameters in deep profiles by incorporating broad in situ soil information in pedotransfer functions. Journal of Hydrology. 656. 132912–132912. 1 indexed citations

Canadell, Josep G., Elizabeth D. Keller, Peter Briggs, et al.. (2025). Methane and Nitrous Oxide Budgets for Australasia: A Regional Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic Sources and Sinks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(10). 1 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Zimin Li, et al.. (2025). Deciphering spatial pattern and environmental drivers of deep soil moisture security: insights from integrating spatial non-stationarity in large-scale analysis. CATENA. 261. 109516–109516.

Su, Yang, Ronny Lauerwald, David Makowski, et al.. (2025). Future warming increases the chance of success of maize-wheat double cropping in Europe. European Journal of Agronomy. 170. 127723–127723.

Su, Yang, Philippe Ciais, Ronny Lauerwald, et al.. (2024). Quantifying albedo impact and radiative forcing of management practices in European wheat cropping systems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 74042–74042.

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Jingxiong Zhou, et al.. (2024). Dataset of soil hydraulic parameters in the Yellow River Basin based on in situ deep sampling. Scientific Data. 11(1). 740–740. 4 indexed citations

Canadell, Josep G., Elizabeth D. Keller, Peter Briggs, et al.. (2023). A Comprehensive Assessment of Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks of Australasia's Carbon Budget. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(12). 9 indexed citations

Battin, Tom J., Ronny Lauerwald, Emily S. Bernhardt, et al.. (2023). River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world. Nature. 613(7944). 449–459. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lauerwald, Ronny, Nicolas Guilpart, Philippe Ciais, & David Makowski. (2023). Impact of a large-scale replacement of maize by soybean on water deficit in Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 343. 109781–109781. 4 indexed citations

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Qiu, Chunjing, Philippe Ciais, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2021). Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands. Science Advances. 7(23). 52 indexed citations

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Terhaar, Jens, Ronny Lauerwald, Pierre Regnier, Nicolas Gruber, & Laurent Bopp. (2021). Around one third of current Arctic Ocean primary production sustained by rivers and coastal erosion. Nature Communications. 12(1). 169–169. 151 indexed citations

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Lauerwald, Ronny, et al.. (2020). Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance. Global Change Biology. 27(5). 1083–1096. 71 indexed citations

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Goll, Daniel S., Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2020). Global evaluation of nutrient enabled version land surface modelORCHIDEE-CNP v1.2 (r5986). 1 indexed citations

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Horgby, Åsa, Enrico Bertuzzo, Ronny Lauerwald, et al.. (2019). Unexpected large evasion fluxes of carbon dioxide from turbulent streams draining the world’s mountains. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4888–4888. 83 indexed citations

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Camino‐Serrano, Marta, Bertrand Guenet, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, et al.. (2018). ORCHIDEE-SOM: modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics along vertical soil profiles in Europe. Geoscientific model development. 11(3). 937–957. 60 indexed citations

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Friedlingstein, Pierre, Ronny Lauerwald, Jing Tang, et al.. (2018). Representation of dissolved organic carbon in the JULES land surface model (vn4.4_JULES-DOCM). Geoscientific model development. 11(2). 593–609. 28 indexed citations

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Lauerwald, Ronny, Goulven G. Laruelle, Jens Hartmann, Philippe Ciais, & Pierre Regnier. (2015). Spatial patterns in CO ₂ evasion from the global river network. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 534–554. 252 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Jens, Nils Moosdorf, Ronny Lauerwald, Matthias Hinderer, & A. Joshua West. (2014). Global chemical weathering and associated P-release. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15640. 8 indexed citations

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Lauerwald, Ronny, et al.. (2009). A continental scale model for dissolved silica mobilization in North America. Max Planck Digital Library. 11292.

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