Sonja Paul

531 total citations
18 papers, 416 citations indexed

About

Sonja Paul is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Paul has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 416 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sonja Paul's work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (10 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (5 papers). Sonja Paul is often cited by papers focused on Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (10 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (5 papers). Sonja Paul collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and India. Sonja Paul's co-authors include Christine Alewell, Edzo Veldkamp, Kirsten Küsel, Gunnar Lischeid, Heinz Flessa, Heiner Flessa, Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Florian R. Storck, Jens Leifeld and Andreas F. Kolb and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Paul

18 papers receiving 405 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sonja Paul Switzerland 11 180 165 138 53 47 18 416
Fotis Sgouridis United Kingdom 13 236 1.3× 144 0.9× 168 1.2× 39 0.7× 54 1.1× 27 464
Yunqi Zhang China 12 118 0.7× 177 1.1× 69 0.5× 44 0.8× 30 0.6× 37 412
Jeffrey S. Owen South Korea 14 150 0.8× 115 0.7× 177 1.3× 71 1.3× 74 1.6× 37 516
Daniel deB. Richter United States 8 128 0.7× 245 1.5× 104 0.8× 86 1.6× 82 1.7× 9 536
B. Manderscheid Germany 12 136 0.8× 127 0.8× 172 1.2× 81 1.5× 52 1.1× 22 438
Jutta Zeitz Germany 15 401 2.2× 139 0.8× 75 0.5× 60 1.1× 71 1.5× 40 654
Tal Weiner Israel 13 96 0.5× 180 1.1× 275 2.0× 95 1.8× 97 2.1× 15 511
Todd R. Anderson United States 10 98 0.5× 66 0.4× 140 1.0× 37 0.7× 66 1.4× 12 338
Gurbir Singh Dhillon Canada 9 129 0.7× 169 1.0× 172 1.2× 85 1.6× 43 0.9× 20 509
A.R. Wilts United States 6 138 0.8× 419 2.5× 97 0.7× 71 1.3× 40 0.9× 6 625

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sonja Paul

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Paul

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Leifeld, Jens, et al.. (2025). Crediting peatland rewetting for carbon farming: some considerations amidst optimism. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 30(2). 1 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, et al.. (2024). Can mineral soil coverage be a suitable option to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agriculturally managed peatlands?. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 375. 109197–109197. 1 indexed citations
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Wüst‐Galley, Chloé, et al.. (2023). Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice grown on organic soils in the temperate zone. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 356. 108641–108641. 8 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, et al.. (2022). Reduced Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Drained Temperate Agricultural Peatland After Coverage With Mineral Soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 12 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, et al.. (2022). Reduced nitrogen losses from drained temperate agricultural peatland after mineral soil coverage. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 59(2). 153–165. 4 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, et al.. (2021). Soil carbon loss from drained agricultural peatland after coverage with mineral soil. The Science of The Total Environment. 800. 149498–149498. 15 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, Christof Ammann, Christine Alewell, & Jens Leifeld. (2021). Carbon budget response of an agriculturally used fen to different soil moisture conditions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 300. 108319–108319. 3 indexed citations
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Leifeld, Jens, Christine Alewell, & Sonja Paul. (2021). Accumulation of C4‐carbon from Miscanthus in organic‐matter‐rich soils. GCB Bioenergy. 13(8). 1319–1328. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Jen‐How, et al.. (2017). Metal biogeochemistry in constructed wetlands based on fluviatile sand and zeolite- and clinopyroxene-dominated lava sand. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2981–2981. 6 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, Edzo Veldkamp, & Heinz Flessa. (2008). Differential response of mineral-associated organic matter in tropical soils formed in volcanic ashes and marine Tertiary sediment to treatment with HCl, NaOCl, and Na4P2O7. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 40(7). 1846–1855. 15 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, Edzo Veldkamp, & Heinz Flessa. (2008). Soil organic carbon in density fractions of tropical soils under forest – pasture – secondary forest land use changes. European Journal of Soil Science. 59(2). 359–371. 48 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, Guntars O. Martinson, Edzo Veldkamp, & Heiner Flessa. (2008). Sample Pretreatment Affects the Distribution of Organic Carbon in Aggregates of Tropical Grassland Soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 72(2). 500–506. 10 indexed citations
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Alewell, Christine, Sonja Paul, Gunnar Lischeid, & Florian R. Storck. (2007). Co-regulation of redox processes in freshwater wetlands as a function of organic matter availability?. The Science of The Total Environment. 404(2-3). 335–342. 49 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Partha Pratim & Sonja Paul. (2007). Forced regressive wedges on a Neoproterozoic siliciclastic shelf: Chandarpur Group, central India. Precambrian Research. 162(1-2). 227–247. 29 indexed citations
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Alewell, Christine, Sonja Paul, Gunnar Lischeid, Kirsten Küsel, & Matthias Gehre. (2006). Characterizing the Redox Status in Three Different Forested Wetlands with Geochemical Data. Environmental Science & Technology. 40(24). 7609–7615. 29 indexed citations
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Lischeid, Gunnar, Andreas F. Kolb, Christine Alewell, & Sonja Paul. (2006). Impact of redox and transport processes in a riparian wetland on stream water quality in the Fichtelgebirge region, southern Germany. Hydrological Processes. 21(1). 123–132. 29 indexed citations
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Paul, Sonja, Kirsten Küsel, & Christine Alewell. (2005). Reduction processes in forest wetlands: Tracking down heterogeneity of source/sink functions with a combination of methods. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 38(5). 1028–1039. 82 indexed citations

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