Stefan Sommer

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
193 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Stefan Sommer is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Sommer has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Ecology, 55 papers in Oceanography and 50 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Stefan Sommer's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (39 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers). Stefan Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (39 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers). Stefan Sommer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Stefan Sommer's co-authors include Rüdiger Wehner, Thomas Melin, Olaf Pfannkuche, Joachim Hill, Florian Scholz, Andrew W. Dale, Петер Линке, Regine Röthlisberger, M. A. Hutterli and Michael Cherlet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Sommer

185 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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Using Imaging Spectroscopy to study soil properties

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Sommer

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Body-Size Change in a Rodent Is Affected by Environmental Warming and Population-Specific Thermoneutral Zone 2025 ·Animals ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefan Sommer, Arpat Özgül, (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Biogenic silica cycling in the Skagerrak 2023 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·(unknown), Andrew W. Dale, (unknown), Mark Schmidt, Stefan Sommer, (unknown), (unknown), Sebastian Lindhorst, Klaus Wallmann	4
3	Seasonal habitat-use patterns of large mammals in a human-dominated landscape 2023 ·Journal of Mammalogy ·(unknown), Alper Ertürk, Stefan Sommer, Arpat Özgül, Anıl Soyumert	5
4	Defining a biogeochemical baseline for sediments at Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) sites: An example from the North Sea (Goldeneye) 2021 ·International journal of greenhouse gas control ·Andrew W. Dale, Stefan Sommer, Anna Lichtschlag, Dirk Koopmans, Matthias Haeckel, Elke Kossel, Christian Deusner, Петер Линке, Jan Schölten, Klaus Wallmann, (unknown), Jonas Gros, Florian Scholz, Mark Schmidt	10
5	Rapid sulfur cycling in sediments from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone featuring simultaneous sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation 2021 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·Tina Treude, Leila J. Hamdan, (unknown), Andrew W. Dale, Stefan Sommer	6
6	Quantification of dissolved CO2 plumes at the Goldeneye CO2-release experiment 2021 ·International journal of greenhouse gas control ·Jonas Gros, Mark Schmidt, Петер Линке, (unknown), Jack Triest, María Martínez-Cabanas, Mario Espósito, Andrew W. Dale, Stefan Sommer, Anita Flohr, (unknown), Jonathan M. Bull, Ben Roche, James Strong, Kevin Saw, (unknown), Dirk Koopmans, Klaus Wallmann	11
7	Metabolic preference of nitrate over oxygen as an electron acceptor in foraminifera from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Nicolaas Glock, Alexandra-Sophie Roy, Dennis Romero, Tanita Wein, Julia Weißenbach, Niels Peter Revsbech, Signe Høgslund, (unknown), Stefan Sommer, Tal Dagan	62
8	Could photoluminescence spectroscopy be an alternative technique for the detection of microplastics? First experiments using a 405 nm laser for excitation 2019 ·Applied Physics B ·Jan Ornik, Stefan Sommer, (unknown), Miriam Weber, Christian Lott, Jan C. Balzer, Martín Koch	26
9	Influence of eastern boundary circulation variability on hydrography and biogeochemistry off Peru in early 2017 2019 ·Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) ·Jan Lüdke, (unknown), Marcus Dengler, Gerd Krahmann, Stefan Sommer, Sören Thomsen, Martin Visbeck	1
10	Benthic phosphorus cycling in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Ulrike Lomnitz, Stefan Sommer, Andrew W. Dale, Carolin R. Löscher, Anna Noffke, Klaus Wallmann, Christian Hensen	33
11	Nitrogen fixation in sediments along a depth transect through the Peruvianoxygen minimum zone 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Jessica Gier, Stefan Sommer, Carolin R. Löscher, Andrew W. Dale, Ruth A. Schmitz, Tina Treude	45
12	Microbial methanogenesis in the sulfate-reducing zone of surface sediments traversing the Peruvian margin 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Stefan Sommer, Andrew W. Dale, Tina Treude	62
13	News from the "blowout", a man-made methane pockmark in the North Sea: chemosynthetic communities and microbial methane oxidation 2013 ·The EGU General Assembly ·Lea Steinle, Philipp Wilfert, Mark Schmidt, Lee D. Bryant, Matthias Haeckel, Moritz F. Lehmann, Петер Линке, Stefan Sommer, Tina Treude, Helge Niemann	1
14	Methane release from seeps offshore W-Svalbard: Considerations to extrapolate fluxes into the water/atmosphere 2012 ·The EGU General Assembly ·Jens Greinert, (unknown), Jürgen Mienert, Stefan Sommer, Ingeborg Bussmann, Hans van Haren	0
15	Inventory and monitoring options of peatlands at regional scale 2010 ·EGUGA ·Ciro Gardi, Stefan Sommer, (unknown), Stéphanie Horion	1
16	Novel cold seep habitat along the Hikurangi margin (New Zealand) 2008 ·The EGU General Assembly ·Stefan Sommer, Петер Линке, Olaf Pfannkuche, DA Bowden, Matthias Haeckel, Jens Greinert, Andrew R. Thurber	4
17	Das grosse Lexikon des DDR-Alltags : von Aktivist und Altstoffsammlung über Dederon, Kaufhalle, Rondo und Subbotnik bis zum Zirkel schreibender Arbeiter 2002 ·Stefan Sommer	0
18	Dust and Sea-salt Variability In Central East Antarctica Over The Last 45 Kyrs and Its Implications For Southern High-latitude Climate 2002 ·EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Regine Röthlisberger, Matthias Bigler, M. A. Hutterli, Robert Mulvaney, Stefan Sommer, Eric Wolff	1
19	Integrated System Design for Dewatering of Solvents with Microporous Inorganic Membranes 2002 ·Chemie Ingenieur Technik ·Stefan Sommer, (unknown), Thomas Melin	1
20	Glacio-chemical study covering the past 2 kyr on three ice cores from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica 1. annually resolved accumulation rates 2000 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Stefan Sommer, Christof Appenzeller, Regine Röthlisberger, M. A. Hutterli, B. Stauffer, Dietmar Wagenbach, Hans Oerter, Frank Wilhelms, Heinrich Miller, Robert Mulvaney	2

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