Thomas Wietsma

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Wietsma is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Wietsma has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Environmental Engineering, 11 papers in Ocean Engineering and 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Wietsma's work include CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (10 papers), Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (10 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (10 papers). Thomas Wietsma is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (10 papers), Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (10 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (10 papers). Thomas Wietsma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Thomas Wietsma's co-authors include Mart Oostrom, Changyong Zhang, Jay W. Grate, Marvin G. Warner, Kirk J. Cantrell, Daniel I. Kaplan, Jerry L. Phillips, Ellyn M. Murphy, John M. Zachara and Teresa Lemmon and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Wietsma

34 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Influence of Viscous and Capillary Forces on Immiscible Fluid Displacement: Pore-Scale Experimental Study in a Water-Wet Micromodel Demonstrating Viscous and Capillary Fingering

2011 413 citations Changyong Zhang, Mart Oostrom et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Wietsma United States	20	883	844	679	499	340	37	2.4k
Jason I. Gerhard Canada	35	822 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	733 1.1×	507 1.0×	142 0.4×	99	3.3k
Fabrice Golfier France	24	519 0.6×	753 0.9×	365 0.5×	561 1.1×	396 1.2×	66	1.8k
M. R. Islam Canada	28	1.2k 1.3×	512 0.6×	531 0.8×	824 1.7×	618 1.8×	162	3.0k
Brent E. Sleep Canada	39	514 0.6×	2.4k 2.8×	1.7k 2.5×	550 1.1×	216 0.6×	131	5.2k
Weimin Ye China	44	348 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	619 0.9×	431 0.9×	389 1.1×	283	6.6k
Mart Oostrom United States	28	1.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	273 0.4×	644 1.3×	539 1.6×	49	2.4k
Riyadh I. Al‐Raoush Qatar	29	752 0.9×	831 1.0×	203 0.3×	514 1.0×	649 1.9×	74	2.5k
Michael D. Annable United States	35	1.2k 1.3×	2.6k 3.1×	427 0.6×	816 1.6×	196 0.6×	139	3.8k
G. Suresh Kumar India	28	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	194 0.3×	908 1.8×	595 1.8×	193	3.0k
Bernard H. Kueper Canada	28	984 1.1×	2.1k 2.5×	280 0.4×	930 1.9×	214 0.6×	74	2.9k

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Varga, Tamás, Thomas Wietsma, Nicole DiDonato, et al.. (2025). Soil porous microstructure control over soil organic matter mobility: A multimethod workflow for understanding chemistry-dependent organic matter binding in soil. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 40. 104609–104609.

Zeng, Kaizhu, Peiyuan Gao, Litao Yan, et al.. (2025). Molybdenum‐Enriched Mo _0.5 Ru _0.5 O ₂ Nanoparticles for Efficient and Stable Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Materials. e20210–e20210.

Veličković, Dušan, Vimal Kumar Balasubramanian, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2024). RhizoMAP: a comprehensive, nondestructive, and sensitive platform for metabolic imaging of the rhizosphere. Plant Methods. 20(1). 117–117. 4 indexed citations

Ward, Nicholas, Katherine A. Muller, Xingyuan Chen, et al.. (2024). Interactive effects of salinity, redox, and colloids on greenhouse gas production and carbon mobility in coastal wetland soils. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0316341–e0316341. 2 indexed citations

Boiteau, Rene, Ravi Kukkadapu, John Cliff, et al.. (2020). Calcareous organic matter coatings sequester siderophores in alkaline soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 724. 138250–138250. 23 indexed citations

Ahkami, Amir, Wenzhi Wang, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2019). Metabolic shifts associated with drought-induced senescence in Brachypodium. Plant Science. 289. 110278–110278. 18 indexed citations

Wei, Ning, Changyong Zhang, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2018). Experimental study of drying effects during supercritical CO2 displacement in a pore network. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 22(9). 6 indexed citations

Maddi, Balakrishna, Ellen Panisko, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2017). Quantitative Characterization of Aqueous Byproducts from Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Municipal Wastes, Food Industry Wastes, and Biomass Grown on Waste. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(3). 2205–2214. 95 indexed citations

Maddi, Balakrishna, Ellen Panisko, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2016). Quantitative characterization of the aqueous fraction from hydrothermal liquefaction of algae. Biomass and Bioenergy. 93. 122–130. 87 indexed citations

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Panisko, Ellen, Thomas Wietsma, Teresa Lemmon, Karl Albrecht, & Daniel Howe. (2015). Characterization of the aqueous fractions from hydrotreatment and hydrothermal liquefaction of lignocellulosic feedstocks. Biomass and Bioenergy. 74. 162–171. 131 indexed citations

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Xantheas, Sotiris S., et al.. (2015). Modular polymer biosensors by solvent immersion imprint lithography. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 54(1). 98–103. 8 indexed citations

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Wunschel, David S., Brian H. Clowers, Christina Sørensen, et al.. (2013). Protein markers for identification of Yersinia pestis and their variation related to culture. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 28(2-3). 65–72. 1 indexed citations

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Yoon, Hongkyu, Changyong Zhang, M. Oostrom, et al.. (2013). Pore‐scale evaluation of uranyl phosphate precipitation in a model groundwater system. Water Resources Research. 49(2). 874–890. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Changyong, Karl Dehoff, Nancy Hess, et al.. (2010). Pore-Scale Study of Transverse Mixing Induced CaCO₃Precipitation and Permeability Reduction in a Model Subsurface Sedimentary System. Environmental Science & Technology. 44(20). 7833–7838. 132 indexed citations

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Willingham, Thomas, Changyong Zhang, Charles J. Werth, et al.. (2010). Using dispersivity values to quantify the effects of pore-scale flow focusing on enhanced reaction along a transverse mixing zone. Advances in Water Resources. 33(4). 525–535. 32 indexed citations

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Grate, Jay W., Changyong Zhang, Thomas Wietsma, et al.. (2010). A note on the visualization of wetting film structures and a nonwetting immiscible fluid in a pore network micromodel using a solvatochromic dye. Water Resources Research. 46(11). 29 indexed citations

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Yoon, Hongkyu, Mart Oostrom, Thomas Wietsma, Charles J. Werth, & Albert J. Valocchi. (2009). Numerical and experimental investigation of DNAPL removal mechanisms in a layered porous medium by means of soil vapor extraction. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 109(1-4). 1–13. 17 indexed citations

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Oostrom, Mart, et al.. (2006). LNAPLs do not always float: an example case of a viscous LNAPL under variable water table conditions. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University). 4 indexed citations

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Cantrell, Kirk J., Daniel I. Kaplan, & Thomas Wietsma. (1995). Zero-valent iron for the in situ remediation of selected metals in groundwater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 42(2). 201–212. 266 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellyn M., John M. Zachara, Steven C. Smith, Jerry L. Phillips, & Thomas Wietsma. (1994). Interaction of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds with Mineral-Bound Humic Substances. Environmental Science & Technology. 28(7). 1291–1299. 237 indexed citations

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