Thorben Amann

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Thorben Amann is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorben Amann has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Environmental Engineering, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Thorben Amann's work include CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (11 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (7 papers). Thorben Amann is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (11 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (7 papers). Thorben Amann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United Kingdom. Thorben Amann's co-authors include Jens Hartmann, Wagner de Oliveira Garcia, Pete Smith, Tarun Khanna, Max Callaghan, William F. Lamb, Sabine Fuss, Jan C. Minx, Joeri Rogelj and Felix Creutzig and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Nature Geoscience and Chemical Geology.

In The Last Decade

Thorben Amann

29 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

2018 1.0k citations Sabine Fuss, William F. Lamb et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

2018 598 citations Jan C. Minx, William F. Lamb et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorben Amann Germany	15	889	756	671	604	335	31	2.5k
Wagner de Oliveira Garcia Germany	6	587 0.7×	630 0.8×	565 0.8×	563 0.9×	300 0.9×	6	1.8k
José Luis Vicente‐Vicente Germany	15	615 0.7×	657 0.9×	756 1.1×	627 1.0×	314 0.9×	28	2.6k
Jérôme Hilaire Germany	21	937 1.1×	964 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	1.2k 2.1×	728 2.2×	29	3.1k
Phil Renforth United Kingdom	36	2.3k 2.5×	1.2k 1.6×	648 1.0×	206 0.3×	316 0.9×	76	4.6k
Thomas Gasser Austria	28	517 0.6×	343 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	577 1.0×	340 1.0×	71	2.7k
Mohamad Hejazi United States	42	1.2k 1.3×	111 0.1×	1.9k 2.9×	409 0.7×	390 1.2×	123	5.5k
Vivian Scott United Kingdom	18	712 0.8×	783 1.0×	699 1.0×	369 0.6×	328 1.0×	39	2.1k
Yongsheng Wang China	26	456 0.5×	157 0.2×	1.0k 1.5×	314 0.5×	54 0.2×	94	2.3k
Philippe Ciais France	13	399 0.4×	157 0.2×	938 1.4×	397 0.7×	296 0.9×	19	2.2k
Kirsten Zickfeld Canada	37	692 0.8×	273 0.4×	2.7k 4.0×	1.4k 2.3×	652 1.9×	67	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Thorben Amann

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorben Amann

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thorben Amann. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thorben Amann based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thorben Amann. Thorben Amann is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Romero‐Mujalli, Gibran, et al.. (2025). Assessing the hydrothermal influence on natural waters in the Kirishima Volcanic Complex: Insights from rivers, springs and groundwater with varying residence time. Chemical Geology. 682. 122716–122716.

Hartmann, Jens, et al.. (2025). Stability of alkalinity in the land-ocean transition zone: a geochemical CDR perspective for the Elbe River, Germany. Environmental Research Letters. 20(9). 94053–94053.

Amann, Thorben, Jens Hartmann, José M. de la Rosa Arranz, et al.. (2025). Pyrogenic carbon and carbonating minerals for carbon capture and storage (PyMiCCS) part I: production, physico-chemical characterization and C-sink potential. Frontiers in Climate. 7. 3 indexed citations

Amann, Thorben, Jessica Strefler, Jens Hartmann, et al.. (2024). Marine carbon dioxide removal by alkalinization should no longer be overlooked. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 74033–74033. 3 indexed citations

Caserini, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Energy demand and savings opportunities in the supply of limestone and olivine-rich rocks for geochemical carbon dioxide removal. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 73009–73009. 3 indexed citations

Amann, Thorben, et al.. (2024). Regional potential of coastal ocean alkalinization with olivine within 100 years. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64030–64030. 5 indexed citations

Amann, Thorben, et al.. (2024). Soil electrical conductivity as a proxy for enhanced weathering in soils. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 13 indexed citations

Vicca, Sara, Eric Struyf, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2023). The effects of dunite fertilization on growth and elemental composition of barley and wheat differ with dunite grain size and rainfall regimes. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 5 indexed citations

Amann, Thorben & Jens Hartmann. (2022). Carbon Accounting for Enhanced Weathering. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 26 indexed citations

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Goll, Daniel S., Philippe Ciais, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2021). Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock. Nature Geoscience. 14(8). 545–549. 118 indexed citations

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Börker, Janine, Jens Hartmann, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2020). Chemical Weathering of Loess and Its Contribution to Global Alkalinity Fluxes to the Coastal Zone During the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid‐Holocene, and Present. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(7). 15 indexed citations

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Amann, Thorben, Jens Hartmann, Eric Struyf, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Weathering and related element fluxes – a cropland mesocosm approach. Biogeosciences. 17(1). 103–119. 98 indexed citations

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Garcia, Wagner de Oliveira, Thorben Amann, Jens Hartmann, et al.. (2020). Impacts of enhanced weathering on biomass production for negative emission technologies and soil hydrology. Biogeosciences. 17(7). 2107–2133. 34 indexed citations

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Amann, Thorben & Jens Hartmann. (2019). Ideas and perspectives: Synergies from co-deployment of negative emission technologies. Biogeosciences. 16(15). 2949–2960. 35 indexed citations

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Hosono, Takahiro, Jens Hartmann, Pascale Louvat, et al.. (2018). Earthquake-induced structural deformations enhance long-term solute fluxes from active volcanic systems. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14809–14809. 36 indexed citations

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Amann, Thorben, Jens Hartmann, Eric Struyf, et al.. (2018). Constraints on Enhanced Weathering and related carbon sequestration – a cropland mesocosm approach. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 6 indexed citations

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Garcia, Wagner de Oliveira, Thorben Amann, & Jens Hartmann. (2018). Increasing biomass demand enlarges negative forest nutrient budget areas in wood export regions. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5280–5280. 37 indexed citations

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Minx, Jan C., William F. Lamb, Max Callaghan, et al.. (2018). Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis. Environmental Research Letters. 13(6). 63001–63001. 598 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amann, Thorben, et al.. (2014). Inorganic Carbon Fluxes in the Inner Elbe Estuary, Germany. Estuaries and Coasts. 38(1). 192–210. 25 indexed citations

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Amann, Thorben. (2013). Spatio-temporal variability of carbon and silica fluxes through the inner Elbe estuary, Germany. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations

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