Thorsten Behrens

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Behrens is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Behrens has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Environmental Engineering, 30 papers in Soil Science and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Behrens's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (48 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (23 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). Thorsten Behrens is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (48 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (23 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). Thorsten Behrens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and China. Thorsten Behrens's co-authors include Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Thomas Scholten, Karsten Schmidt, Helmut Elsenbeer, Michael Märker, A‐Xing Zhu, Leonardo Ramírez-López, José Alexandre Melo Demattê, R.A. MacMillan and Zhou Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Behrens

64 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Using data mining to model and interpret soil diffuse reflectance spectra

2010 1.0k citations Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Thorsten Behrens Geoderma profile →
Soil organic carbon concentrations and stocks on Barro Colorado Island — Digital soil mapping using Random Forests analysis

2008 545 citations Thorsten Behrens et al. Geoderma profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Behrens Germany	34	3.5k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	675	65	4.8k
Kenneth A. Sudduth United States	48	3.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.4×	739 0.5×	1.8k 1.7×	477 0.7×	222	7.9k
Philippe Lagacherie France	37	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	222 0.3×	107	4.1k
Mogens Humlekrog Greve Denmark	36	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	792 0.5×	919 0.8×	245 0.4×	145	3.7k
Eyal Ben‐Dor Israel	40	4.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	2.7k 1.7×	1.9k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	173	6.7k
José Alexandre Melo Demattê Brazil	47	5.9k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	3.8k 2.4×	1.8k 1.6×	1.5k 2.2×	328	7.9k
José Padarian Australia	26	1.7k 0.5×	894 0.5×	632 0.4×	703 0.6×	395 0.6×	50	3.0k
Asim Biswas Canada	44	2.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	697 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	285 0.4×	288	6.6k
Cristine L.S. Morgan United States	34	1.7k 0.5×	950 0.6×	717 0.5×	560 0.5×	507 0.8×	125	3.2k
Thomas F. A. Bishop Australia	31	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	731 0.5×	990 0.9×	160 0.2×	110	4.6k
Jianli Ding China	36	2.3k 0.7×	536 0.3×	901 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	342 0.5×	195	4.4k

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Stumpf, Felix, Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt, & Armin Keller. (2024). Exploiting Soil and Remote Sensing Data Archives for 3D Mapping of Multiple Soil Properties at the Swiss National Scale. Remote Sensing. 16(15). 2712–2712. 5 indexed citations

Rossel, Raphael A. Viscarra, Mingxi Zhang, Thorsten Behrens, & R. Webster. (2024). A warming climate will make Australian soil a net emitter of atmospheric CO2. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 8 indexed citations

Rossel, Raphael A. Viscarra, Thorsten Behrens, Eyal Ben‐Dor, et al.. (2022). Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century. European Journal of Soil Science. 73(4). 75 indexed citations

Bartelheim, Martin, et al.. (2022). Contextual spatial modelling in the horizontal and vertical domains. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 9496–9496. 6 indexed citations

Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Ruhollah, Karsten Schmidt, Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh, et al.. (2019). Soil organic carbon mapping using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks in different climatic regions of Iran. EGUGA. 4146. 2 indexed citations

Behrens, Thorsten, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Ruth Kerry, et al.. (2019). The relevant range of scales for multi-scale contextual spatial modelling. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14800–14800. 23 indexed citations

Behrens, Thorsten, Helge Bruelheide, Peter Kühn, et al.. (2019). Comparison of catchment scale 3D and 2.5D modelling of soil organic carbon stocks in Jiangxi Province, PR China. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0220881–e0220881. 27 indexed citations

Behrens, Thorsten, Karsten Schmidt, R.A. MacMillan, & Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel. (2018). Multi-scale digital soil mapping with deep learning. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15244–15244. 104 indexed citations

Hounkpatin, Ozias, Karsten Schmidt, Felix Stumpf, et al.. (2018). Predicting reference soil groups using legacy data: A data pruning and Random Forest approach for tropical environment (Dano catchment, Burkina Faso). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9959–9959. 46 indexed citations

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Stumpf, Felix, Sarah Schönbrodt‐Stitt, Karsten Schmidt, Thorsten Behrens, & Thomas Scholten. (2013). Erosion Modeling in Central China - Soil Data Acquisition by Conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling and Incorporation of Legacy Data. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Ramírez-López, Leonardo, Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt, et al.. (2013). The spectrum-based learner: A new local approach for modeling soil vis–NIR spectra of complex datasets. Geoderma. 195-196. 268–279. 172 indexed citations

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Schönbrodt‐Stitt, Sarah, et al.. (2013). Approximation and spatial regionalization of rainfall erosivity based on sparse data in a mountainous catchment of the Yangtze River in Central China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 20(10). 6917–6933. 29 indexed citations

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Schönbrodt‐Stitt, Sarah, Thorsten Behrens, & Thomas Scholten. (2010). Three Gorges Reservoir Area: soil erosion under natural condition vs. soil erosion under current land use. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13154. 1 indexed citations

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Rossel, Raphael A. Viscarra, Jan Eriksson, Anton Thomsen, et al.. (2009). The Soil Spectroscopy Group and the development of a global soil spectral library. EGUGA. 14021. 18 indexed citations

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Felix‐Henningsen, Peter, et al.. (2009). Applicability of ground‐penetrating radar as a tool for nondestructive soil‐depth mapping on Pleistocene periglacial slope deposits. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 173(2). 173–184. 20 indexed citations

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Qin, Cheng‐Zhi, A‐Xing Zhu, Tao Pei, et al.. (2009). An approach to computing topographic wetness index based on maximum downslope gradient. Precision Agriculture. 12(1). 32–43. 145 indexed citations

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Dahlke, Helen E., Thorsten Behrens, Jan Seibert, & Lotta Andersson. (2009). Test of statistical means for the extrapolation of soil depth point information using overlays of spatial environmental data and bootstrapping techniques. Hydrological Processes. 23(21). 3017–3029. 21 indexed citations

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Behrens, Thorsten & Thomas Scholten. (2006). Digital soil mapping in Germany—a review. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 169(3). 434–443. 85 indexed citations

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Behrens, Thorsten, Karl Rohr, & H. Siegfried Stiehl. (2003). Robust segmentation of tubular structures in 3-D medical images by parametric object detection and tracking. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics). 33(4). 554–561. 54 indexed citations

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Behrens, Thorsten, Karl Rohr, & H. Siegfried Stiehl. (2001). Using an Extended Hough Transform Combined with a Kalman Filter to Segment Tubular Structures in 3D Medical Images. Vision Modeling and Visualization. 491–498. 3 indexed citations

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