W. Seiler

13.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
117 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

W. Seiler is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Seiler has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 57 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in W. Seiler's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (52 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (34 papers). W. Seiler is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (52 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (34 papers). W. Seiler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. W. Seiler's co-authors include Ralf Conrad, Paul J. Crutzen, Annette Holzapfel-Pschorn, F. Šlemr, Heinz Rennenberg, H. Schütz, W. H. Pollock, L. E. Heidt, Jack Fishman and D. Scharffe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

W. Seiler

115 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning

1980 1.0k citations W. Seiler, Paul J. Crutzen profile →
Biomass burning as a source of atmospheric gases CO, H2, N2O, NO, CH3Cl and COS

1979 602 citations Paul J. Crutzen, W. Seiler et al. profile →
A 3‐year continuous record on the influence of daytime, season, and fertilizer treatment on methane emission rates from an Italian rice paddy

1989 500 citations H. Schütz, Annette Holzapfel-Pschorn et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Processes involved in formation and emission of methane in rice paddies

1989 447 citations W. Seiler, Ralf Conrad et al. profile →
Tropospheric chemical composition measurements in Brazil during the dry season

1985 317 citations Paul J. Crutzen, W. Seiler et al. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry profile →
Methane production by domestic animals, wild ruminants, other herbivorous fauna, and humans

1986 315 citations Paul J. Crutzen, W. Seiler et al. Tellus B profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
W. Seiler	5.9k	4.2k	2.0k	1.6k	1.5k	117	10.2k
M. A. K. Khalil	5.2k 0.9×	5.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	697 0.5×	192	9.8k
J.N. Cape	2.8k 0.5×	4.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	240	10.7k
R. W. Portmann	5.0k 0.9×	5.4k 1.3×	968 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	94	9.7k
R. A. Rasmussen	5.9k 1.0×	7.0k 1.7×	896 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	507 0.3×	164	10.4k
A. Neftel	3.0k 0.5×	4.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	138	7.0k
Chris E. Johnson	2.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	160	7.6k
Ute Skiba	3.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	3.4k 1.7×	3.0k 1.8×	4.2k 2.8×	192	10.5k
Yang Gao	2.0k 0.3×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	193	8.4k
Heike Knicker	3.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	3.8k 1.9×	1.9k 1.2×	7.0k 4.6×	288	14.8k
Jianwu Tang	5.8k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	5.1k 2.5×	1.4k 0.9×	4.1k 2.7×	180	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Seiler

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. Seiler. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. Seiler 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 W. Seiler. W. Seiler is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Sussmann, Ralf, Wolfgang Stremme, John P. Burrows, et al.. (2005). Stratospheric and tropospheric NO ₂ variability on the diurnal and annual scale: a combined retrieval from ENVISAT/SCIAMACHY and solar FTIR at the Permanent Ground-Truthing Facility Zugspitze/Garmisch. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(10). 2657–2677. 26 indexed citations

Waßmann, Reiner, H. U. Neue, Ma. Carmelita Alberto, et al.. (1996). Fluxes and pools of methane in wetland rice soils with varying organic inputs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 42(1-2). 163–173. 97 indexed citations

Martius, Christopher, Reiner Waßmann, Adelmar Gomes Bandeira, et al.. (1993). Methane emission from wood-feeding termites in Amazonia. Chemosphere. 26(1-4). 623–632. 44 indexed citations

Schütz, H., W. Seiler, Heinz Rennenberg, & Lex Bouwman. (1990). Soil and land use related sources and sinks of methane (CH4) in the context of the global methane budget.. 89. 269–285. 71 indexed citations

Wang, Mingxing, et al.. (1990). CH 4 EMISSION FROM A CHINESE RICE PADDY FIELD. 4(3). 265–275. 34 indexed citations

Brunke, E.-G., H.E. Scheel, & W. Seiler. (1990). Trends of tropospheric CO, N2O and CH4 as observed at cape point, South Africa. Atmospheric Environment Part A General Topics. 24(3). 585–595. 85 indexed citations

Raynaud, Dominique, et al.. (1989). N2O measurements of air extracted from antarctic ice cores: Implication on atmospheric N2O back to the last glacial-interglacial transition. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 8(2). 189–201. 38 indexed citations

Conrad, Ralf, H. Schütz, & W. Seiler. (1988). Emission of carbon monoxide from submerged rice fields into the atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment (1967). 22(4). 821–823. 20 indexed citations

Crutzen, Paul J., et al.. (1986). Methane production by domestic animals, wild ruminants, other herbivorous fauna, and humans. Tellus B. 38B(3-4). 271–284. 186 indexed citations

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Holzapfel-Pschorn, Annette & W. Seiler. (1986). Methane emission during a cultivation period from an Italian rice paddy. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 91(D11). 11803–11814. 302 indexed citations

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Seiler, W., Ralf Conrad, & D. Scharffe. (1984). Field studies of methane emission from termite nests into the atmosphere and measurements of methane uptake by tropical soils. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 1(2). 171–186. 149 indexed citations

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Robinson, Elmer, David Clark, & W. Seiler. (1984). The latitudinal distribution of carbon monoxide across the pacific from California to Antarctica. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 1(2). 137–149. 13 indexed citations

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Conrad, Ralf, Michel Aragno, & W. Seiler. (1983). The inability of hydrogen bacteria to utilize atmospheric hydrogen is due to threshold and affinity for hydrogen. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 18(3). 207–210. 54 indexed citations

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Conrad, Ralf & W. Seiler. (1980). Contribution of hydrogen production by biological nitrogen fixation to the global hydrogen budget. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 85(C10). 5493–5498. 93 indexed citations

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Seiler, W., et al.. (1980). Detection of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by conversion of mercury oxide to mercury vapor. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 12. 70 indexed citations

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Conrad, Ralf & W. Seiler. (1980). Photooxidative production and microbial consumption of carbon monoxide in seawater. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 9(1). 61–64. 66 indexed citations

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Moortgat, G. K., et al.. (1980). Laboratory Measurements of Photolytic Parameters for Formaldehyde.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 9 indexed citations

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Conrad, Ralf & W. Seiler. (1979). The role of hydrogen bacteria during the decomposition of hydrogen by soil. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 6(3). 143–145. 40 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Ulrich, A. Volz‐Thomas, D. H. Ehhalt, et al.. (1978). Die Vertikalverteilung von H₂, CH₄, CO, N₂O, CFCl₃ und CF₂Cl₂ in der Stratosphäre. Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie. 82(11). 1135–1135. 1 indexed citations

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Moortgat, G. K., et al.. (1978). Photolysis of formaldehyde: Relative quantum yields of H2 and CO in the wavelength range 270–360 nm. Chemical Physics Letters. 54(3). 444–447. 21 indexed citations

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