2026 Albrecht Neftel: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	67	1993	1901	55	52	255	15130

Albrecht Neftel publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Albrecht Neftel sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 690+

This scientist: 255 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Albrecht Neftel D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Albrecht Neftel sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Albrecht Neftel is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Process Chemistry and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Building and Construction.

The scientist's main areas of study focus on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Odor and Emission Control Technologies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production, and Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis.

Notable recent publications by Neftel include:

Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slurry storage - A review, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
Effect of management and weather variations on the greenhouse gas budget of two grasslands during a 10-year experiment, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
Intercomparison of in situ measurements of ambient NH ₃: instrument performance and application under field conditions, 2022, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling, 2020, Biogeosciences
Assessment of the inverse dispersion method for the determination of methane emissions from a dairy housing, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Neftel are:

Christoph Häni (13 publications)
Thomas Küpper (12 publications)
Christof Ammann (6 publications)
Jörg Sintermann (6 publications)
Christophe Fléchard (5 publications)

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the most frequent being:

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (3 publications)
Biogeosciences (3 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2 publications)
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2 publications)

Best Publications

Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

833
Citations
Evidence from polar ice cores for the increase in atmospheric CO2 in the past two centuries

A. Neftel;E. Moor;H. Oeschger;B. Stauffer

824
Citations
Ice core sample measurements give atmospheric CO 2 content during the past 40,000 yr

A. Neftel;H. Oeschger;J. Schwander;B. Stauffer

661
Citations
Full accounting of the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O, CH4) budget of nine European grassland sites

J.F. Soussana;V. Allard;K. Pilegaard;P. Ambus

648
Citations
CO 2 record in the Byrd ice core 50,000–5,000 years bp

A. Neftel;H. Oeschger;T. Staffelbach;B. Stauffer

433
Citations
The carbon budget of newly established temperate grassland depends on management intensity

C. Ammann;C.R. Flechard;J. Leifeld;A. Neftel

399
Citations
Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

C.R. Flechard;P. Ambus;U. Skiba;R.M. Rees

389
Citations
Continuous Impurity Analysis Along the Dye 3 Deep Core

C. U. Hammer;H. B. Clausen;W. Dansgaard;A. Neftel

248
Citations
Sulphate and nitrate concentrations in snow from South Greenland 1895–1978

A. Neftel;J. Beer;H. Oeschger;F. Zürcher

246
Citations
Nitrous acid formation in the urban atmosphere: Gradient measurements of NO2 and HONO over grass in Milan, Italy

Jochen Stutz;Björn Alicke;Björn Alicke;Albrecht Neftel

242
Citations
Increase of Atmospheric Methane Recorded in Antarctic Ice Core

B. Stauffer;G. Fischer;A. Neftel;H. Oeschger

239
Citations
Challenges in quantifying biosphere–atmosphere exchange of nitrogen species

M.A. Sutton;E. Nemitz;J.W Erisman;C. Beier

237
Citations
Symbiotic relationships between soil fungi and plants reduce N2O emissions from soil.

S Franz Bender;Faline Plantenga;Albrecht Neftel;Markus Jocher

236
Citations
Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slurry storage - A review

Thomas Kupper;Christoph Häni;Albrecht Neftel;Chris Kincaid

220
Citations
Large perturbations of ammonium and organic acids content in the summit‐Greenland Ice Core. Fingerprint from forest fires?

M. Legrand;M. De Angelis;T. Staffelbach;A. Neftel

220
Citations
Bi‐directional soil/atmosphere N2O exchange over two mown grassland systems with contrasting management practices

Christophe R. Flechard;Albrecht Neftel;Markus Jocher;Christof Ammann

217
Citations
Continuous measurements of hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, calcium and ammonium concentrations along the new grip ice core from summit, Central Greenland

Katrin Fuhrer;Albrecht Neftel;Martin Anklin;Valter Maggi

214
Citations
Eddy covariance flux measurements of biogenic VOCs during ECHO 2003 using proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry

C. Spirig;A. Neftel;C. Ammann;J. Dommen

210
Citations
Assessment of the nitrogen and carbon budget of two managed temperate grassland fields

Christof Ammann;Christoph Spirig;Jens Leifeld;Albrecht Neftel

207
Citations
A record of the atmospheric methane sink from formaldehyde in polar ice cores

Thomas Staffelbach;Albrecht Neftel;Bernhard Stauffer;Daniel Jacob

184
Citations
Technical note: Water vapour concentration and flux measurements with PTR-MS

C. Ammann;A. Brunner;C. Spirig;A. Neftel

170
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christof Ammann Federal Council

Christoph Spirig MeteoSwiss Regional Center

Eiko Nemitz UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pierre Cellier University of Paris-Saclay

Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council

Benjamin Loubet University of Paris-Saclay

Christophe Flechard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Martin Gallagher University of Manchester

Hans Oeschger University of Bern

Jens Leifeld University of Basel

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