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Horst H. Gerke publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Horst H. Gerke sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 233 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Horst H. Gerke D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Horst H. Gerke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Horst H. Gerke is affiliated with the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Engineering, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work focuses on topics including Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Landslides and related hazards, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Clay minerals and soil interactions.

Gerke's recent publications present a consistent engagement with soil and water dynamics under different environmental conditions. Notable works include:

  • Dimensionality and scales of preferential flow in soils of Shale Hills hillslope simulated using HYDRUS, 2024, Vadose Zone Journal
  • FTIR spectral band shifts explained by OM-cation interactions, 2021, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
  • Responses of soil water storage and crop water use efficiency to changing climatic conditions: a lysimeter-based space-for-time approach, 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Crop growth and soil water fluxes at erosion-affected arable sites: Using weighing lysimeter data for model intercomparison, 2020, Vadose Zone Journal
  • Dual-Permeability Model Improvements for Representation of Preferential Flow in Fractured Clays, 2020, Water Resources Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Luis Alfredo Pires Barbosa, Jannis Groh, Steffen Beck-Broichsitter, Thomas Pütz, and Vilim Filipović. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing scholarly relationships.

Their research has been published extensively in specialized venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Vadose Zone Journal (15 publications)
  • Soil and Tillage Research (9 publications)
  • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (5 publications)
  • Water (5 publications)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • A dual-porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water and solutes in structured porous media

    H. H. Gerke;M. T. van Genuchten

  • Preferential flow descriptions for structured soils

    Horst H. Gerke

  • Evaluation of a first-order water transfer term for variably saturated dual-porosity flow models

    H. H. Gerke;M. T. van Genuchten

  • A review of the changes in the soil pore system due to soil deformation: A hydrodynamic perspective

    A. Alaoui;J. Lipiec;H.H. Gerke

  • Macroscopic representation of structural geometry for simulating water and solute movement in dual-porosity media

    Horst H. Gerke;Martinus Th. van Genuchten

  • Modeling flow and transport in a two-dimensional dual-permeability system with spatially variable hydraulic properties

    T. Vogel;H.H. Gerke;R. Zhang;M.Th. Van Genuchten

  • Preferential Flow Effects on Infiltration and Runoff in Grassland and Forest Soils

    Abdallah Alaoui;Ursin Caduff;Horst H. Gerke;Rolf Weingartner

  • Characterizing organic matter of soil aggregate coatings and biopores by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

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  • Preferential Flow Patterns in Paddy Fields Using a Dye Tracer

    Till Sander;Horst H. Gerke

  • Modelling soil landscape genesis — A “time split” approach for hummocky agricultural landscapes

    M. Sommer;H.H. Gerke;D. Deumlich

  • FTIR spectral band shifts explained by OM–cation interactions

    Ruth H. Ellerbrock;Horst H. Gerke

  • Dual-permeability modeling of preferential bromide leaching from a tile-drained glacial till agricultural field

    Horst H Gerke;J Maximilian Köhne

  • Estimating hydraulic properties of soil aggregate skins from sorptivity and water retention

    Horst H. Gerke;J. Maximilian Köhne

  • Modelling the effect of chemical heterogeneity on acidification and solute leaching in overburden mine spoils

    Horst H. Gerke;John W. Molson;Emil O. Frind

  • TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change

    Th. Pütz;R. Kiese;U. Wollschläger;J. Groh

  • Characterization of soil organic matter from a sandy soil in relation to management practice using FT-IR spectroscopy

    Ruth H. Ellerbrock;A. Höhn;H. H. Gerke

  • Cation Exchange Capacity and Composition of Soluble Soil Organic Matter Fractions

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  • Estimating the hydraulic functions of dual-permeability models from bulk soil data

    J. Maximilian Köhne;S. Köhne;H. H. Gerke

  • Structures and hydrologic function of soil landscapes with kettle holes using an integrated hydropedological approach

    Horst H. Gerke;Sylvia Koszinski;Thomas Kalettka;Michael Sommer

  • Spatial variability of potential water repellency in a lignitic mine soil afforested with Pinus nigra

    Horst H. Gerke;Edzard Hangen;Wolfgang Schaaf;Reinhard F. Hüttl

  • Preferential and Unstable Flow: From the Pore to the Catchment Scale

    Horst H. Gerke;Peter Germann;John Nieber

  • DRIFT mapping of organic matter composition at intact soil aggregate surfaces.

    Martin Leue;Ruth H. Ellerbrock;Horst H. Gerke

  • Patterns and processes of initial terrestrial-ecosystem development

    Wolfgang Schaaf;Oliver Bens;Anton Fischer;Horst H. Gerke

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Sommer
Michael Sommer University of Potsdam
Reinhard F. Hüttl
Reinhard F. Hüttl Brandenburg University of Technology
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ralf Kiese
Ralf Kiese Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jan Siemens
Jan Siemens University of Giessen
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Rainer Schulin
Rainer Schulin ETH Zurich
Eckart Priesack
Eckart Priesack University of Bonn

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