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Plant Science and Agronomy
USA
2026
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Environmental Sciences
USA
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
119
Citations
101793
World Ranking
70
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Organic chemistry

Johannes Lehmann mainly investigates Biochar, Soil water, Agronomy, Slash-and-char and Soil organic matter. His Biochar research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Biomass, Nutrient, Carbon sequestration and Charcoal. His research integrates issues of Environmental chemistry, Carbon, Carbon cycle and Hydrology in his study of Soil water.

His work deals with themes such as Soil management, Soil chemistry, Soil fertility and Leaching, which intersect with Agronomy. His Slash-and-char research focuses on Fertilizer and how it relates to Compost. His Soil organic matter research incorporates themes from Organic matter, Soil carbon and Humus.

His most cited work include:

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral (4913 citations)
  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property (2867 citations)
  • Biochar effects on soil biota – A review (2299 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Johannes Lehmann spends much of his time researching Soil water, Biochar, Agronomy, Environmental chemistry and Soil organic matter. His Soil water research incorporates elements of Organic matter and Total organic carbon. His Biochar study incorporates themes from Biomass, Carbon sequestration and Charcoal.

His work investigates the relationship between Agronomy and topics such as Soil fertility that intersect with problems in Agroforestry. His study in Environmental chemistry is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Carbon and Mineralogy. Johannes Lehmann combines subjects such as Ecosystem and Environmental protection with his study of Soil carbon.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Soil water (28.57%)
  • Biochar (25.22%)
  • Agronomy (25.40%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • LIGO (13.05%)
  • Gravitational wave (11.82%)
  • Soil water (28.57%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are LIGO, Gravitational wave, Soil water, Astrophysics and Environmental chemistry. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Agriculture and Nutrient. His work on Neutron star, Binary black hole and Redshift as part of general Astrophysics study is frequently connected to Dimensionless quantity and Coincident, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them.

His Environmental chemistry research incorporates elements of Organic matter, Extraction, Nitrogen and Pyrolysis, Biochar. The concepts of his Organic matter study are interwoven with issues in Soil organic matter, Carbon and Biomass. His research in Biochar intersects with topics in Agronomy, Fertilizer, Straw and Manure.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs (1290 citations)
  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (399 citations)
  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$ (389 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Organic chemistry

His main research concerns LIGO, Astrophysics, Gravitational wave, Neutron star and Binary black hole. His study in LIGO is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Cosmic string and Noise. His Astrophysics study often links to related topics such as Coalescence.

His Gravitational wave research focuses on Pulsar and how it connects with Moment of inertia, Luminosity and KAGRA. The Neutron star study combines topics in areas such as Mass ratio, Cosmology, Gamma-ray burst, Mass distribution and Spin-½. He focuses mostly in the field of Binary black hole, narrowing it down to topics relating to General relativity and, in certain cases, Dark matter.

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Biochar effects on soil biota – A review

    Johannes Lehmann;Matthias C. Rillig;Janice Thies;Caroline A. Masiello

  • BIO-CHAR SEQUESTRATION IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS - A REVIEW

    Johannes Lehmann;John Gaunt;Marco Rondon

  • The contentious nature of soil organic matter

    Johannes Lehmann;Markus Kleber

  • Ameliorating physical and chemical properties of highly weathered soils in the tropics with charcoal – a review

    Bruno Glaser;Johannes Lehmann;Wolfgang Zech

  • Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

    Dominic Woolf;James E. Amonette;F. Alayne Street-Perrott;Johannes Lehmann

  • Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils

    Biqing Liang;J. Lehmann;D. Solomon;J. Kinyangi

  • Biochar for environmental management: an introduction

    Johannes Lehmann;Stephen Joseph

  • Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments

    Johannes Lehmann;Jose Pereira da Silva;Christoph Steiner;Thomas Nehls

  • Bio-energy in the black

    Johannes Lehmann

  • Climate-smart soils

    Keith Paustian;Johannes Lehmann;Stephen Ogle;David Reay

  • Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology

    Johannes Lehmann;Stephen Joseph

  • Maize yield and nutrition during 4 years after biochar application to a Colombian savanna oxisol

    Julie Major;Marco Rondon;Marco Rondon;Diego Molina;Susan J. Riha

  • Long term effects of manure, charcoal and mineral fertilization on crop production and fertility on a highly weathered Central Amazonian upland soil

    Christoph Steiner;Wenceslau G. Teixeira;Johannes Lehmann;Thomas Nehls

  • The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Uta Stockmann;Mark A. Adams;John W. Crawford;Damien J. Field

  • Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts and mechanisms

    Daniel D. Warnock;Johannes Lehmann;Thomas W. Kuyper;Matthias C. Rillig;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Biological nitrogen fixation by common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) increases with bio-char additions

    Marco A. Rondon;Marco A. Rondon;Johannes Lehmann;Juan Ramírez;Maria Hurtado

  • Oxidation of Black Carbon by Biotic and Abiotic Processes

    Chih-hsin Cheng;Johannes C. Lehmann;Janice E. Thies;Sarah D. Burton

  • Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter.

    Chao Liang;Chao Liang;Wulf Amelung;Johannes Lehmann;Johannes Lehmann;Matthias Kästner

  • The concept and future prospects of soil health.

    Johannes Lehmann;Deborah A. Bossio;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Matthias C. Rillig

  • An investigation into the reactions of biochar in soil

    S. D. Joseph;M. Camps-Arbestain;Y. Lin;P. Munroe

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Biochar Systems: Estimating the Energetic, Economic, and Climate Change Potential

    Kelli G Roberts;Brent A Gloy;Stephen Joseph;Norman R Scott

  • Natural oxidation of black carbon in soils: Changes in molecular form and surface charge along a climosequence

    Chih-Hsin Cheng;Johannes C. Lehmann;Mark H. Engelhard

  • Characterization of biochars to evaluate recalcitrance and agronomic performance.

    Akio Enders;Kelly Hanley;Thea Whitman;Stephen Joseph

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Susan J. Riha
Susan J. Riha Cornell University
Götz Schroth
Götz Schroth Rainforest Alliance
Janice E. Thies
Janice E. Thies Cornell University
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Alice N. Pell
Alice N. Pell Cornell University
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
Saran Sohi
Saran Sohi University of Edinburgh
Gerard Cornelissen
Gerard Cornelissen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Largus T. Angenent
Largus T. Angenent University of Tübingen

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