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Kai Uwe Totsche 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 Kai Uwe Totsche sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 265 publications — 80th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Kai Uwe Totsche 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 Kai Uwe Totsche sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kai Uwe Totsche is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on ecology, environmental engineering, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and global and planetary change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, groundwater flow and contamination studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, clay minerals and soil interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and iron oxide chemistry and applications.

Recent publications by Kai Uwe Totsche reflect a range of subjects within soil and environmental sciences. These include:

  • Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates (2021), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Earthworm mucus contributes to the formation of organo-mineral associations in soil (2020), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Groundwater bacterial communities evolve over time in response to recharge (2021), published in Water Research
  • Event-driven dynamics of the total mobile inventory in undisturbed soil account for significant fluxes of particulate organic carbon (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Organic Matter from Redoximorphic Soils Accelerates and Sustains Microbial Fe(III) Reduction (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues in the field. Notable co-authors include Robert Lehmann, Thomas Ritschel, Kirsten Küsel, Katharina Lehmann, and Michaela Aehnelt.

Kai Uwe Totsche's work has been published in various scientific venues, with repeated contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Geoderma, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, The Science of The Total Environment, and the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.

Best Publications

  • Microaggregates in soils

    Kai Uwe Totsche;Wulf Amelung;Martin H. Gerzabek;Georg Guggenberger

  • Grazing effects on soil chemical and physical properties in a semiarid steppe of Inner Mongolia (P.R. China)

    Markus Steffens;Angelika Kölbl;Kai Uwe Totsche;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  • Characterization of Ferrihydrite-Soil Organic Matter Coprecipitates by X-ray Diffraction and Mossbauer Spectroscopy

    Karin Eusterhues;Friedrich E Wagner;Werner Häusler;Marianne Hanzlik

  • Fractionation of organic matter due to reaction with ferrihydrite: coprecipitation versus adsorption.

    Karin Eusterhues;Thilo Rennert;Heike Knicker;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  • Specific surface area of clay minerals: Comparison between atomic force microscopy measurements and bulk-gas (N2) and -liquid (EGME) adsorption methods

    Felix Macht;Karin Eusterhues;Geertje Johanna Pronk;Kai Uwe Totsche

  • Predominance of Cand. Patescibacteria in Groundwater Is Caused by Their Preferential Mobilization From Soils and Flourishing Under Oligotrophic Conditions.

    Martina Herrmann;Carl-Eric Wegner;Martin Taubert;Patricia Geesink

  • Biogeochemical interfaces in soil: The interdisciplinary challenge for soil science

    Kai U. Totsche;Thilo Rennert;Martin H. Gerzabek;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  • Dissolved Organic Matter‐Enhanced Retention of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil Miscible Displacement Experiments

    K. U. Totsche;J. Danzer;I. Kögel-Knabner

  • How Deep Can Surface Signals Be Traced in the Critical Zone? Merging Biodiversity with Biogeochemistry Research in a Central German Muschelkalk Landscape

    Kirsten Küsel;Kai U. Totsche;Susan E. Trumbore;Robert Lehmann

  • Small scale spatial variability of organic carbon stocks in litter and solum of a forested Luvisol

    Ingo Schöning;Kai Uwe Totsche;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  • Condensation degree of burnt peat and plant residues and the reliability of solid-state VACP MAS 13C NMR spectra obtained from pyrogenic humic material

    Heike Knicker;Kai Uwe Totsche;Gonzalo Almendros;Francisco J. González-Vila

  • Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates

    Tom Guhra;Katharina Stolze;Kai Uwe Totsche

  • Calcite Biomineralization by Bacterial Isolates from the Recently Discovered Pristine Karstic Herrenberg Cave

    Anna Rusznyák;Denise M. Akob;Sándor Nietzsche;Karin Eusterhues

  • Reduction of ferrihydrite with adsorbed and coprecipitated organic matter: microbial reduction by Geobacter bremensis vs. abiotic reduction by Na-dithionite

    K. Eusterhues;A. Hädrich;J. Neidhardt;K. Küsel

  • Pesticide displacement along preferential flow pathways in a Brazilian Oxisol

    S. Reichenberger;Wulf Amelung;Volker Laabs;Alicio A. Pinto

  • Biodegradation of ferrihydrite-associated organic matter

    Karin Eusterhues;Julia Neidhardt;Anke Hädrich;Kirsten Küsel

  • Sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to mineral surfaces

    S. Müller;K. U. Totsche;I. Kögel-Knabner

  • Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems

    Susanne Kramer;Sven Marhan;Liliane Ruess;Wolfgang Armbruster

  • Environmental selection shapes the formation of near-surface groundwater microbiomes.

    Lijuan Yan;Martina Herrmann;Bernd Kampe;Robert Lehmann

  • STXM and NanoSIMS investigations on EPS fractions before and after adsorption to goethite.

    Xinran Liu;Karin Eusterhues;Jürgen Thieme;Valerian Ciobota

  • How do long-term development and periodical changes of river-floodplain systems affect the fate of contaminants? Results from European rivers

    G.J. Lair;F. Zehetner;M. Fiebig;M.H. Gerzabek

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten Küsel
Kirsten Küsel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Martin H. Gerzabek
Martin H. Gerzabek BOKU University
Rainer U. Meckenstock
Rainer U. Meckenstock University of Duisburg-Essen
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Heike Knicker
Heike Knicker Spanish National Research Council
Georg Pohnert
Georg Pohnert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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