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Karsten Kalbitz

Karsten Kalbitz

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
25179
World Ranking
2032
National Ranking
135

Karsten Kalbitz 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 Karsten Kalbitz sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 262 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.

Karsten Kalbitz 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 Karsten Kalbitz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

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

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

Overview

Karsten Kalbitz is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and conducts research primarily in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields, including soil science, ecology, environmental chemistry, plant science, and biomaterials.

Their research focuses on several main topics, notably soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, clay minerals and soil interactions, heavy metals in the environment, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Kalbitz has contributed to multiple publications in journals frequently associated with their work. These venues include Geoderma, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Biogeochemistry, Scientific Reports, and Biogeosciences.

Recent papers authored by Kalbitz include the following:

  • Iron oxides and aluminous clays selectively control soil carbon storage and stability in the humid tropics (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Relevance of aboveground litter for soil organic matter formation - a soil profile perspective (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • Importance of substrate quality and clay content on microbial extracellular polymeric substances production and aggregate stability in soils (2022, Biology and Fertility of Soils)
  • Soil organic carbon content and mineralization controlled by the composition, origin and molecular diversity of organic matter: A study in tropical alpine grasslands (2021, Soil and Tillage Research)
  • Increased silicon concentration in fen peat leads to a release of iron and phosphate and changes in the composition of dissolved organic matter (2020, Geoderma)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kalbitz include:

  • Cordula Vogel
  • Boris Jansen
  • Robert Mikutta
  • Georg Guggenberger
  • Erik Cammeraat

Best Publications

  • Controls on the dynamics of dissolved organic matter in soils: a review.

    Karsten Kalbitz;Stephan Solinger;Ji-Hyung Park;Beate Michalzik

  • Organo-mineral associations in temperate soils: Integrating biology, mineralogy, and organic matter chemistry

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Georg Guggenberger;Markus Kleber;Ellen Kandeler

  • Biogeochemistry of paddy soils

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Wulf Amelung;Zhihong Cao;Sabine Fiedler

  • Controls of bioavailability and biodegradability of dissolved organic matter in soils

    Bernd Marschner;Karsten Kalbitz

  • Biodegradation of soil-derived dissolved organic matter as related to its properties

    Karsten Kalbitz;Juliane Schmerwitz;David Schwesig;Egbert Matzner

  • How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils

    Bernd Marschner;Sonja Brodowski;Alexander Dreves;Gerd Gleixner

  • Cycling downwards – dissolved organic matter in soils

    Klaus Kaiser;Karsten Kalbitz

  • Fluxes and concentrations of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen - a synthesis for temperate forests

    Beate Michalzik;Karsten Kalbitz;Ji-Hyung Park;Stephan Solinger

  • Mobilization of heavy metals and arsenic in polluted wetland soils and its dependence on dissolved organic matter

    Karsten Kalbitz;Rainer Wennrich

  • Stabilization mechanisms of organic matter in four temperate soils: Development and application of a conceptual model

    Margit von Lützow;Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner;Bernard Ludwig;Egbert Matzner

  • Salinity increases mobility of heavy metals in soils

    J.A. Acosta;B. Jansen;K. Kalbitz;A. Faz

  • Changes in properties of soil-derived dissolved organic matter induced by biodegradation

    Karsten Kalbitz;David Schwesig;Juliane Schmerwitz;Klaus Kaiser

  • Stabilization of dissolved organic matter by sorption to the mineral soil

    Karsten Kalbitz;David Schwesig;Janet Rethemeyer;Egbert Matzner

  • Biodegradation of forest floor organic matter bound to minerals via different binding mechanisms

    Robert Mikutta;Christian Mikutta;Karsten Kalbitz;Thorsten Scheel

  • Contribution of dissolved organic matter to carbon storage in forest mineral soils

    Karsten Kalbitz;Klaus Kaiser

  • Spectroscopic properties of dissolved humic substances - a reflection of land use history in a fen area

    Karsten Kalbitz;Wolfgang Geyer;Stefan Geyer

  • A new conceptual model for the fate of lignin in decomposing plant litter

    Thimo Klotzbücher;Klaus Kaiser;Georg Guggenberger;Christiane Gatzek

  • Amounts and degradability of dissolved organic carbon from foliar litter at different decomposition stages

    Axel Don;Karsten Kalbitz

  • Separation of light and heavy organic matter fractions in soil — Testing for proper density cut-off and dispersion level

    C. Cerli;L. Celi;K. Kalbitz;G. Guggenberger

  • Linking soil biodiversity and agricultural soil management

    S Thiele-Bruhn;J Bloem;F T De Vries;K Kalbitz

  • A comparison of methods to determine the biodegradable dissolved organic carbon from different terrestrial sources

    William H. McDowell;A. Zsolnay;Jacqueline A. Aitkenhead-Peterson;E. G. Gregorich

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Kaiser
Klaus Kaiser Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Robert Mikutta
Robert Mikutta Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Erik Cammeraat
Erik Cammeraat University of Amsterdam
Georg Guggenberger
Georg Guggenberger University of Hannover
Sabine Fiedler
Sabine Fiedler Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Egbert Matzner
Egbert Matzner University of Bayreuth
Reinhold Jahn
Reinhold Jahn Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Henry Neufeldt
Henry Neufeldt Technical University of Denmark
Ángel Faz Cano
Ángel Faz Cano Polytechnic University of Cartagena

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