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Martin Hartmann

Martin Hartmann

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
39580
World Ranking
6216
National Ranking
150

Martin Hartmann 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 Martin Hartmann sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 119 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Martin Hartmann 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 Martin Hartmann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Martin Hartmann is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, concentrating primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly contributions encompass a significant body of work addressing Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's published research topics include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies, Foot and Ankle Surgery, and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity.

Martin Hartmann has authored several papers, including:

  • Soil structure and microbiome functions in agroecosystems, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Limited resilience of the soil microbiome to mechanical compaction within four growing seasons of agricultural management, 2021, ISME Communications
  • Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations, 2023, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Effects of management practices on the ecosystem-service multifunctionality of temperate grasslands, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Site and land-use associations of soil bacteria and fungi define core and indicative taxa, 2021, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Martin Hartmann's work include Johan Six, Rafaela Feola Conz, Paul Mäder, Jakob Ackermann, and Lazaros Vlachopoulos.

The main venues where Martin Hartmann publishes regularly are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

    Patrick D. Schloss;Patrick D. Schloss;Sarah L. Westcott;Sarah L. Westcott;Thomas Ryabin;Justine R. Hall

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

    Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  • Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming

    Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey;Jochen Mayer;Paul Mäder

  • Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Ryberg;Martin Hartmann;Sara Branco

  • Soil structure and microbiome functions in agroecosystems

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  • Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

    Emily B. Graham;Emily B. Graham;Joseph E. Knelman;Joseph E. Knelman;Andreas Schindlbacher;Steven Siciliano

  • METAXA2: improved identification and taxonomic classification of small and large subunit rRNA in metagenomic data.

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Hartmann;Karl Martin Eriksson;Chandan Pal

  • Networking in the Plant Microbiome.

    Marcel G. A. van der Heijden;Marcel G. A. van der Heijden;Martin Hartmann

  • Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction.

    Martin Hartmann;Pascal A Niklaus;Stephan Zimmermann;Stefan Schmutz

  • Significant and persistent impact of timber harvesting on soil microbial communities in Northern coniferous forests

    Martin Hartmann;Charles G Howes;David VanInsberghe;Hang Yu;Hang Yu

  • Microbial diversity in European alpine permafrost and active layers

    Beat Frey;Thomas Rime;Marcia Phillips;Beat Stierli

  • A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Martin Ryberg;Erik Kristiansson

  • Long-term warming alters the composition of Arctic soil microbial communities

    Julie R. Deslippe;Julie R. Deslippe;Martin Hartmann;Suzanne W. Simard;William W. Mohn

  • Community Structure Analyses Are More Sensitive to Differences in Soil Bacterial Communities than Anonymous Diversity Indices

    Martin Hartmann;Franco Widmer

  • An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

    R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Vilmar Veldre;Martin Hartmann;Martin Unterseher

  • Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov;Martin Ryberg

  • Long‐term experimental manipulation of climate alters the ectomycorrhizal community of Betula nana in Arctic tundra

    J. R. Deslippe;M. Hartmann;W. W. Mohn;S. W. Simard

  • Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryal community structures throughout soil horizons of harvested and naturally disturbed forest stands.

    Martin Hartmann;Sangwon Lee;Steven J. Hallam;William W. Mohn

  • A decade of irrigation transforms the soil microbiome of a semi‐arid pine forest

    Martin Hartmann;Ivano Brunner;Frank Hagedorn;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Vertical distribution of the soil microbiota along a successional gradient in a glacier forefield.

    Thomas Rime;Martin Hartmann;Ivano Brunner;Franco Widmer

  • Community structures and substrate utilization of bacteria in soils from organic and conventional farming systems of the DOK long-term field experiment

    Franco Widmer;Frank Rasche;Martin Hartmann;Andreas Fliessbach

  • Semi-automated genetic analyses of soil microbial communities: comparison of T-RFLP and RISA based on descriptive and discriminative statistical approaches.

    Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey;Roland Kölliker;Franco Widmer

  • Temporal Dynamics of Soil Microbial Communities below the Seedbed under Two Contrasting Tillage Regimes

    Florine Degrune;Nicolas Theodorakopoulos;Gilles Colinet;Marie-Pierre Hiel

  • Positive Effects of Crop Diversity on Productivity Driven by Changes in Soil Microbial Composition.

    Laura Stefan;Martin Hartmann;Nadine Engbersen;Johan Six

  • Microbial succession on decomposing root litter in a drought-prone Scots pine forest

    Claude Herzog;Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey;Beat Stierli

  • Potential sources of microbial colonizers in an initial soil ecosystem after retreat of an alpine glacier

    Thomas Rime;Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey

  • Tolerance of the forest soil microbiome to increasing mercury concentrations

    Aline Frossard;Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey

  • Incorporating molecular data in fungal systematics: a guide for aspiring researchers

    Kevin D. Hyde;Dhanushka Udayanga;Dimuthu S. Manamgoda;Leho Tedersoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Franco Widmer
Franco Widmer Environmental Protection Agency
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Beat Frey
Beat Frey Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
William W. Mohn
William W. Mohn University of British Columbia
Petri Toiviainen
Petri Toiviainen University of Jyväskylä
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
Erik Kristiansson
Erik Kristiansson Chalmers University of Technology
Ivano Brunner
Ivano Brunner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu

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