2026 Martin Heimann: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	115	156	146	11	10	410	59505

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Martin Heimann is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, focusing particularly on atmospheric processes and carbon dynamics.

Their primary fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields pertinent to their work are:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Ecology
Water Science and Technology
Environmental Chemistry

Heimann's research topics cover:

Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Climate change and permafrost
Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Cryospheric Studies and Observations
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Climate Variability and Models
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Their documented recent papers include:

"Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO ₂", 2020, New Phytologist
"Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity", 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"FLUXNET-CH ₄: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands", 2021, Earth System Science Data
"Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands", 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
"The climate benefit of carbon sequestration", 2021, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors working with Martin Heimann include:

Mathias Goeckede
Oliver Sonnentag
A. J. Dolman
Ivan Mammarella
Torsten Sachs

Their research has been published extensively in the following venues:

Global Change Biology
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Martin Heimann was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1998, denoting membership in a European academy of sciences. This award is part of their professional record.

Best Publications

Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

3564
Citations
Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

2407
Citations
The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

2062
Citations
The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

1932
Citations
Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks

Martin Heimann;Markus Reichstein

1919
Citations
Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

1889
Citations
Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models.

K. R. Gurney;R. M. Law;A. S. Denning;P. J. Rayner

1507
Citations
Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

1329
Citations
Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

A. David McGuire;Leif G. Anderson;Torben R. Christensen;Scott Dallimore

1261
Citations
Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change

Corinne Le Quéré;Christian Rödenbeck;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Thomas J. Conway

1160
Citations
A three‐dimensional model of atmospheric CO2 transport based on observed winds: 1. Analysis of observational data

Charles D. Keeling;R. B. Bacastow;A. F. Carter;S. C. Piper

1095
Citations
Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

Antje M. Moffat;Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;David Y. Hollinger

1038
Citations
Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

A.D. McGuire;S. Sitch;Joy S. Clein;R. Dargaville

975
Citations
Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2

Britton B. Stephens;Kevin R. Gurney;Pieter P. Tans;Colm Sweeney

935
Citations
Response to Comments on "Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change"

Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Christian Rödenbeck;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Thomas J. Conway

934
Citations
Global and hemispheric CO2 sinks deduced from changes in atmospheric O2 concentration

Ralph F. Keeling;Stephen C. Piper;Martin Heimann

880
Citations
An inverse modeling approach to investigate the global atmospheric methane cycle

Ralf Hein;Paul J. Crutzen;Martin Heimann

763
Citations
CO 2 flux history 1982–2001 inferred from atmospheric data using a global inversion of atmospheric transport

C. Rödenbeck;S. Houweling;M. Gloor;M. Heimann

732
Citations
Impact of vegetation and preferential source areas on global dust aerosol: Results from a model study

Ina Tegen;Sandy P. Harrison;Karen Kohfeld;I. Colin Prentice

686
Citations
Managing forests after Kyoto

Ernst Detlef Schulze;Christian Wirth;Martin Heimann

669
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Manuel Gloor University of Leeds

Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Peter Rayner University of Melbourne

Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Ute Karstens Lund University

Ralph F. Keeling University of California, San Diego

External Links

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