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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Engineering and Technology 53 3427 3278 106 101 226 10001
Earth Science 53 2867 2617 188 175 221 10256

Peter Bayer publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Peter Bayer between 1987 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Peter Bayer published across 40 years, from 1987 to 2026, averaging 8.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2015. 26 of the 345 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1987 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2015. 1987: 1 publication 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 17 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 21 publications 2014: 19 publications 2015: 28 publications 2016: 21 publications 2017: 20 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 16 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 23 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 25 publications 2025: 25 publications 2026: 1 publication
1987 2026

345 publications in total across all disciplines

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Peter Bayer: publications per year, 1987 to 2026
Year Publications
1987 1
1988 1
1989 0
1990 1
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 2
2002 2
2003 3
2004 5
2005 4
2006 2
2007 8
2008 6
2009 17
2010 10
2011 17
2012 12
2013 21
2014 19
2015 28
2016 21
2017 20
2018 12
2019 15
2020 16
2021 12
2022 23
2023 16
2024 25
2025 25
2026 1
Total 345
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Peter Bayer publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Bayer sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 218–227 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 221 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290 221
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Peter Bayer D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Bayer sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178 53
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Peter Bayer is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans engineering and environmental science, focusing on environmental engineering and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Their work also encompasses subfields such as mechanical engineering, geophysics, and atmospheric science.

Bayer's research topics reflect a focus on geothermal energy systems and applications, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis. Other areas of interest include climate change and permafrost, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, and integrated energy systems optimization.

The scientist has a notable publication record in various venues, including:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Renewable Energy
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geothermics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers by Bayer demonstrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • Global groundwater warming due to climate change, 2024, Nature Geoscience
  • Environmental impacts of aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES), 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Actively heated fiber optics based thermal response test: A field demonstration, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Is thermal use of groundwater a pollution?, 2021, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Groundwater fauna downtown - Drivers, impacts and implications for subsurface ecosystems in urban areas, 2022, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Bayer frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Philipp Blum, Kathrin Menberg, Christoph Bott, Lisa Maria Ringel, and Susanne A. Benz. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Greenhouse gas emission savings of ground source heat pump systems in Europe: A review

    Peter Bayer;Dominik Saner;Stephan Bolay;Ladislaus Rybach

  • A moving finite line source model to simulate borehole heat exchangers with groundwater advection

    Nelson Molina-Giraldo;Philipp Blum;Ke Zhu;Peter Bayer

  • Environmental impacts of water use in global crop production: hotspots and trade-offs with land use.

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer;Annette Koehler;Stefanie Hellweg

  • International legal status of the use of shallow geothermal energy

    Stefanie Haehnlein;Peter Bayer;Philipp Blum

  • Monthly water stress: spatially and temporally explicit consumptive water footprint of global crop production

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer

  • Sustainability and policy for the thermal use of shallow geothermal energy

    Stefanie Hähnlein;Peter Bayer;Grant Ferguson;Philipp Blum

  • Subsurface urban heat islands in German cities

    Kathrin Menberg;Peter Bayer;Kai Zosseder;Sven Rumohr

  • Is it only CO2 that matters? A life cycle perspective on shallow geothermal systems

    Dominik Saner;Ronnie Juraske;Markus Kübert;Philipp Blum

  • Review on life cycle environmental effects of geothermal power generation

    Peter Bayer;Ladislaus Rybach;Philipp Blum;Ralf Brauchler

  • The geothermal potential of urban heat islands

    Ke Zhu;Philipp Blum;Grant Ferguson;Klaus-Dieter Balke

  • Evaluating the influence of thermal dispersion on temperature plumes from geothermal systems using analytical solutions

    Nelson Molina-Giraldo;Peter Bayer;Philipp Blum

  • Evaluating MT3DMS for heat transport simulation of closed geothermal systems.

    Jozsef Hecht-Méndez;Nelson Molina-Giraldo;Philipp Blum;Peter Bayer

  • Thermal Use of Shallow Groundwater

    Fritz Stauffer;Peter Bayer;Philipp Blum;Nelson Molina Giraldo

  • The geothermal potential of cities

    Peter Bayer;Guillaume Attard;Philipp Blum;Kathrin Menberg

  • Projected water consumption in future global agriculture: Scenarios and related impacts

    Stephan Pfister;Peter Bayer;Annette Koehler;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Optimization of energy extraction for vertical closed-loop geothermal systems considering groundwater flow

    Jozsef Hecht-Méndez;Michael de Paly;Markus Beck;Peter Bayer

  • Numerical sensitivity study of thermal response tests

    Valentin Wagner;Peter Bayer;Markus Kübert;Philipp Blum

  • Observed groundwater temperature response to recent climate change

    Kathrin Menberg;Kathrin Menberg;Phillip Blum;Barret L. Kurylyk;Peter Bayer

  • Long-Term Evolution of Anthropogenic Heat Fluxes into a Subsurface Urban Heat Island

    Kathrin Menberg;Philipp Blum;Axel Schaffitel;Peter Bayer

  • Permeability Evolution in Natural Fractures Subject to Cyclic Loading and Gouge Formation

    Daniel Vogler;Florian Amann;Peter Bayer;Derek Elsworth

  • Analytical approach to groundwater-influenced thermal response tests of grouted borehole heat exchangers

    Valentin Wagner;Philipp Blum;Markus Kübert;Peter Bayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Blum
Philipp Blum Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Georg Teutsch
Georg Teutsch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Florian Amann
Florian Amann RWTH Aachen University
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Peter Grathwohl
Peter Grathwohl University of Tübingen
Andreas Zell
Andreas Zell University of Tübingen
Barret L. Kurylyk
Barret L. Kurylyk Dalhousie University

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