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D-Index
53
Citations
10001
World Ranking
3427
National Ranking
106

Peter Bayer publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 226 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Peter Bayer D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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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