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Peter Grathwohl publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Peter Grathwohl between 1990 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Peter Grathwohl published across 36 years, from 1990 to 2025, averaging 10 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2009. 19 of the 360 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1990 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 2009. 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 5 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 15 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 8 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 19 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 17 publications 2008: 20 publications 2009: 26 publications 2010: 19 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 21 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 11 publications 2025: 8 publications
1990 2025

360 publications in total across all disciplines

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Peter Grathwohl: publications per year, 1990 to 2025
Year Publications
1990 2
1991 0
1992 1
1993 5
1994 0
1995 4
1996 3
1997 3
1998 15
1999 7
2000 2
2001 8
2002 11
2003 12
2004 11
2005 19
2006 8
2007 17
2008 20
2009 26
2010 19
2011 18
2012 6
2013 21
2014 16
2015 17
2016 10
2017 7
2018 6
2019 9
2020 14
2021 9
2022 8
2023 7
2024 11
2025 8
Total 360
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Peter Grathwohl 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 Grathwohl 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, 248–257 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: 257 publications — 80th percentile

80% 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
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208 257
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 Grathwohl 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 Grathwohl 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, 64 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: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103 64
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 Grathwohl is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research covers several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics in Grathwohl's work focus on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Grathwohl has contributed to multiple research articles published across well-known scientific journals. Some notable recent papers include:

  • Long-term behavior of PFAS in contaminated agricultural soils in Germany, 2021, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Anaerobic Neutrophilic Pyrite Oxidation by a Chemolithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Fractured Aquifer, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nitrate Removal by a Novel Lithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing, Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Pyrite-Rich Limestone Aquifer, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Production of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) from precursors in contaminated agricultural soils: Batch and leaching experiments, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fate of nitrate during groundwater recharge in a fractured karst aquifer in Southwest Germany, 2021, Hydrogeology Journal

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Grathwohl include:

  • Michael Finkel
  • Binlong Liu
  • Andreas Kappler
  • Karsten Osenbrück
  • Hermann Rügner

Peter Grathwohl commonly publishes in the following journals:

  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Hydrogeology Journal

Best Publications

  • Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics

    Peter Grathwohl

  • Influence of organic matter from soils and sediments from various origins on the sorption of some chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons: implications on KOC correlations.

    Peter Grathwohl

  • New modeling paradigms for the sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals to heterogeneous carbonaceous matter in soils, sediments, and rocks

    Richelle M. Allen-King;Peter Grathwohl;William P. Ball

  • Tracer diffusion coefficients in sedimentary rocks: correlation to porosity and hydraulic conductivity.

    Thomas B Boving;Peter Grathwohl

  • Solubility-Normalized Combined Adsorption-Partitioning Sorption Isotherms for Organic Pollutants

    Sybille Kleineidam;Christoph Schüth;Peter Grathwohl

  • Organic Matter Facies and Equilibrium Sorption of Phenanthrene

    Sybille Kleineidam;Hermann Rügner;Bertrand Ligouis;Peter Grathwohl

  • Impacts of heterogeneous organic matter on phenanthrene sorption: equilibrium and kinetic studies with aquifer material.

    Hrissi K. Karapanagioti;Sybille Kleineidam;David A. Sabatini;Peter Grathwohl

  • Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

    Dirk Schulze-Makuch;Dirk Schulze-Makuch;Dirk Wagner;Samuel P Kounaves;Samuel P Kounaves;Kai Mangelsdorf

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Desorption of trichloroethylene in aquifer material : rate limitation at the grain scale

    Peter Grathwohl;Martin Reinhard

  • Enhancement of dilution and transverse reactive mixing in porous media: experiments and model-based interpretation.

    Massimo Rolle;Christina Eberhardt;Gabriele Chiogna;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Turbidity as a proxy for total suspended solids (TSS) and particle facilitated pollutant transport in catchments

    Hermann Rügner;Marc Schwientek;Barbara Beckingham;Bertram Kuch

  • Enhanced mixing and reaction through flow focusing in heterogeneous porous media

    Charles J. Werth;Olaf A. Cirpka;Peter Grathwohl

  • Time scales of organic contaminant dissolution from complex source zones: coal tar pools vs. blobs.

    Christina Eberhardt;Peter Grathwohl

  • Transverse vertical dispersion in groundwater and the capillary fringe.

    I.D Klenk;P Grathwohl

  • A combined experimental and modeling study to evaluate pH-dependent sorption of polar and non-polar compounds to polyethylene and polystyrene microplastics.

    Sven Seidensticker;Peter Grathwohl;Jonas Lamprecht;Christiane Zarfl

  • Long Term Sorption Kinetics of Phenanthrene in Aquifer Materials

    Hermann RÜgner;Sybille Kleineidam;Peter Grathwohl

  • Comparison of percolation to batch and sequential leaching tests: Theory and data

    Peter Grathwohl;Bernd Susset

  • Quantification of mass fluxes and natural attenuation rates at an industrial site with a limited monitoring network: a case study

    Alexander Bockelmann;Daniela Zamfirescu;Thomas Ptak;Peter Grathwohl

  • Shift in Mass Transfer of Wastewater Contaminants from Microplastics in the Presence of Dissolved Substances

    Sven Seidensticker;Christiane Zarfl;Olaf Arie Cirpka;Greta Fellenberg

  • New modeling paradigms for the sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals to heterogeneous carbonaceous matter in soils, sediments, and rocks.

    R. M. Allen-King;P. Grathwohl;W. P. Ball;C. T. Miller

  • Comparison of Sedimentary PAHs in the Rivers of Ammer (Germany) and Liangtan (China): Differences between Early- and Newly-Industrialized Countries

    Ying Liu;Barbara Beckingham;Hermann Ruegner;Zhe Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Rolle
Massimo Rolle Technical University of Darmstadt
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Philipp Blum
Philipp Blum Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Johannes A. C. Barth
Johannes A. C. Barth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Georg Teutsch
Georg Teutsch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan B. Haderlein
Stefan B. Haderlein University of Tübingen
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Olaf Kolditz
Olaf Kolditz TU Dresden
Rudolf Liedl
Rudolf Liedl TU Dresden
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna

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