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D-Index
81
Citations
62176
World Ranking
394
National Ranking
42

Petra Marschner publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Petra Marschner sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 309 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Petra Marschner D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Petra Marschner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Petra Marschner was affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research primarily focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on soil science and related subfields.

Their work covered several subfields of study including soil science, environmental chemistry, plant science, global and planetary change, and civil and structural engineering. The research topics commonly addressed in their publications involved soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, mine drainage and remediation techniques, soil and unsaturated flow, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, and tree-ring climate responses.

The most frequent publication venues for their work included:

  • Journal of soil science and plant nutrition
  • Geoderma
  • Plant and Soil
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Remote Sensing

Among their recent papers were:

  • "Processes in submerged soils - linking redox potential, soil organic matter turnover and plants to nutrient cycling", 2021, Plant and Soil
  • "Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils", 2022, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • "Sandy Soil Amended with Clay Soil: Effect of Clay Soil Properties on Soil Respiration, Microbial Biomass, and Water Extractable Organic C", 2020, Journal of soil science and plant nutrition
  • "Rapid recovery of net ecosystem production in a semi-arid woodland after a wildfire", 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Transformation of jarosite during simulated remediation of a sandy sulfuric soil", 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors in their research included:

  • Luke M. Mosley
  • Kehinde O. Erinle
  • Qiaoqi Sun
  • R. W. Fitzpatrick
  • Ruby Hume

The overall body of their work reflected a focus on the interactions between soil chemistry, nutrient cycling, and environmental processes, contributing to an understanding of soil functions in various environmental and ecological contexts.

Best Publications

  • Marschner's Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants

    Horst. Marschner;Petra. Marschner

  • Structure and function of the soil microbial community in a long-term fertilizer experiment

    Petra Marschner;Ellen Kandeler;Bernd Marschner

  • Soil and plant specific effects on bacterial community composition in the rhizosphere

    P Marschner;C.-H Yang;R Lieberei;D.E Crowley

  • Development of specific rhizosphere bacterial communities in relation to plant species, nutrition and soil type

    Petra Marschner;David Crowley;Ching Hong Yang

  • Influence of salinity and water content on soil microorganisms

    Nan Yan;Petra Marschner;Wenhong Cao;Changqing Zuo

  • Nutrient availability and management in the rhizosphere: exploiting genotypic differences

    Zed Rengel;P. Marschner

  • Rhizosphere interactions between microorganisms and plants govern iron and phosphorus acquisition along the root axis – model and research methods

    Petra Marschner;David Crowley;Zed Rengel

  • Salt-affected soils, reclamation, carbon dynamics, and biochar: a review

    Sevda Amini;Hossein Ghadiri;Chengrong Chen;Petra Marschner

  • Controls on soil nitrogen cycling and microbial community composition across land use and incubation temperature

    W. R. Cookson;M. Osman;P. Marschner;D. A. Abaye

  • The veterinary antibiotic oxytetracycline and Cu influence functional diversity of the soil microbial community.

    W.-D. Kong;Y.-G. Zhu;B.-J. Fu;P. Marschner

  • Isolation of culturable phosphobacteria with both phytate-mineralization and phosphate-solubilization activity from the rhizosphere of plants grown in a volcanic soil

    Milko A. Jorquera;Marcela T. Hernández;Zed Rengel;Petra Marschner

  • Soil salinity decreases global soil organic carbon stocks.

    Raj Setia;Pia Gottschalk;Pete Smith;Petra Marschner

  • The contribution of soil organic matter fractions to carbon and nitrogen mineralization and microbial community size and structure

    William R. Cookson;Daniel A. Abaye;Petra Marschner;Daniel V. Murphy

  • Effect of intercropping on crop yield and chemical and microbiological properties in rhizosphere of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), maize (Zea mays L.), and faba bean (Vicia faba L.)

    Y. N. Song;F. S. Zhang;P. Marschner;F. L. Fan

  • Carbon pulses but not phosphorus pulses are related to decreases in microbial biomass during repeated drying and rewetting of soils

    C.R. Butterly;E.K. Bünemann;A.M. McNeill;J.A. Baldock;J.A. Baldock

  • Nutrient Availability in Soils

    Petra Marschner;Zed Rengel

  • Response of microbial activity and microbial community composition in soils to long-term arsenic and cadmium exposure

    Nicola Lorenz;Therese Hintemann;Tanja Kramarewa;Arata Katayama

  • Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Petra Marschner;Zdenko Rengel

  • Changes in bacterial community structure induced by mycorrhizal colonisation in split-root maize

    Petra Marschner;Karen Baumann

  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of the microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of cluster roots of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)

    Petra Marschner;Günter Neumann;Angelika Kania;Laure Weiskopf

  • The microbial community composition changes rapidly in the early stages of decomposition of wheat residue

    Petra Marschner;Shariah Umar;Karen Baumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Baldock
Jeff Baldock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zed Rengel
Zed Rengel University of Western Australia
Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob Fitzpatrick University of Adelaide
Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill University of Adelaide
David E. Crowley
David E. Crowley University of California, Riverside
Douglas L. Godbold
Douglas L. Godbold Mendel University Brno
Else K. Bünemann
Else K. Bünemann Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
David J. Chittleborough
David J. Chittleborough University of Adelaide
Zakaria M. Solaiman
Zakaria M. Solaiman University of Western Australia
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University

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