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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
53
Citations
10017
World Ranking
3426
National Ranking
105

Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
10154
World Ranking
2870
National Ranking
189

Philipp Blum 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 Philipp Blum sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 220 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.

Philipp Blum 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 Philipp Blum sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Overview

Philipp Blum is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The core of their research lies in Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Building and Construction.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Integrated Energy Systems Optimization, Drilling and Well Engineering, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Climate change and permafrost.

Among their recent publications are several notable papers, including:

  • Three-dimensional landslide evolution model at the Yangtze River (2021), published in Engineering Geology
  • Global groundwater warming due to climate change (2024), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Risk analysis of High-Temperature Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (HT-ATES) (2020), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Environmental impacts of aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) (2021), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Techno-economic analysis of underground hydrogen storage in Europe (2023), published in iScience

Philipp Blum collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Kathrin Menberg, with 28 joint publications
  • Peter Bayer, with 16 joint publications
  • Gabriel C. Rau, with 9 joint publications
  • Simon Schüppler, with 9 joint publications
  • Susanne A. Benz, with 8 joint publications

The scientist's work predominantly appears in specific venues, reflecting their specialized research areas. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Grundwasser (6 publications)
  • Geothermal Energy (5 publications)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (5 publications)
  • Solid Earth (4 publications)
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (3 publications)

Best Publications

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

    Peter Bayer;Dominik Saner;Stephan Bolay;Ladislaus Rybach

  • Worldwide application of aquifer thermal energy storage – A review

    Paul Fleuchaus;Bas Godschalk;Ingrid Stober;Philipp Blum

  • Fatal landslides in Europe

    Ubydul Haque;Philipp Blum;Paula F. da Silva;Peter Andersen

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

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

  • International legal status of the use of shallow geothermal energy

    Stefanie Haehnlein;Peter Bayer;Philipp Blum

  • 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

  • CO2 savings of ground source heat pump systems – A regional analysis

    Philipp Blum;Gisela Campillo;Wolfram Münch;Thomas Kölbel

  • 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

  • Techno-economic and spatial analysis of vertical ground source heat pump systems in Germany

    Philipp Blum;Gisela Campillo;Thomas Kölbel

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

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

  • A review of ground investigations for ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems

    Jin Luo;Joachim Rohn;Wei Xiang;David Bertermann

  • 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

  • Numerical sensitivity study of thermal response tests

    Valentin Wagner;Peter Bayer;Markus Kübert;Philipp Blum

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

    Kathrin Menberg;Philipp Blum;Axel Schaffitel;Peter Bayer

  • Evaluation of sampling methods for fracture network characterization using outcrops

    Conny Zeeb;Enrique Gomez-Rivas;Paul D. Bons;Philipp Blum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bayer
Peter Bayer Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Peter Grathwohl
Peter Grathwohl University of Tübingen
Henning Prommer
Henning Prommer University of Western Australia
Paul D. Bons
Paul D. Bons University of Tübingen
Karl G. Richards
Karl G. Richards Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Owen Fenton
Owen Fenton Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Mark O. Cuthbert
Mark O. Cuthbert Cardiff University
Johannes A. C. Barth
Johannes A. C. Barth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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