Axel Don
Impact in
- Soil Science top 0.05%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Environmental Chemistry top 0.2%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Papers in
- Soil Science 114
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 114
- Soil erosion and sediment transport 9
- Ecology 57
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 44
- Co-authors
- Christopher Poeplau (31 shared papers)Jens Schumacher (5 shared papers)Annette Freibauer (13 shared papers)Ernst‐Detlef Schulze (12 shared papers)Cora Vos (11 shared papers)Florian Schneider (12 shared papers)Bas van Wesemael (5 shared papers)Karsten Kalbitz (7 shared papers)
- Journals
- Global Change Biology (20 papers)Geoderma (12 papers)Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (11 papers)Plant and Soil (9 papers)European Journal of Soil Science (9 papers)
- Partner nations
- GermanySwitzerlandBelgium
In The Last Decade
Axel Don
134 papers receiving 10.3k citations
Axel Don's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 126
- Soil Science 6.9k
- Environmental Chemistry 1.8k
- Agronomy and Crop Science 1.6k
- Ecology 3.4k
- Environmental Engineering 1.5k
Countries citing papers authored by Axel Don
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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Don
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Axel Don, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 142 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 1105 |
| 2 | Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils via cultivation of cover crops – A meta-analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 1076 |
| 3 | Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone - carbon response functions as a model approach Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 701 |
| 4 | Sensitivity of soil organic carbon stocks and fractions to different land-use changes across Europe Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 493 |
| 5 | The effect of deep tillage on crop yield – What do we really know? Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 305 |
| 6 | 2011 | 292 | |
| 7 | 2012 | 248 | |
| 8 | Aligning agriculture and climate policy Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 240 |
| 9 | 2017 | 221 | |
| 10 | 2005 | 210 | |
| 11 | 2007 | 205 | |
| 12 | Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 186 |
| 13 | 2009 | 182 | |
| 14 | 2016 | 163 | |
| 15 | 2008 | 161 | |
| 16 | 2007 | 144 | |
| 17 | 2016 | 142 | |
| 18 | 2016 | 138 | |
| 19 | 2017 | 127 | |
| 20 | No detectable upper limit of mineral‐associated organic carbon in temperate agricultural soils Hit paper breakdown → | 2023 | 122 |
About Axel Don
Axel Don is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 142 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (114 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (44 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (36 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (25 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (12 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (6.9k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.8k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.6k citations), Ecology (3.4k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.5k citations). Axel Don has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Christopher Poeplau, Jens Schumacher, Annette Freibauer, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Cora Vos, Florian Schneider, Bas van Wesemael, Karsten Kalbitz, Andreas Gensior and Jens Leifeld. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Geoderma, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Plant and Soil and European Journal of Soil Science.
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