Johan Six

82.7k citations
514 papers · 59.7k · 36 hit papers · h-index 112

Impact in

  • Soil Science top 0.01%
    • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
    • Soil erosion and sediment transport
    • Soil Management and Crop Yield
    • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Johan Six

496 papers receiving 57.9k citations

Johan Six's Hit Papers

Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know? 2025 · 37 citations
370+4+8Years since publication4008001.2k

Peers

Johan Six
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  • Soil Science 42.7k
  • Environmental Chemistry 12.6k
  • Agronomy and Crop Science 7.3k
  • Ecology 17.5k
  • Horticulture 468
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All Works

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Stabilization mechanisms of soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils
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20023474
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A history of research on the link between (micro)aggregates, soil biota, and soil organic matter dynamics
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20043273
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Soil macroaggregate turnover and microaggregate formation: a mechanism for C sequestration under no-tillage agriculture
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20002598
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Bacterial and Fungal Contributions to Carbon Sequestration in Agroecosystems
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20061610
5
Aggregation and Soil Organic Matter Accumulation in Cultivated and Native Grassland Soils
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19981453
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Soil Structure and Organic Matter I. Distribution of Aggregate‐Size Classes and Aggregate‐Associated Carbon
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20001288
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Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter
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20191228
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Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture
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20141187
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Aggregate and Soil Organic Matter Dynamics under Conventional and No‐Tillage Systems
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19991152
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Soil organic matter, biota and aggregation in temperateand tropical soils - Effects of no-tillage
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20021062
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The Impact of Agricultural Soil Erosion on the Global Carbon Cycle
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2007791
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Soil structure and microbiome functions in agroecosystems
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2022753
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Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation
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2007711
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Aggregate-associated soil organic matter as an ecosystem property and a measurement tool
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2013667
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The potential to mitigate global warming with no‐tillage management is only realized when practised in the long term
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2004666
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When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis
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2015642
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The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate
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2013640
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Management options for reducing CO2 emissions from agricultural soils
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2000638
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Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate
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2015630
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Illuminated darkness: Molecular signatures of Congo River dissolved organic matter and its photochemical alteration as revealed by ultrahigh precision mass spectrometry
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2010591

About Johan Six

Johan Six is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 514 papers that have together received 59.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (315 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (123 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (57 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (54 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (43 papers), Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (42.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (12.6k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (7.3k citations), Ecology (17.5k citations) and Horticulture (468 citations). Johan Six has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Keith Paustian, Edward T. Elliott, Karolien Denef, Richard T. Conant, H. Bossuyt, Serita D. Frey, E. A. Paul, Chris van Kessel, Roel Merckx and Juhwan Lee. Their work appears in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Global Change Biology and Plant and Soil.

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