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Jens Leifeld
Federal Office for Agriculture · 🇨🇭 CH

Career Stage: Eminent

CDR Specialization

General CDR

Cross-cutting research supporting multiple CDR pathways or the general CDR field.

Metrics

MetricValue
h-index67
Citations18,041
Publications297
CDR Focus7.7%
TrajectoryStable

Top CDR Publications

  1. Biochar in agriculture – A systematic review of 26 global meta‐analyses (2021) 447 citations · Biochar

  2. Carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation—Definitions and pitfalls (2023) 209 citations · General CDR

  3. Achievable agricultural soil carbon sequestration across Europe from country‐specific estimates (2021) 74 citations · General CDR

  4. The importance of biochar quality and pyrolysis yield for soil carbon sequestration in practice (2023) 61 citations · Biochar

  5. Wood Ash as an Additive in Biomass Pyrolysis: Effects on Biochar Yield, Properties, and Agricultural Performance (2022) 60 citations · Biochar

  6. Carbon storage in agricultural topsoils and subsoils is promoted by including temporary grasslands into the crop rotation (2022) 46 citations · General CDR

  7. Quantifying negative radiative forcing of non-permanent and permanent soil carbon sinks (2022) 25 citations · General CDR

  8. Soil carbon sequestration potential bounded by population growth, land availability, food production, and climate change (2023) 16 citations · General CDR

  9. Reply letter to Munoz et al. ‘on the importance of time in carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation’—Keep carbon sequestration terminologies consistent and functional (2024) 14 citations · General CDR

  10. Efficiency of Plant Biomass Processing Pathways for Long‐Term Soil Carbon Storage (2025) 9 citations · General CDR

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