Bernd Hänfling

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Bernd Hänfling is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernd Hänfling has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, 36 papers in Molecular Biology and 35 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Bernd Hänfling's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (39 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (35 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (32 papers). Bernd Hänfling is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (39 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (35 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (32 papers). Bernd Hänfling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland. Bernd Hänfling's co-authors include Lori Lawson Handley, Jianlong Li, G. R. Carvalho, R. Brandl, David Weetman, Daniel S. Read, Rosetta C. Blackman, Christoph Hahn, Ian J. Winfield and Lynsey R. Harper and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Bernd Hänfling

76 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

EnvironmentalDNAmetabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods

2016 402 citations Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernd Hänfling United Kingdom	37	2.9k	1.8k	1.3k	1.2k	520	80	4.1k
Mark de Bruyn Australia	24	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	726 0.5×	881 0.7×	422 0.8×	58	3.6k
Chris C. Wilson Canada	31	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.5k 1.9×	2.0k 1.6×	842 1.6×	149	4.6k
Dirk Steinke Canada	38	2.5k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	872 0.7×	687 1.3×	106	4.7k
Joseph D. DiBattista Australia	36	3.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	611 1.2×	109	5.2k
Oliver Berry Australia	31	1.9k 0.7×	942 0.5×	788 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	166 0.3×	81	3.2k
Savel R. Daniels South Africa	29	1.8k 0.6×	627 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	758 0.6×	897 1.7×	134	3.0k
Tetsuya Sado Japan	31	2.8k 1.0×	3.5k 2.0×	1.7k 1.3×	786 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	75	5.0k
Peter J. Unmack Australia	31	1.3k 0.5×	618 0.3×	2.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	136	3.6k
Marlis R. Douglas United States	26	1.3k 0.4×	482 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	342 0.7×	80	3.1k
David H. Lunt United Kingdom	29	1.4k 0.5×	794 0.4×	706 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	249 0.5×	51	3.4k

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Hänfling, Bernd, et al.. (2025). Proving a negative: Estimating species ‘confidence in absence for decision‐making’ using environmental DNA monitoring. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(9). 2409–2420.

Bolland, Jonathan D., et al.. (2025). Seasonal Changes in Fish eDNA Signal Vary Between Contrasting River Types. Environmental DNA. 7(3).

Zhang, Heng, Rosetta C. Blackman, Reinhard Furrer, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial land cover shapes fish diversity in a major subtropical river catchment. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1113–1113.

Sellers, Graham S., Christopher L. Jerde, Lynsey R. Harper, et al.. (2024). Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 5 indexed citations

Wright, Rosalind M., Bernd Hänfling, Jonathan D. Bolland, et al.. (2023). Integrating environmental DNA monitoring to inform eel ( Anguilla anguilla ) status in freshwaters at their easternmost range—A case study in Cyprus. Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). e9800–e9800. 6 indexed citations

Ferrari, Giada, Mark Culling, Laura Llorente Rodríguez, et al.. (2022). Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1985). 20221107–20221107. 5 indexed citations

Harper, Lynsey R., Lori Lawson Handley, Carl D. Sayer, et al.. (2020). Assessing the impact of the threatened crucian carp ( Carassius carassius ) on pond invertebrate diversity: A comparison of conventional and molecular tools. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3252–3269. 12 indexed citations

Sales, Naiara Guimarães, Lynsey R. Harper, Samuel S. Browett, et al.. (2020). Fishing for mammals: Landscape‐level monitoring of terrestrial and semi‐aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(4). 707–716. 88 indexed citations

Wang, Shuping, Zhenguang Yan, Bernd Hänfling, et al.. (2020). Methodology of fish eDNA and its applications in ecology and environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 755(Pt 2). 142622–142622. 151 indexed citations

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Li, Jianlong, Tristan Hatton‐Ellis, Lori Lawson Handley, et al.. (2019). Ground‐truthing of a fish‐based environmental DNA metabarcoding method for assessing the quality of lakes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(5). 1232–1244. 64 indexed citations

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Harper, Lynsey R., Lori Lawson Handley, Carl D. Sayer, et al.. (2018). Development and application of environmental DNA surveillance for the threatened crucian carp ( Carassius carassius ). Freshwater Biology. 64(1). 93–107. 42 indexed citations

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Jeffries, Daniel L., Gordon H. Copp, Lori Lawson Handley, et al.. (2016). Comparing RAD seq and microsatellites to infer complex phylogeographic patterns, an empirical perspective in the Crucian carp, Carassius carassius, L.. Molecular Ecology. 25(13). 2997–3018. 152 indexed citations

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Mathers, Thomas C., Robert L. Hammond, Ronald A. Jenner, et al.. (2015). Transition in sexual system and sex chromosome evolution in the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis. Heredity. 115(1). 37–46. 11 indexed citations

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Mathers, Thomas C., et al.. (2013). High lability of sexual system over 250 million years of evolution in morphologically conservative tadpole shrimps. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 30–30. 21 indexed citations

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Turner, George F., et al.. (2009). Elevated mtDNA diversity in introduced populations of Cynotilapia afra (Günther 1894) in Lake Malawi National Park is evidence for multiple source populations and hybridization. Molecular Ecology. 18(21). 4380–4389. 18 indexed citations

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Hänfling, Bernd, et al.. (2009). Shallow phylogeographic structuring of Vimba vimba across Europe suggests two distinct refugia during the last glaciation. Journal of Fish Biology. 75(9). 2269–2286. 34 indexed citations

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Oosterhout, Cock van, Alan Smith, Bernd Hänfling, et al.. (2007). The Guppy as a Conservation Model: Implications of Parasitism and Inbreeding for Reintroduction Success. Conservation Biology. 21(6). 1573–1583. 53 indexed citations

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Hänfling, Bernd, et al.. (2007). Recent evolution of alternative reproductive modes in the 'living fossil' Triops cancriformis. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 161–161. 48 indexed citations

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Mesquita, Natacha, Bernd Hänfling, Gary R. Carvalho, & Maria M. Coelho. (2005). Phylogeography of the cyprinid Squalius aradensis and implications for conservation of the endemic freshwater fauna of southern Portugal. Molecular Ecology. 14(7). 1939–1954. 66 indexed citations

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Hänfling, Bernd, Bart Hellemans, Filip Volckaert, & G. R. Carvalho. (2002). Late glacial history of the cold‐adapted freshwater fish Cottus gobio, revealed by microsatellites. Molecular Ecology. 11(9). 1717–1729. 121 indexed citations

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