Bernd Lenzner

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Bernd Lenzner is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernd Lenzner has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 29 papers in Ecological Modeling and 26 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bernd Lenzner's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (29 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Bernd Lenzner is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (29 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Bernd Lenzner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Bernd Lenzner's co-authors include Franz Essl, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, Hanno Seebens, Wayne Dawson, Jan Pergl, Stefan Dullinger, Marten Winter, Patrick Weigelt and Holger Kreft and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Bernd Lenzner

48 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

2020 446 citations Hanno Seebens, Sven Bacher et al. profile →
Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

2020 194 citations Mark van Kleunen, Qiang Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernd Lenzner Austria	20	780	743	609	488	339	53	1.8k
Gleb Tikhonov Finland	11	569 0.7×	693 0.9×	335 0.6×	531 1.1×	196 0.6×	19	1.4k
Kévin Cazelles Canada	17	605 0.8×	799 1.1×	535 0.9×	428 0.9×	197 0.6×	30	1.7k
Caterina Penone Switzerland	18	900 1.2×	848 1.1×	975 1.6×	744 1.5×	280 0.8×	30	2.4k
Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia France	20	495 0.6×	588 0.8×	528 0.9×	448 0.9×	157 0.5×	37	1.3k
Amy M. Iler United States	16	683 0.9×	524 0.7×	908 1.5×	682 1.4×	309 0.9×	32	1.7k
Stephen F. Matter United States	27	951 1.2×	816 1.1×	861 1.4×	421 0.9×	214 0.6×	83	1.9k
Ofer Steinitz Israel	9	853 1.1×	769 1.0×	518 0.9×	599 1.2×	241 0.7×	9	1.5k
Camila Duarte Ritter Brazil	15	451 0.6×	481 0.6×	479 0.8×	458 0.9×	222 0.7×	35	1.5k
Rafael O. Wüest Switzerland	20	765 1.0×	686 0.9×	552 0.9×	877 1.8×	191 0.6×	36	1.7k
Caroline M. Tucker Canada	18	1.6k 2.0×	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.8×	821 1.7×	330 1.0×	27	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Bernd Lenzner

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Bernd Lenzner's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Bernd Lenzner with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Bernd Lenzner more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Bernd Lenzner

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bernd Lenzner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bernd Lenzner. The network helps show where Bernd Lenzner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernd Lenzner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bernd Lenzner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bernd Lenzner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bernd Lenzner. Bernd Lenzner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Latombe, Guillaume, Ugo Arbieu, Sven Bacher, et al.. (2025). Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment. BioScience. 75(9). 722–736. 1 indexed citations

Davis, Amy J.S., Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, et al.. (2025). The updated Global Naturalized Alien Flora ( GloNAF 2.0) database. Ecology. 106(11). e70245–e70245.

Guerrero‐Ramírez, Nathaly R., Claudine Ah‐Peng, Paulo A. V. Borges, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (BioMonI). GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 8.

Kortz, Alessandra, et al.. (2024). Alien flora of Mongolia: species richness, introduction dynamics and spatial patterns. Biological Invasions. 26(8). 2407–2419.

Lenzner, Bernd, et al.. (2024). Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation. Conservation Letters. 18(1). 5 indexed citations

Clarke, David A., Emili García‐Berthou, Quentin Groom, et al.. (2024). Global indicators of the environmental impacts of invasive alien species and their information adequacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1902). 20230323–20230323. 6 indexed citations

Lenzner, Bernd, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Stefan Dullinger, et al.. (2024). The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development. People and Nature. 6(5). 1804–1811. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Kun, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, et al.. (2024). Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1330–1330. 22 indexed citations

Essl, Franz, et al.. (2024). Venturing Into the Unknown: The Importance of Variable Selection When Modelling Alien Species Under Non‐Analogue Climatic Conditions. Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). e70490–e70490. 3 indexed citations

10.

Plutzar, Christoph, Dietmar Moser, Philipp Semenchuk, et al.. (2023). Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(6). 855–866. 6 indexed citations

11.

Zhang, Zhijie, Qiang Yang, Trevor S. Fristoe, et al.. (2023). The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants. Science Advances. 9(40). eadi1897–eadi1897. 10 indexed citations

12.

McGeoch, Mélodie A., Yehezkel Buba, Jonathan Belmaker, et al.. (2023). Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets. Conservation Letters. 16(6). 13 indexed citations

13.

Pyšek, Petr, Magdalena Lučanová, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2023). Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread. New Phytologist. 239(6). 2389–2403. 22 indexed citations

14.

Soler, Rosina, et al.. (2023). Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Applied Vegetation Science. 26(2). 2 indexed citations

15.

Latombe, Guillaume, Bernd Lenzner, Stefan Dullinger, et al.. (2022). What is valued in conservation? A framework to compare ethical perspectives. NeoBiota. 72. 45–80. 13 indexed citations

16.

Essl, Franz, M.J. Kraak, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2022). Introducing the combined atlas framework for large‐scale web‐based data visualization: The GloNAF atlas of plant invasion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). 1073–1081. 3 indexed citations

17.

Kreft, Holger, Dylan Craven, Christian König, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness. Ecography. 2022(11). 6 indexed citations

18.

Pouteau, Robin, Caroline Brunel, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2021). Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions. 28(1). 53–64. 25 indexed citations

19.

Lenzner, Bernd, Susana Magallón, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2020). Role of diversification rates and evolutionary history as a driver of plant naturalization success. New Phytologist. 229(5). 2998–3008. 21 indexed citations

20.

Essl, Franz, Bernd Lenzner, Franck Courchamp, et al.. (2019). Introducing AlienScenarios: a project to develop scenarios and models of biological invasions for the 21 st century. NeoBiota. 45. 1–17. 11 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact