Bernd Sures

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
266 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Bernd Sures is a scholar working on Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernd Sures has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Ecology, 93 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 68 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Bernd Sures's work include Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (126 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (58 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (56 papers). Bernd Sures is often cited by papers focused on Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (126 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (58 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (56 papers). Bernd Sures collaborates with scholars based in Germany, South Africa and Czechia. Bernd Sures's co-authors include Horst Taraschewski, Sonja Zimmermann, Milen Nachev, Roy Siddall, Christian Selbach, Daniel Grabner, Miroslava Soldánová, Alex von Bohlen, Christoph Koch and Torsten C. Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Environmental Science & Technology and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Bernd Sures

253 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Parasite responses to pollution: what we know and where we go in ‘Environmental Parasitology’

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bernd Sures	4.9k	2.8k	2.1k	1.7k	1.1k	266	8.6k
E. S. Upatham	1.2k 0.3×	947 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	568 0.3×	692 0.6×	124	3.9k
Paco Bustamante	5.8k 1.2×	7.8k 2.8×	170 0.1×	2.5k 1.4×	272 0.2×	363	11.4k
Mark A. Taggart	1.2k 0.2×	1.5k 0.5×	383 0.2×	1.7k 1.0×	282 0.2×	139	4.8k
Michel Fournier	1.1k 0.2×	3.0k 1.1×	172 0.1×	1.3k 0.7×	283 0.2×	185	5.7k
Laura Canesi	1.1k 0.2×	4.6k 1.6×	171 0.1×	3.7k 2.2×	81 0.1×	176	10.3k
Lieven Bervoets	2.0k 0.4×	6.7k 2.4×	244 0.1×	4.2k 2.5×	37 0.0×	262	10.4k
Geir Wing Gabrielsen	5.3k 1.1×	7.9k 2.8×	638 0.3×	2.3k 1.4×	173 0.2×	327	14.1k
Mark Crane	853 0.2×	3.0k 1.0×	135 0.1×	2.2k 1.3×	168 0.1×	124	5.0k
Inna M. Sokolova	4.2k 0.9×	3.4k 1.2×	126 0.1×	1.6k 0.9×	56 0.0×	231	10.7k
Ronald J. Kendall	1.1k 0.2×	2.6k 0.9×	439 0.2×	1.6k 0.9×	137 0.1×	192	5.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sures, Bernd, et al.. (2025). Paradise under threat: the successful invasion of the freshwater shrimp Neocaridina davidi (Bouvier, 1904) and its microsporidian parasiteson La Réunion Island. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 14(2). 403–419.

Zimmermann, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Ecotoxicological data of selected antiviral drugs acting against SARS-CoV-2: Aliivibrio fischeri bioluminescence inhibition, Daphnia magna immobilization, and comparison with in silico predictions. Environmental Sciences Europe. 37(1).

Jochmann, Maik A., et al.. (2024). Compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids for aquatic systems – Problems, challenges, solutions: A review. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 181. 118038–118038. 2 indexed citations

Beszteri, Bánk, Christian K. Feld, Daniel Grabner, et al.. (2024). Influence of salinity on the thermal tolerance of aquatic organisms. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176120–176120. 6 indexed citations

Grabner, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Locomotor activity and physiological responses of parasite-infected Gammarus fossarum exposed to the herbicide metazachlor. Environmental Pollution. 366. 125413–125413.

Grabner, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Invisible invaders: range expansion of feral Neocaridina davidi offers new opportunities for generalist intracellular parasites. Biological Invasions. 26(8). 2499–2523. 4 indexed citations

Smit, Nico J., et al.. (2024). Element contamination of the Orange-Vaal River basin, South Africa: a One Health approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(20). 29886–29901. 2 indexed citations

Koch, Christoph, D.V. Okhrimenko, Mette Solvang, et al.. (2023). Assessment of acute and chronic ecotoxicological effects of aqueous eluates of stone wool insulation materials. Environmental Sciences Europe. 35(1). 4 indexed citations

Sures, Bernd, et al.. (2023). Environmental parasitology: stressor effects on aquatic parasites. Trends in Parasitology. 39(6). 461–474. 32 indexed citations

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Grabner, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Comparing Microsporidia-targeting primers for environmental DNA sequencing. Parasite. 30. 52–52. 2 indexed citations

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Rooyen, D. van, et al.. (2023). Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of total mercury through the aquatic food webs of an African sub-tropical wetland system. The Science of The Total Environment. 889. 164210–164210. 22 indexed citations

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Nachev, Milen, et al.. (2023). The use of fish parasitic isopods as element accumulation indicators in marine pollution monitoring. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 194(Pt A). 115385–115385. 1 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Sonja, Nico J. Smit, Wynand Malherbe, et al.. (2022). Human health risks associated with consumption of fish contaminated with trace elements from intensive mining activities in a peri-urban region. The Science of The Total Environment. 825. 154011–154011. 23 indexed citations

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Wepener, Victor, Sonja Zimmermann, Milen Nachev, et al.. (2022). High element concentrations are not always equivalent to a stressful environment: differential responses of parasite taxa to natural and anthropogenic stressors. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 184. 114110–114110. 2 indexed citations

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Grabner, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Parasitism enhances gastropod feeding on invasive and native algae while altering essential energy reserves for organismal homeostasis upon warming. The Science of The Total Environment. 863. 160727–160727. 4 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Sonja, et al.. (2021). Laboratory and field studies on the use of artificial mussels as a monitoring tool of platinum exposure in the freshwater environment. Environmental Sciences Europe. 33(1). 5 indexed citations

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Selbach, Christian, Kim N. Mouritsen, Robert Poulin, Bernd Sures, & Nico J. Smit. (2021). Bridging the gap: aquatic parasites in the One Health concept. Trends in Parasitology. 38(2). 109–111. 17 indexed citations

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Manfrin, Alessandro, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Mayumi Ishizuka, et al.. (2020). Using stable δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N isotopes to assess foodweb structures in an African subtropical temporary pool. African Zoology. 55(1). 79–92. 9 indexed citations

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Wepener, Victor, Milen Nachev, Sonja Zimmermann, et al.. (2020). The role of fish helminth parasites in monitoring metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems: a case study in the world’s most productive platinum mining region. Parasitology Research. 119(9). 2783–2798. 25 indexed citations

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Malherbe, Wynand, Ruan Gerber, Olaf L. F. Weyl, et al.. (2019). First record of Labeo capensis (Smith, 1841) in the Crocodile River (West) system: another successful non-native freshwater fish introduction in South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science. 44(2). 177–181. 4 indexed citations

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