Christer Nilsson

35.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
289 papers, 23.1k citations indexed

About

Christer Nilsson is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christer Nilsson has authored 289 papers receiving a total of 23.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Ecology, 98 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 47 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Christer Nilsson's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (91 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (63 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (46 papers). Christer Nilsson is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (91 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (63 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (46 papers). Christer Nilsson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Christer Nilsson's co-authors include Mats Dynesius, Roland Jansson, Carmen Revenga, Mats E. Johansson, Shaojun Xiong, Birgitta Malm‐Renöfält, Jane A. Catford, Robert J. Naiman, James Robertson and Catherine Reidy Liermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christer Nilsson

276 papers receiving 21.6k citations

Hit Papers

Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World's Large Ri... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2005 2011 1994 2008 2000 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World's Large River Systems
    2005 2.7k citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  2. High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management
    2011 1.7k citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  3. Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of River Systems in the Northern Third of the World
    1994 1.3k citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  4. Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework
    2008 819 citations Roland Jansson, Christer Nilsson et al. Diversity and Distributions profile →
  5. Alterations of Riparian Ecosystems Caused by River Regulation
    2000 664 citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  6. Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating management options
    2007 643 citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  7. Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities
    2009 470 citations Christer Nilsson et al. Freshwater Biology profile →
  8. Implications of Dam Obstruction for Global Freshwater Fish Diversity
    2012 467 citations Christer Nilsson et al. profile →
  9. The role of hydrochory in structuring riparian and wetland vegetation
    2010 425 citations Christer Nilsson, Roland Jansson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christer Nilsson Sweden 71 12.5k 9.4k 5.9k 4.8k 3.9k 289 23.1k
Klement Tockner Germany 73 15.0k 1.2× 9.0k 1.0× 6.2k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 4.2k 1.1× 215 23.9k
William H. McDowell United States 77 10.6k 0.8× 5.4k 0.6× 7.1k 1.2× 5.4k 1.1× 5.2k 1.3× 283 26.9k
James J. Elser United States 91 16.6k 1.3× 10.4k 1.1× 2.5k 0.4× 6.0k 1.2× 7.0k 1.8× 307 39.9k
Bo Li China 74 9.3k 0.7× 3.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.2× 4.7k 1.0× 4.2k 1.1× 823 23.9k
Helmut Hillebrand Germany 68 12.4k 1.0× 8.4k 0.9× 888 0.2× 4.3k 0.9× 2.1k 0.5× 224 24.4k
Franz–Josef Bormann United States 58 3.8k 0.3× 4.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.4× 3.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.6× 126 12.8k
Robert W. Sterner United States 56 8.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.5× 1.0k 0.2× 2.6k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 112 17.3k
Yadvinder Malhi United Kingdom 98 9.9k 0.8× 12.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.3× 20.8k 4.3× 3.6k 0.9× 428 33.8k
Donald L. Phillips United States 49 9.9k 0.8× 3.3k 0.3× 1.7k 0.3× 6.9k 1.4× 1.4k 0.4× 114 18.1k
John Downing United States 68 10.0k 0.8× 5.8k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 5.4k 1.1× 927 0.2× 199 22.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christer Nilsson

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All Works

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Sarneel, Judith M., et al.. (2019). Local flooding history affects plant recruitment in riparian zones. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30(2). 224–234. 11 indexed citations
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Sarneel, Judith M., Mariet M. Hefting, George A. Kowalchuk, et al.. (2019). Alternative transient states and slow plant community responses after changed flooding regimes. Global Change Biology. 25(4). 1358–1367. 22 indexed citations
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Su, Xiaolei, Lina E. Polvi, Lovisa Lind, Francesca Pilotto, & Christer Nilsson. (2019). Importance of landscape context for post‐restoration recovery of riparian vegetation. Freshwater Biology. 64(5). 1015–1028. 5 indexed citations
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Su, Xiaolei, Lovisa Lind, Lina E. Polvi, & Christer Nilsson. (2019). Variation in hydrochory among lakes and streams: Effects of channel planform, roughness, and currents. Ecohydrology. 12(5). 10 indexed citations
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Jansson, Roland, Christer Nilsson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, et al.. (2015). Future changes in the supply of goods and services from natural ecosystems: prospects for the European north. Ecology and Society. 20(3). 29 indexed citations
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Surova, Yulia, Markus Nilsson, Jimmy Lätt, et al.. (2015). Disease-specific structural changes in thalamus and dentatorubrothalamic tract in progressive supranuclear palsy. Neuroradiology. 57(11). 1079–1091. 38 indexed citations
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Polvi, Lina E., Eliza Maher Hasselquist, & Christer Nilsson. (2014). Explaining linkages (and lack of) between riparian vegetation biodiversity and geomorphic complexity in restored streams of northern Sweden. EGUGA. 275. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Guangsheng, et al.. (2014). Remote estimation of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation for a maize canopy in Northeast China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 8(4). 429–435. 23 indexed citations
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Santillo, Alexander, Christer Nilsson, & Elisabet Englund. (2013). von Economo neurones are selectively targeted in frontotemporal dementia. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 39(5). 572–579. 50 indexed citations
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Surova, Yulia, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Jimmy Lätt, et al.. (2013). Assessment of Global and Regional Diffusion Changes along White Matter Tracts in Parkinsonian Disorders by MR Tractography. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66022–e66022. 28 indexed citations
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Santillo, Alexander, Olof Lindberg, Markus Nilsson, et al.. (2013). Diffusion Tensor Tractography versus Volumetric Imaging in the Diagnosis of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e66932–e66932. 39 indexed citations
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Hof, Anouschka R., Roland Jansson, & Christer Nilsson. (2012). How biotic interactions may alter future predictions of species distributions: future threats to the persistence of the arctic fox in Fennoscandia. Diversity and Distributions. 18(6). 554–562. 81 indexed citations
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Puschmann, Andreas, Owen A. Ross, Carles Vilariño‐Güell, et al.. (2009). A Swedish family with de novo α-synuclein A53T mutation: Evidence for early cortical dysfunction. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 15(9). 627–632. 77 indexed citations
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Nilsson, Charlotta, Jan Pallon, Göran Thungström, et al.. (2006). Evaluation of a pre-cell hit detector for the future single ion hit facility in Lund. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 249(1-2). 924–927. 7 indexed citations
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Pallon, Jan, Vaida Auzelyte, M. Elfman, et al.. (2006). Development of the Lund Single Ion Hit Facility at the new sub micrometer beamline. Radiation Research. 166(4). 655–656. 1 indexed citations
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Chapin, F. Stuart, Michael Hoel, S. R. Carpenter, et al.. (2006). Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change. AMBIO. 35(4). 198–202. 71 indexed citations
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Buhl, Thora, et al.. (1996). Expression of prepro-VIP derived peptides in the gastrointestinal tract of normal, hypothyroid and hyperthyroid rats. Neuropeptides. 30(3). 237–247. 13 indexed citations
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Nilsson, Christer. (1984). Kriterier för biologisk värdering av natur från skyddssynpunkt. 2 indexed citations

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