Christian Albrecht

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
160 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Albrecht is a scholar working on Ecology, Insect Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Albrecht has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Insect Science and 31 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Christian Albrecht's work include Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (98 papers), Mollusks and Parasites Studies (46 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (24 papers). Christian Albrecht is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (98 papers), Mollusks and Parasites Studies (46 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (24 papers). Christian Albrecht collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Uganda and United States. Christian Albrecht's co-authors include Roland Schultheiß, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Pierre‐Denis Plisnier, Thomas Wilke, Björn Stelbrink, Bruno Streit, Catharina Clewing, Torsten Hauffe, Kerstin Kuhn and Thomas von Rintelen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christian Albrecht

157 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

Is deep-water gastropod d... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Is deep-water gastropod decline in the ancient lakes Malawi and Tanganyika heralding ecosystem change ?
    2016 3.6k citations Bert Van Bocxlaer, Roland Schultheiß et al. Freshwater Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Albrecht Germany 34 2.8k 1.1k 776 749 729 160 7.1k
Timothy J. Breen United States 18 1.9k 0.7× 534 0.5× 377 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 455 0.6× 37 6.6k
David M. Wilkinson United Kingdom 44 1.9k 0.7× 267 0.2× 360 0.5× 556 0.7× 487 0.7× 181 6.1k
Alex J. Dumbrell United Kingdom 39 1.6k 0.6× 649 0.6× 332 0.4× 677 0.9× 222 0.3× 83 4.5k
Philip M. Dixon United States 45 3.2k 1.1× 897 0.8× 423 0.5× 2.2k 2.9× 812 1.1× 189 11.7k
Brian H. McArdle New Zealand 35 3.4k 1.2× 431 0.4× 1.5k 1.9× 1.8k 2.4× 661 0.9× 81 7.6k
Jean‐Louis Martin France 44 1.6k 0.6× 523 0.5× 179 0.2× 1.1k 1.5× 565 0.8× 152 11.7k
Jane Hughes Australia 49 3.8k 1.4× 360 0.3× 419 0.5× 3.1k 4.1× 2.9k 4.0× 423 9.8k
Scott T. Kelley United States 49 3.7k 1.3× 812 0.8× 277 0.4× 471 0.6× 1.8k 2.5× 138 13.2k
Cavell Brownie United States 34 4.4k 1.6× 471 0.4× 232 0.3× 2.1k 2.8× 662 0.9× 132 7.0k
Jessica L. Green United States 42 5.7k 2.0× 585 0.5× 1.0k 1.3× 1.9k 2.5× 745 1.0× 51 11.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Albrecht

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Albrecht

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Albrecht

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Albrecht. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Albrecht 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 Christian Albrecht. Christian Albrecht is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hammoud, Cyril, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Dirk Verschuren, et al.. (2025). Agricultural land use and ensuing eutrophication both shape parasitic trematode communities in rural African lakes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2048). 20250070–20250070. 1 indexed citations
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Albrecht, Christian, et al.. (2025). Returners and New Arrivals After the Crash: Intermediate Hosts and Global Invaders Dominate Gastropod Fauna of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Diversity. 17(4). 265–265. 1 indexed citations
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Stelbrink, Björn, Christian Kehlmaier, Catharina Clewing, Thomas Wilke, & Christian Albrecht. (2024). A genetic snapshot before extinction: Museomics reveals the phylogenetic position of a critically endangered freshwater gastropod. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 34(7). 2 indexed citations
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Genête, Mathieu, Christelle Blassiau, Cécile Godé, et al.. (2022). Target enrichment of long open reading frames and ultraconserved elements to link microevolution and macroevolution in non‐model organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(3). 659–679. 2 indexed citations
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Hammoud, Cyril, Stephen Mulero, Bert Van Bocxlaer, et al.. (2021). Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(2). 567–586. 14 indexed citations
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Bocxlaer, Bert Van, Catharina Clewing, Anne Duputié, Camille Roux, & Christian Albrecht. (2020). Population collapse in viviparid gastropods of the Lake Victoria ecoregion started before the Last Glacial Maximum. Molecular Ecology. 30(2). 364–378. 6 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Uwe, Christian Albrecht, Christian Leipe, et al.. (2019). Intra-seasonal hydrological processes on the western Tibetan Plateau: Monsoonal and convective rainfall events ∼7.5 ka ago. 2 indexed citations
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Bocxlaer, Bert Van, Roland Schultheiß, Pierre‐Denis Plisnier, & Christian Albrecht. (2016). Is deep-water gastropod decline in the ancient lakes Malawi and Tanganyika heralding ecosystem change ?. Freshwater Biology. 3601 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hauffe, Torsten, Christian Albrecht, & Thomas Wilke. (2016). Assembly processes of gastropod community change with horizontal and vertical zonation in ancient Lake Ohrid: a metacommunity speciation perspective. Biogeosciences. 13(10). 2901–2911. 15 indexed citations
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Hauffe, Torsten, Christian Albrecht, & Thomas Wilke. (2015). Gastropod diversification and community structuring processes in ancient Lake Ohrid: a metacommunity speciation perspective. 5 indexed citations
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Harzhauser, Mathias, Oleg Mandić, Andrea Kern, et al.. (2013). Explosive demographic expansion by dreissenid bivalves as a possible result of astronomical forcing. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8423–8431. 11 indexed citations
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Hauffe, Torsten, et al.. (2011). Spatially explicit analysis of gastropod biodiversity in ancient Lake Ohrid. Biogeosciences. 8(1). 175–188. 32 indexed citations
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Vogel, Hendrik, et al.. (2010). Spatial variability of recent sedimentation in Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences. 7(10). 3333–3342. 61 indexed citations
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Albrecht, Christian, et al.. (2010). A freshwater biodiversity hotspot under pressure – assessing threats and identifying conservation needs for ancient Lake Ohrid. Biogeosciences. 7(12). 3999–4015. 42 indexed citations
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Albrecht, Christian, Hendrik Vogel, Torsten Hauffe, & Thomas Wilke. (2010). Sediment core fossils in ancient Lake Ohrid: testing for faunal change since the Last Interglacial. Biogeosciences. 7(11). 3435–3446. 11 indexed citations
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Wilke, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Native Dreissena freshwater mussels in the Balkans: in and out of ancient lakes. Biogeosciences. 7(10). 3051–3065. 38 indexed citations
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