Christian Wolter

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
156 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Wolter is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Wolter has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 108 papers in Ecology and 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Christian Wolter's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (113 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (50 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (43 papers). Christian Wolter is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (113 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (50 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (43 papers). Christian Wolter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Austria. Christian Wolter's co-authors include Robert Arlinghaus, Johannes Radinger, Franz Hölker, Klement Tockner, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Chunlong Liu, Weiwei Xian, Jürgen Fischer, Jochem Kail and Alexander Sukhodolov and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christian Wolter

154 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Dark Side of Light: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy

2010 499 citations Franz Hölker, Christian Wolter et al. profile →
Most invasive species largely conserve their climatic niche

2020 227 citations Chunlong Liu, Christian Wolter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Wolter Germany	41	3.0k	2.9k	1.8k	818	630	156	5.6k
Virgilio Hermoso Spain	37	2.3k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	500 0.6×	464 0.7×	148	4.3k
Jansen Zuanon Brazil	40	4.4k 1.5×	2.2k 0.8×	992 0.5×	2.3k 2.8×	372 0.6×	202	6.2k
R.S.E.W. Leuven Netherlands	42	1.7k 0.6×	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	352 0.4×	540 0.9×	230	5.6k
Bradley J. Pusey Australia	41	3.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	1.3k 2.0×	112	5.3k
Francis Juanes Canada	45	3.7k 1.2×	4.7k 1.6×	3.8k 2.1×	1.0k 1.2×	252 0.4×	292	9.6k
Eric J. Ward United States	43	2.5k 0.8×	5.1k 1.7×	3.5k 1.9×	221 0.3×	435 0.7×	157	9.3k
Young‐Seuk Park South Korea	38	1.6k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	605 0.3×	320 0.4×	843 1.3×	201	4.7k
Michael M. Douglas Australia	39	2.7k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	301 0.4×	498 0.8×	147	5.1k
Simon Linke Australia	38	2.4k 0.8×	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	257 0.3×	807 1.3×	103	4.8k
Alexander S. Flecker United States	50	5.5k 1.8×	5.5k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	743 1.2×	138	8.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Wolter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Wolter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Wolter

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Venohr, Markus, et al.. (2025). Spatial distribution of nicotine concentrations in Berlin’s surface waters and their potential sources. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 32(11). 6784–6803. 2 indexed citations

Jeliazkov, Aliénor, Vanesa Martínez‐Fernández, Jean‐Nicolas Beisel, et al.. (2024). A global systematic map of knowledge of inland commercial navigation effects on freshwater ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122474–122474. 1 indexed citations

Radinger, Johannes, et al.. (2024). Replicated whole‐lake experiment reveals the ineffectiveness of stocking five example fish species in small lakes. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 32(3). 1 indexed citations

Trueman, Clive N., Michael Wiedenbeck, Jan Fietzke, et al.. (2024). Variable habitat use supports fine-scale population differentiation of a freshwater piscivore (northern pike, Esox lucius) along salinity gradients in brackish lagoons. Oecologia. 206(3-4). 275–292. 5 indexed citations

Dickey, James W. E., et al.. (2023). Identifying potential emerging invasive non‐native species from the freshwater pet trade. People and Nature. 5(6). 1948–1961. 9 indexed citations

Radinger, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Ecosystem-based management outperforms species-focused stocking for enhancing fish populations. Science. 379(6635). 946–951. 65 indexed citations

Radinger, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Impact of water-based recreation on aquatic and riparian biodiversity of small lakes. Journal for Nature Conservation. 78. 126545–126545. 4 indexed citations

Klefoth, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Environmental determinants of fish abundance in the littoral zone of gravel pit lakes. Hydrobiologia. 848(10). 2449–2471. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Chunlong, Christian Wolter, Weiwei Xian, & Jonathan M. Jeschke. (2020). Species distribution models have limited spatial transferability for invasive species. Ecology Letters. 23(11). 1682–1692. 100 indexed citations

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Klefoth, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: Implications for conservation. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31(1). 153–172. 16 indexed citations

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Emmrich, Matthias, et al.. (2019). Effect of recreational‐fisheries management on fish biodiversity in gravel pit lakes, with contrasts to unmanaged lakes. Journal of Fish Biology. 94(6). 865–881. 25 indexed citations

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Zajíček, Petr, Johannes Radinger, & Christian Wolter. (2018). Disentangling multiple pressures on fish assemblages in large rivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 627. 1093–1105. 23 indexed citations

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Zajíček, Petr & Christian Wolter. (2018). The effects of recreational and commercial navigation on fish assemblages in large rivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 646. 1304–1314. 25 indexed citations

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Aas, Øystein, Julien Cucherousset, Ian Fleming, et al.. (2018). Salmonid stocking in five North Atlantic jurisdictions: Identifying drivers and barriers to policy change. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28(6). 1451–1464. 26 indexed citations

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Jalón, Diego García de, Marta González del Tánago, Paweł Oglęcki, et al.. (2014). Influence of natural hydromorphological dynamics on biota and ecosystem function. Part 2 (chapters 4 to 6 of 6). Deliverable 2.2 Part 2 of REFORM (REstoring rivers FOR effective catchment Management), a Collaborative project (large-scale integrating project) funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme under Grant Agreement 282656. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy. 24(9). 875–885. 5 indexed citations

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Nützmann, Gunnar, Christian Wolter, Markus Venohr, & Martin Pusch. (2011). Historical Patterns of Anthropogenic Impacts on Freshwaters in the Berlin-Brandenburg Region. 142. 41–64. 20 indexed citations

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Wolter, Christian, Andreas Schaad, & Christoph Meinel. (2008). A transformation approach for security enhanced business processes. International Conference on Software Engineering. 14–19. 1 indexed citations

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Hölker, Franz, et al.. (2004). Colonization of the freshwater environment by a marine invader: how to cope with warm summer temperatures?. Evolutionary ecology research. 6(8). 1123–1144. 22 indexed citations

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Wolter, Christian, et al.. (2001). Groyne-heads as potential summer habitats for juvenile rheophilic fishes in the Lower Oder, Germany. Limnologica. 31(1). 17–26. 17 indexed citations

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Wolter, Christian, et al.. (2000). Long‐term effects of human influence on fish community structure and fisheries in Berlin waters: an urban water system. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 7(1-2). 97–104. 33 indexed citations

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