Dean Jacobsen

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Dean Jacobsen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dean Jacobsen has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Ecology, 52 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 18 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dean Jacobsen's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (65 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (28 papers). Dean Jacobsen is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (65 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (28 papers). Dean Jacobsen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Ecuador and France. Dean Jacobsen's co-authors include Olivier Dangles, Nikolai Friberg, Andrea C. Encalada, Alexander M. Milner, Rodrigo Espinosa, Patricio Andino, Lee E. Brown, Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié, Rikke Schultz and Kaj Sand‐Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dean Jacobsen

104 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

2017 437 citations Alexander M. Milner, John E. Brittain et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

2017 367 citations Matthias Huss, Bodo Bookhagen et al. Earth s Future profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dean Jacobsen Denmark	36	2.9k	1.6k	1.1k	726	474	105	4.5k
María Rieradevall Spain	34	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	584 0.6×	542 0.7×	231 0.5×	95	3.6k
John E. Brittain Norway	30	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	494 0.5×	426 0.6×	249 0.5×	112	3.7k
Alexander M. Milner United Kingdom	46	4.4k 1.5×	2.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.8×	1.6k 2.3×	510 1.1×	136	6.7k
Florian Malard France	40	3.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	333 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	338 0.7×	98	5.5k
Joseph M. Culp Canada	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	478 0.5×	712 1.0×	131 0.3×	160	4.8k
María Teresa Fernández Piedade Brazil	37	2.2k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	629 0.6×	542 0.7×	215 0.5×	203	5.7k
Linda H. Pardo United States	23	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	338 0.5×	141 0.3×	41	4.6k
Valeria Lencioni Italy	25	1.7k 0.6×	630 0.4×	519 0.5×	276 0.4×	280 0.6×	111	2.6k
Leopold Füreder Austria	26	1.9k 0.7×	924 0.6×	524 0.5×	342 0.5×	169 0.4×	91	2.5k
James A. Rusak Canada	35	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	642 0.6×	490 0.7×	304 0.6×	71	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Dean Jacobsen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dean Jacobsen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dean Jacobsen

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Riis, Tenna, et al.. (2025). Environmental controls of autotrophic biofilm biomass and community composition in subarctic lakes and streams in Greenland. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(10). 2941–2956.

Tedersoo, Leho, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Oil Palm Plantations and Pastures on Benthic Prokaryotic and Fungal Communities in Tropical Streams. Freshwater Biology. 70(1). 1 indexed citations

Kepfer‐Rojas, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Land-use effects on leaf-litter breakdown in streams in a tropical lowland catchment. Aquatic Sciences. 86(3). 2 indexed citations

Jacobsen, Dean, S. J. Ormerod, Ingrid Jüttner, et al.. (2024). Long-term changes and seasonal variability in the stream macrofauna of a Himalayan river system. Inland Waters. 14(1-2). 171–184. 2 indexed citations

Kepfer‐Rojas, Sebastian, Leandro Juen, Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag, et al.. (2023). Meta‐analysis contrasting freshwater biodiversity in forests and oil palm plantations with and without riparian buffers. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e14172–e14172. 4 indexed citations

Friberg, Nikolai, et al.. (2022). Anthropogenically impacted lake catchments in Denmark reveal low microplastic pollution. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(31). 47726–47739. 18 indexed citations

Gurung, Smriti, et al.. (2021). Macroinvertebrate assemblages in mountain tributaries of glacial-fed and rain-fed rivers in eastern Nepal. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 9(2). 45–55. 1 indexed citations

Andino, Patricio, Rodrigo Espinosa, Verónica Crespo‐Pérez, et al.. (2021). Functional Feeding Groups of Macrofauna and Detritus Decomposition along a Gradient of Glacial Meltwater Influence in Tropical High-Andean Streams. Water. 13(22). 3303–3303. 5 indexed citations

Eriksen, Tor Erik, Dean Jacobsen, Benoît O. L. Demars, et al.. (2021). Effects of pollution-induced changes in oxygen conditions scaling up from individuals to ecosystems in a tropical river network. The Science of The Total Environment. 814. 151958–151958. 15 indexed citations

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Shah, Alisha A., Scott Hotaling, J. Joseph Giersch, et al.. (2020). Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 6667–6684. 59 indexed citations

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Muhlfeld, Clint C., Timothy J. Cline, J. Joseph Giersch, et al.. (2020). Specialized meltwater biodiversity persists despite widespread deglaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(22). 12208–12214. 41 indexed citations

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Huss, Matthias, Bodo Bookhagen, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2017). Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice. Earth s Future. 5(5). 418–435. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobsen, Dean & Olivier Dangles. (2017). Ecology of High Altitude Waters. Oxford University Press eBooks. 60 indexed citations

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Petersen, Mark, Xylar Asay‐Davis, Todd D. Ringler, et al.. (2016). Ocean-Ice Shelf Interactions in the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME). 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Cauvy‐Fraunié, Sophie, Patricio Andino, Rodrigo Espinosa, et al.. (2016). Ecological responses to experimental glacier-runoff reduction in alpine rivers. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12025–12025. 61 indexed citations

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Anthelme, Fabien, Dean Jacobsen, Petr Macek, et al.. (2014). Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 46(4). 811–828. 47 indexed citations

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Dangles, Olivier, et al.. (2014). Propuesta metodológica para estimar la heterogeneidad ambiental, diversidad y estructura de comunidades acuáticas de pozas de agua en bofedales altoandinos. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 49(3). 56–72. 2 indexed citations

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Cauvy‐Fraunié, Sophie, Thomas Condom, Antoine Rabatel, et al.. (2013). Technical Note: Using wavelet analyses on water depth time series to detect glacial influence in high-mountain hydrosystems. 2 indexed citations

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Dangles, Olivier, Verónica Crespo‐Pérez, Patricio Andino, et al.. (2010). Predicting richness effects on ecosystem function in natural communities: insights from high-elevation streams. Ecology. 92(3). 733–743. 39 indexed citations

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Jacobsen, Dean, et al.. (2003). Are macroinvertebrates in high altitude streams affected by oxygen deficiency?. Freshwater Biology. 48(11). 2025–2032. 80 indexed citations

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