Gerald Schernewski

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Gerald Schernewski is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Schernewski has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 32 papers in Oceanography and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gerald Schernewski's work include Coastal and Marine Management (46 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (22 papers). Gerald Schernewski is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Management (46 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (22 papers). Gerald Schernewski collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Lithuania and Finland. Gerald Schernewski's co-authors include Thomas Neumann, Sonja Oberbeckmann, Matthias Labrenz, Dieter Fischer, Brigitte Voit, Klaus‐Jochen Eichhorn, Mirco Haseler, René Friedland, Marija Kataržytė and Arūnas Balčiūnas and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Water Research and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Schernewski

112 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

Analysis of environmental microplastics by vibrational microspectroscopy: FTIR, Raman or both?

2016 755 citations Dieter Fischer, Sonja Oberbeckmann et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald Schernewski Germany	29	1.2k	909	640	558	487	114	2.8k
Dror L. Angel Israel	28	574 0.5×	459 0.5×	658 1.0×	609 1.1×	176 0.4×	85	2.4k
David Santillo United Kingdom	29	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	189 0.3×	357 0.6×	184 0.4×	87	3.6k
Andrés Cózar Spain	29	4.1k 3.3×	2.9k 3.2×	823 1.3×	755 1.4×	210 0.4×	69	5.5k
Rachid Amara France	34	1.4k 1.2×	804 0.9×	348 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	111 0.2×	134	4.1k
Elise F. Granek United States	27	753 0.6×	365 0.4×	434 0.7×	1.9k 3.4×	755 1.6×	66	3.8k
Steven Loiselle Italy	38	579 0.5×	957 1.1×	1.8k 2.8×	1.2k 2.2×	110 0.2×	147	4.1k
Tommaso Giarrizzo Brazil	30	1.4k 1.1×	834 0.9×	164 0.3×	1.0k 1.8×	128 0.3×	168	3.6k
Miriam Weber Germany	27	641 0.5×	351 0.4×	635 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	71 0.1×	57	2.3k
M. Shahadat Hossain Bangladesh	19	681 0.6×	473 0.5×	173 0.3×	365 0.7×	236 0.5×	48	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Schernewski

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Schernewski

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Haseler, Mirco, et al.. (2025). Efficient Beach Litter Monitoring: Accelerated Surveys of Pollution Hotspots—A North African Case Study. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 13(1). 71–71. 4 indexed citations

Haseler, Mirco, et al.. (2025). Beach Wrack on Baltic and Mediterranean Sea Beaches: Litter Pollution and Management Perspectives. Estuaries and Coasts. 48(3). 2 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2025). Ecosystem-Model-Based Valuation of Ecosystem Services in a Baltic Lagoon: Long-Term Human Technical Interventions and Short-Term Variability. Environments. 12(2). 35–35. 1 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Services of the Baltic Sea—State and Changes during the Last 150 Years. Environments. 11(9). 200–200. 2 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2024). Emission, Transport and Retention of Floating Marine Macro-Litter (Plastics): The Role of Baltic Harbor and Sailing Festivals. Sustainability. 16(3). 1220–1220. 5 indexed citations

Čerkasova, Natalja, Kristina Enders, Robin Lenz, et al.. (2023). A Public Database for Microplastics in the Environment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 132–146. 11 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2023). Marine Macro-Litter (Plastic) Pollution of German and North African Marina and City-Port Sea Floors. Applied Sciences. 13(20). 11424–11424. 3 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2023). Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Ecosystem Service Assessments in Spatial and Sectoral Planning. Applied Sciences. 13(4). 2623–2623. 5 indexed citations

Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2022). Ecosystem Service Assessments within the EU Water Framework Directive: Marine Mussel Cultivation as a Controversial Measure. Applied Sciences. 12(4). 1871–1871. 4 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2022). Aerial and underwater drones for marine litter monitoring in shallow coastal waters: factors influencing item detection and cost-efficiency. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194(12). 863–863. 25 indexed citations

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Inácio, Miguel, et al.. (2019). Assessing Changes in Ecosystem Services Provision in Coastal Waters. Sustainability. 11(9). 2632–2632. 6 indexed citations

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Haseler, Mirco, et al.. (2019). Cost-effective monitoring of large micro- and meso-litter in tidal and flood accumulation zones at south-western Baltic Sea beaches. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 149. 110544–110544. 17 indexed citations

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Lange, Xaver, et al.. (2018). Long term development of Bathing Water Quality at the German Baltic coast: spatial patterns, problems and model simulations. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 135. 1055–1066. 18 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2013). Escherichia coli pollution in a Baltic Sea lagoon: A model-based source and spatial risk assessment. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 216(4). 408–420. 19 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald, Thomas Neumann, Dieter Opitz, & Markus Venohr. (2012). Long-term eutrophication history and ecosystem changes in a large Baltic river basin - estuarine system. 5(2). 95–123. 5 indexed citations

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Schiewer, U. & Gerald Schernewski. (2004). Self-purification capacity and management of Baltic coastal ecosystems. Journal of Coastal Conservation. 10(1). 25–25. 14 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald & U. Schiewer. (2002). Baltic coastal ecosystems : structure, function and coastal zone management. Springer eBooks. 37 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald & Wolf‐Dieter Jülich. (2001). Risk assessment of virus infections in the Oder estuary (southern Baltic) on the basis of spatial transport and virus decay simulations. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 203(4). 317–325. 14 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (2001). Spatial impact of the Oder river plume on water quality along the south-western Baltic coast. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 204(2-3). 143–155. 12 indexed citations

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Schernewski, Gerald, et al.. (1999). Zustandsentwicklung schleswig-holsteinischer Seen zwischen 1983 und 1993: Eine Betrachtung unter Anwendung der Clusteranalyse. Limnologica. 29(2). 146–159. 2 indexed citations

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