Janne Soininen

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
206 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Janne Soininen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Janne Soininen has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Ecology, 68 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 63 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Janne Soininen's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (82 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (63 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (55 papers). Janne Soininen is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (82 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (63 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (55 papers). Janne Soininen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, China and United States. Janne Soininen's co-authors include Jani Heino, Helmut Hillebrand, Jianjun Wang, Robert I. McDonald, Ji Shen, Luis Maurício Bini, Risto Virtanen, Miska Luoto, Tadeu Siqueira and Timo Muotka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Janne Soininen

198 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 distance decay of similarity in ecological communities

2007 827 citations Janne Soininen et al. Ecography profile →
Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

2014 760 citations Jani Heino, Tadeu Siqueira et al. Freshwater Biology profile →
Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

2013 513 citations Jianjun Wang, Ji Shen et al. profile →
A meta‐analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems

2017 373 citations Janne Soininen, Jani Heino et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change

2022 199 citations Ang Hu, Janne Soininen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Janne Soininen Finland	57	8.0k	4.1k	2.6k	2.0k	1.8k	206	11.2k
Jani Heino Finland	71	12.5k 1.6×	9.6k 2.4×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	791 0.4×	302	16.5k
S. J. Ormerod United Kingdom	64	10.9k 1.4×	7.9k 2.0×	2.4k 0.9×	658 0.3×	660 0.4×	268	16.8k
W. Stanley Harpole United States	39	5.8k 0.7×	5.9k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	426 0.2×	83	15.0k
Jonathan B. Shurin United States	46	9.0k 1.1×	6.6k 1.6×	4.0k 1.5×	3.2k 1.6×	206 0.1×	116	16.3k
Susan S. Kilham United States	36	3.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	658 0.4×	77	7.1k
Marc Dufrêne Belgium	31	6.1k 0.8×	5.4k 1.3×	892 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	249 0.1×	114	12.5k
Steven Declerck Belgium	46	4.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.6×	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	156 0.1×	131	6.9k
Luc Brendonck Belgium	46	6.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	3.8k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	121 0.1×	252	9.4k
Ellen van Donk Netherlands	62	6.7k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	8.4k 3.2×	5.6k 2.8×	433 0.2×	213	14.0k
Anthony Ricciardi Canada	54	9.2k 1.2×	6.6k 1.6×	766 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	172 0.1×	172	13.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janne Soininen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Teittinen, Anette, et al.. (2025). Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. 95(1). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhenyuan, Bo‐Ping Han, & Janne Soininen. (2025). Tropical Niche Conservatism and Dispersal Limitation Jointly Determine Taxonomic and Phylogenetic β‐Diversities of Odonata in Eastern China. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(3).

Liu, Xing, Zhenzhen Wang, Yun Li, et al.. (2025). Hydrological and water quality gradients shape the structure and network complexity of planktonic diatom community in river-lake confluence zones during flood regulation. Environmental Research. 290. 123442–123442.

Wang, Jianjun, et al.. (2024). Strong and weak trait–environment associations in subarctic stream diatoms. Freshwater Biology. 69(8). 1084–1092. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yuan, Xinpeng Fan, & Janne Soininen. (2024). Traits mediate environmental responses of benthic ciliates in dynamic coastal habitats. Diversity and Distributions. 30(8). 2 indexed citations

Rissanen, Tuuli, Pekka Niittynen, Janne Soininen, Anna‐Maria Virkkala, & Miska Luoto. (2023). Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales. Ecography. 2023(7). 4 indexed citations

Niittynen, Pekka, et al.. (2023). Patterns and drivers for benthic algal biomass in sub-Arctic mountain ponds. Hydrobiologia. 851(3). 689–708. 3 indexed citations

Mod, Heidi K., Tuuli Rissanen, Pekka Niittynen, Janne Soininen, & Miska Luoto. (2023). The relationships of plant species occupancy to niches and traits vary with spatial scale. Journal of Biogeography. 50(6). 1013–1025. 2 indexed citations

Rissanen, Tuuli, et al.. (2023). Local snow and fluvial conditions drive taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic plant diversity in tundra. Oikos. 2023(10). 2 indexed citations

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Gavioli, Anna, Marco Milardi, Janne Soininen, et al.. (2022). How does invasion degree shape alpha and beta diversity of freshwater fish at a regional scale?. Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). e9493–e9493. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianjun, Ang Hu, Fanfan Meng, et al.. (2022). Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change. New Phytologist. 234(6). 1987–2002. 106 indexed citations

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Soininen, Janne, et al.. (2022). Altitude and temperature drive anuran community assembly in a Neotropical mountain region. Biotropica. 54(3). 607–618. 4 indexed citations

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Rissanen, Tuuli, Pekka Niittynen, Janne Soininen, & Miska Luoto. (2021). Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(7). 1502–1513. 10 indexed citations

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Tison‐Rosebery, Juliette, Aurélien Jamoneau, Wim Vyverman, et al.. (2020). A metacommunity approach for detecting species influenced by mass effect. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(10). 2031–2040. 26 indexed citations

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Milardi, Marco, Anna Gavioli, Janne Soininen, & Giuseppe Castaldelli. (2019). Exotic species invasions undermine regional functional diversity of freshwater fish. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17921–17921. 42 indexed citations

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Gavioli, Anna, Marco Milardi, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Elisa Anna Fano, & Janne Soininen. (2019). Diversity patterns of native and exotic fish species suggest homogenization processes, but partly fail to highlight extinction threats. Diversity and Distributions. 25(6). 983–994. 32 indexed citations

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Rocha, Mariana Perez, Luis Maurício Bini, Sami Domisch, et al.. (2018). Local environment and space drive multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate beta diversity. Journal of Biogeography. 45(12). 2744–2754. 92 indexed citations

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Saito, Victor S., Janne Soininen, Alaíde Aparecida Fonseca-Gessner, & Tadeu Siqueira. (2015). Dispersal traits drive the phylogenetic distance decay of similarity in Neotropical stream metacommunities. Journal of Biogeography. 42(11). 2101–2111. 74 indexed citations

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Astorga, Anna, Jari Oksanen, Miska Luoto, et al.. (2011). Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro‐ and microorganisms follow the same rules?. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 21(3). 365–375. 278 indexed citations

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Li, Qi, Xiaoye Yang, Janne Soininen, et al.. (2011). Relative importance of spatial processes and environmental factors in shaping alpine meadow communities. Journal of Plant Ecology. 4(4). 249–258. 26 indexed citations

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