Jón S. Ólafsson

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Jón S. Ólafsson is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jón S. Ólafsson has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Jón S. Ólafsson's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (31 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (30 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (23 papers). Jón S. Ólafsson is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (31 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (30 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (23 papers). Jón S. Ólafsson collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, United States and United Kingdom. Jón S. Ólafsson's co-authors include Gísli Már Gíslason, Nikolai Friberg, John E. Brittain, Guy Woodward, Valeria Lencioni, Alexander M. Milner, Benoît O. L. Demars, Hákon Aðalsteinsson, Rakel Guðmundsdóttir and Torben L. Lauridsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jón S. Ólafsson

66 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

2017 437 citations Alexander M. Milner, Kieran Khamis et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jón S. Ólafsson Iceland	26	1.6k	976	526	476	344	70	2.4k
Gísli Már Gíslason Iceland	24	1.5k 1.0×	992 1.0×	437 0.8×	414 0.9×	239 0.7×	73	2.3k
Leopold Füreder Austria	26	1.9k 1.2×	924 0.9×	524 1.0×	266 0.6×	263 0.8×	91	2.5k
María Rieradevall Spain	34	2.5k 1.6×	1.4k 1.4×	584 1.1×	583 1.2×	315 0.9×	95	3.6k
Valeria Lencioni Italy	25	1.7k 1.1×	630 0.6×	519 1.0×	255 0.5×	137 0.4×	111	2.6k
Emmanuel Castella Switzerland	30	2.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	187 0.4×	539 1.1×	234 0.7×	87	3.1k
Koren R. Nydick United States	19	1.1k 0.7×	615 0.6×	675 1.3×	1.0k 2.1×	655 1.9×	30	2.8k
John E. Brittain Norway	30	2.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.8×	494 0.9×	340 0.7×	189 0.5×	112	3.7k
Malcolm G. Butler United States	26	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	162 0.3×	788 1.7×	199 0.6×	72	2.3k
Lisa A. Eby United States	24	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	178 0.3×	295 0.6×	455 1.3×	63	2.5k
Sudeep Chandra United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	320 0.6×	918 1.9×	788 2.3×	122	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jón S. Ólafsson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jón S. Ólafsson

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Hennig, Benjamin D., et al.. (2025). Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland. Societies. 15(1). 14–14. 1 indexed citations

Benstead, Jonathan P., Wyatt F. Cross, Alexander D. Huryn, et al.. (2025). Temperature and nitrogen availability interact to shape N‐acquisition pathways and metabolism in stream biofilms. Ecological Monographs. 95(3). 1 indexed citations

Junker, James R., Wyatt F. Cross, James M. Hood, et al.. (2024). Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs. Ecology. 105(6). e4314–e4314. 2 indexed citations

Ólafsson, Jón S.. (2023). The Future of the Soviet Past. The Politics of History in Putin’s Russia. Europe Asia Studies. 75(6). 1048–1049. 4 indexed citations

Pálsson, Snæbjörn, et al.. (2022). Invertebrate communities in springs across a gradient in thermal regimes. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0264501–e0264501. 4 indexed citations

Cross, Wyatt F., James M. Hood, Jonathan P. Benstead, et al.. (2022). Nutrient enrichment intensifies the effects of warming on metabolic balance of stream ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 7(4). 332–341. 15 indexed citations

Meissner, Kristian, Jukka Aroviita, Annette Baattrup‐Pedersen, et al.. (2021). Metabarcoding for use in Nordic routine aquatic biomonitoring - a validation study. TemaNord. 2 indexed citations

Junker, James R., Wyatt F. Cross, Jonathan P. Benstead, et al.. (2020). R esource supply governs the apparent temperature dependence of animal production in stream ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 23(12). 1809–1819. 10 indexed citations

Kristjánsson, Bjarni K., et al.. (2019). Invertebrate biodiversity in cold groundwater fissures in Iceland. Ecology and Evolution. 9(11). 6399–6409. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Daniel, Jonathan P. Benstead, Alexander D. Huryn, et al.. (2019). Thermal niche diversity and trophic redundancy drive neutral effects of warming on energy flux through a stream food web. Ecology. 101(4). e02952–e02952. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., Kieran Khamis, Martin Wilkes, et al.. (2017). Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 325–333. 94 indexed citations

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Schaum, C‐Elisa, Richard H. ffrench‐Constant, Chris Lowe, et al.. (2017). Temperature‐driven selection on metabolic traits increases the strength of an algal–grazer interaction in naturally warmed streams. Global Change Biology. 24(4). 1793–1803. 32 indexed citations

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Nelson, Daniel, Jonathan P. Benstead, Alexander D. Huryn, et al.. (2017). Shifts in community size structure drive temperature invariance of secondary production in a stream‐warming experiment. Ecology. 98(7). 1797–1806. 25 indexed citations

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Gíslason, Gísli Már, et al.. (2012). Life cycles of Eukiefferiella claripennis (Lundbeck 1898) and Eukiefferiella minor (Edwards 1929) (Diptera: Chironomidae) in spring-fed streams of different temperatures with reference to climate change. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 31. 35–35. 10 indexed citations

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Friberg, Nikolai, et al.. (2009). Relationships between structure and function in streams contrasting in temperature. Freshwater Biology. 54(10). 2051–2068. 193 indexed citations

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Nondal, G., R. G. J. Bellerby, Are Olsen, Truls Johannessen, & Jón S. Ólafsson. (2009). Optimal evaluation of the surface ocean CO₂ system in the northern North Atlantic using data from voluntary observing ships. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 7(1). 109–118. 28 indexed citations

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Einarsson, Árni, et al.. (2004). The ecology of Lake Myvatn and the River Laxá: Variation in space and time. Aquatic Ecology. 38(2). 317–348. 98 indexed citations

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Gíslason, Sigurður R., Eydís Salome Eiríksdóttir, & Jón S. Ólafsson. (2004). Chemical composition of interstitial water and diffusive fluxes within the diatomaceous sediment in Lake Myvatn, Iceland. Aquatic Ecology. 38(2). 163–175. 19 indexed citations

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Lods‐Crozet, Brigitte, Valeria Lencioni, Jón S. Ólafsson, et al.. (2001). Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) communities in six European glacier‐fed streams. Freshwater Biology. 46(12). 1791–1809. 89 indexed citations

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Gíslason, Gísli Már, Jón S. Ólafsson, & Hákon Aðalsteinsson. (1998). Animal Communities in Icelandic Rivers in Relation to Catchment Characteristics and Water Chemistry. Hydrology research. 29(2). 129–148. 30 indexed citations

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