Julian Merder

938 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 614 citations indexed

About

Julian Merder is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Julian Merder has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 614 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Oceanography, 13 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Julian Merder's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (12 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (7 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers). Julian Merder is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (12 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (7 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers). Julian Merder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Julian Merder's co-authors include Jan A. Freund, Thorsten Dittmar, Helmut Hillebrand, Ian Donohue, Dorothee Hodapp, W. Stanley Harpole, José M. Montoya, Aleksandra M. Lewandowska, Michal Kučera and Jutta Niggemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Julian Merder

25 papers receiving 606 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.

  1. Decoupling of surface water storage from precipitation in global drylands due to anthropogenic activity
    2025 19 citations Gang Zhao, Julian Merder et al. Nature Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Julian Merder United States 12 239 210 174 110 83 29 614
Daimio C. Brito Brazil 10 321 1.3× 450 2.1× 161 0.9× 164 1.5× 90 1.1× 15 711
Amy Goldman United States 13 184 0.8× 129 0.6× 89 0.5× 161 1.5× 48 0.6× 36 468
Jan‐Erik Thrane Norway 11 238 1.0× 404 1.9× 113 0.6× 272 2.5× 87 1.0× 18 629
Kevin S. Dillon United States 14 244 1.0× 190 0.9× 174 1.0× 190 1.7× 40 0.5× 24 874
Henry O. Briceño United States 10 260 1.1× 298 1.4× 114 0.7× 76 0.7× 34 0.4× 30 582
Jean‐Louis Jamet France 18 225 0.9× 314 1.5× 172 1.0× 124 1.1× 121 1.5× 39 669
Т. А. Зотина Russia 13 241 1.0× 209 1.0× 161 0.9× 202 1.8× 62 0.7× 72 566
Kristen M. Reifel United States 14 247 1.0× 416 2.0× 111 0.6× 141 1.3× 37 0.4× 24 669
Francesco Placenti Italy 14 197 0.8× 169 0.8× 145 0.8× 40 0.4× 50 0.6× 26 564
Mariana Reissig Argentina 15 307 1.3× 310 1.5× 80 0.5× 275 2.5× 154 1.9× 25 637

Countries citing papers authored by Julian Merder

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Fields of papers citing papers by Julian Merder

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Julian Merder. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Julian Merder. The network helps show where Julian Merder may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julian Merder

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Merder, Julian, et al.. (2026). Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change. 2(3). 150–169.
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Koussoroplis, Apostolos‐Manuel, et al.. (2025). Temperature‐dependent responses to light and nutrients in phytoplankton. Ecology. 106(3). e70027–e70027. 4 indexed citations
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Foster, Kelsey, Wu Sun, Julian Merder, et al.. (2025). Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(6).
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Bao, Hongyan, Yuanbi Yi, Jutta Niggemann, et al.. (2025). Predicting Dissolved Black Carbon Concentration From Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Along the Land‐Ocean Continuum. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(22).
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Yi, Yuanbi, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Julian Merder, et al.. (2025). Underestimated input of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon to the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(45). e2505838122–e2505838122. 1 indexed citations
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Brandenburg, Karen M., Julian Merder, Anne Power, et al.. (2025). Multiple global change factors and the long‐term dynamics of harmful algal blooms in the North Sea. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(5). 1267–1282.
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Merder, Julian, Gang Zhao, Nima Pahlevan, et al.. (2024). A novel algorithm for ocean chlorophyll-a concentration using MODIS Aqua data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 210. 198–211. 6 indexed citations
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Yi, Yuanbi, Si‐Liang Li, Jun Zhong, et al.. (2024). Assessing the Impacts of Reservoirs on Riverine Dissolved Organic Matter: Insights From the Largest Reservoir in the Pearl River. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(8). 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chen, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning Models for Evaluating Biological Reactivity Within Molecular Fingerprints of Dissolved Organic Matter Over Time. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(11). 10 indexed citations
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Cai, Ruanhong, et al.. (2024). The Hunt for Chemical Dark Matter across a River-to-Ocean Continuum. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(27). 11988–11997. 9 indexed citations
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Merder, Julian, Ted D. Harris, Gang Zhao, et al.. (2023). Geographic redistribution of microcystin hotspots in response to climate warming. Nature Water. 1(10). 844–854. 32 indexed citations
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Merder, Julian, Jan A. Freund, Ulrike Feudel, et al.. (2020). ICBM-OCEAN: Processing Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data of Complex Molecular Mixtures. Analytical Chemistry. 92(10). 6832–6838. 113 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, Ian Donohue, W. Stanley Harpole, et al.. (2020). Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(11). 1502–1509. 191 indexed citations
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Merder, Julian, Jan A. Freund, Liam Fullbrook, et al.. (2019). Density-dependent growth in ‘catch-and-wait’ fisheries has implications for fisheries management and Marine Protected Areas. AMBIO. 49(1). 107–117. 15 indexed citations
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Merder, Julian, Jan A. Freund, Ulrike Feudel, et al.. (2019). Improved Mass Accuracy and Isotope Confirmation through Alignment of Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectra of Complex Natural Mixtures. Analytical Chemistry. 92(3). 2558–2565. 38 indexed citations
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Power, Anne, Julian Merder, Jan A. Freund, et al.. (2019). Field-recorded data on habitat, density, growth and movement of Nephrops norvegicus. Scientific Data. 6(1). 7–7. 6 indexed citations
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Merder, Julian, et al.. (2016). East-west spatial groupings in intertidal communities, environmental drivers and key species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98(2). 423–435. 5 indexed citations

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