Karsten Liber

7.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
150 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Karsten Liber is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karsten Liber has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 55 papers in Pollution and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Karsten Liber's work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (55 papers), Heavy metals in environment (29 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (27 papers). Karsten Liber is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (55 papers), Heavy metals in environment (29 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (27 papers). Karsten Liber collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Karsten Liber's co-authors include Christy A. Morrissey, Michael C. Cavallaro, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, Hans G. Peterson, Lorne E. Doig, Francisco Sánchez‐Bayo, Pierre Mineau, Matthias Liess, James H. Devries and Michael D. MacKinnon and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Karsten Liber

147 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Neonicotinoid contamination of global surface waters and associated risk to aquatic invertebrates: A review

2014 1.1k citations Christy A. Morrissey, Michael C. Cavallaro et al. profile →
Human Health Effects From Chronic Arsenic Poisoning–A Review

2006 715 citations Karsten Liber et al. profile →
Removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions by a novel biochar supported nanoscale iron sulfide composite

2017 507 citations Karsten Liber et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karsten Liber Canada	38	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	870	150	6.2k
Kathryn M. Kuivila United States	33	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	674 0.5×	506 0.5×	320 0.4×	83	3.9k
John V. Headley Canada	53	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	686 0.5×	303 0.3×	688 0.8×	264	8.9k
Michael J. Lydy United States	57	6.6k 2.8×	5.7k 3.1×	1.5k 1.1×	540 0.5×	607 0.7×	233	10.3k
Paul K. Sibley Canada	42	2.7k 1.2×	2.6k 1.4×	596 0.4×	1.4k 1.3×	537 0.6×	165	6.1k
Max M. Häggblom United States	60	2.6k 1.1×	4.7k 2.6×	279 0.2×	1.7k 1.6×	409 0.5×	219	11.5k
Franz Schinner Austria	48	1.3k 0.6×	3.3k 1.8×	199 0.1×	1.0k 0.9×	433 0.5×	136	10.4k
Karyn Le Ménach France	39	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	276 0.2×	490 0.5×	272 0.3×	78	3.2k
William C. Koskinen United States	50	1.2k 0.5×	4.7k 2.5×	523 0.4×	604 0.6×	670 0.8×	182	7.2k
P. Nannipieri Italy	62	1.0k 0.4×	3.4k 1.8×	540 0.4×	2.8k 2.6×	436 0.5×	190	18.4k
Kerry M. Peru Canada	46	874 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	673 0.5×	161 0.1×	259 0.3×	154	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Karsten Liber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karsten Liber

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karsten Liber

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20 of 20 papers shown

Doig, Lorne E., et al.. (2025). Water quality assessment of a novel pilot-scale pit lake in the alberta oil sands region. Environmental Research. 272. 121142–121142.

Razavi, Saman, et al.. (2025). On Robustness of the Explanatory Power of Machine Learning Models: Insights From a New Explainable AI Approach Using Sensitivity Analysis. Water Resources Research. 61(3). 5 indexed citations

Doig, Lorne E., et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal analysis of water chemistry and ecotoxicological risk characterisation for a constructed pilot-scale pit lake in the Athabasca oil sands region, Canada. Chemosphere. 368. 143679–143679. 3 indexed citations

Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2024). Laboratory and In situ Selenium Bioaccumulation Assessment in the Benthic Macroinvertebrates Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 86(3). 249–261. 1 indexed citations

Doig, Lorne E., et al.. (2024). Selenium bioaccumulation in Daphnia pulex via aqueous and dietary exposure. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 196(7). 628–628. 3 indexed citations

Phillips, Iain D., et al.. (2023). Effects of diluted effluent on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities at the McClean Lake uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan. Environmental Research. 244. 117951–117951. 1 indexed citations

Bluhm, Kerstin, et al.. (2023). Cross-species apical microinjected selenomethionine toxicity in embryo-larval fishes. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169338–169338. 2 indexed citations

Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2023). Sampling method and season influence selenium dynamics at the base of a boreal lake food chain. Environmental Research. 234. 116157–116157. 3 indexed citations

Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2023). The influence of sampling method and season on modeling of selenium into coldwater fish and implications on tissue-based water quality benchmarks. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 21(1). 39–51. 1 indexed citations

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Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2022). Application of autonomous sensor technology to estimate selenium exposure and a site-specific selenium threshold in a Canadian boreal lake. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 19(2). 395–411. 7 indexed citations

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Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2022). Selenium Distribution and Trophic Transfer in the Periphyton–Benthic Macroinvertebrate Food Chain in Boreal Lakes Downstream from a Milling Operation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41(9). 2181–2192. 6 indexed citations

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Liber, Karsten, et al.. (2022). Delineating Effluent Exposure and Cumulative Ecotoxicological Risk of Metals Downstream of a Saskatchewan Uranium Mill Using Autonomous Sensors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41(7). 1765–1777. 4 indexed citations

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Xie, Yuwei, Markus Brinkmann, Vince Palace, et al.. (2022). Effects of in situ experimental selenium exposure on finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) gut microbiome. Environmental Research. 212(Pt A). 113151–113151. 10 indexed citations

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Young, Lester, et al.. (2020). Comparative analysis of cadmium uptake and distribution in contrasting canadian flax cultivars. BMC Research Notes. 13(1). 424–424. 1 indexed citations

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Cavallaro, Michael C., Anson R. Main, Karsten Liber, et al.. (2019). Neonicotinoids and other agricultural stressors collectively modify aquatic insect communities. Chemosphere. 226. 945–955. 33 indexed citations

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Crawford, Sarah E., Stephen Lofts, & Karsten Liber. (2017). Predicting the bioavailability of sediment-bound uranium to the freshwater midge (Chironomus dilutus) using physicochemical properties. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 37(4). 1146–1157. 9 indexed citations

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Crawford, Sarah E., Stephen Lofts, & Karsten Liber. (2016). The role of sediment properties and solution pH in the adsorption of uranium(VI) to freshwater sediments. Environmental Pollution. 220(Pt B). 873–881. 40 indexed citations

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Crawford, Sarah E. & Karsten Liber. (2016). Sediment properties influencing the bioavailability of uranium to Chironomus dilutus larvae in spiked field sediments. Chemosphere. 148. 77–85. 8 indexed citations

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Foote, A. Lee, et al.. (2013). Reclamation of peat-based wetlands affected by Alberta, Canada's oil sands development. EGUGA. 14240. 1 indexed citations

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Doig, Lorne E. & Karsten Liber. (2005). Nickel partitioning in formulated and natural freshwater sediments. Chemosphere. 62(6). 968–979. 28 indexed citations

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