Katrin Iken

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Katrin Iken is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Katrin Iken has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Oceanography, 63 papers in Ecology and 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Katrin Iken's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (72 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (63 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (37 papers). Katrin Iken is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (72 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (63 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (37 papers). Katrin Iken collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Canada. Katrin Iken's co-authors include Bodil A. Bluhm, Brenda Konar, Rolf Gradinger, Charles D. Amsler, Thomas Brey, J. Voigt, P. Junghans, James B. McClintock, Ulrich Wand and Christian Wiencke and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Katrin Iken

130 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway

2020 219 citations Henry P. Huntington, Seth L. Danielson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katrin Iken United States	39	2.9k	2.5k	1.7k	813	295	131	4.5k
Paul E. Renaud Norway	41	3.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	535 1.8×	148	5.2k
Dick van Oevelen Netherlands	38	2.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	311 0.4×	268 0.9×	128	4.6k
Riccardo Cattaneo‐Vietti Italy	39	3.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	208 0.3×	318 1.1×	143	5.2k
Diane S. Littler United States	41	4.8k 1.6×	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	263 0.3×	167 0.6×	110	5.7k
Claude Payri France	43	3.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	932 0.6×	270 0.3×	307 1.0×	199	5.2k
Nicole Dubilier Germany	41	2.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	201 0.2×	732 2.5×	99	4.9k
Russell R. Hopcroft United States	40	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	762 0.9×	439 1.5×	117	3.9k
Tarik Meziane France	31	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	259 0.3×	345 1.2×	97	3.1k
David R. Schiel New Zealand	43	3.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	177 0.2×	100 0.3×	149	5.3k
Karen Helen Wiltshire Germany	35	3.2k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	293 0.4×	1.2k 4.0×	193	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katrin Iken

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

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Thyrring, Jakob, Philippe Archambault, Michael T. Burrows, et al.. (2025). A horizon scan for Arctic coastal biodiversity research: understanding changes requires international collaboration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(5). 460–467. 1 indexed citations

Amsler, Margaret O., Charles D. Amsler, Katrin Iken, et al.. (2025). Nutritional consistency of macroalgae across a sea ice cover gradient along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Phycology. 61(1). 218–230. 1 indexed citations

Gorman, Kristen B., et al.. (2024). Does the extent of glacial cover across watersheds and discharge periods affect dietary resource use of nearshore fishes in the Northern Gulf of Alaska?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 577. 152022–152022.

Iken, Katrin, Charles D. Amsler, Alexander T. Lowe, et al.. (2024). Fatty acid profiles and stable isotope composition of Antarctic macroalgae: a baseline for a combined biomarker approach in food web studies. Polar Biology. 47(4). 367–386. 6 indexed citations

Amsler, Charles D., Margaret O. Amsler, Sabrina Heiser, et al.. (2023). Vertical distribution of brown and red macroalgae along the central Western Antarctic Peninsula. Botanica Marina. 67(1). 1–10. 4 indexed citations

Amsler, Charles D., Margaret O. Amsler, Andrew G. Klein, et al.. (2023). Strong correlations of sea ice cover with macroalgal cover along the Antarctic Peninsula: Ramifications for present and future benthic communities. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 11(1). 14 indexed citations

Konar, Brenda, et al.. (2022). Trophic structure of key taxa in rocky intertidal communities in two contrasting high-latitude environments. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 198. 105050–105050. 8 indexed citations

Bodkin, James L., Heather A. Coletti, Brenda E. Ballachey, et al.. (2022). Evidence of increased mussel abundance related to the Pacific marine heatwave and sea star wasting. Marine Ecology. 43(4). 12 indexed citations

Huntington, Henry P., Seth L. Danielson, Francis K. Wiese, et al.. (2020). Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway. Nature Climate Change. 10(4). 342–348. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iken, Katrin, et al.. (2019). Sources of primary production to Arctic bivalves identified using amino acid stable carbon isotope fingerprinting. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 55(4). 366–384. 16 indexed citations

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Danielson, Seth L., Katrin Iken, Claudine Hauri, et al.. (2017). Collaborative approaches to multi-disciplinary monitoring of the Chukchi shelf marine ecosystem: Networks of networks for maintaining long-term Arctic observations. 7 indexed citations

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Iken, Katrin, Seth L. Danielson, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, et al.. (2016). AMBON - the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Roy, Virginie, Katrin Iken, & Philippe Archambault. (2014). Environmental Drivers of the Canadian Arctic Megabenthic Communities. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e100900–e100900. 57 indexed citations

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Benedetti‐Cecchi, Lisandro, Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, et al.. (2010). Spatial Relationships between Polychaete Assemblages and Environmental Variables over Broad Geographical Scales. PLoS ONE. 5(9). e12946–e12946. 32 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Ian R., et al.. (2005). Benthic Community Composition and Seabed Characteristics of a Chukchi Sea Pockmark. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Iken, Katrin, et al.. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: Bionomics, histology, and systematics (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 345. 367–386. 8 indexed citations

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Iken, Katrin, Conxita Àvila, Angelo Fontana, & Margherita Gavagnin. (2002). Chemical ecology and origin of defensive compounds in the Antarctic nudibranch Austrodoris kerguelenensis (Opisthobranchia: Gastropoda). Marine Biology. 141(1). 101–109. 42 indexed citations

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Bluhm, Bodil A., Katrin Iken, Jürgen Laudien, & H. Lippert. (2001). German Activity in Cold Water Scientific Diving.. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 25(4). 381–4. 5 indexed citations

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Lippert, H., Katrin Iken, Eike Rachor, & C. Wiencke. (2001). Macrofauna associated with macroalgae in the Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen). Polar Biology. 24(7). 512–522. 110 indexed citations

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Iken, Katrin, et al.. (1998). Trophic relations between macroalgae and herbivores. Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie. 78(10). 538–43. 21 indexed citations

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