Maiju Lehtiniemi

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Maiju Lehtiniemi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Maiju Lehtiniemi has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 43 papers in Ecology and 41 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Maiju Lehtiniemi's work include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (24 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (22 papers). Maiju Lehtiniemi is often cited by papers focused on Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (24 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (22 papers). Maiju Lehtiniemi collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Maiju Lehtiniemi's co-authors include Outi Setälä, Vivi Fleming-Lehtinen, Jonna Engström‐Öst, Arto Koistinen, Pinja Näkki, Joanna Norkko, Samuel Hartikainen, Markku Viitasalo, Elena Gorokhova and Emilia Uurasjärvi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Maiju Lehtiniemi

98 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web

2013 1.3k citations Outi Setälä, Vivi Fleming-Lehtinen et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maiju Lehtiniemi Finland	34	2.7k	1.9k	1.4k	1.2k	1.0k	103	5.2k
J. Ignacio González-Gordillo Spain	19	3.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	879 0.9×	61	5.0k
M.L. Fernández-de-Puelles Spain	28	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	958 0.9×	61	4.0k
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy United Kingdom	24	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	750 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	67	4.5k
Michaël Klages Germany	31	2.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	71	5.9k
Alexander Turra Brazil	40	3.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	254	7.1k
Gordon Paterson United Kingdom	32	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	496 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	103	4.4k
Siu Gin Cheung Hong Kong	38	1.6k 0.6×	888 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	178	4.6k
Jan Mees Belgium	29	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	994 1.0×	142	3.9k
Andrés Cózar Spain	29	4.1k 1.5×	2.9k 1.5×	755 0.5×	340 0.3×	823 0.8×	69	5.5k
Teresa Romeo Italy	36	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	334 0.3×	155	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Maiju Lehtiniemi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maiju Lehtiniemi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lüskow, Florian, Risto Väinölä, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Mikael von Numers, & Evgeny A. Pakhomov. (2025). Evidence for non-indigenous freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii spreading in Finland. Hydrobiologia. 852(21). 5299–5312.

Lehtiniemi, Maiju, et al.. (2024). Early warning system on harmful aquatic organisms at a regional sea scale: Components and mechanisms. Marine Policy. 169. 106334–106334.

Lindén, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Warming drives phenological changes in coastal zooplankton. Marine Biology. 171(5). 2 indexed citations

Kotta, Jonne, Henn Ojaveer, Ants Kaasik, et al.. (2024). Universal framework for assessing the environmental impact of marine non-indigenous species in different situations of data availability. Hydrobiologia. 852(8-9). 2507–2519. 1 indexed citations

Katajisto, Tarja, et al.. (2024). National assessment on the status, trends and impacts of marine non-indigenous species for the European Union marine strategy framework directive. Ecological Indicators. 158. 111593–111593. 3 indexed citations

Ojaveer, Henn, et al.. (2022). Quantifying impacts of human pressures on ecosystem services: Effects of widespread non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea. The Science of The Total Environment. 858(Pt 2). 159975–159975. 6 indexed citations

Lindén, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Identifying biotic drivers of population dynamics in a benthic–pelagic community. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 4035–4045. 4 indexed citations

Gorokhova, Elena, Rehab El‐Shehawy, Maiju Lehtiniemi, & Andrius Garbaras. (2021). How Copepods Can Eat Toxins Without Getting Sick: Gut Bacteria Help Zooplankton to Feed in Cyanobacteria Blooms. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 589816–589816. 17 indexed citations

Uurasjärvi, Emilia, et al.. (2020). Microplastics accumulate to thin layers in the stratified Baltic Sea. Environmental Pollution. 268(Pt A). 115700–115700. 94 indexed citations

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Setälä, Outi, Maria Granberg, Martin Hassellöv, et al.. (2019). Monitoring of microplastics in the marine environment. Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Näkki, Pinja, Outi Setälä, & Maiju Lehtiniemi. (2019). Seafloor sediments as microplastic sinks in the northern Baltic Sea – Negligible upward transport of buried microplastics by bioturbation. Environmental Pollution. 249. 74–81. 86 indexed citations

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Ojaveer, Henn, James T. Carlton, Heidi K. Alleway, et al.. (2018). Historical baselines in marine bioinvasions: Implications for policy and management. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202383–e0202383. 111 indexed citations

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Setälä, Outi, et al.. (2017). Effective and easy to use extraction method shows low numbers of microplastics in offshore planktivorous fish from the northern Baltic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 127. 586–592. 54 indexed citations

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Kuosa, Harri, Vivi Fleming-Lehtinen, Sirpa Lehtinen, et al.. (2016). A retrospective view of the development of the Gulf of Bothnia ecosystem. Journal of Marine Systems. 167. 78–92. 41 indexed citations

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Setälä, Outi, Kerstin Magnusson, Maiju Lehtiniemi, & Fredrik Norén. (2016). Distribution and abundance of surface water microlitter in the Baltic Sea: A comparison of two sampling methods. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 110(1). 177–183. 144 indexed citations

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Setälä, Outi, Vivi Fleming-Lehtinen, & Maiju Lehtiniemi. (2013). Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web. Environmental Pollution. 185. 77–83. 1275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kotta, Jonne, et al.. (2013). Is a rapid expansion of the invasive amphipod Gammarus tigrinus Sexton, 1939 associated with its niche selection: a case study in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea. Aquatic Invasions. 8(3). 319–332. 22 indexed citations

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Mäntyniemi, Samu, et al.. (2013). Incorporating stakeholders' knowledge to stock assessment: Central Baltic herring. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 70(4). 591–599. 20 indexed citations

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Majaneva, Sanna, et al.. (2012). Aggregations of predators and prey affect predation impact of the Arctic ctenophore Mertensia ovum. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 476. 87–100. 14 indexed citations

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Gorokhova, Elena & Maiju Lehtiniemi. (2009). Reconsidering evidence for Mnemiopsis invasion in European waters. Journal of Plankton Research. 32(1). 93–95. 12 indexed citations

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