Ralf Schulz

14.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
302 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Ralf Schulz is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Schulz has authored 302 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 117 papers in Ecology and 113 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Ralf Schulz's work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (109 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (71 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (64 papers). Ralf Schulz is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (109 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (71 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (64 papers). Ralf Schulz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and South Africa. Ralf Schulz's co-authors include Mirco Bundschuh, Sebastian Stehle, Matthias Liess, Jochen P. Zubrod, Frank Seitz, Ricki R. Rosenfeldt, Gabriele E. Schaumann, Carsten Prasse, Sascha Bub and Jakob Wolfram and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Schulz

290 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Nanoparticles in the environment: where do we come from, where do we go to?

2018 604 citations Mirco Bundschuh, Simon Lüderwald et al. Environmental Sciences Europe profile →
Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale

2015 545 citations Sebastian Stehle, Ralf Schulz profile →
Fungicides: An Overlooked Pesticide Class?

2019 537 citations Jochen P. Zubrod, Mirco Bundschuh et al. profile →
Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops

2021 213 citations Ralf Schulz, Sascha Bub et al. Science profile →
Neonicotinoid insecticides in global agricultural surface waters – Exposure, risks and regulatory challenges

2023 69 citations Sebastian Stehle, Jakob Wolfram et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ralf Schulz	4.7k	4.1k	2.7k	1.5k	1.4k	302	11.2k
Tomáš Cajthaml	4.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	741 0.5×	3.6k 2.6×	278	11.4k
Paul J. Van den Brink	6.3k 1.3×	6.5k 1.6×	3.1k 1.2×	378 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	347	14.6k
Mirco Bundschuh	2.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	627 0.5×	195	6.5k
Cornelis A.M. van Gestel	10.2k 2.2×	9.3k 2.3×	1.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.6×	2.1k 1.6×	473	18.2k
Nico M. van Straalen	4.8k 1.0×	6.2k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	454 0.3×	3.6k 2.7×	329	16.1k
Susana Loureiro	3.4k 0.7×	3.5k 0.9×	824 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	991 0.7×	252	7.8k
David J. Spurgeon	7.4k 1.6×	5.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	912 0.7×	192	12.7k
Valery E. Forbes	2.8k 0.6×	4.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	469 0.3×	490 0.4×	207	7.3k
Matthias Liess	4.6k 1.0×	5.7k 1.4×	3.1k 1.2×	199 0.1×	1.8k 1.3×	210	12.8k
Claus Svendsen	7.0k 1.5×	4.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.4×	2.3k 1.5×	806 0.6×	168	11.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Feckler, Alexander, Ralf Schulz, & Ralf B. Schäfer. (2025). Meta-analysis on the effects of chemical stressors on freshwater ecosystem functions. Environmental Sciences Europe. 37(1). 1 indexed citations

Manfrin, Alessandro, Martin H. Entling, J. H. Hoffmann, et al.. (2025). Cross-ecosystem effects of light pollution and invasive signal crayfish on riparian spiders. Global Ecology and Conservation. 60. e03577–e03577.

Link, Moritz, et al.. (2024). Shift in diet composition of a riparian predator along a stream pollution gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2035). 20242104–20242104. 1 indexed citations

Metreveli, George, Simon Lüderwald, Mirco Bundschuh, et al.. (2024). Isotopic labeling of nanoparticles for the evaluation of their environmental fate in mesocosm experiments. The Science of The Total Environment. 956. 177264–177264.

Manfrin, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). Flooding as a Vector for the Transport of Pesticides from Streams to Riparian Plants. ACS ES&T Water. 4(11). 4970–4977.

Zubrod, Jochen P., et al.. (2023). Tracer or toxicant: Does stable isotope labeling affect central processes in aquatic food webs?. Aquatic Toxicology. 259. 106542–106542. 1 indexed citations

Entling, Martin H., et al.. (2023). Aquatic-terrestrial transfer of neonicotinoid insecticides in riparian food webs. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 455. 131635–131635. 27 indexed citations

Feckler, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen retention in stream biofilms – A potential contribution to the self-cleaning capacity. Journal of Environmental Management. 345. 118746–118746. 1 indexed citations

Bakanov, Nikita, et al.. (2023). A new sample preparation approach for the analysis of 98 current-use pesticides in soil and herbaceous vegetation using HPLC-MS/MS in combination with an acetonitrile-based extraction. Chemosphere. 331. 138840–138840. 22 indexed citations

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Schulz, Ralf, et al.. (2023). A temporal perspective on aquatic subsidy: Bti affects emergence of Chironomidae. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 250. 114503–114503. 17 indexed citations

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Steinmetz, Zacharias, Alessandro Manfrin, Klaus Schwenk, et al.. (2023). Subsidy Quality Affects Common Riparian Web-Building Spiders: Consequences of Aquatic Contamination and Food Resource. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(6). 1346–1358. 11 indexed citations

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Zubrod, Jochen P., et al.. (2022). Making the Invisible Visible? Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Detect Indirect Toxicant Effects. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(9). 1937–1945. 1 indexed citations

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Schulz, Ralf, Sascha Bub, Lara L. Petschick, Sebastian Stehle, & Jakob Wolfram. (2021). Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops. Science. 372(6537). 81–84. 213 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bundschuh, Mirco, Jochen P. Zubrod, Marco Konschak, et al.. (2021). Bottom‐up effects of fungicides on tadpoles of the European common frog (Rana temporaria). Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 4353–4365. 4 indexed citations

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Zubrod, Jochen P., et al.. (2021). As above, so below? Effects of fungicides on microbial organic matter decomposition are stronger in the hyporheic than in the benthic zone. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(1). 39–52. 4 indexed citations

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Lüderwald, Simon, Frederik Meyer, Verena C. Schreiner, et al.. (2020). Reduction of Pesticide Toxicity Under Field-Relevant Conditions? The Interaction of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles, Ultraviolet, and Natural Organic Matter. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 39(11). 2237–2246. 6 indexed citations

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Bundschuh, Mirco, et al.. (2020). Infochemicals Influence Neonicotinoid Toxicity—Impact in Leaf Consumption, Growth, and Predation of the Amphipod Gammarus fossarum. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 39(9). 1755–1764. 4 indexed citations

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Bundschuh, Mirco, Jochen P. Zubrod, Lara L. Petschick, & Ralf Schulz. (2020). Multiple Stressors in Aquatic Ecosystems: Sublethal Effects of Temperature, Dissolved Organic Matter, Light and a Neonicotinoid Insecticide on Gammarids. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 105(3). 345–350. 8 indexed citations

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Bundschuh, Mirco, Dominic Englert, Ricki R. Rosenfeldt, et al.. (2019). Nanoparticles transported from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems via emerging aquatic insects compromise subsidy quality. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15676–15676. 29 indexed citations

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Vogt, Günter, Cassandra Falckenhayn, Anne Schrimpf, et al.. (2015). The marbled crayfish as a paradigm for saltational speciation by autopolyploidy and parthenogenesis in animals. Biology Open. 4(11). 1583–1594. 55 indexed citations

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