Ralf Thiel

1.8k total citations
71 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ralf Thiel is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Thiel has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 34 papers in Aquatic Science and 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ralf Thiel's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (38 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (24 papers). Ralf Thiel is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (38 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (24 papers). Ralf Thiel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Russia. Ralf Thiel's co-authors include Thomas Mehner, R. Kafemann, Walter Nellen, Aquiles Sepúlveda, I. C. Potter, Simon Weigmann, Arthur R. Bos, Franz Hölker, Thorsten Burmester and María José Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Thiel

67 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Thiel Germany 19 774 703 622 382 157 71 1.3k
Patrick M. Kočovský United States 21 1.1k 1.4× 782 1.1× 318 0.5× 396 1.0× 76 0.5× 70 1.3k
Mary C. Fabrizio United States 23 898 1.2× 698 1.0× 793 1.3× 353 0.9× 142 0.9× 93 1.4k
Carlos Fernández‐Delgado Spain 24 876 1.1× 573 0.8× 483 0.8× 647 1.7× 157 1.0× 69 1.4k
Mojmír Vašek Czechia 24 1.4k 1.8× 897 1.3× 528 0.8× 671 1.8× 102 0.6× 84 1.6k
Jorge Pablo Castello Brazil 18 446 0.6× 598 0.9× 715 1.1× 265 0.7× 253 1.6× 49 1.2k
Éric Rochard France 22 1.1k 1.4× 678 1.0× 629 1.0× 468 1.2× 97 0.6× 67 1.6k
Robert S. Gregory Canada 17 730 0.9× 655 0.9× 630 1.0× 194 0.5× 196 1.2× 34 1.3k
Richard T. Kraus United States 20 975 1.3× 755 1.1× 939 1.5× 281 0.7× 132 0.8× 56 1.4k
Skip McKinnell Canada 22 859 1.1× 546 0.8× 780 1.3× 191 0.5× 209 1.3× 57 1.3k
Kelig Mahé France 18 435 0.6× 433 0.6× 682 1.1× 508 1.3× 89 0.6× 82 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf Thiel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Thiel

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

All Works

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Möllmann, Christian, et al.. (2025). Environmental factors shaping fish fauna structure in a temperate mesotidal estuary: Periodic insights from the Elbe estuary across four decades. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 318. 109208–109208.
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Bang, Corinna, Michelle Bouchard, Ralf Thiel, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal plasticity of gill microbiota in estuarine fish. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177505–177505. 1 indexed citations
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Чернова, Н. В. & Ralf Thiel. (2024). First Capture of the Deep-Sea Careproctus bathycoetus (Liparidae) a Century After the Fish Was Described (North Pacific)—Revised Diagnosis and Notes on Ecology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 748–760. 1 indexed citations
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Woodhouse, Jason, et al.. (2024). Network-based integration of omics, physiological and environmental data in real-world Elbe estuarine Zander. The Science of The Total Environment. 942. 173656–173656. 1 indexed citations
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Adamek, Mikołaj, et al.. (2022). Glass eels and viruses – a lesson learnt from stocking the eastern German Baltic Sea coast. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.
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Schwentner, Martin, Kenneth Meland, Jon Anders Kongsrud, et al.. (2021). Adding pieces to the puzzle: insights into diversity and distribution patterns of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the deep North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean. PeerJ. 9. e12379–e12379. 9 indexed citations
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Schwentner, Martin, et al.. (2021). eDNA as a tool for non-invasive monitoring of the fauna of a turbid, well-mixed system, the Elbe estuary in Germany. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0250452–e0250452. 22 indexed citations
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Чернова, Н. В., et al.. (2020). Four new species of Careproctus (Cottoidei: Liparidae) from the deep-water vicinity of the southern Kuril Islands (Western North Pacific). Zootaxa. 4821(1). zootaxa.4821.1.3–zootaxa.4821.1.3. 5 indexed citations
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Frankowski, Jens, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the bioaccumulation potential of alizarin red S in fish muscle tissue using the European eel as a model. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 412(5). 1181–1192. 7 indexed citations
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Thiel, Ralf, et al.. (2017). Mass-marking of farmed European eels (Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)) with alizarin red S. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 33(5). 914–917. 7 indexed citations
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Borner, Janus, Marcel Kwiatkowski, Hanno Schmidt, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the Hypoxia Response of Ruffe and Flounder Gills by a Combined Proteome and Transcriptome Approach. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0135911–e0135911. 20 indexed citations
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Thiel, Ralf, et al.. (2014). Molecular Response of Estuarine Fish to Hypoxia: A Comparative Study with Ruffe and Flounder from Field and Laboratory. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90778–e90778. 48 indexed citations
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Thiel, Ralf, et al.. (2013). Key environmental variables affecting the ichthyofaunal composition of groyne fields in the middle Elbe River, Germany. Limnologica. 43(4). 297–307. 11 indexed citations
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Thiel, Ralf & Volker Salewski. (2003). Verteilung und Wanderung von Neunaugen im Elbeästuar (Deutschland). Limnologica. 33(3). 214–226. 11 indexed citations
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Velasco, Andrés & Ralf Thiel. (2002). A bilingual field manual for the identification of juvenile fish over soft bottoms off the Pacific coast of Colombia - a review from literature. 50(1). 55–118. 2 indexed citations
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Bos, Arthur R., Ralf Thiel, & Walter Nellen. (1995). Distribution and transport mechanism of the upstream migrating flounder larvae, Pleuronectes flesus Linnaeus 1758, in the tidal Elbe river, Germany. 10 indexed citations

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