Rita Adrian

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Rita Adrian is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Adrian has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 65 papers in Oceanography and 40 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rita Adrian's work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (70 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (63 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers). Rita Adrian is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (70 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (63 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers). Rita Adrian collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Rita Adrian's co-authors include Dieter Gerten, Carola Wagner, Dietmar Straile, Monika Winder, Ellen van Donk, David M. Livingstone, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Wendel Keller, Rubén Sommaruga and Horacio E. Zagarese and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Rita Adrian

96 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Lakes as sentinels of climate change

2009 1.4k citations Rita Adrian, Catherine M. O’Reilly et al. Limnology and Oceanography profile →
Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

2012 592 citations Rita Adrian, Erik Jeppesen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Adrian Germany	38	3.9k	3.3k	3.0k	1.7k	1.1k	98	6.6k
Dietmar Straile Germany	39	3.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	106	6.2k
Monika Winder Sweden	35	3.0k 0.8×	3.9k 1.2×	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.8×	95	8.0k
Tiina Nõges Estonia	37	3.4k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	680 0.6×	154	5.8k
Mark Trimmer United Kingdom	48	2.2k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	873 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	107	6.2k
David M. Livingstone Switzerland	37	2.9k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	85	7.3k
Jan Karlsson Sweden	43	2.9k 0.7×	3.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	148	7.0k
Tamar Zohary Israel	41	4.8k 1.2×	5.6k 1.7×	4.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	792 0.7×	123	8.8k
J. J. Cole United States	17	2.9k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 2.1×	21	7.6k
Sarian Kosten Netherlands	35	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	773 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	98	4.9k
Meryem Beklioğlu Türkiye	37	2.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	669 0.6×	105	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rita Adrian

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20 of 20 papers shown

Recknagel, Friedrich, Kun Shan, Rita Adrian, & Jan Köhler. (2025). Early warning of harmful cyanobacteria blooms based on high frequency in situ monitoring and intelligible machine learning modelling: The case study of Lake Müggelsee (Germany). Water Research. 287(Pt B). 124514–124514.

Domisch, Sami, Vanessa Bremerich, Jaime Márquez, et al.. (2024). GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing. International Journal of Digital Earth. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

Stelzer, Julio Alberto Alegre, Jorrit P. Mesman, Rita Adrian, & Bastiaan W. Ibelings. (2021). Early warning signals of regime shifts for aquatic systems: Can experiments help to bridge the gap between theory and real-world application?. Ecological Complexity. 47. 100944–100944. 14 indexed citations

Recknagel, Friedrich, Rita Adrian, & Jan Köhler. (2021). Quantifying phenological asynchrony of phyto- and zooplankton in response to changing temperature and nutrient conditions in Lake Müggelsee (Germany) by means of evolutionary computation. Environmental Modelling & Software. 146. 105224–105224. 9 indexed citations

Kraemer, Benjamin M., Anton Seimon, Rita Adrian, & Peter B. McIntyre. (2020). Worldwide lake level trends and responses to background climate variation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(5). 2593–2608. 30 indexed citations

Kraemer, Benjamin M., Thomas Mehner, & Rita Adrian. (2017). Reconciling the opposing effects of warming on phytoplankton biomass in 188 large lakes. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10762–10762. 88 indexed citations

Shatwell, Tom, Rita Adrian, & Georgiy Kirillin. (2016). Planktonic events may cause polymictic-dimictic regime shifts in temperate lakes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24361–24361. 47 indexed citations

Pareeth, Sajid, Mariano Bresciani, Fabio Buzzi, et al.. (2016). Warming trends of perialpine lakes from homogenised time series of historical satellite and in-situ data. The Science of The Total Environment. 578. 417–426. 45 indexed citations

Pareeth, Sajid, Nico Salmaso, Rita Adrian, & Markus Neteler. (2016). Homogenised daily lake surface water temperature data generated from multiple satellite sensors: A long-term case study of a large sub-Alpine lake. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 31251–31251. 36 indexed citations

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Baho, Didier L., Ülkü Nіhan Tavşanoğlu, Michal Šorf, et al.. (2015). Macroecological Patterns of Resilience Inferred from a Multinational, Synchronized Experiment. Sustainability. 7(2). 1142–1160. 6 indexed citations

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Straile, Dietmar, Rita Adrian, & Daniel E. Schindler. (2012). Uniform Temperature Dependency in the Phenology of a Keystone Herbivore in Lakes of the Northern Hemisphere. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e45497–e45497. 22 indexed citations

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Adrian, Rita, Dieter Gerten, Veronika Huber, Carola Wagner, & Silke R. Schmidt. (2012). Windows of change: temporal scale of analysis is decisive to detect ecosystem responses to climate change. Marine Biology. 159(11). 2533–2542. 22 indexed citations

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Huber, Veronika, Carola Wagner, Dieter Gerten, & Rita Adrian. (2011). To bloom or not to bloom: contrasting responses of cyanobacteria to recent heat waves explained by critical thresholds of abiotic drivers. Oecologia. 169(1). 245–256. 118 indexed citations

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Shurin, Jonathan B., Monika Winder, Rita Adrian, et al.. (2010). Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity – contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability. Ecology Letters. 13(4). 453–463. 118 indexed citations

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Adrian, Rita, Catherine M. O’Reilly, Horacio E. Zagarese, et al.. (2009). Lakes as sentinels of climate change. Limnology and Oceanography. 54(6part2). 2283–2297. 1374 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adrian, Rita, et al.. (2006). Long-term response of Dreissena polymorpha larvae to physical and biological forcing in a shallow lake. Oecologia. 151(1). 104–114. 19 indexed citations

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Boëchat, Iola G., et al.. (2006). Sterol Composition of Freshwater Algivorous Ciliates Does Not Resemble Dietary Composition. Microbial Ecology. 53(1). 74–81. 10 indexed citations

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Boëchat, Iola G., et al.. (2005). Supplementation of the protist Chilomonas paramecium with a highly unsaturated fatty acid enhances its nutritional quality for the rotifer Keratella quadrata. Journal of Plankton Research. 27(7). 663–670. 8 indexed citations

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Gerten, Dieter & Rita Adrian. (2001). Differences in the persistency of the North Atlantic Oscillation signal among lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 46(2). 448–455. 127 indexed citations

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Mohr, Silvia & Rita Adrian. (2000). Functional responses of the rotifers Brachionus calyciflorus and Brachionus rubens feeding on armored and unarmored ciliates. Limnology and Oceanography. 45(5). 1175–1179. 33 indexed citations

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