Sapna Sharma

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sapna Sharma is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sapna Sharma has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, 36 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 33 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sapna Sharma's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (34 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers). Sapna Sharma is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (34 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers). Sapna Sharma collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Sapna Sharma's co-authors include Catherine M. O’Reilly, R. Iestyn Woolway, Benjamin M. Kraemer, Christopher J. Merchant, John D. Lenters, John J. Magnuson, Donald A. Jackson, Kevin Blagrave, E. Marín-Spiotta and Charles K. Minns and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sapna Sharma

104 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Global lake responses to climate change

2020 903 citations R. Iestyn Woolway, Benjamin M. Kraemer et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

2019 349 citations Sapna Sharma, Kevin Blagrave et al. profile →
Environmental controls on the conversion of nutrients to chlorophyll in lakes

2025 20 citations Roohollah Noori, Dongkyun Kim et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sapna Sharma Canada	36	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	994	107	4.5k
James A. Rusak Canada	35	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	642 0.6×	967 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	71	4.3k
Gavin L. Simpson United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.1×	725 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	785 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	94	4.2k
Catherine M. O’Reilly United States	27	2.0k 1.3×	883 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	74	5.4k
Peter Gell Australia	31	3.1k 2.0×	2.0k 1.5×	780 0.7×	977 0.9×	933 0.9×	112	5.4k
R. Iestyn Woolway United Kingdom	35	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.9×	104	5.0k
Martin Forsius Finland	32	1.8k 1.1×	759 0.6×	769 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.8×	94	4.9k
John S. Kominoski United States	37	2.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	337 0.3×	866 0.8×	849 0.9×	109	4.1k
Ryan A. Sponseller Sweden	39	2.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.1×	718 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	111	5.2k
Susan Waldron United Kingdom	44	4.2k 2.7×	1.1k 0.8×	719 0.6×	1.9k 1.8×	758 0.8×	117	7.0k
Marguerite A. Xenopoulos Canada	35	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	329 0.3×	797 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	113	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sapna Sharma

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sapna Sharma

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sapna Sharma. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sapna Sharma. The network helps show where Sapna Sharma may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sapna Sharma

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sharma, Sapna, et al.. (2025). Autumn as an overlooked opportunity for limnology. PLOS Climate. 4(6). e0000648–e0000648. 1 indexed citations

Noori, Roohollah, Dongkyun Kim, Changhyun Jun, et al.. (2025). Environmental controls on the conversion of nutrients to chlorophyll in lakes. Water Research. 274. 123094–123094. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A., et al.. (2024). Lake ice quality in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(10). 671–685. 14 indexed citations

Basu, Aman, et al.. (2024). Phenological Shifts in Lake Ice Cover Across the Northern Hemisphere: A Glimpse Into the Past, Present, and the Future of Lake Ice Phenology. Water Resources Research. 60(9). 4 indexed citations

Imrit, Mohammad Arshad, et al.. (2024). Increasing fish biodiversity in high elevation Albertan lakes in response to global environmental change over the past 50 years. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11.

Howell, E. Todd, et al.. (2024). Cyanobacteria in cold waters: A study of nearshore cyanobacteria assemblages in Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 51(1). 102425–102425. 2 indexed citations

Hampton, Stephanie E., Stephen M. Powers, Hilary A. Dugan, et al.. (2024). Environmental and societal consequences of winter ice loss from lakes. Science. 386(6718). eadl3211–eadl3211. 9 indexed citations

Blagrave, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Spatial heterogeneity in water quality across the northern nearshore regions of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 49(6). 102231–102231. 8 indexed citations

Blagrave, Kevin & Sapna Sharma. (2023). Projecting climate change impacts on ice phenology across Midwestern and Northeastern United States lakes. Climatic Change. 176(9). 4 indexed citations

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Noori, Roohollah, Essam Heggy, Sayed M. Bateni, et al.. (2023). A water quality database for global lakes. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 202. 107401–107401. 53 indexed citations

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Jansen, Joachim, R. Iestyn Woolway, Benjamin M. Kraemer, et al.. (2022). Global increase in methane production under future warming of lake bottom waters. Global Change Biology. 28(18). 5427–5440. 48 indexed citations

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Imrit, Mohammad Arshad, et al.. (2022). Climate tracking by freshwater fishes suggests that fish diversity in temperate lakes may be increasingly threatened by climate warming. Diversity and Distributions. 29(2). 300–315. 12 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sapna, et al.. (2022). The limnological response of Arctic deltaic lakes to alterations in flood regime. Inland Waters. 12(3). 341–353. 2 indexed citations

14.

O’Reilly, Catherine M., Kevin Blagrave, Alessandro Filazzola, et al.. (2021). Total phosphorus and climate are equally important predictors of water quality in lakes. Aquatic Sciences. 83(1). 39 indexed citations

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Larsen, Stefano, Lise Comte, Ana Filipa Filipe, et al.. (2021). The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 791–801. 46 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sapna, et al.. (2021). Molar Pregnancy Complicated by Impending Thyroid Storm. Cureus. 13(11). e19656–e19656. 2 indexed citations

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Quinlan, Roberto, Alessandro Filazzola, Kevin Blagrave, et al.. (2020). Relationships of total phosphorus and chlorophyll in lakes worldwide. Limnology and Oceanography. 66(2). 392–404. 95 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sapna, Michael F. Meyer, Xiao Yang, et al.. (2020). Integrating Perspectives to Understand Lake Ice Dynamics in a Changing World. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(8). 54 indexed citations

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Filazzola, Alessandro, Kevin Blagrave, Mohammad Arshad Imrit, et al.. (2020). A database of chlorophyll and water chemistry in freshwater lakes. Scientific Data. 7(1). 310–310. 60 indexed citations

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Sharma, Verinder, et al.. (2013). Post-abortion mania. Archives of Women s Mental Health. 16(2). 167–169. 1 indexed citations

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