Sebastian Valanko

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Valanko is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Valanko has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Oceanography, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Valanko's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (15 papers), Marine and fisheries research (10 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (8 papers). Sebastian Valanko is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (15 papers), Marine and fisheries research (10 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (8 papers). Sebastian Valanko collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Sebastian Valanko's co-authors include Jani Heino, Adriano S. Melo, Luis Maurício Bini, Tadeu Siqueira, Janne Soininen, Alf Norkko, Joanna Norkko, Conrad A. Pilditch, Anna Villnäs and Simon F. Thrush and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Freshwater Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Valanko

18 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

2014 760 citations Jani Heino, Adriano S. Melo et al. Freshwater Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Valanko Finland	11	890	490	475	344	201	19	1.3k
Jordi Sala Spain	24	1.1k 1.3×	546 1.1×	325 0.7×	236 0.7×	627 3.1×	61	1.5k
Adriano Caliman Brazil	18	453 0.5×	358 0.7×	243 0.5×	236 0.7×	309 1.5×	58	916
Andrea Antón Saudi Arabia	22	1.1k 1.2×	187 0.4×	817 1.7×	558 1.6×	105 0.5×	42	1.6k
Maurizio Pinna Italy	21	820 0.9×	240 0.5×	396 0.8×	353 1.0×	131 0.7×	71	1.2k
Birte Matthiessen Germany	18	534 0.6×	381 0.8×	551 1.2×	363 1.1×	124 0.6×	42	1.2k
Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira Brazil	20	632 0.7×	504 1.0×	243 0.5×	119 0.3×	516 2.6×	87	1.2k
Priscilla Licandro United Kingdom	26	816 0.9×	245 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	1.1k 3.1×	185 0.9×	54	1.8k
Stefan Nehring Germany	21	776 0.9×	286 0.6×	617 1.3×	322 0.9×	300 1.5×	48	1.4k
Cédric L. Meunier Germany	18	594 0.7×	174 0.4×	635 1.3×	303 0.9×	312 1.6×	58	1.2k
Dirk Ercken Belgium	6	640 0.7×	494 1.0×	128 0.3×	127 0.4×	283 1.4×	11	976

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Valanko

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Valanko

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

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19 of 19 papers shown

McQuatters‐Gollop, Abigail, et al.. (2025). Evaluating methods for setting thresholds for good status in marine ecosystems. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(3).

Hiddink, Jan Geert, et al.. (2023). Setting thresholds for good ecosystem state in marine seabed systems and beyond. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(4). 698–709. 9 indexed citations

Denderen, P. Daniël van, Anna Törnroos, Marija Sciberras, et al.. (2022). Effects of bottom trawling and hypoxia on benthic invertebrate communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 694. 13–27. 8 indexed citations

Gladstone‐Gallagher, Rebecca V., Judi E. Hewitt, Simon F. Thrush, et al.. (2021). Identifying “vital attributes” for assessing disturbance–recovery potential of seafloor communities. Ecology and Evolution. 11(11). 6091–6103. 10 indexed citations

Rijnsdorp, A.D., Jan Geert Hiddink, P. Daniël van Denderen, et al.. (2020). Different bottom trawl fisheries have a differential impact on the status of the North Sea seafloor habitats. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77(5). 1772–1786. 41 indexed citations

Ysebaert, Tom, Anna Jansson, Francesc Montserrat, et al.. (2019). Context-dependent community facilitation in seagrass meadows along a hydrodynamic stress gradient. Journal of Sea Research. 150-151. 8–23. 10 indexed citations

Denderen, P. Daniël van, Stefan G. Bolam, René Friedland, et al.. (2019). Evaluating impacts of bottom trawling and hypoxia on benthic communities at the local, habitat, and regional scale using a modelling approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77(1). 278–289. 17 indexed citations

Ojaveer, Henn, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Jan Dierking, et al.. (2018). Sustainable use of Baltic Sea resources. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 75(7). 2434–2438. 2 indexed citations

Snickars, Martin, Jan Ekebom, Alf Norkko, et al.. (2016). Assessment of the status of the zoobenthos in the coastal waters of western Uusimaa, SW Finland – a tool for management. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 1 indexed citations

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Uusitalo, Laura, Samuli Korpinen, Jesper H. Andersen, et al.. (2015). Exploring methods for predicting multiple pressures on ecosystem recovery: A case study on marine eutrophication and fisheries. Continental Shelf Research. 121. 48–60. 36 indexed citations

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Valanko, Sebastian, Jani Heino, Mats Westerbom, Markku Viitasalo, & Alf Norkko. (2015). Complex metacommunity structure for benthic invertebrates in a low‐diversity coastal system. Ecology and Evolution. 5(22). 5203–5215. 16 indexed citations

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Pilditch, Conrad A., Sebastian Valanko, Joanna Norkko, & Alf Norkko. (2015). Post-settlement dispersal: the neglected link in maintenance of soft-sediment biodiversity. Biology Letters. 11(2). 20140795–20140795. 44 indexed citations

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Valanko, Sebastian, Joanna Norkko, & Alf Norkko. (2014). Does stability in local community composition depend on temporal variation in rates of dispersal and connectivity?. Journal of Sea Research. 98. 24–32. 10 indexed citations

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Heino, Jani, Adriano S. Melo, Tadeu Siqueira, et al.. (2014). Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects. Freshwater Biology. 60(5). 845–869. 760 indexed citations breakdown →

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Norkko, Alf, Anna Villnäs, Joanna Norkko, Sebastian Valanko, & Conrad A. Pilditch. (2013). Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2646–2646. 194 indexed citations

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Valanko, Sebastian. (2012). Dispersal and metacommunity dynamics in a soft-sediment benthic system : how well is the seafloor connected?. Doria (University of Helsinki). 5 indexed citations

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Valanko, Sebastian, Alf Norkko, & Joanna Norkko. (2010). Rates of post-larval bedload dispersal in a non-tidal soft-sediment system. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 416. 145–163. 17 indexed citations

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Norkko, Joanna, et al.. (2010). Conditional responses to increasing scales of disturbance, and potential implications for threshold dynamics in soft-sediment communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 413. 253–266. 46 indexed citations

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Valanko, Sebastian, Alf Norkko, & Joanna Norkko. (2010). Strategies of post-larval dispersal in non-tidal soft-sediment communities. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 384(1-2). 51–60. 45 indexed citations

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