Sten Anslan

12.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Sten Anslan is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sten Anslan has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Plant Science and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sten Anslan's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (27 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (24 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers). Sten Anslan is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (27 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (24 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers). Sten Anslan collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Germany and Sweden. Sten Anslan's co-authors include Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram, R. Henrik Nilsson, Kessy Abarenkov, Petr Baldrián, Christian Wurzbacher, Falk Hildebrand, Ave Tooming‐Klunderud, Peer Bork and Sergei Põlme and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Sten Anslan

53 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and ident... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2018 2015 2015 2022 2022 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi
    2018 622 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Sten Anslan et al. profile →
  2. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi
    2015 398 citations Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys profile →
  3. Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent
    2015 287 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  4. Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results
    2022 167 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
  5. Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands
    2022 148 citations Mohammad Bahram, Mikk Espenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sten Anslan Estonia 29 1.9k 1.4k 1.0k 965 767 59 3.7k
Dmitry Schigel Finland 20 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 857 0.8× 823 0.9× 839 1.1× 59 4.0k
Irja Saar Estonia 14 2.3k 1.2× 934 0.6× 871 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 770 1.0× 41 3.7k
Zewei Song United States 14 2.6k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 522 0.5× 903 0.9× 1000 1.3× 32 3.6k
Jon Menke United States 7 2.6k 1.4× 943 0.7× 544 0.5× 916 0.9× 891 1.2× 7 3.5k
Katarina Ihrmark Sweden 21 2.5k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 575 0.6× 1.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 40 3.6k
Anthony S. Amend United States 27 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 840 0.8× 888 0.9× 403 0.5× 53 3.2k
Jonathan S. Schilling United States 27 3.4k 1.8× 1.2k 0.8× 884 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 85 5.1k
Kathryn T. Picard United States 10 1.5k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 885 0.9× 671 0.7× 346 0.5× 19 2.9k
Tomáš Větrovský Czechia 30 2.0k 1.1× 1.9k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 558 0.6× 944 1.2× 68 4.7k
Karl-Henrik Larsson Sweden 5 2.2k 1.2× 837 0.6× 889 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 497 0.6× 5 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Bezemer, Т. Martijn, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, et al.. (2024). Reduction of forest soil biota impacts tree performance but not greenhouse gas fluxes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 200. 109643–109643.
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Tedersoo, Leho, Rein Drenkhan, Kessy Abarenkov, et al.. (2024). The influence of tree genus, phylogeny, and richness on the specificity, rarity, and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(2). e13253–e13253. 13 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, et al.. (2024). DNA‐metabarcoding supports trophic flexibility and reveals new prey species for the Galapagos sea lion. Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). e10921–e10921. 2 indexed citations
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Vences, Miguel, Sten Anslan, Joana Sabino‐Pinto, et al.. (2024). Dataset from RNAseq analysis of differential gene expression among developmental stages of two non-marine ostracodes. Data in Brief. 53. 110070–110070.
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Hagh‐Doust, Niloufar, Vladimir Mikryukov, Sten Anslan, et al.. (2023). Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon and nutrient cycling along a natural soil acidity gradient as revealed by metagenomics. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2607–2620. 28 indexed citations
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Rähn, Elisabeth, Leho Tedersoo, Kalev Adamson, et al.. (2023). Rapid shift of soil fungal community compositions after clear-cutting in hemiboreal coniferous forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 544. 121211–121211. 14 indexed citations
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Bahram, Mohammad, Mikk Espenberg, Jaan Pärn, et al.. (2022). Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1430–1430. 148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tedersoo, Leho, Mohammad Bahram, Lucie Zinger, et al.. (2022). Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results. Molecular Ecology. 31(10). 2769–2795. 167 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anslan, Sten, Vladimir Mikryukov, Kęstutis Armolaitis, et al.. (2021). Highly comparable metabarcoding results from MGI-Tech and Illumina sequencing platforms. PeerJ. 9. e12254–e12254. 23 indexed citations
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Greenfield, Melinda, Lori Lach, Bradley C. Congdon, et al.. (2021). Consistent patterns of fungal communities within ant-plants across a large geographic range strongly suggest a multipartite mutualism. Mycological Progress. 20(5). 681–699. 9 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Peter Frenzel, Sven Künzel, et al.. (2021). High‐throughput identification of non‐marine Ostracoda from the Tibetan Plateau: Evaluating the success of various primers on sedimentary DNA samples. Environmental DNA. 3(5). 982–996. 5 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Loïs Rancilhac, Henner Brinkmann, et al.. (2021). Diversity and substrate-specificity of green algae and other micro-eukaryotes colonizing amphibian clutches in Germany, revealed by DNA metabarcoding. Die Naturwissenschaften. 108(4). 29–29. 10 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Sten Anslan, Mohammad Bahram, Urmas Kõljalg, & Kessy Abarenkov. (2020). Identifying the ‘unidentified’ fungi: a global-scale long-read third-generation sequencing approach. Fungal Diversity. 103(1). 273–293. 57 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, et al.. (2020). Reviews and syntheses: How do abiotic and biotic processes respond to climatic variations in the Nam Co catchment (Tibetan Plateau)?. Biogeosciences. 17(5). 1261–1279. 35 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Nicole Börner, Anja Schwarz, et al.. (2020). Diatom metabarcoding and microscopic analyses from sediment samples at Lake Nam Co, Tibet: The effect of sample-size and bioinformatics on the identified communities. Ecological Indicators. 121. 107070–107070. 23 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, R. Henrik Nilsson, Christian Wurzbacher, et al.. (2018). Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys. 39(39). 29–40. 40 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, & Leho Tedersoo. (2017). Seasonal and annual variation in fungal communities associated with epigeic springtails (Collembola spp.) in boreal forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 245–252. 38 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, Indrek Hiiesalu, & Leho Tedersoo. (2017). PipeCraft: Flexible open‐source toolkit for bioinformatics analysis of custom high‐throughput amplicon sequencing data. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(6). e234–e240. 133 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, & Leho Tedersoo. (2016). Temporal changes in fungal communities associated with guts and appendages of Collembola as based on culturing and high-throughput sequencing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 96. 152–159. 45 indexed citations

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