Victor Smetacek

23.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
128 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Victor Smetacek is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Smetacek has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Oceanography, 42 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Victor Smetacek's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (40 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers). Victor Smetacek is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (40 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers). Victor Smetacek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Norway. Victor Smetacek's co-authors include Paul G. Falkowski, Richard T. Barber, Adriana Zingone, Jürgen Lenz, John McN. Sieburth, PG Verity, Stephen Nicol, Ulf Riebesell, Dieter Wolf‐Gladrow and Bodo von Bodungen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Victor Smetacek

124 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Biogeochemical Controls and Feedbacks on Ocean Primary Production

1998 2.0k citations Victor Smetacek et al. profile →
The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

2000 1.5k citations Victor Smetacek et al. profile →
Pelagic ecosystem structure: Heterotrophic compartments of the plankton and their relationship to plankton size fractions 1

1978 947 citations Victor Smetacek et al. profile →
Role of sinking in diatom life-history cycles: ecological, evolutionary and geological significance

1985 803 citations Victor Smetacek profile →
Architecture and material properties of diatom shells provide effective mechanical protection

2003 719 citations Christian Hamm, Rudolf Merkel et al. Nature profile →
Green and golden seaweed tides on the rise

2013 681 citations Victor Smetacek et al. Nature profile →
Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean

1995 660 citations H. J. W. de Baar, Jeroen de Jong et al. Nature profile →
Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems

1996 544 citations Victor Smetacek et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series profile →
Carbon dioxide limitation of marine phytoplankton growth rates

1993 493 citations Ulf Riebesell, Dieter Wolf‐Gladrow et al. Nature profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Smetacek

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Remarkable structural resistance of a nanoflagellate-dominated plankton community to iron fertilization during the Southern Ocean experiment LOHAFEX 2018 ·Marine Ecology Progress Series ·I. Schulz, Marina Montresor, Christine Klaas, Philipp Assmy, (unknown), Mangesh Gauns, Amit Sarkar, Stefan Thiele, Dieter Wolf‐Gladrow, Wajih Naqvi, Victor Smetacek	7
2	Seeing is Believing: Diatoms and the Ocean Carbon Cycle Revisited 2018 ·Protist ·Victor Smetacek	13
3	Making sense of ocean biota: How evolution and biodiversity of land organisms differ from that of the plankton 2012 ·Journal of Biosciences ·Victor Smetacek	33
4	Recalibrating sleep: Is recalibration and readjustment of sense organs and brain–body connections the core function of sleep? 2010 ·Medical Hypotheses ·Victor Smetacek	0
5	Endbericht des Projektes FV 142: Aquakultur in der Nordsee: Untersuchungen zum Ansiedlungs- und Wachstumspotential von Muscheln und Makroalgen in der Deutschen Bucht zur Überprüfung der Eignung von Offshore-Standorten für Marine Aquakultur 2004 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Bela H. Buck, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Victor Smetacek	2
6	Making sense 2004 ·Nature ·Victor Smetacek, Franz Mechsner	22
7	Aldehyde suppression of copepod recruitment in blooms of a ubiquitous planktonic diatom 2004 ·Nature ·Adrianna Ianora, Antonio Miralto, Serge A. Poulet, Ylenia Carotenuto, Isabella Buttino, Giovanna Romano, Raffaella Casotti, Georg Pohnert, Thomas Wichard, Luca Colucci-D’Amato, Giuseppe Terrazzano, Victor Smetacek	339
8	Architecture and material properties of diatom shells provide effective mechanical protection breakdown → 2003 ·Nature ·Christian Hamm, Rudolf Merkel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Victor Smetacek	719
9	Microbial food webs: The ocean's veil 2002 ·Nature ·Victor Smetacek	21
10	Balance: Mind-grasping gravity 2002 ·Nature ·Victor Smetacek	6
11	The greening of a Southern Ocean eddy 2001 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Victor Smetacek	1
12	Deep-Sea Research II CD-ROM Appendix 1997 ·Journal of Clinical Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), H. J. W. de Baar, Ulrich Bathmann, Victor Smetacek	1
13	Biodiversity and production in the water mass 1996 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Victor Smetacek	8
14	Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean breakdown → 1995 ·Nature ·H. J. W. de Baar, Jeroen de Jong, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Bettina M. Löscher, (unknown), U. Bathmann, Victor Smetacek	660
15	The possible role of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona in retarding vertical flux of zooplankton faecal material 1994 ·Marine Ecology Progress Series ·HE González, Victor Smetacek	264
16	Antarctic marine primary production, biogeochemical carbon cycles and climatic change 1992 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·J. Priddle, Victor Smetacek, Ulrich Bathmann	49
17	Rheological properties of marine organic aggregates: Importance for vertical flux, turbulence and microzones 1991 ·Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) ·Ian R. Jenkinson, Bopaiah A. Biddanda, CM Turley, Paulo César Abreu, Ulf Riebesell, Victor Smetacek	5
18	Productivity of the ocean : present and past : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Productivity of the Ocean, Present and Past, Berlin 1988, April 24-29 1989 ·Wiley eBooks ·(unknown), Wolfgang Berger, Victor Smetacek, Gerold Wefer, (unknown), (unknown)	8
19	The microbial loop 1989 ·Sylvie Becquevort, (unknown), (unknown), Victor Smetacek	2
20	The Pelagic System 1987 ·Victor Smetacek, Bodo von Bodungen, Manfred Bölter, Klaus von Bröckel, R. Dawson, B. Knoppers, Gerd Liebezeit, P. C. H. Martens, (unknown), Falk Pollehne, P. Stegmann, (unknown), B. Zeitzschel	6

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