Vidar S. Lien

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Vidar S. Lien is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Vidar S. Lien has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Oceanography, 20 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Vidar S. Lien's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (19 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (8 papers). Vidar S. Lien is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (19 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (8 papers). Vidar S. Lien collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Russia and United States. Vidar S. Lien's co-authors include Frode B. Vikebø, Øystein Skagseth, Lars H. Smedsrud, Tor Eldevik, Are Olsen, Abdirahman M Omar, С. А. Сорокина, Odd Helge Otterå, Peter M. Haugan and Randi B. Ingvaldsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Vidar S. Lien

30 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

THE ROLE OF THE BARENTS SEA IN THE ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM

2013 362 citations Vidar S. Lien, Anne Britt Sandø et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vidar S. Lien Norway	18	793	652	568	315	304	32	1.5k
Hélène Genet United States	24	966 1.2×	743 1.1×	117 0.2×	239 0.8×	199 0.7×	42	1.9k
Yasumi Fujinuma Japan	18	308 0.4×	708 1.1×	76 0.1×	203 0.6×	211 0.7×	39	1.1k
Warren G. Lee Canada	12	1.0k 1.3×	1.5k 2.2×	570 1.0×	87 0.3×	73 0.2×	19	1.9k
Atsushi Obata Japan	9	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 2.1×	435 0.8×	46 0.1×	68 0.2×	13	1.8k
Annett Wolf Switzerland	20	591 0.7×	710 1.1×	36 0.1×	474 1.5×	69 0.2×	31	1.4k
Eiki Shindo Japan	9	1.5k 1.9×	1.7k 2.6×	492 0.9×	50 0.2×	63 0.2×	11	2.1k
Pier Giuseppe Fogli Italy	16	909 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	431 0.8×	33 0.1×	67 0.2×	31	1.4k
Arny L. Blanchard United States	24	518 0.7×	755 1.2×	963 1.7×	120 0.4×	10 0.0×	52	1.7k
Jaclyn Hatala Matthes United States	17	196 0.2×	723 1.1×	40 0.1×	191 0.6×	93 0.3×	33	1.1k
Tânia Pena Pimentel Brazil	16	92 0.1×	225 0.3×	254 0.4×	371 1.2×	63 0.2×	21	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Vidar S. Lien

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vidar S. Lien

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All Works

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Mulet, Sandrine, Eric Greiner, John Wilkin, et al.. (2025). New Global Mean Dynamic Topography CNES-CLS-22 Combining Drifters, Hydrography Profiles and High Frequency Radar Data.

Löptien, Ulrike, Anne Britt Sandø, Heiner Dietze, et al.. (2025). Barotropic Trends Through the Barents Sea Opening for the Period 1975–2021. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(1).

Ho, Quang Tri, Lisbeth Dahl, Michael S. Bank, et al.. (2025). Predicting essential and hazardous element concentrations in marine fish from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: A Bayesian approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 968. 178748–178748. 3 indexed citations

Skjoldal, Hein Rune, Elena Eriksen, Harald Gjøsæter, et al.. (2022). Recruitment variability of fish stocks in the Barents Sea: Spatial and temporal variation in 0-group fish length of six commercial species during recent decades of warming (1980–2017). Progress In Oceanography. 206. 102845–102845. 11 indexed citations

Gundersen, K., et al.. (2022). Thirty Years of Nutrient Biogeochemistry in the Barents Sea and the adjoining Arctic Ocean, 1990–2019. Scientific Data. 9(1). 649–649. 12 indexed citations

Skjoldal, Hein Rune, et al.. (2021). Seasonal and interannual variability in abundance and population development of Calanus finmarchicus at the western entrance to the Barents Sea, 1995–2019. Progress In Oceanography. 195. 102574–102574. 24 indexed citations

Watelet, Sylvain, et al.. (2020). A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate. Earth system science data. 12(4). 2447–2457. 3 indexed citations

Bergstad, Odd Aksel, Edda Johannesen, Åge S. Høines, et al.. (2017). Demersal fish assemblages in the boreo-Arctic shelf waters around Svalbard during the warm period 2007–2014. Polar Biology. 41(1). 125–142. 15 indexed citations

Lacharité, Myriam, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Anna Meta×as, Vidar S. Lien, & Hein Rune Skjoldal. (2016). Delimiting oceanographic provinces to determine drivers of mesoscale patterns in benthic megafauna: A case study in the Barents Sea. Progress In Oceanography. 146. 187–198. 8 indexed citations

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Dmitrenko, Igor, Bert Rudels, Sergey Kirillov, et al.. (2015). Atlantic water flow into the Arctic Ocean through the St. Anna Trough in the northern Kara Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 120(7). 5158–5178. 45 indexed citations

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Garreau, Pierre, et al.. (2014). Downscaling from Oceanic Global Circulation Model towards Regional and Coastal Model using spectral nudging techniques: application to the Mediterranean Sea and IBI area models. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 1 indexed citations

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Dmitrenko, Igor, Sergey Kirillov, Nuno Serra, et al.. (2014). Heat loss from the Atlantic water layer in the St. Anna Trough (northern Kara Sea): causes and consequences. 5 indexed citations

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Dmitrenko, Igor, Sergey Kirillov, Nuno Serra, et al.. (2014). Heat loss from the Atlantic water layer in the northern Kara Sea: causes and consequences. Ocean science. 10(4). 719–730. 29 indexed citations

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Lien, Vidar S., Yvonne Gusdal, & Frode B. Vikebø. (2014). Along-shelf hydrographic anomalies in the Nordic Seas (1960–2011): locally generated or advective signals?. Ocean Dynamics. 64(7). 1047–1059. 48 indexed citations

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Lien, Vidar S., Frode B. Vikebø, & Øystein Skagseth. (2013). One mechanism contributing to co-variability of the Atlantic inflow branches to the Arctic. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1488–1488. 75 indexed citations

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Vikebø, Frode B., Vidar S. Lien, Sonnich Meier, et al.. (2013). Spatio-temporal overlap of oil spills and early life stages of fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 71(4). 970–981. 27 indexed citations

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Lien, Vidar S., Yvonne Gusdal, Jon Albretsen, Arne Melsom, & Frode B. Vikebø. (2013). Evaluation of a Nordic Seas 4 km numerical ocean model hindcast archive (SVIM), 1960-2011. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 41 indexed citations

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Lien, Vidar S. & Bjørn Ådlandsvik. (2011). Bottom water formation as a primer for spring-blooms on Spitsbergenbanken?. Journal of Marine Systems. 130. 241–247. 7 indexed citations

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Vikebø, Frode B., Åse Husebø, Aril Slotte, Erling Kåre Stenevik, & Vidar S. Lien. (2010). Effect of hatching date, vertical distribution, and interannual variation in physical forcing on northward displacement and temperature conditions of Norwegian spring-spawning herring larvae. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 67(9). 1948–1956. 46 indexed citations

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Lien, Vidar S., W. Paul Budgell, Bjørn Ådlandsvik, & Einar Svendsen. (2006). Validating results from the model ROMS (Regional Ocean Modelling System), with respect to volume transports and heat fluxes in the Nordic Seas. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 4 indexed citations

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