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Anja Engel publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anja Engel sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 568 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Anja Engel D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anja Engel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Anja Engel is a researcher affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their scientific work spans various fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Anja Engel has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Their recent papers feature a range of topics related to ocean chemistry and ecology. Notable publications include:

  • System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion, 2021, published in Progress In Oceanography
  • Manganese co-limitation of phytoplankton growth and major nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Deep maxima of phytoplankton biomass, primary production and bacterial production in the Mediterranean Sea, 2021, published in Biogeosciences
  • Soothsaying DOM: A Current Perspective on the Future of Oceanic Dissolved Organic Carbon, 2020, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Operationalizing Ocean Health: Toward Integrated Research on Ocean Health and Recovery to Achieve Ocean Sustainability, 2020, published in One Earth

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Eric P. Achterberg
  • Birthe Zäncker
  • Eva-Maria Nöthig
  • Julia Große
  • Theresa Barthelmeß

Best Publications

  • Sea surface microlayers: A unified physicochemical and biological perspective of the air–ocean interface

    Michael Cunliffe;Anja Engel;Sanja Frka;Blaženka Gašparović

  • Polysaccharide aggregation as a potential sink of marine dissolved organic carbon

    Anja Engel;Silke Thoms;Ulf Riebesell;Emma Rochelle-Newall

  • Rapid aggregation of biofilm-covered microplastics with marine biogenic particles.

    Jan Michels;Angela Stippkugel;Mark Lenz;Kai Wirtz

  • Testing the direct effect of CO2 concentration on a bloom of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi in mesocosm experiments

    Anja Engel;Anja Engel;Ingrid Zondervan;Katrien Aerts;Luc Beaufort

  • Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming

    Julia Wohlers;Anja Engel;Eckart Zöllner;Petra Breithaupt

  • The role of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in the increase in apparent particle stickiness (α) during the decline of a diatom bloom

    Anja Engel

  • Carbon and nitrogen content of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in relation to their Alcian Blue adsorption

    Anja Engel;Uta Passow

  • The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer

    Anja Engel;Hermann W. Bange;Michael Cunliffe;Susannah M. Burrows

  • Nutrient co-limitation at the boundary of an oceanic gyre

    Thomas J. Browning;Eric P. Achterberg;Insa Rapp;Anja Engel

  • Direct relationship between CO2 uptake and transparent exopolymer particles production in natural phytoplankton

    Anja Engel

  • Transparent exopolymer particles and dissolved organic carbon production by Emiliania huxleyi exposed to different CO2 concentrations: a mesocosm experiment

    Anja Engel;Bruno Delille;Stéphan Jacquet;Ulf Riebesell

  • Acidification increases microbial polysaccharide degradation in the ocean

    Judith Piontek;Mirko Lunau;Mirko Lunau;Nicole Händel;Corinna Borchard

  • Temporal decoupling of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a mesocosm diatom bloom

    Anja Engel;Sarah Goldthwait;Uta Passow;Alice Alldredge

  • Temporal biomass dynamics of an Arctic plankton bloom in response to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Kai G. Schulz;Richard Bellerby;Richard Bellerby;Corina P.D. Brussaard;Jan Büdenbender

  • An indoor mesocosm system to study the effect of climate change on the late winter and spring succession of Baltic Sea phyto- and zooplankton.

    Ulrich Sommer;Nicole Aberle;Anja Engel;Thomas Hansen

  • Summertime plankton ecology in Fram Strait - a compilation of long- and short-term observations

    Eva-Maria Nöthig;Astrid Bracher;Anja Engel;Katja Metfies

  • Distribution of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and their potential significance for aggregation processes

    Anja Engel

  • System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

    Grant C. Pitcher;Arturo Aguirre-Velarde;Denise Breitburg;Jorge Cardich

  • CO 2 increases 14 C primary production in an Arctic plankton community

    Anja Engel;Corinna Borchard;Judith Piontek;Kai Schulz

  • The global SF6 source inferred from long-term high precision atmospheric measurements and its comparison with emission inventories

    I. Levin;T. Naegler;R. Heinz;D. Osusko

  • Modelling carbon overconsumption and the formation of extracellular particulate organic carbon

    Markus Schartau;Anja Engel;Jens Schröter;Silke Thoms

  • A novel protocol for determining the concentration and composition of sugars in particulate and in high molecular weight dissolved organic matter (HMW-DOM) in seawater

    Anja Engel;Nicole Händel

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bruno Delille
Bruno Delille University of Liège
Kai G. Schulz
Kai G. Schulz Southern Cross University
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Richard G. J. Bellerby
Richard G. J. Bellerby East China Normal University
Lei Chou
Lei Chou Université Libre de Bruxelles
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee Stony Brook University
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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