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Environmental Sciences

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83
Citations
21260
World Ranking
850
National Ranking
7

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Citations
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Eiliv Steinnes 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 Eiliv Steinnes sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 391 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eiliv Steinnes 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 Eiliv Steinnes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Norway Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience

Overview

Eiliv Steinnes is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific attention to agricultural and biological sciences. Within these areas, the scientist has contributed significantly to fields such as ecology, pollution, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main topics of work encompass peatlands and wetlands ecology, heavy metals in the environment, and lichen and fungal ecology.

Steinnes has published research in several venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Preprints.org
  • Sustainability

Notable recent papers include:

  • Reply to the comments on "A novel approach to peatlands as archives of total cumulative spatial pollution loads from atmospheric deposition of airborne elements complementary to EMEP data: Priority pollutants (Pb, Cd, Hg)" by V. De Vleeschouwer et al., 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Evaluating the Share of Atmospheric Deposition of Priority Pollutants Cadmium and Lead in Soil Pollution with the Use of Ombrotrophic Peat Bogs as Natural Archives, 2024, Preprints.org
  • Evaluating the Share of Atmospheric Deposition of Priority Pollutants Cadmium and Lead in Soil Pollution with the Use of Ombrotrophic Peat Bogs as Natural Archives, 2024, Sustainability

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Irena Twardowska
  • Ewa Miszczak
  • Sebastian Stefaniak

Steinnes is recognized as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the field of Geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric mercury in Norway: contributions from different sources.

    Torunn Berg;Eirik Fjeld;Eiliv Steinnes

  • PAHs in background soils from western Europe : influence of atmospheric deposition and soil organic matter.

    Jae Jak Nam;Gareth O. Thomas;Foday M. Jaward;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Use of mosses (Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi) as biomonitors of heavy metal deposition: From relative to absolute deposition values

    Torunn Berg;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Mosses as biomonitors of atmospheric heavy metal deposition: spatial patterns and temporal trends in Europe.

    H. Harmens;D.A. Norris;E. Steinnes;E. Kubin

  • Reference materials for large-scale metal deposition surveys

    Eiliv Steinnes;Åke Rühling;Harri Lippo;Ahti Mäkinen

  • PBDEs in European background soils: levels and factors controlling their distribution.

    Ashraf Hassanin;Knut Breivik;Sandra N. Meijer;Eiliv Steinnes

  • A critical evaluation of the use of naturally growing moss to monitor the deposition of atmospheric metals

    Eiliv Steinnes

  • Trace Elements in Natural Waters

    Brit Salbu;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Large scale multi-element survey of atmospheric deposition using naturally growing moss as biomonitor

    Eiliv Steinnes;Jon P. Rambæk;Jan Erik Hanssen

  • Moss (Hylocomium splendens) used as biomonitor of atmospheric trace element deposition: Estimation of uptake efficiencies

    Torunn Berg;Oddvar Røyset;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Performance Study of Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films for 55 Elements

    Øyvind Aaberg Garmo;Oddvar Røyset;Eiliv Steinnes;Trond Peder Flaten

  • Influence of environmental variables on the spatial distribution of PCBs in Norwegian and U.K. soils: implications for global cycling.

    Meijer Sn;Steinnes E;Ockenden Wa;Jones Kc

  • The global re-cycling of persistent organic pollutants is strongly retarded by soils

    Wendy A. Ockenden;Knut Breivik;Sandra N. Meijer;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Atmospheric heavy metal deposition in Northern Europe 1990

    Å. Rühling;G. Brumelis;N. Goltsova;K. Kvietkus

  • Heavy metal and nitrogen concentrations in mosses are declining across Europe whilst some "hotspots" remain in 2010.

    H. Harmens;D.A. Norris;K. Sharps;G. Mills

  • Atmospheric trace element deposition: Principal component analysis of ICP-MS data from moss samples

    Torunn Berg;Oddvar Røyset;Eiliv Steinnes;Marit Vadset

  • Relationships between organic matter, black carbon and persistent organic pollutants in European background soils : Implications for sources and environmental fate

    Jae Jak Nam;Orjan Gustafsson;Perihan Kurt-Karakus;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik

  • Anthropogenic Additions of Cadmium to Soils

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  • Evidence of large scale heavy-metal contamination of natural surface soils in Norway from long-range atmospheric transport

    E. Steinnes;R.O. Allen;H.M. Petersen;J.P. Rambæk

  • Toward an Understanding of the Global Atmospheric Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants: The Use of Semipermeable Membrane Devices as Time-Integrated Passive Samplers

    Wendy A. Ockenden;Andrew J. Sweetman;Harry F. Prest;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Atmospheric deposition of trace elements in Norway: Temporal and spatial trends studied by moss analysis

    Eiliv Steinnes;Jan Erik Hanssen;Jon P. Rambæk;NillS B. Vogt

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Frontasyeva
Marina Frontasyeva Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Harry Harmens
Harry Harmens Bangor University
Harald G. Zechmeister
Harald G. Zechmeister University of Vienna
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Trajče Stafilov
Trajče Stafilov Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
Gina Mills
Gina Mills University of Gothenburg
Knut Breivik
Knut Breivik Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Martin Schlabach
Martin Schlabach Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Brit Salbu
Brit Salbu Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Jürg Fuhrer
Jürg Fuhrer University of Bern

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