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Erik Björn

Erik Björn

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
6126
World Ranking
5375
National Ranking
98

Chemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
6049
World Ranking
15818
National Ranking
233

Erik Björn 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 Erik Björn sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 130 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erik Björn 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 Erik Björn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erik Björn is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and specializes in Environmental Science, with a particular focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis within this field.

Their research covers multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

Björn has published extensively in well-regarded scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Björn include:

  • Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling (2023, AMBIO)
  • Deltaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes-Like Bacteria Are Abundant Putative Mercury Methylators in Oxygen-Deficient Water and Marine Particles in the Baltic Sea (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Dissolved organic matter thiol concentrations determine methylmercury bioavailability across the terrestrial-marine aquatic continuum (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Expression Levels of hgcAB Genes and Mercury Availability Jointly Explain Methylmercury Formation in Stratified Brackish Waters (2022, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Anaerobic guilds responsible for mercury methylation in boreal wetlands of varied trophic status serving as either a methylmercury source or sink (2020, Environmental Microbiology)

Björn often collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Stefan Bertilsson
  • Ulf Skyllberg
  • Andrea G. Bravo
  • Éric Capo
  • Moritz Buck

Best Publications

  • Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes.

    Andrea G. Bravo;Sylvain Bouchet;Julie Tolu;Erik Björn

  • Screening of biocides, metals and antibiotics in Swedish sewage sludge and wastewater.

    Marcus Östman;Richard H. Lindberg;Jerker Fick;Erik Björn

  • Importance of dissolved neutral mercury sulfides for methyl mercury production in contaminated sediments.

    Andreas Drott;Lars Lambertsson;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Do potential methylation rates reflect accumulated methyl mercury in contaminated sediments

    Andreas Drott;Lars Lambertsson;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Mercury Methylation Rates for Geochemically Relevant HgII Species in Sediments

    Sofi Jonsson;Ulf Skyllberg;Mats B. Nilsson;Per-Olof Westlund

  • Influence of dissolved organic matter (DOM) characteristics on dissolved mercury (Hg) species composition in sediment porewater of lakes from southwest China.

    Tao Jiang;Andrea G. Bravo;Ulf Skyllberg;Erik Björn

  • Differentiated availability of geochemical mercury pools controls methylmercury levels in estuarine sediment and biota.

    Sofi Jonsson;Ulf Skyllberg;Mats B. Nilsson;Erik Lundberg

  • Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling

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  • Characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and relationship with dissolved mercury in Xiaoqing River-Laizhou Bay estuary, Bohai Sea, China

    Tao Jiang;Ulf Skyllberg;Erik Björn;Nelson W. Green

  • Cisplatin binds human copper chaperone Atox1 and promotes unfolding in vitro

    Maria E. Palm;Christoph F. Weise;Christina Lundin;Gunnar Wingsle

  • Potential Hg methylation and MeHg demethylation rates related to the nutrient status of different boreal wetlands

    Ida Tjerngren;Torbjörn Karlsson;Erik Björn;U Skyllberg

  • Terrestrial discharges mediate trophic shifts and enhance methylmercury accumulation in estuarine biota

    Sofi Jonsson;Agneta Andersson;Mats B. Nilsson;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Eight Boreal Wetlands as Sources and Sinks for Methyl Mercury in Relation to Soil Acidity, C/N Ratio, and Small-Scale Flooding

    Ida Tjerngren;Markus Meili;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Mercury transformations in resuspended contaminated sediment controlled by redox conditions, chemical speciation and sources of organic matter

    Wei Zhu;Yu Song;Gbotemi A. Adediran;Tao Jiang

  • The Antibacterial Activity of Ga3+ Is Influenced by Ligand Complexation as Well as the Bacterial Carbon Source

    Olena Rzhepishevska;Barbro Ekstrand-Hammarström;Maximilian Popp;Erik Björn

  • Eutrophication Increases Phytoplankton Methylmercury Concentrations in a Coastal Sea—A Baltic Sea Case Study

    Anne L. Soerensen;Amina Traore Schartup;Erik Gustafsson;Bo G. Gustafsson

  • Complexation of cadmium to sulfur and oxygen functional groups in an organic soil

    Torbjörn Karlsson;Kristin Elgh-Dalgren;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Immunosuppressive and autoimmune effects of thimerosal in mice

    Said Havarinasab;Bo Häggqvist;Erik Björn;K.M. Pollard

  • Thermodynamic Modeling of the Solubility and Chemical Speciation of Mercury and Methylmercury Driven by Organic Thiols and Micromolar Sulfide Concentrations in Boreal Wetland Soils

    Van Liem-Nguyen;Ulf Skyllberg;Erik Björn

  • Mercury isotope signatures in contaminated sediments as a tracer for local industrial pollution sources.

    Jan G. Wiederhold;Ulf Skyllberg;Andreas Drott;Martin Jiskra

  • Elevated concentrations of methyl mercury in streams after forest clear-cut: a consequence of mobilization from soil or new methylation?

    Ulf Skyllberg;Mattias Björkman Westin;Markus Meili;Erik Björn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Skyllberg
Ulf Skyllberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Agneta Andersson
Agneta Andersson Umeå University
David Amouroux
David Amouroux University of Pau and the Adour Region
Jarone Pinhassi
Jarone Pinhassi Linnaeus University
Markus Meili
Markus Meili Stockholm University
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede Chalmers University of Technology
Anders Johansson
Anders Johansson Umeå University

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