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Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
23143
World Ranking
1396
National Ranking
23

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 217 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer 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 Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has a substantial body of research focusing on environmental and earth sciences. Their work spans multiple disciplines including environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as oceanography, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, ecology, and global and planetary change.

Their research topics emphasize the dynamics and health of aquatic and marine ecosystems, with particular attention to areas such as marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, fish ecology and management studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer has authored papers in a range of notable scientific journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes," 2021, Nature
  • "Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs," 2023, Nature
  • "Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes," 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • "Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat," 2021, Nature Climate Change

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including James A. Rusak, Sapna Sharma, R. Iestyn Woolway, Lesley B. Knoll, and Rachel M. Pilla. These collaborations highlight their engagement in interdisciplinary research efforts and sustained academic partnerships.

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer regularly publishes in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • Lakes as sentinels of climate change

    Rita Adrian;Catherine M. O'Reilly;Horacio Zagarese;Stephen B. Baines

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

    Stephen F. Jane;Stephen F. Jane;Gretchen J.A. Hansen;Benjamin M. Kraemer;Peter R. Leavitt;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

    Sapna Sharma;Kevin Blagrave;John J. Magnuson;Catherine M. O’Reilly

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • Controls of dissolved organic matter quality: Evidence from a large-scale boreal lake survey

    Dolly N. Kothawala;Colin A. Stedmon;Roger A. Müller;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

  • Current Browning of Surface Waters Will Be Further Promoted by Wetter Climate

    Heleen A. de Wit;Salar Valinia;Gesa A Weyhenmeyer;Martyn N. Futter

  • Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Sapna Sharma;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Andrey Debolskiy;Andrey Debolskiy

  • Global change-driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition : Implications for food webs of northern lakes

    Irena F. Creed;Ann Kristin Bergström;Charles G. Trick;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs

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  • Thirty-five years of synchrony in the organic matter concentrations of Swedish rivers explained by variation in flow and sulphate

    Martin Erlandsson;Ishi Buffam;Jens Fölster;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Inner filter correction of dissolved organic matter fluorescence

    Dolly N. Kothawala;Kathleen R. Murphy;Colin A. Stedmon;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Changes of the plankton spring outburst related to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Thorsten Blenckner;Kurt Pettersson

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Extreme events, trends, and variability in Northern Hemisphere lake-ice phenology (1855–2005)

    Barbara J. Benson;John J. Magnuson;Olaf P. Jensen;Virginia M. Card

  • Large-scale climatic signatures in lakes across Europe: a meta-analysis

    Thorsten Blenckner;Rita Adrian;David M. Livingstone;Eleanor Jennings

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Orlane Anneville;Fabien Arnaud;Yoann Baulaz

  • Drought:Monitoring global drought using the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

    Jonathan Barichivich;Timothy Osborn;Ian Harris;Gerard van der Schrier

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
David M. Livingstone
David M. Livingstone Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tiina Nõges
Tiina Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Peeter Nõges
Peeter Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Thorsten Blenckner
Thorsten Blenckner Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stephen C. Maberly
Stephen C. Maberly Lancaster University
Martin T. Dokulil
Martin T. Dokulil University of Vienna
R. Iestyn Woolway
R. Iestyn Woolway Bangor University

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