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Göran Possnert

Göran Possnert

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 64 2285 2179 36 36 303 19575

Göran Possnert publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Göran Possnert between 1976 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Göran Possnert published across 50 years, from 1976 to 2025, averaging 9 papers a year. Output peaked at 27 publications in 2013. 2 of the 450 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1976 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 27. Peak 27 publications in 2013. 1976: 2 publications 1977: 1 publication 1978: 5 publications 1979: 3 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 2 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 0 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 3 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 10 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 11 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 16 publications 2001: 14 publications 2002: 17 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 21 publications 2007: 22 publications 2008: 22 publications 2009: 20 publications 2010: 24 publications 2011: 19 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 27 publications 2014: 21 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 17 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication
1976 2025

450 publications in total across all disciplines

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Göran Possnert: publications per year, 1976 to 2025
Year Publications
1976 2
1977 1
1978 5
1979 3
1980 0
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1984 1
1985 0
1986 1
1987 3
1988 2
1989 4
1990 1
1991 0
1992 2
1993 0
1994 3
1995 5
1996 10
1997 7
1998 11
1999 6
2000 16
2001 14
2002 17
2003 8
2004 16
2005 9
2006 21
2007 22
2008 22
2009 20
2010 24
2011 19
2012 11
2013 27
2014 21
2015 13
2016 14
2017 17
2018 10
2019 27
2020 12
2021 12
2022 5
2023 0
2024 1
2025 1
Total 450
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Göran Possnert 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 Göran Possnert sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 301–310 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 303 publications — 86th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130 303
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Göran Possnert 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 Göran Possnert sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 64 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124 64
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Göran Possnert is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans across several interdisciplinary subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Surgery.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Radioactive contamination and transfer, Pancreatic function and diabetes, Liver physiology and pathology, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

Possnert has published multiple papers in various venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • Diploid hepatocytes drive physiological liver renewal in adult humans, 2022, Cell Systems
  • CASCADE - The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE, 2021, Earth system science data
  • An unknown source of reactor radionuclides in the Baltic Sea revealed by multi-isotope fingerprints, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Solar and climate signals revealed by seasonal 10Be data from the NEEM ice core project for the neutron monitor period, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Evidence for postnatal neurogenesis in the human amygdala, 2022, Communications Biology

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Ala Aldahan (10 collaborations)
  • Minjie Zheng (7 collaborations)
  • Raimund Muscheler (6 collaborations)
  • Xiaolin Hou (6 collaborations)
  • Fabian Rost (5 collaborations)

Possnert has published work in venues such as Grana, Cell Systems, Earth system science data, Climate of the past, and Nature Communications, with the highest number of publications appearing in Grana.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Adult Humans

    Kirsty L. Spalding;Olaf Bergmann;Kanar Alkass;Samuel Bernard

  • Dynamics of Cell Generation and Turnover in the Human Heart

    Olaf Bergmann;Sofia Zdunek;Anastasia Felker;Mehran Salehpour

  • Neurogenesis in the Striatum of the Adult Human Brain

    Aurélie Ernst;Kanar Alkass;Samuel Bernard;Mehran Salehpour

  • Synchronized terrestrial-atmospheric deglacial records around the North Atlantic

    Svante Björck;Bernd Kromer;Sigfus Johnsen;Ole Bennike

  • Molecular coproscopy: Dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Michael Hofreiter;W. Geoffrey Spaulding;Paul S. Martin

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Dynamics of oligodendrocyte generation and myelination in the human brain.

    Maggie S.Y. Yeung;Sofia Zdunek;Olaf Bergmann;Samuel Bernard

  • No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans

    David Serre;André Langaney;Mario Chech;Maria Teschler-Nicola

  • A view of Neandertal genetic diversity.

    Matthias Krings;Cristian Capelli;Frank Tschentscher;Helga Geisert

  • A review on speciation of iodine-129 in the environmental and biological samples

    Xiaolin Hou;Violeta Hansen;Ala Aldahan;Göran Possnert

  • Pleistocene collapse of the west antarctic ice sheet

    Reed P. Scherer;Ala Aldahan;Slawek Tulaczyk;Göran Possnert

  • Dynamics of oligodendrocyte generation in multiple sclerosis

    Maggie S. Y. Yeung;Mehdi Djelloul;Embla Steiner;Samuel Bernard

  • Multiradionuclide evidence for the solar origin of the cosmic-ray events of ᴀᴅ 774/5 and 993/4.

    Florian Mekhaldi;Raimund Muscheler;Florian Adolphi;Ala Aldahan;Ala Aldahan

  • New Radiocarbon Dates for the Vedde Ash and the Saksunarvatn Ash from Western Norway

    Hilary H. Birks;Steinar Gulliksen;Haflidi Haflidason;Jan Mangerud

  • Regional atmospheric circulation shifts induced by a grand solar minimum

    Celia Martin-Puertas;Katja Matthes;Achim Brauer;Raimund Muscheler

  • A molecular analysis of ground sloth diet through the last glaciation

    Hofreiter M;Poinar Hn;Spaulding Wg;Bauer K

  • Prehistoric peyote use: alkaloid analysis and radiocarbon dating of archaeological specimens of Lophophora from Texas.

    Hesham R. El-Seedi;Peter A.G.M. De Smet;Olof Beck;Göran Possnert

  • Variation in 14C age of macrofossils and different fractions of minute peat samples dated by AMS

    Mats Nilsson;Malin Klarqvist;Elisabet Bohlin;Göran Possnert

  • Pitfalls in the AMS radiocarbon-dating of terrestrial macrofossils

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Göran Skog;G. Possnert;Björn Holmquist

  • A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway

    Steinar Gulliksen;Hilary H. Birks;Göran Possnert;Jan Mangerud

  • 129I anthropogenic budget: Major sources and sinks

    Ala Aldahan;V. Alfimov;Göran Possnert

  • The age and genomic integrity of neurons after cortical stroke in humans

    Hagen B Huttner;Olaf Bergmann;Mehran Salehpour;Attila Rácz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ala Aldahan
Ala Aldahan United Arab Emirates University
Raimund Muscheler
Raimund Muscheler Lund University
Barbara Wohlfarth
Barbara Wohlfarth Stockholm University
Anders Hallén
Anders Hallén Royal Institute of Technology
Svante Björck
Svante Björck Lund University
Jens Jensen
Jens Jensen Linköping University
Markus Meili
Markus Meili Stockholm University
Jonas Frisén
Jonas Frisén Karolinska Institute
Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Yanwen Zhang
Yanwen Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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