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Göran Possnert

Göran Possnert

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
19575
World Ranking
2282
National Ranking
37

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.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 303 publications — 86th percentile

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

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

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.

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30 D-Index 125+

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 125 D-Index or more.

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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