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D-Index
42
Citations
5421
World Ranking
5660
National Ranking
86

Kalevi Salonen publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kalevi Salonen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 107 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Kalevi Salonen D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kalevi Salonen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kalevi Salonen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with contributions also to Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader fields, key subfields explored include Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, General Health Professions, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, and Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues.

Salonen's recent papers reflect their focus on long-term environmental changes and aquatic ecosystems. Notable recent publications include:

  • Preface: Restoration of eutrophic lakes: current practices and future challenges, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Responses of zooplankton to long-term environmental changes in a small boreal lake, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Water quality of a small headwater lake reflects long-term variations in deposition, climate and in-lake processes, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Long-term fluctuations in environmental conditions, plankton and macrophytes in a humic lake, Valkea-Kotinen, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Plankton metabolism and sedimentation in a small boreal lake - a long-term perspective, 2024, Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke))

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Lauri Arvola, Jorma Keskitalo, Martti Rask, Jouko Sarvala, and Tiina Tulonen.

Salonen's work is often published in venues such as Hydrobiologia, Helda (University of Helsinki), Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive, Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)), and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • The relation of energy and organic carbon in aquatic invertebrates1

    Kalevi Salonen;Jouko Sarvala;Ilpo Hakala;Maija-Liisa Viljanen

  • A versatile method for the rapid and accurate determination of carbon by high temperature combustion1

    Kalevi Salonen

  • On the importance of dissolved organic matter in the nutrition of zooplankton in some lake waters.

    Kalevi Salonen;Taina Hammar

  • Photochemical transformation of allochthonous organic matter provides bioavailable nutrients in a humic lake

    Anssi V. Vähätalo;Kalevi Salonen;Uwe Münster;Marko Järvinen

  • Spectrum of the quantum yield for photochemical mineralization of dissolved organic carbon in a humic lake

    Anssi V. V äh ätalo;Mirja Salkinoja Salonen;Petteri Taalas;Kalevi Salonen

  • Hypolimnetic phosphorus retrieval by diel vertical migrations of lake phytoplankton

    K. Salonen;R. I. Jones;L. Arvola

  • Perspectives in winter limnology: closing the annual cycle of freezing lakes

    K Salonen;Matti Leppäranta;M Viljanen;R. D Gulati

  • Phosphorus transformations in the epilimnion of humic lakes: abiotic interactions between dissolved humic materials and phosphate

    R. I. Jones;K. Salonen;H. De Haan

  • Advantages from diel vertical migration can explain the dominance of Gonyostomum semen (Raphidophyceae) in a small, steeply-stratified humic lake

    Kalevi Salonen;Mirja Rosenberg

  • Radiation transfer and heat budget during the ice season in Lake Pääjärvi, Finland

    Juho Jakkila;Matti Leppäranta;Toshiyuki Kawamura;Kunio Shirasawa

  • Photochemical mineralisation of dissolved organic matter in lake Skjervatjern

    K. Salonen;A. Vähätalo

  • Respiration of plankton in two small, polyhumic lakes

    K. Salonen;K. Kononen;L. Arvola

  • Comparison of acridine orange, acriflavine, and bisbenzimide stains for enumeration of bacteria in clear and humic waters.

    Irina Bergström;Anne Heinänen;Kalevi Salonen

  • Effects of different molecular weight fractions of dissolved organic matter on the growth of bacteria, algae and protozoa from a highly humic lake

    Tiina Valpuri Tulonen;Kalevi Salonen;Lauri Matti Juhani Arvola

  • Trophic structure of Lake Tanganyika: carbon flows in the pelagic food web

    Jouko Sarvala;Kalevi Salonen;Marko Järvinen;Eero Aro

  • Migrations of haemoglobin-rich Daphnia longispina in a small, steeply stratified, humic lake with an anoxic hypolimnion

    Kalevi Salonen;Anja Lehtovaara

  • Autumnal and vernal circulation of small forest lakes in Southern Finland: With 6 figures and 1 table in the text

    K. Salonen;L. Arvola;M. Rask

  • Does ionic strength affect the configuration of aquatic humic substances, as indicated by gel filtration?

    H. De Haan;R. I. Jones;K. Salonen

  • Development of phytoplankton in Lake Pääjärvi (Finland) during under-ice convective mixing period

    Anu Vehmaa;Kalevi Salonen

  • Planktonic food chains of a highly humic lake. II: A mesocosm experiment in summer during dominance of heterotrophic processes

    K. Salonen;P. Kankaala;T. Tulonen;T. Hammar

  • Planktonic food chains of a highly humic lake

    K. Salonen;L. Arvola;T. Tulonen;T. Hammar

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauri Arvola
Lauri Arvola University of Helsinki
Jouko Sarvala
Jouko Sarvala University of Turku
Roger Jones
Roger Jones University of Glasgow
Anne Ojala
Anne Ojala University of Helsinki
Paula Kankaala
Paula Kankaala University of Eastern Finland
Matti Leppäranta
Matti Leppäranta University of Helsinki
Milla Rautio
Milla Rautio Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Ramesh D. Gulati
Ramesh D. Gulati Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen
Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen University of Helsinki

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