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Karin Rengefors

Karin Rengefors

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
6805
World Ranking
7513
National Ranking
192

Karin Rengefors 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 Karin Rengefors 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.

Karin Rengefors 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 Karin Rengefors sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karin Rengefors is a researcher affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science with particular attention to ecology, oceanography, environmental chemistry, molecular biology, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis as subfields of study.

Their research covers a range of topics including marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, protist diversity and phylogeny, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology.

Notable recent papers authored by Rengefors include:

  • Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism markers reveal population structure and dispersal direction of an expanding nuisance algal bloom species (2021, Molecular Ecology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rengefors are:

  • Raphael Gollnisch
  • Björn Andersson
  • Dag Ahrén
  • Marie Svensson
  • Lars-Anders Hansson

Research has been published in various venues, with the most common being:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods

The distribution of publications by field emphasizes a strong focus on environmental science with 43 publications and earth and planetary sciences with 16 publications. Subfield contributions highlight ecology (27 publications) and oceanography (16 publications) as dominant topics within their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Allelopathy in phytoplankton - biochemical, ecological and evolutionary aspects

    Catherine C Legrand;Karin Rengefors;Giovana O. Fistarol;Edna Graneli

  • Biogeography of bacterial communities exposed to progressive long-term environmental change

    Ramiro Logares;Eva S. Lindstrom;Silke Langenheder;Jürg Brendan Logue;Jürg Brendan Logue

  • Infrequent marine―freshwater transitions in the microbial world

    Ramiro Logares;Jon Bråte;Stefan Bertilsson;Jessica L. Clasen

  • Cyanobacterial chemical warfare affects zooplankton community composition

    Lars‐Anders Hansson;Susanne Gustafsson;Karin Rengefors;Lina Bomark

  • Algal cyst dormancy: a temporal escape from herbivory

    Karin Rengefors;Irene Karlsson;Lars–Anders Hansson

  • Increased consumer fitness following transfer of toxin tolerance to offspring via maternal effects

    Susanne Gustafsson;Karin Rengefors;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Contrasting prevalence of selection and drift in the community structuring of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Sylvie V.M. Tesson;Björn Canbäck;Mikael Pontarp

  • Toxicity in Peridinium aciculiferum—an adaptive strategy to outcompete other winter phytoplankton?

    Karin Rengefors;Catherine Legrand

  • Experimental investigation of taxon-specific response of alkaline phosphatase activity in natural freshwater phytoplankton

    Karin Rengefors;K C Ruttenberg;C L Haupert;C Taylor

  • Extensive dinoflagellate phylogenies indicate infrequent marine–freshwater transitions

    Ramiro Logares;Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi;Andrés Boltovskoy;Karin Rengefors

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENDOGENOUS REGULATION OF CYST GERMINATION IN TWO FRESHWATER DINOFLAGELLATES

    Karin Rengefors;Donald M. Anderson

  • Phenotypically Different Microalgal Morphospecies with Identical Ribosomal DNA: A Case of Rapid Adaptive Evolution?

    Ramiro Logares;Karin Rengefors;Anke Kremp;Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi

  • Temporary cyst formation in phytoplankton: a response to allelopathic competitors?

    Giovana O. Fistarol;Catherine C Legrand;Karin Rengefors;Edna Graneli

  • Community assembly and seasonal succession of marine dinoflagellates in a temperate estuary: The importance of life cycle events

    D M Anderson;Karin Rengefors

  • Factors regulating the recruitment of cyanobacterial and eukaryotic phytoplankton from littoral and profundal sediments

    Karin Rengefors;Susanne Gustafsson;Annika Ståhl-Delbanco

  • Factors regulating recruitment from the sediment to the water column in the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata

    Irene Karlsson-Elfgren;Karin Rengefors;Susanne Gustafsson

  • Spatio-Temporal Interdependence of Bacteria and Phytoplankton during a Baltic Sea Spring Bloom

    Carina Bunse;Mireia Bertos-Fortis;Ingrid Sassenhagen;Sirje Sildever

  • Genetic diversity and evolution in eukaryotic phytoplankton: revelations from population genetic studies

    Karin Rengefors;Anke Kremp;Thorsten B.H. Reusch;A. Michelle Wood

  • Species-Specific Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in Freshwater Spring Phytoplankton: Application of a Novel Method

    Karin Rengefors;Kurt Pettersson;Thorsten Blenckner;Donald M Anderson

  • Temperature as a driver for the expansion of the microalga Gonyostomum semen in Swedish lakes

    Karin Rengefors;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Ina Bloch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University
Anke Kremp
Anke Kremp Finnish Environment Institute
Anna Godhe
Anna Godhe University of Gothenburg
P. Anders Nilsson
P. Anders Nilsson Lund University
Johanna Laybourn-Parry
Johanna Laybourn-Parry University of Bristol
Christer Brönmark
Christer Brönmark Lund University
R. Brian Langerhans
R. Brian Langerhans North Carolina State University
Donald M. Anderson
Donald M. Anderson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council

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