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Lothar Krienitz

Lothar Krienitz

Leibniz Association
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
7586
World Ranking
16869
National Ranking
1171

Lothar Krienitz publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 147 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Lothar Krienitz D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lothar Krienitz sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lothar Krienitz is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Algal Biology and Biofuel Production, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, as well as Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Recent publications include:

  • Ecophysiology of a successful phytoplankton competitor in the African flamingo lakes: the green alga Picocystis salinarum (Picocystophyceae), 2020, Journal of Applied Phycology
  • Growth response of the picoplanktic Picocystis salinarum and the microplanktic Limnospira (Arthrospira) fusiformis strains from Lake Nakuru (Kenya) to rapidly changing environmental conditions, 2023, Hydrobiologia
  • The contribution of Eberhard Hegewald (1942-2024) to the systematics of coccoid green algae - an obituary, 2024, Nova Hedwigia
  • Fifty years of limnological data on Lake Stechlin, a temperate clearwater lake, 2025, Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tamás Pálmai
  • Beáta Szabó
  • Kiplagat Kotut
  • Judit Padisák
  • Edina Lengyel

The main publication venues appearing regularly in their research are:

  • Journal of Applied Phycology
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Nova Hedwigia
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Contribution of hot spring cyanobacteria to the mysterious deaths of Lesser Flamingos at Lake Bogoria, Kenya

    Lothar Krienitz;Andreas Ballot;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • Phylogenetic relationship of Chlorella and Parachlorella gen. nov. (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae)

    Lothar Krienitz;Eberhard H. Hegewald;Dominik Hepperle;Volker A. R. Huss

  • Present state of the systematics of planktonic coccoid green algae of inland waters

    Lothar Krienitz;Christina Bock

  • Cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in three alkaline Rift Valley lakes of Kenya—Lakes Bogoria, Nakuru and Elmenteita

    Andreas Ballot;Lothar Krienitz;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • Chlorophyll a concentration across a trophic gradient of lakes: An estimator of phytoplankton biomass?

    Peter Kasprzak;Judit Padisák;Rainer Koschel;Lothar Krienitz

  • Cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in the alkaline crater lakes Sonachi and Simbi, Kenya

    Andreas Ballot;Lothar Krienitz;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • The systematics of Zoochlorella revisited employing an integrative approach.

    Thomas Pröschold;Thomas Pröschold;Tatyana Darienko;Paul C. Silva;Werner Reisser

  • The high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in Nannochloropsis limnetica (Eustigmatophyceae) and its implication for food web interactions, freshwater aquaculture and biotechnology

    Lothar Krienitz;Manfred Wirth

  • Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Chlorella (Trebouxiophyceae) using molecular signatures (barcodes), including description of seven new species.

    Christina Bock;Lothar Krienitz;Thomas Pröschold

  • Genotype versus phenotype variability in Chlorella and Micractinium (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae).

    Wei Luo;Stephan Pflugmacher;Thomas Pröschold;Norbert Walz

  • Generic concept in Chlorella-related coccoid green algae (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae).

    Wei Luo;Wei Luo;Thomas Pröschold;Christina Bock;Lothar Krienitz

  • Cyanobacterial diversity in the hot spring, pelagic and benthic habitats of a tropical soda lake

    Pawan K. Dadheech;Pawan K. Dadheech;Pawan K. Dadheech;Gernot Glöckner;Gernot Glöckner;Gernot Glöckner;Peter Casper;Kiplagat Kotut

  • Chlorella: 125 years of the green survivalist

    Lothar Krienitz;Volker A.R. Huss;Christina Bock

  • ITS2 sequence-structure phylogeny in the Scenedesmaceae with special reference to Coelastrum (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae), including the new genera Comasiella and Pectinodesmus

    Eberhard Hegewald;Matthias Wolf;Alexander Keller;Thomas Friedl

  • TRADITIONAL GENERIC CONCEPTS VERSUS 18S rRNA GENE PHYLOGENY IN THE GREEN ALGAL FAMILY SELENASTRACEAE (CHLOROPHYCEAE, CHLOROPHYTA)

    Lothar Krienitz;Iana Ustinova;Thomas Friedl;Volker A. R. Huss

  • Deep-layer autotrophic picoplankton maximum in the oligotrophic Lake Stechlin, Germany: origin, activity, development and erosion

    Judit Padisák;Lothar Krienitz;Rainer Koschel;Jirí Nedoma

  • Rapid Recovery from Eutrophication of a Stratified Lake by Disruption of Internal Nutrient Load

    Thomas Mehner;Markus Diekmann;Thomas Gonsiorczyk;Peter Kasprzak

  • PHYLOGENY OF THE HYDRODICTYACEAE (CHLOROPHYCEAE): INFERENCES FROM rDNA DATA1

    Mark Buchheim;Julie Buchheim;Tracy Carlson;Anke Braband

  • Fluctuating algal food populations and the occurrence of lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) in three Kenyan rift valley lakes.

    Lothar Krienitz;Kiplagat Kotut

  • The systematics of coccoid green algae: 18S rRNA gene sequence data versus morphology

    L. Krienitz;E. Hegewald;M. Wolf;D. Hepperle

Frequent Co-Authors

Judit Padisák
Judit Padisák University of Pannonia
Stephan Pflugmacher
Stephan Pflugmacher University of Manitoba
Geoffrey A. Codd
Geoffrey A. Codd University of Dundee
Hisayoshi Nozaki
Hisayoshi Nozaki University of Tokyo
Thomas Mehner
Thomas Mehner Leibniz Association
Gernot Glöckner
Gernot Glöckner University of Cologne
Stephan Pflugmacher
Stephan Pflugmacher Coburg University of Applied Sciences
Thomas Friedl
Thomas Friedl University of Göttingen
Gábor Borics
Gábor Borics Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Masaru Tomita
Masaru Tomita Keio University

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