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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
13671
World Ranking
6812
National Ranking
3144

Peter W. Sorensen publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 189 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter W. Sorensen 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 Peter W. Sorensen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

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Overview

Peter W. Sorensen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and aquatic science.

The main topics of their work cover various aspects of fish ecology and management studies, fish biology and ecology studies, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, marine animal studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and marine and fisheries research.

Peter W. Sorensen's frequent co-authors include Daniel P. Zielinski, Clark E. Dennis, Jeff M. Whitty, Andrew Thomas Riesgraf, and Morgan L. Piczak.

They have published often in the following venues:

  • Fishes
  • Biological Invasions
  • North American Journal of Fisheries Management
  • Management of Biological Invasions
  • Ecology Of Freshwater Fish

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Case Studies Demonstrate That Common Carp Can Be Sustainably Reduced by Exploiting Source-Sink Dynamics in Midwestern Lakes, 2020, Fishes
  • Introduction to the Biology and Control of Invasive Fishes and a Special Issue on This Topic, 2021, Fishes
  • Numeric Simulation Demonstrates That the Upstream Movement of Invasive Bigheaded Carp Can Be Blocked at Sets of Mississippi River Locks-and-Dams Using a Combination of Optimized Spillway Gate Operations, Lock Deterrents, and Carp Removal, 2021, Fishes
  • Migration, homing and spatial ecology of common carp in interconnected lakes, 2021, Ecology Of Freshwater Fish
  • Controlling common carp (Cyprinus carpio): barriers, biological traits, and selective fragmentation, 2022, Biological Invasions

Best Publications

  • F prostaglandins function as potent olfactory stimulants that comprise the postovulatory female sex pheromone in goldfish.

    Peter W. Sorensen;Toshiaki J. Hara;Norman E. Stacey;Frederick Wm. Goetz

  • A steroid sex pheromone synchronizes male-female spawning readiness in goldfish

    J. G. Dulka;N. E. Stacey;P. W. Sorensen;G. J. Van Der Kraak

  • Mixture of new sulfated steroids functions as a migratory pheromone in the sea lamprey

    Peter W Sorensen;Jared M Fine;Vadims Dvornikovs;Christopher S Jeffrey

  • Functional identification of a goldfish odorant receptor.

    David J. Speca;David M. Lin;Peter W. Sorensen;Ehud Y. Isacoff

  • Effects of Temperature and Trophic State on Degradation of Environmental DNA in Lake Water.

    Jessica J. Eichmiller;Sendréa E. Best;Peter W. Sorensen

  • Hormonal and pheromonal control of spawning behavior in the goldfish

    Makito Kobayashi;Peter W. Sorensen;Norm E. Stacey

  • Optimizing techniques to capture and extract environmental DNA for detection and quantification of fish

    Jessica J. Eichmiller;Loren M. Miller;Loren M. Miller;Peter W. Sorensen

  • The olfactory system of migratory adult sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is specifically and acutely sensitive to unique bile acids released by conspecific larvae.

    Weiming Li;Peter W. Sorensen;Daniel D. Gallaher

  • Effects of a rapidly increasing population of common carp on vegetative cover and waterfowl in a recently restored Midwestern shallow lake

    Przemyslaw G. Bajer;Gary Sullivan;Peter W. Sorensen

  • The relationship between the distribution of common carp and their environmental DNA in a small lake.

    Jessica J. Eichmiller;Przemyslaw G. Bajer;Peter W. Sorensen

  • Neural Processing, Perception, and Behavioral Responses to Natural Chemical Stimuli by Fish and Crustaceans

    Charles D. Derby;Peter W. Sorensen

  • Brief review of fish pheromones and discussion of their possible uses in the control of non‐indigenous teleost fishes

    Peter W. Sorensen;Norm E. Stacey

  • Direct behavioral evidence that unique bile acids released by larval sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) function as a migratory pheromone

    Rickard Bjerselius;Rickard Bjerselius;Weiming Li;Weiming Li;John H. Teeter;James G. Seelye

  • Different commercial broiler crosses have different susceptibilities to leg weakness.

    SC Kestin;G Su;P Sorensen

  • Chemoreception in fish

    Peter W. Sorensen;J. Caprio

  • Environment shapes the fecal microbiome of invasive carp species.

    Jessica J. Eichmiller;Matthew J. Hamilton;Christopher Staley;Michael J. Sadowsky

  • Sexually mature male goldfish release large quantities of androstenedione into the water where it functions as a pheromone.

    P.W. Sorensen;M. Pinillos;A.P. Scott

  • High rate of redd superimposition by brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a Minnesota stream cannot be explained by habitat availability alone

    Timothy E Essington;Timothy E Essington;Peter W Sorensen;Dean G Paron

  • Environmental estrogens suppress hormones, behavior, and reproductive fitness in male fathead minnows.

    Dalma Martinović;William T. Hogarth;Rachel E. Jones;Peter W. Sorensen

  • Direct evidence that 17α,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one functions as a goldfish primer pheromone: Preovulatory release is closely associated with male endocrine responses

    N.E. Stacey;P.W. Sorensen;G.J. Van Der Kraak;J.G. Dulka

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. Hoye
Thomas R. Hoye University of Minnesota
Timothy E. Essington
Timothy E. Essington University of Washington
John Caprio
John Caprio Louisiana State University
Vaughan R Voller
Vaughan R Voller University of Minnesota
George F. Martin
George F. Martin The Ohio State University
Thomas A. Christensen
Thomas A. Christensen University of Arizona
Ichiro Fujita
Ichiro Fujita Osaka University
Mario F. Wullimann
Mario F. Wullimann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Walter Wilczynski
Walter Wilczynski Georgia State University
John Ngai
John Ngai University of California, Berkeley

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