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Environmental Sciences

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64
Citations
12630
World Ranking
2364
National Ranking
22

Biology and Biochemistry

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64
Citations
12471
World Ranking
9822
National Ranking
86

Roland Psenner 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 Roland Psenner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roland Psenner 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 Roland Psenner 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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Roland Psenner is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research extensively covers multiple fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these main fields, Psenner's work spans the subfields of Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics such as marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, gut microbiota and health, climate change and permafrost, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Some of the recent papers authored by Roland Psenner include:

  • Factors shaping community patterns of protists and bacteria on a European scale, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Changes in air temperature, but not in precipitation, determine long-term trends in water chemistry of high mountain lakes of the Alps with and without rock glacier influence, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Living organisms and sedimentary remains from high mountain lakes in the Alps, 2021, Journal of Limnology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Psenner are:

  • Christina Böck
  • Manfred Jensen
  • Dominik Forster
  • Sabina Marks
  • Julia K. Nuy

Key publication venues for Psenner's work include:

  • Environmental Microbiology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Limnology

In recognition of their academic contributions, Roland Psenner is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Determination of Bacterial Cell Dry Mass by Transmission Electron Microscopy and Densitometric Image Analysis

    M. Loferer-Krößbacher;J. Klima;R. Psenner

  • Bacterial growth in supercooled cloud droplets

    Birgit Sattler;Hans Puxbaum;Roland Psenner

  • High microbial activity on glaciers: importance to the global carbon cycle

    Alexandre M. Anesio;Andrew J. Hodson;Andreas Fritz;Roland Psenner

  • An in situ hybridization protocol for detection and identification of planktonic bacteria

    Frank Oliver Glöckner;Rudolf Amann;Albin Alfreider;Jakob Pernthaler

  • Attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in mountain lakes: Factors controlling the among‐ and within‐lake variability

    Isabelle Laurion;Marc Ventura;Jordi Catalan;Roland Psenner

  • Seasonal Community and Population Dynamics of Pelagic Bacteria and Archaea in a High Mountain Lake

    Jakob Pernthaler;Frank-Oliver Glöckner;Stefanie Unterholzner;Albin Alfreider

  • Community analysis of the bacterial assemblages in the winter cover and pelagic layers of a high mountain lake by in situ hybridization.

    A. Alfreider;J. Pernthaler;R. Amann;B. Sattler

  • Temperature effects on the acidity of remote alpine lakes

    Sabine Sommaruga-WÖgrath;Karin A. Koinig;Roland Schmidt;Ruben Sommaruga

  • Climate-driven pH control of remote alpine lakes and effects of acid deposition

    Roland Psenner;Roland Schmidt

  • Selective trapping of organochlorine compounds in mountain lakes of temperate areas.

    Joan O. Grimalt;Pilar Fernandez;Lourdes Berdie;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines.

    M. Rogora;L. Frate;M. L. Carranza;M. Freppaz

  • Ciliategrazing on picoplankton in a eutrophic reservoir during the summer phytoplankton maximum: A study at the species and community level

    Karel Šimek;Jitka Bobková;Miroslav Macek;Jiři Nedoma

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Morphological and compositional shifts in an experimental bacterial community influenced by protists with contrasting feeding modes.

    K Simek;J Vrba;J Pernthaler;T Posch

  • Microorganisms in the atmosphere over Antarctica

    David A. Pearce;Paul D. Bridge;Kevin A. Hughes;Birgit Sattler

  • Phylogenetic and Functional Heterogeneity of Sediment Biofilms along Environmental Gradients in a Glacial Stream

    Tom J. Battin;Anton Wille;Birgit Sattler;Roland Psenner

  • Groundwater samples do not reflect bacterial densities and activity in subsurface systems

    Albin Alfreider;Maria Krössbacher;Roland Psenner

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: research challenges concerning the impact of airborne micro-organisms on the atmosphere and climate

    C. E. Morris;C. E. Morris;D. C. Sands;M. Bardin;R. Jaenicke

  • Contrasting bacterial strategies to coexist with a flagellate predator in an experimental microbial assemblage.

    J Pernthaler;T Posch;K Simek;J Vrba

  • Atmospheric deposition of organochlorine compounds to remote high mountain lakes of Europe

    Guillem Carrera;Pilar Fernandez;Joan O. Grimalt;Marc Ventura

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruben Sommaruga
Ruben Sommaruga University of Innsbruck
Jakob Pernthaler
Jakob Pernthaler University of Zurich
Jordi Catalan
Jordi Catalan Spanish National Research Council
Karel Šimek
Karel Šimek Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Roland Schmidt
Roland Schmidt Austrian Academy of Sciences
Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Andy Hodson
Andy Hodson University Centre in Svalbard
Andrea Lami
Andrea Lami National Research Council (CNR)
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna

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