Alexander Harms

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Harms is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Harms has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Harms's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers) and Bartonella species infections research (8 papers). Alexander Harms is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers) and Bartonella species infections research (8 papers). Alexander Harms collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Alexander Harms's co-authors include Kenn Gerdes, Etienne Maisonneuve, A. W. Castleman, R. E. Leuchtner, Christoph Dehio, Namiko Mitarai, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Szabolcs Semsey, Frédéric V. Stanger and Tilman Schirmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Harms

50 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mechanisms of bacterial persistence during stress and antibiotic exposure

2016 650 citations Alexander Harms, Kenn Gerdes et al. profile →
Toxins, Targets, and Triggers: An Overview of Toxin-Antitoxin Biology

2018 452 citations Alexander Harms, Ditlev E. Brodersen et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Harms Switzerland	23	1.1k	816	683	548	534	52	3.1k
Patrick Van Gelder Belgium	27	2.1k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	457 0.7×	258 0.5×	462 0.9×	43	3.4k
Dirk Linke Germany	41	2.7k 2.5×	1.2k 1.5×	792 1.2×	716 1.3×	896 1.7×	137	5.9k
Lynette Cegelski United States	37	2.3k 2.2×	517 0.6×	608 0.9×	569 1.0×	581 1.1×	86	4.7k
Rémi Fronzes France	28	1.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	536 0.8×	164 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	52	3.2k
Martine P. Bos Netherlands	26	1.7k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	288 0.4×	307 0.6×	419 0.8×	53	3.0k
David G. Thanassi United States	34	1.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.8×	681 1.0×	198 0.4×	1.2k 2.3×	80	3.8k
Françoise Jacob‐Dubuisson France	37	2.0k 1.9×	1.8k 2.2×	657 1.0×	269 0.5×	1.2k 2.3×	87	4.0k
Dipankar Chatterji India	38	2.6k 2.4×	1.2k 1.5×	686 1.0×	608 1.1×	187 0.4×	178	4.6k
Stephen Matthews United Kingdom	51	3.9k 3.6×	1.1k 1.4×	708 1.0×	457 0.8×	882 1.7×	212	6.9k
David J. Clarke Ireland	38	1.7k 1.6×	758 0.9×	273 0.4×	556 1.0×	343 0.6×	123	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Harms

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Piel, Damien, Enea Maffei, Fabienne Estermann, et al.. (2025). Completing the BASEL phage collection to unlock hidden diversity for systematic exploration of phage–host interactions. PLoS Biology. 23(4). e3003063–e3003063. 5 indexed citations

Maffei, Enea, Anne-Kathrin Woischnig, Thomas Bock, et al.. (2024). Phage Paride can kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by direct lytic replication. Nature Communications. 15(1). 175–175. 31 indexed citations

Hu, Haidai, Philipp F. Popp, Ivo A. Hendriks, et al.. (2024). Structure and mechanism of the Zorya anti-phage defence system. Nature. 639(8056). 1093–1101. 19 indexed citations

Maffei, Enea, et al.. (2024). Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage Knedl. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(4). e0117423–e0117423. 3 indexed citations

Harms, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 70. 102225–102225. 13 indexed citations

Huber, Markus, Isabel Sorg, A. Goepfert, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for selective AMPylation of Rac-subfamily GTPases by Bartonella effector protein 1 (Bep1). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(12). 7 indexed citations

Heinemann, Matthias, et al.. (2021). A New Sugar for an Old Phage: a c-di-GMP-Dependent Polysaccharide Pathway Sensitizes Escherichia coli for Bacteriophage Infection. mBio. 12(6). e0324621–e0324621. 30 indexed citations

Maffei, Enea, Fabienne Estermann, Valentin Druelle, et al.. (2021). Systematic exploration of Escherichia coli phage–host interactions with the BASEL phage collection. PLoS Biology. 19(11). e3001424–e3001424. 151 indexed citations

Maffei, Enea, et al.. (2021). Antibiotic Tolerance and Persistence Studied Throughout Bacterial Growth Phases. Methods in molecular biology. 2357. 23–40. 4 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, et al.. (2019). Birth and Resuscitation of (p)ppGpp Induced Antibiotic Tolerant Persister Cells. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6056–6056. 61 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Namiko Mitarai, & Kenn Gerdes. (2018). Toxins, Targets, and Triggers: An Overview of Toxin-Antitoxin Biology. Molecular Cell. 70(5). 768–784. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harms, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Prophages and Growth Dynamics Confound Experimental Results with Antibiotic-Tolerant Persister Cells. mBio. 8(6). 159 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, et al.. (2017). A bacterial toxin-antitoxin module is the origin of inter-bacterial and inter-kingdom effectors of Bartonella. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1007077–e1007077. 46 indexed citations

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Québatte, Maxime, et al.. (2017). Gene Transfer Agent Promotes Evolvability within the Fittest Subpopulation of a Bacterial Pathogen. Cell Systems. 4(6). 611–621.e6. 35 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Maxime Québatte, et al.. (2017). Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathoadaptation Revealed by Three Independent Acquisitions of the VirB/D4 Type IV Secretion System in Bartonella. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(3). 761–776. 33 indexed citations

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Stanger, Frédéric V., Björn M. Burmann, Alexander Harms, et al.. (2016). Intrinsic regulation of FIC-domain AMP-transferases by oligomerization and automodification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(5). E529–37. 22 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, Frédéric V. Stanger, A. Goepfert, et al.. (2015). Adenylylation of Gyrase and Topo IV by FicT Toxins Disrupts Bacterial DNA Topology. Cell Reports. 12(9). 1497–1507. 83 indexed citations

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Engel, Philipp, A. Goepfert, Frédéric V. Stanger, et al.. (2012). Adenylylation control by intra- or intermolecular active-site obstruction in Fic proteins. Nature. 482(7383). 107–110. 133 indexed citations

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Reisgen, Uwe, Markus Schleser, Alexander Schiebahn, & Alexander Harms. (2010). Einfluss der Maschineneigenschaften beim Widerstandspunktschweißen mit Schweißzangen. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen).

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Leuchtner, R. E., Alexander Harms, & A. W. Castleman. (1991). Aluminum cluster reactions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 94(2). 1093–1101. 136 indexed citations

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