Alexander Johs

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alexander Johs is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Johs has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Alexander Johs's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (31 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (12 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (9 papers). Alexander Johs is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (31 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (12 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (9 papers). Alexander Johs collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Alexander Johs's co-authors include Dwayne A. Elias, Richard A. Hurt, Mircea Podar, Steven D. Brown, Liyuan Liang, Jerry M. Parks, Baohua Gu, Stephen J. Tomanicek, Judy D. Wall and Jeremy C. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Johs

43 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation

2013 778 citations Jerry M. Parks, Alexander Johs et al. Science profile →
Mercury Methylation by Novel Microorganisms from New Environments

2013 588 citations Mircea Podar, Steven D. Brown et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers

Alexander Johs

HTM

POLLU

ECOLO

Franco Baldi Italy

Sonja Zimmermann Germany

Mònica Rosell Spain

Zhenyu Tian United States

Carole Cossu‐Leguille France

Charles M. Sharpless United States

William Guérin United States

Emanuele Magi Italy

Pu Wang China

Yujie Men United States

Franco Baldi Italy

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821 ×0.4

HTM

693 ×1.0

POLLU

471 ×0.9

ECOLO

406 ×1.3

400 ×2.5

Citations per year, relative to Alexander Johs Alexander Johs (= 1×) peers Franco Baldi

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Johs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Johs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Johs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Johs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Johs based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander Johs. Alexander Johs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Power, Scott B., Peijia Ku, Paul G. Matson, et al.. (2025). The efficacy and ecological impact of mercury sorbents on the physiology and reproductive fitness of Daphnia magna. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 498. 139847–139847.

Katsenovich, Yelena, et al.. (2024). Sorption kinetics and stability of conventional adsorbents for mercury remediation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(5). 113664–113664. 5 indexed citations

Zheng, Kaiyuan, Alexander Johs, Jerry M. Parks, et al.. (2024). S-adenosyl-L-methionine is the unexpected methyl donor for the methylation of mercury by the membrane-associated HgcAB complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2408086121–e2408086121. 2 indexed citations

Johs, Alexander, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Sorbent Amendments for Mercury Remediation on the Viability of Soil Microorganisms. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 235(7).

Liang, Xujun, Huan Zhong, Alexander Johs, et al.. (2023). Light-independent phytoplankton degradation and detoxification of methylmercury in water. Nature Water. 1(8). 705–715. 17 indexed citations

Zhang, Lijie, Michael Philben, Neslihan Taş, et al.. (2022). Unravelling biogeochemical drivers of methylmercury production in an Arctic fen soil and a bog soil. Environmental Pollution. 299. 118878–118878. 13 indexed citations

Du, Hongxia, Xin Gu, Alexander Johs, et al.. (2022). Sonochemical oxidation and stabilization of liquid elemental mercury in water and soil. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 445. 130589–130589. 2 indexed citations

Cooper, Connor J., Kaiyuan Zheng, Alexander Johs, et al.. (2020). Structure determination of the HgcAB complex using metagenome sequence data: insights into microbial mercury methylation. Communications Biology. 3(1). 320–320. 26 indexed citations

Parks, Jerry M., et al.. (2019). Kinetics of Enzymatic Mercury Methylation at Nanomolar Concentrations Catalyzed by HgcAB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(13). 27 indexed citations

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Wang, Hanyu, Alexander Johs, James F. Browning, D. M. Tennant, & Liyuan Liang. (2019). Electrochemical properties of the interaction between cytochrome c and a hematite nanowire array electrode. Bioelectrochemistry. 129. 162–169. 5 indexed citations

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Johs, Alexander, Tonia L. Mehlhorn, Scott C. Brooks, et al.. (2019). Dissolved organic matter reduces the effectiveness of sorbents for mercury removal. The Science of The Total Environment. 690. 410–416. 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu‐Rong, Alexander Johs, Li Bi, et al.. (2018). Unraveling Microbial Communities Associated with Methylmercury Production in Paddy Soils. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(22). 13110–13118. 115 indexed citations

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Rothenberg, Sarah E., Sharon Keiser, Nadim J. Ajami, et al.. (2015). The role of gut microbiota in fetal methylmercury exposure: Insights from a pilot study. Toxicology Letters. 242. 60–67. 49 indexed citations

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Whited, Allison M. & Alexander Johs. (2015). The interactions of peripheral membrane proteins with biological membranes. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 192. 51–59. 75 indexed citations

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Hong, Liang, Melissa Sharp, Simón Poblete, et al.. (2014). Structure and Dynamics of a Compact State of a Multidomain Protein, the Mercuric Ion Reductase. Biophysical Journal. 107(2). 393–400. 18 indexed citations

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Edwards, Marcus J., Alexander Johs, Stephen J. Tomanicek, et al.. (2014). The X‐ray crystal structure of Shewanella oneidensis OmcA reveals new insight at the microbe–mineral interface. FEBS Letters. 588(10). 1886–1890. 70 indexed citations

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Parks, Jerry M., Alexander Johs, Mircea Podar, et al.. (2013). The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation. Science. 339(6125). 1332–1335. 778 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johs, Alexander, et al.. (2011). Structural Characterization of Intramolecular Hg2+ Transfer between Flexibly Linked Domains of Mercuric Ion Reductase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 413(3). 639–656. 24 indexed citations

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Johs, Alexander, Jerry M. Parks, Hao‐Bo Guo, et al.. (2011). Biomolecular Mechanisms of Microbial Mercury Resistance in the Environment. Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 313a–313a. 1 indexed citations

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Guo, Hao‐Bo, Alexander Johs, Jerry M. Parks, et al.. (2010). Structure and Conformational Dynamics of the Metalloregulator MerR upon Binding of Hg(II). Journal of Molecular Biology. 398(4). 555–568. 31 indexed citations

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