Andreas Teske

24.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
220 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Andreas Teske is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Teske has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Ecology, 130 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 73 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Andreas Teske's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (148 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (114 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (54 papers). Andreas Teske is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (148 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (114 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (54 papers). Andreas Teske collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Andreas Teske's co-authors include Gerard Muyzer, Donald E. Canfield, Ketil Bernt Sørensen, Holger W. Jannasch, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, Brett J. Baker, Karen G. Lloyd, Mitchell L. Sogin, Carl O. Wirsen and Jennifer F. Biddle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Teske

201 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Phylogenetic relationships ofThiomicrospira species and their identification in deep-sea hydrothermal vent samples by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rDNA fragments

1995 931 citations Andreas Teske et al. profile →
Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies

1996 651 citations Andreas Teske et al. profile →
Microbial Diversity of Hydrothermal Sediments in the Guaymas Basin: Evidence for Anaerobic Methanotrophic Communities

2002 549 citations Andreas Teske, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs et al. profile →
Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru

2006 548 citations Jennifer F. Biddle, Julius S. Lipp et al. profile →
Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

2006 512 citations Andreas Teske, Mark A. Lever et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Teske United States	69	10.0k	7.3k	5.4k	2.7k	2.5k	220	15.9k
Ken Takai Japan	68	9.8k 1.0×	7.4k 1.0×	6.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	337	17.0k
Katrin Knittel Germany	47	7.4k 0.7×	6.9k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	84	13.7k
Victoria J. Orphan United States	56	5.9k 0.6×	6.6k 0.9×	3.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	178	11.7k
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Netherlands	57	5.5k 0.5×	3.3k 0.4×	2.8k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	131	11.2k
Dirk de Beer Germany	68	7.5k 0.8×	3.3k 0.4×	3.9k 0.7×	4.0k 1.5×	4.5k 1.8×	307	17.7k
Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs Germany	69	9.0k 0.9×	10.5k 1.4×	4.0k 0.7×	920 0.3×	3.0k 1.2×	259	17.4k
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Germany	80	12.2k 1.2×	5.3k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	8.3k 3.1×	7.2k 2.9×	194	23.1k
Friedrich Widdel Germany	61	5.6k 0.6×	8.1k 1.1×	4.2k 0.8×	4.9k 1.8×	1.0k 0.4×	100	18.2k
David C. White United States	75	7.7k 0.8×	3.9k 0.5×	6.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	326	21.8k
Fumio Inagaki Japan	55	5.8k 0.6×	4.9k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	664 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	194	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Teske

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Schubotz, Florence, et al.. (2025). Molecular composition of dissolved organic matter from young organic‐rich hydrothermal deep‐sea sediments. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(4). 870–885. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jiarui, Edward Young, André Pellerin, et al.. (2025). Clumped isotopes of methane trace bioenergetics in the environment. Science Advances. 11(26). eadu1401–eadu1401.

Montgomery, Andrew, Guangchao Zhuang, Zhichao Zhou, et al.. (2025). Elevated heterotrophic activity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal plumes influences deep-sea carbon cycling. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4934–4934. 3 indexed citations

Mara, Paraskevi, David Beaudoin, Ivano W. Aiello, et al.. (2024). Deep subseafloor sediments in Guaymas Basin harbor cosmopolitan microbiota and traces of hydrothermal populations. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Mara, Paraskevi, David Geller‐McGrath, Virginia P. Edgcomb, et al.. (2023). Metagenomic profiles of archaea and bacteria within thermal and geochemical gradients of the Guaymas Basin deep subsurface. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7768–7768. 15 indexed citations

Laso-Pérez, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes. Nature Microbiology. 8(7). 1199–1212. 18 indexed citations

Neumann, Florian, Raquel Negrete‐Aranda, Robert N. Harris, et al.. (2023). Heat flow and thermal regime in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California: Estimates of conductive and advective heat transport. Basin Research. 35(4). 1308–1328. 10 indexed citations

Mara, Paraskevi, Robert K. Nelson, Christopher M. Reddy, Andreas Teske, & Virginia P. Edgcomb. (2022). Sterane and hopane biomarkers capture microbial transformations of complex hydrocarbons in young hydrothermal Guaymas Basin sediments. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 8 indexed citations

Borton, Mikayla, Kathleen M. Regan, Isabella Hrabě de Angelis, et al.. (2021). Degradation of biological macromolecules supports uncultured microbial populations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments. The ISME Journal. 15(12). 3480–3497. 22 indexed citations

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Langwig, Marguerite V., Valerie De Anda, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2021). Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 307–320. 106 indexed citations

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Lagostina, Lorenzo, Barbara J. MacGregor, Clemens Glombitza, et al.. (2021). Interactions between temperature and energy supply drive microbial communities in hydrothermal sediment. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1006–1006. 14 indexed citations

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Burgaud, Gaëtan, et al.. (2021). Deep-sea hydrothermal vent sediments reveal diverse fungi with antibacterial activities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(8). 14 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Guangchao, Andrew Montgomery, Vladimir A. Samarkin, et al.. (2019). Generation and Utilization of Volatile Fatty Acids and Alcohols in Hydrothermally Altered Sediments in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2637–2646. 27 indexed citations

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Bowles, Marshall W., Vladimir A. Samarkin, Kimberley S. Hunter, et al.. (2019). Remarkable Capacity for Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane at High Methane Concentration. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(21). 12192–12201. 19 indexed citations

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Heuer, Verena B., Mark A. Lever, Yuki Morono, & Andreas Teske. (2019). The Limits of Life and the Biosphere in Earth’s Interior. Oceanography. 32(1). 208–211. 3 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Guangchao, Verena B. Heuer, Cassandre Sara Lazar, et al.. (2018). Relative importance of methylotrophic methanogenesis in sediments of the Western Mediterranean Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 224. 171–186. 81 indexed citations

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Yang, Tingting, et al.. (2018). Intracellular calcite and sulfur dynamics of Achromatium cells observed in a lab-based enrichment and aerobic incubation experiment. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 112(2). 263–274. 10 indexed citations

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Seitz, Kiley W., Cassandre Sara Lazar, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, Andreas Teske, & Brett J. Baker. (2016). Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction. The ISME Journal. 10(7). 1696–1705. 131 indexed citations

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Durbin, Alan M., Jennifer F. Biddle, Christopher H. House, et al.. (2009). Microbial community stratification in TOC-depleted marine subsurface sediments of the Pacific Ocean. Max Planck Digital Library. 73. 1 indexed citations

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Teske, Andreas, et al.. (1991). The 16S rRNA nucleotide sequence ofMycobacterium leprae: phylogenetic position and development of DNA probes. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 80(2-3). 231–237. 19 indexed citations

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