Bernard Witholt

26.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
281 papers, 20.3k citations indexed

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Bernard Witholt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Witholt has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 20.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Molecular Biology, 87 papers in Pollution and 69 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Bernard Witholt's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (90 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (86 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (68 papers). Bernard Witholt is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (90 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (86 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (68 papers). Bernard Witholt collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and Germany. Bernard Witholt's co-authors include Andreas Schmid, Jan B. van Beilen, Bernhard Hauer, Jaap Kingma, Wouter A. Duetz, Gerrit Eggink, Dick B. Janssen, M. Wubbolts, Benedikt M. Kessler and Jonathan S. Dordick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Witholt

280 papers receiving 19.3k 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.

Industrial biocatalysis today and tomorrow

2001 1.9k citations Andreas Schmid, Bernard Witholt et al. profile →
Occurrence, synthesis and medical application of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoate

2001 590 citations Bernard Witholt et al. profile →
Formation of Polyesters by Pseudomonas oleovorans : Effect of Substrates on Formation and Composition of Poly-( R )-3-Hydroxyalkanoates and Poly-( R )-3-Hydroxyalkenoates

1988 575 citations Gjalt W. Huisman, Hans Preusting et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernard Witholt Switzerland	77	12.8k	6.2k	4.6k	2.8k	1.7k	281	20.3k
Alexander Steinbüchel Germany	83	14.6k 1.1×	6.2k 1.0×	11.6k 2.5×	5.4k 1.9×	883 0.5×	431	24.1k
José L. Garcı́a Spain	63	7.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.3×	1.1k 0.2×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	339	12.7k
Anthony J. Sinskey United States	67	9.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.3×	3.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	286	14.7k
Bo Mattìasson Sweden	78	12.4k 1.0×	2.3k 0.4×	2.7k 0.6×	9.2k 3.2×	265 0.2×	719	27.4k
Uwe T. Bornscheuer Germany	80	22.6k 1.8×	2.3k 0.4×	2.9k 0.6×	6.3k 2.2×	466 0.3×	650	30.1k
Karl‐Erich Jaeger Germany	65	14.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.2×	1.0k 0.2×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	327	17.9k
Ping Xu China	65	9.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.3×	753 0.2×	4.9k 1.7×	817 0.5×	481	15.4k
Guocheng Du China	71	15.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.2×	1.4k 0.3×	4.8k 1.7×	2.3k 1.4×	854	24.0k
Gjalt W. Huisman United States	30	6.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.2×	2.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	494 0.3×	43	9.1k
Gregg T. Beckham United States	90	7.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.5×	6.0k 1.3×	19.9k 7.0×	362 0.2×	342	30.6k

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Beilen, Jan B. van, et al.. (2006). Selection of biocatalysts for chemical synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(6). 1693–1698. 67 indexed citations

Chang, Dongliang, Jie Zhang, Bernard Witholt, & Zhi Li. (2004). Chemical and Enzymatic Synthetic Methods for Asymmetric Oxidation of the C–C Double Bond. Biocatalysis and Biotransformation. 22(2). 113–131. 16 indexed citations

Chang, Dongliang, M. F. Heringa, Bernard Witholt, & Zhi Li. (2003). Enantioselective Trans Dihydroxylation of Nonactivated C−C Double Bonds of Aliphatic Heterocycles with Sphingomonas sp. HXN-200. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 68(22). 8599–8606. 29 indexed citations

Smits, Theo H. M., Bernard Witholt, & Jan B. van Beilen. (2003). Functional characterization of genes involved in alkane oxidation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 84(3). 193–200. 58 indexed citations

Beilen, Jan B. van, Wouter A. Duetz, Andreas Schmid, & Bernard Witholt. (2003). Practical issues in the application of oxygenases. Trends in biotechnology. 21(4). 170–177. 192 indexed citations

Meyer, Andreas, et al.. (2003). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of native and selenomethionine 2-hydroxybiphenyl 3-monooxygenase. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 59(4). 741–743. 1 indexed citations

Meyer, Andreas J., Andreas Schmid, Martin Held, et al.. (2002). Changing the Substrate Reactivity of 2-Hydroxybiphenyl 3-Monooxygenase from Pseudomonas azelaica HBP1 by Directed Evolution. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(7). 5575–5582. 61 indexed citations

Li, Zhi, Jan B. van Beilen, Wouter A. Duetz, et al.. (2002). Oxidative biotransformations using oxygenases. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 6(2). 136–144. 128 indexed citations

Duetz, Wouter A. & Bernard Witholt. (2001). Effectiveness of orbital shaking for the aeration of suspended bacterial cultures in square-deepwell microtiter plates. Biochemical Engineering Journal. 7(2). 113–115. 78 indexed citations

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Panke, Sven, et al.. (1998). Towards a Biocatalyst for ()-Styrene Oxide Production: Characterization of the Styrene Degradation Pathway of sp. Strain VLB120.. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64(9). 3546–3546. 2 indexed citations

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Beilen, Jan B. van, Marcel Wubbolts, & Bernard Witholt. (1994). Genetics of alkane oxidation byPseudomonas oleovorans. Biodegradation. 5(3-4). 161–174. 247 indexed citations

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Preusting, Hans, et al.. (1993). High cell density cultivation of Pseudomonas oleovorans: Growth and production of poly (3‐hydroxyalkanoates) in two‐liquid phase batch and fed‐batch systems. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 41(5). 550–556. 81 indexed citations

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Huisman, Gjalt W., et al.. (1991). Metabolism of Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) by Pseudomonas oleovorans. Identification and Sequences of Genes and Function of the Encoded Proteins in the Synthesis and Degradation of PHA. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Favre‐Bulle, Olivier, et al.. (1991). Bioconversion of N-Octane to Octanoic Acid by a Recombinant Escherichia Coli Cultured in a Two-Liquid Phase Bioreactor. Nature Biotechnology. 9(4). 367–371. 66 indexed citations

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Eggink, Gerrit, Henk Engel, Gert Vriend, P. Terpstra, & Bernard Witholt. (1990). Rubredoxin reductase of Pseudomonas oleovorans. Journal of Molecular Biology. 212(1). 135–142. 219 indexed citations

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Visser, Richard G. F., E. Jacobsen, Bernard Witholt, & W. J. Feenstra. (1989). Efficient transformation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) using a binary vector in Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 78(4). 594–600. 40 indexed citations

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Visser, Richard G. F., Robert M. Hoekstra, Feike R. van der Leij, et al.. (1988). In situ hybridization to somatic metaphase chromosomes of potato. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 76(3). 420–424. 33 indexed citations

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Janssen, Dick B., et al.. (1987). Degradation of n-Haloalkanes and α,ω-Dihaloalkanes by Wild-Type and Mutants of Acinetobacter sp. Strain GJ70. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Wensink, Jan & Bernard Witholt. (1982). Evidence that outer membrane proteins III and G ofEscherichia coliare identical. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 13(1). 39–42. 2 indexed citations

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Kok, Menno, Greetje H. Vos‐Scheperkeuter, & Bernard Witholt. (1982). Kinetics of induction of the lamB-gene product in Escherichia coli: appearance of the newly synthesized protein in the cell envelope.. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 133A(1). 139–44. 1 indexed citations

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