Birgit Pfeiffer

918 total citations
19 papers, 691 citations indexed

About

Birgit Pfeiffer is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Pfeiffer has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 691 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Soil Science, 8 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Birgit Pfeiffer's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Birgit Pfeiffer is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Birgit Pfeiffer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United Kingdom. Birgit Pfeiffer's co-authors include Rolf Daniel, Klaus Dittert, Reinhard Well, Bernd Wemheuer, Kristin Kaiser, Ann-Catrin Fender, Franziska Wemheuer, Mehmet Şenbayram, Dietrich Hertel and Stefan Vidal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Pfeiffer

18 papers receiving 684 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birgit Pfeiffer Germany 15 307 269 246 145 92 19 691
Maaike van Agtmaal Netherlands 8 483 1.6× 352 1.3× 340 1.4× 105 0.7× 137 1.5× 12 955
Emily E. Austin United States 4 450 1.5× 423 1.6× 266 1.1× 89 0.6× 124 1.3× 6 811
Nadine Thomas United Kingdom 8 366 1.2× 394 1.5× 195 0.8× 114 0.8× 178 1.9× 10 795
Clóvis Daniel Borges Brazil 16 413 1.3× 256 1.0× 316 1.3× 108 0.7× 138 1.5× 25 888
Ernest D. Osburn United States 13 352 1.1× 365 1.4× 196 0.8× 67 0.5× 120 1.3× 22 706
Liming Yin China 17 403 1.3× 200 0.7× 317 1.3× 81 0.6× 55 0.6× 37 748
Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita United States 16 289 0.9× 380 1.4× 389 1.6× 101 0.7× 97 1.1× 41 949
D. Stone Ireland 17 482 1.6× 352 1.3× 287 1.2× 85 0.6× 116 1.3× 17 921

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Fields of papers citing papers by Birgit Pfeiffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Pfeiffer

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Dlugosch, Leon, Anja Poehlein, Bernd Wemheuer, et al.. (2022). Significance of gene variants for the functional biogeography of the near-surface Atlantic Ocean microbiome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 456–456. 31 indexed citations
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Hollensteiner, Jacqueline, Franziska Wemheuer, Dominik Schneider, Birgit Pfeiffer, & Bernd Wemheuer. (2022). Extraction of Total DNA and RNA from Marine Filter Samples and Generation of a Universal cDNA as Universal Template for Marker Gene Studies. Methods in molecular biology. 2555. 13–21.
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Wemheuer, Franziska, et al.. (2021). The cropping system matters – Contrasting responses of winter faba bean (Vicia faba L.) genotypes to drought stress. Journal of Plant Physiology. 263. 153463–153463. 7 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Birgit, et al.. (2021). Morphological and Metabolite Responses of Potatoes under Various Phosphorus Levels and Their Amelioration by Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(10). 5162–5162. 24 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Birgit, et al.. (2020). Maize root and shoot litter quality controls short-term CO 2 and N 2 O emissions and bacterial community structure of arable soil. Biogeosciences. 17(4). 1181–1198. 31 indexed citations
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Well, Reinhard, et al.. (2020). Nitrate uptake and carbon exudation – do plant roots stimulate or inhibit denitrification?. Plant and Soil. 459(1-2). 217–233. 30 indexed citations
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Jannoura, Ramia, Birgit Pfeiffer, Jens Dyckmans, et al.. (2020). Carbon use efficiency and microbial functional diversity in a temperate Luvisol and a tropical Nitisol after millet litter and N addition. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 56(8). 1139–1150. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Haitao, Lukas Beule, Huadong Zang, et al.. (2020). The potential of ryegrass as cover crop to reduce soil N 2 O emissions and increase the population size of denitrifying bacteria. European Journal of Soil Science. 72(3). 1447–1461. 19 indexed citations
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Şenbayram, Mehmet, et al.. (2018). Post-harvest N 2 O and CO 2 emissions related to plant residue incorporation of oilseed rape and barley straw depend on soil NO 3 - content. Soil and Tillage Research. 179. 105–113. 23 indexed citations
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Kaiser, Kristin, Bernd Wemheuer, Birgit Pfeiffer, et al.. (2017). The Effects of Cropping Regimes on Fungal and Bacterial Communities of Wheat and Faba Bean in a Greenhouse Pot Experiment Differ between Plant Species and Compartment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 902–902. 90 indexed citations
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Nacke, Heiko, Kezia Goldmann, Ingo Schöning, et al.. (2016). Fine Spatial Scale Variation of Soil Microbial Communities under European Beech and Norway Spruce. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 2067–2067. 72 indexed citations
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Schneider, Dominik, Franziska Wemheuer, Birgit Pfeiffer, & Bernd Wemheuer. (2016). Extraction of Total DNA and RNA from Marine Filter Samples and Generation of a cDNA as Universal Template for Marker Gene Studies. Methods in molecular biology. 1539. 13–22. 14 indexed citations
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Wu, Di, Mehmet Şenbayram, Reinhard Well, et al.. (2016). Nitrification inhibitors mitigate N2O emissions more effectively under straw-induced conditions favoring denitrification. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 104. 197–207. 118 indexed citations
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Cesarz, Simone, Ann-Catrin Fender, Friderike Beyer, et al.. (2013). Roots from beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) differentially affect soil microorganisms and carbon dynamics. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 61. 23–32. 61 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Birgit, et al.. (2013). Leaf litter is the main driver for changes in bacterial community structures in the rhizosphere of ash and beech. Applied Soil Ecology. 72. 150–160. 45 indexed citations
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Fender, Ann-Catrin, Birgit Pfeiffer, Dirk Gansert, et al.. (2012). The inhibiting effect of nitrate fertilisation on methane uptake of a temperate forest soil is influenced by labile carbon. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 48(6). 621–631. 34 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Birgit, et al.. (2012). Bacterial Diversity in Biological Soil Crusts from Extrazonal Mountain Dry Steppes in Northern Mongolia. Insecta mundi. 3 indexed citations
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Grote, Jana, Matthias Labrenz, Birgit Pfeiffer, Günter Jost, & Klaus Jürgens. (2007). Quantitative Distributions of Epsilonproteobacteria and a Sulfurimonas Subgroup in Pelagic Redoxclines of the Central Baltic Sea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(22). 7155–7161. 56 indexed citations

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