Christine Heim

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Christine Heim is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Heim has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 11 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Christine Heim's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (9 papers). Christine Heim is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (9 papers). Christine Heim collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Christine Heim's co-authors include Danny Ionescu, Dirk de Beer, Lùbos Polerecký, Stefan Häusler, Volker Thiel, Henrik Drake, Peter Sjövall, Sandra Siljeström, Martin J. Whitehouse and Curt Broman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christine Heim

36 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Oxygenic photosynthesis as a protection mechanism for cyanobacteria against iron-encrustation in environments with high Fe2+ concentrations

2014 834 citations Danny Ionescu, Christine Heim et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine Heim Germany	18	453	402	329	203	201	36	1.8k
Daniel R. Colman United States	25	714 1.6×	658 1.6×	424 1.3×	134 0.7×	139 0.7×	73	1.9k
James F. Carter Australia	28	770 1.7×	471 1.2×	156 0.5×	109 0.5×	236 1.2×	101	2.4k
Donato Giovannelli Italy	23	827 1.8×	490 1.2×	424 1.3×	68 0.3×	101 0.5×	75	2.1k
Myron T. La Duc United States	26	994 2.2×	851 2.1×	329 1.0×	130 0.6×	92 0.5×	45	2.5k
Tommy J. Phelps United States	23	515 1.1×	432 1.1×	493 1.5×	72 0.4×	123 0.6×	42	1.6k
Jamie S. Foster United States	27	922 2.0×	1.1k 2.7×	320 1.0×	199 1.0×	79 0.4×	64	3.3k
Janet L. Siefert United States	19	839 1.9×	769 1.9×	308 0.9×	299 1.5×	49 0.2×	27	2.0k
Dominik Schneider Germany	25	668 1.5×	519 1.3×	213 0.6×	441 2.2×	51 0.3×	80	1.7k
G. D. W. Swerhone Canada	27	444 1.0×	607 1.5×	245 0.7×	181 0.9×	65 0.3×	49	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christine Heim

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christine Heim. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christine Heim 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 Christine Heim. Christine Heim is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Prater, Isabel, et al.. (2024). Biogeochemical traces and microbe-mineral interactions in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change. 238. 104463–104463. 1 indexed citations

Heim, Christine, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing eutrophication trends of a shallow lake environment using biomarker dynamics and sedimentary sterols. Organic Geochemistry. 177. 104555–104555. 3 indexed citations

Thiel, Volker, et al.. (2022). Effects of Weather Extremes on the Nutrient Dynamics of a Shallow Eutrophic Lake as Observed during a Three-Year Monitoring Study. Water. 14(13). 2032–2032. 9 indexed citations

Drake, Henrik, Magnus Ivarsson, Christine Heim, et al.. (2021). Fossilized anaerobic and possibly methanogenesis-fueling fungi identified deep within the Siljan impact structure, Sweden. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 16 indexed citations

Drake, Henrik, Magnus Ivarsson, & Christine Heim. (2020). Tracking the Deep Biosphere through Time. Geosciences. 10(11). 461–461. 4 indexed citations

Goetz, W., et al.. (2019). Organic signatures in Pleistocene cherts from Lake Magadi (Kenya) – implications for early Earth hydrothermal deposits. Biogeosciences. 16(12). 2443–2465. 23 indexed citations

Drake, Henrik, Nick M.W. Roberts, Christine Heim, et al.. (2019). Timing and origin of natural gas accumulation in the Siljan impact structure, Sweden. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4736–4736. 31 indexed citations

Duda, Jan‐Peter, Martin Blumenberg, Christian Ostertag-Henning, et al.. (2018). The taphonomic fate of isorenieratene in Lower Jurassic shales—controlled by iron?. Geobiology. 16(3). 237–251. 7 indexed citations

Heim, Christine, Nadia–Valérie Quéric, Danny Ionescu, Nadine Schäfer, & Joachim Reitner. (2017). Frutexites-like structures formed by iron oxidizing biofilms in the continental subsurface (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden). PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177542–e0177542. 29 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaofen, Alexander Eiler, Moritz Buck, et al.. (2016). Connectivity to the surface determines diversity patterns in subsurface aquifers of the Fennoscandian shield. The ISME Journal. 10(10). 2447–2458. 77 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, Jukka Lausmaa, Peter Sjövall, et al.. (2015). An Imaging Mass Spectrometry Study on the Formation of Conditioning Films and Biofilms in the Subsurface (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, SE Sweden). Geomicrobiology Journal. 32(3-4). 197–206. 7 indexed citations

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Drake, Henrik, Mats Åström, Christine Heim, et al.. (2015). Extreme 13C depletion of carbonates formed during oxidation of biogenic methane in fractured granite. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7020–7020. 78 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, A. Roth, Jocelyne Bloch, et al.. (2014). Is trauma in Switzerland any different? Epidemiology and patterns of injury in major trauma – a 5-year review from a Swiss trauma centre. Swiss Medical Weekly. 144(1314). w13958–w13958. 41 indexed citations

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Ionescu, Danny, et al.. (2014). Oxygenic photosynthesis as a protection mechanism for cyanobacteria against iron-encrustation in environments with high Fe2+ concentrations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 459–459. 834 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heim, Christine, et al.. (2013). Spectral characterization of ten cyclic lipids using time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 27(5). 565–581. 30 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, et al.. (2013). Biomarker imaging of single diatom cells in a microbial mat using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). Organic Geochemistry. 57. 23–33. 41 indexed citations

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Drake, Henrik, Christine Heim, K. Johan Hogmalm, & Bent Hansen. (2013). Fracture zone-scale variation of trace elements and stable isotopes in calcite in a crystalline rock setting. Applied Geochemistry. 40. 11–24. 13 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, J. Lausmaa, Peter Sjövall, et al.. (2012). Ancient microbial activity recorded in fracture fillings from granitic rocks (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden). Geobiology. 10(4). 280–297. 23 indexed citations

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Thiel, Volker, et al.. (2007). Biomarkers at the microscopic range: ToF‐SIMS molecular imaging of Archaea‐derived lipids in a microbial mat. Geobiology. 5(4). 413–421. 40 indexed citations

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Birner, Gerhard, Michael D. Koob, Karl‐Heinz Sontag, et al.. (1996). Endogenous alkaloids in man XXVI. Determination of the dopaminergic neurotoxin 1-trichloromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline (TaClo) in biological samples using gas chromatography with selected ion monitoring. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 687(2). 337–348. 11 indexed citations

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