Daniel Petras

36.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel Petras is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Petras has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Petras's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (32 papers), Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies (17 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (12 papers). Daniel Petras is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (32 papers), Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies (17 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (12 papers). Daniel Petras collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Daniel Petras's co-authors include Pieter C. Dorrestein, Roderich D. Süßmuth, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Sebastian Böcker, Kai Dührkop, Juan J. Calvete, Marcus Ludwig, Markus Fleischauer, Martin Hoffmann and Raphael Reher and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Petras

84 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Systematic classification of unknown metabolites using hi... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Systematic classification of unknown metabolites using high-resolution fragmentation mass spectra
    2020 467 citations Kai Dührkop, Louis‐Félix Nothias et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Petras United States 31 1.7k 696 500 427 384 92 3.1k
Alejandro Villar‐Briones Japan 17 2.5k 1.5× 368 0.5× 349 0.7× 315 0.7× 495 1.3× 23 3.7k
Brett R. Hamilton Australia 29 1.0k 0.6× 458 0.7× 120 0.2× 298 0.7× 79 0.2× 75 2.7k
Hervé Moreau France 42 3.0k 1.8× 253 0.4× 230 0.5× 1.9k 4.5× 874 2.3× 90 5.1k
Shriya Raj United States 7 2.6k 1.6× 410 0.6× 200 0.4× 567 1.3× 1.4k 3.6× 8 4.0k
Sara Chuguransky Argentina 6 2.7k 1.6× 416 0.6× 182 0.4× 563 1.3× 1.3k 3.4× 10 3.9k
Akiyasu C. Yoshizawa Japan 17 2.9k 1.7× 385 0.6× 187 0.4× 819 1.9× 985 2.6× 33 4.5k
Yuki Moriya Japan 20 3.2k 1.9× 385 0.6× 264 0.5× 870 2.0× 1.3k 3.3× 50 4.9k
David Rhodes United States 48 3.6k 2.2× 152 0.2× 210 0.4× 317 0.7× 4.5k 11.8× 96 7.4k
Valéria Laneuville Teixeira Brazil 31 571 0.3× 132 0.2× 247 0.5× 175 0.4× 230 0.6× 154 2.8k
J. Weckesser Germany 36 2.4k 1.4× 637 0.9× 231 0.5× 883 2.1× 305 0.8× 141 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Petras

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Petras

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All Works

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Schubert, Julian, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Jürgen Fleischer, et al.. (2025). High-Frequency Microfluidic Fractionation for Compound-Resolved Bioactivity-Based Metabolomics. Analytical Chemistry. 97(43). 24093–24104.
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Alexander, Kelsey L., C. Benjamin Naman, Arihiro Iwasaki, et al.. (2025). Fatuamide A, a Hybrid PKS/NRPS Metallophore from a Leptolyngbya sp. Marine Cyanobacterium Collected in American Samoa. Journal of Natural Products. 88(2). 322–335. 2 indexed citations
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Fox, Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson, Ronald A. Jenner, Carl N. Keiser, et al.. (2025). A review of the venom microbiome and its utility in ecology and evolution including future directions for emerging research. Symbiosis. 95(1). 3–27.
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Reitz, Zachary L., et al.. (2024). Native metabolomics for mass spectrometry-based siderophore discovery. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 702. 317–352.
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Aron, Allegra T., Zachary L. Reitz, Nathan Good, et al.. (2024). Identification and characterization of a small-molecule metallophore involved in lanthanide metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(32). e2322096121–e2322096121. 17 indexed citations
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Smith, Cara F., Cassandra M. Modahl, Blair W. Perry, et al.. (2024). Assessing Target Specificity of the Small Molecule Inhibitor MARIMASTAT to Snake Venom Toxins: A Novel Application of Thermal Proteome Profiling. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 23(6). 100779–100779. 2 indexed citations
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Haffner, Michael, et al.. (2024). The redox-sensitive R-loop of the carbon control protein SbtB contributes to the regulation of the cyanobacterial CCM. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7885–7885. 3 indexed citations
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Aron, Allegra T., Daniel Petras, Emily C. Gentry, et al.. (2024). Environmental metabolomics characterization of modern stromatolites and annotation of ibhayipeptolides. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0303273–e0303273. 3 indexed citations
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Siwe‐Noundou, Xavier, Daniel Petras, Gwynneth F. Matcher, et al.. (2024). Urban and agricultural influences on the coastal dissolved organic matter pool in the Algoa Bay estuaries. Chemosphere. 355. 141782–141782. 3 indexed citations
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Machado, Ana Carolina Dantas, Stephany Flores Ramos, Julia M. Gauglitz, et al.. (2023). Portosystemic shunt placement reveals blood signatures for the development of hepatic encephalopathy through mass spectrometry. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5303–5303. 10 indexed citations
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Hansen, Mathias H., Martina Adamek, Dumitrita Iftime, et al.. (2023). Resurrecting ancestral antibiotics: unveiling the origins of modern lipid II targeting glycopeptides. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7842–7842. 17 indexed citations
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Petras, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Metabolomics and Molecular Networking to Characterize the Chemical Space of Four Momordica Plant Species. Metabolites. 11(11). 763–763. 40 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(11). 727–727. 2 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(10). 629–641. 134 indexed citations
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Agostini, Federica, Ludwig Sinn, Daniel Petras, et al.. (2020). Multiomics Analysis Provides Insight into the Laboratory Evolution of Escherichia coli toward the Metabolic Usage of Fluorinated Indoles. ACS Central Science. 7(1). 81–92. 35 indexed citations
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Petras, Daniel, Benjamin-Florian Hempel, Bayram Göçmen, et al.. (2019). Intact protein mass spectrometry reveals intraspecies variations in venom composition of a local population of Vipera kaznakovi in Northeastern Turkey. Journal of Proteomics. 199. 31–50. 28 indexed citations
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Gratz, S., Daniel Petras, Claudia Alings, et al.. (2018). Molecular insights into antibiotic resistance - how a binding protein traps albicidin. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3095–3095. 33 indexed citations
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