Danny Ionescu

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Danny Ionescu is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Ionescu has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Danny Ionescu's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (13 papers). Danny Ionescu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (13 papers). Danny Ionescu collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and Switzerland. Danny Ionescu's co-authors include Dirk de Beer, Lùbos Polerecký, Christine Heim, Stefan Häusler, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Mina Bižić, Kam W. Tang, Aharon Oren, Daniel F. McGinnis and Marco Günthel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Danny Ionescu

59 papers receiving 2.6k 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 →
Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane

2020 226 citations Mina Bižić, Thomas Klintzsch et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danny Ionescu Germany	25	1.2k	760	710	635	408	59	2.7k
Niels O. G. Jørgensen Denmark	33	1.4k 1.1×	889 1.2×	385 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	364 0.9×	107	3.1k
Takeshi Naganuma Japan	36	1.8k 1.5×	901 1.2×	1.5k 2.2×	686 1.1×	453 1.1×	199	4.4k
Nianzhi Jiao China	33	1.9k 1.6×	446 0.6×	829 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	213 0.5×	116	3.0k
Hiroyuki Yamamoto Japan	27	1.2k 1.0×	363 0.5×	947 1.3×	532 0.8×	264 0.6×	115	2.6k
Florence Schubotz Germany	25	1.0k 0.9×	951 1.3×	598 0.8×	394 0.6×	348 0.9×	53	2.3k
Annette Summers Engel United States	27	1.6k 1.3×	771 1.0×	708 1.0×	572 0.9×	205 0.5×	59	2.9k
Marie‐Anne Cambon‐Bonavita France	35	2.0k 1.7×	783 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	872 1.4×	374 0.9×	83	2.9k
Yohey Suzuki Japan	33	2.1k 1.8×	1.3k 1.7×	1.8k 2.5×	468 0.7×	450 1.1×	76	4.5k
Cody S. Sheik United States	20	1.4k 1.2×	637 0.8×	885 1.2×	312 0.5×	115 0.3×	42	2.4k
Niculina Musat Germany	30	2.1k 1.8×	795 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	1.2k 1.9×	206 0.5×	69	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Danny Ionescu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Ionescu

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ionescu, Danny, Luca Zoccarato, Pedro J. Cabello‐Yeves, & Yaron Tikochinski. (2024). Extreme fluctuations in ambient salinity select for bacteria with a hybrid “salt-in”/”salt-out” osmoregulation strategy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 1329925–1329925. 3 indexed citations

Garel, Marc, Mina Bižić, Danny Ionescu, et al.. (2023). A novel method to sample individual marine snow particles for downstream molecular analyses. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 22(1). 34–46. 1 indexed citations

Bižić, Mina, Danny Ionescu, Rajat Karnatak, et al.. (2022). Land‐use type temporarily affects active pond community structure but not gene expression patterns. Molecular Ecology. 31(6). 1716–1734. 5 indexed citations

Ionescu, Danny, Rajat Karnatak, Camille Musseau, et al.. (2022). From microbes to mammals: Pond biodiversity homogenization across different land‐use types in an agricultural landscape. Ecological Monographs. 92(3). 12 indexed citations

Bižić, Mina, Traian Brad, Danny Ionescu, et al.. (2022). Cave Thiovulum (Candidatus Thiovulum stygium) differs metabolically and genomically from marine species. The ISME Journal. 17(3). 340–353. 5 indexed citations

Günthel, Marco, Daphne Donis, Georgiy Kirillin, et al.. (2021). Reply to ‘Oxic methanogenesis is only a minor source of lake-wide diffusive CH4 emissions from lakes’. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1205–1205. 11 indexed citations

Ionescu, Danny, Luca Zoccarato, Sina Schorn, et al.. (2020). Heterozygous, Polyploid, Giant Bacterium, Achromatium , Possesses an Identical Functional Inventory Worldwide across Drastically Different Ecosystems. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(3). 1040–1059. 7 indexed citations

Bižić, Mina, Thomas Klintzsch, Danny Ionescu, et al.. (2020). Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane. Science Advances. 6(3). eaax5343–eaax5343. 226 indexed citations breakdown →

Günthel, Marco, Isabell Klawonn, Jason Woodhouse, et al.. (2020). Photosynthesis‐driven methane production in oxic lake water as an important contributor to methane emission. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(12). 2853–2865. 57 indexed citations

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Fasching, Christina, Mina Bižić, Jérémy Fonvielle, et al.. (2019). Linking stream microbial community functional genes to dissolved organic matter and inorganic nutrients. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(S1). 62 indexed citations

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Geyer, S., David Katoshevski, Danny Ionescu, et al.. (2019). Discharge estimation of submarine springs in the Dead Sea based on velocity or density measurements in proximity to the water surface. Hydrological Processes. 34(2). 455–472. 8 indexed citations

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Günthel, Marco, Daphne Donis, Georgiy Kirillin, et al.. (2019). Contribution of oxic methane production to surface methane emission in lakes and its global importance. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5497–5497. 107 indexed citations

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Ionescu, Danny, Mina Bižić, Nicola De Maio, Heribert Cypionka, & Hans‐Peter Grossart. (2017). Community-like genome in single cells of the sulfur bacterium Achromatium oxaliferum. Nature Communications. 8(1). 455–455. 23 indexed citations

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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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Ionescu, Danny, Mina Bižić, Arzhang Khalili, et al.. (2015). A new tool for long-term studies of POM-bacteria interactions: overcoming the century-old Bottle Effect. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14706–14706. 20 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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Thomas, Camille, Danny Ionescu, & Daniel Arizteguí. (2014). Archaeal populations in two distinct sedimentary facies of the subsurface of the Dead Sea. Marine Genomics. 17. 53–62. 12 indexed citations

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Ionescu, Danny, Björn Voß, Aharon Oren, Wolfgang R. Hess, & Alicia M. Muro‐Pastor. (2010). Heterocyst-Specific Transcription of NsiR1, a Non-Coding RNA Encoded in a Tandem Array of Direct Repeats in Cyanobacteria. Journal of Molecular Biology. 398(2). 177–188. 49 indexed citations

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Ionescu, Danny, Branko Rihtman, Daniel Schwartz, et al.. (2009). Archaea in the Gulf of Aqaba. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 69(3). 425–438. 32 indexed citations

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