Eugen Pfeifer

952 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 577 citations indexed

About

Eugen Pfeifer is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugen Pfeifer has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 577 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Eugen Pfeifer's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Eugen Pfeifer is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Eugen Pfeifer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Spain. Eugen Pfeifer's co-authors include Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Marie Touchon, Julia Frunzke, Rémy A. Bonnin, Tino Polen, Cornelia Gätgens, Ovidiu Popa, Dietrich Kohlheyer and Bastian Blombach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Eugen Pfeifer

15 papers receiving 575 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.

Phage-plasmids promote recombination and emergence of phages and plasmids

2024 44 citations Eugen Pfeifer, Eduardo P. C. Rocha Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eugen Pfeifer Germany	12	351	346	123	82	78	16	577
Alfred Fillol-Salom United Kingdom	10	536 1.5×	373 1.1×	129 1.0×	103 1.3×	80 1.0×	13	673
Núria Carpena Spain	9	330 0.9×	250 0.7×	69 0.6×	58 0.7×	47 0.6×	12	495
Jee Soo Son South Korea	14	306 0.9×	233 0.7×	69 0.6×	102 1.2×	43 0.6×	24	562
Felipe Molina Spain	11	145 0.4×	284 0.8×	159 1.3×	74 0.9×	39 0.5×	22	508
Rafael Pinilla‐Redondo Denmark	15	434 1.2×	878 2.5×	178 1.4×	143 1.7×	139 1.8×	22	1.1k
Maksym Bobrovskyy United States	9	199 0.6×	492 1.4×	269 2.2×	72 0.9×	51 0.7×	10	698
Rosanna C. T. Wright United Kingdom	12	382 1.1×	222 0.6×	148 1.2×	71 0.9×	138 1.8×	19	559
Hanne Hendrix Belgium	13	461 1.3×	341 1.0×	119 1.0×	67 0.8×	45 0.6×	26	570
Diego González Switzerland	15	217 0.6×	543 1.6×	332 2.7×	123 1.5×	129 1.7×	33	846
Zachary J. Storms Canada	10	690 2.0×	325 0.9×	131 1.1×	106 1.3×	69 0.9×	11	793

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16 of 16 papers shown

Pfeifer, Eugen, Camille d’Humières, Quentin Lamy-Besnier, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic perturbation of the human gut phageome preserves its individuality and promotes blooms of virulent phages. Cell Reports. 44(8). 116020–116020. 1 indexed citations

Pfeifer, Eugen, et al.. (2024). A layered effect in bacterial defense. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(4). 447–449.

Pfeifer, Eugen & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2024). Phage-plasmids promote recombination and emergence of phages and plasmids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1545–1545. 44 indexed citations breakdown →

Pfeifer, Eugen, Rémy A. Bonnin, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2022). Phage-Plasmids Spread Antibiotic Resistance Genes through Infection and Lysogenic Conversion. mBio. 13(5). e0185122–e0185122. 104 indexed citations

Pfeifer, Eugen, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Marie Touchon, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2022). When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 70. 102230–102230. 19 indexed citations

Pfeifer, Eugen, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Marie Touchon, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2021). Bacteria have numerous distinctive groups of phage–plasmids with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(5). 2655–2673. 108 indexed citations

Sousa, Jorge A. Moura de, Eugen Pfeifer, Marie Touchon, & Eduardo P. C. Rocha. (2021). Causes and Consequences of Bacteriophage Diversification via Genetic Exchanges across Lifestyles and Bacterial Taxa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(6). 2497–2512. 68 indexed citations

Filipchyk, Andrei, Christina Mack, Eugen Pfeifer, et al.. (2020). HrrSA orchestrates a systemic response to heme and determines prioritization of terminal cytochrome oxidase expression. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(12). 6547–6562. 12 indexed citations

Pfeifer, Eugen, et al.. (2019). Impact of Xenogeneic Silencing on Phage–Host Interactions. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(23). 4670–4683. 31 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Eugen, Slawomir Michniewski, Cornelia Gätgens, et al.. (2019). Generation of a Prophage-Free Variant of the Fast-Growing Bacterium Vibrio natriegens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(17). 55 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Eugen, et al.. (2018). Cytometry meets next-generation sequencing – RNA-Seq of sorted subpopulations reveals regional replication and iron-triggered prophage induction in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14856–14856. 15 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Eugen, Cornelia Gätgens, Tino Polen, & Julia Frunzke. (2017). Adaptive laboratory evolution of Corynebacterium glutamicum towards higher growth rates on glucose minimal medium. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16780–16780. 48 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Eugen, Ovidiu Popa, Tino Polen, et al.. (2016). Silencing of cryptic prophages inCorynebacterium glutamicum. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(21). gkw692–gkw692. 28 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Eugen, et al.. (2016). Dom34 Links Translation to Protein O-mannosylation. PLoS Genetics. 12(10). e1006395–e1006395. 4 indexed citations

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Donovan, Catriona, Eugen Pfeifer, Tino Polen, et al.. (2015). A prophage-encoded actin-like protein required for efficient viral DNA replication in bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(10). 5002–5016. 11 indexed citations

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Helfrich, Stefan, Eugen Pfeifer, Christina Krämer, et al.. (2015). Live cell imaging of SOS and prophage dynamics in isogenic bacterial populations. Molecular Microbiology. 98(4). 636–650. 29 indexed citations

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