Eva Spieck

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Eva Spieck is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Eva Spieck has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Pollution, 45 papers in Ecology and 26 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Eva Spieck's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (47 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (26 papers). Eva Spieck is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (47 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (26 papers). Eva Spieck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Netherlands. Eva Spieck's co-authors include Holger Daims, Michael Wagner, Sebastian Lücker, Boris Nowka, Thomas Rattei, André Lipski, Hanna Koch, Roland Hatzenpichler, Frank Maixner and Mashal Alawi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Eva Spieck

63 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and ev... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2010 2008 2015 200 400 600
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. A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria
    2010 629 citations Sebastian Lücker, Michael Wagner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring
    2008 570 citations Roland Hatzenpichler, Е. В. Лебедева et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira
    2015 393 citations Hanna Koch, Sebastian Lücker et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eva Spieck Germany 35 3.6k 3.5k 1.4k 1.2k 1.0k 63 5.7k
Eberhard Bock Germany 41 1.9k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 971 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 920 0.9× 109 5.1k
Christopher Francis United States 49 7.2k 2.0× 4.7k 1.3× 2.7k 2.0× 902 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 100 9.9k
Ben Abbas Netherlands 40 2.5k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 665 0.6× 371 0.4× 74 5.3k
Martin Könneke Germany 28 4.6k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.5× 498 0.4× 406 0.4× 47 6.2k
Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen Netherlands 8 1.6k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 530 0.4× 988 0.8× 706 0.7× 8 4.0k
Jan T. Keltjens Netherlands 34 1.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 1.4k 1.2× 789 0.8× 99 5.5k
Willm Martens‐Habbena United States 24 2.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 382 0.3× 292 0.3× 46 3.9k
Yiguo Hong China 33 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 479 0.4× 395 0.3× 635 0.6× 119 3.3k
Marlene Mark Jensen Denmark 29 2.1k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 400 0.3× 421 0.4× 395 0.4× 50 3.9k
Laurie A. Achenbach United States 31 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 961 0.7× 1.9k 1.6× 2.0k 2.0× 42 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eva Spieck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eva Spieck

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Keuter, Sabine, Hanna Koch, Boris Nowka, et al.. (2023). A novelNitrospiralineage isolated from activated sludge using elevated temperatures. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 370. 10 indexed citations
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Elling, Felix J., T. Evans, Jordon Hemingway, et al.. (2022). Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols. Geobiology. 20(3). 399–420. 15 indexed citations
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Spieck, Eva, Sabine Keuter, Michael Spohn, et al.. (2020). Defining Culture Conditions for the Hidden Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrolancea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1522–1522. 27 indexed citations
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Mastroleo, Felice, Marlies Christiaens, Ralph E.F. Lindeboom, et al.. (2019). Reactivation of Microbial Strains and Synthetic Communities After a Spaceflight to the International Space Station: Corroborating the Feasibility of Essential Conversions in the MELiSSA Loop. Astrobiology. 19(9). 1167–1176. 12 indexed citations
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Nowka, Boris, et al.. (2018). The draft genome sequence of “Nitrospira lenta” strain BS10, a nitrite oxidizing bacterium isolated from activated sludge. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 13(1). 32–32. 22 indexed citations
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Füssel, Jessika, Sebastian Lücker, Pelin Yilmaz, et al.. (2017). Adaptability as the key to success for the ubiquitous marine nitrite oxidizer Nitrococcus. Science Advances. 3(11). e1700807–e1700807. 71 indexed citations
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Koch, Hanna, Sebastian Lücker, Mads Albertsen, et al.. (2015). Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(36). 11371–11376. 393 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nowka, Boris, Sandra Off, Holger Daims, & Eva Spieck. (2014). Improved isolation strategies allowed the phenotypic differentiation of two Nitrospira strains from widespread phylogenetic lineages. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(3). 62 indexed citations
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Bakker, Evert P., et al.. (2013). The nitrite-oxidizing community in activated sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant determined by fatty acid methyl ester-stable isotope probing. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 36(7). 517–524. 23 indexed citations
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Keuter, Sabine, et al.. (2013). Relevance and Diversity of Nitrospira Populations in Biofilters of Brackish RAS. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64737–e64737. 22 indexed citations
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Vekeman, Bram, Sven Hoefman, Paul de Vos, Eva Spieck, & Kim Heylen. (2013). A generally applicable cryopreservation method for nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 36(8). 579–584. 10 indexed citations
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Spieck, Eva & André Lipski. (2010). Cultivation, Growth Physiology, and Chemotaxonomy of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 486. 109–130. 70 indexed citations
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Spang, Anja, Roland Hatzenpichler, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, et al.. (2010). Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Trends in Microbiology. 18(8). 331–340. 375 indexed citations
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Maixner, Frank, Michael Wagner, Sebastian Lücker, et al.. (2008). Environmental genomics reveals a functional chlorite dismutase in the nitrite‐oxidizing bacterium ‘ Candidatus Nitrospira defluvii’. Environmental Microbiology. 10(11). 3043–3056. 96 indexed citations
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Лебедева, Е. В., Mashal Alawi, Frank Maixner, et al.. (2008). Physiological and phylogenetic characterization of a novel lithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium, 'Candidatus Nitrospira bockiana'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 58(1). 242–250. 79 indexed citations
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Vanparys, Bram, Eva Spieck, Kim Heylen, et al.. (2007). The phylogeny of the genus Nitrobacter based on comparative rep-PCR, 16S rRNA and nitrite oxidoreductase gene sequence analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 30(4). 297–308. 65 indexed citations
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Lebedeva, E. V., Mashal Alawi, Claudia Fiencke, et al.. (2005). Moderately thermophilic nitrifying bacteria from a hot spring of the Baikal rift zone. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 54(2). 297–306. 82 indexed citations
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Spieck, Eva, et al.. (2005). Selective enrichment and molecular characterization of a previously uncultured Nitrospira ‐like bacterium from activated sludge. Environmental Microbiology. 8(3). 405–415. 133 indexed citations
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Spieck, Eva. (1996). Immunocytochemical detection and location of the membrane-bound nitrite oxidoreductase in cells of Nitrobacter and Nitrospira. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 139(1). 71–76. 3 indexed citations
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Spieck, Eva, Jens Aamand, Sabine Bartosch, & Eberhard Bock. (1996). Immunocytochemical detection and location of the membrane-bound nitrite oxidoreductase in cells ofNitrobacterandNitrospira. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 139(1). 71–76. 25 indexed citations

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