Frank Oliver Glöckner

90.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
158 papers, 57.0k citations indexed

About

Frank Oliver Glöckner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Oliver Glöckner has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 57.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Molecular Biology, 113 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Frank Oliver Glöckner's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (92 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (28 papers). Frank Oliver Glöckner is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (100 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (92 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (28 papers). Frank Oliver Glöckner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frank Oliver Glöckner's co-authors include Jörg Peplies, Elmar Pruesse, Christian Quast, Pablo Yarza, Pelin Yilmaz, Jan Gerken, Wolfgang Ludwig, Rudolf Amann, Bernhard M. Fuchs and Anna Klindworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Frank Oliver Glöckner

155 papers receiving 56.3k citations

Hit Papers

The SILVA ribosomal RNA g... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2012 2012 2007 2013 2012 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k
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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.

  1. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
    2012 22.5k citations Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies
    2012 6.3k citations Elmar Pruesse, Jörg Peplies et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB
    2007 5.2k citations Elmar Pruesse, Christian Quast et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks
    2013 2.6k citations Pelin Yilmaz, Pablo Yarza et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes
    2012 2.4k citations Elmar Pruesse, Jörg Peplies et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  6. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications
    2018 2.4k citations Frank Oliver Glöckner et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison
    2015 2.1k citations Michael Richter, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  8. Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences
    2014 1.8k citations Pablo Yarza, Pelin Yilmaz et al. profile →
  9. The All-Species Living Tree project: A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains
    2008 724 citations Pablo Yarza, Jörg Peplies et al. Systematic and Applied Microbiology profile →
  10. Bacterioplankton Compositions of Lakes and Oceans: a First Comparison Based on Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
    1999 676 citations Frank Oliver Glöckner, Bernhard M. Fuchs et al. profile →
  11. 25 years of serving the community with ribosomal RNA gene reference databases and tools
    2017 632 citations Frank Oliver Glöckner, Pelin Yilmaz et al. profile →
  12. Comparative 16S rRNA Analysis of Lake Bacterioplankton Reveals Globally Distributed Phylogenetic Clusters Including an Abundant Group of Actinobacteria
    2000 528 citations Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rudolf Amann et al. profile →
  13. Culturability and In Situ Abundance of Pelagic Bacteria from the North Sea
    2000 520 citations Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rudolf Amann et al. profile →
  14. Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms
    2016 345 citations Hanno Teeling, Bernhard M. Fuchs 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
Frank Oliver Glöckner Germany 60 28.2k 25.3k 7.8k 6.2k 5.6k 158 57.0k
Jörg Peplies Germany 28 21.9k 0.8× 17.5k 0.7× 5.9k 0.8× 4.2k 0.7× 4.3k 0.8× 39 44.4k
Donovan H. Parks Australia 43 23.5k 0.8× 19.8k 0.8× 5.4k 0.7× 5.5k 0.9× 5.4k 1.0× 66 44.2k
Elmar Pruesse Germany 8 19.8k 0.7× 16.4k 0.6× 5.3k 0.7× 4.1k 0.7× 4.0k 0.7× 10 41.1k
J. Gregory Caporaso United States 65 28.1k 1.0× 18.6k 0.7× 7.8k 1.0× 3.5k 0.6× 5.2k 0.9× 123 57.4k
Philip Hugenholtz Australia 105 40.2k 1.4× 31.2k 1.2× 8.7k 1.1× 7.9k 1.3× 9.2k 1.7× 416 77.7k
Christian Quast Germany 17 17.9k 0.6× 15.1k 0.6× 4.9k 0.6× 3.6k 0.6× 3.9k 0.7× 22 38.6k
Wolfgang Ludwig Germany 80 22.9k 0.8× 23.1k 0.9× 4.4k 0.6× 6.1k 1.0× 9.4k 1.7× 311 50.1k
Patrick D. Schloss United States 75 22.6k 0.8× 14.1k 0.6× 4.7k 0.6× 3.1k 0.5× 4.0k 0.7× 201 44.1k
Susan Holmes United States 60 23.9k 0.8× 13.8k 0.5× 6.8k 0.9× 2.4k 0.4× 3.4k 0.6× 189 52.9k
Erko Stackebrandt Germany 100 41.5k 1.5× 28.0k 1.1× 11.3k 1.5× 5.5k 0.9× 6.0k 1.1× 638 66.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Oliver Glöckner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Oliver Glöckner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chuvochina, Maria, Jan Gerken, Heike M. Freese, et al.. (2025). SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D334–D341. 1 indexed citations
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Diepenbroek, Michael, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Bernhard Seeger, et al.. (2023). Towards a Research Data Commons in the German National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI: Vision, Governance, Architecture. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1. 1 indexed citations
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Felden, Janine, Lars Möller, Uwe Schindler, et al.. (2023). PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. Scientific Data. 10(1). 347–347. 55 indexed citations
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Glöckner, Frank Oliver, et al.. (2020). Leipzig-Berlin-Erklärung zu NFDI-Querschnittsthemen der Infrastrukturentwicklung. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Glöckner, Frank Oliver, Michael Diepenbroek, Janine Felden, et al.. (2020). NFDI4BioDiversity - A Consortium for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 6 indexed citations
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Glöckner, Frank Oliver, et al.. (2020). Häufigkeit der palliativen Sedierung im Vergleich zwischen stationärer und ambulanter Behandlung [214]. Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin. 21.
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Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Ward Appeltans, Gabrielle Canonico, et al.. (2019). Building a strategy towards an Omic Biodiversity Observation Network (Omic BON). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations
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Glöckner, Frank Oliver, et al.. (2019). Fast and accurate average genome size and 16S rRNA gene average copy number computation in metagenomic data. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 453–453. 25 indexed citations
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Meyer, Jan M., Praveen Baskaran, Christian Quast, et al.. (2017). Succession and dynamics of Pristionchus nematodes and their microbiome during decomposition of Oryctes borbonicus on La Réunion Island. Environmental Microbiology. 19(4). 1476–1489. 34 indexed citations
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Richter, Michael, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Frank Oliver Glöckner, & Jörg Peplies. (2015). JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison. Bioinformatics. 32(6). 929–931. 2107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xing, Peng, Richard L. Hahnke, Frank Unfried, et al.. (2014). Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom. The ISME Journal. 9(6). 1410–1422. 153 indexed citations
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Diepenbroek, Michael, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Peter Grobe, et al.. (2014). Towards an integrated biodiversity and ecological research data management and archiving platform: the German federation for the curation of biological data (GFBio). GI-Jahrestagung. 1711–1721. 86 indexed citations
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Quast, Christian, Elmar Pruesse, Pelin Yilmaz, et al.. (2012). The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D590–D596. 22524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schattenhofer, Martha, et al.. (2011). Phylogenetic characterisation of picoplanktonic populations with high and low nucleic acid content in the North Atlantic Ocean. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 34(6). 470–475. 75 indexed citations
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Muñoz, Raúl, Pablo Yarza, Wolfgang Ludwig, et al.. (2011). Release LTPs104 of the All-Species Living Tree. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 34(3). 169–170. 112 indexed citations
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Peña, Arantxa, Hanno Teeling, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, et al.. (2010). Fine-scale evolution: genomic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation in two coexisting Salinibacter ruber strains. The ISME Journal. 4(7). 882–895. 57 indexed citations
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Wecker, Patricia, et al.. (2010). Life cycle analysis of the model organism Rhodopirellula baltica SH 1 T by transcriptome studies. Microbial Biotechnology. 3(5). 583–594. 13 indexed citations
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Kottmann, Renzo, Agnieszka Rybarczyk, Piotr Formanowicz, et al.. (2010). Cerberus: A New Information Retrieval Tool for Marine Metagenomics. Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences. 107–126. 2 indexed citations
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Gärdes, Astrid, Shalin Seebah, Hanno Teeling, et al.. (2010). Complete genome sequence of Marinobacter adhaerens type strain (HP15), a diatom-interacting marine microorganism. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 3(2). 97–107. 42 indexed citations
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Gray, Tanya, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Frank Oliver Glöckner, et al.. (2008). Laying the Foundation for a Genomic Rosetta Stone: Creating Information Hubs through the Use of Consensus Identifiers. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 12(2). 123–127. 10 indexed citations

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