Gunter Wegener

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Gunter Wegener is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunter Wegener has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 37 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Gunter Wegener's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (65 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (28 papers). Gunter Wegener is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (65 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (28 papers). Gunter Wegener collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Gunter Wegener's co-authors include Antje Boëtius, Viola Krukenberg, Katrin Knittel, Halina E. Tegetmeyer, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, Dietmar Riedel, Friedrich Widdel, Thomas Holler, Marcus Elvert and Timothy G. Ferdelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gunter Wegener

73 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in marine methane oxidation

2012 411 citations Gunter Wegener, Marcel M. M. Kuypers et al. Nature profile →
Intercellular wiring enables electron transfer between methanotrophic archaea and bacteria

2015 408 citations Gunter Wegener, Viola Krukenberg et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunter Wegener

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Atomic resolution structures of the methane-activating enzyme in anaerobic methanotrophy reveal extensive post-translational modifications 2025 ·Nature Communications ·M. Müller, Martijn Wissink, Pulok K. Mukherjee, (unknown), Rafael Laso-Pérez, Sylvain Engilberge, Philippe Carpentier, Jörg Kahnt, Gunter Wegener, Cornelia U. Welte, Tristan Wagner	1
2	Marine Cold Seep ANME ‐2/ SRB Consortia Produce Their Lipid Biomass From Inorganic Carbon 2025 ·Environmental Microbiology ·(unknown), Gunter Wegener, (unknown), (unknown), Marcus Elvert	0
3	Seasonal and stable heterotrophic guilds drive Arctic benthic microbiome functioning across polar day and night 2025 ·ISME Communications ·(unknown), Carol Arnosti, (unknown), Dirk de Beer, Gunter Wegener, Peter Stief, (unknown), Jürgen Titschack, Rudolf Amann, Katrin Knittel	0
4	Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia 2025 ·Science Advances ·Hang Yu, Shuai Xu, Yamini Jangir, Gunter Wegener, Victoria J. Orphan, Mohamed Y. El‐Naggar	1
5	Ultramafic-influenced submarine venting on basaltic seafloor at the Polaris site, 87°N, Gakkel Ridge 2024 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·E. Albers, Alexander Diehl, Jessica N. Fitzsimmons, Laramie T. Jensen, Frieder Klein, Jill M. McDermott, Autun Purser, Jeffrey S. Seewald, Maren Walter, Gunter Wegener, Wolfgang Bach, Antje Boëtius, Christopher R. German	2
6	Thermophilic Hadarchaeota grow on long-chain alkanes in syntrophy with methanogens 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Лин Фу, Yinzhao Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Gunter Wegener, Lei Cheng, Fengping Wang	7
7	Non-syntrophic Methanogenic Hydrocarbon Degradation by an Archaeal Species 2023 ·(unknown), Cui‐Jing Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Лин Фу, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Lu Yang, Liping Bai, Li Jiang, Min Yang, Junzhang Lin, Weidong Wang, Gunter Wegener, Meng Li, Lei Cheng	2
8	Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·(unknown), Rafael Laso-Pérez, Julius S. Lipp, Dietmar Riedel, (unknown), Andreas Teske, Gunter Wegener	18
9	A hydrogenotrophic Sulfurimonas is globally abundant in deep-sea oxygen-saturated hydrothermal plumes 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Massimiliano Molari, (unknown), Rafael Laso-Pérez, Gunter Wegener, Pierre Offre, (unknown), Antje Boëtius	32
10	Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea 2022 ·PLoS Biology ·Grayson L. Chadwick, Connor T. Skennerton, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Andy O Leu, Daan R. Speth, Hang Yu, Connor Morgan‐Lang, Roland Hatzenpichler, Danielle Goudeau, Rex R. Malmstrom, William J. Brazelton, Tanja Woyke, Steven Hallam, Gene W. Tyson, Gunter Wegener, Antje Boëtius, Victoria J. Orphan	87
11	Biogenic formation of amorphous carbon by anaerobic methanotrophs and select methanogens 2021 ·Science Advances ·Kylie D. Allen, Gunter Wegener, (unknown), Robert J. Bodnar, Xu Feng, Jenny Wendt, Robert H. White	24
12	Bacterial communities in temperate and polar coastal sands are seasonally stable 2021 ·ISME Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Anke Meyerdierks, David Probandt, Gunter Wegener, Jürgen Titschack, Maria Jensen, Andreas Ellrott, Rudolf Amann, Katrin Knittel	43
13	Non-syntrophic methanogenic hydrocarbon degradation by an archaeal species 2021 ·Nature ·(unknown), Cui‐Jing Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Лин Фу, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Lu Yang, Liping Bai, Li Jiang, Min Yang, Junzhang Lin, Weidong Wang, Gunter Wegener, Meng Li, Lei Cheng	135
14	Substrate‐dependent incorporation of carbon and hydrogen for lipid biosynthesis by Methanosarcina barkeri 2020 ·Environmental Microbiology Reports ·Weichao Wu, Travis B. Meador, Martin Könneke, Marcus Elvert, Gunter Wegener, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs	16
15	Methyl/alkyl‐coenzyme M reductase‐based anaerobic alkane oxidation in archaea 2020 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, S. Emil Ruff, Fengping Wang	46
16	Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea 2019 ·Nature Microbiology ·Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, Jialin Hou, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao	138
17	Establishing anaerobic hydrocarbon-degrading enrichment cultures of microorganisms under strictly anoxic conditions 2018 ·Nature Protocols ·Rafael Laso-Pérez, Viola Krukenberg, Florin Musat, Gunter Wegener	48
18	CO ₂ leakage alters biogeochemical and ecological functions of submarine sands 2018 ·Science Advances ·Massimiliano Molari, Katja Guilini, Christian Lott, Miriam Weber, Dirk de Beer, Stefanie Meyer, Alban Ramette, Gunter Wegener, Frank Wenzhöfer, Daniel Martín, Tamara Cibic, Cinzia De Vittor, Ann Vanreusel, Antje Boëtius	31
19	New insights into AOM by stable isotope probing combined with HISH-nanoSIMS and membrane-derived lipid analysis 2009 ·Max Planck Digital Library ·Gunter Wegener, Thomas Holler, Matthias Y. Kellermann, Niculina Musat, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Antje Boëtius	1
20	Short-term changes in anaerobic oxidation of methane in response to varying methane and sulfate fluxes 2008 ·Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) ·Gunter Wegener, Antje Boëtius	3

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