Hans‐Werner Breiner

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Hans‐Werner Breiner is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans‐Werner Breiner has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Hans‐Werner Breiner's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (16 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (7 papers). Hans‐Werner Breiner is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (16 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (7 papers). Hans‐Werner Breiner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Hans‐Werner Breiner's co-authors include Thorsten Stoeck, Thomas A. Richards, David Bass, Markus E. Nebel, Meredith D. M. Jones, Richard Christen, Anke Behnke, Sabine Filker, Alexandra Stock and Michail M. Yakimov and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Hans‐Werner Breiner

22 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

2010 1.2k citations Thorsten Stoeck, David Bass et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hans‐Werner Breiner Germany	16	1.8k	1.5k	436	230	189	22	2.1k
Peter D. Countway United States	21	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	672 1.5×	286 1.2×	116 0.6×	32	2.2k
Yonghui Zeng China	23	1.2k 0.7×	848 0.6×	364 0.8×	235 1.0×	129 0.7×	63	1.7k
Rohan Sachdeva United States	17	1.5k 0.8×	991 0.7×	459 1.1×	261 1.1×	178 0.9×	31	1.9k
Genoveva F. Esteban United Kingdom	25	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	655 1.5×	446 1.9×	139 0.7×	76	2.4k
Claudia Steglich Germany	24	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	407 0.9×	138 0.6×	219 1.2×	46	2.5k
Ludwig Jardillier France	24	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	776 1.8×	229 1.0×	158 0.8×	36	2.0k
Angélique Gobet France	21	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	433 1.0×	234 1.0×	311 1.6×	31	2.2k
Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka Germany	23	1.0k 0.6×	715 0.5×	442 1.0×	347 1.5×	170 0.9×	44	1.8k
Diane Y. Kim United States	10	979 0.5×	739 0.5×	303 0.7×	112 0.5×	118 0.6×	13	1.3k
Cécile Lepère France	21	1.2k 0.7×	934 0.6×	363 0.8×	131 0.6×	98 0.5×	33	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Hans‐Werner Breiner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hans‐Werner Breiner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hans‐Werner Breiner

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stoeck, Thorsten, et al.. (2024). Nanopore duplex sequencing as an alternative to Illumina MiSeq sequencing for eDNA-based biomonitoring of coastal aquaculture impacts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 7 indexed citations

Frühe, Larissa, Tristan Cordier, Hans‐Werner Breiner, et al.. (2020). Supervised machine learning is superior to indicator value inference in monitoring the environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture using eDNA metabarcodes. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 2988–3006. 54 indexed citations

Zayed, Ahmed, et al.. (2019). Induction and genetic identification of a callus‐like growth developed in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus. Engineering in Life Sciences. 19(5). 363–369. 6 indexed citations

Breiner, Hans‐Werner, et al.. (2015). High diversity of protistan plankton communities in remote high mountain lakes in the European Alps and the Himalayan mountains. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(4). 54 indexed citations

Stoeck, Thorsten, Sabine Filker, Virginia P. Edgcomb, et al.. (2014). Living at the Limits: Evidence for Microbial Eukaryotes Thriving under Pressure in Deep Anoxic, Hypersaline Habitats. 2014. 1–9. 12 indexed citations

Filker, Sabine, et al.. (2014). Protistan diversity in a permanently stratified meromictic lake (Lake A latsee, SW G ermany). Environmental Microbiology. 17(6). 2144–2157. 38 indexed citations

Vďačný, Peter, et al.. (2013). The Chaos Prevails: Molecular Phylogeny of the Haptoria (Ciliophora, Litostomatea). Protist. 165(1). 93–111. 41 indexed citations

Stock, Alexandra, Virginia P. Edgcomb, William Orsi, et al.. (2013). Evidence for isolated evolution of deep-sea ciliate communities through geological separation and environmental selection. BMC Microbiology. 13(1). 150–150. 44 indexed citations

Stoeck, Thorsten, et al.. (2013). A morphogenetic survey on ciliate plankton from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of lineage‐specific barcode markers in microbial ecology. Environmental Microbiology. 16(2). 430–444. 96 indexed citations

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Filker, Sabine, Alexandra Stock, Hans‐Werner Breiner, et al.. (2012). Environmental selection of protistan plankton communities in hypersaline anoxic deep‐sea basins,EasternMediterraneanSea. MicrobiologyOpen. 2(1). 54–63. 11 indexed citations

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Dunthorn, Micah, Thorsten Stoeck, Klaus Wolf, Hans‐Werner Breiner, & Wilhelm Foissner. (2012). Diversity and endemism of ciliates inhabiting Neotropical phytotelmata. Systematics and Biodiversity. 10(2). 195–205. 43 indexed citations

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Stock, Alexandra, Hans‐Werner Breiner, Maria Pachiadaki, et al.. (2011). Microbial eukaryote life in the new hypersaline deep-sea basin Thetis. Extremophiles. 16(1). 21–34. 64 indexed citations

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Edgcomb, Virginia P., William Orsi, Hans‐Werner Breiner, et al.. (2011). Novel active kinetoplastids associated with hypersaline anoxic basins in the Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 58(10). 1040–1048. 30 indexed citations

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Stoeck, Thorsten, David Bass, Markus E. Nebel, et al.. (2010). Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water. Molecular Ecology. 19(s1). 21–31. 1174 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alexander, Eva, Alexandra Stock, Hans‐Werner Breiner, et al.. (2008). Microbial eukaryotes in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante deep‐sea basin. Environmental Microbiology. 11(2). 360–381. 122 indexed citations

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Breiner, Hans‐Werner, Wilhelm Foissner, & Thorsten Stoeck. (2008). The Search Finds an End: Colpodidiids Belong to the Class Nassophorea (Ciliophora). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 55(2). 100–102. 8 indexed citations

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Stoeck, Thorsten, et al.. (2007). A Molecular Approach to Identify Active Microbes in Environmental Eukaryote Clone Libraries. Microbial Ecology. 53(2). 328–339. 94 indexed citations

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Behnke, Anke, et al.. (2006). Microeukaryote Community Patterns along an O₂/H₂S Gradient in a Supersulfidic Anoxic Fjord (Framvaren, Norway). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(5). 3626–3636. 118 indexed citations

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Breiner, Hans‐Werner, et al.. (2000). The toxic symbiontCaedibacter caryophila in the cytoplasm ofParamecium novaurelia. Microbial Ecology. 40(4). 330–335. 16 indexed citations

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Schreiber, Lukas, Hans‐Werner Breiner, Markus Riederer, Marcel Düggelin, & R. Guggenheim. (1994). The Casparian Strip of Clivia miniata Reg. Roots: Isolation, Fine Structure and Chemical Nature*. Botanica Acta. 107(5). 353–361. 59 indexed citations

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