Holger Heuer

16.1k citations

141 papers · 12.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 60

Impact in

Pollution top 0.05%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Molecular Medicine top 0.1%
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Papers in

Molecular Medicine 26
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria 26
Pollution 39
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts 34
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies 13

Co-authors: Kornelia Smalla Elizabeth M. H. Wellington Heike Schmitt Paul Baker Michal Kršek Gabriele Berg Sven Jechalke Johannes Hallmann
Journals: FEMS Microbiology Ecology (23 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (19 papers)Frontiers in Plant Science (6 papers)Frontiers in Microbiology (6 papers)Environmental Microbiology (5 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Egypt

In The Last Decade

Holger Heuer

137 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics in soil 2014 · 446 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Trends in Microbiology
2011 Current Opinion in Microbiology
2001 Applied and Environmental Microbiology
1997 Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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1	Investigations on Microbes Attached to the Cuticle of Phytonematodes Methods in molecular biology ·Olivera Topalović, Zoran S. Radaković, Ahmed Elhady, Sandra Bredenbruch, Holger Heuer	2024	1
2	Genetic Variation among Heterodera schachtii Populations Coincided with Differences in Invasion and Propagation in Roots of a Set of Cruciferous Plants International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Rasha Haj Nuaima, Holger Heuer	2023	3
3	Genetic variation of Meloidogyne spp. of brinjal reveals their difference in pathogenicity and hatching Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection ·S. S. Das, Abdul Wadud, Holger Heuer, Md. Atiqur Rahman Khokon	2021	1
4	Plants Specifically Modulate the Microbiome of Root-Lesion Nematodes in the Rhizosphere, Affecting Their Fitness Microorganisms ·Ahmed Elhady, Olivera Topalović, Holger Heuer	2021	10
5	Symbiosis of soybean with nitrogen fixing bacteria affected by root lesion nematodes in a density-dependent manner Scientific Reports ·Ahmed Elhady, Johannes Hallmann, Holger Heuer	2020	25
6	MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION, RACE DETECTION, AND LIFE CYCLE OF ROTYLENCHULUS RENIFORMIS IN EGYPT Nematropica ·Mohamed A. Adam, Shaimaa Diab, A. A. Farahat, A. A. Al-Sayed, Holger Heuer	2018	1
7	Antibiotika-Resistenzgene als Marker in gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen - Gefahr durch horizontalen Gentransfer? Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (Julius Kühn-Institut) ·Kornelia Smalla, F. Gebhard, Holger Heuer	2015	0
8	Occurrence, survival and management options for potato cyst nematodes in Norway. Aspects of applied biology ·Ricardo Holgado, Christer Sven Magnusson, Bonsak Hammeraas, Ilse A. Rasmussen, K. A. Strandenæs, Holger Heuer, Richard C. Knudsen	2015	0
9	Effect of the soil type on the microbiome in the rhizosphere of field-grown lettuce Frontiers in Microbiology ·Susanne Schreiter, Guochun Ding, Holger Heuer, GÃ ⁄ nter Neumann, Martin Sandmann, Rita Grosch, Siegfried Kropf, Kornelia Smalla	2014	277
10	Widespread dissemination of class 1 integron components in soils and related ecosystems as revealed by cultivation-independent analysis Frontiers in Microbiology ·Sven Jechalke, Susanne Schreiter, Birgit Wolters, Simone Dealtry, Holger Heuer, Kornelia Smalla	2014	71
11	Occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in organic farming in Egypt. Mohamed A. Adam, Holger Heuer, Elshahat M. Ramadan, M. A. Hussein, Johannes Hallmann	2013	13
12	Antibiotic resistance gene spread due to manure application on agricultural fields Current Opinion in Microbiology ·Holger Heuer, Heike Schmitt, Kornelia Smalla Hit paper breakdown →	2011	776
13	Spreading antibiotic resistance through spread manure: characteristics of a novel plasmid type with low %G+C content Environmental Microbiology ·Holger Heuer, Christoph Kopmann, Chu Thi Thanh Binh, Eva M. Top, Kornelia Smalla	2008	114
14	Genomics of resistance plasmids isolated from wastewater treatment plants Plasmid ·Thomas Tennstedt, Holger Heuer, Eva M. Top, Rafael Szczepanowski, Alfred Pühler, Andreas Schlüter	2005	2
15	Significance test for comparing complex microbial community fingerprints using pairwise similarity measures Journal of Microbiological Methods ·Siegfried Kropf, Holger Heuer, Martin Grüning, Kornelia Smalla	2004	135
16	Specific and Sensitive Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum in Soil on the Basis of PCR Amplification of fliC Fragments OpenAgrar ·J. Schönfeld, Holger Heuer, J. D. Elsas, Kornelia Smalla	2003	1
17	Prevalence of streptomycin-resistance genes in bacterial populations in European habitats FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·L.S. van Overbeek, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Sharon A. Egan, Kornelia Smalla, Holger Heuer, Jean‐Marc Collard, Gillian Guillaume, Amalia D. Karagouni, Theodora L. Nikolakopoulou, Jan Dirk van Elsas	2002	61
18	Bulk and Rhizosphere Soil Bacterial Communities Studied by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis: Plant-Dependent Enrichment and Seasonal Shifts Revealed Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Kornelia Smalla, Gabriele Wieland, Arno Buchner, A. Zock, J. Parzy, Sandra K. Kaiser, N. Roskot, Holger Heuer, Gabriele Berg Hit paper breakdown →	2001	896
19	Establishment of introduced antagonistic bacteria in the rhizosphere of transgenic potatoes and their effect on the bacterial community FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·J. Lottmann, Holger Heuer, Johann de Vries, Andreas Mahn, Klaus Ring, Wilfried Wackernagel, Kornelia Smalla, Gabriele Berg	2000	106
20	Antibiotic resistance genes as markers in transgenic plants - risk of horizontal gene transfer? Nachrichtenblatt des Deutschen Pflanzenschutzdienstes ·Kornelia Smalla, F. Gebhard, Holger Heuer	2000	2

About Holger Heuer

Holger Heuer is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Pollution, Plant Science, Ecology and Insect Science, having authored 141 papers that have together received 12.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nematode management and characterization studies (47 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (34 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (30 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (26 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (19 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (16 papers) and Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (5.0k citations), Molecular Medicine (2.1k citations), Soil Science (1.3k citations), Ecology (3.4k citations) and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (240 citations). Holger Heuer has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Egypt. Frequent co-authors include Kornelia Smalla, Kornelia Smalla, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Heike Schmitt, Paul Baker, Michal Kršek, Gabriele Berg, Sven Jechalke, Johannes Hallmann and Michael Schloter. Their work appears in journals such as FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology.

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