Jakob Pernthaler

17.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
154 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Jakob Pernthaler is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jakob Pernthaler has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Ecology, 74 papers in Oceanography and 70 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jakob Pernthaler's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (128 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (44 papers). Jakob Pernthaler is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (128 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (44 papers). Jakob Pernthaler collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Jakob Pernthaler's co-authors include Rudolf Amann, Annelie Pernthaler, Thomas Posch, Michaela M. Salcher, Roland Psenner, Frank Oliver Glöckner, H. Peter Eilers, Falk Warnecke, Karel Šimek and Cecília Alonso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jakob Pernthaler

153 papers receiving 13.3k 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.

Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition for the Identification of Marine Bacteria

2002 805 citations Annelie Pernthaler, Jakob Pernthaler et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological implications

2005 636 citations Jakob Pernthaler profile →
Comparative 16S rRNA Analysis of Lake Bacterioplankton Reveals Globally Distributed Phylogenetic Clusters Including an Abundant Group of Actinobacteria

2000 528 citations Jakob Pernthaler, Annelie Pernthaler et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Culturability and In Situ Abundance of Pelagic Bacteria from the North Sea

2000 520 citations Jakob Pernthaler et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jakob Pernthaler Switzerland	62	10.8k	5.8k	5.0k	3.3k	2.1k	154	13.7k
Bernhard M. Fuchs Germany	54	10.1k 0.9×	7.1k 1.2×	4.0k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	129	15.5k
Meinhard Simon Germany	62	9.3k 0.9×	3.8k 0.6×	6.4k 1.3×	2.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	195	13.1k
Mary Ann Moran United States	74	11.1k 1.0×	5.8k 1.0×	7.5k 1.5×	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	189	16.7k
Carlos Pedrós‐Alió Spain	62	11.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	173	14.3k
Stefan Bertilsson Sweden	59	9.3k 0.9×	5.2k 0.9×	4.2k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	221	15.7k
Hans‐Peter Grossart Germany	68	8.6k 0.8×	4.0k 0.7×	5.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	3.3k 1.6×	396	16.0k
Klaus Jürgens Germany	55	6.9k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	4.2k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	143	10.0k
Ramūnas Stepanauskas United States	58	7.3k 0.7×	5.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	128	12.1k
David L. Kirchman United States	77	13.2k 1.2×	5.1k 0.9×	10.2k 2.0×	4.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	161	19.4k
Josep M. Gasol Spain	79	14.1k 1.3×	4.9k 0.8×	11.1k 2.2×	3.9k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	322	18.4k

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Bassin, Barbara, et al.. (2025). The planktonic freshwater ciliate Balanion planctonicum (Ciliophora, Prostomatea): A cryptic species complex or a “complex species”?. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 72(1). e13084–e13084. 2 indexed citations

Pernthaler, Jakob, et al.. (2024). Centimetre scale functional dispersal limitation of freshwater copiotrophs. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16682–e16682.

Andrei, Adrian‐Ștefan, et al.. (2024). Dispersal shapes compositional and functional diversity in aquatic microbial communities. mSystems. 9(12). e0140324–e0140324. 1 indexed citations

Sheng, Rong, Wenzhao Zhang, Haijun Hou, et al.. (2023). The role of inherited characteristics from parent materials in shaping bacterial communities in agricultural soils. Geoderma. 433. 116455–116455. 5 indexed citations

Petchey, Owen L., et al.. (2023). Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems. Ecology. 104(4). e4005–e4005. 8 indexed citations

Pernthaler, Jakob, et al.. (2023). Small‐scale spatial beta diversity of bacteria in the mixed upper layer of a lake. Environmental Microbiology. 25(10). 1847–1859. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Baoli, Clemens Karwautz, Adrian‐Ștefan Andrei, et al.. (2022). A novel Methylomirabilota methanotroph potentially couples methane oxidation to iodate reduction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 323–328. 33 indexed citations

Pernthaler, Jakob, et al.. (2021). Spatial microheterogeneity and selective microbial consumption of dissolved free amino acids in an oligomesotrophic lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 66(10). 3728–3739. 4 indexed citations

Bartosiewicz, Maciej, et al.. (2020). The biogeochemical variability of Arctic thermokarst ponds is reflected by stochastic and niche‐driven microbial community assembly processes. Environmental Microbiology. 22(11). 4847–4862. 14 indexed citations

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Piwosz, Kasia, Tanja Shabarova, Jakob Pernthaler, et al.. (2020). Bacterial and Eukaryotic Small-Subunit Amplicon Data Do Not Provide a Quantitative Picture of Microbial Communities, but They Are Reliable in the Context of Ecological Interpretations. mSphere. 5(2). 39 indexed citations

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Pernthaler, Jakob, et al.. (2020). Biomass addition alters community assembly in ultrafiltration membrane biofilms. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11552–11552. 2 indexed citations

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Pernthaler, Jakob, et al.. (2019). Priming of microcystin degradation in carbon-amended membrane biofilm communities is promoted by oxygen-limited conditions. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 95(11). 5 indexed citations

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Garneau, Marie‐Ève, Thomas Posch, & Jakob Pernthaler. (2015). Seasonal patterns of microcystin-producing and non-producing Planktothrix rubescens genotypes in a deep pre-alpine lake. Harmful Algae. 50. 21–31. 11 indexed citations

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Posch, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Network of Interactions Between Ciliates and Phytoplankton During Spring. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1289–1289. 56 indexed citations

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Kurmayer, Rainer, Judith F. Blom, Li Deng, & Jakob Pernthaler. (2014). Integrating phylogeny, geographic niche partitioning and secondary metabolite synthesis in bloom-forming Planktothrix. The ISME Journal. 9(4). 909–921. 46 indexed citations

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Zucchi, Sara, et al.. (2014). Molecular effects of the cyanobacterial toxin cyanopeptolin (CP1020) occurring in algal blooms: Global transcriptome analysis in zebrafish embryos. Aquatic Toxicology. 149. 33–39. 57 indexed citations

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Eiler, Alexander, Stina Drakare, Stefan Bertilsson, et al.. (2013). Unveiling Distribution Patterns of Freshwater Phytoplankton by a Next Generation Sequencing Based Approach. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53516–e53516. 98 indexed citations

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Zeder, Michael & Jakob Pernthaler. (2009). Multispot live‐image autofocusing for high‐throughput microscopy of fluorescently stained bacteria. Cytometry Part A. 75A(9). 781–788. 57 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Silvia, Judith F. Blom, Jakob Pernthaler, et al.. (2009). Production of the antifungal compound pyrrolnitrin is quorum sensing‐regulated in members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. Environmental Microbiology. 11(6). 1422–1437. 94 indexed citations

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Herndl, Gerhard J., Thomas Reinthaler, Eva Teira, et al.. (2005). Contribution of Archaea to Total Prokaryotic Production in the Deep Atlantic Ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(5). 2303–2309. 453 indexed citations

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