Jana Milucka

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Jana Milucka is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jana Milucka has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jana Milucka's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers). Jana Milucka is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers). Jana Milucka collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Jana Milucka's co-authors include Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Carsten J. Schubert, Sten Littmann, Lùbos Polerecký, Michael Wagner, Friedrich Widdel, Andreas Brand, Gunter Wegener, Kirsten Oswald and Markus Schmid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jana Milucka

31 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

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

2012 411 citations Jana Milucka, Michael Wagner et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Jana Milucka

ECOLO

OCEAN

GPC

Sten Littmann Germany

Andy O Leu Australia

Jason B. Sylvan United States

Heide N. Schulz Germany

Masae Suzuki Japan

Tobias Goldhammer Germany

Jennifer L. Macalady United States

R. John Parkes United Kingdom

Huaiyang Zhou China

Lars Schreiber Denmark

Sten Littmann Germany

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ECOLO

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654 ×1.2

OCEAN

543 ×1.2

385 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Jana Milucka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jana Milucka

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jana Milucka

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jana Milucka. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jana Milucka 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 Jana Milucka. Jana Milucka 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

Speth, Daan R., et al.. (2025). Biochar application using recycled annual self straw reduces long-term greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields with economic benefits. Nature Food. 6(5). 456–465. 7 indexed citations

Speth, Daan R., et al.. (2024). Genetic potential for aerobic respiration and denitrification in globally distributed respiratory endosymbionts. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9682–9682. 2 indexed citations

Schorn, Sina, Jon S. Graf, Sten Littmann, et al.. (2024). Persistent activity of aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria in anoxic lake waters due to metabolic versatility. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5293–5293. 26 indexed citations

Flintrop, Clara M., et al.. (2024). Microplastics may reduce the efficiency of the biological carbon pump by decreasing the settling velocity and carbon content of marine snow. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(9). 1918–1928. 5 indexed citations

Tschitschko, Bernhard, Miriam Philippi, Abiel T. Kidane, et al.. (2024). Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean. Nature. 630(8018). 899–904. 38 indexed citations

Liu, Liu, Xin Zhang, Sina Schorn, et al.. (2024). Strong Subseasonal Variability of Oxic Methane Production Challenges Methane Budgeting in Freshwater Lakes. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(44). 19690–19701. 2 indexed citations

Kidane, Abiel T., Miriam Philippi, Wiebke Mohr, et al.. (2023). Methylphosphonate-driven methane formation and its link to primary production in the oligotrophic North Atlantic. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6529–6529. 13 indexed citations

Graf, Jon S., Sina Schorn, Katharina Kitzinger, et al.. (2021). Anaerobic endosymbiont generates energy for ciliate host by denitrification. Nature. 591(7850). 445–450. 61 indexed citations

Mohr, Wiebke, Soeren Ahmerkamp, Hannah K. Marchant, et al.. (2021). Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium. Nature. 600(7887). 105–109. 65 indexed citations

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Saona, Luis A., Lars Wörmer, Jana Milucka, et al.. (2021). Phosphate-Arsenic Interactions in Halophilic Microorganisms of the Microbial Mat from Laguna Tebenquiche: from the Microenvironment to the Genomes. Microbial Ecology. 81(4). 941–953. 11 indexed citations

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Orsi, William D., Raphaël Morard, Aurèle Vuillemin, et al.. (2020). Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2580–2594. 42 indexed citations

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Hütten, Moritz, Sophie Lohmann, Evelyn Medawar, et al.. (2020). Making Science Organizations Sustainable—The Mission of the Max Planck Sustainability Network. Frontiers in Sustainability. 1. 5 indexed citations

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Oswald, Kirsten, Jon S. Graf, Sten Littmann, et al.. (2017). Crenothrix are major methane consumers in stratified lakes. The ISME Journal. 11(9). 2124–2140. 113 indexed citations

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Gruber‐Vodicka, Harald R., Manuel Kleiner, Halina E. Tegetmeyer, et al.. (2016). Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts. Nature. 534(7606). 254–258. 58 indexed citations

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Marchant, Hannah K., Anne Schwedt, Jana Milucka, et al.. (2016). High rates of microbial dinitrogen fixation and sulfate reduction associated with the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 39(7). 476–483. 39 indexed citations

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Bristow, Laura A., Cameron M. Callbeck, Morten Larsen, et al.. (2016). N2 production rates limited by nitrite availability in the Bay of Bengal oxygen minimum zone. Nature Geoscience. 10(1). 24–29. 176 indexed citations

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Milucka, Jana, Mathias K. Kirf, Lu Lu, et al.. (2015). Methane oxidation coupled to oxygenic photosynthesis in anoxic waters. The ISME Journal. 9(9). 1991–2002. 118 indexed citations

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Oswald, Kirsten, Jana Milucka, Andreas Brand, et al.. (2015). Light-Dependent Aerobic Methane Oxidation Reduces Methane Emissions from Seasonally Stratified Lakes. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132574–e0132574. 126 indexed citations

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Berg, Jasmine S., et al.. (2013). Polysulfides as Intermediates in the Oxidation of Sulfide to Sulfate by Beggiatoa spp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(2). 629–636. 101 indexed citations

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Basen, Mirko, Martin Krüger, Jana Milucka, et al.. (2011). Bacterial enzymes for dissimilatory sulfate reduction in a marine microbial mat (Black Sea) mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology. 13(5). 1370–1379. 25 indexed citations

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