Jens Kallmeyer

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jens Kallmeyer is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens Kallmeyer has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 38 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Jens Kallmeyer's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (27 papers). Jens Kallmeyer is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (27 papers). Jens Kallmeyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Indonesia. Jens Kallmeyer's co-authors include Steven D’Hondt, Bo Barker Jørgensen, David C. Smith, R. A. Pockalny, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Rishi R. Adhikari, Barry A. Cragg, Antje Boëtius, Michael E. Böttcher and Philipp Böning and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jens Kallmeyer

93 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Enabling large-scale hydrogen storage in porous media – the scientific challenges

2021 698 citations Jens Kallmeyer et al. profile →
Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

2012 642 citations Jens Kallmeyer, R. A. Pockalny et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jens Kallmeyer Germany	30	2.4k	2.1k	913	892	743	101	4.8k
Tori M. Hoehler United States	36	2.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	952 1.0×	806 0.9×	579 0.8×	88	4.7k
Beth N. Orcutt United States	30	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	871 1.0×	564 0.6×	468 0.6×	69	3.6k
Christopher H. House United States	35	3.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.3×	919 1.2×	106	6.3k
Jan P. Amend United States	40	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	461 0.5×	463 0.6×	132	5.4k
C.G. Wheat United States	41	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	515 0.6×	751 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	129	5.0k
Peter R. Girguis United States	44	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	409 0.5×	438 0.6×	144	5.9k
Matthew O. Schrenk United States	26	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	917 1.0×	625 0.7×	423 0.6×	59	3.8k
Barry A. Cragg United Kingdom	33	3.0k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	880 1.0×	782 1.1×	50	4.5k
Hans Røy Denmark	37	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	424 0.5×	471 0.5×	587 0.8×	92	3.6k
R. John Parkes United Kingdom	32	1.8k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	872 1.0×	543 0.6×	546 0.7×	48	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jens Kallmeyer

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Vuillemin, Aurèle, Cédric C. Laczny, Benoît J. Kunath, et al.. (2025). Influence of minor hydrocarbon seepage on sulfur cycling in marine subsurface sediments. Biogeosciences. 22(3). 767–784.

Bartholomäus, Alexander, Sizhong Yang, Dirk Wagner, et al.. (2024). Metabolic features that select for Bathyarchaeia in modern ferruginous lacustrine subsurface sediments. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae112–ycae112. 2 indexed citations

Morono, Yuki, et al.. (2024). Microbial anabolic and catabolic utilization of hydrocarbons in deep subseafloor sediments of Guaymas Basin. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(8).

Yang, Sizhong, Xi Wen, Dirk Wagner, et al.. (2024). Microbial assemblages in Arctic coastal thermokarst lakes and lagoons. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(3).

Lipus, Daniel, Alexander Bartholomäus, Cynthia Henny, et al.. (2024). The role of anthropogenic influences on a tropical lake ecosystem and its surrounding catchment: a case study of Lake Sentani. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 101(1). 1 indexed citations

Vuillemin, Aurèle, et al.. (2024). Taxonomic and functional partitioning of Chloroflexota populations under ferruginous conditions at and below the sediment-water interface. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(12). 1 indexed citations

Kallmeyer, Jens, et al.. (2023). Liquid scintillation counting at the limit of detection in biogeosciences. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1194848–1194848. 4 indexed citations

Kutterolf, Steffen, Mark Brenner, Robert A. Dull, et al.. (2023). Workshop on drilling the Nicaraguan lakes: bridging continents and oceans (NICA-BRIDGE). Scientific Drilling. 32. 73–84. 1 indexed citations

Schleicher, Anja M., et al.. (2023). Clay‐associated microbial communities and their relevance for a nuclear waste repository in the Opalinus Clay rock formation. MicrobiologyOpen. 12(4). e1370–e1370. 5 indexed citations

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Vuillemin, Aurèle, Christoph Mayr, Jan A. Schuessler, et al.. (2022). A one-million-year isotope record from siderites formed in modern ferruginous sediments. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 135(1-2). 504–522. 11 indexed citations

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Dong, Hongpo, Simon Jon McIlroy, Sean A. Crowe, et al.. (2022). Expanding the phylogenetic distribution of cytochrome b-containing methanogenic archaea sheds light on the evolution of methanogenesis. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2373–2387. 29 indexed citations

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Beulig, Felix, Rishi R. Adhikari, Clemens Glombitza, et al.. (2022). Rapid metabolism fosters microbial survival in the deep, hot subseafloor biosphere. Nature Communications. 13(1). 312–312. 33 indexed citations

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Friese, André, Kohen W. Bauer, Clemens Glombitza, et al.. (2021). Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2216–2216. 42 indexed citations

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Vuillemin, Aurèle, André Friese, Richard Wirth, et al.. (2020). Vivianite formation in ferruginous sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia. Biogeosciences. 17(7). 1955–1973. 33 indexed citations

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Horn, Fabian, Maria Winterfeld, Jens Kallmeyer, et al.. (2019). Microbial community composition and abundance after millennia of submarine permafrost warming. Biogeosciences. 16(19). 3941–3958. 11 indexed citations

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Nomosatryo, Sulung, et al.. (2018). Biogeochemical characteristics of Lakes in Western Papua, Indonesia. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8457.

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Alawi, Mashal, et al.. (2017). Present and past microbial life in continental pan sediments and its response to climate variability in the southern Kalahari. Organic Geochemistry. 108. 30–42. 7 indexed citations

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Kallmeyer, Jens, et al.. (2016). Biogeochemistry of Lakes in Western Papua, Indonesia - First Results of a Pilot Study.. AGUFM. 2016.

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Røy, Hans, Jens Kallmeyer, Rishi R. Adhikari, et al.. (2012). Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay. Science. 336(6083). 922–925. 133 indexed citations

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Kallmeyer, Jens, R. A. Pockalny, & Steven D’Hondt. (2009). Quantifying global subseafloor microbial abundance: Method and implications. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 73. 1 indexed citations

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