Jos Kramer

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jos Kramer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jos Kramer has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 12 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jos Kramer's work include Plant and animal studies (11 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers). Jos Kramer is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (11 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers). Jos Kramer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Jos Kramer's co-authors include Rolf Kümmerli, Özhan Özkaya, Joël Meunier, Tianjie Yang, Zhengying Shao, Qirong Shen, Ville‐Petri Friman, Xiaofang Wang, Xinlan Mei and Yangchun Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Reviews Microbiology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Jos Kramer

17 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions
    2019 627 citations Jos Kramer, Özhan Özkaya et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  2. Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes
    2020 328 citations Shaohua Gu, Zhong Wei et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jos Kramer Switzerland 12 488 370 289 224 188 17 1.3k
Hamadi Boga Kenya 24 407 0.8× 492 1.3× 257 0.9× 204 0.9× 344 1.8× 68 1.5k
Melanie Ghoul United Kingdom 19 311 0.6× 573 1.5× 428 1.5× 202 0.9× 356 1.9× 31 1.4k
M. Patrick Griffith United States 24 727 1.5× 324 0.9× 309 1.1× 956 4.3× 153 0.8× 112 2.0k
Matthew D. Whiteside Canada 14 570 1.2× 822 2.2× 379 1.3× 81 0.4× 238 1.3× 24 1.7k
Peter J. Murphy Australia 22 823 1.7× 638 1.7× 288 1.0× 133 0.6× 200 1.1× 31 1.5k
Cyrus A. Mallon Netherlands 8 641 1.3× 429 1.2× 114 0.4× 107 0.5× 446 2.4× 9 1.4k
Mitja N. P. Remus‐Emsermann New Zealand 21 1.5k 3.1× 869 2.3× 242 0.8× 186 0.8× 565 3.0× 46 2.5k
Weiwen Zheng China 11 242 0.5× 491 1.3× 161 0.6× 141 0.6× 258 1.4× 19 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Jos Kramer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jos Kramer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jos Kramer

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2025). Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 1 indexed citations
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Gu, Shaohua, Zhong Wei, Zhengying Shao, et al.. (2020). Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes. Nature Microbiology. 5(8). 1002–1010. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2020). Cooperation and Conflict Within the Microbiota and Their Effects On Animal Hosts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. 34 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, Özhan Özkaya, & Rolf Kümmerli. (2019). Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(3). 152–163. 627 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kramer, Jos & Joël Meunier. (2018). The other facets of family life and their role in the evolution of animal sociality. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 94(1). 199–215. 43 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2018). Environmental determinants of pyoverdine production, exploitation and competition in natural Pseudomonas communities. Environmental Microbiology. 20(10). 3629–3642. 31 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2017). When earwig mothers do not care to share: Parent–offspring competition and the evolution of family life. Functional Ecology. 31(11). 2098–2107. 22 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2016). No Evidence for Enforced Alloparental Care in a Cooperatively Breeding Parrot. Ethology. 122(5). 389–398. 2 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2015). Short-term benefits, but transgenerational costs of maternal loss in an insect with facultative maternal care. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1817). 20151617–20151617. 39 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2015). Negative association between parental care and sibling cooperation in earwigs: a new perspective on the early evolution of family life?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28(7). 1299–1308. 47 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos & Joël Meunier. (2015). Maternal condition determines offspring behavior toward family members in the European earwig. Behavioral Ecology. 27(2). 494–500. 17 indexed citations
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Jansen, Jeroen, et al.. (2014). Food allocation rules vary with age and experience in a cooperatively breeding parrot. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68(6). 1037–1047. 7 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2014). Influences of Relatedness, Food Deprivation, and Sex on Adult Behaviors in the Group‐living InsectForficula auricularia. Ethology. 120(9). 923–932. 28 indexed citations
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Kramer, Jos. (1996). Medical Resources and the Internet. Archives of Internal Medicine. 156(8). 833–833. 11 indexed citations

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