K. Mathias Wegner

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

K. Mathias Wegner is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Mathias Wegner has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in K. Mathias Wegner's work include Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (38 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (29 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (18 papers). K. Mathias Wegner is often cited by papers focused on Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (38 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (29 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (18 papers). K. Mathias Wegner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. K. Mathias Wegner's co-authors include Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Martin Kalbe, Ana Lokmer, Lisa N. S. Shama, Manfred Milinski, Carolin C. Wendling, Joachim Kurtz, Camillo Bérénos, Paul Schmid‐Hempel and Felix Christopher Mark and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

K. Mathias Wegner

99 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Phage–host coevolution in natural populations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Mathias Wegner Germany	40	2.2k	1.5k	1.2k	1.2k	1.0k	100	5.0k
Michael D. Samuel United States	42	3.4k 1.5×	831 0.5×	348 0.3×	640 0.5×	840 0.8×	150	6.9k
Kristina M. Miller Canada	43	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	320 0.3×	158	5.6k
E. Tellervo Valtonen Finland	46	4.9k 2.2×	616 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	582 0.6×	200	6.4k
Arnaud Couloux France	52	2.1k 1.0×	761 0.5×	176 0.1×	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	146	7.6k
Guillaume Achaz France	25	1.7k 0.8×	663 0.4×	150 0.1×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	55	5.3k
Jeffrey M. Lotz United States	19	6.4k 2.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	594 0.5×	729 0.7×	45	8.4k
Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins Spain	24	2.0k 0.9×	689 0.5×	238 0.2×	4.1k 3.4×	1.7k 1.7×	55	8.9k
Jessica R. Ward United States	7	1.8k 0.8×	694 0.5×	513 0.4×	228 0.2×	254 0.2×	8	2.8k
Jane Grimwood United States	46	1.1k 0.5×	310 0.2×	481 0.4×	2.8k 2.3×	1.0k 1.0×	105	9.2k
Peter Robertson United Kingdom	31	3.6k 1.6×	815 0.5×	796 0.7×	480 0.4×	783 0.8×	100	5.4k

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Rubinetti, Sara, Bernadette Pogoda, Alexey Androsov, et al.. (2025). Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones. Journal of Sea Research. 204. 102563–102563. 1 indexed citations

Reise, Karsten, et al.. (2024). Manila clams Ruditapes philippinarum spreading north and establishing in the European Wadden Sea. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 309. 108940–108940. 4 indexed citations

Born‐Torrijos, Ana, Hans Heesterbeek, Anieke van Leeuwen, et al.. (2024). Warming effects on the life cycles of two parasitic copepods with different invasion histories. Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). e11485–e11485. 2 indexed citations

Reise, Karsten, et al.. (2023). Introduced species in a tidal ecosystem of mud and sand: curse or blessing?. Marine Biodiversity. 53(1). 18 indexed citations

Boudry, Pierre, M. Luz Pérez‐Parallé, Isabelle Arzul, et al.. (2021). Sustainable large‐scale production of European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) seed for ecological restoration and aquaculture: a review. Reviews in Aquaculture. 13(3). 1423–1468. 44 indexed citations

Scanes, Elliot, Laura M. Parker, Justin R. Seymour, et al.. (2021). Climate change alters the haemolymph microbiome of oysters. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 164. 111991–111991. 40 indexed citations

Goedknegt, M. Anouk, Isabelle Arzul, Anne Chenuil, et al.. (2019). Global invasion genetics of two parasitic copepods infecting marine bivalves. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12730–12730. 11 indexed citations

Thomsen, Jörn, Kristin Haynert, Hanna Schade, et al.. (2017). Naturally acidified habitat selects for ocean acidification–tolerant mussels. Science Advances. 3(4). e1602411–e1602411. 117 indexed citations

Goedknegt, M. Anouk, K. Mathias Wegner, Pieternella C. Luttikhuizen, et al.. (2015). Parasites and marine invasions: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Journal of Sea Research. 113. 11–27. 108 indexed citations

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Roux, Frédérique Le, K. Mathias Wegner, Craig Baker‐Austin, et al.. (2015). The emergence of Vibrio pathogens in Europe: ecology, evolution, and pathogenesis (Paris, 11–12th March 2015). Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 830–830. 125 indexed citations

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Shama, Lisa N. S., Anneli Strobel, Felix Christopher Mark, & K. Mathias Wegner. (2014). Transgenerational plasticity in marine sticklebacks: maternal effects mediate impacts of a warming ocean. Functional Ecology. 28(6). 1482–1493. 182 indexed citations

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Wegner, K. Mathias, Nils Volkenborn, Hannes Peter, & Alexander Eiler. (2013). Disturbance induced decoupling between host genetics and composition of the associated microbiome. BMC Microbiology. 13(1). 252–252. 107 indexed citations

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Raeymaekers, Joost A. M., K. Mathias Wegner, Tine Huyse, & Filip Volckaert. (2011). Infection dynamics of the monogenean parasite Gyrodactylus gasterostei on sympatric and allopatric populations of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Folia Parasitologica. 58(1). 27–34. 21 indexed citations

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Wegner, K. Mathias, et al.. (2011). The effect of inbreeding and outcrossing of Tribolium castaneum on resistance to the parasite Nosema whitei. Evolutionary ecology research. 13(7). 681–696. 6 indexed citations

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Bérénos, Camillo, Paul Schmid‐Hempel, & K. Mathias Wegner. (2011). Experimental coevolution leads to a decrease in parasite-induced host mortality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(8). 1777–1782. 20 indexed citations

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Wegner, K. Mathias. (2009). Massive parallel MHC genotyping: titanium that shines. Molecular Ecology. 18(9). 1818–1820. 31 indexed citations

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Bérénos, Camillo, Paul Schmid‐Hempel, & K. Mathias Wegner. (2009). Evolution of host resistance and trade‐offs between virulence and transmission potential in an obligately killing parasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(10). 2049–2056. 57 indexed citations

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Kalbe, Martin, Christophe Eizaguirre, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, et al.. (2008). Lifetime reproductive success is maximized with optimal major histocompatibility complex diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1658). 925–934. 121 indexed citations

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Milinski, Manfred, S. W. Griffiths, K. Mathias Wegner, et al.. (2005). Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(12). 4414–4418. 248 indexed citations

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Wegner, K. Mathias, Martin Kalbe, Helmut Schaschl, & Thorsten B. H. Reusch. (2004). Parasites and individual major histocompatibility complex diversity—an optimal choice?. Microbes and Infection. 6(12). 1110–1116. 45 indexed citations

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