Kai Finster

8.2k total citations
131 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Finster is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Finster has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 23 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kai Finster's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (46 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (31 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (18 papers). Kai Finster is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (46 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (31 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (18 papers). Kai Finster collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and United States. Kai Finster's co-authors include Friedhelm Bak, Bo Thamdrup, Werner Liesack, Niels B. Ramsing, Jens Würgler Hansen, Tina Šantl‐Temkiv, Trine Rolighed Thomsen, R. A. Herbert, Ulrich Karlson and Bo Barker Jørgensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Finster

128 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Finster Denmark 47 2.4k 1.7k 1.1k 858 771 131 5.8k
Н. В. Пименов Russia 35 2.1k 0.9× 2.5k 1.5× 993 0.9× 942 1.1× 510 0.7× 270 4.8k
Jan P. Amend United States 40 2.3k 1.0× 2.1k 1.3× 1.7k 1.5× 637 0.7× 463 0.6× 132 5.4k
Heribert Cypionka Germany 48 3.4k 1.4× 2.7k 1.6× 2.2k 2.0× 923 1.1× 479 0.6× 130 7.0k
Lùbos Polerecký Germany 37 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 981 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 332 0.4× 100 5.2k
Stefan M. Sievert United States 36 3.0k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.7× 1.2k 1.4× 358 0.5× 80 4.9k
Hongchen Jiang China 41 3.4k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 2.2k 2.0× 565 0.7× 573 0.7× 243 6.0k
Peter R. Girguis United States 44 2.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 438 0.6× 144 5.9k
John R. Spear United States 44 2.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 340 0.4× 434 0.6× 131 5.3k
Alan W. Decho United States 51 2.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.7× 1.7k 2.0× 973 1.3× 114 10.7k
Michael Kube Germany 48 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 3.5k 3.1× 637 0.7× 734 1.0× 126 7.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Finster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Finster

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vergeynst, Leendert, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial runoff is an important source of biological ice-nucleating particles in Arctic marine systems. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(6). 3327–3346. 2 indexed citations
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Pastor, Ada, Christof Pearce, Per Nørnberg, et al.. (2025). Linking biogenic high-temperature ice nucleating particles in Arctic soils and streams to their microbial producers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 81–100. 3 indexed citations
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Mignani, Claudia, Sigurd Christiansen, Malin Alsved, et al.. (2025). Atmospheric Biogenic Ice-Nucleating Particles Link to Microbial Communities in the Arctic Marine Environment in Western Greenland. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(42). 22518–22532.
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Šantl‐Temkiv, Tina, Miguel del Nogal Sánchez, Andreas Maßling, et al.. (2024). Water Uptake of Airborne Cells of P. syringae Measured with a Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(43). 19211–19221. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Ping, Xiaoting Zhang, Xiaomei Huang, et al.. (2023). Genomic insight of sulfate reducing bacterial genus Desulfofaba reveals their metabolic versatility in biogeochemical cycling. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 209–209. 14 indexed citations
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Nørnberg, Per, et al.. (2023). Investigation of the Cytotoxicity of Mars-Relevant Minerals upon Abrasion. Astrobiology. 23(10). 1090–1098.
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Thøgersen, Jan, Per Nørnberg, Kai Finster, & Svend J. Knak Jensen. (2021). Greenhouse gas capture by triboelectric charging. Chemical Physics Letters. 783. 139069–139069. 10 indexed citations
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Wex, Heike, Sarah Grawe, Jonas Jakobsson, et al.. (2018). Effects of Ice Nucleation Protein Repeat Number and Oligomerization Level on Ice Nucleation Activity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(3). 1802–1810. 39 indexed citations
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Šantl‐Temkiv, Tina, Ulrich Gosewinkel, Piotr Starnawski, Mark A. Lever, & Kai Finster. (2018). Aeolian dispersal of bacteria in southwest Greenland: their sources, abundance, diversity and physiological states. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94(4). 77 indexed citations
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Alsved, Malin, Sigurd Christiansen, Bernadette Rosati, et al.. (2018). Effect of Aerosolization and Drying on the Viability of Pseudomonas syringae Cells. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 3086–3086. 34 indexed citations
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Šantl‐Temkiv, Tina, et al.. (2016). The presence of INA proteins on the surface of single cells of Pseudomonas syringae R10.79 isolated from rain. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Mateos‐Rivera, Alejandro, Jacob C. Yde, B.W. Wilson, et al.. (2016). The effect of temperature change on the microbial diversity and community structure along the chronosequence of the sub-arctic glacier forefield of Styggedalsbreen (Norway). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(4). fnw038–fnw038. 48 indexed citations
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Schreiber, Lars, et al.. (2015). Draft genome sequence of Bacillus azotoformans MEV2011, a (Co-) denitrifying strain unable to grow with oxygen. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9(1). 23–23. 6 indexed citations
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Lohmayer, Regina, Carsten Vogt, Kay Knöeller, et al.. (2013). Disproportionation of elemental sulfur by haloalkaliphilic bacteria from soda lakes. Extremophiles. 17(6). 1003–1012. 80 indexed citations
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Bárcena, Téresa G., Jacob C. Yde, & Kai Finster. (2010). Methane flux and high-affinity methanotrophic diversity along the chronosequence of a receding glacier in Greenland. Annals of Glaciology. 51(56). 23–31. 52 indexed citations
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Gauthier, Delphine, Lina S. Søbjerg, Anders T. Lindhardt, et al.. (2010). Environmentally Benign Recovery and Reactivation of Palladium from Industrial Waste by Using Gram‐Negative Bacteria. ChemSusChem. 3(9). 1036–1039. 44 indexed citations
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Bunge, Michael, Lina S. Søbjerg, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, et al.. (2010). Formation of palladium(0) nanoparticles at microbial surfaces. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 107(2). 206–215. 73 indexed citations
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Hubert, Casey R. J., Alexander Loy, Carol Arnosti, et al.. (2009). A Constant Flux of Diverse Thermophilic Bacteria into the Cold Arctic Seabed. Science. 325(5947). 1541–1544. 160 indexed citations
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Finster, Kai, Werner Liesack, & Brian J. Tindall. (1997). Sulfurospirillum arcachonense sp. nov., a New Microaerophilic Sulfur-Reducing Bacterium. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47(4). 1212–1217. 72 indexed citations

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