Karen Krüger

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Karen Krüger is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Krüger has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Karen Krüger's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers). Karen Krüger is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers). Karen Krüger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Karen Krüger's co-authors include Rudolf Amann, Hanno Teeling, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Lennart Kappelmann, Petra Pjevac, Meghan Chafee, Stefan Dyksma, Marc Mußmann, Dörte Becher and Thomas Schweder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The ISME Journal and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Karen Krüger

16 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during co... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms
    2016 345 citations Hanno Teeling, Bernhard M. Fuchs et al. eLife profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen Krüger Germany 14 967 624 418 292 76 16 1.2k
Greta Reintjes Germany 14 799 0.8× 565 0.9× 381 0.9× 213 0.7× 64 0.8× 25 1.1k
Beatriz Fernández-Gómez Spain 10 886 0.9× 554 0.9× 323 0.8× 204 0.7× 182 2.4× 13 1.2k
Chris R. Reisch United States 11 843 0.9× 629 1.0× 502 1.2× 113 0.4× 164 2.2× 12 1.4k
Markus V. Lindh Sweden 22 957 1.0× 449 0.7× 608 1.5× 251 0.9× 123 1.6× 32 1.3k
Peter Stadler Austria 15 775 0.8× 601 1.0× 323 0.8× 222 0.8× 88 1.2× 30 1.0k
Ena Urbach United States 12 871 0.9× 701 1.1× 383 0.9× 256 0.9× 88 1.2× 14 1.2k
Raphaël Lami France 19 495 0.5× 444 0.7× 278 0.7× 94 0.3× 107 1.4× 53 969
Huajun Zhang China 22 618 0.6× 365 0.6× 334 0.8× 378 1.3× 87 1.1× 43 1.0k
Xiaozhen Mou United States 19 1.0k 1.1× 535 0.9× 551 1.3× 434 1.5× 176 2.3× 57 1.5k
Rhonda Morales United States 12 1.3k 1.3× 829 1.3× 874 2.1× 258 0.9× 106 1.4× 17 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Krüger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Krüger

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Orellana, Luis H., et al.. (2023). Comparing genomes recovered from time-series metagenomes using long- and short-read sequencing technologies. Microbiome. 11(1). 105–105. 17 indexed citations
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Krüger, Karen, C. Crawford, A. Pardo, et al.. (2022). Glycoside hydrolase from the GH76 family indicates that marine Salegentibacter sp. Hel_I_6 consumes alpha-mannan from fungi. The ISME Journal. 16(7). 1818–1830. 13 indexed citations
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Krüger, Karen, et al.. (2021). In situ visualization of glycoside hydrolase family 92 genes in marine flavobacteria. ISME Communications. 1(1). 81–81. 4 indexed citations
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Francis, Ben, et al.. (2020). Candidatus Abditibacter, a novel genus within the Cryomorphaceae, thriving in the North Sea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 43(4). 126088–126088. 8 indexed citations
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Krüger, Karen, et al.. (2020). Polysaccharide niche partitioning of distinct Polaribacter clades during North Sea spring algal blooms. The ISME Journal. 14(6). 1369–1383. 53 indexed citations
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Borzyskowski, Lennart Schada von, Karen Krüger, Lucas Hermann, et al.. (2019). Marine Proteobacteria metabolize glycolate via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle. Nature. 575(7783). 500–504. 81 indexed citations
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Krüger, Karen, Meghan Chafee, Ben Francis, et al.. (2019). In marine Bacteroidetes the bulk of glycan degradation during algae blooms is mediated by few clades using a restricted set of genes. The ISME Journal. 13(11). 2800–2816. 133 indexed citations
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Orellana, Luis H., Ben Francis, Karen Krüger, et al.. (2019). Niche differentiation among annually recurrent coastal Marine Group II Euryarchaeota. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 3024–3036. 36 indexed citations
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Bertos‐Fortis, Mireia, Hanna Farnelid, Anke Kremp, et al.. (2019). Consistency in microbiomes in cultures of Alexandrium species isolated from brackish and marine waters. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 11(3). 425–433. 20 indexed citations
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Francis, Ben, Karen Krüger, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Hanno Teeling, & Rudolf Amann. (2018). Candidatus Prosiliicoccus vernus, a spring phytoplankton bloom associated member of the Flavobacteriaceae. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 42(1). 41–53. 31 indexed citations
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Unfried, Frank, Stefan Becker, Craig S. Robb, et al.. (2018). Adaptive mechanisms that provide competitive advantages to marine bacteroidetes during microalgal blooms. The ISME Journal. 12(12). 2894–2906. 87 indexed citations
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Kappelmann, Lennart, Karen Krüger, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, et al.. (2018). Polysaccharide utilization loci of North Sea Flavobacteriia as basis for using SusC/D-protein expression for predicting major phytoplankton glycans. The ISME Journal. 13(1). 76–91. 130 indexed citations
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Mußmann, Marc, Petra Pjevac, Karen Krüger, & Stefan Dyksma. (2017). Genomic repertoire of the Woeseiaceae/JTB255, cosmopolitan and abundant core members of microbial communities in marine sediments. The ISME Journal. 11(5). 1276–1281. 161 indexed citations
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Bennke, Christin, Karen Krüger, Lennart Kappelmann, et al.. (2016). Polysaccharide utilisation loci of Bacteroidetes from two contrasting open ocean sites in the North Atlantic. Environmental Microbiology. 18(12). 4456–4470. 48 indexed citations
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Teeling, Hanno, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Christin Bennke, et al.. (2016). Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms. eLife. 5. e11888–e11888. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moore, David D., Katherine Denniston-Thompson, Karen Krüger, et al.. (1979). Dissection and Comparative Anatomy of the Origins of Replication of Lambdoid Phages. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 43(0). 155–163. 54 indexed citations

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