Karin Simu

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Karin Simu is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Karin Simu has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Karin Simu's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (2 papers). Karin Simu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (2 papers). Karin Simu collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Karin Simu's co-authors include Åke Hagström, Jörgen Jönsson, Helena Edlund, Ulf Ahlgren, Lena Jönsson, Lasse Riemann, Kjärstin H Boström, Thomas Pommier, Björn Canbäck and Per Lundberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Genes & Development, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Karin Simu

8 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

β-Cell-specific inactivation of the mouseIpf1/Pdx1 gene results in loss of the β-cell phenotype and maturity onset diabetes

1998 743 citations Ulf Ahlgren, Jörgen Jönsson et al. Genes & Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karin Simu Sweden	8	895	834	706	536	383	8	1.8k
Yuping Wu China	25	899 1.0×	293 0.4×	95 0.1×	101 0.2×	172 0.4×	128	2.2k
Mutuê T. Fujii Brazil	26	509 0.6×	326 0.4×	79 0.1×	45 0.1×	1.3k 3.5×	158	2.4k
Iván Viegas Portugal	22	477 0.5×	151 0.2×	43 0.1×	47 0.1×	168 0.4×	67	1.3k
JC Chen Taiwan	17	347 0.4×	235 0.3×	32 0.0×	48 0.1×	344 0.9×	39	1.3k
Béla Urbányi Hungary	29	152 0.2×	235 0.3×	69 0.1×	949 1.8×	29 0.1×	204	3.3k
Ernest Williams United States	12	130 0.1×	301 0.4×	31 0.0×	78 0.1×	67 0.2×	34	705
Xin Shen China	20	605 0.7×	588 0.7×	19 0.0×	348 0.6×	310 0.8×	108	1.4k
Miquel Planas Spain	24	508 0.6×	310 0.4×	38 0.1×	43 0.1×	156 0.4×	85	2.2k
Jean‐Luc Rolland France	18	169 0.2×	397 0.5×	9 0.0×	109 0.2×	147 0.4×	43	905
Joseph Brown United States	17	512 0.6×	675 0.8×	34 0.0×	92 0.2×	42 0.1×	38	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Karin Simu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karin Simu

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Riemann, Lasse, Thomas Pommier, Karin Simu, et al.. (2007). The Native Bacterioplankton Community in the Central Baltic Sea Is Influenced by Freshwater Bacterial Species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(2). 503–515. 114 indexed citations

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Pommier, Thomas, Björn Canbäck, Lasse Riemann, et al.. (2006). Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton. Molecular Ecology. 16(4). 867–880. 372 indexed citations

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Simu, Karin, Karin Holmfeldt, Ulla Li Zweifel, & Åke Hagström. (2005). Culturability and Coexistence of Colony-Forming and Single-Cell Marine Bacterioplankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(8). 4793–4800. 35 indexed citations

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Simu, Karin & Åke Hagström. (2004). Oligotrophic Bacterioplankton with a Novel Single-Cell Life Strategy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(4). 2445–2451. 68 indexed citations

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Boström, Kjärstin H, Karin Simu, Åke Hagström, & Lasse Riemann. (2004). Optimization of DNA extraction for quantitative marine bacterioplankton community analysis. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 2(11). 365–373. 247 indexed citations

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Hagström, Åke, Thomas Pommier, Forest Rohwer, et al.. (2002). Use of 16S Ribosomal DNA for Delineation of Marine Bacterioplankton Species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68(7). 3628–3633. 131 indexed citations

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Middelboe, Mathias, Åke Hagström, Nicholas Blackburn, et al.. (2001). Effects of Bacteriophages on the Population Dynamics of Four Strains of Pelagic Marine Bacteria. Microbial Ecology. 42(3). 395–406. 108 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Ulf, Jörgen Jönsson, Lena Jönsson, Karin Simu, & Helena Edlund. (1998). β-Cell-specific inactivation of the mouseIpf1/Pdx1 gene results in loss of the β-cell phenotype and maturity onset diabetes. Genes & Development. 12(12). 1763–1768. 743 indexed citations breakdown →

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