Katharina Kitzinger

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Katharina Kitzinger is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Katharina Kitzinger has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Pollution and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Katharina Kitzinger's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Katharina Kitzinger is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Katharina Kitzinger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Denmark. Katharina Kitzinger's co-authors include Michael Wagner, Holger Daims, Craig W. Herbold, Per Halkjær Nielsen, Mads Albertsen, Hanna Koch, Sebastian Lücker, Eva Spieck, Marcel M. M. Kuypers and Michael Pester and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Katharina Kitzinger

17 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira

2015 393 citations Hanna Koch, Sebastian Lücker et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Katharina Kitzinger

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Boris Nowka Germany

Beate Kraft Germany

Jessica A. Kozlowski United States

Christopher J. Sedlacek Austria

E. V. Lebedeva Russia

Anne Daebeler Austria

Bram Vanparys Belgium

Andreas Fesefeldt Germany

Laura A. Sauder Canada

Man‐Young Jung South Korea

Boris Nowka Germany

Katharina Kitzinger

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katharina Kitzinger

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18 of 18 papers shown

Bayer, Barbara, Katharina Kitzinger, Mak A. Saito, et al.. (2025). Minor contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the ocean. Nature Geoscience. 18(11). 1144–1151.

Halbach, Laura, Katharina Kitzinger, Martin Hansen, et al.. (2025). Single-cell imaging reveals efficient nutrient uptake and growth of microalgae darkening the Greenland Ice Sheet. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1521–1521. 6 indexed citations

Kristensen, Jannie Munk, Craig W. Herbold, Petra Pjevac, et al.. (2024). Global abundance patterns, diversity, and ecology of Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants. Microbiome. 12(1). 55–55. 31 indexed citations

Tschitschko, Bernhard, Miriam Philippi, Abiel T. Kidane, et al.. (2024). Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean. Nature. 630(8018). 899–904. 38 indexed citations

Glasl, Bettina, Heidi M. Luter, Katarina Damjanovic, et al.. (2024). Co-occurring nitrifying symbiont lineages are vertically inherited and widespread in marine sponges. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 5 indexed citations

Kitzinger, Katharina, M. Lund, Andreas Schramm, et al.. (2024). pH-FISH: coupled microscale analysis of microbial identity and acid–base metabolism in complex biofilm samples. Microbiome. 12(1). 266–266. 2 indexed citations

Herbold, Craig W., Arno Schintlmeister, Maria Mooshammer, et al.. (2023). Taurine as a key intermediate for host-symbiont interaction in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. The ISME Journal. 17(8). 1208–1223. 7 indexed citations

Klotz, Franziska, Katharina Kitzinger, David Kamanda Ngugi, et al.. (2022). Quantification of archaea-driven freshwater nitrification from single cell to ecosystem levels. The ISME Journal. 16(6). 1647–1656. 15 indexed citations

Graf, Jon S., Sina Schorn, Katharina Kitzinger, et al.. (2021). Anaerobic endosymbiont generates energy for ciliate host by denitrification. Nature. 591(7850). 445–450. 61 indexed citations

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Philippi, Miriam, Katharina Kitzinger, Jasmine S. Berg, et al.. (2021). Purple sulfur bacteria fix N2 via molybdenum-nitrogenase in a low molybdenum Proterozoic ocean analogue. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4774–4774. 26 indexed citations

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Kitzinger, Katharina, Hannah K. Marchant, Laura A. Bristow, et al.. (2020). Single cell analyses reveal contrasting life strategies of the two main nitrifiers in the ocean. Nature Communications. 11(1). 767–767. 70 indexed citations

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Daebeler, Anne, Katharina Kitzinger, Hanna Koch, et al.. (2020). Exploring the upper pH limits of nitrite oxidation: diversity, ecophysiology, and adaptive traits of haloalkalitolerant Nitrospira. The ISME Journal. 14(12). 2967–2979. 64 indexed citations

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Kristensen, Jannie Munk, Katharina Kitzinger, Andreas Pommerening‐Röser, et al.. (2020). A refined set of rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for in situ detection and quantification of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. Water Research. 186. 116372–116372. 18 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, Katharina Kitzinger, Arno Schintlmeister, et al.. (2020). Flow-through stable isotope probing (Flow-SIP) minimizes cross-feeding in complex microbial communities. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 348–353. 18 indexed citations

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Kitzinger, Katharina, Cory C. Padilla, Hannah K. Marchant, et al.. (2018). Cyanate and urea are substrates for nitrification by Thaumarchaeota in the marine environment. Nature Microbiology. 4(2). 234–243. 110 indexed citations

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Kitzinger, Katharina, Hanna Koch, Sebastian Lücker, et al.. (2018). Characterization of the First “ Candidatus Nitrotoga” Isolate Reveals Metabolic Versatility and Separate Evolution of Widespread Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria. mBio. 9(4). 129 indexed citations

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Koch, Hanna, Sebastian Lücker, Mads Albertsen, et al.. (2015). Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(36). 11371–11376. 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gruber-Dorninger, Christiane, Michael Pester, Katharina Kitzinger, et al.. (2014). Functionally relevant diversity of closely related Nitrospira in activated sludge. The ISME Journal. 9(3). 643–655. 151 indexed citations

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