Katrin Knittel

18.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Katrin Knittel is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Katrin Knittel has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 56 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Katrin Knittel's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (56 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers). Katrin Knittel is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (56 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers). Katrin Knittel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Katrin Knittel's co-authors include Antje Boëtius, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Jörg Peplies, Wolfgang Ludwig, Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse, Rudolf Amann, Tina Lösekann and Tina Treude and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Katrin Knittel

81 papers receiving 13.4k citations

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katrin Knittel Germany 47 7.4k 6.9k 4.7k 2.5k 2.2k 84 13.7k
Andreas Teske United States 69 10.0k 1.3× 7.3k 1.1× 5.4k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 220 15.9k
David C. White United States 75 7.7k 1.0× 3.9k 0.6× 6.6k 1.4× 2.1k 0.8× 994 0.4× 326 21.8k
Dirk de Beer Germany 68 7.5k 1.0× 3.3k 0.5× 3.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 494 0.2× 307 17.7k
Gary M. King United States 61 5.3k 0.7× 3.1k 0.4× 2.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 353 0.2× 204 10.7k
Ian M. Head United Kingdom 67 6.0k 0.8× 2.7k 0.4× 3.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 2.6k 1.2× 205 17.2k
Gene W. Tyson Australia 69 14.2k 1.9× 5.5k 0.8× 15.2k 3.2× 1.4k 0.6× 780 0.3× 159 29.4k
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Netherlands 70 7.1k 1.0× 4.8k 0.7× 5.7k 1.2× 1.3k 0.5× 571 0.3× 311 20.0k
Andrew J. Weightman United Kingdom 57 5.0k 0.7× 3.2k 0.5× 4.0k 0.9× 666 0.3× 594 0.3× 164 12.2k
David M. Ward United States 63 6.4k 0.9× 2.0k 0.3× 5.1k 1.1× 485 0.2× 726 0.3× 144 11.4k
Terry C. Hazen United States 62 5.9k 0.8× 2.3k 0.3× 4.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 513 0.2× 286 14.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katrin Knittel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kleindienst, Sara, Lùbos Polerecký, Rudolf Amann, Florin Musat, & Katrin Knittel. (2025). In Situ Metabolic Rates of Alkane‐Degrading Sulphate‐Reducing Bacteria in Hydrocarbon Seep Sediments Revealed by Combining CARDFISH , NanoSIMS , and Mathematical Modelling. Environmental Microbiology. 27(8). e70151–e70151.
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Arnosti, Carol, Dirk de Beer, Gunter Wegener, et al.. (2025). Seasonal and stable heterotrophic guilds drive Arctic benthic microbiome functioning across polar day and night. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf161–ycaf161.
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Viver, Tomeu, et al.. (2024). Acidimicrobiia, the actinomycetota of coastal marine sediments: Abundance, taxonomy and genomic potential. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 47(6). 126555–126555. 5 indexed citations
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Knittel, Katrin, et al.. (2024). Distinct actors drive different mechanisms of biopolymer processing in polar marine coastal sediments. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16687–e16687. 1 indexed citations
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Ellrott, Andreas, et al.. (2024). The Ellrott grab: A small, lightweight sediment sampler for collecting undisturbed sandy sediments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 22(3). 159–169. 6 indexed citations
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Meyerdierks, Anke, David Probandt, Gunter Wegener, et al.. (2021). Bacterial communities in temperate and polar coastal sands are seasonally stable. ISME Communications. 1(1). 29–29. 43 indexed citations
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Laso-Pérez, Rafael, Runar Stokke, Ida Helene Steen, et al.. (2020). Candidatus Ethanoperedens,” a Thermophilic Genus of Archaea Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane. mBio. 11(2). 68 indexed citations
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Ruff, S. Emil, Janine Felden, Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka, et al.. (2018). In situ development of a methanotrophic microbiome in deep-sea sediments. The ISME Journal. 13(1). 197–213. 63 indexed citations
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Kellermann, Matthias Y., Gunter Wegener, Marcus Elvert, et al.. (2012). Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(47). 19321–19326. 117 indexed citations
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Niemann, Helge, Петер Линке, Katrin Knittel, et al.. (2008). Methane fluxes into the benthic food web at cold seeps - a case study from the Costa Rica subduction zone (Mound 12, 1020 m water depth). Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 3 indexed citations
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Treude, Tina, Victoria J. Orphan, Katrin Knittel, et al.. (2007). Consumption of methane and CO2 by methanotrophic microbial mats from gas seeps of the anoxic black sea (vol 73, pg 2271, 2007). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(11). 3770–3770. 2 indexed citations
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Treude, Tina, Katrin Knittel, Martin Blumenberg, Richard Seifert, & Antje Boëtius. (2005). Subsurface Microbial Methanotrophic Mats in the Black Sea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(10). 6375–6378. 73 indexed citations
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Knittel, Katrin, Antje Boëtius, Andreas Lemke, et al.. (2003). Activity, distribution, and diversity of sulfate reducers and other bacteria above gas hydrate (Cascadia Margin, OR).. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 7 indexed citations
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Treude, Tina, Antje Boëtius, Katrin Knittel, Klaus Wallmann, & Bo Barker Jørgensen. (2003). Anaerobic oxidation of methane above gas hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, NE Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 264. 1–14. 287 indexed citations
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Elvert, Marcus, Antje Boëtius, Katrin Knittel, & Bo Barker Jørgensen. (2003). Characterization of specific membrane fatty acids as chemotaxonomic markers for sulfatereducing bacteria of the genus Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus involved in anaerobic oxidation of methane.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 4 indexed citations
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Brınkmeyer, Robin, Katrin Knittel, Jutta Jürgens, et al.. (2003). Diversity and structure of bacterial communities in Arctic versus Antarctic sea ice: A comparison. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 3 indexed citations
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Treude, Tina, Antje Boëtius, Katrin Knittel, et al.. (2003). Anaerobic oxidation of methane at Hydrate Ridge (OR). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 67(18). 491. 5 indexed citations
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Michaelis, Walter, Richard Seifert, Katja Nauhaus, et al.. (2002). Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. Science. 297(5583). 1013–1015. 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nadalig, Thierry, Jean‐Claude Caprais, Tina Lösekann, et al.. (2002). Structure and diversity of microbial communities at two methane seep sites (Gulf of Guinea). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66. 1 indexed citations
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Elvert, Marcus, Helge Niemann, Antje Boëtius, Tina Treude, & Katrin Knittel. (2002). Lipid biomarkers as a tool for the analysis of anaerobic methanotrophy in marine environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66. 1 indexed citations

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