Lars Wörmer

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lars Wörmer is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Wörmer has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 26 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Lars Wörmer's work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (18 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers). Lars Wörmer is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (18 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers). Lars Wörmer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United States. Lars Wörmer's co-authors include Antonio Quesada, Samuel Cirés, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, David Carrasco, Julius S. Lipp, Ramsy Agha, Jan M. Schröder, Go‐Ichiro Uramoto, Fumio Inagaki and Rishi R. Adhikari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lars Wörmer

52 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment

2020 242 citations Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Hideyuki Doi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Wörmer Germany	23	1.2k	817	668	445	217	55	2.0k
Ora Hadas Israel	29	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	419 0.9×	447 2.1×	70	2.8k
Todd R. Miller United States	27	967 0.8×	828 1.0×	807 1.2×	369 0.8×	192 0.9×	46	2.2k
George S. Bullerjahn United States	33	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.5×	193 0.9×	120	3.2k
Jennifer B. Glass United States	23	563 0.5×	852 1.0×	288 0.4×	446 1.0×	84 0.4×	66	2.1k
Ken G. Ryan New Zealand	34	756 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.9×	762 1.7×	451 2.1×	115	3.4k
Sibel Bargu United States	28	1.0k 0.9×	634 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	319 0.7×	52 0.2×	51	1.9k
L. Peperzak Netherlands	29	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	1.9k 2.8×	542 1.2×	72 0.3×	75	3.0k
Gongliang Yu China	25	1.1k 1.0×	611 0.7×	774 1.2×	197 0.4×	357 1.6×	88	1.9k
Andrew D. Turner United Kingdom	29	2.0k 1.7×	486 0.6×	869 1.3×	754 1.7×	76 0.4×	119	2.7k
Harri Kankaanpää Finland	25	1.0k 0.9×	385 0.5×	834 1.2×	163 0.4×	140 0.6×	59	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Wörmer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Wörmer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Wörmer

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bilt, Willem G. M. van der, et al.. (2025). Sub-centennially resolved reconstruction of surface temperature on High Arctic Svalbard for the past 13,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 671. 119646–119646.

Gan, Shuchai, Verena B. Heuer, Frauke Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Moderate heating renders 7.8-million-year-old sedimentary organic matter bioavailable. Science Advances. 11(34). eadw8638–eadw8638. 1 indexed citations

Obreht, Igor, Lars Wörmer, David De Vleeschouwer, et al.. (2025). Influence of Mediterranean Oceanographic and Environmental Conditions on Molecular Proxy‐Based Sea Surface Temperature Reconstructions During the Last Interglacial. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(4).

Obreht, Igor, David De Vleeschouwer, Lars Wörmer, et al.. (2022). Last Interglacial decadal sea surface temperature variability in the eastern Mediterranean. Nature Geoscience. 15(10). 812–818. 10 indexed citations

Wörmer, Lars, et al.. (2022). Deglacial increase of seasonal temperature variability in the tropical ocean. Nature. 612(7938). 88–91. 6 indexed citations

Hoshino, Tatsuhiko, Hideyuki Doi, Go‐Ichiro Uramoto, et al.. (2020). Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27587–27597. 242 indexed citations breakdown →

Vera, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2020). Biochemical fingerprints of marine fungi: implications for trophic and biogeochemical studies. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 84. 75–90. 17 indexed citations

Geier, Benedikt, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Alexander Gruhl, et al.. (2019). Correlative 3D anatomy and spatial chemistry in animal-microbe symbioses – Developing sample preparation for phase-contrast synchrotron radiation based micro-computed tomography and mass spectrometry imaging. DESY Publication Database (PUBDB) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). 1 indexed citations

Wörmer, Lars, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Marshall W. Bowles, et al.. (2019). Microbial dormancy in the marine subsurface: Global endospore abundance and response to burial. Science Advances. 5(2). eaav1024–eaav1024. 58 indexed citations

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González-Pleiter, Miguel, Samuel Cirés, Lars Wörmer, et al.. (2019). Ecotoxicity assessment of microcystins from freshwater samples using a bioluminescent cyanobacterial bioassay. Chemosphere. 240. 124966–124966. 11 indexed citations

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Wörmer, Lars, et al.. (2018). The ABC Transporter Components HgdB and HgdC are Important for Glycolipid Layer Composition and Function of Heterocysts in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Life. 8(3). 26–26. 15 indexed citations

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Wörmer, Lars, Julius S. Lipp, Jenny Wendt, et al.. (2018). Micrometer scale imaging of sedimentary climate archives – Sample preparation for combined elemental and lipid biomarker analysis. Organic Geochemistry. 127. 81–91. 20 indexed citations

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Kellermann, Matthias Y., Marcos Y. Yoshinaga, Raymond C. Valentine, Lars Wörmer, & David L. Valentine. (2016). Important roles for membrane lipids in haloarchaeal bioenergetics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(11). 2940–2956. 45 indexed citations

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Becker, Kevin W., Julius S. Lipp, Gerard J M Versteegh, Lars Wörmer, & Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs. (2015). Rapid and simultaneous analysis of three molecular sea surface temperature proxies and application to sediments from the Sea of Marmara. Organic Geochemistry. 85. 42–53. 34 indexed citations

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Wörmer, Lars, Julius S. Lipp, Jan M. Schröder, & Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs. (2013). Application of two new LC–ESI–MS methods for improved detection of intact polar lipids (IPLs) in environmental samples. Organic Geochemistry. 59. 10–21. 98 indexed citations

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Cirés, Samuel, Lars Wörmer, Claudia Wiedner, & Antonio Quesada. (2012). Temperature-Dependent Dispersal Strategies of Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria): Implications for the Annual Life Cycle. Microbial Ecology. 65(1). 12–21. 23 indexed citations

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Wörmer, Lars, et al.. (2011). First detection of cyanobacterial PSP (paralytic shellfish poisoning) toxins in Spanish freshwaters. Toxicon. 57(6). 918–921. 30 indexed citations

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Wörmer, Lars, Samuel Cirés, David Carrasco, & Antonio Quesada. (2007). Cylindrospermopsin is not degraded by co-occurring natural bacterial communities during a 40-day study. Harmful Algae. 7(2). 206–213. 100 indexed citations

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Carrasco, David, Enrique Moreno, Caridad de Hoyos, et al.. (2007). Anatoxin‐a occurrence and potential cyanobacterial anatoxin‐a producers in Spanish reservoirs¹. Journal of Phycology. 43(6). 1120–1125. 33 indexed citations

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Quesada, Antonio, Enrique Moreno, David Carrasco, et al.. (2006). Toxicity of Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (Cyanobacteria) in a Spanish water reservoir. European Journal of Phycology. 41(1). 39–45. 90 indexed citations

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