Mette Burmølle

10.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
98 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Mette Burmølle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mette Burmølle has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Mette Burmølle's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (60 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (16 papers). Mette Burmølle is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (60 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (16 papers). Mette Burmølle collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and Belgium. Mette Burmølle's co-authors include Søren J. Sørensen, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Henriette Lyng Røder, Dawei Ren, Annelise Kjøller, Jakob Herschend, Paul Stoodley and Philip S. Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Mette Burmølle

92 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation

2022 755 citations Karin Sauer, Paul Stoodley et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Disease-induced assemblage of a plant-beneficial bacterial consortium

2018 688 citations Roeland L. Berendsen, Gilles Vismans et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Enhanced Biofilm Formation and Increased Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents and Bacterial Invasion Are Caused by Synergistic Interactions in Multispecies Biofilms

2006 540 citations Mette Burmølle, Søren J. Sørensen et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer

2012 492 citations Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, Mette Burmølle et al. profile →
Interactions in multispecies biofilms: do they actually matter?

2014 396 citations Mette Burmølle, Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mette Burmølle	4.0k	1.7k	1.1k	934	763	98	7.4k
Katharina Riedel	5.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	637 0.8×	179	9.2k
Simon Swift	5.0k 1.2×	806 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	552 0.7×	187	9.1k
Darren R. Korber	4.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	618 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	376 0.5×	139	9.1k
Claus Sternberg	5.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	407 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	731 1.0×	55	7.1k
Rocky de Nys	3.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	550 0.6×	391 0.5×	261	16.7k
Ulrich Szewzyk	3.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	909 1.0×	506 0.7×	113	10.4k
Nobuhiko Nomura	6.3k 1.6×	1.3k 0.7×	772 0.7×	828 0.9×	671 0.9×	249	11.9k
Michael J. Franklin	5.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	413 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	81	8.1k
Jean‐Marc Ghigo	6.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	817 0.7×	2.4k 2.5×	1.5k 2.0×	147	10.9k
Jochen Blom	3.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	2.9k 2.5×	948 1.0×	568 0.7×	271	9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Mette Burmølle

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mette Burmølle

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Hansen, Mads Frederik, et al.. (2025). Reconciling the role of mineral surfaces for bacterial evolution: Importance of minerals in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance. The Science of The Total Environment. 962. 178301–178301. 2 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Anita Nordeng, et al.. (2025). Directed assembly of biofilm communities for marine biofouling prevention. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(9). e0139225–e0139225.

Hansen, Mads Frederik, et al.. (2023). Optimizing cleaning strategies for biofouling in reverse osmosis membrane systems: A comparative study using a self-formed instrument. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 132. 448–460. 9 indexed citations

Røder, Henriette Lyng, Birte Svensson, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, et al.. (2023). Flagellar interference with plasmid uptake in biofilms: a joint experimental and modeling study. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(1). e0151023–e0151023. 3 indexed citations

Teixeira‐Santos, Rita, et al.. (2023). Use of Probiotics to Control Biofilm Formation in Food Industries. Antibiotics. 12(4). 754–754. 27 indexed citations

Sadiq, Faizan Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Dynamic social interactions and keystone species shape the diversity and stability of mixed-species biofilms – an example from dairy isolates. ISME Communications. 3(1). 118–118. 14 indexed citations

Alm, Martin, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Antibiotic Tolerance of an In Vitro Multispecies Uropathogen Biofilm Model, Useful for Studies of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections. Microorganisms. 10(6). 1207–1207. 9 indexed citations

Sauer, Karin, Paul Stoodley, Darla M. Goeres, et al.. (2022). The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(10). 608–620. 755 indexed citations breakdown →

Sadiq, Faizan Ahmed, Mette Burmølle, Marc Heyndrickx, et al.. (2021). Community-wide changes reflecting bacterial interspecific interactions in multispecies biofilms. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 47(3). 338–358. 63 indexed citations

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Røder, Henriette Lyng, Urvish Trivedi, Jakob Russel, et al.. (2021). Biofilms can act as plasmid reserves in the absence of plasmid specific selection. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 7(1). 78–78. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Nan, Joseph Nesme, Henriette Lyng Røder, et al.. (2021). Emergent bacterial community properties induce enhanced drought tolerance in Arabidopsis. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 7(1). 82–82. 81 indexed citations

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Tan, Demeng, Mads Frederik Hansen, Henriette Lyng Røder, et al.. (2020). High cell densities favor lysogeny: induction of an H20 prophage is repressed by quorum sensing and enhances biofilm formation in Vibrio anguillarum. The ISME Journal. 14(7). 1731–1742. 71 indexed citations

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Trivedi, Urvish, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, Jake Everett, et al.. (2020). Persistence and progression of staphylococcal infection in the presence of public goods. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 6(1). 55–55.

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Liu, Wenzheng, Samuel Jacquiod, Asker Brejnrod, et al.. (2019). Deciphering links between bacterial interactions and spatial organization in multispecies biofilms. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 3054–3066. 70 indexed citations

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Yuan, Lei, Mads Frederik Hansen, Henriette Lyng Røder, et al.. (2019). Mixed-species biofilms in the food industry: Current knowledge and novel control strategies. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 60(13). 2277–2293. 147 indexed citations

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Røder, Henriette Lyng, Nanna Mee Coops Olsen, Marvin Whiteley, & Mette Burmølle. (2019). Unravelling interspecies interactions across heterogeneities in complex biofilm communities. Environmental Microbiology. 22(1). 5–16. 68 indexed citations

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Herschend, Jakob, Klaus Koren, Henriette Lyng Røder, et al.. (2018). In Vitro Community Synergy between Bacterial Soil Isolates Can Be Facilitated by pH Stabilization of the Environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(21). 28 indexed citations

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Berendsen, Roeland L., Gilles Vismans, Ke Yu, et al.. (2018). Disease-induced assemblage of a plant-beneficial bacterial consortium. The ISME Journal. 12(6). 1496–1507. 688 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Wenzheng, Jakob Russel, Mette Burmølle, Søren J. Sørensen, & Jonas Stenløkke Madsen. (2018). Micro-scale intermixing: a requisite for stable and synergistic co-establishment in a four-species biofilm. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 1940–1951. 39 indexed citations

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Herschend, Jakob, Andrea Marion Marquard, Birte Svensson, et al.. (2017). A meta-proteomics approach to study the interspecies interactions affecting microbial biofilm development in a model community. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16483–16483. 51 indexed citations

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