Michael Kuhn

56.3k total citations · 18 hit papers
153 papers, 39.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Kuhn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kuhn has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 39.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Biotechnology and 32 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Kuhn's work include Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (37 papers), Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity (21 papers) and Microbial Inactivation Methods (19 papers). Michael Kuhn is often cited by papers focused on Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (37 papers), Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity (21 papers) and Microbial Inactivation Methods (19 papers). Michael Kuhn collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Michael Kuhn's co-authors include Peer Bork, Lars Juhl Jensen, Christian von Mering, Damian Szklarczyk, Alexander Röth, Milan Simonovic, Alberto Santos, Andrea Franceschini, Stefan Wyder and Jaime Huerta‐Cepas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kuhn

150 papers receiving 38.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

2014 7.8k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Sofia K. Forslund et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–protein association networks, made broadly accessible

2016 5.2k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Helen Cook et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration

2012 3.5k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored

2010 2.8k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
STRING 8--a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms

2008 1.9k citations Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ListeriaPathogenesis and Molecular Virulence Determinants

2001 1.7k citations José A. Vázquez‐Boland, Michael Kuhn et al. Clinical Microbiology Reviews profile →
eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

2015 1.5k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria

2018 1.3k citations Lisa Maier, Mihaela Pruteanu et al. profile →
STITCH 5: augmenting protein–chemical interaction networks with tissue and affinity data

2015 1.1k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Christian von Mering et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Drug Target Identification Using Side-Effect Similarity

2008 969 citations Mónica Campillos, Michael Kuhn et al. profile →
The SIDER database of drugs and side effects

2015 920 citations Michael Kuhn, Ivica Letunić et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
STITCH: interaction networks of chemicals and proteins

2007 729 citations Michael Kuhn, Christian von Mering et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs

2010 704 citations Michael Kuhn, Mónica Campillos et al. Molecular Systems Biology profile →
Fluorescent Fiber-Optic Calcium Sensor for Physiological Measurements

1996 595 citations Michael Kuhn et al. profile →
STRING 7--recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions

2006 524 citations Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

2013 492 citations Sean Powell, Sofia K. Forslund et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
STITCH 4: integration of protein–chemical interactions with user data

2013 362 citations Michael Kuhn, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning

2024 157 citations Célio Dias Santos Júnior, Yiqian Duan et al. Cell profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	VIRE: a metagenome-derived, planetary-scale virome resource with environmental context 2025 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Suguru Nishijima, Anthony Fullam, Thomas Schmidt, Michael Kuhn, Peer Bork	1
2	proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes 2025 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Anthony Fullam, Ivica Letunić, Oleksandr M. Maistrenko, (unknown), Luís Pedro Coelho, (unknown), Christian Schudoma, Supriya Khedkar, (unknown), Michael Kuhn, Thomas Schmidt, Peer Bork, Daniel R. Mende	0
3	Lactococcus A phages predict ACLF while Enterococcus B phages predict bacterial infection in decompensated cirrhosis 2025 ·JHEP Reports ·(unknown), Maximilian Joseph Brol, Lila Close, Robert Schierwagen, Wen Gu, M. Keller, Boglárka Balogh, Anthony Fullam, (unknown), Tomohiro Nakamura, Michael Kuhn, Peer Bork, Wim Laleman, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Mária Papp, (unknown), Jonel Trebicka, Jelle Matthijnssens	0
4	A catalog of small proteins from the global microbiome 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Yiqian Duan, Célio Dias Santos Júnior, Thomas Schmidt, Anthony Fullam, (unknown), Chengkai Zhu, Michael Kuhn, Xing‐Ming Zhao, Peer Bork, Luís Pedro Coelho	10
5	ELEPHANT: ExtragaLactic alErt Pipeline for Hostless AstroNomical Transients 2024 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·P. J. Pessi, Rupesh Durgesh, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Émille E. O. Ishida, A. Moitinho, A. Krone-Martins, (unknown), Rafael S. de Souza, Robert E. Beck, Michael Kuhn, Krzysztof Nowak, (unknown)	2
6	Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment 2024 ·Cell ·Sarela García‐Santamarina, Michael Kuhn, Saravanan Devendran, Lisa Maier, Marja Driessen, André Mateus, Eleonora Mastrorilli, Ana Rita Brochado, Mikhail M. Savitski, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Michael Zimmermann, Peer Bork, Athanasios Typas	18
7	High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities 2023 ·Nature Protocols ·Patrick Müller, Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Michael Kuhn, (unknown), Tim Treis, Sonja Blasche, Michael Zimmermann, Peer Bork, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Athanasios Typas, Sarela García‐Santamarina, Lisa Maier	14
8	Coupling proteomics and metabolomics for the unsupervised identification of protein–metabolite interactions in Chaetomium thermophilum 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·Yuanyue Li, Michael Kuhn, (unknown), Marco L. Hennrich, Panagiotis L. Kastritis, Francis J. O’Reilly, Prasad Phapale, Martin Beck, Anne‐Claude Gavin, Peer Bork	8
9	Identification of metabolites from tandem mass spectra with a machine learning approach utilizing structural features 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Yuanyue Li, Michael Kuhn, Anne‐Claude Gavin, Peer Bork	28
10	Nutritional preferences of human gut bacteria reveal their metabolic idiosyncrasies 2018 ·Nature Microbiology ·(unknown), Sergej Andrejev, Mihaela Pruteanu, Martina Klünemann, Michael Kuhn, Marco Galardini, Paula Jouhten, Aleksej Zelezniak, Georg Zeller, Peer Bork, Athanasios Typas, Kiran Raosaheb Patil	179
11	eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences breakdown → 2015 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk, Sofia K. Forslund, Helen Cook, Davide Heller, Mathias C. Walter, Thomas Rattei, Daniel R. Mende, Shinichi Sunagawa, Michael Kuhn, Lars Juhl Jensen, Christian von Mering, Peer Bork	1528
12	eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms breakdown → 2013 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Sean Powell, Sofia K. Forslund, Damian Szklarczyk, Kalliopi Trachana, Alexander Röth, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Toni Gabaldón, Thomas Rattei, Christopher J. Creevey, Michael Kuhn, Lars Juhl Jensen, Christian von Mering, Peer Bork	492
13	A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs breakdown → 2010 ·Molecular Systems Biology ·Michael Kuhn, Mónica Campillos, Ivica Letunić, Lars Juhl Jensen, Peer Bork	704
14	A systematic screen for protein–lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2010 ·Molecular Systems Biology ·Oriol Gallego, Matthew J. Betts, Jelena Gvozdenovic‐Jeremic, Kenji Maeda, (unknown), Carmen Aguilar‐Gurrieri, Pedro Beltrán-Álvarez, Stefan Bonn, Carlos Fernández‐Tornero, Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn, Jamie Trott, Vladimir Rybin, Christoph W. Müller, Peer Bork, Marko Kaksonen, Robert B. Russell, Anne‐Claude Gavin	137
15	Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2010 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Allyson Lister, Ruchira S. Datta, Oliver Hofmann, Roland Krause, Michael Kuhn, (unknown), Reinhard Schneider	2
16	Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2009 2010 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Allyson Lister, Ruchira S. Datta, Oliver Hofmann, Roland Krause, Michael Kuhn, (unknown), Reinhard Schneider	3
17	Large‐scale prediction of drug–target relationships 2008 ·FEBS Letters ·Michael Kuhn, Mónica Campillos, Paula González, Lars Juhl Jensen, Peer Bork	70
18	Listeria monocytogenes infection of HeLa cells results in listeriolysinO-mediated transient activation of the Raf-MEK-MAP kinase pathway 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·(unknown), Werner Goebel, Jakob Troppmair, Ulf R. Rapp, (unknown), Michael Kuhn	13
19	Listeria monocytogenes-infected human umbilical vein endothelial cells: internalin-independent invasion, intracellular growth, movement, and host cell responses 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Lars Greiffenberg, Zeljka Sokolovic, Hans‐Joachim Schnittler, (unknown), (unknown), Werner Goebel, Michael Kuhn	13
20	ListeriaPathogenesis and Molecular Virulence Determinants breakdown → 2001 ·Clinical Microbiology Reviews ·José A. Vázquez‐Boland, Michael Kuhn, Patrick Berche, Trinad Chakraborty, Gustavo Domínguez‐Bernal, Werner Goebel, Bruno González‐Zorn, Jürgen Wehland, Jürgen Kreft	1699

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