Michael Unseld

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Unseld is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Unseld has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Unseld's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Michael Unseld is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Michael Unseld collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Italy. Michael Unseld's co-authors include Axel Brennicke, Joachim R. Marienfeld, Petra Brandt, Rudolf Hiesel, Bernd Wissinger, P. Brandt, Birgit Beyermann, W. Schuster, Wolfgang Schuster and Olaf Ninnemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Unseld

20 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 57 genes in 366,924 nucleotides
    1997 734 citations Michael Unseld, Joachim R. Marienfeld et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Unseld Germany 13 1.4k 514 160 123 87 20 1.5k
Rudolf Hiesel Germany 16 1.7k 1.2× 322 0.6× 154 1.0× 130 1.1× 164 1.9× 23 1.8k
Garrett J. Lee United States 7 1.2k 0.9× 466 0.9× 68 0.4× 102 0.8× 32 0.4× 8 1.4k
Sergei A. Filichkin United States 21 1.8k 1.3× 1.7k 3.2× 133 0.8× 59 0.5× 41 0.5× 33 2.4k
Magdalena Wołoszyńska Poland 15 765 0.6× 511 1.0× 135 0.8× 60 0.5× 96 1.1× 31 985
Jeffrey D. Palmer United States 8 680 0.5× 427 0.8× 103 0.6× 71 0.6× 482 5.5× 8 977
Eriko Sasaki Japan 18 522 0.4× 865 1.7× 130 0.8× 79 0.6× 210 2.4× 28 1.2k
Mariana Martín Argentina 15 506 0.4× 306 0.6× 211 1.3× 85 0.7× 54 0.6× 25 816
Patrice Déhais France 15 779 0.6× 619 1.2× 266 1.7× 36 0.3× 17 0.2× 30 1.2k
Werner Howad Spain 23 951 0.7× 1.4k 2.8× 211 1.3× 39 0.3× 207 2.4× 43 1.8k
Christine D. Chase United States 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 2.3× 239 1.5× 57 0.5× 137 1.6× 46 1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Unseld

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marienfeld, Joachim R., Michael Unseld, & Axel Brennicke. (1999). The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis is composed of both native and immigrant information. Trends in Plant Science. 4(12). 495–502. 86 indexed citations
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Unseld, Michael, Joachim R. Marienfeld, Petra Brandt, & Axel Brennicke. (1997). The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 57 genes in 366,924 nucleotides. Nature Genetics. 15(1). 57–61. 734 indexed citations breakdown →
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Marienfeld, Joachim R., Michael Unseld, Petra Brandt, & Axel Brennicke. (1997). Mosaic Open Reading Frames in the Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondrial Genome. Biological Chemistry. 378(8). 859–62. 26 indexed citations
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Lippok, Bernadette, Axel Brennicke, & Michael Unseld. (1996). The rps4-Gene Is Encoded Upstream of the nad2-Gene inArabidopsisMitochondria. Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler. 377(4). 251–258. 15 indexed citations
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Knoop, Volker, et al.. (1996). copia-, gypsy- and LINE-Like Retrotransposon Fragments in the Mitochondrial Genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 142(2). 579–585. 64 indexed citations
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Federici, Stefano, Lucia Casarino, Armando Mannucci, et al.. (1996). Analysis of a short tandem repeat locus on chromosome 19 (D19S253). International Journal of Legal Medicine. 108(5). 256–258. 5 indexed citations
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Brennicke, Axel, Mathieu Klein, Stefan Binder, et al.. (1996). Molecular Biology of Plant Mitochondria. Die Naturwissenschaften. 83(8). 339–346. 3 indexed citations
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Brennicke, Axel, Mathieu Klein, Stefan Binder, et al.. (1996). Molecular biology of plant mitochondria. Die Naturwissenschaften. 83(8). 339–346. 33 indexed citations
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Unseld, Michael, Birgit Beyermann, P. Brandt, & Rudolf Hiesel. (1995). Identification of the species origin of highly processed meat products by mitochondrial DNA sequences.. Genome Research. 4(4). 241–243. 155 indexed citations
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Frommer, Wolf B., Sabine Hummel, Michael Unseld, & Olaf Ninnemann. (1995). Seed and vascular expression of a high-affinity transporter for cationic amino acids in Arabidopsis.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92(26). 12036–12040. 94 indexed citations
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Palmer, Jeffrey D., Stephen R. Downie, Jacqueline M. Nugent, et al.. (1994). 3 Chloroplast and Mitochondrial DNAs of Arabidopsis thaliana: Conventional Genomes in an Unconventional Plant. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 27. 37–62. 11 indexed citations
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Klein, Mathieu, et al.. (1994). Physical mapping of the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana by cosmid and YAC clones. The Plant Journal. 6(3). 447–455. 68 indexed citations
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Brandt, Petra, et al.. (1993). An rps14 pseudogene is transcribed and edited in Arabidopsis mitochondria. Current Genetics. 24(4). 330–336. 32 indexed citations
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Unseld, Michael, et al.. (1993). The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana.. 137–143. 10 indexed citations
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Brandt, Petra, et al.. (1992). The nad4L gene is encoded between exon c of nad5 and orf25 in the Arabidopsis mitochondrial genome. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 236(1). 33–38. 26 indexed citations
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Wissinger, Bernd, et al.. (1991). Duplicated Sequence Elements and Their Function in Plant Mitochondria. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C. 46(9-10). 709–716. 5 indexed citations
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Schuster, Wolfgang, Michael Unseld, Bernd Wissinger, & Axel Brennicke. (1990). Ribosomal protein S14 transcripts are edited inOenotheramitochondria. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(2). 229–233. 51 indexed citations
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Schuster, W., Bernd Wissinger, Rudolf Hiesel, et al.. (1990). RNA Editing in plant mitochondria. Cell Biology International Reports. 14. 28–28. 10 indexed citations
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Schuster, W., Bernd Wissinger, Michael Unseld, & Axel Brennicke. (1990). Transcripts of the NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 3 gene are differentially edited in Oenothera mitochondria.. The EMBO Journal. 9(1). 263–269. 102 indexed citations
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Blanz, P., et al.. (1989). Group-specific differences in the secondary structure of the 28S ribosomal RNA of yeasts.. PubMed. 5 Spec No. S399–404. 1 indexed citations

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