Michal Koblížek

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
116 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Michal Koblížek is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Michal Koblížek has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Ecology, 83 papers in Molecular Biology and 43 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Michal Koblížek's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (81 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (43 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (37 papers). Michal Koblížek is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (81 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (43 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (37 papers). Michal Koblížek collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Germany. Michal Koblížek's co-authors include Yonghui Zeng, Kasia Piwosz, Jiří Masojídek, Zbigniew Kolber, Paul G. Falkowski, Izabela Mujakić, David Kaftan, Josef Komenda, Helen F. Fredricks and Michal Mašı́n and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michal Koblížek

113 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity

2009 595 citations Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Michal Koblížek et al. profile →
Phylum Gemmatimonadota and Its Role in the Environment

2022 156 citations Izabela Mujakić, Kasia Piwosz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michal Koblížek Czechia	40	3.1k	2.7k	1.8k	746	661	116	5.1k
Niels‐Ulrik Frigaard Denmark	34	2.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	624 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	565 0.9×	70	4.9k
Brian Palenik United States	46	3.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.8×	886 1.2×	919 1.4×	103	6.8k
Ondřej Prášil Czechia	37	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	649 1.0×	119	5.2k
Anton F. Post United States	42	3.5k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	3.0k 1.7×	588 0.8×	949 1.4×	100	6.0k
Peter G. Kroth Germany	41	2.0k 0.7×	3.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	2.4k 3.2×	417 0.6×	127	5.8k
Gabrielle Rocap United States	31	3.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	336 0.5×	691 1.0×	51	4.9k
Laurence Garczarek France	31	2.8k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	663 0.9×	422 0.6×	65	4.0k
Zackary I. Johnson United States	39	3.5k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	681 0.9×	576 0.9×	93	5.3k
Senjie Lin United States	48	4.8k 1.6×	4.1k 1.5×	3.7k 2.1×	1.1k 1.5×	2.1k 3.1×	252	9.0k
Thorsten Brinkhoff Germany	46	4.6k 1.5×	3.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	255 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	116	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michal Koblížek

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Wang, Weiwei, Yanting Liu, Juping Gu, et al.. (2025). Cryo‐EM Analysis of a Tri‐Heme Cytochrome‐Associated RC‐LH1 Complex from the Marine Photoheterotrophic Bacterium Dinoroseobacter Shibae. Advanced Science. 12(18). e2413456–e2413456. 3 indexed citations

Šantić, Danijela, Blanka Milić Roje, Izabela Mujakić, et al.. (2025). Contribution of different bacterial groups in the carbon flow through the microbial food web. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 318. 109228–109228. 1 indexed citations

Tomasch, Jürgen, et al.. (2024). On the evolution of chromosomal regions with high gene strand bias in bacteria. mBio. 15(6). e0060224–e0060224.

Koblížek, Michal, et al.. (2024). Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria correlate with picophytoplankton across the Atlantic Ocean but show unique vertical bioenergetics. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(11). 2503–2515.

Mujakić, Izabela, Jason Woodhouse, Jason Dean, et al.. (2024). Phenology and ecological role of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in freshwaters. Microbiome. 12(1). 65–65. 6 indexed citations

Piwosz, Kasia, et al.. (2024). Response of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria to limitation and availability of organic carbon. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(7). 3 indexed citations

Koblížek, Michal, Isabel Ferrera, Solange Duhamel, et al.. (2024). Growth and mortality of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(4). e0003224–e0003224. 3 indexed citations

Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A., Alastair T. Gardiner, Michelle M. Leger, et al.. (2023). Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60. Current Biology. 33(6). 1099–1111.e6. 7 indexed citations

Kuznetsova, Valentyna, et al.. (2022). Carotenoid responds to excess energy dissipation in the LH2 complex from Rhodoblastus acidophilus. Photosynthesis Research. 154(1). 75–87. 5 indexed citations

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Mujakić, Izabela, Adrian‐Ștefan Andrei, Tanja Shabarova, et al.. (2021). Common Presence of Phototrophic Gemmatimonadota in Temperate Freshwater Lakes. mSystems. 6(2). 30 indexed citations

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Pjevac, Petra, Stefan Dyksma, Tobias Goldhammer, et al.. (2019). In situ abundance and carbon fixation activity of distinct anoxygenic phototrophs in the stratified seawater lake Rogoznica. Environmental Microbiology. 21(10). 3896–3908. 10 indexed citations

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Medová, Hana, et al.. (2019). Seasonal dynamics of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in freshwater lake Vlkov. Folia Microbiologica. 64(5). 705–710. 10 indexed citations

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Brinkmann, Henner, Markus Göker, Michal Koblížek, Irene Wagner‐Döbler, & Jörn Petersen. (2018). Horizontal operon transfer, plasmids, and the evolution of photosynthesis in Rhodobacteraceae. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 1994–2010. 64 indexed citations

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Ferrera, Isabel, et al.. (2017). Light enhances the growth rates of natural populations of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. The ISME Journal. 11(10). 2391–2393. 39 indexed citations

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Zeng, Yonghui, Fuying Feng, Hana Medová, Jason Dean, & Michal Koblížek. (2014). Functional type 2 photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(21). 7795–7800. 176 indexed citations

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Koblížek, Michal. (2009). The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria. Photosynthetica. 47(3). 123 indexed citations

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Salka, Ivette, Vladimíra Moulisová, Michal Koblížek, et al.. (2008). Abundance, Depth Distribution, and Composition of Aerobic Bacteriochlorophyll a -Producing Bacteria in Four Basins of the Central Baltic Sea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(14). 4398–4404. 57 indexed citations

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Koblížek, Michal, Joseph D. Shih, Emma C. Ratcliffe, et al.. (2004). Sequential assembly of photosynthetic units in Rhodobacter sphaeroides as revealed by fast repetition rate analysis of variable bacteriochlorophyll a fluorescence. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1706(3). 220–231. 60 indexed citations

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Masojídek, Jiří, et al.. (2004). The Xanthophyll Cycle in Green Algae (Chlorophyta): Its Role in the Photosynthetic Apparatus. Plant Biology. 6(3). 342–349. 62 indexed citations

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Denner, Ewald B.M., Dietmar Vybiral, Michal Koblížek, et al.. (2002). Erythrobacter citreus sp. nov., a yellow-pigmented bacterium that lacks bacteriochlorophyll a, isolated from the western Mediterranean Sea.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 52(5). 1655–1661. 70 indexed citations

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