Miriam Weber

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Miriam Weber is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Miriam Weber has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Oceanography, 17 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Miriam Weber's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Miriam Weber is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Miriam Weber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Miriam Weber's co-authors include Christian Lott, Katharina Fabricius, Dirk de Beer, Andreas Eich, Lùbos Polerecký, Tobias Mildenberger, Christian Laforsch, Maurizio Tosin, Francesco Degli Innocenti and Peter Driessen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Miriam Weber

54 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Chemosynthetic symbionts of marine invertebrate animals are capable of nitrogen fixation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miriam Weber Germany	27	1.0k	641	635	445	366	57	2.3k
Pascal Conan France	31	1.2k 1.2×	976 1.5×	1.6k 2.6×	525 1.2×	423 1.2×	74	3.2k
Christian Lott Germany	26	1.4k 1.4×	473 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	598 1.3×	280 0.8×	40	2.5k
Mireille Pujo‐Pay France	34	1.6k 1.6×	981 1.5×	1.9k 3.1×	488 1.1×	427 1.2×	87	3.6k
Rodrigo Almeda Spain	31	528 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	850 1.3×	415 0.9×	204 0.6×	73	2.2k
Michaela Schratzberger United Kingdom	27	1.4k 1.4×	715 1.1×	1.5k 2.4×	716 1.6×	231 0.6×	60	2.7k
Samuel T. Wilson United States	26	1.1k 1.0×	428 0.7×	1.3k 2.0×	226 0.5×	119 0.3×	58	2.1k
Tatenda Dalu South Africa	31	1.9k 1.9×	1.0k 1.6×	374 0.6×	453 1.0×	374 1.0×	234	3.9k
Dror L. Angel Israel	28	609 0.6×	574 0.9×	658 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	108 0.3×	85	2.4k
Eugenio Rastelli Italy	21	854 0.8×	668 1.0×	305 0.5×	168 0.4×	97 0.3×	45	1.7k
Tatsuki Toda Japan	32	1.1k 1.1×	765 1.2×	995 1.6×	452 1.0×	79 0.2×	232	4.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Weber, Miriam, et al.. (2025). Material Matters: Unraveling the effect of biodegradable plastic polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), conventional high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and bamboo on the bacterial community of marine eulittoral sediments. Heliyon. 11(12). e43530–e43530.

Weber, Miriam, et al.. (2023). Bacterial diversity of biofilms on polyhydroxybutyrate exposed to marine conditions: Ex-situ vs. in-situ tests. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167458–167458. 6 indexed citations

Mohr, Wiebke, Soeren Ahmerkamp, Hannah K. Marchant, et al.. (2021). Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium. Nature. 600(7887). 105–109. 65 indexed citations

Eich, Andreas, Miriam Weber, & Christian Lott. (2021). Disintegration half-life of biodegradable plastic films on different marine beach sediments. PeerJ. 9. e11981–e11981. 20 indexed citations

Vaksmaa, Annika, Katrin Knittel, Alejandro Abdala Asbun, et al.. (2021). Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 673553–673553. 90 indexed citations

Lott, Christian, et al.. (2021). Half-Life of Biodegradable Plastics in the Marine Environment Depends on Material, Habitat, and Climate Zone. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. 53 indexed citations

Lott, Christian, Andreas Eich, Glauco Battagliarin, et al.. (2020). Field and mesocosm methods to test biodegradable plastic film under marine conditions. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236579–e0236579. 43 indexed citations

Cardini, Ulisse, Marco Bartoli, Sebastian Lücker, et al.. (2019). Chemosymbiotic bivalves contribute to the nitrogen budget of seagrass ecosystems. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 3131–3134. 21 indexed citations

Ornik, Jan, Stefan Sommer, Miriam Weber, et al.. (2019). Could photoluminescence spectroscopy be an alternative technique for the detection of microplastics? First experiments using a 405 nm laser for excitation. Applied Physics B. 126(1). 26 indexed citations

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Taubert, Martin, Carolina Grob, Andrew T. Crombie, et al.. (2019). Communal metabolism by Methylococcaceae and Methylophilaceae is driving rapid aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of a shallow seep near Elba, Italy. Environmental Microbiology. 21(10). 3780–3795. 26 indexed citations

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Molari, Massimiliano, Katja Guilini, Christian Lott, et al.. (2018). CO ₂ leakage alters biogeochemical and ecological functions of submarine sands. Science Advances. 4(2). eaao2040–eaao2040. 31 indexed citations

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Koopmans, Dirk, Moritz Holtappels, Arjun Chennu, Miriam Weber, & Dirk de Beer. (2018). The response of seagrass (<i>Posidonia oceanica</i>) meadow metabolism to CO<sub>2</sub> levels and hydrodynamic exchange determined with aquatic eddy covariance. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 8 indexed citations

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Guilini, Katja, Miriam Weber, Dirk de Beer, et al.. (2017). Response of Posidonia oceanica seagrass and its epibiont communities to ocean acidification. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0181531–e0181531. 33 indexed citations

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Marchant, Hannah K., Anne Schwedt, Jana Milucka, et al.. (2016). High rates of microbial dinitrogen fixation and sulfate reduction associated with the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 39(7). 476–483. 39 indexed citations

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Häusler, Stefan, Miriam Weber, Dirk de Beer, & Danny Ionescu. (2014). Spatial distribution of diatom and cyanobacterial mats in the Dead Sea is determined by response to rapid salinity fluctuations. Extremophiles. 18(6). 1085–1094. 13 indexed citations

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Weber, Miriam, et al.. (2014). A framework for rating environmental value of urban parks. The Science of The Total Environment. 508. 395–401. 27 indexed citations

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Wangpraseurt, Daniel, Miriam Weber, Hans Røy, et al.. (2012). In Situ Oxygen Dynamics in Coral-Algal Interactions. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31192–e31192. 70 indexed citations

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Tosin, Maurizio, et al.. (2012). Laboratory Test Methods to Determine the Degradation of Plastics in Marine Environmental Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 225–225. 170 indexed citations

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Kohls, Katharina, Raeid M. M. Abed, Lùbos Polerecký, Miriam Weber, & Dirk de Beer. (2009). Halotaxis of cyanobacteria in an intertidal hypersaline microbial mat. Environmental Microbiology. 12(3). 567–575. 14 indexed citations

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Weber, Miriam & Robert J. McCaffrey. (2000). Aproximación clínical para valorar la simulación en la evaluación neuopsicológica forense. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 2(3). 21–36. 1 indexed citations

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