Niklas Netter

427 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 235 citations indexed

About

Niklas Netter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niklas Netter has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 235 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Biophysics and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Niklas Netter's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (3 papers). Niklas Netter is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (3 papers). Niklas Netter collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Niklas Netter's co-authors include Knut Drescher, Daniel K.H. Rode, Eric Jelli, Carey D. Nadell, Hannah Jeckel, Victor Sourjik, Olga Lamprecht, Sanika Vaidya, Praveen K. Singh and Janne G. Thöming and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nature Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Niklas Netter

5 papers receiving 234 citations

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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.

Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ

2021 194 citations Raimo Hartmann, Hannah Jeckel et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niklas Netter Switzerland	5	141	57	40	35	26	5	235
Olga Lamprecht Switzerland	5	135 1.0×	50 0.9×	35 0.9×	31 0.9×	26 1.0×	5	230
Sanika Vaidya United States	6	140 1.0×	51 0.9×	36 0.9×	35 1.0×	26 1.0×	7	248
Daniel K.H. Rode Switzerland	6	154 1.1×	62 1.1×	39 1.0×	41 1.2×	26 1.0×	6	265
Bernard Beckerman United States	6	263 1.9×	44 0.8×	44 1.1×	56 1.6×	8 0.3×	7	430
Jan Zarzycki‐Siek United States	8	207 1.5×	46 0.8×	41 1.0×	27 0.8×	9 0.3×	13	326
Kevin J. Cutler United States	4	113 0.8×	47 0.8×	26 0.7×	26 0.7×	69 2.7×	5	252
Janne G. Thöming Germany	9	302 2.1×	73 1.3×	69 1.7×	43 1.2×	27 1.0×	12	410
William Cole Cornell United States	9	267 1.9×	89 1.6×	75 1.9×	31 0.9×	6 0.2×	10	351
Sudarsan Mugunthan Australia	7	127 0.9×	56 1.0×	13 0.3×	19 0.5×	5 0.2×	9	348
Nuno Guimarães Portugal	14	174 1.2×	116 2.0×	23 0.6×	76 2.2×	4 0.2×	25	386

Countries citing papers authored by Niklas Netter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niklas Netter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niklas Netter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Niklas Netter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Niklas Netter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Niklas Netter. Niklas Netter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Rode, Daniel K.H., et al.. (2025). Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(17). e2417452122–e2417452122. 5 indexed citations

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Jeckel, Hannah, Dominic J. Skinner, Niklas Netter, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous spatiotemporal transcriptomics and microscopy of Bacillus subtilis swarm development reveal cooperation across generations. Nature Microbiology. 8(12). 2378–2391. 11 indexed citations

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Jelli, Eric, et al.. (2023). Single‐cell segmentation in bacterial biofilms with an optimized deep learning method enables tracking of cell lineages and measurements of growth rates. Molecular Microbiology. 119(6). 659–676. 20 indexed citations

4.

Hartmann, Raimo, Hannah Jeckel, Eric Jelli, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ. Nature Microbiology. 6(2). 270–270. 5 indexed citations

5.

Hartmann, Raimo, Hannah Jeckel, Eric Jelli, et al.. (2021). Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ. Nature Microbiology. 6(2). 151–156. 194 indexed citations breakdown →

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