Nina Dombrowski

7.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
27 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Nina Dombrowski is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nina Dombrowski has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nina Dombrowski's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 papers). Nina Dombrowski is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 papers). Nina Dombrowski collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Nina Dombrowski's co-authors include Brett J. Baker, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, Andreas Teske, Kiley W. Seitz, Rubén Garrido‐Oter, Alice C. McHardy, Klaus Schlaeppi, Anja Spang, Yang Bai and Valerie De Anda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nina Dombrowski

27 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Functional overlap of the Arabidopsis leaf and root microbiota
    2015 867 citations Yang Bai, Rubén Garrido‐Oter et al. profile →
  2. Quantitative divergence of the bacterial root microbiota in Arabidopsis thaliana relatives
    2013 371 citations Klaus Schlaeppi, Nina Dombrowski et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea
    2020 335 citations Brett J. Baker, Valerie De Anda et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
  4. Modular Traits of the Rhizobiales Root Microbiota and Their Evolutionary Relationship with Symbiotic Rhizobia
    2018 243 citations Rubén Garrido‐Oter, Ryohei Thomas Nakano et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
  5. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
    2024 74 citations Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nina Dombrowski Netherlands 22 1.5k 1.5k 1.4k 553 291 27 3.5k
Achim Quaiser France 17 1.3k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 323 0.6× 251 0.9× 26 2.8k
Pamela Weisenhorn United States 18 1.1k 0.7× 595 0.4× 908 0.6× 243 0.4× 190 0.7× 26 2.3k
Ángel Valverde Spain 36 1.6k 1.0× 768 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 248 0.4× 213 0.7× 87 3.3k
Ramona Marasco Saudi Arabia 28 1.9k 1.2× 661 0.4× 974 0.7× 136 0.2× 304 1.0× 78 3.1k
Irina S. Kulichevskaya Russia 29 303 0.2× 1.0k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 371 0.7× 287 1.0× 57 2.2k
Anna M. Kielak Netherlands 19 1.1k 0.7× 656 0.4× 994 0.7× 196 0.4× 244 0.8× 24 2.4k
Stephanie A. Eichorst Austria 22 833 0.5× 905 0.6× 1.6k 1.1× 358 0.6× 350 1.2× 33 3.0k
Thilo Eickhorst Germany 24 3.4k 2.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 215 0.4× 325 1.1× 34 4.9k
Ester Dekkers Netherlands 15 2.2k 1.4× 793 0.5× 849 0.6× 228 0.4× 133 0.5× 19 3.9k
Markus Gorfer Austria 27 1.1k 0.7× 543 0.4× 587 0.4× 224 0.4× 350 1.2× 70 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nina Dombrowski

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nina Dombrowski

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moody, Edmund R. R., Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara Mahendrarajah, et al.. (2024). The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(9). 1654–1666. 74 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kügelgen, Andriko von, Nina Dombrowski, Renée Whan, et al.. (2024). The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6449–6449. 4 indexed citations
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Vaksmaa, Annika, Lùbos Polerecký, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2023). Polyethylene degradation and assimilation by the marine yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. ISME Communications. 3(1). 68–68. 43 indexed citations
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Mahendrarajah, Tara, Edmund R. R. Moody, Dominik Schrempf, et al.. (2023). ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7456–7456. 46 indexed citations
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Egas, Martijn, Ken Kraaijeveld, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2023). On distinguishing between canonical tRNA genes and tRNA gene fragments in prokaryotes. RNA Biology. 20(1). 48–58. 2 indexed citations
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Krause, Susanne, Andriko von Kügelgen, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2022). The importance of biofilm formation for cultivation of a Micrarchaeon and its interactions with its Thermoplasmatales host. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1735–1735. 17 indexed citations
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Langwig, Marguerite V., Valerie De Anda, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2021). Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 307–320. 106 indexed citations
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Mayer, Teresa, Alfredo Mari, Juliana Almario, et al.. (2021). Obtaining deeper insights into microbiome diversity using a simple method to block host and nontargets in amplicon sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(6). 1952–1965. 14 indexed citations
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Anda, Valerie De, Lin-Xing Chen, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2021). Brockarchaeota, a novel archaeal phylum with unique and versatile carbon cycling pathways. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2404–2404. 41 indexed citations
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Reysenbach, Anna‐Louise, Emily St. John, Gilberto E. Flores, et al.. (2020). Complex subsurface hydrothermal fluid mixing at a submarine arc volcano supports distinct and highly diverse microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(51). 32627–32638. 42 indexed citations
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Dombrowski, Nina, Tom A. Williams, Jiarui Sun, et al.. (2020). Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3939–3939. 76 indexed citations
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Baker, Brett J., Valerie De Anda, Kiley W. Seitz, et al.. (2020). Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea. Nature Microbiology. 5(7). 887–900. 335 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bornemann, Till L. V., et al.. (2019). An archaeal symbiont-host association from the deep terrestrial subsurface. The ISME Journal. 13(8). 2135–2139. 29 indexed citations
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Spang, Anja, Courtney W. Stairs, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2019). Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nature Microbiology. 4(7). 1138–1148. 128 indexed citations
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Seitz, Kiley W., Nina Dombrowski, Laura Eme, et al.. (2019). Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1822–1822. 140 indexed citations
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Dombrowski, Nina, et al.. (2019). A diverse uncultivated microbial community is responsible for organic matter degradation in the Black Sea sulphidic zone. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 2709–2728. 51 indexed citations
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Garrido‐Oter, Rubén, et al.. (2018). Modular Traits of the Rhizobiales Root Microbiota and Their Evolutionary Relationship with Symbiotic Rhizobia. Cell Host & Microbe. 24(1). 155–167.e5. 243 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dombrowski, Nina, Kiley W. Seitz, Andreas Teske, & Brett J. Baker. (2017). Genomic insights into potential interdependencies in microbial hydrocarbon and nutrient cycling in hydrothermal sediments. Microbiome. 5(1). 106–106. 144 indexed citations
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Dombrowski, Nina, Klaus Schlaeppi, Matthew T. Agler, et al.. (2016). Root microbiota dynamics of perennial Arabis alpina are dependent on soil residence time but independent of flowering time. The ISME Journal. 11(1). 43–55. 111 indexed citations
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Zamioudis, Christos, J.A. van Pelt, Nina Dombrowski, et al.. (2015). Rhizobacterial volatiles and photosynthesis‐related signals coordinate MYB72 expression in Arabidopsis roots during onset of induced systemic resistance and iron‐deficiency responses. The Plant Journal. 84(2). 309–322. 150 indexed citations

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