Nina Sommer

991 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 647 citations indexed

About

Nina Sommer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nina Sommer has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 647 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Physiology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nina Sommer's work include Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (1 paper). Nina Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (1 paper). Nina Sommer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Denmark. Nina Sommer's co-authors include Fredrik Bäckhed, Felix Sommer, Marcus Ståhlman, Robert Caesar, Rosie Perkins, Antonio Molinaro, Thomas U. Greiner, Intawat Nookaew, Per Fogelstrand and Lara N. Wolfers and has published in prestigious journals such as Gut, Computers in Human Behavior and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research.

In The Last Decade

Nina Sommer

8 papers receiving 638 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.

Microbiota-induced obesity requires farnesoid X receptor

2016 378 citations Nina Sommer, Felix Sommer et al. Gut profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nina Sommer Germany	7	392	213	165	108	79	8	647
Claire Adams United States	15	390 1.0×	125 0.6×	176 1.1×	26 0.2×	82 1.0×	21	865
Xiaoyan Gong China	17	398 1.0×	49 0.2×	140 0.8×	62 0.6×	40 0.5×	38	964
Dengfeng Wang China	13	190 0.5×	91 0.4×	51 0.3×	65 0.6×	57 0.7×	51	625
Kerry A. Lymn Australia	13	119 0.3×	52 0.2×	41 0.2×	80 0.7×	39 0.5×	21	455
Elizabeth A. Thiele United States	15	282 0.7×	120 0.6×	70 0.4×	82 0.8×	43 0.5×	31	984
Siu Lam Hong Kong	4	240 0.6×	20 0.1×	80 0.5×	20 0.2×	29 0.4×	5	442
Michiko Tanaka Japan	15	237 0.6×	78 0.4×	458 2.8×	219 2.0×	16 0.2×	47	1.1k
Hee‐Sook Kim United States	18	469 1.2×	50 0.2×	381 2.3×	53 0.5×	27 0.3×	50	922
Ariangela J. Kozik United States	11	276 0.7×	131 0.6×	36 0.2×	12 0.1×	33 0.4×	22	493

Countries citing papers authored by Nina Sommer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nina Sommer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nina Sommer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nina Sommer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nina Sommer 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 Nina Sommer. Nina Sommer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Sommer, Felix, Joana P. Bernardes, Lena Best, et al.. (2025). Life-long microbiome rejuvenation improves intestinal barrier function and inflammaging in mice. Microbiome. 13(1). 91–91. 3 indexed citations

2.

Sommer, Nina, et al.. (2023). Epithelial Dual Oxidase 2 Shapes the Mucosal Microbiome and Contributes to Inflammatory Susceptibility. Antioxidants. 12(10). 1889–1889. 10 indexed citations

3.

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2019). Phone use while parenting: An observational study to assess the association of maternal sensitivity and smartphone use in a playground setting. Computers in Human Behavior. 102. 31–38. 63 indexed citations

4.

Mischke, Mona, Tulika Arora, Sebastian Tims, et al.. (2018). Specific synbiotics in early life protect against diet‐induced obesity in adult mice. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 20(6). 1408–1418. 42 indexed citations

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Stengel, Stephanie T., et al.. (2017). Regulated proteolysis as an element of ER stress and autophagy: Implications for intestinal inflammation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1864(11). 2183–2190. 9 indexed citations

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Anaya‐Rojas, Jaime M., Franziska S. Brunner, Nina Sommer, et al.. (2016). The association of feeding behaviour with the resistance and tolerance to parasites in recently diverged sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29(11). 2157–2167. 15 indexed citations

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Sommer, Nina, Felix Sommer, Robert Caesar, et al.. (2016). Microbiota-induced obesity requires farnesoid X receptor. Gut. 66(3). 429–437. 378 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sommer, Felix, Intawat Nookaew, Nina Sommer, Per Fogelstrand, & Fredrik Bäckhed. (2015). Site-specific programming of the host epithelial transcriptome by the gut microbiota. Genome Biology. 16(1). 62–62. 127 indexed citations

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