R. Henrik Nilsson

42.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
132 papers, 14.8k citations indexed

About

R. Henrik Nilsson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Henrik Nilsson has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Plant Science, 66 papers in Cell Biology and 60 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in R. Henrik Nilsson's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (83 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (66 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers). R. Henrik Nilsson is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (83 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (66 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers). R. Henrik Nilsson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Estonia and United States. R. Henrik Nilsson's co-authors include Kessy Abarenkov, Leho Tedersoo, Urmas Kõljalg, Martin Ryberg, Erik Kristiansson, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Johan Bengtsson‐Palme, Karl‐Henrik Larsson, Mohammad Bahram and Andy F. S. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

R. Henrik Nilsson

129 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

The UNITE database for molecular... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2018 2005 2009 2008 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications
    2018 2.4k citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Johan Bengtsson‐Palme et al. profile →
  2. UNITE: a database providing web‐based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi
    2005 880 citations Urmas Kõljalg, Karl‐Henrik Larsson et al. profile →
  3. 454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity
    2009 765 citations R. Henrik Nilsson et al. profile →
  4. Intraspecific ITS Variability in the Kingdom Fungi as Expressed in the International Sequence Databases and Its Implications for Molecular Species Identification
    2008 665 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Erik Kristiansson et al. profile →
  5. Fungal community analysis by high‐throughput sequencing of amplified markers – a user's guide
    2013 654 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →
  6. Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi
    2018 622 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Sten Anslan et al. profile →
  7. 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases
    2010 456 citations Leho Tedersoo, R. Henrik Nilsson et al. profile →
  8. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi
    2015 398 citations Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys profile →
  9. Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results
    2022 167 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. Henrik Nilsson Sweden 53 9.2k 5.5k 4.3k 3.8k 3.2k 132 14.8k
Urmas Kõljalg Estonia 40 7.5k 0.8× 3.5k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 3.0k 0.9× 101 10.9k
Kessy Abarenkov Estonia 31 5.9k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 54 9.4k
Monique Gardes France 29 10.6k 1.2× 6.1k 1.1× 2.5k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 4.2k 1.3× 52 13.1k
Jan Stenlid Sweden 64 11.4k 1.3× 5.5k 1.0× 2.5k 0.6× 4.2k 1.1× 3.4k 1.1× 313 16.1k
Francis Martin France 71 13.7k 1.5× 3.4k 0.6× 3.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 2.3k 0.7× 337 17.3k
Rytas Vilgalys United States 77 17.5k 1.9× 10.8k 2.0× 6.3k 1.5× 3.2k 0.8× 6.4k 2.0× 241 24.6k
Gabriele Berg Austria 87 18.8k 2.1× 4.8k 0.9× 7.0k 1.6× 5.1k 1.3× 2.9k 0.9× 418 27.4k
Mohammad Bahram Estonia 49 5.9k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 2.2k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 129 9.5k
Peter G. Kennedy United States 39 7.9k 0.9× 2.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 2.8k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 112 11.2k
Ari Jumpponen United States 56 6.0k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 2.7k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 143 10.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tedersoo, Leho, Stefan Geisen, Ying Chang, & R. Henrik Nilsson. (2025). Toward DNA-based taxonomy of prokaryotes and microeukaryotes. Trends in Genetics. 42(1). 14–29. 1 indexed citations
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Scharn, Ruud, Maja K. Sundqvist, Christine D. Bacon, et al.. (2022). Limited decadal growth of mountain birch saplings has minor impact on surrounding tundra vegetation. Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). e9028–e9028. 4 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Mohammad Bahram, Lucie Zinger, et al.. (2022). Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results. Molecular Ecology. 31(10). 2769–2795. 167 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Anders F. Andersson, Andrew Bissett, et al.. (2022). Introducing guidelines for publishing DNA-derived occurrence data through biodiversity data platforms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 11 indexed citations
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Scharn, Ruud, Chelsea J. Little, Christine D. Bacon, et al.. (2021). Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64031–64031. 15 indexed citations
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Hestetun, Jon Thomassen, et al.. (2020). Significant taxon sampling gaps in DNA databases limit the operational use of marine macrofauna metabarcoding. Marine Biodiversity. 50(5). 47 indexed citations
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Schigel, Dmitry, Anders F. Andersson, Andrew Bissett, et al.. (2020). Mapping and Publishing Sequence-Derived Data through Biodiversity Data Platforms. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Bengtsson‐Palme, Johan, Rodney T. Richardson, Marco Meola, et al.. (2018). Metaxa2 Database Builder: enabling taxonomic identification from metagenomic or metabarcoding data using any genetic marker. Bioinformatics. 34(23). 4027–4033. 30 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, R. Henrik Nilsson, Christian Wurzbacher, et al.. (2018). Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys. 39(39). 29–40. 40 indexed citations
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Ritter, Camila Duarte, Alexander Zizka, Fabian Roger, et al.. (2018). High-throughput metabarcoding reveals the effect of physicochemical soil properties on soil and litter biodiversity and community turnover across Amazonia. PeerJ. 6. e5661–e5661. 18 indexed citations
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Wurzbacher, Christian, Ellen Larsson, Johan Bengtsson‐Palme, et al.. (2018). Introducing ribosomal tandem repeat barcoding for fungi. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(1). 118–127. 82 indexed citations
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Christian Wurzbacher, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2016). Top 50 most wanted fungi. MycoKeys. 12. 29–40. 61 indexed citations
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Antonelli, Alexandre, Fabien L. Condamine, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2016). Toward a Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of Taxa. Systematic Biology. 66(2). syw066–syw066. 38 indexed citations
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Sanli, Kemal, Johan Bengtsson‐Palme, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2015). Metagenomic sequencing of marine periphyton: taxonomic and functional insights into biofilm communities. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1192–1192. 46 indexed citations
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Jeppson, Mikael, R. Henrik Nilsson, & Ellen Larsson. (2013). European earthstars in Geastraceae (Geastrales, Phallomycetidae) – a systematic approach using morphology and molecular sequence data. Systematics and Biodiversity. 11(4). 437–465. 24 indexed citations
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Orgiazzi, Alberto, Erica Lumini, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2012). Unravelling Soil Fungal Communities from Different Mediterranean Land-Use Backgrounds. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34847–e34847. 190 indexed citations
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Vilmar Veldre, Zheng Wang, et al.. (2011). A note on the incidence of reverse complementary fungal ITS sequences in the public sequence databases and a software tool for their detection and reorientation. Mycoscience. 52(4). 278–282. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Sheng-Hua, et al.. (2010). The white-rotting genus Phanerochaete is polyphyletic and distributed throughout the phleboid clade of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity. 42(1). 107–118. 62 indexed citations
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Paulus, Barbara, R. Henrik Nilsson, & Nils Hallenberg. (2007). Phylogenetic studies in Hypochnicium (Basidiomycota), with special emphasis on species from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 45(1). 139–150. 19 indexed citations
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Martin Ryberg, Erik Kristiansson, et al.. (2006). Taxonomic Reliability of DNA Sequences in Public Sequence Databases: A Fungal Perspective. PLoS ONE. 1(1). e59–e59. 497 indexed citations

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