Reinhard Rachel

11.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Reinhard Rachel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Reinhard Rachel has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 61 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Reinhard Rachel's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (44 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). Reinhard Rachel is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (44 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). Reinhard Rachel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Reinhard Rachel's co-authors include Karl O. Stetter, Harald Huber, Siegfried Burggraf, Michael J. Hohn, Holger W. Jannasch, David Prangishvili, Reinhard Wirth, Monika Häring, Gerhard Wanner and Doris Hafenbradl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Reinhard Rachel

148 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont

2002 519 citations Harald Huber, Reinhard Rachel et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reinhard Rachel Germany	53	5.1k	3.2k	1.2k	969	841	148	8.1k
Christopher T. Brown United States	36	5.0k 1.0×	4.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	512 0.5×	653 0.8×	93	9.0k
Heinrich Lünsdorf Germany	48	3.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	516 0.4×	501 0.5×	457 0.5×	137	6.9k
Harald Huber Germany	52	4.7k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	544 0.6×	139	8.2k
Michael T. Madigan United States	41	5.6k 1.1×	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	692 0.7×	229 0.3×	171	11.1k
Frank Mayer Germany	42	4.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	619 0.5×	582 0.6×	462 0.5×	188	6.8k
David E. Graham United States	44	3.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	623 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	412 0.5×	143	8.0k
Paul Messner Austria	50	5.5k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	400 0.3×	948 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	185	8.4k
Ricardo Cavicchioli Australia	49	4.7k 0.9×	4.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	780 0.8×	548 0.7×	134	8.1k
John R. Lawrence Canada	57	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	664 0.7×	203 0.2×	217	10.1k
Terry A. Krulwich United States	52	5.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	414 0.4×	934 1.0×	2.1k 2.4×	211	9.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Przybilla, Frédéric, Reinhard Rachel, Thomas Hirsch, et al.. (2024). Impact of surface chemistry of upconversion nanoparticles on time-dependent cytotoxicity in non-cancerous epithelial cells. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 30610–30610. 4 indexed citations

Rachel, Reinhard, et al.. (2023). The transcriptional regulator EarA and intergenic terminator sequences modulate archaellation in Pyrococcus furiosus. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 2 indexed citations

Klingl, Andreas, et al.. (2023). A novel interdomain consortium from a Costa Rican oil well composed of Methanobacterium cahuitense sp. nov. and Desulfomicrobium aggregans sp. nov.. Archives of Microbiology. 205(5). 189–189. 1 indexed citations

Isupov, Michail N., Rebecca Conners, Mathew McLaren, et al.. (2022). An archaellum filament composed of two alternating subunits. Nature Communications. 13(1). 710–710. 23 indexed citations

Bellack, Annett, et al.. (2022). Methanofollis propanolicus sp. nov., a novel archaeal isolate from a Costa Rican oil well that uses propanol for methane production. Archives of Microbiology. 204(9). 554–554. 5 indexed citations

Huwiler, Simona G., et al.. (2018). One-megadalton metalloenzyme complex in Geobacter metallireducens involved in benzene ring reduction beyond the biological redox window. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(6). 2259–2264. 35 indexed citations

Allolio, Christoph, Aniket Magarkar, Piotr Jurkiewicz, et al.. (2018). Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides induce membrane multilamellarity and subsequently enter via formation of a fusion pore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(47). 11923–11928. 176 indexed citations

Daum, Bertram, Janet Vonck, Annett Bellack, et al.. (2017). Structure and in situ organisation of the Pyrococcus furiosus archaellum machinery. eLife. 6. 64 indexed citations

Teeseling, Muriel C. F. van, Naomi M. de Almeida, Andreas Klingl, et al.. (2013). A New Addition to the Cell Plan of Anammox Bacteria: "Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis" Has a Protein Surface Layer as the Outermost Layer of the Cell. Journal of Bacteriology. 196(1). 80–89. 40 indexed citations

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Wu, Ming, Muriel C. F. van Teeseling, Elly G. van Donselaar, et al.. (2011). Ultrastructure of the Denitrifying Methanotroph “Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera,” a Novel Polygon-Shaped Bacterium. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(2). 284–291. 54 indexed citations

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Douki, Thierry, Gottfried Schmalz, Reinhard Rachel, et al.. (2011). Survival of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms after exposure to UV-C, ionizing radiation and desiccation. Archives of Microbiology. 193(11). 797–809. 27 indexed citations

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Küper, Ulf, et al.. (2010). Energized outer membrane and spatial separation of metabolic processes in the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(7). 3152–3156. 69 indexed citations

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Küper, Ulf, et al.. (2010). "Ignicoccus hospitalis" und sein Weg, ATP zu gewinnen. University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg). 1 indexed citations

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Zolghadr, Behnam, Andreas Klingl, Andrea Koerdt, et al.. (2009). Appendage-Mediated Surface Adherence of Sulfolobus solfataricus. Journal of Bacteriology. 192(1). 104–110. 67 indexed citations

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Suleiman, Hani, Daniel Heudobler, Yangu Zhao, et al.. (2007). The podocyte-specific inactivation of Lmx1b, Ldb1 and E2a yields new insight into a transcriptional network in podocytes. Developmental Biology. 304(2). 701–712. 42 indexed citations

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Schneider, Gerald J., Anthony L. Fink, Reinhard Rachel, & D. Göritz. (2005). Three-dimensional structure of precipitated silica as determined by electron tomography. Civil War Book Review. 58(9). 461–463. 4 indexed citations

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Vestergaard, Gisle, Monika Häring, Xu Peng, et al.. (2005). A novel rudivirus, ARV1, of the hyperthermophilic archaeal genus Acidianus. Virology. 336(1). 83–92. 50 indexed citations

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Blumer, Caroline, Ulrich Dobrindt, Gábor Nagy, et al.. (2005). Regulation of type 1 fimbriae synthesis and biofilm formation by the transcriptional regulator LrhA of Escherichia coli. Microbiology. 151(10). 3287–3298. 101 indexed citations

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Rachel, Reinhard, et al.. (1997). Fine structure of S-layers. University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg). 10 indexed citations

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Burggraf, Siegfried, Gerhard Fiala, Gertrud Huber, et al.. (1995). Isolation, taxonomy and phylogeny of hyperthermophilic microorganisms. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 11(1). 9–16. 72 indexed citations

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