Roland Hatzenpichler

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Roland Hatzenpichler is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Hatzenpichler has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Roland Hatzenpichler's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Roland Hatzenpichler is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Roland Hatzenpichler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Germany. Roland Hatzenpichler's co-authors include Michael Wagner, Eva Spieck, Holger Daims, Andreas Richter, Е. В. Лебедева, Kilian Stoecker, Victoria J. Orphan, Zackary J. Jay, Viola Krukenberg and Rachel L. Spietz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Roland Hatzenpichler

35 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring

2008 570 citations Roland Hatzenpichler, Eva Spieck et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Diversity, Physiology, and Niche Differentiation of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

2012 415 citations Roland Hatzenpichler profile →
Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roland Hatzenpichler United States	21	2.3k	1.5k	1.2k	817	336	37	3.6k
Marc G. Dumont United Kingdom	34	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	947 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	217 0.6×	66	4.0k
Manabu Fukui Japan	35	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	305 0.9×	172	4.2k
Hidetoshi Urakawa United States	29	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	785 1.0×	283 0.8×	77	4.0k
Márton Palatinszky Hungary	15	1.7k 0.8×	948 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	364 0.4×	468 1.4×	26	3.5k
Andrew Ogram United States	30	1.7k 0.8×	914 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	764 0.9×	239 0.7×	77	3.5k
Halina E. Tegetmeyer Germany	22	1.5k 0.6×	850 0.6×	801 0.7×	902 1.1×	457 1.4×	33	2.7k
Sung‐Keun Rhee South Korea	39	3.0k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.8×	990 1.2×	568 1.7×	151	5.3k
Fengping Wang China	39	2.8k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	562 0.5×	1.8k 2.2×	434 1.3×	191	5.0k
David A. Stahl United States	24	1.3k 0.6×	881 0.6×	738 0.6×	569 0.7×	223 0.7×	44	2.4k
Brian P. Hedlund United States	42	3.1k 1.4×	2.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	255 0.8×	123	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Hatzenpichler

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Cliff, John, J. K. CRANDALL, Jeremy Bougoure, et al.. (2025). Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(7). e0165924–e0165924. 3 indexed citations

Hatzenpichler, Roland, et al.. (2025). Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota. Science Advances. 11(50). eaea0936–eaea0936.

Krukenberg, Viola, et al.. (2024). Methyl-reducing methanogenesis by a thermophilic culture of Korarchaeia. Nature. 632(8027). 1131–1136. 14 indexed citations

Krukenberg, Viola, et al.. (2024). Cultivation and visualization of a methanogen of the phylum Thermoproteota. Nature. 632(8027). 1118–1123. 19 indexed citations

Jay, Zackary J., et al.. (2024). Methylotrophic methanogenesis in the Archaeoglobi revealed by cultivation of Ca. Methanoglobus hypatiae from a Yellowstone hot spring. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 10 indexed citations

Murali, Ranjani, Hang Yu, Daan R. Speth, et al.. (2023). Physiological potential and evolutionary trajectories of syntrophic sulfate-reducing bacterial partners of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea. PLoS Biology. 21(9). e3002292–e3002292. 24 indexed citations

Wiegand, Tanner, et al.. (2023). Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Cas10 Proteins. The CRISPR Journal. 6(2). 152–162. 11 indexed citations

Spietz, Rachel L., et al.. (2023). Natural and anthropogenic carbon input affect microbial activity in salt marsh sediment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1235906–1235906. 2 indexed citations

Jay, Zackary J., et al.. (2022). Culexarchaeia, a novel archaeal class of anaerobic generalists inhabiting geothermal environments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 86–86. 10 indexed citations

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Cliff, John, et al.. (2022). Correlative SIP-FISH-Raman-SEM-NanoSIMS links identity, morphology, biochemistry, and physiology of environmental microbes. ISME Communications. 2(1). 52–52. 28 indexed citations

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Chadwick, Grayson L., Connor T. Skennerton, Rafael Laso-Pérez, et al.. (2022). Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biology. 20(1). e3001508–e3001508. 87 indexed citations

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Bowers, Robert M., et al.. (2022). Metagenomes and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Substrate-Amended Hot Spring Sediment Incubations from Yellowstone National Park. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 11(4). e0106521–e0106521. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Qian, Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian, Angela Patterson, et al.. (2021). Aerobic bacterial methane synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 54 indexed citations

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Bowers, Robert M., et al.. (2021). High Potential for Biomass-Degrading Enzymes Revealed by Hot Spring Metagenomics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 668238–668238. 29 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, et al.. (2019). Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(12). 725–741. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hatzenpichler, Roland, Silvan Scheller, Patricia L. Tavormina, et al.. (2014). In situ visualization of newly synthesized proteins in environmental microbes using amino acid tagging and click chemistry. Environmental Microbiology. 16(8). 2568–2590. 154 indexed citations

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Lebedeva, E. V., Roland Hatzenpichler, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (2013). Enrichment and Genome Sequence of the Group I.1a Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon “Ca. Nitrosotenuis uzonensis” Representing a Clade Globally Distributed in Thermal Habitats. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80835–e80835. 75 indexed citations

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Spang, Anja, Anja Poehlein, Pierre Offre, et al.. (2012). The genome of the ammonia‐oxidizing C andidatus N itrososphaera gargensis: insights into metabolic versatility and environmental adaptations. Environmental Microbiology. 14(12). 3122–3145. 276 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Orr H., Roland Hatzenpichler, Daniel H. Buckley, Stephen H. Zinder, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2010). Multicellular photo‐magnetotactic bacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(2). 233–238. 40 indexed citations

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Spang, Anja, Roland Hatzenpichler, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, et al.. (2010). Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Trends in Microbiology. 18(8). 331–340. 375 indexed citations

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