Rolf Daniel

26.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
444 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

Rolf Daniel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Daniel has authored 444 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 286 papers in Molecular Biology, 167 papers in Ecology and 69 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rolf Daniel's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (172 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (117 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (51 papers). Rolf Daniel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (172 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (117 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (51 papers). Rolf Daniel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Rolf Daniel's co-authors include Bernd Wemheuer, Anja Poehlein, Peter Meinicke, Carola Simon, Gerhard Gottschalk, Kathrin Petra Aßhauer, Andrea Thürmer, Dominik Schneider, Franziska Wemheuer and Heiko Nacke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Daniel

437 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Tax4Fun: predicting functional profiles from metagenomic 16S rRNA data

2015 1.2k citations Rolf Daniel et al. profile →
The metagenomics of soil

2005 537 citations Rolf Daniel profile →
Tax4Fun2: prediction of habitat-specific functional profiles and functional redundancy based on 16S rRNA gene sequences

2020 466 citations Rolf Daniel et al. profile →
Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure Along Different Management Types in German Forest and Grassland Soils

2011 445 citations Andrea Thürmer, Rolf Daniel et al. profile →
The lung microbiome regulates brain autoimmunity

2022 164 citations Rolf Daniel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf Daniel Germany	66	8.5k	6.0k	2.7k	1.9k	1.4k	444	16.8k
Don A. Cowan South Africa	60	7.4k 0.9×	7.0k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	399	15.3k
Hans‐Peter Klenk Germany	54	11.2k 1.3×	6.6k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	987 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	354	17.2k
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis United States	58	12.9k 1.5×	10.6k 1.8×	3.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.5×	2.9k 2.0×	211	22.7k
Tanja Woyke United States	74	11.6k 1.4×	10.5k 1.8×	4.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	384	21.3k
Søren J. Sørensen Denmark	77	11.2k 1.3×	5.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	4.2k 2.9×	370	23.9k
Gerhard Thallinger Austria	35	9.7k 1.1×	7.1k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	774 0.4×	2.2k 1.6×	105	20.6k
William B. Whitman United States	68	15.5k 1.8×	12.2k 2.0×	3.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	285	26.1k
Miriam Land United States	43	8.7k 1.0×	6.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	108	15.3k
Thomas Rattei Austria	55	8.4k 1.0×	6.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	586 0.3×	3.5k 2.4×	177	17.7k
Qiong Wang China	15	9.4k 1.1×	7.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.2×	701 0.4×	2.4k 1.7×	59	20.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rolf Daniel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rasuk, María Cecilia, et al.. (2025). Insights into the lemon (Citrus limon) epiphytic microbiome: impact of the biocontrol yeast Clavispora lusitaniae 146. BMC Research Notes. 18(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations

Poehlein, Anja, et al.. (2025). Impact of postharvest management practices on the microbiome of blueberry from Tucumán, Argentina. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 21. 101915–101915. 1 indexed citations

Poehlein, Anja, et al.. (2024). Proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of selenium utilization in Methanococcus maripaludis. mSystems. 9(5). e0133823–e0133823. 1 indexed citations

Zeldes, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Adaptive laboratory evolution of a thermophile toward a reduced growth temperature optimum. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1265216–1265216. 4 indexed citations

Guzman, Juan, Dirk Hauck, Alexander Titz, et al.. (2023). The resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) from Micrococcus luteus and its putative reaction product 1,6-anhydro-MurNAc increase culturability of environmental bacteria. Access Microbiology. 5(9). 3 indexed citations

Kreft, Holger, Johannes Ballauff, Dirk Berkelmann, et al.. (2023). Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 8 indexed citations

Zeldes, Benjamin, Anja Poehlein, Surbhi Jain, et al.. (2023). DNA uptake from a laboratory environment drives unexpected adaptation of a thermophile to a minor medium component. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 2–2. 7 indexed citations

Poehlein, Anja, et al.. (2023). A new metabolic trait in an acetogen: Mixed acid fermentation of fructose in a methylene‐tetrahydrofolate reductase mutant of Acetobacterium woodii. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 15(5). 339–351. 4 indexed citations

Gunka, Katrin, Stefan Klumpp, Anja Poehlein, et al.. (2021). Quasi-essentiality of RNase Y in Bacillus subtilis is caused by its critical role in the control of mRNA homeostasis. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(12). 7088–7102. 13 indexed citations

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Poehlein, Anja, et al.. (2020). Caproicibacter fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new caproate-producing bacterium and emended description of the genus Caproiciproducens. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(7). 4269–4279. 58 indexed citations

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Reimer, Andreas, Dominik Schneider, Robert Peticzka, et al.. (2020). Authigenic formation of Ca–Mg carbonates in the shallow alkaline Lake Neusiedl, Austria. Biogeosciences. 17(7). 2085–2106. 27 indexed citations

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Schneider, Dominik, et al.. (2019). Land Use Change and Water Quality Use for Irrigation Alters Drylands Soil Fungal Community in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1220–1220. 23 indexed citations

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Groß, Uwe, Elżbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Katrin Gunka, et al.. (2018). Comparative genome and phenotypic analysis of three Clostridioides difficile strains isolated from a single patient provide insight into multiple infection of C. difficile. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 1–1. 169 indexed citations

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Gundlach, Jan, Christina Herzberg, Dietrich Hertel, et al.. (2017). Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis to Life at Extreme Potassium Limitation. mBio. 8(4). 48 indexed citations

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Poehlein, Anja, Preben Krabben, Klaus Winzer, et al.. (2017). Microbial solvent formation revisited by comparative genome analysis. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 10(1). 58–58. 57 indexed citations

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Poehlein, Anja, et al.. (2017). Genome sequencing and description of Oerskovia enterophila VJag, an agar- and cellulose-degrading bacterium. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 30–30. 2 indexed citations

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Commichau, Fabian M., Werner Bretzel, Daniel R. Reuß, et al.. (2015). Engineering Bacillus subtilis for the conversion of the antimetabolite 4-hydroxy-l-threonine to pyridoxine. Metabolic Engineering. 29. 196–207. 36 indexed citations

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Filho, M. A. Coelho, et al.. (2014). Physiological indicators of 'Thahiti' acid lime under regulated deficit irrigation and partial rootzone drying irrigation.. 19(2). 292–301. 1 indexed citations

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Zdziarski, Jaroslaw, Elżbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Björn Wullt, et al.. (2010). Host Imprints on Bacterial Genomes—Rapid, Divergent Evolution in Individual Patients. PLoS Pathogens. 6(8). e1001078–e1001078. 106 indexed citations

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Daniel, Rolf, et al.. (1999). Identification of the syntrophic partners in a coculture coupling anaerobic methanol oxidation to Fe(III) reduction. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 180(2). 197–203. 16 indexed citations

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