Rolf Kümmerli

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Rolf Kümmerli is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Kümmerli has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Genetics, 35 papers in Molecular Biology and 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Rolf Kümmerli's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (35 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Rolf Kümmerli is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (35 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Rolf Kümmerli collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Rolf Kümmerli's co-authors include Jos Kramer, Özhan Özkaya, Adin Ross‐Gillespie, Stuart A. West, Ashleigh S. Griffin, Zoé Dumas, Laurent Keller, Sam P. Brown, Andy Gardner and Stefan Wyder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Kümmerli

86 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions

2019 627 citations Jos Kramer, Özhan Özkaya et al. profile →
Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes

2020 328 citations Shaohua Gu, Zhong Wei et al. profile →
Microbiome convergence enables siderophore-secreting-rhizobacteria to improve iron nutrition and yield of peanut intercropped with maize

2024 62 citations Nanqi Wang, Tianqi Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf Kümmerli Switzerland	30	1.5k	1.5k	936	858	606	91	3.8k
Daniel E. Rozen Netherlands	36	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	825 0.9×	328 0.4×	740 1.2×	76	4.3k
Andrew J. Spiers United Kingdom	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	300 0.3×	793 0.9×	920 1.5×	71	3.1k
Freya Harrison United Kingdom	26	915 0.6×	767 0.5×	521 0.6×	204 0.2×	384 0.6×	58	2.4k
Michael J. McDonald Australia	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	275 0.3×	594 0.7×	365 0.6×	44	3.1k
Rolf F. Hoekstra Netherlands	36	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	702 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	463 0.8×	102	3.9k
Tim F. Cooper United States	27	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	668 0.7×	210 0.2×	315 0.5×	50	2.6k
Christopher J. Marx United States	37	3.2k 2.1×	1.6k 1.1×	482 0.5×	450 0.5×	677 1.1×	85	4.6k
Jeffrey L. Blanchard United States	29	2.7k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	394 0.4×	672 0.8×	900 1.5×	45	4.8k
Gregory J. Velicer United States	28	1.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	253 0.3×	787 1.3×	80	3.1k
Alex Wong Canada	31	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	124 0.1×	354 0.4×	390 0.6×	91	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rolf Kümmerli

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Poveda, Lucy, Witold Wolski, Christian Panse, et al.. (2025). A combination of phenotypic responses and genetic adaptations enables Staphylococcus aureus to withstand inhibitory molecules secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. mSystems. 10(8). e0026225–e0026225.

Wang, Nanqi, Tianqi Wang, Yu Chen, et al.. (2024). Microbiome convergence enables siderophore-secreting-rhizobacteria to improve iron nutrition and yield of peanut intercropped with maize. Nature Communications. 15(1). 839–839. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Allen, Richard C., et al.. (2023). Negative interactions and virulence differences drive the dynamics in multispecies bacterial infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2003). 20231119–20231119. 6 indexed citations

Gu, Shaohua, et al.. (2023). Chryseochelins—structural characterization of novel citrate-based siderophores produced by plant protecting Chryseobacterium spp.. Metallomics. 15(3). 11 indexed citations

Kümmerli, Rolf, et al.. (2022). Enforced specialization fosters mutual cheating and not division of labour in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(5). 719–730. 6 indexed citations

Kümmerli, Rolf. (2022). Iron acquisition strategies in pseudomonads: mechanisms, ecology, and evolution. BioMetals. 36(4). 777–797. 29 indexed citations

Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2021). Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(8). 1266–1278. 8 indexed citations

Wagner, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Molecular Ecology. 30(20). 5214–5228. 11 indexed citations

Salvador, Manuel, Özhan Özkaya, Matt Spick, et al.. (2020). Loss of a pyoverdine secondary receptor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa results in a fitter strain suitable for population invasion. The ISME Journal. 15(5). 1330–1343. 14 indexed citations

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Kümmerli, Rolf, et al.. (2020). Strain Background, Species Frequency, and Environmental Conditions Are Important in Determining Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Population Dynamics and Species Coexistence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(18). 16 indexed citations

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Sathe, Santosh & Rolf Kümmerli. (2020). Antagonistic interactions subdue inter‐species green‐beard cooperation in bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(9). 1245–1255. 4 indexed citations

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Kümmerli, Rolf, et al.. (2020). Combining antibiotics with antivirulence compounds can have synergistic effects and reverse selection for antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Biology. 18(8). e3000805–e3000805. 86 indexed citations

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Granato, Elisa T., et al.. (2019). In-vivo microscopy reveals the impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa social interactions on host colonization. The ISME Journal. 13(10). 2403–2414. 24 indexed citations

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Wechsler, Tobias, Rolf Kümmerli, & Akos Dobay. (2019). Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(5). 412–424. 13 indexed citations

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Kramer, Jos, et al.. (2019). Positive linkage between bacterial social traits reveals that homogeneous rather than specialised behavioral repertoires prevail in natural Pseudomonas communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(1). 8 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, Rolf Kümmerli, Steve Paterson, Craig Winstanley, & Michael A. Brockhurst. (2019). Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1912). 20191794–20191794. 18 indexed citations

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Granato, Elisa T., Christoph Ziegenhain, Rasmus L. Marvig, & Rolf Kümmerli. (2018). Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ISME Journal. 12(12). 2907–2918. 36 indexed citations

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Kümmerli, Rolf, et al.. (2017). The physical boundaries of public goods cooperation between surface-attached bacterial cells. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1858). 20170631–20170631. 35 indexed citations

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Inglis, R. Fredrik, et al.. (2017). Cheating fosters species co-existence in well-mixed bacterial communities. The ISME Journal. 11(5). 1179–1188. 56 indexed citations

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Kümmerli, Rolf, Pieter van den Berg, Ashleigh S. Griffin, Stuart A. West, & Andy Gardner. (2010). Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(4). 699–706. 26 indexed citations

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