Rüdiger Pukall

8.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

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Rüdiger Pukall is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rüdiger Pukall has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Rüdiger Pukall's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers). Rüdiger Pukall is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers). Rüdiger Pukall collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Rüdiger Pukall's co-authors include Peter Schümann, Erko Stackebrandt, Brian J. Tindall, Cheng‐Lin Jiang, Lihua Xu, Irene Wagner‐Döbler, Yu‐Qin Zhang, Wen‐Jun Li, Ping Xu and Hans‐Peter Klenk and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Ecology and Frontiers in Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Rüdiger Pukall

74 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia

2007 750 citations Peter Schümann, Rüdiger Pukall et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY profile →
Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria

2018 510 citations Imen Nouioui, Lorena Carro et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rüdiger Pukall Germany	35	3.2k	2.0k	792	670	503	74	4.7k
Hiroaki Kasai Japan	35	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	685 0.9×	441 0.7×	596 1.2×	119	4.1k
Seok-Hwan Yoon South Korea	11	3.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	941 1.2×	394 0.6×	454 0.9×	17	4.4k
Amrita Pati United States	24	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	867 1.1×	631 0.9×	356 0.7×	99	4.4k
Kihyun Lee South Korea	9	4.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	659 1.0×	612 1.2×	21	5.2k
Hyunsoo Na United States	14	3.9k 1.2×	2.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.8×	717 1.1×	596 1.2×	22	5.5k
David R. Arahal Spain	30	4.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.4×	880 1.1×	302 0.5×	556 1.1×	116	5.3k
Kyung Sook Bae South Korea	37	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	942 1.2×	494 0.7×	764 1.5×	131	3.9k
Yong‐Joon Cho South Korea	23	4.4k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	727 1.1×	672 1.3×	99	6.3k
Karin Lagesen Norway	16	4.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	333 0.5×	396 0.8×	37	6.0k
Alex Copeland United States	19	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 2.0×	358 0.5×	299 0.6×	31	5.2k

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Modesto, Monica, Alejandra Vásquez, Rüdiger Pukall, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic characterization of Bifidobacterium kimbladii sp. nov., a novel species from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 48(1). 126579–126579. 2 indexed citations

Schümann, Peter, Jialan Cao, Alexis Criscuolo, et al.. (2021). Reclassification of Haloactinobacterium glacieicola as Occultella glacieicola gen. nov., comb. nov., of Haloactinobacterium album as Ruania alba comb. nov, with an emended description of the genus Ruania, recognition that the genus names Haloactinobacterium and Ruania are heterotypic synonyms and description of Occultella aeris sp. nov., a halotolerant isolate from surface soil sampled at an ancient copper smelter. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 71(4). 39 indexed citations

Zammuto, Vincenzo, Felix M. Fuchs, Marcel Fiebrandt, et al.. (2018). Comparing Spore Resistance of Bacillus Strains Isolated from Hydrothermal Vents and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities to Environmental Stressors and Decontamination Treatments. Astrobiology. 18(11). 1425–1434. 17 indexed citations

Nouioui, Imen, Lorena Carro, Marina García-López, et al.. (2018). Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2007–2007. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

Yassin, A. F., Cathrin Spröer, Rüdiger Pukall, et al.. (2014). Dissection of the genus Actinobaculum: Reclassification of Actinobaculum schaalii Lawson et al. 1997 and Actinobaculum urinale Hall et al. 2003 as Actinotignum schaalii gen. nov., comb. nov. and Actinotignum urinale comb. nov., description of Actinotignum sanguinis sp. nov. and emended descriptions of the genus Actinobaculum and Actinobaculum suis; and re-examination of the culture deposited as Actinobaculum massiliense CCUG 47753T ( = DSM 19118T), revealing that it does not represent a strain of this species. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 65(Pt_2). 615–624. 39 indexed citations

Carro, Lorena, Rüdiger Pukall, Cathrin Spröer, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, & Martha E. Trujillo. (2013). Micromonospora halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of a Pisum sativum plant. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 103(6). 1245–1254. 17 indexed citations

Mikolasch, Annett, et al.. (2013). Bacteriolytic Bacillus species isolated from brackish waters of the Southern Baltic Sea. Marine Biology. 160(10). 2699–2709. 5 indexed citations

Vaishampayan, Parag, Christine Moissl‐Eichinger, Rüdiger Pukall, et al.. (2012). Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 63(Pt_7). 2463–2471. 15 indexed citations

Carro, Lorena, Rüdiger Pukall, Cathrin Spröer, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, & Martha E. Trujillo. (2012). Micromonospora cremea sp. nov. and Micromonospora zamorensis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Pisum sativum. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 62(Pt_12). 2971–2977. 31 indexed citations

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Citron, Christian A., et al.. (2011). Terpenoids are Widespread in Actinomycetes: A Correlation of Secondary Metabolism and Genome Data. ChemBioChem. 13(2). 202–214. 115 indexed citations

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Rooney, Alejandro P., James L. Swezey, Rüdiger Pukall, Peter Schümann, & Stefan Spring. (2010). Peptoniphilus methioninivorax sp. nov., a Gram-positive anaerobic coccus isolated from retail ground beef. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 61(8). 1962–1967. 25 indexed citations

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Kallimanis, Aristeidis, et al.. (2009). Arthrobacter phenanthrenivorans sp. nov., to accommodate the phenanthrene-degrading bacterium Arthrobacter sp. strain Sphe3. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 59(2). 275–279. 50 indexed citations

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Pukall, Rüdiger, Peter Schümann, Dominique Clermont, & Chantal Bizet. (2008). Bacillus aeolius DSM 15084T (=CIP 107628T) is a strain of Bacillus licheniformis.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 58(5). 1268–1270. 10 indexed citations

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Pukall, Rüdiger, Peter Schümann, Conny Schütte, Rieta Gols, & Marcel Dicke. (2006). Acaricomes phytoseiuli gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 56(2). 465–469. 27 indexed citations

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Biebl, Hanno, Martin Allgaier, Heinrich Lünsdorf, et al.. (2005). Roseovarius mucosus sp. nov., a member of the Roseobacter clade with trace amounts of bacteriochlorophyll a. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 55(6). 2377–2383. 67 indexed citations

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Schimana, Judith, Klaus Gebhardt, Alexandra Höltzel, et al.. (2002). Arylomycins A and B, New Biaryl-bridged Lipopeptide Antibiotics Produced by Streptomyces sp. Tue 6075. I. Taxonomy, Fermentation, Isolation and Biological Activities.. The Journal of Antibiotics. 55(6). 565–570. 123 indexed citations

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Pukall, Rüdiger, Ina Krämer, Manfred Rohde, & Erko Stackebrandt. (2001). Microbial diversity of cultivatable bacteria associated with the North Sea bryozoan Flustra foliacea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 24(4). 623–633. 34 indexed citations

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Stackebrandt, Erko & Rüdiger Pukall. (1999). Response to Althoff et al. (Mar Biol 130: 529-536). Deriving taxonomic decisions from 16S rDNA: a case study. Marine Biology. 133(1). 159–161. 7 indexed citations

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Pukall, Rüdiger, H. Tschäpe, & Kornelia Smalla. (1996). Monitoring the spread of broad host and narrow host range plasmids in soil microcosms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 20(1). 53–66. 75 indexed citations

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Smalla, Kornelia, L.S. van Overbeek, Rüdiger Pukall, & Jan Dirk van Elsas. (1993). Prevalence of nptII and Tn5 in kanamycin-resistant bacteria from different environments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 13(1). 47–58. 49 indexed citations

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