Sinje Neukirchen

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 912 citations indexed

About

Sinje Neukirchen is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sinje Neukirchen has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 912 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Sinje Neukirchen's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (2 papers). Sinje Neukirchen is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (2 papers). Sinje Neukirchen collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Portugal and Germany. Sinje Neukirchen's co-authors include Filipa L. Sousa, William Martin, Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi, Madeline C. Weiss, Mayo Roettger, Natalia Mrnjavac, Inês A. C. Pereira, John F. Allen, Nick Lane and Sven B. Gould and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and The ISME Journal.

In The Last Decade

Sinje Neukirchen

10 papers receiving 898 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.

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

2016 635 citations Madeline C. Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

Peers

Sinje Neukirchen

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ECOLO

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EC

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Madeline C. Weiss Germany

Natalia Mrnjavac Germany

Rafael F. Say Germany

Betül Kaçar United States

W. Hugo Ramos‐Vera Germany

Saroj Poudel United States

Seán F. Jordan United Kingdom

Hagai Raanan Israel

Carrine E. Blank United States

Nicolas Ginet France

Madeline C. Weiss Germany

Sinje Neukirchen

468 ×0.9

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158 ×0.5

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273 ×1.2

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95 ×0.6

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68 ×0.9

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Citations per year, relative to Sinje Neukirchen Sinje Neukirchen (= 1×) peers Madeline C. Weiss

Countries citing papers authored by Sinje Neukirchen

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sinje Neukirchen

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sinje Neukirchen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sinje Neukirchen. The network helps show where Sinje Neukirchen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sinje Neukirchen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sinje Neukirchen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sinje Neukirchen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sinje Neukirchen. Sinje Neukirchen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Beas, Jordi Zamarreño, et al.. (2025). Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earth’s and Life’s history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1931). 20240102–20240102. 1 indexed citations

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Venceslau, Sofia S., et al.. (2024). Characterization of DsrD and its interaction with the DsrAB dissimilatory sulfite reductase. Protein Science. 33(12). e5222–e5222.

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Geelhoed, Jeanine S., et al.. (2024). Comparative genomic analysis of nickel homeostasis in cable bacteria. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 692–692. 3 indexed citations

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Neukirchen, Sinje, Inês A. C. Pereira, & Filipa L. Sousa. (2023). Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction. The ISME Journal. 17(10). 1680–1692. 37 indexed citations

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Neukirchen, Sinje & Filipa L. Sousa. (2021). DiSCo: a sequence-based type-specific predictor of Dsr-dependent dissimilatory sulphur metabolism in microbial data. Microbial Genomics. 7(7). 33 indexed citations

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Chernyh, N. A., Sinje Neukirchen, Filipa L. Sousa, et al.. (2020). Dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the archaeon ‘Candidatus Vulcanisaeta moutnovskia’ sheds light on the evolution of sulfur metabolism. Nature Microbiology. 5(11). 1428–1438. 34 indexed citations

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Duarte, Américo G., Teresa Catarino, Gaye F. White, et al.. (2018). An electrogenic redox loop in sulfate reduction reveals a likely widespread mechanism of energy conservation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5448–5448. 29 indexed citations

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Weiss, Madeline C., Filipa L. Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac, et al.. (2016). The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor. Nature Microbiology. 1(9). 16116–16116. 635 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martin, William, Madeline C. Weiss, Sinje Neukirchen, Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi, & Filipa L. Sousa. (2016). Physiology, phylogeny, and LUCA. Microbial Cell. 3(12). 582–587. 18 indexed citations

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Sousa, Filipa L., Sinje Neukirchen, John F. Allen, Nick Lane, & William Martin. (2016). Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent. Nature Microbiology. 1(5). 16034–16034. 88 indexed citations

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Martin, William, Sinje Neukirchen, Verena Zimorski, Sven B. Gould, & Filipa L. Sousa. (2016). Energy for two: New archaeal lineages and the origin of mitochondria. BioEssays. 38(9). 850–856. 34 indexed citations

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