Sonja Blasche

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 627 citations indexed

About

Sonja Blasche is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Blasche has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 627 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Food Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sonja Blasche's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (5 papers), Gut microbiota and health (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Sonja Blasche is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (5 papers), Gut microbiota and health (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Sonja Blasche collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Sonja Blasche's co-authors include Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Yong‐Kyu Kim, Peter Uetz, Daniel Machado, Bas Teusink, Jens Nielsen, Uwe Sauer, Ruben A. Mars, Ana Rute Neves and Alessio Milanese and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Blasche

14 papers receiving 624 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.

Metabolic cooperation and spatiotemporal niche partitioning in a kefir microbial community

2021 209 citations Sonja Blasche, Yong‐Kyu Kim et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Blasche Germany	11	376	194	160	80	72	15	627
Lydia M. Bogomolnaya United States	17	346 0.9×	244 1.3×	103 0.6×	221 2.8×	96 1.3×	42	802
Sean C. Moore Australia	13	362 1.0×	211 1.1×	206 1.3×	46 0.6×	96 1.3×	22	624
José Emilio Rebollo Spain	11	282 0.8×	195 1.0×	95 0.6×	62 0.8×	111 1.5×	15	487
Rachel A. Miller United States	16	419 1.1×	195 1.0×	165 1.0×	78 1.0×	71 1.0×	25	754
Francine Moussan Aké France	7	291 0.8×	89 0.5×	73 0.5×	56 0.7×	144 2.0×	7	497
Meriem Derkaoui France	9	278 0.7×	72 0.4×	74 0.5×	58 0.7×	167 2.3×	9	474
Anna Staroń Germany	8	436 1.2×	92 0.5×	162 1.0×	59 0.7×	310 4.3×	12	681
Brit Winnen United States	10	325 0.9×	124 0.6×	126 0.8×	182 2.3×	236 3.3×	11	712
Caressa N. Tsai Canada	12	253 0.7×	133 0.7×	77 0.5×	136 1.7×	104 1.4×	17	551
Felipe Molina Spain	11	284 0.8×	130 0.7×	145 0.9×	74 0.9×	159 2.2×	22	508

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Blasche

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15 of 15 papers shown

Smith, Tom, Shagun Krishna, Rui Guan, et al.. (2025). Industrial and agricultural chemicals exhibit antimicrobial activity against human gut bacteria in vitro. Nature Microbiology. 10(12). 3107–3121.

Müller, Patrick, Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Michael Kuhn, et al.. (2023). High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities. Nature Protocols. 19(3). 668–699. 14 indexed citations

Melkonian, Chrats, Inge Kjærbølling, Sonja Blasche, et al.. (2023). Microbial interactions shape cheese flavour formation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8348–8348. 47 indexed citations

Yu, Jason, Clara Correia‐Melo, Francisco Zorrilla, et al.. (2022). Microbial communities form rich extracellular metabolomes that foster metabolic interactions and promote drug tolerance. Nature Microbiology. 7(4). 542–555. 74 indexed citations

Blasche, Sonja, Yong‐Kyu Kim, Ruben A. Mars, et al.. (2021). Metabolic cooperation and spatiotemporal niche partitioning in a kefir microbial community. Nature Microbiology. 6(2). 196–208. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

Marcišauskas, Simonas, Yongkyu Kim, Sonja Blasche, et al.. (2021). Draft Genome Sequences of Five Fungal Strains Isolated from Kefir. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 10(21). e0019521–e0019521. 2 indexed citations

Melkonian, Chrats, Willi Gottstein, Sonja Blasche, et al.. (2019). Finding Functional Differences Between Species in a Microbial Community: Case Studies in Wine Fermentation and Kefir Culture. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1347–1347. 26 indexed citations

Kim, Yong‐Kyu, Sonja Blasche, & Kiran Raosaheb Patil. (2017). Draft Genome Sequences of Three Novel Low-Abundance Species Strains Isolated from Kefir Grain. Genome Announcements. 5(39). 1 indexed citations

Blasche, Sonja, Yong‐Kyu Kim, Ana Paula de Oliveira, & Kiran Raosaheb Patil. (2017). Model microbial communities for ecosystems biology. Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 6. 51–57. 36 indexed citations

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Blasche, Sonja, Yong‐Kyu Kim, & Kiran Raosaheb Patil. (2017). Draft Genome Sequence of Corynebacterium kefirresidentii SB, Isolated from Kefir. Genome Announcements. 5(37). 3 indexed citations

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Blasche, Sonja, Arnaud Céol, Gabriella Siszler, et al.. (2014). The EHEC-host interactome reveals novel targets for the translocated intimin receptor. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7531–7531. 29 indexed citations

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Blasche, Sonja, Stefan Wuchty, Seesandra V. Rajagopala, & Peter Uetz. (2013). The Protein Interaction Network of Bacteriophage Lambda with Its Host, Escherichia coli. Journal of Virology. 87(23). 12745–12755. 21 indexed citations

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Blasche, Sonja & Manfred Koegl. (2013). Analysis of Protein–Protein Interactions Using LUMIER Assays. Methods in molecular biology. 1064. 17–27. 24 indexed citations

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Blasche, Sonja, Mario Mörtl, H. Steuber, et al.. (2013). The E. coli Effector Protein NleF Is a Caspase Inhibitor. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58937–e58937. 78 indexed citations

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Häuser, Roman, Sonja Blasche, Terje Dokland, et al.. (2012). Bacteriophage Protein–Protein Interactions. Advances in virus research. 83. 219–298. 63 indexed citations

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