Thomas Bayer

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Bayer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bayer has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Organic Chemistry and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bayer's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (17 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (11 papers) and Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (4 papers). Thomas Bayer is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (17 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (11 papers) and Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (4 papers). Thomas Bayer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and China. Thomas Bayer's co-authors include Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Shuke Wu, Eric Block, Christoffel P. S. Badenhorst, Matthias Höhne, Dong Yi, Mark Doerr, Alexander Higelin, John M. Slattery and Ingo Krossing and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bayer

37 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Recent trends in biocatalysis
    2021 272 citations Dong Yi, Thomas Bayer et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Bayer Germany 17 585 333 183 181 110 39 1.1k
Rebecca Buller Switzerland 17 630 1.1× 235 0.7× 200 1.1× 108 0.6× 40 0.4× 41 1.0k
Sarah L. Lovelock United Kingdom 19 1.2k 2.1× 450 1.4× 125 0.7× 215 1.2× 46 0.4× 25 1.5k
Alba Díaz‐Rodríguez United Kingdom 18 581 1.0× 621 1.9× 198 1.1× 200 1.1× 124 1.1× 32 1.2k
Yifeng Wei Singapore 21 595 1.0× 230 0.7× 268 1.5× 73 0.4× 23 0.2× 57 1.3k
Véronique Alphand France 29 1.5k 2.6× 391 1.2× 155 0.8× 446 2.5× 43 0.4× 52 1.8k
Andrew J. Carnell United Kingdom 21 627 1.1× 727 2.2× 359 2.0× 339 1.9× 85 0.8× 58 1.6k
William Finnigan United Kingdom 14 868 1.5× 263 0.8× 74 0.4× 277 1.5× 34 0.3× 21 1.2k
Hein J. Wijma Netherlands 28 1.7k 2.9× 226 0.7× 138 0.8× 381 2.1× 78 0.7× 65 2.1k
Vasily M. Babaev Russia 17 192 0.3× 355 1.1× 154 0.8× 54 0.3× 86 0.8× 75 843
Jamie Ferguson United Kingdom 14 188 0.3× 482 1.4× 48 0.3× 208 1.1× 73 0.7× 16 1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Bayer

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All Works

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Dörr, Mark, et al.. (2025). Identification and Engineering of Novel N ‐Methyltransferases. ChemCatChem. 17(7). 2 indexed citations
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Barone, Giovanni Davide, Anna Ngo, Thomas Bayer, et al.. (2025). Industrial applicability of enzymatic and whole-cell processes for the utilization of C1 building blocks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7066–7066. 1 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, Shuke Wu, Radka Šnajdrová, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). An Update: Enzymatic Synthesis for Industrial Applications. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(27). e202505976–e202505976. 11 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, Shuke Wu, Radka Šnajdrová, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). Update: Enzymatische Synthese für industrielle Anwendungen. Angewandte Chemie. 137(27).
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Li, Zhishuai, Xu Han, Pushpendra Singh, et al.. (2025). Structure‐Guided Engineering of a Versatile Urethanase Improves Its Polyurethane Depolymerization Activity. Advanced Science. 12(13). e2416019–e2416019. 14 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, Gottfried J. Palm, Leona Berndt, et al.. (2024). Strukturaufklärung einer metagenomischen Urethanase und Verbesserung des Hydrolyseprofils durch Protein Engineering. Angewandte Chemie. 136(38). 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Yong, Nils Rockstroh, Stephan Bartling, et al.. (2024). State‐of‐the‐Art Light‐Driven Hydrogen Generation from Formic Acid and Utilization in Enzymatic Hydrogenations. ChemSusChem. 18(4). e202401811–e202401811. 2 indexed citations
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Lalk, Michael, et al.. (2024). Efficient Enzymatic Synthesis of Carbamates in Water Using Promiscuous Esterases/Acyltransferases. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(30). e202405152–e202405152. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiawei, Jan Griebel, Andrea Prager, et al.. (2024). One‐Pot Depolymerization of Mixed Plastics Using a Dual Enzyme System. ChemSusChem. 18(9). e202402416–e202402416. 8 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, et al.. (2024). An Extremely Sensitive Ultra-High Throughput Growth Selection Assay for the Identification of Amidase Activity. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 108(1). 392–392. 2 indexed citations
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Dörr, Mark, et al.. (2024). Biosensor‐Guided Engineering of a Baeyer‐Villiger Monooxygenase for Aliphatic Ester Production. ChemBioChem. 26(1). e202400712–e202400712. 1 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, Gottfried J. Palm, Leona Berndt, et al.. (2024). Structural Elucidation of a Metagenomic Urethanase and Its Engineering Towards Enhanced Hydrolysis Profiles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(38). e202404492–e202404492. 31 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, et al.. (2023). In Vivo Detection of Low Molecular Weight Platform Chemicals and Environmental Contaminants by Genetically Encoded Biosensors. ACS Omega. 8(26). 23227–23239. 10 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Biosensor and chemo-enzymatic one-pot cascade applications to detect and transform PET-derived terephthalic acid in living cells. iScience. 25(5). 104326–104326. 31 indexed citations
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Yi, Dong, Thomas Bayer, Christoffel P. S. Badenhorst, et al.. (2021). Recent trends in biocatalysis. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(14). 8003–8049. 272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, In Jung, et al.. (2021). Two novel cyanobacterial α-dioxygenases for the biosynthesis of fatty aldehydes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 106(1). 197–210. 6 indexed citations
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Bayer, Thomas, In Jung Kim, Kathleen Balke, et al.. (2021). LuxAB-Based Microbial Cell Factories for the Sensing, Manufacturing and Transformation of Industrial Aldehydes. Catalysts. 11(8). 953–953. 14 indexed citations
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Wiesinger, Thomas, Thomas Bayer, Sofia Milker, Marko D. Mihovilovič, & Florian Rudroff. (2017). Cell Factory Design and Optimization for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Compounds. ChemBioChem. 19(4). 361–368. 3 indexed citations
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Slattery, John M., Alexander Higelin, Thomas Bayer, & Ingo Krossing. (2010). A Simple Route to Univalent Gallium Salts of Weakly Coordinating Anions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(18). 3228–3231. 95 indexed citations
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Block, Eric, et al.. (1996). Allium Chemistry:  Structure, Synthesis, Natural Occurrence in Onion (Allium cepa), and Reactions of 2,3-Dimethyl-5,6-dithiabicyclo[2.1.1]hexane S-Oxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118(12). 2790–2798. 21 indexed citations

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