Thomas Hurek

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Hurek is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Hurek has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Plant Science, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Hurek's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (34 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Thomas Hurek is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (34 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Thomas Hurek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Thomas Hurek's co-authors include Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek, Barbara Reinhold, Marc Van Montagu, I. Fendrik, Mugdha Sabale, Tanja Egener, E. Kellenberger, Zhiyuan Tan, J. De Ley and E. Niemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Hurek

64 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Living inside plants: bacterial endophytes 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2015 2011 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Living inside plants: bacterial endophytes
    2011 548 citations Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek, Thomas Hurek profile →
  2. Roots Shaping Their Microbiome: Global Hotspots for Microbial Activity
    2015 498 citations Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek, Thomas Hurek et al. profile →
  3. Functional Characteristics of an Endophyte Community Colonizing Rice Roots as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis
    2011 460 citations Angela Sessitsch, Pablo R. Hardoim et al. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Hurek Germany 36 4.2k 1.5k 1.3k 511 471 66 5.4k
Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek Germany 41 5.0k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 825 1.6× 583 1.2× 99 7.0k
Kiwamu Minamisawa Japan 46 5.2k 1.2× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 662 1.3× 341 0.7× 203 6.8k
Tijana Glavina Del Rio United States 24 3.5k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 421 0.8× 611 1.3× 37 5.5k
Chiu‐Chung Young Taiwan 36 2.6k 0.6× 2.7k 1.9× 1.8k 1.4× 542 1.1× 225 0.5× 257 5.8k
Yvan Moënne‐Loccoz France 49 7.2k 1.7× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 266 0.5× 1.1k 2.4× 145 8.7k
José Ivo Baldani Brazil 42 4.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 711 0.6× 235 0.5× 315 0.7× 137 5.7k
I. S. de Melo Brazil 36 2.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 332 0.6× 589 1.3× 203 4.8k
Fernando Dini Andreote Brazil 37 2.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 580 1.1× 446 0.9× 177 4.9k
Qirong Shen China 40 3.0k 0.7× 1000 0.7× 668 0.5× 565 1.1× 570 1.2× 141 4.5k
Dayakar V. Badri United States 26 4.9k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 911 0.7× 313 0.6× 352 0.7× 45 6.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Grönemeyer, Jann Lasse, et al.. (2015). Microbial community structure and functional diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with Colophospermum mopane. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(4). 12 indexed citations
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Schilf, Paul, Annette Peter, Thomas Hurek, & Reimer Stick. (2014). Lamins of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) and the evolution of the vertebrate lamin protein family. European Journal of Cell Biology. 93(7). 308–321. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuan, Jessica Döring, & Thomas Hurek. (2012). Bias in topoisomerase (TOPO)-cloning of multitemplate PCR products using locked nucleic acid (LNA)-substituted primers. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 91(3). 483–486. 2 indexed citations
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Sessitsch, Angela, Pablo R. Hardoim, Jessica Döring, et al.. (2011). Functional Characteristics of an Endophyte Community Colonizing Rice Roots as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 25(1). 28–36. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Yuan, et al.. (2011). Predominant nifH transcript phylotypes related to Rhizobium rosettiformans in field‐grown sugarcane plants and in Norway spruce. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(3). 383–389. 42 indexed citations
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Yang, Haiyuan, Liwei Hu, Thomas Hurek, & Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek. (2010). Global characterization of the root transcriptome of a wild species of rice, Oryza longistaminata, by deep sequencing. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 705–705. 31 indexed citations
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Hurek, Thomas, et al.. (2007). Twitching Motility Is Essential for Endophytic Rice Colonization by the N2-Fixing Endophyte Azoarcus sp. Strain BH72. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 20(5). 526–533. 87 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lei, Thomas Hurek, & Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek. (2006). A nifH-based Oligonucleotide Microarray for Functional Diagnostics of Nitrogen-fixing Microorganisms. Microbial Ecology. 53(3). 456–470. 35 indexed citations
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Reinhold‐Hurek, Barbara, et al.. (2006). An Endoglucanase Is Involved in Infection of Rice Roots by the Not-Cellulose-Metabolizing Endophyte Azoarcus Sp. Strain BH72. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 19(2). 181–188. 106 indexed citations
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Timonen, Sari & Thomas Hurek. (2006). Characterization of culturable bacterial populations associating withPinus sylvestris–Suillus bovinusmycorrhizospheres. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 52(8). 769–778. 42 indexed citations
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Battistoni, Federico, Daniela Bartels, Olaf Kaiser, et al.. (2005). Physical map of theAzoarcussp. strain BH72 genome based on a bacterial artificial chromosome library as a platform for genome sequencing and functional analysis. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 249(2). 233–240. 11 indexed citations
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Hurek, Thomas, Linda L. Handley, Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek, & Yves Piché. (2002). Azoarcus Grass Endophytes Contribute Fixed Nitrogen to the Plant in an Unculturable State. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 15(3). 233–242. 185 indexed citations
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Tan, Zhiyuan, Thomas Hurek, Prasad Gyaneshwar, J. K. Ladha, & Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek. (2001). Novel Endophytes of Rice form a Taxonomically Distinct Subgroup of Serratia marcescens. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 24(2). 245–251. 37 indexed citations
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Martin, Dietmar E., Thomas Hurek, & Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek. (2000). Occurrence of three PII‐like signal transmitter proteins in the diazotrophic proteobacterium Azoarcus sp. BH72. Molecular Microbiology. 38(2). 276–288. 27 indexed citations
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Reinhold‐Hurek, Barbara & Thomas Hurek. (1998). Life in grasses: diazotrophic endophytes. Trends in Microbiology. 6(4). 139–144. 289 indexed citations
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Egener, Tanja, Thomas Hurek, & Barbara Reinhold‐Hurek. (1998). Use of Green Fluorescent Protein to Detect Expression of nif Genes of Azoarcus sp. BH72, a Grass-Associated Diazotroph, on Rice Roots. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 11(1). 71–75. 85 indexed citations

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