Thomas Ott

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Ott is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Ott has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Plant Science, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Ott's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (42 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (24 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (13 papers). Thomas Ott is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (42 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (24 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (13 papers). Thomas Ott collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Thomas Ott's co-authors include Michael K. Udvardi, Andréas Niebel, Macarena Marín, Iris K. Jarsch, Pascal Gamas, Sandra Moreau, Claudia Popp, Guilhem Desbrosses, Lene Krusell and Sylvain Raffaele and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Ott

84 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

A gene expression atlas of the model legume Medicago truncatula

2008 549 citations Jeremy D. Murray, Thomas Ott et al. The Plant Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Ott Germany	38	4.2k	1.8k	689	304	135	89	5.2k
Rujin Chen United States	34	3.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	355 0.5×	101 0.3×	183 1.4×	65	4.1k
H. Küster Germany	36	3.5k 0.8×	935 0.5×	371 0.5×	77 0.3×	177 1.3×	77	4.0k
Danny Llewellyn Australia	46	6.0k 1.4×	3.3k 1.8×	116 0.2×	343 1.1×	152 1.1×	132	7.0k
Anna Maria Mastrangelo Italy	37	4.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	683 1.0×	127 0.4×	142 1.1×	72	4.7k
Alejandra A. Covarrubias Mexico	38	3.6k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	202 0.3×	207 0.7×	314 2.3×	101	5.3k
Claudette Job France	32	4.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	134 0.2×	161 0.5×	186 1.4×	62	5.6k
Hikmet Budak Türkiye	49	5.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	591 0.9×	132 0.4×	260 1.9×	143	6.8k
Michael Melzer Germany	43	3.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.8×	139 0.2×	128 0.4×	221 1.6×	135	5.3k
Kazuyuki Kuchitsu Japan	45	5.6k 1.3×	3.1k 1.7×	78 0.1×	220 0.7×	198 1.5×	129	6.7k
Jenny C. Mortimer United States	35	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	137 0.2×	121 0.4×	60 0.4×	91	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Ott

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Ott

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20 of 20 papers shown

Reitz, M. D., John Volk, Thomas Ott, et al.. (2025). Performance Mapping and Weighting for the Evapotranspiration Models of the OpenET Ensemble. Water Resources Research. 61(8).

Ott, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Assessing the irrigation water requirement and irrigation water use at a house scale in Las Vegas Valley. Agricultural Water Management. 308. 109278–109278.

Niswonger, Richard G., R. Steve Regan, Justin Huntington, et al.. (2025). Estimating irrigation consumptive use for the conterminous United States: coupling satellite-sourced estimates of actual evapotranspiration with a national hydrologic model. Journal of Hydrology. 662. 133909–133909.

Montiel, Jesús, Beatrice Lace, M. Vestergaard, et al.. (2025). The Lotus japonicus alpha‐expansin EXPA1 is recruited during intracellular and intercellular rhizobial colonization. The Plant Journal. 124(5). e70639–e70639.

Huntington, Justin, Christopher Pearson, Gang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Developing a General Daily Lake Evaporation Model and Demonstrating Its Application in the State of Texas. Water Resources Research. 60(3). 5 indexed citations

Lace, Beatrice, Chao Su, Marta Rodríguez‐Franco, et al.. (2023). RPG acts as a central determinant for infectosome formation and cellular polarization during intracellular rhizobial infections. eLife. 12. 25 indexed citations

Batzenschlager, Morgane, Beatrice Lace, Ning Zhang, et al.. (2023). Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Lace, Beatrice, Franck Anicet Ditengou, Chao Su, et al.. (2021). Formin-mediated bridging of cell wall, plasma membrane, and cytoskeleton in symbiotic infections of Medicago truncatula. Current Biology. 31(12). 2712–2719.e5. 30 indexed citations

Su, Chao, Casandra Hernández‐Reyes, Morgane Batzenschlager, et al.. (2020). The Medicago truncatula DREPP Protein Triggers Microtubule Fragmentation in Membrane Nanodomains during Symbiotic Infections. The Plant Cell. 32(5). 1689–1702. 30 indexed citations

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Montiel, Jesús, Dugald Reid, Euan K. James, et al.. (2020). Distinct signaling routes mediate intercellular and intracellular rhizobial infection in Lotus japonicus. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 185(3). 1131–1147. 34 indexed citations

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Brillada, Carla, Ooi-Kock Teh, Franck Anicet Ditengou, et al.. (2020). Exocyst subunit Exo70B2 is linked to immune signaling and autophagy. The Plant Cell. 33(2). 404–419. 41 indexed citations

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Abel, Nikolaj B., Chen Liu, Petra Van Damme, et al.. (2020). Establishment of Proximity-Dependent Biotinylation Approaches in Different Plant Model Systems. The Plant Cell. 32(11). 3388–3407. 88 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Fernandez, Rocio, Nikolaj B. Abel, Franz-Georg Wieland, et al.. (2020). Optogenetic control of gene expression in plants in the presence of ambient white light. Nature Methods. 17(7). 717–725. 110 indexed citations

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Bu, Fengjiao, Luuk Rutten, Yuda Purwana Roswanjaya, et al.. (2019). Mutant analysis in the nonlegume Parasponia andersonii identifies NIN and NF‐YA1 transcription factors as a core genetic network in nitrogen‐fixing nodule symbioses. New Phytologist. 226(2). 541–554. 33 indexed citations

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Jaillais, Yvon & Thomas Ott. (2019). The Nanoscale Organization of the Plasma Membrane and Its Importance in Signaling: A Proteolipid Perspective. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 182(4). 1682–1696. 93 indexed citations

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Popp, Claudia, et al.. (2018). Symbiotic root infections in Medicago truncatula require remorin-mediated receptor stabilization in membrane nanodomains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(20). 5289–5294. 78 indexed citations

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Jarsch, Iris K., Susan L. Urbanus, Witold Szymański, et al.. (2014). Plasma Membranes Are Subcompartmentalized into a Plethora of Coexisting and Diverse Microdomains in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana . The Plant Cell. 26(4). 1698–1711. 127 indexed citations

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Vaddepalli, Prasad, Anja Herrmann, Lynette Fulton, et al.. (2014). The C2-domain protein QUIRKY and the receptor-like kinase STRUBBELIG localize to plasmodesmata and mediate tissue morphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Development. 141(21). 4139–4148. 70 indexed citations

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Lefebvre, Benoît, Ton Timmers, Malick Mbengué, et al.. (2010). A remorin protein interacts with symbiotic receptors and regulates bacterial infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(5). 2343–2348. 236 indexed citations

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Raffaele, Sylvain, Emmanuelle Bayer, Stéphanie Cluzet, et al.. (2009). Remorin, a Solanaceae Protein Resident in Membrane Rafts and Plasmodesmata, Impairs Potato virus X Movement. The Plant Cell. 21(5). 1541–1555. 300 indexed citations

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