Thomas Rattei

34.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
177 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Rattei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Rattei has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas Rattei's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (64 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (24 papers). Thomas Rattei is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (64 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (24 papers). Thomas Rattei collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and France. Thomas Rattei's co-authors include Lars Juhl Jensen, Damian Szklarczyk, Christian von Mering, Michael Wagner, Peer Bork, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Sofia K. Forslund, Roland Arnold, Daniel R. Mende and Helen Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Rattei

175 papers receiving 17.5k citations

Hit Papers

eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functio... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2018 2015 2015 2010 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
    2018 2.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria
    2015 1.9k citations Holger Daims, Е. В. Лебедева et al. Nature profile →
  3. eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences
    2015 1.5k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria
    2010 629 citations Michael Wagner, Thomas Rattei et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Gepard: a rapid and sensitive tool for creating dotplots on genome scale
    2007 511 citations Roland Arnold, Thomas Rattei et al. profile →
  6. eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms
    2013 492 citations Damian Szklarczyk, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. amoA ‐based consensus phylogeny of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions
    2011 449 citations Michael Pester, Thomas Rattei et al. profile →
  8. eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms
    2022 144 citations Ana Hernández-Plaza, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research 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 Rattei Austria 55 8.4k 6.4k 3.5k 2.9k 1.3k 177 17.7k
Jason W. Sahl United States 32 8.5k 1.0× 7.5k 1.2× 2.3k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 122 20.1k
Miriam Land United States 43 8.7k 1.0× 6.5k 1.0× 2.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 108 15.3k
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis United States 58 12.9k 1.5× 10.6k 1.6× 2.9k 0.8× 3.5k 1.2× 2.1k 1.6× 211 22.7k
Søren J. Sørensen Denmark 77 11.2k 1.3× 5.9k 0.9× 4.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.1× 673 0.5× 370 23.9k
George M Garrity United States 34 14.4k 1.7× 10.3k 1.6× 3.0k 0.9× 4.3k 1.5× 2.1k 1.6× 247 28.8k
Loren Hauser United States 39 8.1k 1.0× 6.4k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 77 14.1k
Qiong Wang China 15 9.4k 1.1× 7.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.7× 3.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 59 20.8k
Tanja Woyke United States 74 11.6k 1.4× 10.5k 1.6× 1.9k 0.5× 4.3k 1.5× 2.2k 1.7× 384 21.3k
Michael J. Sadowsky United States 83 8.3k 1.0× 4.1k 0.6× 5.1k 1.5× 5.6k 1.9× 1.3k 1.0× 460 25.8k
Gerhard Thallinger Austria 35 9.7k 1.2× 7.1k 1.1× 2.2k 0.6× 2.9k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 105 20.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Rattei

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All Works

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Osvatic, Jay, John D. Taylor, Suzanne C. Dufour, et al.. (2024). SoxY gene family expansion underpins adaptation to diverse hosts and environments in symbiotic sulfide oxidizers. mSystems. 9(6). e0113523–e0113523. 6 indexed citations
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Hofer, Michaël, et al.. (2024). ScyNet: Visualizing interactions in community metabolic models. Bioinformatics Advances. 4(1). vbae104–vbae104. 2 indexed citations
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Köstlbacher, Stephan, et al.. (2023). One to host them all: genomics of the diverse bacterial endosymbionts of the spider Oedothorax gibbosus. Microbial Genomics. 9(2). 7 indexed citations
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Zehl, Martin, Petra Pjevac, Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard, et al.. (2023). Secondary Metabolite Production Potential in a Microbiome of the Freshwater Sponge Spongilla lacustris. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2). e0435322–e0435322. 10 indexed citations
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Locard‐Paulet, Marie, Cyril Noël, Magalie Duchateau, et al.. (2022). A time-resolved multi-omics atlas of Acanthamoeba castellanii encystment. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4104–4104. 20 indexed citations
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Hernández-Plaza, Ana, Damian Szklarczyk, Jorge Botas, et al.. (2022). eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D389–D394. 144 indexed citations breakdown →
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Doncheva, Nadezhda T., John H. Morris, Rebecca Kirsch, et al.. (2022). Cytoscape stringApp 2.0: Analysis and Visualization of Heterogeneous Biological Networks. Journal of Proteome Research. 22(2). 637–646. 99 indexed citations
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Hanson, Buck, K. Dimitri Kits, Jessica Löffler, et al.. (2021). Sulfoquinovose is a select nutrient of prominent bacteria and a source of hydrogen sulfide in the human gut. The ISME Journal. 15(9). 2779–2791. 48 indexed citations
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Buongiorno, Joy, Craig W. Herbold, Bela Hausmann, et al.. (2021). Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3159–3180. 89 indexed citations
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Santos‐Pinto, José Roberto Aparecido dos, Fernando J. Sialana, Milene Ferro, et al.. (2019). A proteotranscriptomic study of silk-producing glands from the orb-weaving spiders. Molecular Omics. 15(4). 256–270. 9 indexed citations
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Hausmann, Bela, Claus Pelikan, Craig W. Herbold, et al.. (2018). Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1729–1742. 110 indexed citations
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Zomer, Aldert, Thomas Nußbaumer, Christine Bole, et al.. (2016). Comprehensive Identification of Meningococcal Genes and Small Noncoding RNAs Required for Host Cell Colonization. mBio. 7(4). 20 indexed citations
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Sheibani‐Tezerji, Raheleh, Thomas Rattei, Angela Sessitsch, Friederike Trognitz, & Birgit Mitter. (2015). Transcriptome Profiling of the Endophyte Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN Indicates Sensing of the Plant Environment and Drought Stress. mBio. 6(5). e00621–15. 115 indexed citations
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Daims, Holger, Е. В. Лебедева, Petra Pjevac, et al.. (2015). Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria. Nature. 528(7583). 504–509. 1911 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Yu, Georg Haberer, Michaela S. Matthes, et al.. (2010). Impact of natural genetic variation on the transcriptome of autotetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(41). 17809–17814. 132 indexed citations
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Schmitz‐Esser, Stephan, Patrick Tischler, Roland Arnold, et al.. (2009). The Genome of the Amoeba Symbiont “ Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus” Reveals Common Mechanisms for Host Cell Interaction among Amoeba-Associated Bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology. 192(4). 1045–1057. 117 indexed citations
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Rattei, Thomas, Patrick Tischler, Stefan Götz, et al.. (2009). SIMAP—a comprehensive database of pre-calculated protein sequence similarities, domains, annotations and clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D223–D226. 35 indexed citations
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Horn, Matthias, Astrid Collingro, Stephan Schmitz‐Esser, et al.. (2004). Illuminating the Evolutionary History of Chlamydiae. Science. 304(5671). 728–730. 331 indexed citations

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