Thorsten Thiergart

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Thiergart is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Thiergart has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Plant Science, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Thiergart's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (9 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (6 papers). Thorsten Thiergart is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (9 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (6 papers). Thorsten Thiergart collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Austria. Thorsten Thiergart's co-authors include Stéphane Hacquard, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, Rubén Garrido‐Oter, Paloma Durán, Eric Kemen, Matthew T. Agler, William Martin, Giddy Landan, Nathan Vannier and Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Thiergart

16 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial Interkingdom Interactions in Roots Promote Arab... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 200 400 600
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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. Microbial Interkingdom Interactions in Roots Promote Arabidopsis Survival
    2018 704 citations Paloma Durán, Thorsten Thiergart et al. Cell profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thorsten Thiergart Germany 14 1.1k 679 447 191 94 16 1.8k
Beatriz Cubero Spain 20 2.5k 2.2× 1.2k 1.8× 70 0.2× 96 0.5× 50 0.5× 31 3.1k
Omri M. Finkel United States 22 2.4k 2.2× 802 1.2× 503 1.1× 333 1.7× 208 2.2× 33 3.2k
Carol Soderlund United States 27 1.7k 1.5× 1.4k 2.1× 355 0.8× 148 0.8× 51 0.5× 47 2.6k
Valérie Legué France 24 1.9k 1.7× 749 1.1× 64 0.1× 177 0.9× 58 0.6× 42 2.3k
Ichirou Karahara Japan 19 1.1k 0.9× 346 0.5× 80 0.2× 43 0.2× 28 0.3× 61 1.3k
Ildefonso Bonilla Spain 21 1.0k 0.9× 263 0.4× 181 0.4× 14 0.1× 82 0.9× 41 1.4k
Adrien Y. Burch United States 13 772 0.7× 464 0.7× 156 0.3× 122 0.6× 19 0.2× 14 1.1k
Tine Grebenc Slovenia 25 1.2k 1.1× 142 0.2× 166 0.4× 331 1.7× 209 2.2× 78 1.8k
Marc Bardin France 25 1.3k 1.2× 313 0.5× 151 0.3× 481 2.5× 27 0.3× 51 1.7k
Laury Chaerle Belgium 17 1.3k 1.1× 363 0.5× 373 0.8× 167 0.9× 20 0.2× 28 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Thorsten Thiergart

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thorsten Thiergart

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Thiergart

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thorsten Thiergart. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thorsten Thiergart based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thorsten Thiergart. Thorsten Thiergart is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Vannier, Nathan, Fantin Mesny, Guillaume Chesneau, et al.. (2023). Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization determinants in a synthetic microbiota. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8274–8274. 24 indexed citations
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Hassani, M. Amine, Max Crüsemann, Pengfan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cofunctioning of bacterial exometabolites drives root microbiota establishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2221508120–e2221508120. 52 indexed citations
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Durán, Paloma, Thomas James Ellis, Thorsten Thiergart, Jon Ågren, & Stéphane Hacquard. (2022). Climate drives rhizosphere microbiome variation and divergent selection between geographically distant Arabidopsis populations. New Phytologist. 236(2). 608–621. 18 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, et al.. (2021). A microbiota–root–shoot circuit favours Arabidopsis growth over defence under suboptimal light. Nature Plants. 7(8). 1078–1092. 127 indexed citations
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Vannier, Nathan, Thorsten Thiergart, Anna Piasecka, et al.. (2021). Tryptophan metabolism and bacterial commensals prevent fungal dysbiosis in Arabidopsis roots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(49). 56 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, et al.. (2019). Contribution of bacterial-fungal balance to plant and animal health. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 49. 66–72. 55 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, Paloma Durán, Thomas James Ellis, et al.. (2019). Root microbiota assembly and adaptive differentiation among European Arabidopsis populations. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(1). 122–131. 191 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, Rafal Zgadzaj, Zoltán Bozsóki, et al.. (2019). Lotus japonicus Symbiosis Genes Impact Microbial Interactions between Symbionts and Multikingdom Commensal Communities. mBio. 10(5). 45 indexed citations
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Durán, Paloma, Thorsten Thiergart, Rubén Garrido‐Oter, et al.. (2018). Microbial Interkingdom Interactions in Roots Promote Arabidopsis Survival. Cell. 175(4). 973–983.e14. 704 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thiergart, Thorsten, Stéphane Hacquard, Rubén Garrido‐Oter, et al.. (2017). Root-Associated Bacterial and Fungal Community Profiles ofArabidopsis thalianaAre Robust Across Contrasting Soil P Levels. Phytobiomes Journal. 2(1). 24–34. 28 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, Giddy Landan, & William Martin. (2014). Concatenated alignments and the case of the disappearing tree. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14(1). 266–266. 41 indexed citations
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Nelson‐Sathi, Shijulal, Filipa L. Sousa, Mayo Roettger, et al.. (2014). Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria. Nature. 517(7532). 77–80. 169 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, Ulf Schmitz, Giddy Landan, William Martin, & Tal Dagan. (2014). Application and comparative performance of network modularity algorithms to ecological communities classification. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 83(2). 93–102. 3 indexed citations
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Sousa, Filipa L., Thorsten Thiergart, Giddy Landan, et al.. (2013). Early bioenergetic evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 368(1622). 20130088–20130088. 181 indexed citations
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Thiergart, Thorsten, et al.. (2012). An Evolutionary Network of Genes Present in the Eukaryote Common Ancestor Polls Genomes on Eukaryotic and Mitochondrial Origin. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(4). 466–485. 95 indexed citations
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Martin, William, Mayo Roettger, Thorsten Thiergart, Sven B. Gould, & Tal Dagan. (2012). Modern endosymbiotic theory: Getting lateral gene transfer in- to the equation. 11 indexed citations

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