Tim Urich

17.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
126 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Tim Urich is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Urich has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Tim Urich's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers), Climate change and permafrost (22 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers). Tim Urich is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers), Climate change and permafrost (22 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers). Tim Urich collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Norway. Tim Urich's co-authors include Christa Schleper, Stephan C. Schuster, Michael Schloter, Lorenz Schwark, Ji Qi, Sven Leininger, Graeme W. Nicol, James I. Prosser, Andreas Richter and Alexander Tøsdal Tveit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Urich

120 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

2006 1.9k citations Tim Urich, Christa Schleper et al. profile →
Nitrososphaera viennensis , an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil

2011 765 citations Anja Spang, Tim Urich et al. profile →
Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome

2008 538 citations Tim Urich, Christa Schleper et al. profile →
Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

2013 270 citations Morten Poulsen, Clarissa Schwab et al. Nature Communications profile →
Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane

2020 226 citations Mina Bižić, Thomas Klintzsch et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Urich

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Urich

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Urich

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Urich. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Urich 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 Tim Urich. Tim Urich is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Nitrous oxide fluxes, their sources, and soil microbial communities depend more on carbon availability than long- and short-term phosphorus addition 2025 ·Biology and Fertility of Soils ·(unknown), (unknown), Haitao Wang, Tim Urich, N. Wrage	1
2	Investigation of the seasonal dynamics of grassland soil bacterivores in top- and subsoils 2025 ·European Journal of Soil Biology ·(unknown), Mathilde Borg Dahl, (unknown), Kenneth Dumack, Haitao Wang, Michael Bonkowski, Tim Urich	0
3	Methylobacter arcticus sp. nov. isolated from a coal mine biofilm in the high Arctic Svalbard 2025 ·INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Antti J. Rissanen, Anne Grethe Hestnes, (unknown), (unknown), Tim Urich, Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Mette M. Svenning	0
4	Biotic interactions explain seasonal dynamics of the alpine soil microbiome 2024 ·ISME Communications ·Anna Maria Fiore‐Donno, (unknown), Mathilde Borg Dahl, Christian Rixen, Tim Urich, Michael Bonkowski	4
5	Deep Impact: Shifts of Native Cultivable Microbial Communities on Fresh Lettuce after Treatment with Plasma-Treated Water 2024 ·Foods ·(unknown), (unknown), Jörg Ehlbeck, Tim Urich, Uta Schnabel	1
6	No detrimental effect on the hand microbiome of health care staff by frequent alcohol-based antisepsis 2024 ·American Journal of Infection Control ·Axel Krämer, Mathilde Borg Dahl, Mia M. Bengtsson, John M. Boyce, Matthias Heckmann, (unknown), Roald Papke, Didier Pittet, (unknown), Hortense Slevogt, Haitao Wang, Paula Zwicker, Tim Urich, Ulrike Seifert	0
7	Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web 2023 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Mathilde Borg Dahl, Andrea Söllinger, (unknown), Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Bjarni D. Sigurðsson, Andreas Richter, Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Tim Urich	7
8	Increased microbial expression of organic nitrogen cycling genes in long-term warmed grassland soils 2021 ·ISME Communications ·Joana Séneca, Andrea Söllinger, Craig W. Herbold, Petra Pjevac, Judith Prommer, Erik Verbruggen, Bjarni D. Sigurðsson, Josep Peñuelas, Ivan A. Janssens, Tim Urich, Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Andreas Richter	67
9	North Sea spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria fill diverse heterotrophic niches 2021 ·Environmental Microbiome ·Ben Francis, Tim Urich, Annett Mikolasch, Hanno Teeling, Rudolf Amann	43
10	Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane breakdown → 2020 ·Science Advances ·Mina Bižić, Thomas Klintzsch, Danny Ionescu, Muna Hindiyeh, Marco Günthel, Alicia M. Muro‐Pastor, Werner Eckert, Tim Urich, Frank Keppler, Hans‐Peter Grossart	226
11	Temporal dynamics in the taxonomic and functional profile of the Sphagnum-associated fungi (mycobiomes) in a Sphagnum farming field site in Northwestern Germany 2020 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Mathilde Borg Dahl, Matthias Krebs, Martin Unterseher, Tim Urich, Greta Gaudig	2
12	Amino acid production exceeds plant nitrogen demand in Siberian tundra 2018 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Birgit Wild, Ricardo Eloy Alves, Jiří Bárta, Petr Čapek, Norman Gentsch, Georg Guggenberger, Gustaf Hugelius, Anna Knoltsch, Peter Kuhry, Nikolay Lashchinskiy, Robert Mikutta, Juri Palmtag, Judith Prommer, Jörg Schnecker, Olga Shibistova, Mounir Takriti, Tim Urich, Andreas Richter	30
13	Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Ricardo Eloy Alves, Bùi Quang Minh, Tim Urich, Arndt von Haeseler, Christa Schleper	240
14	The soil food web revisited: Diverse and widespread mycophagous soil protists 2015 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Stefan Geisen, Robert Koller, (unknown), Kenneth Dumack, Tim Urich, Michael Bonkowski	153
15	Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils 2015 ·The ISME Journal ·Stefan Geisen, Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Ian M. Clark, Andreas Richter, Mette M. Svenning, Michael Bonkowski, Tim Urich	203
16	Longitudinal study of murine microbiota activity and interactions with the host during acute inflammation and recovery 2014 ·The ISME Journal ·Clarissa Schwab, David Berry, Isabella Rauch, (unknown), (unknown), Eva Hainzl, Susanne Heider, Thomas Decker, Lukas Kenner, Mathias Müller, Birgit Strobl, Michael Wagner, Christa Schleper, Alexander Loy, Tim Urich	156
17	Temperature and moisture effects on ammonia oxidizer communities in cryoturbated Arctic soils 2014 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·(unknown), Ricardo Eloy Alves, Jiří Bárta, (unknown), (unknown), Kateřina Diáková, Petr Čapek, Jörg Schnecker, Birgit Wild, Maria Mooshammer, Tim Urich, Norman Gentsch, Antje Gittel, Georg Guggenberger, Robert Mikutta, Nikolay Lashchinskiy, Andreas Richter, Hana Šantrůčková, Olga Shibistova, Christa Schleper	2
18	Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen breakdown → 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Morten Poulsen, Clarissa Schwab, Bent Borg Jensen, Ricarda M. Engberg, Anja Spang, Nuria Canibe, Ole Højberg, Gabriel Milinovich, Lena Fragner, Christa Schleper, Wolfram Weckwerth, Peter Lund, Andreas Schramm, Tim Urich	270
19	Sulfur-Oxidizing Chemolithotrophic Proteobacteria Dominate the Microbiota in High Arctic Thermal Springs on Svalbard 2011 ·Astrobiology ·Laila J. Reigstad, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Stein‐Erik Lauritzen, Christa Schleper, Tim Urich	27
20	X-ray Structure of a Self-Compartmentalizing Sulfur Cycle Metalloenzyme 2006 ·Science ·Tim Urich, Cláudio M. Gomes, Arnulf Kletzin, Carlos Frazão	69

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