Uli Klümper

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Uli Klümper is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Medicine and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Uli Klümper has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Pollution, 19 papers in Molecular Medicine and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Uli Klümper's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (19 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers). Uli Klümper is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (19 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers). Uli Klümper collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United Kingdom. Uli Klümper's co-authors include María Arias-Andrés, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez, Arnaud Dechesne, Barth F. Smets, Søren J. Sørensen, Leise Riber, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Thomas U. Berendonk and Matthias C. Rillig and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Uli Klümper

47 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems
    2018 440 citations María Arias-Andrés, Uli Klümper et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Uli Klümper Germany 23 1.7k 676 599 517 371 51 2.3k
Fu-Yi Huang China 23 1.9k 1.1× 649 1.0× 575 1.0× 475 0.9× 280 0.8× 63 2.6k
Ester M. Eckert Italy 26 1.5k 0.9× 506 0.7× 882 1.5× 609 1.2× 284 0.8× 65 2.5k
Andrea Di Cesare Italy 32 2.1k 1.2× 784 1.2× 877 1.5× 740 1.4× 391 1.1× 107 3.4k
Xin‐Li An China 29 2.5k 1.5× 756 1.1× 937 1.6× 814 1.6× 393 1.1× 66 3.7k
Gianluca Corno Italy 32 2.0k 1.2× 637 0.9× 1.2k 2.0× 782 1.5× 405 1.1× 91 3.4k
Qingbin Yuan China 19 1.6k 0.9× 652 1.0× 236 0.4× 326 0.6× 250 0.7× 43 2.2k
Elisabet Marti Spain 21 2.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.8× 606 1.0× 543 1.1× 264 0.7× 26 3.4k
Xun Qian China 26 2.0k 1.1× 610 0.9× 456 0.8× 480 0.9× 208 0.6× 63 2.9k
Ke Yu China 26 1.7k 1.0× 341 0.5× 915 1.5× 594 1.1× 250 0.7× 69 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Uli Klümper

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Fields of papers citing papers by Uli Klümper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Uli Klümper. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Uli Klümper. The network helps show where Uli Klümper may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uli Klümper

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marcheggiani, Stefania, et al.. (2025). Plastic-mediated transformation: A new route to navigate plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes. The Science of The Total Environment. 976. 179125–179125.
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Elena, Alan, et al.. (2025). Jellyfish blooms—an overlooked hotspot and potential vector for the transmission of antimicrobial resistance in marine environments. mSystems. 10(3). e0101224–e0101224. 3 indexed citations
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Kneis, David, Patrick Schröder, Jens Schönfeld, et al.. (2025). Ecology-based approach to predict no-effect antibiotic concentrations for minimizing environmental selection of resistance. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 2 indexed citations
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Kneis, David, Daniel Padfield, Edina Szekeres, et al.. (2024). Contrary effects of increasing temperatures on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in river biofilms. mSphere. 9(2). e0057323–e0057323. 12 indexed citations
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Liang, Hebin, Jin Huang, Tao Yi, et al.. (2024). Investigating the antibiotic resistance genes and their potential risks in the megacity water environment: A case study of Shenzhen Bay Basin, China. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133536–133536. 11 indexed citations
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Kneis, David, et al.. (2023). Quantification of the mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes through multiplexed ddPCR linkage analysis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99(4). 6 indexed citations
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Elena, Alan, et al.. (2023). Reduced selection for antibiotic resistance in community context is maintained despite pressure by additional antibiotics. ISME Communications. 3(1). 52–52. 16 indexed citations
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Szekeres, Edina, Uli Klümper, Andreea Baricz, et al.. (2022). Municipal Wastewaters Carry Important Carbapenemase Genes Independent of Hospital Input and Can Mirror Clinical Resistance Patterns. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(2). e0271121–e0271121. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Yue, Zhigang Yu, Pengbo Ding, et al.. (2022). Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote conjugative plasmid transfer at a community-wide level. Microbiome. 10(1). 124–124. 41 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiayu, Xiaoyan Li, Uli Klümper, et al.. (2022). Deciphering chloramphenicol biotransformation mechanisms and microbial interactions via integrated multi-omics and cultivation-dependent approaches. Microbiome. 10(1). 180–180. 26 indexed citations
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Kampouris, Ioannis D., ‪Nikiforos Alygizakis, Uli Klümper, et al.. (2021). Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance in groundwater during treated wastewater irrigation associated with infiltration and accumulation of antibiotic residues. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 423(Pt B). 127155–127155. 31 indexed citations
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Vos, Michiel, et al.. (2020). Zinc can counteract selection for ciprofloxacin resistance. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 367(3). 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Dongyao, Xiufeng Tang, Mengyue Zhao, et al.. (2020). Distribution and Diversity of Comammox Nitrospira in Coastal Wetlands of China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 589268–589268. 74 indexed citations
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Kampouris, Ioannis D., Uli Klümper, Shelesh Agrawal, et al.. (2020). Treated wastewater irrigation promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance into subsoil pore-water. Environment International. 146. 106190–106190. 28 indexed citations
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Han, Ping, Dianming Wu, Dongyao Sun, et al.. (2020). N2O and NOy production by the comammox bacterium Nitrospira inopinata in comparison with canonical ammonia oxidizers. Water Research. 190. 116728–116728. 85 indexed citations
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Klümper, Uli, Mario Recker, Lihong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Selection for antimicrobial resistance is reduced when embedded in a natural microbial community. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 2927–2937. 129 indexed citations
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Liu, Zongbao, Uli Klümper, Lei Shi, Lei Ye, & Meng Li. (2019). From Pig Breeding Environment to Subsequently Produced Pork: Comparative Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Bacterial Community Composition. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 43–43. 34 indexed citations
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Arias-Andrés, María, Uli Klümper, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez, & Hans‐Peter Grossart. (2018). Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems. Environmental Pollution. 237. 253–261. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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