Ursula Witte

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Ursula Witte is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ursula Witte has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Oceanography, 55 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ursula Witte's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (42 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (41 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (31 papers). Ursula Witte is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (42 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (41 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (31 papers). Ursula Witte collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Ursula Witte's co-authors include Olaf Pfannkuche, Antje Boëtius, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Carsten J. Schubert, Armin Gieseke, Dirk Rickert, Rudolf Amann, Friedrich Widdel, Katrin Ravenschlag and Felix Janßen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ursula Witte

90 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

A marine microbial consor... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane
    2000 2.3k citations Antje Boëtius, Katrin Ravenschlag et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ursula Witte 2.7k 2.5k 2.3k 1.5k 1.1k 91 5.4k
Olaf Pfannkuche 2.8k 1.0× 2.9k 1.1× 2.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 87 5.7k
Hans Røy 1.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 630 0.4× 587 0.5× 92 3.6k
Frank Wenzhöfer 2.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 2.7k 1.2× 956 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 107 5.3k
Tina Treude 2.1k 0.8× 3.7k 1.5× 1.2k 0.5× 2.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 98 5.4k
Helge Niemann 2.3k 0.9× 3.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.2× 1.3k 1.2× 127 6.4k
Henrik Fossing 2.4k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 819 0.7× 52 5.9k
Volker Brüchert 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 948 0.6× 785 0.7× 84 4.6k
Elizabeth A. Canuel 3.2k 1.2× 1.3k 0.5× 3.0k 1.3× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.4× 98 6.5k
James E. Bauer 4.2k 1.6× 1.8k 0.7× 5.0k 2.2× 1.6k 1.1× 2.4k 2.1× 102 8.8k
Mark A. Lever 3.3k 1.2× 2.7k 1.1× 655 0.3× 537 0.4× 566 0.5× 90 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ursula Witte

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ursula Witte

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ursula Witte

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ursula Witte. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ursula Witte 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 Ursula Witte. Ursula Witte 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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Archambault, Philippe, Ursula Witte, Georgios Kazanidis, et al.. (2024). Detritus from Ice and Plankton Algae as an Important Food Source for Macroinfaunal Communities in the Canadian Arctic. Diversity. 16(10). 605–605. 2 indexed citations
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Gontikaki, Evangelia, et al.. (2018). Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in deep-water subarctic sediments (Faroe-Shetland Channel). Journal of Applied Microbiology. 125(4). 1040–1053. 37 indexed citations
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Anderson, James A., et al.. (2018). Advective pore-water transport of hydrocarbons in North East Scotland coastal sands. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(28). 28445–28459. 3 indexed citations
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Gallego, Alejandro, Rory O’Hara Murray, Barbara Berx, et al.. (2017). Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 127. 484–504. 7 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Robert, Evangelia Gontikaki, James A. Anderson, & Ursula Witte. (2017). The Variable Influence of Dispersant on Degradation of Oil Hydrocarbons in Subarctic Deep-Sea Sediments at Low Temperatures (0–5 °C). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2253–2253. 36 indexed citations
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Woulds, Clare, et al.. (2016). Patterns of carbon processing at the seafloor: the role of faunal andmicrobial communities in moderating carbon flows. Biogeosciences. 13(15). 4343–4357. 37 indexed citations
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Gontikaki, Evangelia, Barry Thornton, Thomas Cornulier, & Ursula Witte. (2015). Occurrence of Priming in the Degradation of Lignocellulose in Marine Sediments. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0143917–e0143917. 26 indexed citations
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Witte, Ursula, et al.. (2014). Uptake of phytodetritus by benthic foraminifera under oxygen depletion at the Indian margin (Arabian Sea). Biogeosciences. 11(7). 2017–2026. 31 indexed citations
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Jobstvogt, Niels, Nick Hanley, Stephen Hynes, Jasper O. Kenter, & Ursula Witte. (2013). Twenty thousand sterling under the sea: Estimating the value of protecting deep-sea biodiversity. Ecological Economics. 97. 10–19. 122 indexed citations
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Levin, Lisa A., Guillermo Mendoza, Clare Woulds, et al.. (2013). Macrofaunal colonization across the Indian margin oxygen minimum zone. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 7161–7177. 10 indexed citations
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Serpetti, Natalia, Evangelia Gontikaki, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, & Ursula Witte. (2013). Macrofaunal community inside and outside of the Darwin Mounds Special Area of Conservation, NE Atlantic. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 3705–3714. 10 indexed citations
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Hunter, William Ross, Alan J. Jamieson, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, & Ursula Witte. (2013). Sediment community responses to marine vs. terrigenous organic matter in a submarine canyon. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 67–80. 27 indexed citations
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Gontikaki, Evangelia, Barry Thornton, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, & Ursula Witte. (2013). Negative Priming Effect on Organic Matter Mineralisation in NE Atlantic Slope Sediments. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67722–e67722. 51 indexed citations
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Jeffreys, Rachel M., Alan J. Jamieson, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, et al.. (2013). Feeding Preferences of Abyssal Macrofauna Inferred from In Situ Pulse Chase Experiments. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80510–e80510. 29 indexed citations
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Hunter, William Ross, Lisa A. Levin, Hiroshi Kitazato, & Ursula Witte. (2012). Macrobenthic assemblage structure and organismal stoichiometry control faunal processing of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in oxygen minimum zone sediments. Biogeosciences. 9(3). 993–1006. 40 indexed citations
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Hunter, William Ross, Alan J. Jamieson, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, & Ursula Witte. (2012). Food quality determines sediment community responses to marine vs. terrigenous organic matter in a submarine canyon. 3 indexed citations
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Apitz, Sabine E., Elanor Bell, Lars Riis Damgaard, et al.. (2005). Coastal Ocean Benthic Observatories (COBO) : integrated tools for the in situ observation and study of benthic ecosystem biogeochemical processes. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 2 indexed citations
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Witte, Ursula, Frank Wenzhöfer, Stefan Sommer, et al.. (2003). In situ experimental evidence of the fate of a phytodetritus pulse at the abyssal sea floor. Nature. 424(6950). 763–766. 197 indexed citations
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Boëtius, Antje, Katrin Ravenschlag, Carsten J. Schubert, et al.. (2000). A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. Nature. 407(6804). 623–626. 2302 indexed citations breakdown →

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