Ute Hentschel

24.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
204 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Ute Hentschel is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Pharmacology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ute Hentschel has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Biotechnology, 103 papers in Pharmacology and 80 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ute Hentschel's work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products (124 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (102 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (56 papers). Ute Hentschel is often cited by papers focused on Marine Sponges and Natural Products (124 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (102 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (56 papers). Ute Hentschel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Ute Hentschel's co-authors include Jörg Hacker, Michael W. Taylor, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Kristina Bayer, Ulrich Dobrindt, Michael Wagner, Michael Steinert, Susanne Schmitt, Bianca Hochhut and Lars Fieseler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ute Hentschel

199 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms

2004 826 citations Ute Hentschel et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Molecular Evidence for a Uniform Microbial Community in Sponges from Different Oceans

2002 550 citations Ute Hentschel, Matthias Horn et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

2012 471 citations Ute Hentschel, Jörn Piel et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems

2018 372 citations Lucía Pita, Laura Rix et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ute Hentschel Germany	64	7.4k	5.3k	4.2k	3.9k	2.4k	204	13.2k
Nicole S. Webster Australia	57	5.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.4×	2.0k 0.5×	6.7k 1.7×	2.6k 1.1×	178	11.1k
Russell T. Hill United States	50	2.6k 0.3×	1.7k 0.3×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	134	6.9k
Johannes F. Imhoff Germany	55	2.1k 0.3×	2.4k 0.5×	4.4k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	395 0.2×	248	9.1k
Anthony R. Carroll Australia	50	3.0k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	584 0.2×	315 0.1×	261	9.7k
Alan T. Bull United Kingdom	55	2.4k 0.3×	3.1k 0.6×	5.3k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	202 0.1×	213	10.0k
Robert J. Capon Australia	49	3.3k 0.4×	3.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	398 0.1×	417 0.2×	369	9.2k
Kristian Fog Nielsen Denmark	68	1.4k 0.2×	3.0k 0.6×	4.4k 1.0×	887 0.2×	668 0.3×	211	12.8k
Marnix H. Medema Netherlands	53	3.1k 0.4×	9.0k 1.7×	13.2k 3.1×	3.0k 0.8×	359 0.1×	150	19.9k
Hans‐Peter Klenk Germany	54	1.5k 0.2×	2.0k 0.4×	11.2k 2.6×	6.6k 1.7×	518 0.2×	354	17.2k
Shigeaki Harayama Japan	72	832 0.1×	494 0.1×	8.1k 1.9×	4.5k 1.2×	681 0.3×	263	17.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mueller, Benjamin, Kristina Bayer, Liam Cassidy, et al.. (2025). Combined cellular and proteomics approach suggests differential processing of a native and a foreign vibrio in the sponge Halicondria panicea. mBio. 16(8). e0147425–e0147425.

Wiese, Jutta, et al.. (2024). Maribacter halichondriae sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea, displays features of a sponge-associated life style. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 117(1). 56–56. 4 indexed citations

Hauss, Helena, Till Bayer, Charlotte Havermans, et al.. (2023). Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7352–7352. 19 indexed citations

Maldonado, Manuel, et al.. (2022). Symbiont transmission in marine sponges: reproduction, development, and metamorphosis. BMC Biology. 20(1). 100–100. 27 indexed citations

Morganti, Teresa, Beate M. Slaby, Anna de Kluijver, et al.. (2022). Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life. Nature Communications. 13(1). 638–638. 27 indexed citations

Jahn, Martin T., Tim Lachnit, Sebastian M. Markert, et al.. (2021). Lifestyle of sponge symbiont phages by host prediction and correlative microscopy. The ISME Journal. 15(7). 2001–2011. 30 indexed citations

Hammerschmidt, Katrin, et al.. (2021). Enhancing Microbial Pollutant Degradation by Integrating Eco-Evolutionary Principles with Environmental Biotechnology. Trends in Microbiology. 29(10). 908–918. 65 indexed citations

Busch, Kathrin, et al.. (2021). Biogeography rather than substrate type determines bacterial colonization dynamics of marine plastics. PeerJ. 9. e12135–e12135. 26 indexed citations

Busch, Kathrin, Ulrike Hanz, Furu Mienis, et al.. (2020). On giant shoulders: how a seamount affects the microbial community composition of seawater and sponges. Biogeosciences. 17(13). 3471–3486. 18 indexed citations

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Díez‐Vives, Cristina, et al.. (2020). On the way to specificity ‐ Microbiome reflects sponge genetic cluster primarily in highly structured populations. Molecular Ecology. 29(22). 4412–4427. 29 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuchen, et al.. (2020). Opisthobranch grazing results in mobilisation of spherulous cells and re-allocation of secondary metabolites in the sponge Aplysina aerophoba. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 21934–21934. 4 indexed citations

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Bayer, Kristina, Kathrin Busch, Ellen Kenchington, et al.. (2020). Microbial Strategies for Survival in the Glass Sponge Vazella pourtalesii. mSystems. 5(4). 22 indexed citations

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Rix, Laura, Marta Ribes, Rafel Coma, et al.. (2020). Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2554–2567. 74 indexed citations

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Fraune, Sebastian, et al.. (2019). Bdellovibrio and Like Organisms Are Predictors of Microbiome Diversity in Distinct Host Groups. Microbial Ecology. 79(1). 252–257. 41 indexed citations

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Karimi, Elham, Tina Keller‐Costa, Beate M. Slaby, et al.. (2019). Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1999–1999. 52 indexed citations

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Bayer, Kristina, Martin T. Jahn, Beate M. Slaby, Lucas Moitinho‐Silva, & Ute Hentschel. (2018). Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade. mSystems. 3(6). 72 indexed citations

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Hentschel, Ute, Jörn Piel, Sandie M. Degnan, & Michael W. Taylor. (2012). Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10(9). 641–654. 471 indexed citations breakdown →

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Siegl, Alexander, Janine Kamke, Thomas Hochmuth, et al.. (2010). Single-cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria , a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges. The ISME Journal. 5(1). 61–70. 212 indexed citations

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Fieseler, Lars, Matthias Horn, Michael Wagner, & Ute Hentschel. (2004). Discovery of the Novel Candidate Phylum “ Poribacteria ” in Marine Sponges. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(6). 3724–3732. 236 indexed citations

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Hentschel, Ute. (2002). Natural Products from Marine Microorganisms. ChemBioChem. 3(11). 1151–1154. 7 indexed citations

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