Uwe John

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
166 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Uwe John is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Uwe John has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Ecology, 91 papers in Oceanography and 90 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Uwe John's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (80 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (78 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (73 papers). Uwe John is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (80 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (78 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (73 papers). Uwe John collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Netherlands. Uwe John's co-authors include Urban Tillmann, Allan Cembella, Bernd Krock, Sylke Wohlrab, Linda Medlin, Malte Elbrächter, Shauna A. Murray, Björn Rost, Bánk Beszteri and Dedmer B. Van de Waal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Uwe John

159 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe

2021 208 citations Allan Cembella, Uwe John et al. Harmful Algae profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uwe John Germany	46	3.4k	3.2k	2.8k	2.5k	396	166	6.1k
Christopher J. S. Bolch Australia	42	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	690 1.7×	88	4.8k
Karin Rengefors Sweden	33	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	165 0.4×	93	3.9k
Urban Tillmann Germany	43	4.1k 1.2×	4.3k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	307 0.8×	194	6.0k
Nina Lundholm Denmark	42	3.7k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	288 0.7×	157	6.0k
Bernd Krock Germany	42	3.6k 1.0×	4.3k 1.4×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	202 0.5×	230	6.1k
Adriana Zingone Italy	44	4.8k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	3.8k 1.4×	2.1k 0.8×	949 2.4×	141	7.6k
Esther Garcés Spain	42	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	545 1.4×	142	5.5k
Susanna A. Wood New Zealand	47	2.5k 0.7×	4.0k 1.2×	3.8k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	548 1.4×	212	7.2k
Øjvind Moestrup Denmark	47	4.8k 1.4×	3.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.3×	4.0k 1.6×	248 0.6×	192	7.6k
Anton F. Post United States	42	3.0k 0.9×	949 0.3×	3.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	468 1.2×	100	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uwe John

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

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Wohlrab, Sylke, Franco Moritz, Constanze Müller, et al.. (2025). High-resolution multiomics links nutrients and mixotrophy to toxicity in a harmful bloom of the haptophyte Chrysochromulina leadbeateri. Science Advances. 11(26). eadv3390–eadv3390.

Kirstein, Inga V., et al.. (2025). Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 10(4). 473–484.

Cabrerizo, Marco J., et al.. (2024). Moderate and extreme warming under a varied resource supply alter the microzooplankton–phytoplankton coupling in North Sea coastal communities. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(12). 2991–3002. 1 indexed citations

Cabrerizo, Marco J., et al.. (2024). The experimental implications of the rate of temperature change and timing of nutrient availability on growth and stoichiometry of a natural marine phytoplankton community. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(8). 1769–1781. 5 indexed citations

Vences, Miguel, Sten Anslan, Joana Sabino‐Pinto, et al.. (2024). Dataset from RNAseq analysis of differential gene expression among developmental stages of two non-marine ostracodes. Data in Brief. 53. 110070–110070.

Wolf, Klara K. E., et al.. (2023). Winners and Losers of Atlantification: The Degree of Ocean Warming Affects the Structure of Arctic Microbial Communities. Genes. 14(3). 623–623. 10 indexed citations

John, Uwe, et al.. (2023). The second most abundant dinophyte in the ponds of a botanical garden is a species new to science. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 71(2). e13015–e13015. 3 indexed citations

Egge, Elianne, Daniel Vaulot, Uwe John, et al.. (2021). An 18S V4 rRNA metabarcoding dataset of protist diversity in the Atlantic inflow to the Arctic Ocean, through the year and down to 1000 m depth. Earth system science data. 13(10). 4913–4928. 19 indexed citations

Raes, Eric J., et al.. (2021). Hydrographic fronts shape productivity, nitrogen fixation, and microbial community composition in the southern Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean. Biogeosciences. 18(12). 3733–3749. 22 indexed citations

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Wolf, Klara K. E., Clara J. M. Hoppe, Florian Leese, et al.. (2021). Revealing environmentally driven population dynamics of an Arctic diatom using a novel microsatellite PoolSeq barcoding approach. Environmental Microbiology. 23(7). 3809–3824. 9 indexed citations

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Wohlrab, Sylke, et al.. (2021). Seasonal plankton succession is in accordance with phycotoxin occurrence in Disko Bay, West Greenland. Harmful Algae. 103. 101978–101978. 12 indexed citations

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Altenburger, Andreas, Huimin Cai, Qiye Li, et al.. (2020). Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. The ISME Journal. 15(4). 1056–1072. 16 indexed citations

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Harder, Tilmann, et al.. (2019). Babylonian towers in a blue world – using chemical language to shape future marine health. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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John, Uwe, Sylke Wohlrab, Marco Groth, et al.. (2019). An aerobic eukaryotic parasite with functional mitochondria that likely lacks a mitochondrial genome. Science Advances. 5(4). eaav1110–eaav1110. 61 indexed citations

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Dassow, Peter von, El Mahdi Bendif, Juan Diego Gaitán‐Espitía, et al.. (2018). Over-calcified forms of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in high-CO ₂ waters are not preadapted to ocean acidification. Biogeosciences. 15(5). 1515–1534. 17 indexed citations

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Molis, Markus, et al.. (2012). Herbivore-induced defense response in the brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus: patterns in temporal dynamics and gene expression. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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John, Uwe, Sára Beszteri, Gernot Glöeckner, et al.. (2010). Genomic characterisation of the ichthyotoxic prymnesiophyte Chrysochromulina polylepis, and the expression of polyketide synthases genes in synchronised cultures.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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John, Uwe, et al.. (2008). A new Mediterranean genotype of Fibrocapsa sp.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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Beszteri, Bánk, et al.. (2008). Species discrimination in the genus Alexandrium by amplified fragment length polymorphism. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 3 indexed citations

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Cembella, Allan, Michael A. Quilliam, Nancy I. Lewis, et al.. (2003). Discrimination among populations of toxigenic Alexandrium species by means of rRNA-targeted molecular probes and toxin profiling.. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 29(1). 142–8. 1 indexed citations

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