Volker Thiel

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
125 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Volker Thiel is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Thiel has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 51 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 33 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Volker Thiel's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (53 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (47 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (33 papers). Volker Thiel is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (53 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (47 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (33 papers). Volker Thiel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Volker Thiel's co-authors include Jörn Peckmann, Joachim Reitner, Walter Michaelis, Martin Blumenberg, Andreas Reimer, Richard Seifert, Thomas Pape, Peter Sjövall, Jan‐Peter Duda and James L. Goedert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Volker Thiel

123 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane

2002 563 citations Walter Michaelis, Richard Seifert et al. Science profile →
Carbon cycling at ancient methane–seeps

2004 532 citations Jörn Peckmann, Volker Thiel profile →

Peers

Volker Thiel

PALEO

ECOLO

Jeffrey S. Seewald United States

Deborah S. Kelley United States

Marvin D. Lilley United States

Walter Michaelis Germany

Sylvie Derenne France

Martin Blumenberg Germany

T. M. McCollom United States

Yves Fouquet France

Lisa M. Pratt United States

Sean P. Sylva United States

Jeffrey S. Seewald United States

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997 ×0.6

577 ×0.4

PALEO

1.4k ×1.0

ECOLO

Citations per year, relative to Volker Thiel Volker Thiel (= 1×) peers Jeffrey S. Seewald

Countries citing papers authored by Volker Thiel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Volker Thiel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Volker Thiel

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ostertag-Henning, Christian, et al.. (2025). Preservation of archaeal core lipids in siliceous hot spring deposits: An experimental study. Organic Geochemistry. 204. 104974–104974.

Heim, Christine, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing eutrophication trends of a shallow lake environment using biomarker dynamics and sedimentary sterols. Organic Geochemistry. 177. 104555–104555. 3 indexed citations

Rampen, Sebastiaan W, Thomas Friedl, Nataliya Rybalka, & Volker Thiel. (2022). The Long chain Diol Index: A marine palaeotemperature proxy based on eustigmatophyte lipids that records the warmest seasons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(16). e2116812119–e2116812119. 8 indexed citations

Mißbach, Helge, Jan‐Peter Duda, Alfons M. van den Kerkhof, et al.. (2021). Ingredients for microbial life preserved in 3.5 billion-year-old fluid inclusions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1101–1101. 34 indexed citations

Fan, Lichao, Michaela A. Dippold, Volker Thiel, et al.. (2021). Temperature sensitivity of anaerobic methane oxidation versus methanogenesis in paddy soil: Implications for the CH₄ balance under global warming. Global Change Biology. 28(2). 654–664. 40 indexed citations

Meyer, Stephanie, Volker Thiel, Rainer Georg Joergensen, & Albert Sundrum. (2019). Relationships between feeding and microbial faeces indices in dairy cows at different milk yield levels. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0221266–e0221266. 10 indexed citations

Mißbach, Helge, H. Steininger, Volker Thiel, & W. Goetz. (2019). Investigating the Effect of Perchlorate on Flight-like Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry as Performed by MOMA on board the ExoMars 2020 Rover. Astrobiology. 19(11). 1339–1352. 6 indexed citations

Duda, Jan‐Peter, Volker Thiel, Thorsten Bauersachs, et al.. (2018). Ideas and perspectives: hydrothermally driven redistribution and sequestration of early Archaean biomass – the “hydrothermal pump hypothesis”. Biogeosciences. 15(5). 1535–1548. 45 indexed citations

Geilert, Sonja, Christian Hensen, Mark Schmidt, et al.. (2018). On the formation of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Biogeosciences. 15(18). 5715–5731. 32 indexed citations

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Thiel, Volker, А. Беллоче, K. M. Menten, R. T. Garrod, & H. S. P. Müller. (2018). Complex organic molecules in diffuse clouds along the line of sight to Sagittarius B2 (. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 26 indexed citations

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Suárez-González, Pablo, et al.. (2018). Different modes of calcification control the preservation of organic matter in a recent microbial mat. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Duda, Jan‐Peter, Volker Thiel, Joachim Reitner, & Dmitriy Grazhdankin. (2016). Opening up a window into ecosystems with Ediacara-type organisms: preservation of molecular fossils in the Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 90(4). 659–671. 16 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, et al.. (2013). Spectral characterization of ten cyclic lipids using time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 27(5). 565–581. 30 indexed citations

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Heim, Christine, J. Lausmaa, Peter Sjövall, et al.. (2012). Ancient microbial activity recorded in fracture fillings from granitic rocks (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden). Geobiology. 10(4). 280–297. 23 indexed citations

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Volk, Herbert, et al.. (2009). Laser micropyrolysis-GC/MS of biomarkers in authigenic carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 7313. 95. 1 indexed citations

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Siljeström, Sandra, Tomas Hode, Jukka Lausmaa, et al.. (2007). Detection of biomarkers in oils using ToF-SIMS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 71(15). 3 indexed citations

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Thiel, Volker, et al.. (2007). Biomarkers at the microscopic range: ToF‐SIMS molecular imaging of Archaea‐derived lipids in a microbial mat. Geobiology. 5(4). 413–421. 40 indexed citations

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Seifert, Richard, Martin Blumenberg, Thomas Pape, et al.. (2003). Methane in the Black Sea - biogeochemical and microbiological aspects. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 6339. 1 indexed citations

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Michaelis, Walter, Richard Seifert, Katja Nauhaus, et al.. (2002). Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. Science. 297(5583). 1013–1015. 563 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blumenberg, Martin, Volker Thiel, Thomas Pape, & Walter Michaelis. (2002). The steroids of hexactinellid sponges. Die Naturwissenschaften. 89(9). 415–419. 18 indexed citations

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