Walter Michaelis

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Walter Michaelis is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Michaelis has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 38 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Walter Michaelis's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (43 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (34 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Walter Michaelis is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (43 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (34 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Walter Michaelis collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Walter Michaelis's co-authors include Hans H. Richnow, Richard Seifert, Volker Thiel, Joachim Reitner, Martin Blumenberg, Jörn Peckmann, Eva Annweiler, Thomas Pape, Friedrich Widdel and Rainer U. Meckenstock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Walter Michaelis

122 papers receiving 8.3k citations

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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.

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

2002 563 citations Walter Michaelis, Richard Seifert et al. Science profile →
The molecularly-uncharacterized component of nonliving organic matter in natural environments

2000 560 citations Walter Michaelis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Michaelis Germany	51	3.5k	2.9k	2.3k	1.6k	1.6k	124	8.6k
Sean P. Sylva United States	36	3.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	72	7.3k
Jeffrey S. Seewald United States	51	2.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	740 0.5×	997 0.6×	105	7.6k
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Netherlands	57	3.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	5.5k 2.4×	2.3k 1.4×	2.7k 1.7×	131	11.2k
Sylvie Derenne France	57	1.4k 0.4×	3.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	793 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	253	10.1k
Jürgen Rullkötter Germany	51	1.6k 0.5×	4.1k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	536 0.3×	2.3k 1.4×	169	8.4k
Claude Largeau France	55	1.4k 0.4×	4.3k 1.5×	1.4k 0.6×	588 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	174	10.1k
Timothy G. Ferdelman Germany	48	3.6k 1.0×	969 0.3×	3.8k 1.6×	985 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	120	7.9k
Lorenz Schwark Germany	55	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	3.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	3.3k 2.1×	203	11.6k
Barbara Sherwood Lollar Canada	59	4.1k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	223	10.7k
Christopher S. Martens United States	54	4.5k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	524 0.3×	1.8k 1.2×	103	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Michaelis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Michaelis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Michaelis

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Bahlmann, Enno, Ingo Weinberg, Jošt V. Lavrič, et al.. (2015). Tidal controls on trace gas dynamics in a seagrass meadow of the Ria Formosa lagoon (southern Portugal). Biogeosciences. 12(6). 1683–1696. 36 indexed citations

Bodlenner, Anne, Wenjun Liu, Philippe Schaeffer, et al.. (2015). C₃₅ Hopanoid Side Chain Biosynthesis: Reduction of Ribosylhopane into Bacteriohopanetetrol by a Cell‐Free System Derived from Methylobacterium organophilum. ChemBioChem. 16(12). 1764–1770. 12 indexed citations

Weinberg, Ingo, et al.. (2015). A halocarbon survey from a seagrass dominated subtropical lagoon, Ria Formosa (Portugal): flux pattern and isotopic composition. Biogeosciences. 12(6). 1697–1711. 14 indexed citations

Bahlmann, Enno, et al.. (2011). A high volume sampling system for isotope determination of volatile halocarbons and hydrocarbons. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 4(10). 2073–2086. 18 indexed citations

Blumenberg, Martin, et al.. (2009). Hopanoid production byDesulfovibrio bastiniiisolated from oilfield formation water. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 293(1). 73–78. 35 indexed citations

Wieland, A., Thomas Pape, Jürgen Möbius, Jan‐Hendrik Klock, & Walter Michaelis. (2008). Carbon pools and isotopic trends in a hypersaline cyanobacterial mat. Geobiology. 6(2). 171–186. 33 indexed citations

Kniemeyer, Olaf, Florin Musat, Stefan M. Sievert, et al.. (2007). Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons by marine sulphate-reducing bacteria. Nature. 449(7164). 898–901. 291 indexed citations

Richnow, Hans H., et al.. (2005). Degradation of crude oil by an arctic microbial consortium. Extremophiles. 9(6). 461–470. 106 indexed citations

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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Richnow, Hans H., Eva Annweiler, Walter Michaelis, & Rainer U. Meckenstock. (2003). Microbial in situ degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons in a contaminated aquifer monitored by carbon isotope fractionation. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 65(1-2). 101–120. 122 indexed citations

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Treude, Tina, Katja Nauhaus, Armin Gieseke, et al.. (2003). Methanotrophic microbial mats forming reefs in the anoxic black sea. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 1732. 2 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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Thiel, Volker, Martin Blumenberg, Jens Hefter, et al.. (2002). A chemical view of the most ancient metazoa – biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges. Die Naturwissenschaften. 89(2). 60–66. 65 indexed citations

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Seifert, Richard, et al.. (2002). The carbon dioxide system in the Elbe estuary. Biogeochemistry. 59(1-2). 25–40. 27 indexed citations

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Halbach, Peter, Ekkehard Holzbecher, Andrea Koschinsky, Walter Michaelis, & Richard Seifert. (2001). Deep-sea hydrothermal microplume generation - a case study from the North Fiji Basin. Geo-Marine Letters. 21(2). 94–102. 8 indexed citations

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Meckenstock, Rainer U., Barbara Morasch, R. Warthmann, et al.. (1999). ¹³ C/ ¹² C isotope fractionation of aromatic hydrocarbons during microbial degradation. Environmental Microbiology. 1(5). 409–414. 124 indexed citations

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Michaelis, Walter. (1987). Properness of Lie Algebras and Enveloping Algebras. I. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 101(1). 17–17. 2 indexed citations

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Michaelis, Walter. (1980). Nuclear Techniques in Marine Metal Exploration. 615. 2 indexed citations

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Degens, Egon T., et al.. (1980). Varve chronology and early diagenetic alterations of organic substances in Holocene Black Sea sediments. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte. 1980(2). 65–86. 18 indexed citations

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