Werner Liesack

19.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
159 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Werner Liesack is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Liesack has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Molecular Biology, 91 papers in Ecology and 49 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Werner Liesack's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (43 papers). Werner Liesack is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (43 papers). Werner Liesack collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and China. Werner Liesack's co-authors include K.-P. Witzel, Svetlana N. Dedysh, Erko Stackebrandt, Peter H. Janssen, Peter F. Dunfield, Ralf Conrad, Т. А. Панкратов, Kai Finster, Sylvia Schnell and Thomas Lukow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Werner Liesack

157 papers receiving 14.4k 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.

The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations

1997 2.4k citations Werner Liesack et al. profile →
Diversity and Structure of the Methanogenic Community in Anoxic Rice Paddy Soil Microcosms as Examined by Cultivation and Direct 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Retrieval

1998 605 citations Werner Liesack et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Global Relationship Between Genome Size and Encoded Carbon Metabolic Strategies of Soil Bacteria 2025 ·Ecology Letters ·Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng, Ashish A. Malik, Ziheng Peng, Yu Luo, Fenliang Fan, (unknown), Gehong Wei, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Werner Liesack, Shuo Jiao	12
2	Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics 2024 ·Microbiome ·Zhibin He, Yong Hou, Ying Li, Qicheng Bei, Xin Li, (unknown), Werner Liesack, Matthias C. Rillig, Jingjing Peng	5
3	Exploring modes of microbial interactions with implications for methane cycling 2024 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Kristof Brenzinger, Timo Glatter, Anna Hakobyan, Marion Meima‐Franke, Hans Zweers, Werner Liesack, Paul L. E. Bodelier	1
4	Soil microbial ecology through the lens of metatranscriptomics 2023 ·Soil Ecology Letters ·Jingjing Peng, (unknown), Christopher Rensing, Werner Liesack, Yong‐Guan Zhu	16
5	Metagenomic insights into genetic factors driving bacterial niche differentiation between bulk and rhizosphere soils 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Xingjie Wu, Shuikuan Bei, (unknown), Yu Luo, Zhibin He, Chunxu Song, Huimin Yuan, Barbara Pivato, Werner Liesack, Jingjing Peng	14
6	Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments 2021 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng, Pengfei Liu, Qicheng Bei, Christopher Rensing, Yong Li, Huimin Yuan, Werner Liesack, Fusuo Zhang, Zhenling Cui	106
7	Limnoglobus roseus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel freshwater planctomycete with a giant genome from the family Gemmataceae 2019 ·INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Irina S. Kulichevskaya, D. G. Naumoff, Kirill K. Miroshnikov, Anastasia A. Ivanova, Dmitriy Philippov, Anna Hakobyan, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Werner Liesack, Svetlana N. Dedysh	28
8	Comparative Genomics of Four Isosphaeraceae Planctomycetes: A Common Pool of Plasmids and Glycoside Hydrolase Genes Shared by Paludisphaera borealis PX4T, Isosphaera pallida IS1BT, Singulisphaera acidiphila DSM 18658T, and Strain SH-PL62 2017 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Anastasia A. Ivanova, D. G. Naumoff, Kirill K. Miroshnikov, Werner Liesack, Svetlana N. Dedysh	53
9	Differential Assemblage of Functional Units in Paddy Soil Microbiomes 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Yong‐Kyu Kim, Werner Liesack	53
10	Two isozymes of particulate methane monooxygenase with different methane oxidation kinetics are found in Methylocystis sp. strain SC2 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Werner Liesack	221
11	Methylotrophic Autotrophy in Beijerinckia mobilis 2005 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Svetlana N. Dedysh, К. В. Смирнова, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Н. Е. Сузина, Werner Liesack, Yuri A. Trotsenko	44
12	Succession of bacterial community structure and diversity in a paddy soil oxygen gradient 2005 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Matthias Noll, Diethart Matthies, Peter Frenzel, (unknown), Werner Liesack	316
13	Use of the T-RFLP technique to assess spatial and temporal changes in the bacterial community structure within an agricultural soil planted with transgenic and non-transgenic potato plants 2000 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Thomas Lukow, Peter F. Dunfield, Werner Liesack	242
14	Sulfurospirillum arcachonense sp. nov., a New Microaerophilic Sulfur-Reducing Bacterium 1997 ·International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology ·Kai Finster, Werner Liesack, Brian J. Tindall	72
15	The phylogeny of the genusYersiniabased on 16S rDNA sequences 1994 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Ashraf S. Ibrahim, Brett M. Goebel, Werner Liesack, Mansel W. Griffiths, Erko Stackebrandt	4
16	The phylogeny of the genusYersiniabased on 16S rDNA sequences 1993 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Ashraf S. Ibrahim, Brett M. Goebel, Werner Liesack, Mansel W. Griffiths, Erko Stackebrandt	73
17	The polymerase chain reaction: an epidemiological tool to differentiate between two clusters of pathogenicYersinia enterocoliticastrains 1992 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Ashraf S. Ibrahim, Werner Liesack, (unknown), Erko Stackebrandt	9
18	Approaches for the molecular identification of streptomycetes in marine environment 1990 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·(unknown), Dagmar Witt, Werner Liesack, H. Weyland, Erko Stackebrandt	5
19	Development of a highly specific diagnostic 23S rDNA oligonuleotide probe for Mycobacterium leprae 1990 ·Letters in Applied Microbiology ·Werner Liesack, Christian Pitulle, Erko Stackebrandt	6
20	16S ribosomal RNA- and cell wall analysis ofGemmata obscuriglobus, a new member of the order Planctomycetales 1986 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Erko Stackebrandt, Uta Wehmeyer, Werner Liesack	33

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