Wolfgang R. Hess

18.0k citations

239 papers · 12.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 56

Ecology top 0.1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 111
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.5%
- Algal biology and biofuel production 47
Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 24
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 119
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 78
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 60
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 33
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 20
Environmental Chemistry top 1%

Co-authors: Frédéric Partensky Jens Georg Daniel Vaulot Björn Voß Thomas Börner Martin Hagemann Claudia Steglich Stephan Klähn
Cited by: Ecology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Oceanography
Partner nations: Germany United States France

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang R. Hess

233 papers receiving 11.8k 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.

2009 Ecological Genomics of Marine Picocyanobacteria
2007 Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequence of the plant growth–promoting bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42
1999 Prochlorococcus , a Marine Photosynthetic Prokaryote of Global Significance

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1	Involvement of RNase J in CRISPR RNA maturation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Raphael Bilger,Friedel Drepper,Bettina L. Knapp,Tanja Berndt,Helena Landerer,Harald Putzer,Pitter F. Huesgen,Wolfgang R. Hess	2025	0
2	The RRM domain–containing protein Rbp3 interacts with ribosomes and the 3’ ends of mRNAs encoding photosynthesis proteins Luisa Hemm,Elisabeth Lichtenberg,Stefan Tholen,Viktoria Reimann,Kenta Kakazu,Sotaro Machida,Moontaha Mahbub,Oliver Schilling,Annegret Wilde,Satoru Watanabe,Conrad W. Mullineaux,Wolfgang R. Hess	2025	0
3	Discovery of novel replication proteins for large plasmids in cyanobacteria and their potential applications in genetic engineering Kazuma Ohdate,Minori Sakata,Kaisei Maeda,Yutaka Sakamaki,Kaori Nimura-Matsune,Ryudo Ohbayashi,Wolfgang R. Hess,Satoru Watanabe	2024	5
4	How Small Proteins Adjust the Metabolism of Cyanobacteria Under Stress Alexander Kraus,Wolfgang R. Hess	2024	1
5	The impact of salt stress on the physiology and the transcriptome of the model streptophyte green alga Chara braunii Daniel Heß,Carolin Heise,Hendrik Schubert,Wolfgang R. Hess,Martin Hagemann	2023	3
6	The high‐light‐induced protein SliP4 binds to NDH1 and photosystems facilitating cyclic electron transport and state transition in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Luna Alvarenga‐Lucius,Markéta Linhartová,Hendrik Schubert,Sandra Maaß,Dörte Becher,Wolfgang R. Hess,Roman Sobotka,Martin Hagemann	2023	5
7	CvkR is a MerR-type transcriptional repressor of class 2 type V-K CRISPR-associated transposase systems Marcus Ziemann,Viktoria Reimann,Yajing Liang,Yue Shi,Honglei Ma,Yuman Xie,Hui Li,Tao Zhu,Xuefeng Lü,Wolfgang R. Hess	2023	5
8	Deep Proteogenomics of a Photosynthetic Cyanobacterium Philipp Spät,Vanessa Krauspe,Wolfgang R. Hess,Boris Maček,Nicolas Nalpas	2023	8
9	The temperature-regulated DEAD-box RNA helicase CrhR interactome: autoregulation and photosynthesis-related transcripts Anzhela Migur,Florian Heyl,Janina Fuß,Afshan Srikumar,Bruno Hüettel,Claudia Steglich,Jogadhenu S. S. Prakash,Richard Reinhardt,Rolf Backofen,George W. Owttrim,Wolfgang R. Hess	2021	7
10	Transcriptome-wide in vivo mapping of cleavage sites for the compact cyanobacterial ribonuclease E reveals insights into its function and substrate recognition Ute A. Hoffmann,Florian Heyl,Said N. Rogh,Thomas Wallner,Rolf Backofen,Wolfgang R. Hess,Claudia Steglich,Annegret Wilde	2021	12
11	Discovery of a small protein factor involved in the coordinated degradation of phycobilisomes in cyanobacteria Vanessa Krauspe,Matthias Fahrner,Philipp Spät,Claudia Steglich,Nicole Frankenberg‐Dinkel,Boris Maček,Oliver Schilling,Wolfgang R. Hess	2021	33
12	Integrative analysis of the salt stress response in cyanobacteria Stephan Klähn,Stefan Mikkat,Matthias Riediger,Jens Georg,Wolfgang R. Hess,Martin Hagemann	2021	34
13	Specificities and functional coordination between the two Cas6 maturation endonucleases in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 assign orphan CRISPR arrays to three groups Viktoria Reimann,Marcus Ziemann,Hui Li,Tao Zhu,Juliane Behler,Xuefeng Lü,Wolfgang R. Hess	2020	8
14	mRNA localization, reaction centre biogenesis and thylakoid membrane targeting in cyanobacteria Moontaha Mahbub,Luisa Hemm,Yuxiao Yang,Ramanpreet Kaur,Helder Carmen,Christoph Engl,Tuomas Huokko,Matthias Riediger,Satoru Watanabe,Lu‐Ning Liu,Annegret Wilde,Wolfgang R. Hess,Conrad W. Mullineaux	2020	37
15	Benefit from decline: the primary transcriptome of Alteromonas macleodii str. Te101 during Trichodesmium demise Shengwei Hou,Mario López‐Pérez,Ulrike Pfreundt,Natalia Belkin,Kurt Stüber,Bruno Hüettel,Richard Reinhardt,Ilana Berman‐Frank,Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera,Wolfgang R. Hess	2018	27
16	Comprehensive search for accessory proteins encoded with archaeal and bacterial type III CRISPR- cas gene cassettes reveals 39 new cas gene families Shiraz A. Shah,Omer S. Alkhnbashi,Juliane Behler,Wenyuan Han,Qunxin She,Wolfgang R. Hess,Roger A. Garrett,Rolf Backofen	2018	66
17	An internal antisense RNA regulates expression of the photosynthesis gene isiA Ulf Dühring,Ilka M. Axmann,Wolfgang R. Hess,Annegret Wilde	2006	189
18	The White Barley Mutant Albostrians Shows Enhanced Resistance to the Biotroph Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei Sanjay Kumar Jain,Gregor Langen,Wolfgang R. Hess,Thomas Börner,Ralph Hückelhoven,Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2004	16
19	Organellar RNA Polymerases of Higher Plants Wolfgang R. Hess,Thomas Börner	1999	189
20	Beiträge zur angewandten und experimentellen Phonetik Wolfgang R. Hess,Walter F. Sendlmeier	1992	1

About Wolfgang R. Hess

Wolfgang R. Hess is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, having authored 239 papers that have together received 12.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (119 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (111 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (78 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (60 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (47 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (33 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (24 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (5.3k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (2.4k citations) and Oceanography (1.6k citations). Wolfgang R. Hess has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include Frédéric Partensky, Jens Georg, Daniel Vaulot, Björn Voß, Thomas Börner, Martin Hagemann, Claudia Steglich, Stephan Klähn, Ingeborg Scholz and Annegret Wilde.

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