Wolf‐Rainer Abraham

9.9k citations
193 papers · 8.4k · 2 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

  • Pollution top 0.5%
    • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Pharmacology top 0.5%
    • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Papers in

Co-authors
Kenneth Nigel Timmis (14 shared papers)Edward R. B. Moore (11 shared papers)Heinrich Lünsdorf (12 shared papers)Peter N. Golyshin (8 shared papers)Michail M. Yakimov (7 shared papers)Hans‐Adolf Arfmann (17 shared papers)Ferdinand Bohlmann (17 shared papers)Oliver Pelz (8 shared papers)
Journals
Phytochemistry (33 papers)INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY (20 papers)Current Medicinal Chemistry (9 papers)Environmental Microbiology (9 papers)Tetrahedron (7 papers)
Partner nations
GermanyBrazilUnited States

In The Last Decade

Wolf‐Rainer Abraham

191 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Wolf‐Rainer Abraham's Hit Papers

De novo fatty acid synthesis controls the fate between regulatory T and T helper 17 cells 2014 · 779 citations
7790+9+18Years since publication250500750
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2014 Nature Medicine
  2. 1998 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Peers

Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
Comparison fields: 5 of 129
  • Pollution 1.7k
  • Pharmacology 951
  • Ecology 1.4k
  • Biotechnology 410
  • Cancer Research 473
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All Works

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De novo fatty acid synthesis controls the fate between regulatory T and T helper 17 cells
Nature Medicine ·Luciana Berod, Christin Friedrich, Amrita Nandan, Jenny Freitag, Stefanie Hagemann, Kirsten Harmrolfs, Aline Sandouk, Christina Hesse
Hit paper breakdown →		2014779
2
Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium
International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology ·Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Siegmund Lang, Edward R. B. Moore, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth Nigel Timmis
Hit paper breakdown →		1998523
3
Ferroplasma acidiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidophilic, autotrophic, ferrous-iron-oxidizing, cell-wall-lacking, mesophilic member of the Ferroplasmaceae fam. nov., comprising a distinct lineage of the Archaea.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Olga V. Golyshina, T. A. Pivovarova, G. I. Karavaiko, Tamara F. Kondrat’eva, Edward R. B. Moore, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth Nigel Timmis
2000266
4
Oleispira antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbonoclastic marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic coastal sea water
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Michail M. Yakimov, Laura Giuliano, Gabriella Gentile, Ermanno Crisafi, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth Nigel Timmis
2003241
5
Phylogeny and polyphasic taxonomy of Caulobacter species. Proposal of Maricaulis gen. nov. with Maricaulis maris (Poindexter) comb. nov. as the type species, and emended description of the genera Brevundimonas and Caulobacter
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Carsten Strömpl, Sabine Lindholst, Edward R. B. Moore, Ruprecht Christ, Marc Vancanneyt, Brian J. Tindall, Antoni Bennasar-Figueras
1999219
6
In situ experimental evidence of the fate of a phytodetritus pulse at the abyssal sea floor
Nature ·Ursula F. M. Witte, Frank Wenzhöfer, Stefan Sommer, Antje Boëtius, Petra Heinz, Nicole Aberle, A. Cremer, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
2003210
7
Ratios of Carbon Isotopes in Microbial Lipids as an Indicator of Substrate Usage
Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Christian Hesse, Oliver Pelz
1998189
8
Volatile sesquiterpenes from fungi: what are they good for?
Phytochemistry Reviews ·Rolf Kramer, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
2011166
9
Terpen-derivate aus Senecio-arten
Phytochemistry ·Ferdinand Bohlmann, Karl‐Heinz Knoll, Christa Zdero, Pradip Kr Mahanta, Michael Grenz, Albert Suwita, Dorothea Ehlers, Ngo Le Van
1977162
10
Bioactive Sesquiterpenes Produced by Fungi are they Useful for Humans as Well
Current Medicinal Chemistry ·Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
2001151
11
Thalassolituus oleivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Michail M. Yakimov, Laura Giuliano, Renata Denaro, Ermanno Crisafi, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth Nigel Timmis
2004144
12
Antimicrobial and Biofilm Inhibiting Diketopiperazines
Current Medicinal Chemistry ·Maira Peres de Carvalho, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
2012144
13
Identification of the metabolically active members of a bacterial community in a polychlorinated biphenyl‐polluted moorland soil
Environmental Microbiology ·Balbina Nogales, Edward R. B. Moore, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Kenneth Nigel Timmis
1999138
14
Towards elucidation of microbial community metabolic pathways: unravelling the network of carbon sharing in a pollutant‐degrading bacterial consortium by immunocapture and isotopic ratio mass spectrometry
Environmental Microbiology ·Oliver Pelz, Michael Tesar, Rolf‐Michael Wittich, Edward R. B. Moore, Kenneth Nigel Timmis, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham
1999133
15
Fatty acid Content in Whole-cell Hydrolysates and Phospholipid and Phospholipid Fractions of Pseudomonads: a Taxonomic Evaluation
Systematic and Applied Microbiology ·Marc Vancanneyti, Sabine Witt, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Karel Kersters, Herb L. Fredrickson
1996130
16
Oleiphilaceae fam. nov., to include Oleiphilus messinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Peter N. Golyshin, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth Nigel Timmis, Michail M. Yakimov +1 other
2002130
17
Novel glycine containing glucolipids from the alkane using bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism ·Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Misha Yakimov +1 other
1998114
18
Applying stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids and rRNA in a Chinese rice field to study activity and composition of the methanotrophic bacterial communities in situ
The ISME Journal ·Qiongfen Qiu, Matthias Noll, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Yahai Lu, Ralf Conrad
2008103
19
13 C‐isotope analyses reveal that chemolithoautotrophic Gamma ‐ and Epsilonproteobacteria feed a microbial food web in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea
Environmental Microbiology ·Sabine Glaubitz, Tillmann Lueders, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Günter Jost, Klaus Jürgens, Matthias Labrenz
200897
20
Activity and composition of methanotrophic bacterial communities in planted rice soil studied by flux measurements, analyses of pmoA gene and stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids
Environmental Microbiology ·Minita Shrestha, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Pravin Malla Shrestha, Matthias Noll, Ralf Conrad
200784

About Wolf‐Rainer Abraham

Wolf‐Rainer Abraham is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Pollution, Molecular Biology and Ecology, having authored 193 papers that have together received 8.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (48 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers), Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (25 papers), Biochemical and biochemical processes (22 papers), Steroid Chemistry and Biochemistry (20 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers) and Sesquiterpenes and Asteraceae Studies (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (1.7k citations), Pharmacology (951 citations), Ecology (1.4k citations), Biotechnology (410 citations) and Cancer Research (473 citations). Wolf‐Rainer Abraham has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Brazil and United States. Frequent co-authors include Kenneth Nigel Timmis, Edward R. B. Moore, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Peter N. Golyshin, Michail M. Yakimov, Hans‐Adolf Arfmann, Ferdinand Bohlmann, Oliver Pelz, Rolf Kramer and Andréia Bergamo Estrela. Their work appears in journals such as Phytochemistry, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Tetrahedron.

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