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Bernhard M. Fuchs

Bernhard M. Fuchs

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
67
Citations
25482
World Ranking
2231
National Ranking
163

Bernhard M. Fuchs publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard M. Fuchs sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 167 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Bernhard M. Fuchs D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard M. Fuchs sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bernhard M. Fuchs is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses on environmental science and the molecular biology of microbial communities, with significant contributions also in oceanography and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics within microbial ecology, including microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, protist diversity and phylogeny, marine and coastal ecosystems, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and wastewater treatment with nitrogen removal.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bernhard M. Fuchs include Rudolf Amann, Karen Helen Wiltshire, Taylor Priest, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, and Hanno Teeling.

Major publication venues for their work are:

  • The ISME Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Nature Communications
  • ISME Communications

Some recent publications by Bernhard M. Fuchs include:

  • Verrucomicrobiota are specialist consumers of sulfated methyl pentoses during diatom blooms, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Diatom fucan polysaccharide precipitates carbon during algal blooms, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Changing expression patterns of TonB-dependent transporters suggest shifts in polysaccharide consumption over the course of a spring phytoplankton bloom, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Polysaccharide niche partitioning of distinct Polaribacter clades during North Sea spring algal blooms, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Dissolved storage glycans shaped the community composition of abundant bacterioplankton clades during a North Sea spring phytoplankton bloom, 2023, Microbiome

Best Publications

  • SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB

    Elmar Pruesse;Christian Quast;Katrin Knittel;Bernhard M. Fuchs

  • Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Dörte Becher;Christine Klockow;Christine Klockow

  • Bacterioplankton compositions of lakes and oceans: a first comparison based on fluorescence in situ hybridization.

    Frank Oliver Glöckner;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Single-cell identification in microbial communities by improved fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques

    Rudolf Amann;Bernhard M. Fuchs

  • Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation.

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Markus Schmid

  • Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria.

    Cameron M. Callbeck;Cameron M. Callbeck;Gaute Lavik;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Bernhard Fuchs

  • The identification of microorganisms by fluorescence in situ hybridisation.

    Rudolf I. Amann;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Sebastian Behrens

  • Flow cytometric analysis of the in situ accessibility of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA for fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes.

    Bernhard Maximilian Fuchs;Günter Wallner;Wolfgang Beisker;Ines Schwippl

  • Diversity and Abundance of Aerobic and Anaerobic Methane Oxidizers at the Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea

    Tina Lösekann;Katrin Knittel;Thierry Nadalig;Bernhard Fuchs

  • Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M Fuchs;Christin M Bennke;Karen Krüger

  • Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

    Gaute Lavik;Torben Stührmann;Volker Brüchert;Volker Brüchert;Anja Van der Plas

  • Unlabeled helper oligonucleotides increase the in situ accessibility to 16S rRNA of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes.

    Bernhard M. Fuchs;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Jörg Wulf;Rudolf Amann

  • High rate of uptake of organic nitrogen compounds by Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria as a key to their dominance in oligotrophic oceanic waters.

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Glen A. Tarran;Peter H. Burkill

  • A microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones.

    Dagmar Woebken;Phyllis Lam;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;S. Wajih A. Naqvi

  • Improved sensitivity of whole-cell hybridization by the combination of horseradish peroxidase-labeled oligonucleotides and tyramide signal amplification.

    Wilhelm Schönhuber;Bernhard M. Fuchs;S Juretschko;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Linking the composition of bacterioplankton to rapid turnover of dissolved dimethylsulphoniopropionate in an algal bloom in the North Sea

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Stephen D. Archer;Ronald P. Kiene

  • Latitudinal distribution of prokaryotic picoplankton populations in the Atlantic Ocean

    Martha Schattenhofer;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Rudolf Amann;Mikhail V. Zubkov

  • Potential interactions of particle-associated anammox bacteria with bacterial and archaeal partners in the Namibian upwelling system.

    Dagmar Woebken;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Rudolf Amann

  • Ubiquitous Gammaproteobacteria dominate dark carbon fixation in coastal sediments.

    Stefan Dyksma;Kerstin Bischof;Bernhard M Fuchs;Katy Hoffmann

  • The small unicellular diazotrophic symbiont, UCYN-A, is a key player in the marine nitrogen cycle

    Clara Martínez-Pérez;Wiebke Mohr;Carolin R Löscher;Julien Dekaezemacker

  • Comparison of cellular and biomass specific activities of dominant bacterioplankton groups in stratified waters of the Celtic Sea

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Peter H. Burkill;Rudolf I. Amann

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Mikhail V. Zubkov
Mikhail V. Zubkov National Oceanography Centre
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Antje Wichels
Antje Wichels Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Karen Helen Wiltshire
Karen Helen Wiltshire Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gunnar Gerdts
Gunnar Gerdts Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter H. Burkill
Peter H. Burkill Plymouth University
Carol Arnosti
Carol Arnosti University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society

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