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D-Index
77
Citations
20360
World Ranking
1356
National Ranking
95

Dörte Becher 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 Dörte Becher sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 310 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dörte Becher 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 Dörte Becher sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dörte Becher is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany and has made substantial contributions to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, ecology, genetics, plant science, and epidemiology, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

The focus of their work concentrates on multiple main topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications

Among recent significant publications are:

  • "Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan" (2020, Nature Microbiology)
  • "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)
  • "The Metaproteomics Initiative: a coordinated approach for propelling the functional characterization of microbiomes" (2021, Microbiome)
  • "Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria" (2022, Cell Host & Microbe)

These publications highlight a recurring emphasis on microbial ecology, marine microbiology, and microbiome functional characterization.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Becher include:

  • Sandra Maaß
  • Thomas Schweder
  • Anke Trautwein-Schult
  • Jan Maarten van Dijl
  • Jürgen Bartel

The scholar regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • Nature Communications
  • Microbiome
  • Environmental Microbiology

Overall, Dörte Becher's body of work integrates genomics, microbial ecology, and proteomics to better understand microbial communities and their interactions in various environments. Their contributions span experimental and computational analyses aimed at deciphering functional aspects of microbial life, with implications for ecology and health sciences.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Condition-Dependent Transcriptome Reveals High-Level Regulatory Architecture in Bacillus subtilis

    Pierre Nicolas;Ulrike Mäder;Etienne Dervyn;Tatiana Rochat

  • Polysulfides Link H2S to Protein Thiol Oxidation

    Romy Greiner;Zoltán Pálinkás;Katrin Bäsell;Dörte Becher

  • Cellulose and hemicellulose decomposition by forest soil bacteria proceeds by the action of structurally variable enzymatic systems.

    Rubén López-Mondéjar;Daniela Zühlke;Dörte Becher;Katharina Riedel

  • Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins

    Michaela Wenzel;Alina Iulia Chiriac;Andreas Otto;Dagmar Zweytick

  • A comprehensive proteome map of growing Bacillus subtilis cells.

    Christine Eymann;Annette Dreisbach;Dirk Albrecht;Jörg Bernhardt

  • Global Network Reorganization During Dynamic Adaptations of Bacillus subtilis Metabolism

    Joerg Martin Buescher;Wolfram Liebermeister;Matthieu Jules;Markus Uhr

  • Grad-seq guides the discovery of ProQ as a major small RNA-binding protein.

    Alexandre Smirnov;Konrad U. Förstner;Erik Holmqvist;Andreas Otto

  • Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan.

    Andreas Sichert;Andreas Sichert;Christopher H. Corzett;Christopher H. Corzett;Matthew S. Schechter;Frank Unfried

  • Exploring functional contexts of symbiotic sustain within lichen-associated bacteria by comparative omics.

    Martin Grube;Tomislav Cernava;Jung Soh;Stephan Fuchs

  • Physiological proteomics of the uncultured endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila.

    Stephanie Markert;Cordelia Arndt;Horst Felbeck;Dörte Becher

  • A Comprehensive Proteomics and Transcriptomics Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Salt Stress Adaptation

    Hannes Hahne;Ulrike Mäder;Andreas Otto;Florian Bonn

  • Systems-wide temporal proteomic profiling in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis

    Andreas Otto;Jörg Bernhardt;Hanna Meyer;Marc Schaffer

  • Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

    Manuel Kleiner;Cecilia Wentrup;Christian Lott;Hanno Teeling

  • Functional characterization of polysaccharide utilization loci in the marine Bacteroidetes 'Gramella forsetii' KT0803.

    Antje Kabisch;Andreas Otto;Sten König;Dörte Becher

  • Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom.

    Peng Xing;Richard L Hahnke;Frank Unfried;Stephanie Markert

  • Oxygenation cascade in conversion of n-alkanes to alpha,omega-dioic acids catalyzed by cytochrome P450 52A3.

    Ulrich Scheller;Thomas Zimmer;Dörte Becher;Frieder Schauer

  • In marine Bacteroidetes the bulk of glycan degradation during algae blooms is mediated by few clades using a restricted set of genes.

    Karen Krüger;Meghan Chafee;T. Ben Francis;Tijana Glavina del Rio

  • A Proteomic View of an Important Human Pathogen – Towards the Quantification of the Entire Staphylococcus aureus Proteome

    Dörte Becher;Kristina Hempel;Susanne Sievers;Daniela Zühlke

  • Polysaccharide utilization loci of North Sea Flavobacteriia as basis for using SusC/D-protein expression for predicting major phytoplankton glycans

    Lennart Kappelmann;Karen Krüger;Jan Hendrik Hehemann;Jens Harder

  • S-Bacillithiolation Protects Against Hypochlorite Stress in Bacillus subtilis as Revealed by Transcriptomics and Redox Proteomics

    Bui Khanh Chi;Katrin Gronau;Ulrike Mäder;Bernd Hessling

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hecker
Michael Hecker University of Greifswald
Thomas Schweder
Thomas Schweder University of Greifswald
Jörg Bernhardt
Jörg Bernhardt University of Greifswald
Haike Antelmann
Haike Antelmann Freie Universität Berlin
Jan Maarten van Dijl
Jan Maarten van Dijl University Medical Center Groningen
Uwe Völker
Uwe Völker University of Greifswald
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Michael Lalk
Michael Lalk University of Greifswald
Susanne Engelmann
Susanne Engelmann Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Sven Hammerschmidt
Sven Hammerschmidt University of Greifswald

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