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Henner Brinkmann

Henner Brinkmann

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
20014
World Ranking
8519
National Ranking
625

Henner Brinkmann publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Henner Brinkmann sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 109 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Henner Brinkmann D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Henner Brinkmann sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Henner Brinkmann is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans key subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research focuses on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, and Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research.

Brinkmann has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, including:

  • Simultaneous Presence of Bacteriochlorophyll and Xanthorhodopsin Genes in a Freshwater Bacterium (2020, mSystems)
  • Phylogenomics reveals the basis of adaptation of Pseudorhizobium species to extreme environments and supports a taxonomic revision of the genus (2020, Systematic and Applied Microbiology)
  • Filling the Gaps in the Cyanobacterial Tree of Life-Metagenome Analysis of Stigonema ocellatum DSM 106950, Chlorogloea purpurea SAG 13.99 and Gomphosphaeria aponina DSM 107014 (2021, Genes)
  • Diversity and substrate-specificity of green algae and other micro-eukaryotes colonizing amphibian clutches in Germany, revealed by DNA metabarcoding (2021, Die Naturwissenschaften)
  • Fatal affairs - conjugational transfer of a dinoflagellate-killing plasmid between marine Rhodobacterales (2022, Microbial Genomics)

Frequent co-authors in Brinkmann's publications include:

  • Jörn Petersen
  • Michael Jarek
  • Jürgen Tomasch
  • Boyke Bunk
  • Pia Marter

Common venues for publishing their research are:

  • mSystems
  • iScience
  • Genes
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology
  • Die Naturwissenschaften

Best Publications

  • Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates

    Frédéric Delsuc;Henner Brinkmann;Daniel Chourrout;Hervé Philippe

  • Phylogenomics and the reconstruction of the tree of life.

    Frédéric Delsuc;Henner Brinkmann;Hervé Philippe

  • Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Dennis V. Lavrov;D. Timothy J. Littlewood

  • The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution

    Chris T. Amemiya;Chris T. Amemiya;Jessica Alfoldi;Alison P. Lee;Shaohua Fan

  • Suppression of long-branch attraction artefacts in the animal phylogeny using a site-heterogeneous model

    Nicolas Lartillot;Henner Brinkmann;Hervé Philippe

  • Phylogenomics: the beginning of incongruence?

    Olivier Jeffroy;Henner Brinkmann;Frédéric Delsuc;Hervé Philippe

  • Phylogenetic timing of the fish-specific genome duplication correlates with the diversification of teleost fish.

    Simone Hoegg;Henner Brinkmann;Henner Brinkmann;John S. Taylor;John S. Taylor;Axel Meyer

  • Monophyly of Primary Photosynthetic Eukaryotes: Green Plants, Red Algae, and Glaucophytes

    Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta;Henner Brinkmann;Suzanne C. Burey;Béatrice Roure

  • Multigene Analyses of Bilaterian Animals Corroborate the Monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia

    Hervé Philippe;Nicolas Lartillot;Henner Brinkmann

  • Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Richard R. Copley;Leonid L. Moroz

  • The analysis of 100 genes supports the grouping of three highly divergent amoebae: Dictyostelium, Entamoeba, and Mastigamoeba

    Eric Bapteste;Henner Brinkmann;Jennifer A. Lee;Dorothy V. Moore

  • Multiple overseas dispersal in amphibians

    Miguel Vences;David R. Vieites;David R. Vieites;Frank Glaw;Henner Brinkmann

  • Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

    Sabina Wodniok;Henner Brinkmann;Gernot Glöckner;Andrew J Heidel

  • Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics

    Hervé Philippe;Yan Zhou;Henner Brinkmann;Nicolas Rodrigue

  • Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

    Simon Henriet;Sutada Mungpakdee;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury

  • Archaea sister group of Bacteria? Indications from tree reconstruction artifacts in ancient phylogenies.

    H Brinkmann;H Philippe

  • Detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies.

    Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta;Henner Brinkmann;Béatrice Roure;Nicolas Lartillot

  • Phylogenomic Evidence for Separate Acquisition of Plastids in Cryptophytes, Haptophytes, and Stramenopiles

    Denis Baurain;Denis Baurain;Henner Brinkmann;Joern Petersen;Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta

  • Early–branching or fast–evolving eukaryotes? An answer based on slowly evolving positions

    H Philippe;P Lopez;H Brinkmann;K Budin

  • A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

    Omar Rota-Stabelli;Omar Rota-Stabelli;Lahcen I Campbell;Henner Brinkmann;Gregory D Edgecombe

Frequent Co-Authors

Hervé Philippe
Hervé Philippe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
B. Franz Lang
B. Franz Lang University of Montreal
Frédéric Delsuc
Frédéric Delsuc University of Montpellier
Gertraud Burger
Gertraud Burger University of Montreal
Ralf R. Mendel
Ralf R. Mendel Technische Universität Braunschweig
Nicolas Lartillot
Nicolas Lartillot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Andrew J. Roger
Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay

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