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Holger Daims 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 Holger Daims sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 134 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Holger Daims 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 Holger Daims sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Holger Daims is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to pollution, ecology, environmental engineering, molecular biology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, water treatment and disinfection, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Holger Daims has published extensively, with a record of papers featured in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The ISME Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Water Research
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio

Several recent papers provide insight into the range and scope of their research contributions. Examples of these works include:

  • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea possess a wide range of cellular ammonia affinities (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • Single cell analyses reveal contrasting life strategies of the two main nitrifiers in the ocean (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Activity and Metabolic Versatility of Complete Ammonia Oxidizers in Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Systems (2020, mBio)
  • Sustained nitrogen loss in a symbiotic association of Comammox Nitrospira and Anammox bacteria (2021, Water Research)
  • Exploring the upper pH limits of nitrite oxidation: diversity, ecophysiology, and adaptive traits of haloalkalitolerant Nitrospira (2020, The ISME Journal)

The scientist collaborates frequently with various co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Michael Wagner
  • Craig W. Herbold
  • Petra Pjevac
  • Katharina Kitzinger
  • Christopher J. Sedlacek

Best Publications

  • Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

    Holger Daims;Elena V. Lebedeva;Petra Pjevac;Ping Han

  • The Domain-specific Probe EUB338 is Insufficient for the Detection of all Bacteria: Development and Evaluation of a more Comprehensive Probe Set

    Holger Daims;Andreas Brühl;Rudolf Amann;Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  • Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

    Marc Strous;Eric Pelletier;Sophie Mangenot;Thomas Rattei

  • In Situ Characterization of Nitrospira-Like Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria Active in Wastewater Treatment Plants

    Holger Daims;Jeppe L. Nielsen;Per H. Nielsen;Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  • A New Perspective on Microbes Formerly Known as Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria

    Holger Daims;Sebastian Lücker;Michael Wagner

  • A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

    Sebastian Lücker;Michael Wagner;Frank Maixner;Eric Pelletier

  • A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring.

    Roland Hatzenpichler;Elena V. Lebedeva;Eva Spieck;Kilian Stoecker

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridisation for the identification and characterisation of prokaryotes.

    Michael Wagner;Matthias Horn;Holger Daims

  • Kinetic analysis of a complete nitrifier reveals an oligotrophic lifestyle

    K. Dimitri Kits;Christopher J. Sedlacek;Elena V. Lebedeva;Ping Han

  • daime, a novel image analysis program for microbial ecology and biofilm research

    Holger Daims;Sebastian Lücker;Michael Wagner

  • Microbial community composition and function in wastewater treatment plants

    Michael Wagner;Alexander Loy;Regina Nogueira;Ulrike Purkhold

  • Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira

    Hanna Koch;Sebastian Lücker;Mads Albertsen;Katharina Kitzinger

  • Nitrification expanded: discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi.

    D.Y. Sorokin;S. Lücker;D. Vejmelkova;N.A. Kostrikina

  • Microbial landscapes: new paths to biofilm research.

    Tom J. Battin;William T. Sloan;Staffan Kjelleberg;Holger Daims

  • Raman-FISH: combining stable-isotope Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence in situ hybridization for the single cell analysis of identity and function

    Wei E. Huang;Kilian Stoecker;Robert Griffiths;Lyndsay Newbold

  • Comparison of Oxidation Kinetics of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria: Nitrite Availability as a Key Factor in Niche Differentiation

    Boris Nowka;Holger Daims;Eva Spieck

  • AmoA-Targeted Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers for the Specific Detection and Quantification of Comammox Nitrospira in the Environment.

    Petra Pjevac;Clemens Schauberger;Lianna Poghosyan;Craig W. Herbold

  • NxrB encoding the beta subunit of nitrite oxidoreductase as functional and phylogenetic marker for nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospira.

    Michael Pester;Frank Maixner;David Berry;Thomas Rattei

  • Thaumarchaeotes abundant in refinery nitrifying sludges express amoA but are not obligate autotrophic ammonia oxidizers

    Marc Mußmann;Ivana Brito;Angela Pitcher;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Wastewater treatment: a model system for microbial ecology

    Holger Daims;Michael W. Taylor;Michael Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Per Halkjær Nielsen
Per Halkjær Nielsen Aalborg University
Christian Obinger
Christian Obinger BOKU University
Paul G. Furtmüller
Paul G. Furtmüller BOKU University
Eric Pelletier
Eric Pelletier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alexander Loy
Alexander Loy University of Vienna
Thomas Rattei
Thomas Rattei University of Vienna
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jeppe Lund Nielsen
Jeppe Lund Nielsen Aalborg University
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

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