What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Bacteria
- Oxygen
- Organic chemistry
His main research concerns Biomineralization, Carbonate, Cyanobacteria, Aragonite and Botany.
His Biomineralization research incorporates elements of Extracellular, Bacteria, Mineralization and Polysaccharide.
The concepts of his Carbonate study are interwoven with issues in Calcium, Sedimentary rock, Graphite, Earth and Carbon.
In most of his Cyanobacteria studies, his work intersects topics such as Ecology.
His work deals with themes such as Crystallography and Geologic record, which intersect with Aragonite.
The Botany study combines topics in areas such as Microbial mat, Lineage, Firmicutes and Actinobacteria.
His most cited work include:
- Soft X-ray Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the Molecular Environmental Science Beamline at the Advanced Light Source (236 citations)
- Iron biomineralization by anaerobic neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria (214 citations)
- Precipitation of amorphous CaCO3 (aragonite-like) by cyanobacteria: A STXM study of the influence of EPS on the nucleation process (173 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Karim Benzerara mainly investigates Mineralogy, Biomineralization, Geochemistry, Cyanobacteria and Carbonate.
His Mineralogy research incorporates themes from Organic matter, Mineral, Meteorite, Transmission electron microscopy and Quartz.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Calcium, Magnetotactic bacteria, Iron bacteria, Bacteria and Biophysics.
He has researched Cyanobacteria in several fields, including Ecology, Botany, Gammaproteobacteria, Stromatolite and Intracellular.
His Botany study incorporates themes from Firmicutes and Actinobacteria.
His Carbonate study focuses on Aragonite in particular.
He most often published in these fields:
- Mineralogy (20.74%)
- Biomineralization (20.21%)
- Geochemistry (16.49%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?
- Cyanobacteria (14.36%)
- Environmental chemistry (9.04%)
- Biomineralization (20.21%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Cyanobacteria, Environmental chemistry, Biomineralization, Intracellular and Carbonate are his primary areas of study.
Karim Benzerara has included themes like Radium, Phylogenetics and Botany in his Cyanobacteria study.
His study in Biomineralization is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Magnetotactic bacteria and Magnetosome.
His Intracellular research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Extracellular and Biophysics.
His Biophysics research includes themes of Alphaproteobacteria and Amorphous calcium carbonate.
He combines topics linked to Geochemistry with his work on Carbonate.
Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids (130 citations)
- Ectosymbiotic bacteria at the origin of magnetoreception in a marine protist (28 citations)
- Magnetotactic bacteria as a new model for P sequestration in the ferruginous Lake Pavin (25 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Bacteria
- Oxygen
- Organic chemistry
His scientific interests lie mostly in Cyanobacteria, Biomineralization, Carbonate, Phylogenetics and Bacteria.
His Cyanobacteria research integrates issues from Phototroph, Symbiogenesis and Botany.
His research in Botany intersects with topics in Endosymbiosis, Archaeplastida, Chloroplast, Plastid and Lineage.
His Biomineralization research includes elements of Extracellular, Biophysics and Intracellular.
His studies in Carbonate integrate themes in fields like Alkalinity, Dolomite and Calcite.
His Bacteria study combines topics in areas such as In silico, Gene, Recombinant DNA, Escherichia coli and Phosphatase.
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