2026 Karl-Josef Dietz: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	102	1374	1234	87	81	376	36082

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Karl-Josef Dietz is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has a research portfolio primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple fields with a significant emphasis on agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist has authored various publications addressing several specialized topics. These include:

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Redox biology and oxidative stress
Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms
Click Chemistry and Applications
Sulfur Compounds in Biology
Heat shock proteins research

Dietz's publications also cover numerous subfields of study, notably:

Molecular Biology
Plant Science
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Materials Chemistry

Some of the key recent papers authored or co-authored by Dietz and colleagues include:

Drought and crop yield, 2021, Plant Biology
Shifting paradigms and novel players in Cys-based redox regulation and ROS signaling in plants - and where to go next, 2020, Biological Chemistry
Chemoselective umpolung of thiols to episulfoniums for cysteine bioconjugation, 2023, Nature Chemistry
Remodeling of Root Growth Under Combined Arsenic and Hypoxia Stress Is Linked to Nutrient Deprivation, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
Genome-wide analysis and transcriptional regulation of the typical and atypical thioredoxins in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2021, FEBS Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

Antioxidants
Journal of Experimental Botany
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Chemistry
Physiologia Plantarum

Dietz collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

Lara Vogelsang
Vijay Kumar
Iris Finkemeier
Anna Dreyer
Philipp Hartmann

Best Publications

The significance of amino acids and amino acid-derived molecules in plant responses and adaptation to heavy metal stress

Shanti S. Sharma;Karl-Josef Dietz

1539
Citations
The relationship between metal toxicity and cellular redox imbalance

Shanti S. Sharma;Karl-Josef Dietz

1240
Citations
Salicylic Acid Alleviates the Cadmium Toxicity in Barley Seedlings

Ashraf Metwally;Iris Finkemeier;Manfred Georgi;Karl Josef Dietz

1051
Citations
Salinity and crop yield

C. Zörb;C.-M. Geilfus;K.-J. Dietz

838
Citations
The Role of the Plant Antioxidant System in Drought Tolerance.

Miriam Laxa;Michael Liebthal;Wilena Telman;Kamel Chibani

631
Citations
Characterization of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria isolated from polluted soils and containing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase.

Andrei A. Belimov;Vera I. Safronova;Tatyana A. Sergeyeva;Tatyana N. Egorova

601
Citations
pTAC2, -6, and -12 Are Components of the Transcriptionally Active Plastid Chromosome That Are Required for Plastid Gene Expression

Jeannette Pfalz;Karsten Liere;Andrea Kandlbinder;Karl-Josef Dietz

557
Citations
Vacuolar compartmentalization as indispensable component of heavy metal detoxification in plants

Shanti S. Sharma;Karl-Josef Dietz;Tetsuro Mimura

553
Citations
Genotypic variation of the response to cadmium toxicity in Pisum sativum L.

Ashraf Metwally;Vera I. Safronova;Andrei A. Belimov;Karl-Josef Dietz

539
Citations
Free Radicals and Reactive Oxygen Species as Mediators of Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants

K.-J. Dietz;M. Baier;U. Krämer

536
Citations
The function of peroxiredoxins in plant organelle redox metabolism

Karl-Josef Dietz;Simone Jacob;Marie-Luise Oelze;Miriam Laxa

492
Citations
Redox- and Reactive Oxygen Species-Dependent Signaling into and out of the Photosynthesizing Chloroplast.

Karl Josef Dietz;Ismail Turkan;Anja Krieger-Liszkay

471
Citations
Significance of the V‐type ATPase for the adaptation to stressful growth conditions and its regulation on the molecular and biochemical level

Karl-Josef Dietz;N Tavakoli;C Kluge;T Mimura

448
Citations
Peroxiredoxins in plants and cyanobacteria.

Karl-Josef Dietz

412
Citations
S-Nitrosylation of Peroxiredoxin II E Promotes Peroxynitrite-Mediated Tyrosine Nitration

Maria C. Romero-Puertas;Miriam Laxa;Alessandro Mattè;Federica Zaninotto

397
Citations
AP2/EREBP transcription factors are part of gene regulatory networks and integrate metabolic, hormonal and environmental signals in stress acclimation and retrograde signalling.

Karl-Josef Dietz;Marc Oliver Vogel;Andrea Viehhauser

393
Citations
The plant-specific function of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin-mediated detoxification of peroxides in the redox-hierarchy of photosynthetic electron flux

Janine König;Margarete Baier;Frank Horling;Uwe Kahmann

337
Citations
Divergent light-, ascorbate-, and oxidative stress-dependent regulation of expression of the peroxiredoxin gene family in Arabidopsis.

Frank Horling;Petra Lamkemeyer;Janine König;Iris Finkemeier

334
Citations
The plant 2-Cys peroxiredoxin BAS1 is a nuclear-encoded chloroplast protein: its expressional regulation, phylogenetic origin, and implications for its specific physiological function in plants

Margarete Baier;Karl-Josef Dietz

334
Citations
Chloroplasts as source and target of cellular redox regulation: a discussion on chloroplast redox signals in the context of plant physiology.

Margarete Baier;Karl Josef Dietz

321
Citations