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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
20783
World Ranking
5569
National Ranking
403

Marcus A. Koch publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 250 publications — 67th percentile

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

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

Marcus A. Koch 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 Marcus A. Koch sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Marcus A. Koch is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers main topics such as Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Fern and Epiphyte Biology.

Recent publications by Marcus A. Koch include:

  • Nested whole-genome duplications coincide with diversification and high morphological disparity in Brassicaceae, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global Brassicaceae phylogeny based on filtering of 1,000-gene dataset, 2023, Current Biology
  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Parallel reduction in flowering time from de novo mutations enable evolutionary rescue in colonizing lineages, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Comparison of glucosinolate diversity in the crucifer tribe Cardamineae and the remaining order Brassicales highlights repetitive evolutionary loss and gain of biosynthetic steps, 2021, Phytochemistry

Frequent coauthors in Marcus A. Koch's research include:

  • Christiane Kiefer
  • Martin A. Lysák
  • Nora Walden
  • Dmitry A. German
  • Klaus Mummenhoff

Marcus A. Koch has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Plant Systematics and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Botany
  • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Best Publications

  • Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of Chalcone Synthase and Alcohol Dehydrogenase Loci in Arabidopsis, Arabis, and Related Genera (Brassicaceae)

    Marcus A. Koch;Bernhard Haubold;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Chromosome triplication found across the tribe Brassiceae

    Martin A. Lysak;Marcus A. Koch;Ales Pecinka;Ingo Schubert

  • Charting biologically relevant chemical space: A structural classification of natural products (SCONP)

    Marcus A. Koch;Ansgar Schuffenhauer;Michael Scheck;Stefan Wetzel

  • Molecular systematics of the Brassicaceae: evidence from coding plastidic matK and nuclear Chs sequences

    Marcus Koch;Bernhard Haubold;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Cabbage family affairs: the evolutionary history of Brassicaceae

    Andreas Franzke;Martin A. Lysak;Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz;Marcus A. Koch

  • Toward a Global Phylogeny of the Brassicaceae

    C. Donovan Bailey;Marcus A. Koch;Michael Mayer;Klaus Mummenhoff

  • The scaffold tree--visualization of the scaffold universe by hierarchical scaffold classification.

    Ansgar Schuffenhauer;Peter Ertl;Silvio Roggo;Stefan Wetzel

  • Molecular phylogenetics, temporal diversification, and principles of evolution in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).

    Thomas L. P. Couvreur;Andreas Franzke;Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz;Freek T. Bakker

  • Keeping Cell Identity in Arabidopsis Requires PRC1 RING-Finger Homologs that Catalyze H2A Monoubiquitination

    Fabian Bratzel;Gema López-Torrejón;Marcus Koch;Juan C. Del Pozo

  • Multiple hybrid formation in natural populations: Concerted evolution of the internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS) in north American Arabis divaricarpa (Brassicaceae)

    Marcus A. Koch;Christoph Dobeš;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Resolution of Brassicaceae Phylogeny Using Nuclear Genes Uncovers Nested Radiations and Supports Convergent Morphological Evolution

    Chien Hsun Huang;Renran Sun;Yi Hu;Liping Zeng

  • A Time-Calibrated Road Map of Brassicaceae Species Radiation and Evolutionary History

    Nora Hohmann;Eva M. Wolf;Martin A. Lysak;Marcus A. Koch

  • Molecular systematics and evolution of Arabidopsis and Arabis

    M. Koch;J. Bishop;T. Mitchell-Olds

  • Genetic consequences of Pleistocene range shifts: contrast between the Arctic, the Alps and the East African mountains

    Dorothee Ehrich;Myriam Gaudeul;Adane Assefa;Adane Assefa;Marcus A. Koch

  • Compound library development guided by protein structure similarity clustering and natural product structure

    Marcus A. Koch;Lars-Oliver Wittenberg;Sudipta Basu;Duraiswamy A. Jeyaraj

  • Phylogeography of a living fossil: pleistocene glaciations forced Ginkgo biloba L. (Ginkgoaceae) into two refuge areas in China with limited subsequent postglacial expansion.

    Wei Gong;Chuan Chen;Christoph Dobeš;Cheng-Xin Fu

  • Three times out of Asia Minor: the phylogeography of Arabis alpina L. (Brassicaceae).

    Marcus A. Koch;Christiane Kiefer;Dorothee Ehrich;Johannes Vogel

  • Closing the gaps: phylogenetic relationships in the Brassicaceae based on DNA sequence data of nuclear ribosomal ITS region

    Suzanne I. Warwick;Klaus Mummenhoff;Connie A. Sauder;Marcus A. Koch

  • Poorly known relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Maria J. Clauss;Marcus A. Koch

  • Molecular Systematics, Evolution, and Population Biology in the Mustard Family (Brassicaceae)

    Marcus Koch;Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz;Klaus Mummenhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Mummenhoff
Klaus Mummenhoff Osnabrück University
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Missouri Botanical Garden
Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann Max Planck Society
Markus Kiefer
Markus Kiefer University of Ulm
Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Thomas Mitchell-Olds Duke University
Martin A. Lysak
Martin A. Lysak Masaryk University
Karol Marhold
Karol Marhold Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dietmar Quandt
Dietmar Quandt University of Bonn
Patrick P. Edger
Patrick P. Edger Michigan State University
J. Chris Pires
J. Chris Pires Colorado State University

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