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D-Index
57
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24499
World Ranking
3518
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258

Otto Kandler publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otto Kandler sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 211 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Otto Kandler D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otto Kandler sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Otto Kandler was affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their academic career was connected primarily to this institution, where they contributed to scientific research and scholarship.

Details on recent papers, research topics, and fields of study related to Otto Kandler are not available. No records exist for frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, nor for the main topics of their work.

The absence of listed awards means there are no documented recognitions or honors associated with Otto Kandler in the provided data.

Otto Kandler is deceased. The profile reflects past contributions based on the available institutional affiliation and lack of other recorded academic metadata.

Best Publications

  • Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

    Carl R. Woese;Otto Kandler;Mark L. Wheelis

  • Peptidoglycan types of bacterial cell walls and their taxonomic implications.

    K H Schleifer;O Kandler

  • Carbohydrate metabolism in lactic acid bacteria.

    Otto Kandler

  • Mode of Action of Glycine on the Biosynthesis of Peptidoglycan

    W. Hammes;K. H. Schleifer;O. Kandler

  • Chemical composition of the peptidoglycan-free cell walls of methanogenic bacteria

    Otto Kandler;Helmut König

  • Cell wall polymers in Archaea (Archaebacteria).

    O. Kandler;H. König

  • Zur chemischen Zusammensetzung der Zellwand der Streptokokken

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer;Otto Kandler

  • Streptococcus garvieae sp. nov. and Streptococcus plantarum sp. nov.

    M. D. Collins;J. A. E. Farrow;B. A. Phillips;O. Kandler

  • Lack of peptidoglycan in the cell walls of Methanosarcina barkeri

    Otto Kandler;Hans Hippe

  • The sensitivity of archaebacteria to antibiotics

    R. Hilpert;J. Winter;W. Hammes;O. Kandler

  • Chemotaxonomic and Molecular-Genetic Studies of the Genus Thermus: Evidence for a Phylogenetic Relationship of Thermus aquaticus and Thermus ruber to the Genus Deinococcus

    Reinhard Hensel;Wilhelm Demharter;Otto Kandler;Reiner M. Kroppenstedt

  • CHAPTER 9 – Cell Envelopes of Archaebacteria

    Otto Kandler;Helmut König

  • On the nature of global classification

    Mark L. Wheelis;Otto Kandler;Carl R. Woese

  • Taxonomy of the Genus Cellulomonas, Based on Phenotypic Characters and Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Deoxyribonucleic Acid Homology, and Proposal of Seven Neotype Strains

    Erko Stackebrandt;Otto Kandler

  • Heterogeneity of the species Lactobacillus acidophilus (Moro) Hansen and Moquot as revealed by biochemical characteristics and DNA-DNA hybridisation.

    Eckhard Lauer;Christine Helming;Otto Kandler

  • Lactobacillus reuteri sp. nov., a New Species of Heterofermentative Lactobacilli

    Otto Kandler;Karl-Otto Stetter;Ruth Köhl

  • Lactobacillus lactis, Lactobacillus leichmannii and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Subjective Synonyms of Lactobacillus delbrueckii, and Description of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis comb. nov. and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus comb. nov.

    Norbert Weiss;Ulrich Schillinger;Otto Kandler

  • Zellwandstrukturen bei Methan-Bakterien

    O. Kandler

  • Lactobacillus kefir sp.nov., a component of the microflora of Kefir.

    Otto Kandler;Petra Kunath

  • Comparative studies of lactic acid dehydrogenases in lactic acid bacteria. I. Purification and kinetics of the allosteric L-lactic acid dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus casei ssp. casei and Lactobacillus curvatus.

    R. Hensel;U. Mayr;K. O. Stetter;O. Kandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl-Heinz Schleifer
Karl-Heinz Schleifer Technical University of Munich
Erwin Beck
Erwin Beck University of Bayreuth
Helmut König
Helmut König Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulrich Schillinger
Ulrich Schillinger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jean-Marie Ghuysen
Jean-Marie Ghuysen University of Liège
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter University of Regensburg
Erko Stackebrandt
Erko Stackebrandt Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Walter P. Hammes
Walter P. Hammes University of Hohenheim
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew D. Collins
Matthew D. Collins University of Reading

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