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Rüdiger Pukall

Rüdiger Pukall

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
11359
World Ranking
17042
National Ranking
1176

Rüdiger Pukall publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 140 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rüdiger Pukall 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 Rüdiger Pukall sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Rüdiger Pukall is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses various subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Biotechnology, Epidemiology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to microbial genomics and physiology, specifically:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Expanding the genomic encyclopedia of Actinobacteria with 824 isolate reference genomes, 2022, published in Cell Genomics
  • Reclassification of Haloactinobacterium glacieicola as Occultella glacieicola gen. nov., comb. nov., of Haloactinobacterium album as Ruania alba comb. nov, with an emended description of the genus Ruania, recognition that the genus names Haloactinobacterium and Ruania are heterotypic synonyms and description of Occultella aeris sp. nov., a halotolerant isolate from surface soil sampled at an ancient copper smelter, 2021, published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Description of Chloramphenicol Resistant Kineococcus rubinsiae sp. nov. Isolated From a Spacecraft Assembly Facility, 2020, published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets, 2024, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Phylogenetic characterization of Bifidobacterium kimbladii sp. nov., a novel species from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera, 2025, published in Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Rüdiger Pukall has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Meina Neumann-Schaal
  • R. Seshadri
  • Tanja Woyke
  • L.C. Reimer
  • T. B. K. Reddy

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Cell Genomics
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea.

    Dongying Wu;Dongying Wu;Philip Hugenholtz;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia.

    Wen-Jun Li;Ping Xu;Peter Schumann;Yu-Qin Zhang;Yu-Qin Zhang

  • Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria

    Imen Nouioui;Lorena Carro;Marina García-López;Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff

  • The Mouse Intestinal Bacterial Collection (miBC) provides host-specific insight into cultured diversity and functional potential of the gut microbiota

    Ilias Lagkouvardos;Rüdiger Pukall;Birte Abt;Bärbel U. Foesel

  • Genome-guided design of a defined mouse microbiota that confers colonization resistance against Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Sandrine Brugiroux;Markus Beutler;Carina Pfann;Debora Garzetti

  • Detection and characterization of broad-host-range plasmids in environmental bacteria by PCR.

    A Götz;R Pukall;E Smit;E Tietze

  • Relationship of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens clades associated with strains DSM 7T and FZB42T: a proposal for Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. amyloliquefaciens subsp. nov. and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum subsp. nov. based on complete genome sequence comparisons.

    Rainer Borriss;Xiao-Hua Chen;Christian Rueckert;Jochen Blom

  • Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera.

    Torben Martens;Thorsten Heidorn;Rüdiger Pukall;Meinhard Simon

  • The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Britta Ballhausen;Martine Berger;Thorsten Brinkhoff

  • Microbial community dynamics in Mediterranean nutrient-enriched seawater mesocosms: changes in the genetic diversity of bacterial populations.

    Hendrik Schäfer;Laetitia Bernard;Claude Courties;Philippe Lebaron

  • Discovery of complex mixtures of novel long-chain quorum sensing signals in free-living and host-associated marine alphaproteobacteria.

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Verena Thiel;Leo Eberl;Martin Allgaier

  • Dinoroseobacter shibae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new aerobic phototrophic bacterium isolated from dinoflagellates.

    Hanno Biebl;Martin Allgaier;Brian J. Tindall;Michal Koblizek

  • Arylomycins A and B, new biaryl-bridged lipopeptide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces sp. Tü 6075. I. Taxonomy, fermentation, isolation and biological activities.

    Judith Schimana;Klaus Gebhardt;Alexandra Höltzel;Dietmar G. Schmid

  • Sulfitobacter mediterraneus sp. nov., a new sulfite-oxidizing member of the α-Proteobacteria

    Pukall R;Buntefuss D;Frühling A;Rohde M

  • Toxin-producing ability among Bacillus spp. Outside the Bacillus cereus group

    Cecilie From;Rudiger Pukall;Peter Schumann;Víctor Hormazábal

  • Description of Labrenzia alexandrii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll a, and a proposal for reclassification of Stappia aggregata as Labrenzia aggregata comb. nov., of Stappia marina as Labrenzia marina comb. nov. and of Stappia alba as Labrenzia alba comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Pannonibacter, Stappia and Roseibium, and of the species Roseibium denhamense and Roseibium hamelinense.

    Hanno Biebl;Rüdiger Pukall;Heinrich Lünsdorf;Stefan Schulz

  • Secondary metabolites of Flustra foliacea and their influence on bacteria.

    Lars Peters;Gabriele M. König;Anthony D. Wright;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Salinicoccus kunmingensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt mine in Yunnan, south-west China.

    Yi-Guang Chen;Xiao-Long Cui;Rüdiger Pukall;Hui-Ming Li

  • Terpenoids are Widespread in Actinomycetes: A Correlation of Secondary Metabolism and Genome Data

    Christian A. Citron;Julia Gleitzmann;Gianfranco Laurenzano;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Complete genome sequence of Kytococcus sedentarius type strain (541T)

    David Sims;Thomas Brettin;Thomas Brettin;John C. Detter;Cliff Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cliff Han
Cliff Han Los Alamos National Laboratory
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
John C. Detter
John C. Detter Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Bruce
David Bruce Pebble Labs
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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