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D-Index
79
Citations
18720
World Ranking
1237
National Ranking
80

Siegfried Scherer 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 Siegfried Scherer sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 258 publications — 67th percentile

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

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

Siegfried Scherer 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 Siegfried Scherer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Siegfried Scherer is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 48 publications. Within this broad discipline, key subfields include Molecular Biology, Ecology, Food Science, Genetics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
  • Gut microbiota and health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scherer include Mareike Wenning, Klaus Neuhaus, Zachary Ardern, Etienne V. Doll, and Christopher Huptas.

Publications by Scherer have appeared predominantly in venues such as the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.

Recent scientific papers authored by Scherer include:

  • "Are Antisense Proteins in Prokaryotes Functional?" (2020), published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • "Complementary Use of Cultivation and High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing Reveals High Biodiversity Within Raw Milk Microbiota" (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Simultaneous quantification of the most common and proteolytic Pseudomonas species in raw milk by multiplex qPCR" (2021), published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "A Strong Synergy Between the Thiopeptide Bacteriocin Micrococcin P1 and Rifampicin Against MRSA in a Murine Skin Infection Model" (2021), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Genetic Organization of the aprX-lipA2 Operon Affects the Proteolytic Potential of Pseudomonas Species in Milk" (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Bacillus weihenstephanensis sp. nov. is a new psychrotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus group.

    S. Lechner;R. Mayr;K. P. Francis;B. M. Prüss

  • C-terminal domains of Listeria monocytogenes bacteriophage murein hydrolases determine specific recognition and high-affinity binding to bacterial cell wall carbohydrates

    Martin J. Loessner;Karl Kramer;Frank Ebel;Siegfried Scherer

  • Bacillus cereus, the causative agent of an emetic type of food-borne illness.

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Martina Fricker;Siegfried Scherer

  • UV-B-induced synthesis of photoprotective pigments and extracellular polysaccharides in the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune.

    M Ehling-Schulz;W Bilger;S Scherer

  • Emetic toxin formation of Bacillus cereus is restricted to a single evolutionary lineage of closely related strains

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Birgitta Svensson;Marie-Helene Guinebretiere;Toril Lindbäck

  • Identification and Partial Characterization of the Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Responsible for Cereulide Production in Emetic Bacillus cereus

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Natasa Vukov;Anja Schulz;Ranad Shaheen

  • Diagnostic real-time PCR assays for the detection of emetic Bacillus cereus strains in foods and recent food-borne outbreaks.

    Martina Fricker;Ute Messelhäußer;Ulrich Busch;Siegfried Scherer

  • High incidence of Listeria monocytogenes in European red smear cheese.

    Melanie Rudolf;Siegfried Scherer

  • Heterogeneous endolysins in Listeria monocytogenes bacteriophages: a new class of enzymes and evidence for conserved holin genes within the siphoviral lysis cassettes

    Martin J. Loessner;Günther Wendlinger;Siegfried Scherer

  • Construction of luciferase reporter bacteriophage A511::luxAB for rapid and sensitive detection of viable Listeria cells.

    M. J. Loessner;C. E. D. Rees;G. S. A. B. Stewart;S. Scherer

  • Rapid and reliable identification of food-borne yeasts by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.

    Michael Kümmerle;Siegfried Scherer;Herbert Seiler

  • Cereulide synthetase gene cluster from emetic Bacillus cereus : Structure and location on a mega virulence plasmid related to Bacillus anthracis toxin plasmid pXO1

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Martina Fricker;Harald Grallert;Petra Rieck

  • The hemolytic enterotoxin HBL is broadly distributed among species of the Bacillus cereus group.

    Birgit M. Prüß;Richard Dietrich;Birgit Nibler;Erwin Märtlbauer

  • Identification of emetic toxin producing Bacillus cereus strains by a novel molecular assay

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Martina Fricker;Siegfried Scherer

  • UV PROTECTION IN CYANOBACTERIA

    Monika Ehling-Schulz;Siegfried Scherer

  • Biodiversity of refrigerated raw milk microbiota and their enzymatic spoilage potential.

    Mario von Neubeck;Claudia Baur;Manuel Krewinkel;Marina Stoeckel

  • Isolation and characterization of Linocin M18, a bacteriocin produced by Brevibacterium linens

    N Valdés-Stauber;S Scherer

  • Rewetting of drought-resistant blue-green algae: Time course of water uptake and reappearance of respiration, photosynthesis, and nitrogen fixation

    Siegfried Scherer;Anneliese Ernst;Ting-Wei Chen;Peter Böger

  • Do photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport chains share redox proteins

    Siegfried Scherer

  • Structure of a Novel Oligosaccharide-Mycosporine-Amino Acid Ultraviolet A/B Sunscreen Pigment from the Terrestrial Cyanobacterium Nostoc commune

    Günter A. Böhm;Wolfgang Pfleiderer;Peter Böger;Siegfried Scherer

  • Fourier-Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy, a Novel and Rapid Tool for Identification of Yeasts

    Mareike Wenning;Herbert Seiler;Siegfried Scherer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Böger
Peter Böger University of Konstanz
Monika Ehling-Schulz
Monika Ehling-Schulz University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Jörg Hinrichs
Jörg Hinrichs University of Hohenheim
Daniel A. Keim
Daniel A. Keim University of Konstanz
Thomas Hofmann
Thomas Hofmann Technical University of Munich
Jean Swings
Jean Swings Ghent University
Marc Vancanneyt
Marc Vancanneyt Ghent University
Hans-Jürgen Busse
Hans-Jürgen Busse University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Felix von Stetten
Felix von Stetten University of Freiburg

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