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Thijs J. G. Ettema publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thijs J. G. Ettema sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 137 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thijs J. G. Ettema 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 Thijs J. G. Ettema sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thijs J. G. Ettema is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work spans subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, and Parasitology.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Thijs J. G. Ettema has contributed to numerous publications in various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • The ISME Journal

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Ettema are:

  • Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes, 2023, Nature
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Single cell genomics reveals plastid-lacking Picozoa are close relatives of red algae, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Asgard archaea shed light on the evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic ubiquitin-ESCRT machinery, 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel Tamarit
  • Stephan Köstlbacher
  • Courtney W. Stairs
  • Max Emil Schön
  • Brett J. Baker

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

    Anja Spang;Jimmy H. Saw;Steffen L. Jørgensen;Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka

  • Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

    Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka;Eva Fernández Cáceres;Jimmy Hser Wah Saw;Disa Bäckström

  • Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

    Laura Eme;Anja Spang;Jonathan Lombard;Courtney W. Stairs

  • Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority.

    William H Lewis;Guillaume Tahon;Patricia Geesink;Diana Z Sousa

  • The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

    Lionel Guy;Thijs J.G. Ettema

  • A unique cell division machinery in the Archaea

    Ann Christin Lindås;Erik A. Karlsson;Maria T. Lindgren;Thijs J.G. Ettema

  • Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria

    Joran Martijn;Julian Vosseberg;Julian Vosseberg;Lionel Guy;Pierre Offre;Pierre Offre

  • The Lrp family of transcriptional regulators

    Arie B. Brinkman;Thijs J. G. Ettema;Willem M. De Vos;John Van Der Oost

  • Genomic exploration of the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the archaeal domain of life

    Anja Spang;Eva F. Caceres;Thijs J. G. Ettema

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

    Brett J. Baker;Jimmy H. Saw;Anders E. Lind;Cassandre Sara Lazar

  • Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life

    Tom A. Williams;Gergely J. Szollosi;Anja Spang;Peter G. Foster

  • Reconstructing the evolution of the mitochondrial ribosomal proteome

    Paulien Smits;Jan A. M. Smeitink;Lambert P. van den Heuvel;Martijn A. Huynen

  • Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment

    Piotr Starnawski;Thomas Bataillon;Thijs J. G. Ettema;Lara M. Jochum

  • Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

    Kiley W. Seitz;Nina Dombrowski;Laura Eme;Laura Eme;Anja Spang

  • TEFM (c17orf42) is necessary for transcription of human mtDNA

    Michal Minczuk;Jiuya He;Anna M. Duch;Thijs J. Ettema

  • An actin-based cytoskeleton in archaea

    Thijs J.G. Ettema;Ann Christin Lindås;Rolf Bernander

  • The semi-phosphorylative Entner-Doudoroff pathway in hyperthermophilic archaea: a re-evaluation

    Hatim Ahmed;Thijs J. G. Ettema;Britta Tjaden;Ans C. M. Geerling

  • Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism

    Anja Spang;Anja Spang;Courtney W. Stairs;Nina Dombrowski;Nina Dombrowski;Laura Eme

  • Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

    Brett J. Baker;Jimmy H. Saw;Anders E. Lind;Cassandre Sara Lazar

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett J. Baker
Brett J. Baker The University of Texas at Austin
John van der Oost
John van der Oost Wageningen University & Research
Martijn A. Huynen
Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center
Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm Aarhus University
Siv G. E. Andersson
Siv G. E. Andersson Uppsala University
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Staffan G. Svärd
Staffan G. Svärd Uppsala University
Jarone Pinhassi
Jarone Pinhassi Linnaeus University
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Willem M. de Vos
Willem M. de Vos Wageningen University & Research

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