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Thomas Friedl 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 Thomas Friedl sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 144 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Friedl 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 Thomas Friedl sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Friedl is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily centers around Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology and related subfields.

Their work covers several specialized areas including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Friedl has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several academic venues. The primary journals include:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • BMC Plant Biology
  • MicrobiologyOpen
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Key recent papers by Thomas Friedl include:

  • Unrecognized diversity and distribution of soil algae from Maritime Antarctica (Fildes Peninsula, King George Island), 2023, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Testing for terrestrial and freshwater microalgae productivity under elevated CO2 conditions and nutrient limitation, 2023, BMC Plant Biology
  • An improved method for intracellular DNA (iDNA) recovery from terrestrial environments, 2023, MicrobiologyOpen
  • Simulation-based evaluation of an energy oriented production planning system, 2020, Procedia CIRP
  • The Long chain Diol Index: A marine palaeotemperature proxy based on eustigmatophyte lipids that records the warmest seasons, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The collaborative nature of their research is evident through frequent co-authorship with several scientists, including:

  • Nataliya Rybalka
  • Dirk Wagner
  • Lars Ganzert
  • Rómulo Oses
  • Maike Lorenz

Best Publications

  • Fatty acid profiles and their distribution patterns in microalgae: a comprehensive analysis of more than 2000 strains from the SAG culture collection

    Imke Lang;Ladislav Hodac;Thomas Friedl;Ivo Feussner

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands, Being Restricted by Rainfall Frequency

    Burkhard Büdel;Tatyana Darienko;Kirstin Deutschewitz;Stephanie Dojani

  • Phylogenetic Relationships of Scenedesmus and Scenedesmus-like Coccoid Green Algae as Inferred from ITS-2 rDNA Sequence Comparisons

    S. S. An;T. Friedl;E. Hegewald

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

    Bastian Steudel;Bastian Steudel;Andy Hector;Thomas Friedl;Christian Löfke

  • INFERRING TAXONOMIC POSITIONS AND TESTING GENUS LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS IN COCCOID GREEN LICHEN ALGAE: A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF 18S RIBOSOMAL RNA SEQUENCES FROM DICTYOCHLOROPSIS RETICULATA AND FROM MEMBERS OF THE GENUS MYRMECIA (CHLOROPHYTA, TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE CL. NOV.)1

    Thomas Friedl

  • Mycosporine-like amino acids and phylogenies in green algae : Prasiola and its relatives from the trebouxiophyceae (Chlorophyta)

    Ulf Karsten;Thomas Friedl;Rhena Schumann;Kirsten Hoyer

  • REPRODUCTIVE COMPATIBILITY AND rDNA SEQUENCE ANALYSES IN THE SELLAPHORA PUPULA SPECIES COMPLEX (BACILLARIOPHYTA) 1

    Anke Behnke;Thomas Friedl;Victor A. Chepurnov;David G. Mann

  • Identification of photobionts from the lichen family Physciaceae using algal-specific ITS rDNA sequencing

    Gert Helms;Thomas Friedl;Gerhard Rambold;Helmut Mayrhofer

  • COLEOFASCICULUS GEN. NOV. (CYANOBACTERIA): MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR CRITERIA FOR REVISION OF THE GENUS MICROCOLEUS GOMONT(1).

    Maria A. Siegesmund;Jeffrey R. Johansen;Ulf Karsten;Thomas Friedl

  • Selectivity of photobiont choice in a defined lichen community: inferences from cultural and molecular studies

    Andreas Beck;T. Friedl;Gerhard Rambold

  • Chloroidium, a common terrestrial coccoid green alga previously assigned to Chlorella (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)

    Tatyana Darienko;Lydia Gustavs;Opayi Mudimu;Cecilia Rad Menendez

  • Nuclear-encoded rDNA group I introns: origin and phylogenetic relationships of insertion site lineages in the green algae.

    D Bhattacharya;T Friedl;S Damberger

  • Revisiting photobiont diversity in the lichen family Verrucariaceae (Ascomycota)

    Holger Thüs;Lucia Muggia;Sergio Pérez-Ortega;Sergio E. Favero-Longo

  • Genetic Diversity of Algal and Fungal Partners in Four Species of Umbilicaria (Lichenized Ascomycetes) Along a Transect of the Antarctic Peninsula

    J. Romeike;T. Friedl;G. Helms;Sieglinde Ott

  • The evolution of the Green Algae

    Thomas Friedl

  • Cyanobacteria and Algae of Biological Soil Crusts

    Burkhard Büdel;Tamara Dulić;Tatyana Darienko;Nataliya Rybalka

  • Thallus development and phycobionts of the parasitic lichen Diploschistes muscorum

    T. Friedl

  • Photobionts in Lichens: Possible Indicators of Phylogenetic Relationships?

    Gerhard Rambold;Thomas Friedl;Andreas Beck

  • Evolution of the polyphyletic genus Pleurastrum (Chlorophyta): inferences from nuclear-encoded ribosomal DNA sequences and motile cell ultrastructure

    Thomas Friedl

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ulf Karsten
Ulf Karsten University of Rostock
Burkhard Büdel
Burkhard Büdel Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
Josef Elster
Josef Elster University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Lorenz Schwark
Lorenz Schwark Curtin University
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Keith Harding
Keith Harding Cardiff University
Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society

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