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72
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2088
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Thomas Rattei publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

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

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 182 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Thomas Rattei D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Rattei is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and is active in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Insect Science, and Genetics. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics including Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing.

Recent publications by Thomas Rattei include:

  • "Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies," 2023, Nature
  • "eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms," 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Cytoscape stringApp 2.0: Analysis and Visualization of Heterogeneous Biological Networks," 2022, Journal of Proteome Research
  • "Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling," 2021, The ISME Journal
  • "Sulfoquinovose is a select nutrient of prominent bacteria and a source of hydrogen sulfide in the human gut," 2021, The ISME Journal

Thomas Rattei frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Alexander Loy, Matthias Horn, Michael Predl, Craig W. Herbold, and Pere Gelabert.

Their work is often published in journals and venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses.

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Davide Heller;Ana Hernández-Plaza

  • Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

    Holger Daims;Elena V. Lebedeva;Petra Pjevac;Ping Han

  • 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

  • eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk;Kristoffer Forslund;Helen Cook

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

    Marc Strous;Eric Pelletier;Sophie Mangenot;Thomas Rattei

  • Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation - A benchmark of metagenomics software

    Alexander Sczyrba;Peter Hofmann;Peter Hofmann;Peter Belmann;David Koslicki

  • A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

    Sebastian Lücker;Michael Wagner;Frank Maixner;Eric Pelletier

  • The dynamic genome of Hydra

    Jarrod A. Chapman;Ewen F. Kirkness;Oleg Simakov;Oleg Simakov;Steven E. Hampson

  • Gepard: a rapid and sensitive tool for creating dotplots on genome scale.

    Jan Krumsiek;Roland Arnold;Thomas Rattei

  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

    Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

  • eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

    Sean Powell;Kristoffer Forslund;Damian Szklarczyk;Kalliopi Trachana

  • eggNOG v3.0: orthologous groups covering 1133 organisms at 41 different taxonomic ranges

    Sean Powell;Damian Szklarczyk;Kalliopi Trachana;Alexander Roth

  • amoA-based consensus phylogeny of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions.

    Michael Pester;Thomas Rattei;Stefan Flechl;Alexander Gröngröft

  • Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota.

    Anja Spang;Roland Hatzenpichler;Céline Brochier-Armanet;Thomas Rattei;Thomas Rattei

  • Illuminating the Evolutionary History of Chlamydiae

    Matthias Horn;Astrid Collingro;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Cora L. Beier

  • Deep sequencing reveals exceptional diversity and modes of transmission for bacterial sponge symbionts.

    Nicole S. Webster;Michael W. Taylor;Faris Behnam;Sebastian Lücker

  • The Prevotella copri Complex Comprises Four Distinct Clades Underrepresented in Westernized Populations

    Adrian Tett;Kun D. Huang;Francesco Asnicar;Hannah Fehlner-Peach

  • MIPS: analysis and annotation of proteins from whole genomes in 2005.

    Hans-Werner Mewes;Dmitrij Frishman;Klaus F. X. Mayer;Martin Münsterkötter

  • Phylogenetic and environmental diversity of DsrAB-type dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductases

    Albert Leopold Müller;Kasper Urup Kjeldsen;Thomas Rattei;Michael Pester

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Horn
Matthias Horn University of Vienna
Alexander Loy
Alexander Loy University of Vienna
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland
Hans-Werner Mewes
Hans-Werner Mewes Technical University of Munich
Dmitrij Frishman
Dmitrij Frishman Technical University of Munich
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Roger Stephan
Roger Stephan University of Zurich
Natalia Ivanova
Natalia Ivanova Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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