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14318
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2927
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155

Thorsten Stoeck publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thorsten Stoeck sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 198 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Thorsten Stoeck D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thorsten Stoeck sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thorsten Stoeck is affiliated with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, focusing especially on microbial communities and molecular biology.

Their recent publications highlight contributions to environmental genomics and biomonitoring techniques. Some key papers include:

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: A review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring, 2020, Water Research
  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Supervised machine learning is superior to indicator value inference in monitoring the environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture using eDNA metabarcodes, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Robustness, sensitivity and reproducibility of eDNA metabarcoding as an environmental biomonitoring tool in coastal salmon aquaculture - An inter-laboratory study, 2020, Ecological Indicators

Frequent collaborators with whom Thorsten Stoeck has co-authored multiple papers include:

  • Thomas A. Wilding
  • Larissa Frühe
  • Verena Dully
  • Sabine Filker
  • Tristan Cordier

Their work is often published in journals and venues such as:

  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators

Thorsten Stoeck's main fields of study cover:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, subfields and topics of focus include:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

    Thorsten Stoeck;David Bass;Markus Nebel;Richard Christen

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • Novel eukaryotic lineages inferred from small-subunit rRNA analyses of oxygen-depleted marine environments.

    Thorsten Stoeck;Slava Epstein

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso-Sáez;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

  • Novel Eukaryotes from the Permanently Anoxic Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea)

    Thorsten Stoeck;Gordon T. Taylor;Slava S. Epstein

  • Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities.

    Thorsten Stoeck;Anke Behnke;Richard Christen;Linda A. Amaral-Zettler

  • Depicting more accurate pictures of protistan community complexity using pyrosequencing of hypervariable SSU rRNA gene regions.

    Anke Behnke;Matthias Engel;Richard Christen;Markus Nebel

  • A Multiple PCR-primer Approach to Access the Microeukaryotic Diversity in Environmental Samples

    Thorsten Stoeck;Brett Hayward;Gordon T. Taylor;Ramon Varela

  • Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring

    M. Sagova-Mareckova;J. Boenigk;A. Bouchez;K. Cermakova

  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods.

    J. Pawlowski;J. Pawlowski;K. Bruce;K. Panksep;K. Panksep;F.I. Aguirre

  • Embracing Environmental Genomics and Machine Learning for Routine Biomonitoring.

    Tristan Cordier;Anders Lanzén;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil;Thorsten Stoeck

  • Microbial eukaryotes in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante deep‐sea basin

    Eva Alexander;Alexandra Stock;Hans-Werner Breiner;Anke Behnke

  • Microeukaryote Community Patterns along an O2/H2S Gradient in a Supersulfidic Anoxic Fjord (Framvaren, Norway)

    Anke Behnke;John Bunge;Kathryn Barger;Hans-Werner Breiner

  • Supervised machine learning outperforms taxonomy-based environmental DNA metabarcoding applied to biomonitoring.

    Tristan Cordier;Dominik Forster;Yoann Dufresne;Yoann Dufresne;Catarina I. M. Martins

  • Fungal diversity in oxygen-depleted regions of the Arabian Sea revealed by targeted environmental sequencing combined with cultivation.

    Cathrine S. Jebaraj;Cathrine S. Jebaraj;Chandralata Raghukumar;Anke Behnke;Thorsten Stoeck

  • Comparing the hyper-variable V4 and V9 regions of the small subunit rDNA for assessment of ciliate environmental diversity.

    Micah Dunthorn;Julia Klier;John Bunge;Thorsten Stoeck

  • A Molecular Approach to Identify Active Microbes in Environmental Eukaryote Clone Libraries

    Thorsten Stoeck;Alexandra Zuendorf;Hans-Werner Breiner;Anke Behnke

  • Ecosystems Monitoring Powered by Environmental Genomics: A Review of Current Strategies with An Implementation Roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso Sáez;Laure Apotheloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Wilhelm Foissner
Wilhelm Foissner University of Salzburg
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Weibo Song
Weibo Song Ocean University of China
Slava S. Epstein
Slava S. Epstein Northeastern University
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Michail M. Yakimov
Michail M. Yakimov National Research Council (CNR)
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University

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