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Tillmann Lueders

Tillmann Lueders

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12696
World Ranking
13756
National Ranking
979

Tillmann Lueders 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 Tillmann Lueders sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 109 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tillmann Lueders 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 Tillmann Lueders sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tillmann Lueders is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Pollution, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work covers a variety of topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Biodegradable microplastic increases CO2 emission and alters microbial biomass and bacterial community composition in different soil types (2022), Applied Soil Ecology
  • Methodological Advances to Study Contaminant Biotransformation: New Prospects for Understanding and Reducing Environmental Persistence? (2021), ACS ES&T Water
  • Structural Diversity in Early-Stage Biofilm Formation on Microplastics Depends on Environmental Medium and Polymer Properties (2020), Water
  • A novel Methylomirabilota methanotroph potentially couples methane oxidation to iodate reduction (2022), mLife
  • Nitrate Removal by a Novel Lithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing, Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Pyrite-Rich Limestone Aquifer (2021), Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Dheeraj Kanaparthi
  • Andreas Klingl
  • Johanna Pausch
  • Marko Lampe
  • Baoli Zhu

Publication venues in which Tillmann Lueders has frequently contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Best Publications

  • Microbial biodiversity in groundwater ecosystems

    C. Griebler;T. Lueders

  • Enhanced sensitivity of DNA‐ and rRNA‐based stable isotope probing by fractionation and quantitative analysis of isopycnic centrifugation gradients

    Tillmann Lueders;Mike Manefield;Michael W. Friedrich

  • DNA stable-isotope probing

    Andrew S Whiteley;Bruce Thomson;Tillmann Lueders;Mike Manefield

  • Anaerobic Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons : from Enzymatic Reactions to the Environment

    Ralf Rabus;Matthias Boll;Johann Heider;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Evaluation of PCR amplification bias by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of small-subunit rRNA and mcrA genes by using defined template mixtures of methanogenic pure cultures and soil DNA extracts.

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Molecular analyses of methyl-coenzyme M reductase alpha-subunit (mcrA) genes in rice field soil and enrichment cultures reveal the methanogenic phenotype of a novel archaeal lineage.

    Tillmann Lueders;Kuk-Jeong Chin;Ralf Conrad;Michael Friedrich

  • Archaeal population dynamics during sequential reduction processes in rice field soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael Friedrich

  • Stable isotope probing of rRNA and DNA reveals a dynamic methylotroph community and trophic interactions with fungi and protozoa in oxic rice field soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Bianca Wagner;Peter Claus;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Identification of bacterial micropredators distinctively active in a soil microbial food web.

    Tillmann Lueders;Reimo Kindler;Anja Miltner;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Stable-isotope probing of microorganisms thriving at thermodynamic limits: syntrophic propionate oxidation in flooded soil.

    Tillmann Lueders;Bianca Pommerenke;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Depth-resolved quantification of anaerobic toluene degraders and aquifer microbial community patterns in distinct redox zones of a tar oil contaminant plume

    Christian Winderl;Bettina Anneser;Christian Griebler;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Diverse sulfate-reducing bacteria of the Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus clade are the key alkane degraders at marine seeps

    Sara Kleindienst;Florian-Alexander Herbst;Marion Stagars;Frederick von Netzer

  • Detection of anaerobic toluene and hydrocarbon degraders in contaminated aquifers using benzylsuccinate synthase (bssA) genes as a functional marker

    Christian Winderl;Sabine Schaefer;Tillmann Lueders

  • The use of stable isotope probing to identify key iron-reducing microorganisms involved in anaerobic benzene degradation.

    Umakanth Kunapuli;Tillmann Lueders;Rainer U Meckenstock

  • Effects of Amendment with Ferrihydrite and Gypsum on the Structure and Activity of Methanogenic Populations in Rice Field Soil

    Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich

  • Effects of thermal energy discharge on shallow groundwater ecosystems

    Heike Brielmann;Christian Griebler;Susanne I. Schmidt;Rainer Michel

  • Vertical distribution of structure and function of the methanogenic archaeal community in Lake Dagow sediment

    On Chim Chan;Peter Claus;Peter Casper;Andreas Ulrich

  • Isolation and characterization of new strains of methanogens from cold terrestrial habitats.

    Maria V. Simankova;Oleg R. Kotsyurbenko;Tillmann Lueders;Alla N. Nozhevnikova

  • Testing the Limits of 454 Pyrotag Sequencing: Reproducibility, Quantitative Assessment and Comparison to T-RFLP Fingerprinting of Aquifer Microbes

    Giovanni Pilloni;Michael S. Granitsiotis;Marion Engel;Tillmann Lueders

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Friedrich
Michael W. Friedrich University of Bremen
Rainer U. Meckenstock
Rainer U. Meckenstock University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna
Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christine Stumpp
Christine Stumpp BOKU University
Franz Buegger
Franz Buegger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Jana Seifert
Jana Seifert University of Hohenheim
Tim Urich
Tim Urich University of Greifswald

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