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D-Index
57
Citations
11412
World Ranking
3582
National Ranking
262

Wolf-Rainer Abraham publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolf-Rainer Abraham sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 200 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Wolf-Rainer Abraham D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolf-Rainer Abraham is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany. Their scholarly work spans several intersecting fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics, such as:

  • Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
  • Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer Research and Treatments

Wolf-Rainer Abraham has contributed research articles to several scientific journals and publication venues, including:

  • Current Medicinal Chemistry
  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Antibiotics
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Fungi

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Unsaturated Fatty Acids Control Biofilm Formation of Staphylococcus aureus and Other Gram-Positive Bacteria, 2020, Antibiotics
  • Acetyl-CoA-Carboxylase 1-mediated de novo fatty acid synthesis sustains Lgr5+ intestinal stem cell function, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Nanoparticles as a Tool for Broadening Antifungal Activities, 2020, Current Medicinal Chemistry
  • Inhibitory Effects of the Fungal Pigment Rubiginosin C on Hyphal and Biofilm Formation in Candida albicans and Candida auris, 2023, Journal of Fungi
  • ACC1 is a dual metabolic-epigenetic regulator of Treg stability and immune tolerance, 2025, Molecular Metabolism

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Najeh Maissar Khalil
  • Marc Stadler
  • Matthias Lochner
  • Daniele Fernanda Renzi
  • Laís de Almeida Campos

The areas of study that frame this body of work feature subfields such as Pharmaceutical Science, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine, and Food Science. These specialties align with the broader interests and expertise spanning both applied and basic biomedical research.

Best Publications

  • De novo fatty acid synthesis controls the fate between regulatory T and T helper 17 cells

    Luciana Berod;Christin Friedrich;Amrita Nandan;Jenny Freitag

  • Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium

    Michail M. Yakimov;Peter N. Golyshin;Siegmund Lang;Edward R. B. Moore

  • Polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading microbial communities in soils and sediments.

    Wolf Rainer Abraham;Balbina Nogales;Peter N Golyshin;Dietmar H Pieper

  • Phylogeny and polyphasic taxonomy of Caulobacter species. Proposal of Maricaulis gen. nov. with Maricaulis maris (Poindexter) comb. nov. as the type species, and emended description of the genera Brevundimonas and Caulobacter.

    Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Carsten Strömpl;Holger Meyer;Sabine Lindholst

  • Oleispira antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbonoclastic marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic coastal sea water.

    Michail M Yakimov;Laura Giuliano;Gabriella Gentile;Ermanno Crisafi

  • Ferroplasma acidiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidophilic, autotrophic, ferrous-iron-oxidizing, cell-wall-lacking, mesophilic member of the Ferroplasmaceae fam. nov., comprising a distinct lineage of the Archaea.

    O. V. Golyshina;T. A. Pivovarova;G. I. Karavaiko;T. F. Kondrat'eva

  • In situ experimental evidence of the fate of a phytodetritus pulse at the abyssal sea floor.

    U. Witte;F. Wenzhöfer;Stefan Sommer;A. Boetius

  • Ratios of Carbon Isotopes in Microbial Lipids as an Indicator of Substrate Usage

    Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Christian Hesse;Oliver Pelz

  • Terpen-derivate aus Senecio-arten

    Ferdinand Bohlmann;Karl-Heinz Knoll;Christa Zdero;Pradip Kumar Mahanta

  • Bioactive Sesquiterpenes Produced by Fungi are they Useful for Humans as Well

    Wolf-Rainer Abraham

  • Towards elucidation of microbial community metabolic pathways: unravelling the network of carbon sharing in a pollutant-degrading bacterial consortium by immunocapture and isotopic ratio mass spectrometry.

    Oliver Pelz;Michael Tesar;Rolf-Michael Wittich;Edward R. B. Moore

  • Oleiphilaceae fam. nov., to include Oleiphilus messinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons.

    Peter N Golyshin;Tatiana N Chernikova;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Heinrich Lünsdorf

  • Volatile sesquiterpenes from fungi: what are they good for?

    Rolf Kramer;Wolf-Rainer Abraham

  • Antimicrobial and Biofilm Inhibiting Diketopiperazines

    M P de Carvalho;Wolf-Rainer Abraham

  • Thalassolituus oleivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons.

    Michail M. Yakimov;Laura Giuliano;Renata Denaro;Ermanno Crisafi

  • Identification of the metabolically active members of a bacterial community in a polychlorinated biphenyl‐polluted moorland soil

    Balbina Nogales;Edward R. B. Moore;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Kenneth N. Timmis

  • Novel glycine containing glucolipids from the alkane using bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

    Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Holger Meyer;Misha Yakimov

  • Fatty acid Content in Whole-cell Hydrolysates and Phospholipid and Phospholipid Fractions of Pseudomonads: a Taxonomic Evaluation

    Marc Vancanneyti;Sabine Witt;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Karel Kersters

  • Applying stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids and rRNA in a Chinese rice field to study activity and composition of the methanotrophic bacterial communities in situ

    Qiongfen Qiu;Matthias Noll;Matthias Noll;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Yahai Lu

  • 'Clay hutches': a novel interaction between bacteria and clay minerals

    H Lünsdorf;R W Erb;W R Abraham;K N Timmis

  • 13C‐isotope analyses reveal that chemolithoautotrophic Gamma‐ and Epsilonproteobacteria feed a microbial food web in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea

    Sabine Glaubitz;Tillmann Lueders;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Günter Jost

  • Activity and composition of methanotrophic bacterial communities in planted rice soil studied by flux measurements, analyses of pmoA gene and stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids.

    Minita Shrestha;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Pravin Malla Shrestha;Matthias Noll;Matthias Noll

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth N. Timmis Technische Universität Braunschweig
Ferdinand Bohlmann
Ferdinand Bohlmann Technical University of Berlin
Heinrich Lünsdorf
Heinrich Lünsdorf Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Edward R. B. Moore
Edward R. B. Moore University of Gothenburg
Peter N. Golyshin
Peter N. Golyshin Bangor University
Marc Vancanneyt
Marc Vancanneyt Ghent University
Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Michail M. Yakimov
Michail M. Yakimov National Research Council (CNR)
Harold Robinson
Harold Robinson Smithsonian Institution
Josef Zeyer
Josef Zeyer ETH Zurich

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