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Wolfgang Wohlleben

Wolfgang Wohlleben

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 67 2259 2063 165 150 235 17383
Genetics 63 2886 2735 202 192 202 14790

Wolfgang Wohlleben publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Wolfgang Wohlleben between 1976 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Wolfgang Wohlleben published across 50 years, from 1976 to 2025, averaging 5.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 14 publications in 2005. 8 of the 282 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1976 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 14. Peak 14 publications in 2005. 1976: 1 publication 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 1 publication 1980: 1 publication 1981: 4 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 5 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 3 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 14 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 4 publications
1976 2025

282 publications in total across all disciplines

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Wolfgang Wohlleben: publications per year, 1976 to 2025
Year Publications
1976 1
1977 0
1978 0
1979 1
1980 1
1981 4
1982 0
1983 0
1984 1
1985 0
1986 0
1987 3
1988 3
1989 4
1990 2
1991 5
1992 3
1993 6
1994 4
1995 1
1996 3
1997 5
1998 7
1999 7
2000 6
2001 12
2002 11
2003 5
2004 6
2005 14
2006 7
2007 8
2008 10
2009 7
2010 6
2011 14
2012 6
2013 8
2014 8
2015 9
2016 10
2017 9
2018 13
2019 10
2020 5
2021 11
2022 10
2023 8
2024 4
2025 4
Total 282
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Wolfgang Wohlleben 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 Wolfgang Wohlleben sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 235–244 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 publications 679+

This scientist: 235 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161 235
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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Wolfgang Wohlleben 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 Wolfgang Wohlleben sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 67 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112 67
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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Overview

Wolfgang Wohlleben is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Medicine. Within these broad areas, Wohlleben's work focuses on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Oncology, and Organic Chemistry as subfields of study.

The scientist's main research topics include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Polyamine Metabolism and Applications, Biochemical and Molecular Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Metabolism and Applications, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Wolfgang Wohlleben has co-authored research repeatedly with a group of frequent collaborators. These include Sergii Krysenko, Andreas Kulik, Evi Stegmann, Harald Gross, and Agnieszka Mitulski.

Recent papers cover various aspects of microbiology, metabolism, and natural compounds. Notable publications include:

  • Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Polyamine and Ethanolamine Metabolism in Bacteria as an Important Component of Nitrogen Assimilation for Survival and Pathogenicity, 2022, Medical Sciences
  • Role of Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphate and Sulfur Metabolism in Secondary Metabolism Precursor Supply in Streptomyces spp., 2024, Microorganisms
  • Mining Indonesian Microbial Biodiversity for Novel Natural Compounds by a Combined Genome Mining and Molecular Networking Approach, 2021, Marine Drugs
  • Poly- and Monoamine Metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor: The New Role of Glutamine Synthetase-Like Enzymes in the Survival under Environmental Stress, 2021, Microbial Physiology

Wohlleben's work is frequently published in venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, BIOspektrum, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Metabolic Engineering, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

    Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

  • Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

    Marcus Miethke;Marco Pieroni;Tilmann Weber;Mark Brönstrup

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Specificity prediction of adenylation domains in nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) using transductive support vector machines (TSVMs)

    Christian Rausch;Tilmann Weber;Oliver Kohlbacher;Wolfgang Wohlleben

  • Nucleotide sequence of the phosphinothricin N-acetyltransferase gene from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494 and its expression in Nicotiana tabacum.

    W. Wohlleben;Walter Arnold;I. Broer;D. Hillemann

  • Phylogenetic analysis of condensation domains in NRPS sheds light on their functional evolution

    Christian Rausch;Ilka Hoof;Ilka Hoof;Tilmann Weber;Wolfgang Wohlleben

  • Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use

    Eckhard Strauch;Wolfgang Dr. Wohlleben;Walter Arnold;Renate Alijah

  • Evolution of the glutamine synthetase gene, one of the oldest existing and functioning genes

    Y Kumada;D R Benson;D Hillemann;T J Hosted

  • The Streptomyces coelicolor GlnR regulon: identification of new GlnR targets and evidence for a central role of GlnR in nitrogen metabolism in actinomycetes

    Yvonne Tiffert;Petra Supra;Reinhild Wurm;Wolfgang Wohlleben

  • A vector system with temperature-sensitive replication for gene disruption and mutational cloning in streptomycetes

    G Muth;B Nussbaumer;W Wohlleben;Alfred Pühler

  • Expression of the Bacillus subtilis sacB gene leads to sucrose sensitivity in the gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum but not in Streptomyces lividans.

    W Jäger;A Schäfer;Alfred Pühler;G Labes

  • Identification and Analysis of the Balhimycin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster and Its Use for Manipulating Glycopeptide Biosynthesis in Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM5908

    S. Pelzer;R. Süßmuth;D. Heckmann;J. Recktenwald

  • A bacterial hormone (the SCB1) directly controls the expression of a pathway-specific regulatory gene in the cryptic type I polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces coelicolor

    Eriko Takano;Hiroshi Kinoshita;Vassilis Mersinias;Giselda Bucca

  • Crystal Structure of OxyB, a Cytochrome P450 Implicated in an Oxidative Phenol Coupling Reaction during Vancomycin Biosynthesis

    Katja Zerbe;Olena Pylypenko;Francesca Vitali;Weiwen Zhang

  • The roles of the nitrate reductase NarGHJI, the nitrite reductase NirBD and the response regulator GlnR in nitrate assimilation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Sven Malm;Yvonne Tiffert;Julia Micklinghoff;Sonja Schultze

  • Two transcriptional regulators GlnR and GlnRII are involved in regulation of nitrogen metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).

    D Fink;N Weissschuh;J Reuther;W Wohlleben

  • CLUSEAN: a computer-based framework for the automated analysis of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters.

    Tilmann Weber;C. Rausch;P. Lopez;I. Hoof

  • Cloning of a phosphinothricin N-acetyltransferase gene from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494 and its expression in Streptomyces lividans and Escherichia coli.

    E. Strauch;W. Wohlleben;A. Pühler

  • The dynamic architecture of the metabolic switch in Streptomyces coelicolor

    Kay Nieselt;Florian Battke;Alexander Herbig;Per Bruheim;Per Bruheim

  • On the evolution of Tn21-like multiresistance transposons: sequence analysis of the gene (aacC1) for gentamicin acetyltransferase-3-I(AAC(3)-I), another member of the Tn21-based expression cassette.

    Wolfgang Wohlleben;Walter Arnold;Luc Bissonnette;Alex Pelletier

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University
Roderich D. Süssmuth
Roderich D. Süssmuth Technical University of Berlin
Graeme J. Nicholson
Graeme J. Nicholson University of Tübingen
Günther Jung
Günther Jung University of Tübingen
Bernhard Hauer
Bernhard Hauer University of Stuttgart
Rolf D. Schmid
Rolf D. Schmid University of Stuttgart
Sang Yup Lee
Sang Yup Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jörn Kalinowski
Jörn Kalinowski Bielefeld University
Eriko Takano
Eriko Takano University of Manchester

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