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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology · Germany

Friedrich Widdel

Friedrich Widdel publishes mostly in Environmental Chemistry, Pollution and Ecology, on topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#13,970
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#767
of 364,343
Works
199
Citations
28k
Citations per work
143.1
h-index
74
i10-index 111Top 0.5% in Environmental Chemistry
Friedrich Widdel

What does Friedrich Widdel research?

Friedrich Widdel's work is mostly in Environmental Science (47%), Engineering (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Physical Sciences: 111 works · 55.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 93 works · 46.6% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 33 works · 16.8% of their workPollution: 25 works · 12.8% of their workEcology: 22 works · 11.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 12 works · 5.8% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 9.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 18 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 37.1% of their workLife Sciences: 14 works · 7.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 7.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKFriedrich Widdel199works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences56%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science9346.6%
    2. Engineering189.1%
  2. Everything else7437.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology147.2%
  1. 1Environmental Chemistry17% of their works
  2. 2Pollution13% of their works
  3. 3Ecology11% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials9% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Friedrich Widdel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microbial Communities, Shale Gas, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Mudstones and Pore Structure.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Microbial Communities902 topics
  2. Shale Gas612 topics
  3. Anaerobic571 topic
  4. Methane Oxidation571 topic
  5. Marine Microbes431 topic
  6. Microbial Biogeography431 topic
  7. Mudstones391 topic
  8. Pore Structure391 topic
  9. Wastewater Treatment372 topics
  10. Hydrogen Production342 topics
  11. Biodegradation331 topic
  12. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons331 topic
  13. Anammox Bacteria221 topic
  14. Emissions221 topic
  15. Methane221 topic
  16. Nitrogen-Cycling Network221 topic
  17. Anaerobic Digestion191 topic
  18. Biogas Production191 topic
  19. Extracellular Electron Transfer151 topic
  20. Microbial Fuel Cells151 topic

Where does Friedrich Widdel work?

Friedrich Widdel's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Friedrich Widdel have?

OpenAlex counts 199 works and 28,481 citations for Friedrich Widdel, an h-index of 74, ranking #13,970 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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