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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology · Germany

Rudolf Kurt Thauer

Rudolf Kurt Thauer publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders, Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function.

ORCID 0000-0003-0714-0148 OpenAlex
World rank
#29,033
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,696
of 364,343
Works
608
Citations
49k
Citations per work
80.9
h-index
104
i10-index 446Top 0.2% in Molecular Biology
Rudolf Kurt Thauer

What does Rudolf Kurt Thauer research?

Rudolf Kurt Thauer's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Energy (8%), Materials Science (6%).

Everything else: 281 works · 46.2% of their workLife Sciences: 221 works · 36.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 221 works · 36.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 164 works · 26.9% of their workBiochemistry: 30 works · 5.0% of their workClinical Biochemistry: 27 works · 4.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 106 works · 17.5% of their workEnergy: 47 works · 7.8% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 47 works · 7.8% of their workMaterials Science: 36 works · 6.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 36 works · 6.0% of their workEngineering: 22 works · 3.7% of their workBuilding and Construction: 22 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRudolf KurtThauer608works
Life Sciences36%Physical Sciences18%

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. Everything else28146.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22136.3%
    1. Energy477.8%
    2. Materials Science366.0%
    3. Engineering223.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology27% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment8% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Biochemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Biochemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Building and Construction4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rudolf Kurt Thauer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Engineering, Metabolic Disorders, Heme Biosynthesis, Vitamin B12, Hydrogenases, Nitrogen Fixation, Lysyl Oxidase and Methanotrophy.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Metabolic Engineering2312 topics
  2. Metabolic Disorders1392 topics
  3. Heme Biosynthesis1291 topic
  4. Vitamin B121291 topic
  5. Hydrogenases1031 topic
  6. Nitrogen Fixation1031 topic
  7. Lysyl Oxidase1021 topic
  8. Methanotrophy1021 topic
  9. Macromolecular Crystallography751 topic
  10. Structure Solution751 topic
  11. Biochemical Genetics721 topic
  12. Newborn Screening721 topic
  13. Amino Acid Transporters671 topic
  14. D-Serine671 topic
  15. Anaerobic Digestion591 topic
  16. Biogas Production591 topic
  17. Dioxygen Activation501 topic
  18. Metalloenzyme501 topic

Where does Rudolf Kurt Thauer work?

Rudolf Kurt Thauer's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Rudolf Kurt Thauer have?

OpenAlex counts 608 works and 49,183 citations for Rudolf Kurt Thauer, an h-index of 104, ranking #29,033 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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