Urmas Kõljalg

Active 1997–2025

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Citations

Citations per year for Urmas Kõljalg1976: 1 citations1998: 2 citations1999: 5 citations2000: 2 citations2001: 1 citations2002: 4 citations2003: 4 citations2004: 17 citations2005: 19 citations2006: 35 citations2007: 43 citations2008: 56 citations2009: 103 citations2010: 101 citations2011: 131 citations2012: 144 citations2013: 255 citations2014: 297 citations2015: 366 citations2016: 317 citations2017: 319 citations2018: 348 citations2019: 963 citations2020: 1,085 citations2021: 1,022 citations2022: 767 citations2023: 521 citations2024: 731 citations2025: 318 citations2026: 2 citations1977–1997: no citations, so these years are not shown

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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,641 citing papers, 13.3% of this breakdownChina: 1,451 citing papers, 11.8% of this breakdownGermany: 704 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 585 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownFrance: 498 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownNetherlands: 462 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownCanada: 401 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 380 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSpain: 367 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSweden: 348 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 337 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownBrazil: 255 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences37%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.7%
  • Environmental Science16.6%
  • Medicine9.5%
  • Immunology and Microbiology0.9%
  • Engineering0.5%
  • Other2.8%

Topics

  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases13.8%
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions13.2%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology5.4%
  • Gut microbiota and health5.1%
  • Fungal Biology and Applications3.6%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies3%
  • Other55.9%

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  1. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nucleic Acids Research, Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 cited by 3,600

  2. Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Pilar Cubas, Craig Cummings, Ulrike Damm, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Sybren de Hoog, Ruth Del‐Prado, Bryn T. M. Dentinger, Javier Diéguez‐Uribeondo, Pradeep K. Divakar, Brian Douglas, Margarita Dueñas, Tuan A. Duong, Ursula Eberhardt, Joan E. Edwards, Mostafa S. Elshahed, K. Fliegerová, Manohar R. Furtado, Miguel A. Garcı́a, Zai-Wei Ge, Gareth Griffith, Kate Griffiths, J.Z. Groenewald, Marizeth Groenewald, Martín Grube, Marieka Gryzenhout, Liang‐Dong Guo, Ferry Hagen, Sarah Hambleton, Richard C. Hamelin, Karen Hansen, Paul Harrold, Gregory Heller, Cesar S. Herrera, Kazuyuki Hirayama, Yuuri Hirooka, Hsiao-Man Ho, Kerstin Hoffmann, Valérie Hofstetter, Filip Högnabba, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Seung‐Beom Hong, Kentaro Hosaka, Jos Houbraken, Karen W. Hughes, Seppo Huhtinen, Kevin D. Hyde, Timothy Y. James, Eric M. Johnson, Joan E. Johnson, Peter R. Johnston, E. B. Gareth Jones, Laura J. Kelly, Paul M. Kirk, Dániel G. Knapp, Urmas Kõljalg, Gábor M. Kovács, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Sara Landvik, Steven D. Leavitt, Audra S. Liggenstoffer, Kare Liimatainen, Lorenzo Lombard, Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Harinad B. Maganti, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, María P. Martín, Tom W. May, Alistair R. McTaggart, Andrew S. Methven and 56 more - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 5,098

  3. Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Tom W. May, Luiza Majuakim, D. Jean Lodge, Su See Lee, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Petr Kohout, Kentaro Hosaka, Indrek Hiiesalu, Terry W. Henkel, Helery Harend, Liang‐Dong Guo, Alina G. Greslebin, Gwen Grelet, József Geml, Genevieve Gates, W. Dunstan, Chris R. Dunk, Rein Drenkhan, John Dearnaley, André De Kesel, Tan Dang, Xin Chen, Franz Buegger, Francis Q. Brearley, Gregory Bonito, Sten Anslan, Sandra E. Abell-Davis, Kessy Abarenkov - Science 2014 cited by 3,726

  4. Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kadri Põldmaa, Lauri Saag, Irja Saar, Arthur Schüßler, James A. Scott, Carolina Senés‐Guerrero, Matthew E. Smith, Ave Suija, D. Lee Taylor, M. Teresa Tellería, Michael Weiß, Karl‐Henrik Larsson - Molecular Ecology 2013 cited by 3,641

  5. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi – recent updates and future perspectives

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New Phytologist 2010 cited by 1,962

  6. The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leho Tedersoo, Urmas Kõljalg - Nucleic Acids Research 2023 cited by 701

  7. High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Fungal Diversity 2018 cited by 707

  8. UNITE: a database providing web‐based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New Phytologist 2005 cited by 1,195

  9. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gareth Griffith, Cécile Gueidan, David L. Hawksworth, Geir Hestmark, Kentaro Hosaka, Richard A. Humber, Kevin D. Hyde, Joseph E. Ironside, Urmas Kõljalg, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Karl‐Henrik Larsson, Robert W. Lichtwardt, Joyce E. Longcore, Jolanta Miądlikowska, Andrew N. Miller, Jean‐Marc Moncalvo, Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge, Franz Oberwinkler, Erast Parmasto, Valérie Reeb, Jack D. Rogers, Claude Roux, Leif Ryvarden, José Paulo Sampaio, Arthur Schüßler, Junta Sugiyama, R. Greg Thorn, Leif Tibell, Wendy A. Untereiner, Christopher Walker, Zheng Wang, Alex Weir, Michael Weiß, Merlin M. White, Katarina Winka, Yi‐Jian Yao, Ning Zhang - Mycological Research 2007 cited by 2,384

  10. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - MycoKeys 2015 cited by 592

  11. The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm—On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Microorganisms 2020 cited by 269

  12. The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Genevieve Gates, Geoffrey Zahn, Gregory Bonito, Indrek Hiiesalu, Inga Hiiesalu, Irma Zettur, Isabel C. Barrio, Jaan Pärn, Jacob Heilmann‐Clausen, Jelena Ankuda, John Y. Kupagme, Joosep Sarapuu, Jose G. Maciá‐Vicente, Joseph Djeugap Fovo, József Geml, Juha M. Alatalo, Julieta Alvarez‐Manjarrez, Jutamart Monkai, Kadri Põldmaa, Kadri Runnel, Kalev Adamson, Kari Anne Bråthen, Karin Pritsch, Kassim I. Tchan, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Kevin D. Hyde, Kevin K. Newsham, Kristel Panksep, Lateef A. Adebola, Louis J. Lamit, Malka Saba, Marcela Eugênia da Silva Cáceres, Maria Tuomi, Marieka Gryzenhout, Marijn Bauters, Miklós Bálint, Nalin N. Wijayawardene, Niloufar Hagh‐Doust, Nourou S. Yorou, Olavi Kurina, Peter E. Mortimer, Peter Meidl, R. Henrik Nilsson, Rasmus Puusepp, Rebeca Casique-Valdés, Rein Drenkhan, Roberto Garibay‐Orijel, Roberto Godoy, Saleh Alfarraj, Saleh Rahimlou, Sergei Põlme, Sergey V. Dudov, Sunil Mundra, Talaat Ahmed, Tarquin Netherway, Terry W. Henkel, Tomas Roslin, Vladimir E. Fedosov, В. Г. Онипченко, W. A. Erandi Yasanthika, Young Woon Lim, Meike Piepenbring, Dārta Kļaviņa, Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov - Fungal Diversity 2021 cited by 151

  13. Fungal community analysis by high‐throughput sequencing of amplified markers – a user's guide

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - New Phytologist 2013 cited by 883

  14. Taxonomic Reliability of DNA Sequences in Public Sequence Databases: A Fungal Perspective

    Authors: , , , , , - PLoS ONE 2006 cited by 662

  15. The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David M. Geiser, József Geml, Chirlei Glienke, Tom Gräfenhan, J.Z. Groenewald, Marizeth Groenewald, J. de Gruyter, Eveline Guého-Kellermann, Liang‐Dong Guo, David S. Hibbett, Seung‐Beom Hong, Sybren de Hoog, Jos Houbraken, Sabine M. Huhndorf, Kevin D. Hyde, Ahmed Mahmoud Ismail, Peter R. Johnston, Duygu Göksay Kadaifçiler, Paul M. Kirk, Urmas Kõljalg, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Paul-Emile Lagneau, C. André Lévesque, Xingzhong Liu, Lorenzo Lombard, Wieland Meyer, Andrew N. Miller, D. W. Minter, Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh, Lorelei L. Norvell, S. M. Ozerskaya, Rasime Öziç, Shaun R. Pennycook, Stephen W. Peterson, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, William Quaedvlieg, Vincent A. R. G. Robert, Constantino Ruibal, Johan Schnürer, Hans‐Josef Schroers, Roger G. Shivas, Bernard Slippers, Henk Spierenburg, Masako Takashima, Evrim Taşkoin, Marco Thines, Ulf Thrane, Alev Haliki Uztan, M. van Raak, János Varga, Aida Vasco, G.J.M. Verkley, S.I.R. Videira, Ronald P. de Vries, Bevan Weir, Neriman Yılmaz, Andrey Yurkov, Ning Zhang - IMA Fungus 2011 cited by 409

  16. Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Indrek Hiiesalu, Inga Hiiesalu, Wael N. Hozzein, Petr Kohout, Urmas Kõljalg, Kadri Koorem, Lauri Laanisto, Ülo Mander, Ladislav Mucina, Jean-Pierre Munyampundu, Lena Neuenkamp, Ülo Niinemets, Casper Nyamukondiwa, Jane Oja, В. Г. Онипченко, Meelis Pärtel, Cherdchai Phosri, Sergei Põlme, Kersti Püssa, Argo Ronk, Alessandro Saitta, Olivia Semboli, Siim‐Kaarel Sepp, Alexey P. Seregin, Surya Sudheer, Clara P. Peña‐Venegas, Claudia Paz, Tanel Vahter, Martti Vasar, Annelies J. Veraart, Leho Tedersoo, Martin Zobel, Maarja Öpik - New Phytologist 2021 cited by 249

  17. Regional-Scale In-Depth Analysis of Soil Fungal Diversity Reveals Strong pH and Plant Species Effects in Northern Europe

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Frontiers in Microbiology 2020 cited by 235

  18. Sequence-based classification and identification of Fungi.

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - 2018 cited by 215

  19. Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gareth W. Griffith, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Marizeth Groenewald, Martin Grube, Marieka Gryzenhout, Cécile Gueidan, Liangdong Guo, Sarah Hambleton, Richard C. Hamelin, Karen Hansen, Valérie Hofstetter, Seung-Beom Hong, Jos Houbraken, Kevin D. Hyde, Patrik Inderbitzin, Peter R. Johnston, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Urmas Kõljalg, Gábor M. Kovács, Ekaphan Kraichak, Krisztina Krizsan, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Steven Leavitt, Peter M. Letcher, Kare Liimatainen, Jian-Kui Liu, D. Jean Lodge, Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, Dimuthu Manamgoda, María P. Martín, Andrew M. Minnis, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Giuseppina Mulè, Karen K. Nakasone, Tuula Niskanen, Ibai Olariaga, Tamás Papp, Tamás Petkovits, Raquel Pino-Bodas, Martha J. Powell, Huzefa A. Raja, Dirk Redecker, J. M. Sarmiento-Ramirez, Keith A. Seifert, Bhushan Shrestha, Soili Stenroos, Benjamin Stielow, Sung-Oui Suh, Kazuaki Tanaka, Leho Tedersoo, M. Teresa Telleria, Dhanushka Udayanga, Wendy A. Untereiner, Javier Diéguez Uribeondo, Krishna V. Subbarao, Csaba Vágvölgyi, Cobus M. Visagie, Kerstin Voigt, Donald M. Walker, Bevan S. Weir, Michael Weiß, Nalin N. Wijayawardene, Michael J. Wingfield, J. P. Xu, Zhu L. Yang, Ning Zhang, Wen-Ying Zhuang and 1 more - Database, Database J. Biol. Databases Curation 2014 cited by 481

  20. High phylogenetic diversity among corticioid homobasidiomycetes

    Authors: , , - Mycological Research 2004 cited by 303

  21. PlutoF—a Web Based Workbench for Ecological and Taxonomic Research, with an Online Implementation for Fungal ITS Sequences

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Evolutionary Bioinformatics 2010 cited by 297

  22. DNA barcoding of fungal specimens using PacBio long‐read high‐throughput sequencing

    Authors: , , , , , , - Molecular Ecology Resources 2022 cited by 37

  23. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Mark J. Costello, András Cseh, Csaba Csuzdi, Alastair Culham, Guillermo D’Elía, Cédric d’Udekem d’Acoz, Mikhail E. Daneliya, R.W.R.J. Dekker, E.C. Dickinson, Timothy A. Dickinson, Peter Paul van Dijk, Klaas‐Douwe B. Dijkstra, Bálint Dima, Dmitry A. Dmitriev, Leni Duistermaat, John P. Dumbacher, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Torbjørn Ekrem, Neal L. Evenhuis, Arnaud Faille, José Fernández-Triana, Emile Fiesler, Mark Fishbein, Barry G. Fordham, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Natália Rizzo Friol, Uwe Fritz, Tobias Guldberg Frøslev, Vicki A. Funk, Stephen D. Gaimari, Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni, József Geml, Anthony C. Gill, Alan Gray, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Penelope Greenslade, Eliécer E. Gutiérrez, Mark S. Harvey, Cornelis J. Hazevoet, Kai He, Xiaolan He, Stephan Helfer, Kristofer M. Helgen, Anneke H. van Heteren, Francisco Hita Garcia, Norbert Holstein, Margit Kollaricsné Horváth, P. Hovenkamp, Wei Song Hwang, Jaakko Hyvönen, Melissa B. Islam, John B. Iverson, Michael A. Ivie, Zeehan Jaafar, Morgan D. Jackson, J. Pablo Jayat, Norman F. Johnson, Hinrich Kaiser, Bente Klitgård, Dániel G. Knapp, Jun‐ichi Kojima, Urmas Kõljalg, Jenő Kontschán, Frank‐Thorsten Krell, Irmgard Krisai‐Greilhüber, S. Kullander, Leonardo Latella, John E. Lattke, Valeria Lencioni and 84 more - PLoS Biology 2018 cited by 260

  24. Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 238