Aaron Marc Saunders

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Aaron Marc Saunders is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Marc Saunders has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Pollution, 17 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Aaron Marc Saunders's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (37 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (17 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers). Aaron Marc Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (37 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (17 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers). Aaron Marc Saunders collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Australia and United Kingdom. Aaron Marc Saunders's co-authors include Per Halkjær Nielsen, Linda L. Blackall, Mads Albertsen, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Jes Vollertsen, Jürg Keller, Simon Jon McIlroy, Andreas Schramm, Zhiguo Yuan and Martina Herrmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Water Research and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Marc Saunders

54 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The activated sludge ecosystem contains a core community of abundant organisms

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Marc Saunders Denmark	32	3.3k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	914	60	4.7k
Simon Jon McIlroy Australia	35	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	857 0.7×	896 1.0×	77	4.0k
Marta Nierychlo Denmark	30	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	643 0.5×	771 0.6×	558 0.6×	50	2.8k
Valter Tandoi Italy	36	2.6k 0.8×	888 0.6×	917 0.7×	545 0.4×	521 0.6×	87	3.7k
Yu Xia China	34	3.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	637 0.5×	603 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	112	5.7k
David G. Weissbrodt Netherlands	33	2.6k 0.8×	722 0.5×	743 0.6×	773 0.6×	585 0.6×	82	3.8k
Lin Ye China	38	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	490 0.4×	698 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	110	6.1k
Peter A. Wilderer Germany	35	3.6k 1.1×	662 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	626 0.7×	147	5.4k
Takashi Yamaguchi Japan	36	1.9k 0.6×	892 0.6×	537 0.4×	818 0.7×	733 0.8×	263	4.2k
Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard Denmark	20	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	657 0.5×	528 0.4×	1.4k 1.5×	28	4.3k
Søren Michael Karst Denmark	25	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	583 0.5×	478 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	36	3.5k

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Vrieze, Jo De, Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Aaron Marc Saunders, & Susanne Theuerl. (2018). Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism is an “old school” reliable technique for swift microbial community screening in anaerobic digestion. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16818–16818. 35 indexed citations

Vrieze, Jo De, Aaron Marc Saunders, Ying He, et al.. (2015). Ammonia and temperature determine clustering or AD-typing in the anaerobic digestion microbiome. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

Vrieze, Jo De, Aaron Marc Saunders, Ying He, et al.. (2015). Ammonia and temperature determine potential clustering in the anaerobic digestion microbiome. Water Research. 75. 312–323. 276 indexed citations

McIlroy, Simon Jon, Aaron Marc Saunders, Mads Albertsen, et al.. (2015). MiDAS: the field guide to the microbes of activated sludge. Database. 2015. bav062–bav062. 218 indexed citations

Lanham, Ana, Adrian Oehmen, Aaron Marc Saunders, et al.. (2014). Metabolic modelling of full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal sludge. Water Research. 66. 283–295. 40 indexed citations

Lanham, Ana, Adrian Oehmen, Aaron Marc Saunders, et al.. (2013). Metabolic versatility in full-scale wastewater treatment plants performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Water Research. 47(19). 7032–7041. 87 indexed citations

Larsen, Poul, Aaron Marc Saunders, Caroline Kragelund, et al.. (2013). Filtration properties of activated sludge in municipal MBR wastewater treatment plants are related to microbial community structure. Water Research. 47(17). 6719–6730. 30 indexed citations

Shipovskov, Stepan, et al.. (2012). Electrochemical sandwich assay for attomole analysis of DNA and RNA from beer spoilage bacteria Lactobacillus brevis. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 37(1). 99–106. 27 indexed citations

Nielsen, Per Halkjær, Aaron Marc Saunders, Aviaja Anna Hansen, Poul Larsen, & Jeppe Lund Nielsen. (2011). Microbial communities involved in enhanced biological phosphorus removal from wastewater — a model system in environmental biotechnology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 23(3). 452–459. 150 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Trine Rolighed, Aaron Marc Saunders, Thomas Bjarnsholt, et al.. (2010). The bacteriology of chronic venous leg ulcer examined by culture-independent molecular methods. Wound Repair and Regeneration. 18(1). 38–49. 116 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Per Halkjær, Artur Tomasz Mielczarek, Caroline Kragelund, et al.. (2010). A conceptual ecosystem model of microbial communities in enhanced biological phosphorus removal plants. Water Research. 44(17). 5070–5088. 245 indexed citations

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Ferapontova, Elena E., et al.. (2010). Electrochemical DNA sandwich assay with a lipase label for attomole detection ofDNA. Chemical Communications. 46(11). 1836–1838. 32 indexed citations

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Saunders, Aaron Marc, et al.. (2009). Detection and persistence of fecal Bacteroidales as water quality indicators in unchlorinated drinking water. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 32(5). 362–370. 11 indexed citations

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Gu, April Z., Aaron Marc Saunders, JB Neethling, H. David Stensel, & Linda L. Blackall. (2008). Functionally Relevant Microorganisms to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Performance at Full‐Scale Wastewater Treatment Plants in the United States. Water Environment Research. 80(8). 688–698. 98 indexed citations

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Saunders, Aaron Marc, Amanda N. Mabbett, Alastair G. McEwan, & Linda L. Blackall. (2007). Proton motive force generation from stored polymers for the uptake of acetate under anaerobic conditions. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 274(2). 245–251. 55 indexed citations

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Skovhus, Torben Lund, et al.. (2007). Practical Use of New Microbiology Tools in Oil Production. 8 indexed citations

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Oehmen, Adrian, Aaron Marc Saunders, Miquel Vives, Zhiguo Yuan, & Jürg Keller. (2005). Competition between polyphosphate and glycogen accumulating organisms in enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems with acetate and propionate as carbon sources. Journal of Biotechnology. 123(1). 22–32. 174 indexed citations

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Zeng, Raymond Jianxiong, Aaron Marc Saunders, Zhiguo Yuan, Linda L. Blackall, & Jürg Keller. (2003). Identification and comparison of aerobic and denitrifying polyphosphate‐accumulating organisms. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 83(2). 140–148. 154 indexed citations

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Pijuan, Maite, Aaron Marc Saunders, Albert Guisasola, et al.. (2003). Enhanced biological phosphorus removal in a sequencing batch reactor using propionate as the sole carbon source. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 85(1). 56–67. 143 indexed citations

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Saunders, Aaron Marc, et al.. (1978). Cryptococcosis: survival attributed to combination antifungal treatment.. BMJ. 1(6119). 1030–1031. 1 indexed citations

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