Arjan Pol

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Arjan Pol is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arjan Pol has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Arjan Pol's work include Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (45 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (30 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers). Arjan Pol is often cited by papers focused on Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (45 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (30 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers). Arjan Pol collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Arjan Pol's co-authors include Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Mike S. M. Jetten, Chris van der Drift, Alfons J. P. Smolders, Harry R. Harhangi, Stefan Schouten, Katharina F. Ettwig, Godfried D. Vogels, Ahmad F. Khadem and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Arjan Pol

92 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification

2006 1.0k citations Arjan Pol, Katharina F. Ettwig et al. profile →
Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots

2013 381 citations Arjan Pol, Thomas R. M. Barends et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arjan Pol Netherlands	42	2.5k	2.3k	2.0k	1.1k	757	97	6.0k
Jeremy D. Semrau United States	37	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	815 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	596 0.8×	98	4.5k
Dimitry Y. Sorokin Russia	54	3.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	4.7k 2.3×	1.9k 1.7×	599 0.8×	240	9.1k
Alan A. DiSpirito United States	42	3.0k 1.2×	750 0.3×	647 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	443 0.6×	108	5.4k
Christiane Dahl Germany	42	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	452 0.4×	244 0.3×	101	4.8k
R S Hanson United States	32	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	498 0.7×	58	5.3k
Jan Kuever Germany	39	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	761 0.7×	255 0.3×	61	4.3k
E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya Russia	43	3.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	644 0.6×	526 0.7×	181	5.7k
Ben Abbas Netherlands	40	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.8×	311 0.4×	74	5.3k
Ronald P. Kiene United States	57	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	3.9k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	155 0.2×	122	10.1k
Lisa Y. Stein Canada	41	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.5×	3.3k 3.0×	254 0.3×	116	6.5k

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All Works

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Liu, Changqing, Arjan Pol, Stijn H. Peeters, et al.. (2024). Active coexistence of the novel gammaproteobacterial methanotroph ‘ Ca. Methylocalor cossyra’ CH1 and verrucomicrobial methanotrophs in acidic, hot geothermal soil. Environmental Microbiology. 26(3). e16602–e16602.

Steudtner, Robin, Andreas Klein, Cathleen Zeymer, et al.. (2023). Innentitelbild: Minor Actinides Can Replace Essential Lanthanides in Bacterial Life (Angew. Chem. 31/2023). Angewandte Chemie. 135(31).

Steudtner, Robin, Andreas Klein, Cathleen Zeymer, et al.. (2023). Minor Actinides Can Replace Essential Lanthanides in Bacterial Life**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(31). e202303669–e202303669. 14 indexed citations

Peeters, Stijn H., Sepehr S. Mohammadi, Tom Berben, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous sulfide and methane oxidation by an extremophile. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2974–2974. 24 indexed citations

Steudtner, Robin, et al.. (2023). Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum. Chemical Communications. 59(59). 9066–9069. 16 indexed citations

Steudtner, Robin, Andreas Klein, Cathleen Zeymer, et al.. (2023). Minor Actinides Can Replace Essential Lanthanides in Bacterial Life**. Angewandte Chemie. 135(31). 1 indexed citations

Danaf, Nader Al, Jérôme Kretzschmar, Arjan Pol, et al.. (2022). Studies of pyrroloquinoline quinone species in solution and in lanthanide-dependent methanol dehydrogenases. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(25). 15397–15405. 6 indexed citations

Peeters, Stijn H., Wouter Versantvoort, Nunzia Picone, et al.. (2021). Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs: ecophysiology of metabolically versatile acidophiles. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 45(5). 70 indexed citations

Picone, Nunzia, Andreas Dietl, Arjan Pol, et al.. (2021). Neodymium as Metal Cofactor for Biological Methanol Oxidation: Structure and Kinetics of an XoxF1-Type Methanol Dehydrogenase. mBio. 12(5). e0170821–e0170821. 14 indexed citations

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Versantvoort, Wouter, Arjan Pol, Mike S. M. Jetten, et al.. (2020). Multiheme hydroxylamine oxidoreductases produce NO during ammonia oxidation in methanotrophs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24459–24463. 31 indexed citations

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Pol, Arjan, et al.. (2020). Understanding the chemistry of the artificial electron acceptors PES, PMS, DCPIP and Wurster’s Blue in methanol dehydrogenase assays. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 25(2). 199–212. 37 indexed citations

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Pol, Arjan, Sepehr S. Mohammadi, A.H. van Gelder, et al.. (2020). The thermoacidophilic methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV oxidizes subatmospheric H2 with a high-affinity, membrane-associated [NiFe] hydrogenase. The ISME Journal. 14(5). 1223–1232. 43 indexed citations

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Kalimuthu, Palraj, Lena J. Daumann, Arjan Pol, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, & Paul V. Bernhardt. (2019). Electrocatalysis of a Europium‐Dependent Bacterial Methanol Dehydrogenase with Its Physiological Electron‐Acceptor Cytochrome c_GJ. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(37). 8760–8768. 12 indexed citations

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Pol, Arjan, et al.. (2018). Impact of the lanthanide contraction on the activity of a lanthanide-dependent methanol dehydrogenase – a kinetic and DFT study. Dalton Transactions. 47(31). 10463–10472. 72 indexed citations

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Pol, Arjan, et al.. (2018). Similar but Not the Same: First Kinetic and Structural Analyses of a Methanol Dehydrogenase Containing a Europium Ion in the Active Site. ChemBioChem. 19(11). 1147–1153. 70 indexed citations

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Roszczenko, Paula, et al.. (2018). Facile Arsenazo III-Based Assay for Monitoring Rare Earth Element Depletion from Cultivation Media for Methanotrophic and Methylotrophic Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(8). 47 indexed citations

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Eyice, Özge, Arjan Pol, Ornella Carrión, et al.. (2017). Bacterial SBP56 identified as a Cu-dependent methanethiol oxidase widely distributed in the biosphere. The ISME Journal. 12(1). 145–160. 60 indexed citations

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Khadem, Ahmad F., Arjan Pol, Mike S. M. Jetten, & Huub J. M. Op den Camp. (2010). Nitrogen fixation by the verrucomicrobial methanotroph ‘Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum’ SolV. Microbiology. 156(4). 1052–1059. 95 indexed citations

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Ettwig, Katharina F., Arjan Pol, Margaret K. Butler, et al.. (2009). What is extreme? Methanotrophy at pH 1 or without oxygen?. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 73. 1 indexed citations

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Eker, André P. M., et al.. (1980). Purification and properties of 8-hydroxy-5-deazaflavin derivatives fromStreptomyces griseus. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 8(3). 161–165. 54 indexed citations

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