Bruce E. Rittmann

50.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
745 papers, 39.0k citations indexed

About

Bruce E. Rittmann is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce E. Rittmann has authored 745 papers receiving a total of 39.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Pollution, 220 papers in Environmental Engineering and 189 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Bruce E. Rittmann's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (209 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (172 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (128 papers). Bruce E. Rittmann is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (209 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (172 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (128 papers). Bruce E. Rittmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Bruce E. Rittmann's co-authors include Perry L. McCarty, César I. Torres, Prathap Parameswaran, Rosa Krajmalnik‐Brown, Hyung‐Sool Lee, Andrew K. Marcus, Chen Zhou, Robert Nerenberg, David A. Stahl and Paul Westerhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bruce E. Rittmann

724 papers receiving 37.3k 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.

Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Applications

2000 2.5k citations Bruce E. Rittmann et al. profile →
Human gut microbiota in obesity and after gastric bypass

2009 1.5k citations Husen Zhang, John K. DiBaise et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Phylogenetic probes for analyzing abundance and spatial organization of nitrifying bacteria

1996 730 citations Bruce E. Rittmann et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Group-specific 16S rRNA hybridization probes to describe natural communities of methanogens

1994 723 citations Bruce E. Rittmann et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Total Value of Phosphorus Recovery

2016 532 citations Prathap Parameswaran, Bruce E. Rittmann et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
A kinetic perspective on extracellular electron transfer by anode-respiring bacteria

2009 482 citations César I. Torres, Andrew K. Marcus et al. profile →
Capturing the lost phosphorus

2011 418 citations Bruce E. Rittmann et al. profile →
Model of steady‐state‐biofilm kinetics

1980 341 citations Bruce E. Rittmann et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bruce E. Rittmann	13.8k	12.0k	7.5k	6.6k	6.2k	745	39.0k
Nico Boon	10.8k 0.8×	12.0k 1.0×	4.6k 0.6×	5.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.5×	679	41.1k
Willy Verstraete	18.1k 1.3×	26.0k 2.2×	6.5k 0.9×	8.8k 1.3×	8.2k 1.3×	898	74.6k
Jürg Keller	15.7k 1.1×	17.0k 1.4×	4.6k 0.6×	4.7k 0.7×	7.2k 1.2×	337	35.9k
Zhiguo Yuan	25.8k 1.9×	12.3k 1.0×	8.0k 1.1×	4.0k 0.6×	8.5k 1.4×	730	43.4k
Piet N.L. Lens	10.2k 0.7×	5.2k 0.4×	3.9k 0.5×	7.4k 1.1×	6.5k 1.1×	785	31.9k
Duu‐Jong Lee	14.3k 1.0×	7.6k 0.6×	2.9k 0.4×	13.7k 2.1×	12.5k 2.0×	1.2k	53.1k
Han‐Qing Yu	15.8k 1.1×	11.6k 1.0×	5.3k 0.7×	13.0k 2.0×	17.9k 2.9×	864	58.9k
Yu Liu	14.0k 1.0×	3.7k 0.3×	3.8k 0.5×	7.4k 1.1×	12.9k 2.1×	856	37.3k
Pedro J. J. Alvarez	11.7k 0.9×	2.9k 0.2×	5.3k 0.7×	11.9k 1.8×	9.4k 1.5×	446	42.5k
Huu Hao Ngo	17.2k 1.3×	5.4k 0.4×	5.7k 0.8×	9.7k 1.5×	20.5k 3.3×	788	46.9k

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Long, Min, Jie Cheng, Chen Zhou, & Bruce E. Rittmann. (2024). Enhanced long-term reduction of high-level Au(III) with the presence of NO3− in a H2-based membrane biofilm reactor. Water Research. 274. 123013–123013. 1 indexed citations

Boltz, Joshua P. & Bruce E. Rittmann. (2024). Microbial ecology of nitrate-, selenate-, selenite-, and sulfate-reducing bacteria in a H2-driven bioprocess. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(11). 3 indexed citations

Xu, Ying, Yonghong Wu, & Bruce E. Rittmann. (2024). Describing Chemical Migration Processes at the Sediment–Periphytic Biofilm–Water Interface. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(8). 3577–3579. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Zuobin, et al.. (2024). Hydrazine promoted nitrite reduction in partial-denitrification by enhancing organic-substrate uptake and electron transport. Bioresource Technology. 418. 131991–131991. 4 indexed citations

Danouche, Mohammed, Bruce E. Rittmann, Chen Zhou, et al.. (2023). Effect of alkaline leaching of phosphogypsum on sulfate reduction activity and bacterial community composition using different sources of anaerobic microbial inoculum. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 166296–166296. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Yongyi, Ting Chen, Rui Liu, et al.. (2023). The roles of Methylobacterium organophilum and Sphingomonas melonis for accelerating N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP) biodegradation. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 56. 104327–104327. 10 indexed citations

Luo, Yihao, Xiangxing Long, Yuhang Cai, et al.. (2023). A synergistic platform enables co-oxidation of halogenated organic pollutants without input of organic primary substrate. Water Research. 234. 119801–119801. 9 indexed citations

Luo, Yihao, et al.. (2023). The structure of biodegradable surfactants shaped the microbial community, antimicrobial resistance, and potential for horizontal gene transfer. Water Research. 236. 119944–119944. 17 indexed citations

Cai, Yuhang, Yihao Luo, Xiangxing Long, et al.. (2023). Complete mineralization of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in a reduction and oxidation Synergistic Platform (ROSP). Chemical Engineering Journal. 472. 144988–144988. 5 indexed citations

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Luo, Yihao, Yuhang Cai, Xiangxing Long, et al.. (2022). Palladium (Pd⁰) Loading-Controlled Catalytic Activity and Selectivity for Chlorophenol Hydrodechlorination and Hydrosaturation. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(7). 4447–4456. 44 indexed citations

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Young, Michelle, Joshua P. Boltz, Bruce E. Rittmann, et al.. (2022). Thermodynamic Analysis of Intermediary Metabolic Steps and Nitrous Oxide Production by Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(17). 12532–12541. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Ying, Thomas P. Curtis, Jan Dolfing, Yonghong Wu, & Bruce E. Rittmann. (2021). N-acyl-homoserine-lactones signaling as a critical control point for phosphorus entrapment by multi-species microbial aggregates. Water Research. 204. 117627–117627. 38 indexed citations

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Rittmann, Bruce E., et al.. (2019). Axenic Biofilm Formation and Aggregation by Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 Are Induced by Changes in Nutrient Concentration and Require Cell Surface Structures. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(7). 39 indexed citations

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Lv, Pan-Long, et al.. (2019). How nitrate affects perchlorate reduction in a methane-based biofilm batch reactor. Water Research. 171. 115397–115397. 60 indexed citations

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Xiong, Houfeng, Shuangshi Dong, Jun Zhang, Dandan Zhou, & Bruce E. Rittmann. (2018). Roles of an easily biodegradable co-substrate in enhancing tetracycline treatment in an intimately coupled photocatalytic-biological reactor. Water Research. 136. 75–83. 158 indexed citations

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Ilhan, Zehra Esra, John K. DiBaise, Nancy Isern, et al.. (2017). Distinctive microbiomes and metabolites linked with weight loss after gastric bypass, but not gastric banding. The ISME Journal. 11(9). 2047–2058. 95 indexed citations

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Parameswaran, Prathap, et al.. (2016). The effect of pH and buffer concentration on anode biofilms of Thermincola ferriacetica. Bioelectrochemistry. 112. 47–52. 37 indexed citations

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Boltz, Joshua P., Eberhard Morgenroth, Doris Brockmann, et al.. (2012). Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Husen, John K. DiBaise, Andrea Zuccolo, et al.. (2009). Human gut microbiota in obesity and after gastric bypass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(7). 2365–2370. 1481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rittmann, Bruce E., Fran Kremer, & B. Bekins. (2004). Monitored Natural Attenuation Forum: A panel discussion. Remediation Journal. 14(2). 153–158. 2 indexed citations

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