Elizabeth A. Edwards

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
201 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth A. Edwards is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth A. Edwards has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Pollution, 56 papers in Ecology and 52 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth A. Edwards's work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (86 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (27 papers). Elizabeth A. Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (86 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (27 papers). Elizabeth A. Edwards collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Elizabeth A. Edwards's co-authors include Melanie Duhamel, D Grbić-Galić, Frank E. Löffler, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Ariel Grostern, Brent E. Sleep, Wayne S. DeSarbo, Scott A. Mabury, Ania C. Ulrich and Torsten Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth A. Edwards

197 papers receiving 9.0k citations

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Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi

2012 444 citations Frank E. Löffler, Jun Yan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth A. Edwards Canada	53	5.1k	2.8k	2.2k	1.9k	1.9k	201	9.4k
Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen United States	56	5.1k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	135	9.8k
Frank E. Löffler United States	56	7.3k 1.4×	2.8k 1.0×	4.3k 1.9×	3.0k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	204	12.7k
Craig S. Criddle United States	65	5.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	3.1k 1.7×	2.3k 1.2×	209	15.9k
Ronald L. Crawford United States	54	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	186	9.7k
Jim A. Field United States	67	5.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	887 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.6×	354	15.1k
Jerald L. Schnoor United States	56	5.3k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	277	14.0k
Min Liu China	65	6.2k 1.2×	3.7k 1.3×	4.1k 1.8×	1.3k 0.7×	619 0.3×	458	14.2k
Éric Lichtfouse France	63	2.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	882 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	372	17.3k
Thomas B. Hofstetter Switzerland	44	2.7k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	701 0.3×	979 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	117	9.6k
Martin Elsner Germany	47	4.2k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	196	8.9k

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Wang, Shuping, et al.. (2025). Reductive Dechlorination of 2,3-Dichloroaniline by Dehalobacter in an Anaerobic Enrichment Culture. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(29). 15261–15271. 1 indexed citations

Edwards, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2024). Identification of environmental and methodological factors driving variability of Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (PMMoV) across three wastewater treatment plants in the City of Toronto. The Science of The Total Environment. 932. 172917–172917. 7 indexed citations

Su, Yan, Ka Yu Cheng, Tsing Bohu, et al.. (2024). Changes in microbial communities during high-rate microbial selenate reduction in an up-flow anaerobic fluidized bed reactor. Chemosphere. 364. 143224–143224. 2 indexed citations

Edwards, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2024). Metagenomic sequences from anaerobic chloroform and dichloromethane degrading microbial communities. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(7). e0039124–e0039124. 5 indexed citations

Meyer, Torsten, et al.. (2024). Microbial Community Organization during Anaerobic Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewater Treatment. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(6). 1286–1301. 2 indexed citations

Nesbø, Camilla, et al.. (2024). Metagenomes and metagenome assembled genomes from anaerobic digesters at three Canadian pulp and paper mills. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(11). e0056124–e0056124. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Chao-Lung, et al.. (2023). Relationship Between Sulfidated Nano Zero Valent Iron and a Reductive Dechlorinating Microbial Culture - Synergistic or Antagonistic? . 6. 1 indexed citations

Fuzzen, Meghan, Nivetha Srikanthan, Leslie M. Bragg, et al.. (2023). An improved method for determining frequency of multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using qPCR assays. The Science of The Total Environment. 881. 163292–163292. 6 indexed citations

Yi, Shujun, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Diwen Yang, et al.. (2022). Anaerobic Microbial Dechlorination of 6:2 Chlorinated Polyfluorooctane Ether Sulfonate and the Underlying Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(2). 907–916. 25 indexed citations

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Lomheim, Line, et al.. (2021). Identification of a Fully Dechlorinated Product of Chlordecone in Soil Microcosms and Enrichment Cultures. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 8(8). 662–667. 8 indexed citations

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Lomheim, Line, et al.. (2021). Biodegradation of Lindane (γ-Hexachlorocyclohexane) To Nontoxic End Products by Sequential Treatment with Three Mixed Anaerobic Microbial Cultures. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(5). 2968–2979. 22 indexed citations

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Nesbø, Camilla, et al.. (2020). Antibiotic resistome and microbial community structure during anaerobic co-digestion of food waste, paper and cardboard. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(2). 30 indexed citations

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Batyrova, Khorcheska, Anna N. Khusnutdinova, Po‐Hsiang Wang, et al.. (2020). Biocatalytic in Vitro and in Vivo FMN Prenylation and (De)carboxylase Activation. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(7). 1874–1882. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Jinjin, Yilan Liu, Patrick Diep, et al.. (2020). Complete Genome Sequence of Acidithiobacillus ferridurans JAGS, Isolated from Acidic Mine Drainage. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(13). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Po‐Hsiang, et al.. (2019). Sustained Dechlorination of Vinyl Chloride to Ethene in Dehalococcoides -Enriched Cultures Grown without Addition of Exogenous Vitamins and at Low pH. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(19). 11364–11374. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Po‐Hsiang, Shuiquan Tang, Robert Flick, et al.. (2016). Refined experimental annotation reveals conserved corrinoid autotrophy in chloroform-respiring Dehalobacter isolates. The ISME Journal. 11(3). 626–640. 20 indexed citations

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Meyer, Torsten, et al.. (2016). Natural Freezing-Thawing and Its Impact on Dewaterability and Anaerobic Digestibility of Biosludge. Environmental Engineering Science. 34(5). 357–366. 12 indexed citations

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Liang, Xiaoming, et al.. (2013). Anaerobic Conversion of Chlorobenzene and Benzene to CH ₄ and CO ₂ in Bioaugmented Microcosms. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(5). 2378–2385. 44 indexed citations

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Edwards, Elizabeth A., et al.. (1982). Habitat Suitability Index Models: Common carp. FWS/OBS. 29 indexed citations

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Edwards, Elizabeth A., et al.. (1963). Agranulocytosis During Administration of “Atromid”. BMJ. 2(5356). 543–544. 8 indexed citations

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