Frank E. Löffler

16.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
204 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Frank E. Löffler is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank E. Löffler has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Pollution, 70 papers in Ecology and 50 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Frank E. Löffler's work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (96 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (68 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (29 papers). Frank E. Löffler is often cited by papers focused on Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (96 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (68 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (29 papers). Frank E. Löffler collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Frank E. Löffler's co-authors include Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Robert A. Sanford, James M. Tiedje, Youlboong Sung, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Jianzhong He, Jeongdae Im, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Jun Yan and Qingzhong Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Frank E. Löffler

198 papers receiving 12.3k citations

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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.

Unexpected nondenitrifier nitrous oxide reductase gene diversity and abundance in soils

2012 492 citations Robert A. Sanford, Kirsti M. Ritalahti et al. profile →
Genomics and Ecology of Novel N2O-Reducing Microorganisms

2017 446 citations Frank E. Löffler, Robert A. Sanford et al. profile →
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 →
Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Influence of scanning strategies on dimensional accuracy in laser powder bed fusion 2025 ·Measurement Sensors ·(unknown), Frank E. Löffler, Rainer Tutsch	1
2	pH selects for distinct N2O-reducing microbiomes in tropical soil microcosms 2024 ·ISME Communications ·(unknown), Yongchao Yin, (unknown), (unknown), Héctor L. Ayala-del-Rı́o, Grizelle González, (unknown), Frank E. Löffler	3
3	Defluorination of monofluorinated alkane by Rhodococcus sp. NJF-7 isolated from soil 2024 ·AMB Express ·Meng Yan, Zhaozhao Gao, Xingjia Xiang, Qing Wang, Xin Song, Yucheng Wu, Frank E. Löffler, Jun Zeng, (unknown)	5
4	Nitrous oxide inhibition of methanogenesis represents an underappreciated greenhouse gas emission feedback 2024 ·The ISME Journal ·Yongchao Yin, Fadime Kara Murdoch, Robert W. Murdoch, Jun Yan, Gao Chen, Yongchao Xie, (unknown), Frank E. Löffler	6
5	Comprehensive study on statistical methods for optimization of process parameters and material properties of AlSi10Mg in laser powder bed fusion 2024 ·(unknown), Frank E. Löffler	2
6	Mn(III)-mediated bisphenol a degradation: Mechanisms and products 2023 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Chao Wang, Amanda L. May, Gao Chen, Yongchao Yin, Yongchao Xie, (unknown), Jeongdae Im, Frank E. Löffler	37
7	A comparative genome analysis of the Bacillota (Firmicutes) class Dehalobacteriia 2023 ·Microbial Genomics ·Young C. Song, Sophie I. Holland, Matthew Lee, Gao Chen, Frank E. Löffler, Michael Manefield, Philip Hugenholtz, Ulrike Kappler	4
8	Metabolome patterns identify active dechlorination in bioaugmentation consortium SDC-9™ 2022 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Amanda L. May, Yongchao Xie, Fadime Kara Murdoch, Mandy M. Michalsen, Frank E. Löffler, Shawn R. Campagna	4
9	Metagenomic Characterization of Soil Microbial Communities in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (Puerto Rico) and Implications for Nitrogen Cycling 2021 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Smruthi Karthikeyan, Luis H. Orellana, Eric R. Johnston, Janet K. Hatt, Frank E. Löffler, Héctor L. Ayala-del-Rı́o, Grizelle González, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis	12
10	Respiratory Vinyl Chloride Reductive Dechlorination to Ethene in TceA-Expressing Dehalococcoides mccartyi 2021 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Jun Yan, Jingjing Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Karuna Chourey, Xiuying Li, Yi Yang, Yongchao Yin, Robert L. Hettich, Frank E. Löffler	50
11	Anaerobic Microbial Metabolism of Dichloroacetate 2021 ·mBio ·Gao Chen, Nannan Jiang, (unknown), Fadime Kara Murdoch, Robert W. Murdoch, Yongchao Xie, (unknown), Robert L. Hettich, Frank E. Löffler	19
12	Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, Stephen R. Lindemann, Frank E. Löffler, Michelle O’Malley, Héctor García Martín, Brian F. Pfleger, Lutgarde Raskin, Ophelia S. Venturelli, David G. Weissbrodt, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon	398
13	Impact of Fixed Nitrogen Availability on Dehalococcoides mccartyi Reductive Dechlorination Activity 2019 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Devrim Kaya, Birthe V. Kjellerup, Karuna Chourey, Robert L. Hettich, (unknown), Frank E. Löffler	22
14	Release of Electron Donors during Thermal Treatment of Soils 2018 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Natalie L. Cápiro, Lawrence A. Morris, Sayed M. Hassan, Yi Yang, Frank E. Löffler, Kurt D. Pennell	12
15	Organohalide Respiration with Chlorinated Ethenes under Low pH Conditions 2017 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Yi Yang, Natalie L. Cápiro, (unknown), Jun Yan, Kurt D. Pennell, Frank E. Löffler	62
16	Purinyl-cobamide is a native prosthetic group of reductive dehalogenases 2017 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Jun Yan, (unknown), Allen K. Bourdon, Abigail T. Farmer, Po‐Hsiang Wang, Olivia Molenda, Andrew T. Quaile, Nannan Jiang, Yi Yang, Yongchao Yin, (unknown), Shawn R. Campagna, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Frank E. Löffler	53
17	Refined experimental annotation reveals conserved corrinoid autotrophy in chloroform-respiring Dehalobacter isolates 2016 ·The ISME Journal ·Po‐Hsiang Wang, Shuiquan Tang, (unknown), Robert Flick, Jun Yan, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Alexander F. Yakunin, Frank E. Löffler, Elizabeth A. Edwards	20
18	Graphite Electrode as a Sole Electron Donor for Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachlorethene by Geobacter lovleyi 2008 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Sarah Strycharz, Trevor L. Woodard, Jessica Johnson, Kelly P. Nevin, Robert A. Sanford, Frank E. Löffler, Derek R. Lovley	200
19	Bioaugmentation for chlorinated ethene detoxification: Bioaugmentation and molecular diagnostics in the bioremediation of chlorinated ethene-contaminated sites 2005 ·Industrial Biotechnology ·Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Frank E. Löffler, (unknown), Stephen S. Koenigsberg	36
20	Impacts of Residual Surfactant on Tetrachloroethene (PCE) Degradation Following Pilot-Scale SEAR Treatment at a Chloroethene-Impacted Site 2003 ·EAEJA ·C. Andrew Ramsburg, Linda M. Abriola, Kurt D. Pennell, Frank E. Löffler, (unknown), Erik Petrovskis	1

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