Largus T. Angenent

30.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
213 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Largus T. Angenent is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Largus T. Angenent has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Building and Construction, 72 papers in Environmental Engineering and 71 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Largus T. Angenent's work include Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (75 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (70 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (41 papers). Largus T. Angenent is often cited by papers focused on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (75 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (70 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (41 papers). Largus T. Angenent collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Largus T. Angenent's co-authors include Zhen He, Miriam A. Rosenbaum, Rob Knight, Ruth E. Ley, Jeffrey J. Werner, Catherine M. Spirito, Hanno Richter, Aymé Spor, Brian A. Wrenn and Shelley D. Minteer and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Largus T. Angenent

209 papers receiving 20.6k 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.

Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

2010 1.8k citations Aymé Spor, Rob Knight et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy

2012 1.5k citations Omry Koren, Julia K. Goodrich et al. Cell profile →
Production of bioenergy and biochemicals from industrial and agricultural wastewater

2004 739 citations Largus T. Angenent, Brian A. Wrenn et al. Trends in biotechnology profile →
Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform

2010 647 citations Matthew T. Agler, Brian A. Wrenn et al. Trends in biotechnology profile →
Electricity Generation from Artificial Wastewater Using an Upflow Microbial Fuel Cell

2005 600 citations Largus T. Angenent et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Rapid electron transfer by the carbon matrix in natural pyrogenic carbon

2017 512 citations Juan J. L. Guzman, Largus T. Angenent et al. profile →
Chain Elongation with Reactor Microbiomes: Open-Culture Biotechnology To Produce Biochemicals

2016 489 citations Largus T. Angenent, Hanno Richter et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Biochemical methane potential and biodegradability of complex organic substrates

2010 480 citations Largus T. Angenent et al. Bioresource Technology profile →
Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys

2011 459 citations Jeffrey J. Werner, Omry Koren et al. profile →
Bacterial community structures are unique and resilient in full-scale bioenergy systems

2011 384 citations Jeffrey J. Werner, Dan Knights et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Chain elongation in anaerobic reactor microbiomes to recover resources from waste

2014 371 citations Catherine M. Spirito, Hanno Richter et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Largus T. Angenent United States	72	7.8k	6.8k	5.4k	5.4k	3.7k	213	21.0k
Nico Boon Belgium	108	8.4k 1.1×	12.0k 1.8×	5.1k 0.9×	3.5k 0.7×	5.1k 1.4×	679	41.1k
Kazuya Watanabe Japan	58	3.1k 0.4×	5.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.3×	1.3k 0.2×	3.1k 0.8×	297	12.5k
Ashley E. Franks Australia	51	2.3k 0.3×	6.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.3×	1.0k 0.2×	3.2k 0.9×	167	12.8k
In S. Kim South Korea	65	1.6k 0.2×	3.1k 0.5×	5.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	4.5k 1.2×	541	18.1k
Caroline M. Plugge Netherlands	55	4.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.4×	2.3k 0.4×	3.9k 0.7×	541 0.1×	152	12.1k
Rosa Krajmalnik‐Brown United States	51	6.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.3×	653 0.1×	1.2k 0.3×	147	14.6k
Xia Huang China	86	1.2k 0.2×	8.9k 1.3×	9.5k 1.7×	826 0.2×	8.0k 2.2×	668	28.5k
Haluk Beyenal United States	56	2.8k 0.4×	4.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.4×	205 0.0×	3.2k 0.9×	208	10.6k
Hauke Harms Germany	66	5.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.2×	2.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.2×	1.3k 0.3×	368	17.1k
Karsten Zengler United States	54	5.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.2×	1.5k 0.3×	1.1k 0.2×	337 0.1×	130	11.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Largus T. Angenent

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Jeon, Byoung Seung, Eun Jung Kim, Hogyun Seo, et al.. (2025). Molecular Chain Elongation Mechanism for n ‐Caproate Biosynthesis by Megasphaera Hexanoica. Advanced Science. 12(44). e06069–e06069.

Angenent, Largus T., et al.. (2024). Electrical-energy storage into chemical-energy carriers by combining or integrating electrochemistry and biology. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(11). 3682–3699. 16 indexed citations

Poehlein, Anja, Benjamin Zeldes, Bastian Molitor, et al.. (2024). Advanced aspects of acetogens. Bioresource Technology. 427. 131913–131913. 15 indexed citations

Buchner, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Deployment of power-to-protein technology in Ethiopia to provide drought-related emergency relief and mitigate food insecurity. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8. 2 indexed citations

Angenent, Largus T., et al.. (2024). Anaerobic digestion of process water from hydrothermal treatment processes: a review of inhibitors and detoxification approaches. Bioresources and Bioprocessing. 11(1). 47–47. 14 indexed citations

Molitor, Bastian, et al.. (2022). Acetate augmentation boosts the ethanol production rate and specificity by Clostridium ljungdahlii during gas fermentation with pure carbon monoxide. Bioresource Technology. 369. 128387–128387. 19 indexed citations

Nguyen, Mytien, Eric C. Holmes, & Largus T. Angenent. (2021). The short-term effect of residential home energy retrofits on indoor air quality and microbial exposure: A case-control study. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0230700–e0230700. 5 indexed citations

Xia, Peng‐Fei, et al.. (2020). Reprogramming Acetogenic Bacteria with CRISPR-Targeted Base Editing via Deamination. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(8). 2162–2171. 37 indexed citations

Xu, Jiajie, et al.. (2019). Temperature-Phased Conversion of Acid Whey Waste Into Medium-Chain Carboxylic Acids via Lactic Acid: No External e-Donor. Joule. 3(3). 885–888. 13 indexed citations

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Liotta, Janice L., et al.. (2019). Current time-temperature relationships for thermal inactivation of Ascaris eggs at mesophilic temperatures are too conservative and may hamper development of simple, but effective sanitation. Water Research X. 5. 100036–100036. 8 indexed citations

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Friedman, Elliot S., Lauren McPhillips, Jeffrey J. Werner, et al.. (2016). Methane Emission in a Specific Riparian-Zone Sediment Decreased with Bioelectrochemical Manipulation and Corresponded to the Microbial Community Dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1523–1523. 14 indexed citations

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Angenent, Largus T., Hanno Richter, Wolfgang Buckel, et al.. (2016). Chain Elongation with Reactor Microbiomes: Open-Culture Biotechnology To Produce Biochemicals. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(6). 2796–2810. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Usack, Joseph G. & Largus T. Angenent. (2015). Comparing the inhibitory thresholds of dairy manure co-digesters after prolonged acclimation periods: Part 1 – Performance and operating limits. Water Research. 87. 446–457. 51 indexed citations

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Fornero, Jeffrey J., et al.. (2013). A Single-Culture Bioprocess ofMethanothermobacter thermautotrophicusto Upgrade Digester Biogas by CO₂-to-CH₄Conversion with H₂. Archaea. 2013. 1–11. 128 indexed citations

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Koren, Omry, Julia K. Goodrich, Tyler C. Cullender, et al.. (2012). Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy. Cell. 150(3). 470–480. 1514 indexed citations breakdown →

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TerAvest, Michaela A. & Largus T. Angenent. (2012). Engineering bacterial biocomputers using a top-down approach and dynamic genetic circuits. International journal of unconventional computing. 8. 509–515. 1 indexed citations

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Agler, Matthew T., Catherine M. Spirito, Joseph G. Usack, Jeffrey J. Werner, & Largus T. Angenent. (2012). Chain elongation with reactor microbiomes: upgrading dilute ethanol to medium-chain carboxylates. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(8). 8189–8189. 303 indexed citations

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Werner, Jeffrey J., Dan Knights, Marcelo Loureiro García, et al.. (2011). Bacterial community structures are unique and resilient in full-scale bioenergy systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(10). 4158–4163. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Agler, Matthew T., Brian A. Wrenn, Stephen H. Zinder, & Largus T. Angenent. (2010). Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform. Trends in biotechnology. 29(2). 70–78. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Briones, Aurelio, et al.. (2009). Characterization of microbial trophic structures of two anaerobic bioreactors processing sulfate-rich waste streams. Water Research. 43(18). 4451–4460. 29 indexed citations

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