Lawrence P. Wackett

17.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
312 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

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Lawrence P. Wackett is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence P. Wackett has authored 312 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Molecular Biology, 103 papers in Pollution and 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lawrence P. Wackett's work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (54 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (46 papers) and Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (45 papers). Lawrence P. Wackett is often cited by papers focused on Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (54 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (46 papers) and Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (45 papers). Lawrence P. Wackett collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Spain. Lawrence P. Wackett's co-authors include Michael J. Sadowsky, David T. Gibson, Lynda B.M. Ellis, Deborah L. Allan, R T Mandelbaum, Kathrin Fenner, Mervyn L. de Souza, Martin Elsner, Jennifer L. Seffernick and Silvio Canonica and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence P. Wackett

301 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Evaluating Pesticide Degradation in the Environment: Blind Spots and Emerging Opportunities

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lawrence P. Wackett United States	61	6.4k	5.1k	2.6k	1.8k	1.3k	312	13.0k
Jim C. Spain United States	56	6.0k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	716 0.4×	581 0.5×	199	10.4k
David T. Gibson United States	66	7.9k 1.2×	6.3k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	2.4k 1.9×	164	13.2k
Dietrich H. Nies Germany	52	2.7k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	5.3k 2.1×	1.6k 0.9×	782 0.6×	114	11.9k
Dick B. Janssen Netherlands	70	5.2k 0.8×	11.0k 2.2×	1.2k 0.5×	729 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	330	16.3k
Rebecca E. Parales United States	44	3.3k 0.5×	3.4k 0.7×	795 0.3×	842 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	100	7.5k
Bernhard Schink Germany	71	5.1k 0.8×	6.6k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	768 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	335	19.5k
Daniël van der Lelie United States	67	3.0k 0.5×	4.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	5.7k 3.2×	305 0.2×	141	15.6k
Qing X. Li United States	56	4.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	175 0.1×	490	13.3k
Jun Wang China	64	5.2k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	4.5k 1.7×	1.7k 0.9×	199 0.2×	484	15.5k
Thomas Leisinger Switzerland	50	2.6k 0.4×	3.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	299 0.2×	160	7.4k

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Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2025). PFAS Biodegradation and the Constraints of Thermodynamics. Microbial Biotechnology. 18(6). e70181–e70181. 1 indexed citations

Dodge, Anthony G., et al.. (2024). A Model for Mechanical Stress Limited Bacterial Growth and Resporulation in Confinement. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(32). 41800–41809. 1 indexed citations

Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2024). Microwell fluoride assay screening for enzymatic defluorination. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 696. 65–83. 4 indexed citations

Elias, Mikael, et al.. (2024). Dinickel enzyme evolved to metabolize the pharmaceutical metformin and its implications for wastewater and human microbiomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(10). e2312652121–e2312652121. 8 indexed citations

Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2024). Confronting PFAS persistence: enzymes catalyzing C–F bond cleavage. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 50(1). 71–83. 7 indexed citations

Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2023). Acid stress in microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 15(4). 335–336. 1 indexed citations

Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2023). A microbial evolutionary approach for a sustainable future. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(10). 1895–1899. 3 indexed citations

Aukema, Kelly G., et al.. (2022). Microwell Fluoride Screen for Chemical, Enzymatic, and Cellular Reactions Reveals Latent Microbial Defluorination Capacity for −CF ₃ Groups. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(9). e0028822–e0028822. 23 indexed citations

Robinson, Serina L., Barbara R. Terlouw, Sacha J. Pidot, et al.. (2020). Global analysis of adenylate-forming enzymes reveals β-lactone biosynthesis pathway in pathogenic Nocardia. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(44). 14826–14839. 31 indexed citations

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Aukema, Kelly G., et al.. (2019). Cyanuric Acid Biodegradation via Biuret: Physiology, Taxonomy, and Geospatial Distribution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(2). 20 indexed citations

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Robinson, Serina L., et al.. (2019). Mechanism of a Standalone β‐Lactone Synthetase: New Continuous Assay for a Widespread ANL Superfamily Enzyme. ChemBioChem. 20(13). 1701–1711. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Ping, Hirotaka Uefuji, Deborah A. Samac, et al.. (2014). Biodegradation of atrazine by three transgenic grasses and alfalfa expressing a modified bacterial atrazine chlorohydrolase gene. Transgenic Research. 24(3). 475–488. 9 indexed citations

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Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2012). Industrial applications of microbial salt‐tolerant enzymes. Microbial Biotechnology. 5(5). 668–669. 2 indexed citations

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Wackett, Lawrence P.. (2010). Engineering microbes to produce biofuels. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 22(3). 388–393. 30 indexed citations

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Seffernick, Jennifer L., А.А. Федоров, E.V. Fedorov, et al.. (2010). X-ray Structure and Mutational Analysis of the Atrazine Chlorohydrolase TrzN. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(40). 30606–30614. 27 indexed citations

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Wackett, Lawrence P., et al.. (2010). Cloning, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of the OleC protein fromStenotrophomonas maltophiliainvolved in head-to-head hydrocarbon biosynthesis. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 66(9). 1108–1110. 8 indexed citations

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Wackett, Lawrence P., et al.. (2007). Genomic and Biochemical Studies Demonstrating the Absence of an Alkane-Producing Phenotype in Vibrio furnissii M1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(22). 7192–7198. 37 indexed citations

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Martínez-Vaz, Betsy M., Jeffrey Tomkins, Lawrence P. Wackett, Rod A. Wing, & Michael J. Sadowsky. (2001). Complete Nucleotide Sequence and Organization of the Atrazine Catabolic Plasmid pADP-1 from Pseudomonas sp . Strain ADP. Journal of Bacteriology. 183(19). 5684–5697. 273 indexed citations

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Sadowsky, Michael J. & Lawrence P. Wackett. (1999). Genetics and biochemistry of atrazine biodegradation by Pseudomonas sp strain ADP and other gram-negative bacteria. 218. 177. 1 indexed citations

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Wackett, Lawrence P.. (1995). Recruitment of co-metabolic enzymes for environmental detoxification of organohalides.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 103(suppl 5). 45–48. 7 indexed citations

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