Lesley A. Robertson

9.6k citations

74 papers · 7.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

Pollution top 0.05%
Ecology top 0.5%
Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.5%
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering top 0.2%

Co-authors: J. Gijs Kuenen A.A. van de Graaf Mike S. M. Jetten A. Mulder Peter de Bruijn Ed W. J. van Niel Dimitry Y. Sorokin Tage Dalsgaard
Topics: Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (34 papers)Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers)Medical History and Innovations (7 papers)
Cited by: Pollution Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Environmental Engineering
Journals: Applied and Environmental Microbiology FEBS Letters FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Partner nations: Netherlands United Kingdom Russia

In The Last Decade

Lesley A. Robertson

73 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Autotrophic growth of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing micro-organisms in a fluidized bed reactor

1996 1.2k citations A.A. van de Graaf, Lesley A. Robertson et al. profile →
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation discovered in a denitrifying fluidized bed reactor

1995 1.2k citations A. Mulder, A.A. van de Graaf et al. FEMS Microbiology Ecology profile →
Anaerobic oxidation of ammonium is a biologically mediated process

1995 606 citations A.A. van de Graaf, A. Mulder et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Lighting Van Leeuwenhoek's samples 2017 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Lesley A. Robertson	3
2	Historical microbiology, is it relevant in the 21st century? 2015 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Lesley A. Robertson	10
3	van Leeuwenhoek microscopes—where are they now? 2015 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Lesley A. Robertson	11
4	Photobacterium piscicola sp. nov., isolated from marine fish and spoiled packed cod 2014 ·Systematic and Applied Microbiology ·Marian J. Figge,Ilse Cleenwerck,(unknown),Paul de Vos,Geert Huys,Lesley A. Robertson	34
5	Beijerinck and the bioluminescent bacteria: microbiological experiments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 2010 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Lesley A. Robertson,Marian J. Figge,Paul V. Dunlap	11
6	cbb3-type cytochrome oxidase in the obligately chemolithoautotrophic Thiobacillus sp. W5 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·(unknown),Govardus A. H. de Jong,(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	8
7	The Delft School of Microbiology, from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century 2003 ·Advances in applied microbiology ·Lesley A. Robertson	7
8	Anaerobic oxidation of thiosulfate to tetrathionate by obligately heterotrophic bacteria, belonging to the Pseudomonas stutzeri group 1999 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Dimitry Y. Sorokin,Andreas Teske,Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	69
9	Novel principles in the microbial conversion of nitrogen compounds 1997 ·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Mike S. M. Jetten,Susanne Logemann,Gerard Muyzer,Lesley A. Robertson,Simon de Vries,Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht,(unknown)	153
10	Purification and characterization of a periplasmic thiosulfate dehydrogenase from the obligately autotrophicThiobacillus sp. W5 1996 ·Archives of Microbiology ·(unknown),Govardus A. H. de Jong,Lesley A. Robertson,(unknown)	22
11	Methanol oxidation in a spontaneous mutant ofThiosphaera pantotrophawith a methanol-positive phenotype is catalysed by a dye-linked ethanol dehydrogenase 1995 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·J Ras,(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen,Rob J. M. van Spanning,Adriaan H. Stouthamer,Nellie Harms	6
12	Anaerobic ammonium oxidation discovered in a denitrifying fluidized bed reactorbreakdown → 1995 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·A. Mulder,A.A. van de Graaf,Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	1232
13	Rapid short-term poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production by Thiosphaera pantotropha in the presence of excess acetate 1995 ·Enzyme and Microbial Technology ·(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	15
14	Combined nitrification-denitrification processes 1994 ·FEMS Microbiology Reviews ·J. Gijs Kuenen,Lesley A. Robertson	166
15	The effect of electron acceptor variations on the behaviour ofThiosphaera pantotrophaandParacoccus denitrificansin pure and mixed cultures 1992 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	21
16	Heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification inAlcaligenes faecalis strain TUD 1992 ·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Ed W. J. van Niel,(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	85
17	Anoxic ammonium oxidation 1990 ·Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) ·A.A. van de Graaf,A. Mulder,(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,J. Gijs Kuenen	47
18	Determination of growth and coupled nitrification/denitrification by immobilized Thiosphaera pantotropha using measurement and modeling of oxygen profiles 1990 ·Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Christine M. Hooijmans,(unknown),(unknown),Lesley A. Robertson,Joseph J. Heijnen,K. Ch. A. M. Luyben	30
19	Aerobic denitrification in various heterotrophic nitrifiers 1989 ·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Lesley A. Robertson,(unknown),Paul de Vos,(unknown),J. Gijs Kuenen	169
20	The effect of thiosulphate and other inhibitors of autotrophic nitrification on heterotrophic nitrifiers 1989 ·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Lesley A. Robertson,(unknown),Rong Zeng,J. Gijs Kuenen	28

About Lesley A. Robertson

Lesley A. Robertson is a scholar working on Pollution, Process Chemistry and Technology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 74 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (34 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Medical History and Innovations (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (5.4k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (1.2k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.9k citations). Lesley A. Robertson has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Russia. Frequent co-authors include J. Gijs Kuenen, A.A. van de Graaf, J. Gijs Kuenen, Mike S. M. Jetten, A. Mulder, Peter de Bruijn, Ed W. J. van Niel, Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Tage Dalsgaard and Niels Peter Revsbech. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, FEBS Letters and FEMS Microbiology Reviews.

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