Marc Strous

36.5k total citations · 13 hit papers
157 papers, 24.8k citations indexed

About

Marc Strous is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Strous has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 24.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Pollution, 86 papers in Ecology and 60 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Marc Strous's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (88 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (82 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (30 papers). Marc Strous is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (88 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (82 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (30 papers). Marc Strous collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Canada and Germany. Marc Strous's co-authors include Mike S. M. Jetten, J. Gijs Kuenen, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Markus Schmid, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, John A. Fuerst, Joseph J. Heijnen, Boran Kartal, Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen and J. Gijs Kuenen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marc Strous

155 papers receiving 24.0k citations

Hit Papers

The sequencing batch reactor as a powerful tool for the s... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 1999 1999 2006 2007 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. The sequencing batch reactor as a powerful tool for the study of slowly growing anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing microorganisms
    1998 1.9k citations Marc Strous, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. profile →
  2. Missing lithotroph identified as new planctomycete
    1999 1.2k citations Marc Strous, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. profile →
  3. Key Physiology of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation
    1999 1.1k citations Marc Strous, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. profile →
  4. A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification
    2006 1.0k citations Arjan Pol, Katharina F. Ettwig et al. profile →
  5. Startup of reactors for anoxic ammonium oxidation: Experiences from the first full-scale anammox reactor in Rotterdam
    2007 979 citations Wouter R. L. van der Star, Wiebe Abma et al. profile →
  6. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea
    2003 947 citations Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al. profile →
  7. Archaeal nitrification in the ocean
    2006 918 citations Cornelia Wuchter, Ben Abbas et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation
    2011 737 citations Boran Kartal, Huub J. M. Op den Camp et al. profile →
  9. The anaerobic oxidation of ammonium
    1998 659 citations Mike S. M. Jetten, Marc Strous et al. profile →
  10. Molecular Evidence for Genus Level Diversity of Bacteria Capable of Catalyzing Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation
    2000 573 citations Marc Strous, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. profile →
  11. Microbiology and application of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (‘anammox’) process
    2001 511 citations Mike S. M. Jetten, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  12. Candidatus “Scalindua brodae”, sp. nov., Candidatus “Scalindua wagneri”, sp. nov., Two New Species of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria
    2003 501 citations W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Stefan Schouten et al. profile →
  13. The environmental controls that govern the end product of bacterial nitrate respiration
    2014 422 citations Beate Kraft, Halina E. Tegetmeyer et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marc Strous Netherlands 66 17.4k 9.4k 6.6k 5.1k 4.0k 157 24.8k
Boran Kartal Netherlands 54 11.6k 0.7× 5.9k 0.6× 4.5k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 89 16.0k
J. Gijs Kuenen Netherlands 56 10.0k 0.6× 4.5k 0.5× 4.0k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 144 14.9k
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Netherlands 70 7.9k 0.5× 7.1k 0.8× 2.9k 0.4× 2.2k 0.4× 4.8k 1.2× 311 20.0k
Mike S. M. Jetten Netherlands 118 34.2k 2.0× 18.8k 2.0× 12.8k 1.9× 10.0k 2.0× 9.7k 2.4× 488 52.6k
Holger Daims Austria 63 9.8k 0.6× 9.2k 1.0× 3.2k 0.5× 3.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 109 17.0k
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Germany 80 8.3k 0.5× 12.2k 1.3× 2.0k 0.3× 1.5k 0.3× 5.3k 1.3× 194 23.1k
J. Gijs Kuenen Netherlands 45 7.0k 0.4× 3.0k 0.3× 2.6k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 99 10.4k
Niels Peter Revsbech Denmark 79 4.7k 0.3× 8.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.3× 1.0k 0.2× 4.6k 1.2× 192 18.5k
Katherine D. McMahon United States 62 4.5k 0.3× 6.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.2× 1.1k 0.2× 1.8k 0.4× 161 12.4k
Akiyoshi Ohashi Japan 54 4.4k 0.3× 2.5k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 1.2k 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 220 10.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marc Strous

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Strous

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marc Strous. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marc Strous based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marc Strous. Marc Strous is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Li, Shengjie, Marc Strous, & Muhe Diao. (2025). Groundwater Nitrogen Fixation Is Associated with Methane and Sulfur Cycling. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(35). 18664–18674.
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Li, Shengjie, et al.. (2024). High diversity, abundance, and expression of hydrogenases in groundwater. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae023–ycae023. 8 indexed citations
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Strous, Marc, et al.. (2023). Viral diversity and dynamics and CRISPR-Cas-mediated immunity in a robust alkaliphilic cyanobacterial consortium. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0221723–e0221723. 2 indexed citations
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Strous, Marc, et al.. (2023). Biomass losses of Sodalinema alkaliphilum in alkaline, high pH, open raceway ponds. Algal Research. 78. 103373–103373. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Shengjie, et al.. (2023). Frequency of change determines effectiveness of microbial response strategies. The ISME Journal. 17(11). 2047–2057. 10 indexed citations
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Strous, Marc, et al.. (2023). The Vigor, Futility, and Application of Microbial Element Cycles in Alkaline Soda Lakes. Elements. 19(1). 30–36. 16 indexed citations
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Borton, Mikayla, Kathleen M. Regan, Isabella Hrabě de Angelis, et al.. (2021). Degradation of biological macromolecules supports uncultured microbial populations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments. The ISME Journal. 15(12). 3480–3497. 22 indexed citations
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Rizzo, Carmen, Marc Strous, Emilio De Domenico, et al.. (2019). Prokaryotic Dynamics in the Meromictic Coastal Lake Faro (Sicily, Italy). Diversity. 11(3). 37–37. 9 indexed citations
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Kleiner, Manuel, Xiaoli Dong, Tjorven Hinzke, et al.. (2018). Metaproteomics method to determine carbon sources and assimilation pathways of species in microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(24). E5576–E5584. 44 indexed citations
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Dong, Xiaoli, Manuel Kleiner, Christine Sharp, et al.. (2017). Fast and Simple Analysis of MiSeq Amplicon Sequencing Data with MetaAmp. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1461–1461. 69 indexed citations
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Kraft, Beate, Halina E. Tegetmeyer, Ritin Sharma, et al.. (2014). The environmental controls that govern the end product of bacterial nitrate respiration. Science. 345(6197). 676–679. 422 indexed citations breakdown →
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Strous, Marc, et al.. (2012). The Binning of Metagenomic Contigs for Microbial Physiology of Mixed Cultures. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 410–410. 154 indexed citations
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Wu, Ming, Katharina F. Ettwig, Mike S. M. Jetten, et al.. (2011). A new intra-aerobic metabolism in the nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane-oxidizing bacterium Candidatus ‘Methylomirabilis oxyfera’. Biochemical Society Transactions. 39(1). 243–248. 145 indexed citations
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Ettwig, Katharina F., Arjan Pol, Margaret K. Butler, et al.. (2009). What is extreme? Methanotrophy at pH 1 or without oxygen?. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 73. 1 indexed citations
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Rattray, Jayne E., Jack van de Vossenberg, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al.. (2008). Ladderane lipid distribution in four genera of anammox bacteria. Archives of Microbiology. 190(1). 51–66. 80 indexed citations
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Abma, Wiebe, C.E. Schultz, Jan‐Willem Mulder, et al.. (2007). The advance of Anammox. Water. 36–37. 23 indexed citations
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Wuchter, Cornelia, Ben Abbas, Marco J. L. Coolen, et al.. (2006). Archaeal nitrification in the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(33). 12317–12322. 918 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kartal, Boran, et al.. (2006). Adaptation of a freshwater anammox population to high salinity wastewater. Journal of Biotechnology. 126(4). 546–553. 243 indexed citations

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