Michael Wagner

73.8k citations
358 papers · 51.1k indexed · 28 hit papers · h-index 121

Impact in

  • Pollution top 0.01%
    • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Ecology top 0.01%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Papers in

    • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 132
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 151

Michael Wagner

348 papers receiving 49.5k citations

Hit Papers

Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities 2020 · 350 citations
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Peers

Michael Wagner
Comparison fields: 5 of 207
  • Pollution 21.9k
  • Ecology 23.7k
  • Environmental Chemistry 6.0k
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 4.6k
  • Environmental Engineering 7.2k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Wagner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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2 20251
3 20250
4 20243
5 20239
6 2021141
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Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities
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2020350
10 202057
11 2019151
12 2019139
13 2019196
14 201892
15 2017113
16 201464
17 2009117
18 2006187
19 2004331
20 2004236

About Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Endocrinology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 358 papers that have together received 51.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (151 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (132 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (58 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (44 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (42 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (23 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (19 papers) and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (21.9k citations), Ecology (23.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (6.0k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (4.6k citations) and Environmental Engineering (7.2k citations). Michael Wagner has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Holger Daims, Rudolf Amann, Karl‐Heinz Schleifer, Alexander Loy, Matthias Horn, Sebastian Lücker, Per Halkjær Nielsen, Stefan Juretschko, Markus Schmid and Wolfgang Ludwig. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, The ISME Journal, Environmental Microbiology, Water Science & Technology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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