Stephen H. Zinder

11.8k citations

91 papers · 7.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 46

Pollution top 0.05%
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants 33
Environmental Chemistry top 0.5%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 18
Pharmaceutical Science top 0.5%
- Chemical Reactions and Isotopes 13
Environmental Engineering top 0.5%
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation 8
Building and Construction top 0.2%
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production 22
Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 30
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 12
Molecular Biology
- Microbial metabolism and enzyme function 14

Co-authors: James M. Gossett Yueh‐tyng Chien Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz Joseph B. Yavitt Donna E. Fennell Monica J. Lee Largus T. Angenent Matthew T. Agler
Cited by: Pollution Environmental Chemistry Pharmaceutical Science
Journals: Nature (3 papers)Science (1 paper)Environmental Science & Technology (16 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

In The Last Decade

Stephen H. Zinder

90 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

2012 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
2010 Trends in biotechnology
1997 Science

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1	Colors of Life in the Clouds: Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect Life on Planets like Earth The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Lígia F. Coelho,Lisa Kaltenegger,William Philpot,Adam J. Ellington,Noelle C. Bryan,Stephen H. Zinder,Brent C. Christner	2025	0
2	Color Catalogue of Life in Ice: Surface Biosignatures on Icy Worlds Astrobiology ·Lígia F. Coelho,Jack Madden,Lisa Kaltenegger,Stephen H. Zinder,William Philpot,M. Glória Esquível,João Canário,Rodrigo Costa,Warwick F. Vincent,Zita Martins	2021	13
3	The Green Berry Consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh: Millimeter-Sized Aggregates of Diazotrophic Unicellular Cyanobacteria Frontiers in Microbiology ·Elizabeth G. Wilbanks,Verena Salman-Carvalho,Ulrike Jaekel,Parris T. Humphrey,Jonathan A. Eisen,Daniel H. Buckley,Stephen H. Zinder	2017	5
4	Genomic composition and dynamics among Methanomicrobiales predict adaptation to contrasting environments The ISME Journal ·Patrick Denis Browne,Hideyuki Tamaki,Nikos C. Kyrpides,Tanja Woyke,Lynne Goodwin,Hiroyuki Imachi,Suzanna L. Bräuer,Joseph B. Yavitt,Wen‐Tso Liu,Stephen H. Zinder,Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz	2016	35
5	Isolation of an aerobic vinyl chloride oxidizer from anaerobic groundwater Biodegradation ·Heather Fullerton,Rebecca Rogers,David L. Freedman,Stephen H. Zinder	2014	19
6	Anaerobic Conversion of Chlorobenzene and Benzene to CH ₄ and CO ₂ in Bioaugmented Microcosms Environmental Science & Technology ·Xiaoming Liang,Cheryl E. Devine,Jennifer L. Nelson,Barbara Sherwood Lollar,Stephen H. Zinder,Elizabeth A. Edwards	2013	44
7	Seasonal Changes in Methanogenesis and Methanogenic Community in Three Peatlands, New York State Frontiers in Microbiology ·Christine Sun,Suzanna L. Bräuer,Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz,Stephen H. Zinder,Joseph B. Yavitt	2012	44
8	Global gene expression of Dehalococcoides within a robust dynamic TCE‐dechlorinating community under conditions of periodic substrate supply Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Kimberlee A. West,Patrick K. H. Lee,David R. Johnson,Stephen H. Zinder,Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen	2012	18
9	Comparative genomics of two newly isolated Dehalococcoides strains and an enrichment using a genus microarray The ISME Journal ·Patrick K. H. Lee,Dan Cheng,Ping Hu,Kimberlee A. West,Gregory J. Dick,Eoin Brodie,Gary L. Andersen,Stephen H. Zinder,Jianzhong He,Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen	2011	48
10	ORIGINAL RESEARCH: Comparative constraint-based model development for thermophilic hydrogen production Industrial Biotechnology ·Sarah Munro,Stephen H. Zinder,Larry P. Walker	2011	4
11	Sustainable syntrophic growth of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 with Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Methanobacterium congolense : global transcriptomic and proteomic analyses The ISME Journal ·Yujie Men,Helene Feil,Nathan C. VerBerkmoes,Manesh Shah,David R. Johnson,Patrick K. H. Lee,Kimberlee A. West,Stephen H. Zinder,Gary L. Andersen,Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen	2011	130
12	Multicellular photo‐magnetotactic bacteria Environmental Microbiology Reports ·Orr H. Shapiro,Roland Hatzenpichler,Daniel H. Buckley,Stephen H. Zinder,Victoria J. Orphan	2010	40
13	The fermentation stoichiometry of Thermotoga neapolitana and influence of temperature, oxygen, and pH on hydrogen production Biotechnology Progress ·Sarah Munro,Stephen H. Zinder,Larry P. Walker	2009	45
14	Vertical profiles of methanogenesis and methanogens in two contrasting acidic peatlands in central New York State, USA Environmental Microbiology ·Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz,Suzanna L. Bräuer,Erika Yashiro,Christine Sun,Joseph B. Yavitt,Stephen H. Zinder	2006	168
15	Isolation of a novel acidiphilic methanogen from an acidic peat bog Nature ·Suzanna L. Bräuer,Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz,Erika Yashiro,Joseph B. Yavitt,Stephen H. Zinder	2006	134
16	Genome sequence of the chlorinated compound–respiring bacterium Dehalococcoides species strain CBDB1 Nature Biotechnology ·Michael Kube,Alfred Beck,Stephen H. Zinder,Heiner Kuhl,Richard Reinhardt,Lorenz Adrian	2005	234
17	The future for culturing environmental organisms: a golden era ahead? Environmental Microbiology ·Stephen H. Zinder	2002	6
18	Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Ethenes and 1,2-Dichloroethane by “ Dehalococcoides ethenogenes ” 195 Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Xavier Maymó-Gatell,T. Anguish,Stephen H. Zinder	1999	270
19	Acetyl-coenzyme A synthetase in the thermophilic, acetate-utilizing methanogenMethanothrixsp. strain CALS-1 FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Yok Lan Teh,Stephen H. Zinder	1992	13
20	Carbon monoxide pathway enzyme activities in a thermophilic anaerobic bacterium grown acetogenically and in a syntrophic acetate-oxidizing coculture Archives of Microbiology ·Monica J. Lee,Stephen H. Zinder	1988	26

About Stephen H. Zinder

Stephen H. Zinder is a scholar working on Pollution, Pharmaceutical Science and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 91 papers that have together received 7.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers), Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (22 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (18 papers), Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (14 papers), Chemical Reactions and Isotopes (13 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (12 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (3.9k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.3k citations) and Pharmaceutical Science (741 citations). Stephen H. Zinder has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include James M. Gossett, Yueh‐tyng Chien, Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz, Joseph B. Yavitt, Donna E. Fennell, Monica J. Lee, Largus T. Angenent, Matthew T. Agler, Brian A. Wrenn and Markus Koch. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Environmental Science & Technology.

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