Torben Nielsen

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Torben Nielsen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Torben Nielsen has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 37 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Torben Nielsen's work include Optical Network Technologies (34 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (21 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (19 papers). Torben Nielsen is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (34 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (21 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (19 papers). Torben Nielsen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Torben Nielsen's co-authors include Paul Henning Krogh, Line Emilie Sverdrup, Anders Feilberg, Henrik Skov, Philippe Grandjean, Thomas Ramdahl, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Krishna Palaniappan and Marcel Huntemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Torben Nielsen

111 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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IMG/M: integrated genome and metagenome comparative data analysis system

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Emergence and disruption of cooperativity in a denitrifying microbial community 2025 ·The ISME Journal ·Alex V. Carr, (unknown), Kristopher A. Hunt, Yan Chen, James M. Wilson, José P. Faria, Filipe Liu, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, Jacob J. Valenzuela, Serdar Turkarslan, Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Adam P. Arkin, Christopher S. Henry, Christopher J. Petzold, David A. Stahl, Nitin S. Baliga	1
2	Decomposing a San Francisco estuary microbiome using long-read metagenomics reveals species- and strain-level dominance from picoeukaryotes to viruses 2024 ·mSystems ·Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen	2
3	Genomic and environmental controls on Castellaniella biogeography in an anthropogenically disturbed subsurface 2024 ·Environmental Microbiome ·Jennifer L. Goff, (unknown), (unknown), Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Kristopher A. Hunt, John‐Marc Chandonia, Jiawen Huang, Michael P. Thorgersen, Farris L. Poole, David A. Stahl, Romy Chakraborty, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Adam P. Arkin, Michael W. W. Adams	2
4	Molecular mechanisms and environmental adaptations of flagellar loss and biofilm growth of Rhodanobacter under environmental stress 2024 ·The ISME Journal ·Mingfei Chen, Valentine V. Trotter, Peter J. Walian, Yan Chen, (unknown), Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, (unknown), Michael P. Thorgersen, (unknown), (unknown), Adam M. Deutschbauer, Christopher J. Petzold, Heidi J. Smith, Adam P. Arkin, Michael W. W. Adams, Matthew W. Fields, Romy Chakraborty	4
5	Distinct Depth-Discrete Profiles of Microbial Communities and Geochemical Insights in the Subsurface Critical Zone 2023 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Xiaoqin Wu, (unknown), Lauren Michelle Lui, (unknown), Yina Liu, Sindhu Jagadamma, Torben Nielsen, Nicholas B. Justice, Tuesday Simmons, Nancy Hess, Dominique C. Joyner, Terry C. Hazen, Adam P. Arkin, Romy Chakraborty	5
6	Ecophysiological and genomic analyses of a representative isolate of highly abundant Bacillus cereus strains in contaminated subsurface sediments 2022 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Jennifer L. Goff, (unknown), Michael P. Thorgersen, (unknown), Yupeng Fan, Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Kristopher A. Hunt, (unknown), Yajiao Wang, Daliang Ning, Ying Fu, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Farris L. Poole, John‐Marc Chandonia, Terry C. Hazen, David A. Stahl, Jizhong Zhou, Adam P. Arkin, Michael W. W. Adams	6
7	Genomic Features and Pervasive Negative Selection in Rhodanobacter Strains Isolated from Nitrate and Heavy Metal Contaminated Aquifer 2022 ·Microbiology Spectrum ·Mugen Peng, (unknown), Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Renmao Tian, Megan L. Kempher, Xuanyu Tao, Chongle Pan, Romy Chakraborty, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Michael P. Thorgersen, Michael W. W. Adams, Matthew W. Fields, Terry C. Hazen, Adam P. Arkin, Aifen Zhou, Jizhong Zhou	18
8	Genotype to ecotype in niche environments: adaptation of Arthrobacter to carbon availability and environmental conditions 2022 ·ISME Communications ·(unknown), Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Xiaoqin Wu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Farris L. Poole, Michael W. W. Adams, Adam P. Arkin, Romy Chakraborty	14
9	The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella 2021 ·Microbiology ·Benjamin A. Adler, Alexey E. Kazakov, (unknown), Hualan Liu, Elizabeth Kutter, Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, (unknown), Adam M. Deutschbauer, Vivek K. Mutalik, Adam P. Arkin	35
10	Systematic discovery of pseudomonad genetic factors involved in sensitivity to tailocins 2021 ·The ISME Journal ·Sean Carim, (unknown), Alexey E. Kazakov, Morgan N. Price, Peter J. Walian, Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Romy Chakraborty, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Vivek K. Mutalik, Adam P. Arkin	34
11	A method for achieving complete microbial genomes and improving bins from metagenomics data 2021 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, Adam P. Arkin	28
12	Selective carbon sources influence the end products of microbial nitrate respiration 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Hans K. Carlson, Lauren Michelle Lui, Morgan N. Price, Alexey E. Kazakov, Alex V. Carr, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Trenton K. Owens, Torben Nielsen, Adam P. Arkin, Adam M. Deutschbauer	84
13	Sulfur metabolites that facilitate oceanic phytoplankton–bacteria carbon flux 2019 ·The ISME Journal ·Marine Landa, Andrew S. Burns, Bryndan P. Durham, Kaitlin Esson, Brent Nowinski, Shalabh Sharma, Alexey Vorobev, Torben Nielsen, Ronald P. Kiene, Mary Ann Moran	63
14	The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Metagenome Annotation Pipeline (MAP v.4) 2016 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, H. James Tripp, David Páez-Espino, Kristin Tennessen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, I-Min A. Chen, Amrita Pati, Torben Nielsen, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides	93
15	Improved Environmental Genomes via Integration of Metagenomic and Single-Cell Assemblies 2016 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Daniel R. Mende, Frank O. Aylward, John M. Eppley, Torben Nielsen, Edward F. DeLong	22
16	Silicon photonic integrated circuit swept-source optical coherence tomography receiver with dual polarization, dual balanced, in-phase and quadrature detection 2015 ·Biomedical Optics Express ·Zhao Wang, Hsiang‐Chieh Lee, Diedrik Vermeulen, Long Chen, Torben Nielsen, Seo Yeon Park, (unknown), Eric A. Swanson, C. R. Doerr, James G. Fujimoto	37
17	Applications of Raman amplification in 1.3-μm WDM systems 2002 ·B.R. Hansen, A.J. Stentz, Torben Nielsen	1
18	EFFECTS OF EIGHT POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUNDS ON THE SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION OF THE SPRINGTAIL FOLSOMIA FIMETARIA L. (COLLEMBOLA, ISOTOMIDAE) 2001 ·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ·Line Emilie Sverdrup, (unknown), Paul Henning Krogh, Torben Nielsen, John Jensen, Janeck J. Scott‐Fordsmand, (unknown)	59
19	Multistage dispersion compensator using ring resonators 1999 ·Optics Letters ·C.K. Madsen, G. Lenz, A.J. Bruce, (unknown), L.T. Gomez, Torben Nielsen, Igal Brener	81
20	Bibliotheken der nordischen Länder in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart 1983 ·Torben Nielsen, (unknown)	0

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