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D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Chemistry 114 660 580 274 218 693 52149
Environmental Sciences 119 132 124 59 53 855 60979

Bruce E. Rittmann publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bruce E. Rittmann between 1978 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bruce E. Rittmann published across 49 years, from 1978 to 2026, averaging 20 papers a year. Output peaked at 56 publications in 2023. 30 of the 981 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 56. Peak 56 publications in 2023. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 5 publications 1981: 6 publications 1982: 8 publications 1983: 7 publications 1984: 9 publications 1985: 6 publications 1986: 7 publications 1987: 11 publications 1988: 7 publications 1989: 6 publications 1990: 13 publications 1991: 9 publications 1992: 15 publications 1993: 7 publications 1994: 13 publications 1995: 20 publications 1996: 15 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 18 publications 1999: 23 publications 2000: 27 publications 2001: 15 publications 2002: 26 publications 2003: 16 publications 2004: 22 publications 2005: 17 publications 2006: 23 publications 2007: 23 publications 2008: 29 publications 2009: 29 publications 2010: 39 publications 2011: 40 publications 2012: 27 publications 2013: 23 publications 2014: 22 publications 2015: 31 publications 2016: 38 publications 2017: 43 publications 2018: 38 publications 2019: 31 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 32 publications 2022: 32 publications 2023: 56 publications 2024: 36 publications 2025: 29 publications 2026: 1 publication
1978 2026

981 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bruce E. Rittmann: publications per year, 1978 to 2026
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 0
1980 5
1981 6
1982 8
1983 7
1984 9
1985 6
1986 7
1987 11
1988 7
1989 6
1990 13
1991 9
1992 15
1993 7
1994 13
1995 20
1996 15
1997 5
1998 18
1999 23
2000 27
2001 15
2002 26
2003 16
2004 22
2005 17
2006 23
2007 23
2008 29
2009 29
2010 39
2011 40
2012 27
2013 23
2014 22
2015 31
2016 38
2017 43
2018 38
2019 31
2020 25
2021 32
2022 32
2023 56
2024 36
2025 29
2026 1
Total 981
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Bruce E. Rittmann publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce E. Rittmann sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 690+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 855 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100 855
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Bruce E. Rittmann D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce E. Rittmann sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 119 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 119 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5 119
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For pioneering the development of biofilm fundamentals and contributing to their widespread use in the cleanup of contaminated waters, soils, and ecosystems.
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bruce E. Rittmann is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The research topics covered by Bruce E. Rittmann include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants, Environmental Remediation with Nanomaterials, and Algal Biology and Biofuel Production.

Prominent and recent publications by Bruce E. Rittmann include:

  • Host-diet-gut microbiome interactions influence human energy balance: a randomized clinical trial (2023), Nature Communications
  • Recent progress in treatment of dyes wastewater using microbial-electro-Fenton technology (2022), RSC Advances
  • Towards a simultaneous combination of ozonation and biodegradation for enhancing tetracycline decomposition and toxicity elimination (2020), Bioresource Technology
  • Temporospatial shifts in the human gut microbiome and metabolome after gastric bypass surgery (2020), npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • Using Microbial Aggregates to Entrap Aqueous Phosphorus (2020), Trends in biotechnology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Chen Zhou, Yongming Zhang, Yihao Luo, Min Long, and Songyun Chen. These coauthors have contributed to a substantial number of joint publications with Rittmann.

Bruce E. Rittmann has published extensively in several scientific journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology (29 publications)
  • Water Research (18 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (18 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (14 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering Journal (9 publications)

Throughout their career, Bruce E. Rittmann has received several recognitions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995, becoming a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 with citation for pioneering biofilm fundamentals and their application in environmental cleanup, and being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Applications

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

  • A unified theory for extracellular polymeric substances, soluble microbial products, and active and inert biomass.

    Chrysi S. Laspidou;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Phylogenetic probes for analyzing abundance and spatial organization of nitrifying bacteria.

    Bruch K. Mobarry;Michael Wagner;Vincent Urbain;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Group-specific 16S rRNA hybridization probes to describe natural communities of methanogens

    L Raskin;J M Stromley;B E Rittmann;D A Stahl

  • Opportunities for renewable bioenergy using microorganisms

    Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Model of steady-state-biofilm kinetics

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

  • A kinetic perspective on extracellular electron transfer by anode-respiring bacteria.

    César I. Torres;Andrew Kato Marcus;Hyung-Sool Lee;Prathap Parameswaran

  • Total Value of Phosphorus Recovery

    Brooke K. Mayer;Lawrence A. Baker;Treavor H. Boyer;Pay Drechsel

  • Proton transport inside the biofilm limits electrical current generation by anode-respiring bacteria.

    César I. Torres;Andrew Kato Marcus;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Capturing the lost phosphorus.

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Brooke Mayer;Paul Westerhoff;Mark Edwards

  • Selecting Anode-Respiring Bacteria Based on Anode Potential: Phylogenetic, Electrochemical, and Microscopic Characterization

    César I. Torres;Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown;Prathap Parameswaran;Andrew Kato Marcus

  • Evolutionary relationships among ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria.

    A Teske;E Alm;J M Regan;S Toze

  • Conduction-based modeling of the biofilm anode of a microbial fuel cell

    Andrew Kato Marcus;César I. Torres;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Diversity study of nitrifying bacteria in full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants

    Slil Siripong;Bruce E Rittmann

  • Microbial removal of hazardous organic compounds

    Hester Kobayashi;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Biological hydrogen production: prospects and challenges

    Hyung-Sool Lee;Wim F.J. Vermaas;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Evaluation of energy-conversion efficiencies in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) utilizing fermentable and non-fermentable substrates.

    Hyung-Sool Lee;Prathap Parameswaran;Andrew Kato-Marcus;César I. Torres

  • Oligonucleotide microchips as genosensors for determinative and environmental studies in microbiology.

    Dmitry Y. Guschin;Bruce K. Mobarry;Dmitrii Proudnikov;Dmitrii Proudnikov;David A. Stahl

  • Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants

    Wen-Wei Li;Han-Qing Yu;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Quantification of methanogenic groups in anaerobic biological reactors by oligonucleotide probe hybridization.

    L Raskin;L K Poulsen;D R Noguera;B E Rittmann

  • Trace organics in groundwater

    Perry L. McCarty;Martin. Reinhard;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Applying a novel autohydrogenotrophic hollow-fiber membrane biofilm reactor for denitrification of drinking water.

    Kuan Chun Lee;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Occurrence of disinfection byproducts in United States wastewater treatment plant effluents.

    Stuart W. Krasner;Paul K. Westerhoff;Baiyang Chen;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Anaerobic degradation of halogenated 1- and 2-carbon organic compounds

    Edward J. Bouwer;Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown Arizona State University
David A. Stahl
David A. Stahl University of Washington
Hyung-Sool Lee
Hyung-Sool Lee Korea Institute of Energy Technology
He-Ping Zhao
He-Ping Zhao Zhejiang University
Perry L. McCarty
Perry L. McCarty Stanford University
Paul Westerhoff
Paul Westerhoff Arizona State University
Siqing Xia
Siqing Xia Tongji University
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Albert J. Valocchi
Albert J. Valocchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark

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