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Carsten S. Jacobsen

Carsten S. Jacobsen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
8198
World Ranking
4573
National Ranking
59

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
8479
World Ranking
15804
National Ranking
172

Carsten S. Jacobsen 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 Carsten S. Jacobsen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 172 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carsten S. Jacobsen 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 Carsten S. Jacobsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Carsten S. Jacobsen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, where their research primarily intersects environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, with a notable focus on ecology, plant science, pollution, molecular biology, and atmospheric science.

Their research topics include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Polar Research and Ecology

Jacobsen's frequent co-authors are:

  • Athanasios Zervas
  • Lea Ellegaard-Jensen
  • Muhammad Zohaib Anwar
  • Flemming Ekelund
  • Maria Scheel

Their research has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues, including:

  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Bioresource Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Among recent papers authored by Jacobsen are:

  • Total RNA sequencing reveals multilevel microbial community changes and functional responses to wood ash application in agricultural and forest soil (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Comprehensive evaluation of different strategies to recover methanogenic performance in ammonia-stressed reactors (2021), published in Bioresource Technology
  • Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Ex-situ biogas upgrading in thermophilic up-flow reactors: The effect of different gas diffusers and gas retention times (2021), published in Bioresource Technology
  • Ex-situ biogas upgrading in thermophilic trickle bed reactors packed with micro-porous packing materials (2022), published in Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Development and dynamics of Pseudomonas sp. biofilms.

    Tim Tolker-Nielsen;Ulla C. Brinch;Paula C. Ragas;Jens Bo Andersen

  • Agricultural soils, pesticides and microbial diversity

    Carsten Suhr Jacobsen;Carsten Suhr Jacobsen;Mathis Hjort Hjelmsø

  • Pesticide effects on bacterial diversity in agricultural soils – a review

    Kaare Johnsen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Vigdis Torsvik;Jan Sørensen

  • Microbial degradation of isoproturon and related phenylurea herbicides in and below agricultural fields

    Sebastian R Sørensen;Gary D Bending;Carsten S Jacobsen;Allan Walker

  • Method for spiking soil samples with organic compounds.

    Ulla C. Brinch;Flemming Ekelund;Carsten S. Jacobsen

  • Development and application of a new method to extract bacterial DNA from soil based on separation of bacteria from soil with cation-exchange resin.

    Carsten Suhr Jacobsen;O. F. Rasmussen

  • Soil survival of Salmonella and transfer to freshwater and fresh produce

    Carsten S. Jacobsen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Tina B. Bech;Tina B. Bech

  • Microscale detection of specific bacterial DNA in soil with a magnetic capture-hybridization and PCR amplification assay.

    C S Jacobsen

  • Different toxic effects of the sulfonylurea herbicides metsulfuron methyl, chlorsulfuron and thifensulfuron methyl on fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from an agricultural soil

    Tina S Boldt;Carsten S Jacobsen

  • Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes Restrict Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Lungs of Cystic Fibrosis Patients

    Kasper N. Kragh;Morten Alhede;Peter Ø. Jensen;Claus Moser

  • Distinct summer and winter bacterial communities in the active layer of Svalbard permafrost revealed by DNA- and RNA-based analyses

    Morten Schostag;Morten Schostag;Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Jacob Bælum

  • Inhibition of anaerobic digestion processes: Applications of molecular tools

    Yamrot M. Amha;Muhammad Zohaib Anwar;Andrew Brower;Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

  • Plant protection and rhizosphere colonization of barley by seed inoculated herbicide degrading Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia DBO1(pRO101) in 2,4-D contaminated soil

    Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

  • Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of phenanthrene-degrading fluorescent Pseudomonas biovars.

    K Johnsen;S Andersen;C S Jacobsen

  • Pesticide Side Effects in an Agricultural Soil Ecosystem as Measured by amoA Expression Quantification and Bacterial Diversity Changes

    Louise Feld;Mathis Hjort Hjelmsø;Morten Schostag Nielsen;Anne Dorthe Jacobsen

  • Permafrost Meta-Omics and Climate Change

    Rachel Mackelprang;Scott R. Saleska;Carsten Suhr Jacobsen;Carsten Suhr Jacobsen;Janet K. Jansson

  • Degradation of 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid in top- and subsoil is quantitatively linked to the class III tfdA gene.

    Jacob Bælum;Trine Henriksen;Hans Christian Bruun Hansen;Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

  • Strong Impact on the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)-Degrading Community of a PAH-Polluted Soil but Marginal Effect on PAH Degradation when Priming with Bioremediated Soil Dominated by Mycobacteria

    Anders R. Johnsen;Stine Schmidt;Stine Schmidt;Trine K. Hybholt;Trine K. Hybholt;Sidsel Henriksen

  • Elucidating the Key Member of a Linuron-Mineralizing Bacterial Community by PCR and Reverse Transcription-PCR Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis 16S rRNA Gene Fingerprinting and Cultivation

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Jim Rasmussen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Ole S. Jacobsen

  • Direct analysis of tfdA gene expression by indigenous bacteria in phenoxy acid amended agricultural soil.

    Jacob Bælum;Jacob Bælum;Jacob Bælum;Mette H Nicolaisen;William E Holben;Bjarne W Strobel

Frequent Co-Authors

Marek Stibal
Marek Stibal Charles University
Flemming Ekelund
Flemming Ekelund University of Copenhagen
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg Technical University of Denmark
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen University of Copenhagen
Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel
Charlotte Scheutz
Charlotte Scheutz Technical University of Denmark
William E. Holben
William E. Holben University of Montana
Jan Tind Sørensen
Jan Tind Sørensen Aarhus University
Philip John Binning
Philip John Binning Technical University of Denmark
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen

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