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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 91 655 582 19 19 296 28470

Christopher Rensing publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Christopher Rensing between 1992 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Christopher Rensing published across 35 years, from 1992 to 2026, averaging 12.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 53 publications in 2024. 42 of the 447 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 53. Peak 53 publications in 2024. 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 24 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 17 publications 2018: 23 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 30 publications 2022: 39 publications 2023: 50 publications 2024: 53 publications 2025: 39 publications 2026: 3 publications
1992 2026

447 publications in total across all disciplines

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Christopher Rensing: publications per year, 1992 to 2026
Year Publications
1992 1
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 5
1998 3
1999 1
2000 2
2001 5
2002 6
2003 9
2004 8
2005 8
2006 5
2007 9
2008 4
2009 8
2010 4
2011 13
2012 24
2013 9
2014 12
2015 8
2016 11
2017 17
2018 23
2019 21
2020 17
2021 30
2022 39
2023 50
2024 53
2025 39
2026 3
Total 447
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Christopher Rensing publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Rensing sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 295–304 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 publications 679+

This scientist: 296 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115
295–304 96 296
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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Christopher Rensing D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Rensing sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 91 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34 91
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Christopher Rensing is affiliated with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to plant science, ecology, molecular biology, pollution, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, arsenic contamination and mitigation, heavy metals in the environment, plant stress responses and tolerance, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Among recent papers are:

  • "Co-selection of antibiotic resistance genes, and mobile genetic elements in the presence of heavy metals in poultry farm environments" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies between Soil Microbiomes" (2022) published in mSystems
  • "Underlying mechanisms responsible for restriction of uptake and translocation of heavy metals (metalloids) by selenium via root application in plants" (2020) published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Recent advances in exploring the heavy metal(loid) resistant microbiome" (2020) published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • "Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Their work features collaborations with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Shungui Zhou
  • Renwei Feng
  • Hend A. Alwathnani
  • Yanshuang Yu
  • Yuanping Li

Christopher Rensing's research addresses critical issues related to the interactions of microbial communities with environmental pollutants, plant health under stress conditions, and nutrient cycling in soil systems. They investigate mechanisms by which plants and microbes respond and adapt to heavy metal contamination and contribute to bioremediation insights.

Best Publications

  • Metallic Copper as an Antimicrobial Surface

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing;Marc Solioz

  • Escherichia coli mechanisms of copper homeostasis in a changing environment

    Christopher Rensing;Gregor Grass

  • BacMet: antibacterial biocide and metal resistance genes database

    Chandan Pal;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Christopher Rensing;Erik Kristiansson

  • Metal homeostasis and resistance in bacteria

    Pete Chandrangsu;Christopher Rensing;John D. Helmann

  • Arsenic detoxification and evolution of trimethylarsine gas by a microbial arsenite S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase.

    Jie Qin;Barry P. Rosen;Yang Zhang;Gejiao Wang

  • Molecular Analysis of the Copper-Transporting Efflux System CusCFBA of Escherichia coli

    Sylvia Franke;Gregor Grass;Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing;Dietrich H. Nies

  • CopA: An Escherichia coli Cu(I)-translocating P-type ATPase

    Christopher Rensing;Bin Fan;Rakesh Sharma;Bharati Mitra

  • The zntA gene of Escherichia coli encodes a Zn(II)-translocating P-type ATPase

    Christopher Rensing;Bharati Mitra;Barry P. Rosen

  • The genome of Nectria haematococca: contribution of supernumerary chromosomes to gene expansion.

    Jeffrey J. Coleman;Jeffrey J. Coleman;Steve D. Rounsley;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Alan Kuo

  • Hyperthermophilic Composting Accelerates the Removal of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Sewage Sludge

    Hanpeng Liao;Xiaomei Lu;Christopher Rensing;Ville Petri Friman

  • Intracellular Copper Does Not Catalyze the Formation of Oxidative DNA Damage in Escherichia coli

    Lee Macomber;Christopher Rensing;James A. Imlay

  • Metal Resistance and Its Association With Antibiotic Resistance.

    Chandan Pal;Karishma R. Asiani;Sankalp Arya;Christopher Rensing;Christopher Rensing

  • New Approaches for Bioaugmentation as a Remediation Technology

    Terry J. Gentry;Christopher Rensing;I. A. N. L. Pepper

  • Crystal Structure and Electron Transfer Kinetics of CueO, a Multicopper Oxidase Required for Copper Homeostasis in Escherichia coli

    Sue A. Roberts;Andrzej Weichsel;Gregor Grass;Keshari Thakali

  • Copper toxicity and the origin of bacterial resistance—new insights and applications

    Christopher L. Dupont;Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • CueO is a multi-copper oxidase that confers copper tolerance in Escherichia coli.

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • Families of Soft-Metal-Ion-Transporting ATPases

    Christopher Rensing;Mallika Ghosh;Barry P. Rosen

  • Genes involved in arsenic transformation and resistance associated with different levels of arsenic-contaminated soils.

    Lin Cai;Guanghui Liu;Christopher Rensing;Gejiao Wang

  • Distribution of Arsenic Resistance Genes in Prokaryotes.

    Ibtissem Ben Fekih;Chengkang Zhang;Yuan Ping Li;Yi Zhao

  • Genes involved in copper homeostasis in Escherichia coli.

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • Antimonite is accumulated by the glycerol facilitator GlpF in Escherichia coli.

    Omar I. Sanders;Christopher Rensing;Masayuki Kuroda;Bharati Mitra

  • FieF (YiiP) from Escherichia coli mediates decreased cellular accumulation of iron and relieves iron stress

    Gregor Grass;Markus Otto;Beate Fricke;Christopher J. Haney

  • The ATP Hydrolytic Activity of Purified ZntA, a Pb(II)/Cd(II)/Zn(II)-translocating ATPase from Escherichia coli

    Rakesh Sharma;Christopher Rensing;Barry P. Rosen;Bharati Mitra

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor Grass
Gregor Grass Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Barry P. Rosen
Barry P. Rosen Florida International University
Ian L. Pepper
Ian L. Pepper University of Arizona
Dietrich H. Nies
Dietrich H. Nies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Timothy R. McDermott
Timothy R. McDermott Montana State University
Shungui Zhou
Shungui Zhou Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Jian-Qiang Su
Jian-Qiang Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
William R. Montfort
William R. Montfort University of Arizona
Lena Q. Ma
Lena Q. Ma Zhejiang University

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