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Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté 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 Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 1,449 publications — 100th percentile

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

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Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté 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 Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 176 D-Index — 100th percentile

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

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2007 - Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal, European Geosciences Union

Overview

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. The scientist's research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work encompasses various specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography. The main topics of study in their research cover:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Recent notable publications by Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté include:

  • "The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters", 2020, published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids", 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data", 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • "Lipidomics of Environmental Microbial Communities. I: Visualization of Component Distributions Using Untargeted Analysis of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data", 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Nitrate promotes the transfer of methane-derived carbon from the methanotroph Methylobacter sp. to the methylotroph Methylotenera sp. in eutrophic lake water", 2020, Limnology and Oceanography

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicole J. Bale
  • Laura Villanueva
  • Ellen C. Hopmans
  • Stefan Schouten
  • Francien Peterse

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté has contributed extensively to key publication venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In recognition of their scientific contributions, the scientist was awarded the Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal by the European Geosciences Union in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;A. Olav Sliekers;Gaute Lavik;Markus Schmid

  • A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification

    Ashna A. Raghoebarsing;Arjan Pol;Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen;Alfons J. P. Smolders

  • Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Enno Schefuß;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Abundance and diversity of denitrifying and anammox bacteria in seasonally hypoxic and sulfidic sediments of the saline lake Grevelingen

    Yvonne A. Lipsewers;Ellen C. Hopmans;Filip J. R. Meysman;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

    Ellen C Hopmans;Johan W.H Weijers;Enno Schefuß;Lydie Herfort

  • Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    Cornelia Wuchter;Ben Abbas;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lydie Herfort

  • Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification

    J.S. Sinninghe Damsté;F. Kenig;M.P. Koopmans;J. Koster

  • The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Jurgen C. van den Donker;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • Restricted utility of the pristane/phytane ratio as a palaeoenvironmental indicator

    H. L. ten Haven;J. W. de Leeuw;J. Rullkötter;J. S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Jaap van der Meer;Stefan Schouten;Peer Helmke

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

    Sebastian Lücker;Michael Wagner;Frank Maixner;Eric Pelletier

  • Candidatus "Anammoxoglobus propionicus" a new propionate oxidizing species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria

    Boran Kartal;Jayne Rattray;Laura A. van Niftrik;Laura A. van Niftrik;Jack van de Vossenberg

  • Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils : Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Otto C. Spaargaren;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Candidatus "Scalindua brodae", sp. nov., Candidatus "Scalindua wagneri", sp. nov., two new species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria.

    Markus Schmid;Kerry Walsh;Rick Webb;W Irene C Rijpstra

  • Crenarchaeol: the characteristic core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipid of cosmopolitan pelagic crenarchaeota.

    Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Adri C T van Duin

  • Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Yongsong Huang;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids

    Carme Huguet;Ellen C. Hopmans;Wilma Febo-Ayala;David H. Thompson

  • Analysis, structure and geochemical significance of organically-bound sulphur in the geosphere : state of the art and future research

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damste;Jan W. De Leeuw

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Ellen C. Hopmans
Ellen C. Hopmans Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
W. Irene C. Rijpstra
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Utrecht University
Jan W. de Leeuw
Jan W. de Leeuw International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Marcel T. J. van der Meer
Marcel T. J. van der Meer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Marianne Baas
Marianne Baas Delft University of Technology
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
Johan W.H. Weijers
Johan W.H. Weijers Shell (Netherlands)

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