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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
17013
World Ranking
1688
National Ranking
709

Jennifer Pett-Ridge 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 Jennifer Pett-Ridge sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 270 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jennifer Pett-Ridge 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 Jennifer Pett-Ridge sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jennifer Pett-Ridge is a researcher affiliated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their work primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy, with extensive contributions in subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, and Ecology.

Their research focuses on key topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Jennifer Pett-Ridge has published several influential papers in high-profile scientific venues. Notable recent works include:

  • Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry (2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2 (2021, Nature)
  • Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral-associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait-based perspective (2022, Functional Ecology)
  • Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants (2022, New Phytologist)

Their frequent co-authors include Chelsea Hutchinson, Marija Veličković, Erin Nuccio, Mary Lipton, and Rachel Hestrin.

Pett-Ridge's work is published predominantly in venues such as:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The ISME Journal
  • Microbiome

Best Publications

  • Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

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  • Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

    Marco Keiluweit;Marco Keiluweit;Jeremy J. Bougoure;Jeremy J. Bougoure;Peter S. Nico;Jennifer Pett-Ridge

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus significantly modifies the soil bacterial community and nitrogen cycling during litter decomposition

    Erin E. Nuccio;Angela Hodge;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Donald J. Herman

  • The Global Distribution, Formation, and Fate of Mineral‐Associated Soil Organic Matter Under a Changing Climate – A Trait‐Based Perspective

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  • Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities

    Kathleen K. Treseder;Teri C. Balser;Mark A. Bradford;Eoin L. Brodie

  • Redox fluctuation structures microbial communities in a wet tropical soil.

    J. Pett-Ridge;M. K. Firestone

  • Successional Trajectories of Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities over Consecutive Seasons

    Shengjing Shi;Shengjing Shi;Erin Nuccio;Erin Nuccio;Donald J. Herman;Donald J. Herman;Ruud Rijkers

  • Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils

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  • Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil

    Evan P. Starr;Erin E. Nuccio;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Jillian F. Banfield

  • Long-term litter decomposition controlled by manganese redox cycling

    Marco Keiluweit;Marco Keiluweit;Peter Nico;Mark E. Harmon;Jingdong Mao

  • Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

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  • Linking Microbial Phylogeny to Metabolic Activity at the Single-Cell Level by Using Enhanced Element Labeling-Catalyzed Reporter Deposition Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (EL-FISH) and NanoSIMS

    Sebastian Behrens;Tina Lösekann;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Peter K. Weber

  • Redox fluctuations frame microbial community impacts on N-cycling rates in a humid tropical forest soil

    Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Whendee L. Silver;Mary K. Firestone

  • Nano-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry — A new analytical tool in biogeochemistry and soil ecology: A review article

    Anke M. Herrmann;Anke M. Herrmann;Karl Ritz;Naoise Nunan;Peta L. Clode

  • The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization

    Chao Wang;Ember M. Morrissey;Rebecca L. Mau;Michaela Hayer

  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons.

    Tess E. Brewer;Emma L. Aronson;Keshav Arogyaswamy;Sharon A. Billings

  • Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere

    Erin E Nuccio;Evan Starr;Ulas Karaoz;Eoin L Brodie;Eoin L Brodie

  • Carbon and nitrogen fixation and metabolite exchange in and between individual cells of Anabaena oscillarioides.

    Radu Popa;Peter K Weber;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Juliette A Finzi

  • Plant and microbial controls on nitrogen retention and loss in a Humid Tropical Forest

    Pamela H. Templer;Whendee L. Silver;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Kristen M. DeAngelis

  • Fixation and fate of C and N in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium using nanometer-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry

    Juliette A. Finzi-Hart;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Peter K. Weber;Radu Popa

  • Evidence for foliar endophytic nitrogen fixation in a widely distributed subalpine conifer

    Andrew B. Moyes;Andrew B. Moyes;Lara M. Kueppers;Lara M. Kueppers;Jennifer Pett‐Ridge;Dana L. Carper

  • Evaluating the source of streamwater nitrate using d15N and d18O in nitrate in two watersheds in New Hampshire, USA

    Linda H. Pardo;Carol Kendall;Jennifer Pett-Ridge;Cecily C. Y. Chang

  • Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs

    Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh;David Paez-Espino;Jessica Jarett;Peter F. Dunfield

  • Nano-scale investigation of the association of microbial nitrogen residues with iron (hydr)oxides in a forest soil O-horizon

    Marco Keiluweit;Marco Keiluweit;Jeremy J. Bougoure;Lydia H. Zeglin;David D. Myrold

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone University of California, Berkeley
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter S. Nico
Peter S. Nico Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Whendee L. Silver
Whendee L. Silver University of California, Berkeley
Brad M. Bebout
Brad M. Bebout Ames Research Center
Kirsten S. Hofmockel
Kirsten S. Hofmockel Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Egbert Schwartz
Egbert Schwartz Northern Arizona University
Malak M. Tfaily
Malak M. Tfaily University of Arizona

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