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D-Index
80
Citations
18562
World Ranking
982
National Ranking
424

Joel E. Kostka 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 Joel E. Kostka sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joel E. Kostka 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 Joel E. Kostka sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joel E. Kostka is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and plant science. Within these fields, Kostka's work spans subfields including nuclear and high energy physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and oceanography.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to ecological and geophysical phenomena. Key topics include peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Joel E. Kostka's recent publications illustrate a diverse engagement with cutting-edge research in environmental and microbial ecology. Notable recent papers include:

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, 2023, Nature
  • Massive peatland carbon banks vulnerable to rising temperatures, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations, 2021, Microbiome
  • Soil metabolome response to whole-ecosystem warming at the Spruce and Peatland Responses under Changing Environments experiment, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors of Joel E. Kostka include Rachel Wilson, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Max Kolton, Christopher W. Schadt, and Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis. These collaborations have contributed to a broad and interdisciplinary research output.

Throughout their career, Joel E. Kostka has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Microbiome, and FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and the Bacterial Community Response in Gulf of Mexico Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Joel E. Kostka;Om Prakash;Will A. Overholt;Stefan J. Green;Stefan J. Green

  • PARTITIONING AND SPECIATION OF SOLID PHASE IRON IN SALTMARSH SEDIMENTS

    Joel E. Kostka;George W. Luther

  • Sulfate-reducing bacteria methylate mercury at variable rates in pure culture and in marine sediments.

    J K King;J E Kostka;J E Kostka;M E Frischer;F M Saunders

  • Benthic Exchange and Biogeochemical Cycling in Permeable Sediments

    Markus Huettel;Peter Berg;Joel E. Kostka

  • Seasonal iron cycling in the salt-marsh sedimentary environment: the importance of ligand complexes with Fe(II) and Fe(III) in the dissolution of Fe(III) minerals and pyrite, respectively

    George W Luther;Joel E Kostka;Thomas M Church;Barbara Sulzberger

  • Change in Bacterial Community Structure during In Situ Biostimulation of Subsurface Sediment Cocontaminated with Uranium and Nitrate

    Nadia N. North;Sherry L. Dollhopf;Lainie Petrie;Jonathan D. Istok

  • Dissolution and reduction of magnetite by bacteria.

    Joel E. Kostka;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Meeting Report: The Terabase Metagenomics Workshop and the Vision of an Earth Microbiome Project

    Jack A. Gilbert;Jack A. Gilbert;Folker Meyer;Dion Antonopoulos;Pavan Balaji

  • Macrofaunal Burrows and Irrigation in Marine Sediment: Microbiological and Biogeochemical Interactions

    Erik Kristensen;J.E. Kostka

  • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL REDUCTION OF MN (III)-PYROPHOSPHATE COMPLEXES : POTENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF DISSOLVED MN (III) AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL OXIDANT

    Joel E. Kostka;George W. Luther;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Enumeration and Characterization of Iron(III)-Reducing Microbial Communities from Acidic Subsurface Sediments Contaminated with Uranium(VI)

    Lainie Petrie;Nadia N. North;Sherry L. Dollhopf;David L. Balkwill

  • Growth of iron(III)-reducing bacteria on clay minerals as the sole electron acceptor and comparison of growth yields on a variety of oxidized iron forms.

    Joel E. Kostka;Dava D. Dalton;Hayley Skelton;Sherry Dollhopf

  • REDUCTION OF STRUCTURAL Fe(III) IN SMECTITE BY A PURE CULTURE OF SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS STRAIN MR-1

    Joel E. Kostka;Joseph W. Stucki;Kenneth H. Nealson;Jun Wu

  • Stability of peatland carbon to rising temperatures

    Rachel Wilson;Anya Hopple;Malak Tfaily;Stephen Sebestyen

  • Respiration and Dissolution of Iron(III)-Containing Clay Minerals by Bacteria

    Joel E. Kostka;Eberhard Haefele;and Ralf Viehweger;J. W. Stucki

  • A Quantitative Relationship that Demonstrates Mercury Methylation Rates in Marine Sediments Are Based on the Community Composition and Activity of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

    Jeffrey K. King;Joel E. Kostka;Marc E. Frischer;F. Michael Saunders

  • The rates and pathways of carbon oxidation in bioturbated saltmarsh sediments

    Joel E. Kostka;Britta Gribsholt;Ellen Petrie;Dava Dalton

  • Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea

    G. M. King;J. E. Kostka;T. C. Hazen;P. A. Sobecky

  • Denitrifying Bacteria from the Genus Rhodanobacter Dominate Bacterial Communities in the Highly Contaminated Subsurface of a Nuclear Legacy Waste Site

    Stefan J. Green;Om Prakash;Puja Jasrotia;Will A. Overholt

  • Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments.

    Hang Gao;Hang Gao;Frank Schreiber;Gavin Collins;Gavin Collins;Marlene Mark Jensen;Marlene Mark Jensen

  • The impact of structural Fe(III) reduction by bacteria on the surface chemistry of smectite clay minerals

    Joel E. Kostka;Jun Wu;Kenneth H. Nealson;Joseph W. Stucki

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan J. Green
Stefan J. Green University of Illinois at Chicago
Christopher W. Schadt
Christopher W. Schadt Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Markus Huettel
Markus Huettel Florida State University
Malak M. Tfaily
Malak M. Tfaily University of Arizona
David B. Watson
David B. Watson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Joseph W. Stucki
Joseph W. Stucki University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kirsten Küsel
Kirsten Küsel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society

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