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Lubos Polerecky 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 Lubos Polerecky sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lubos Polerecky 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 Lubos Polerecky sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lubos Polerecky is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive contributions in various subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work focuses on multiple topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, as well as Ion-surface interactions and analysis.

Polerecky has published articles in several frequent venues, contributing notably to:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers by Lubos Polerecky include:

  • Division of labor and growth during electrical cooperation in multicellular cable bacteria, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 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
  • Efficient long-range conduction in cable bacteria through nickel protein wires, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Methanotrophy by a Mycobacterium species that dominates a cave microbial ecosystem, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Polyethylene degradation and assimilation by the marine yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, 2023, ISME Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research network are Jack J. Middelburg, Michiel V. M. Kienhuis, Filip J. R. Meysman, Silvia Hidalgo-Martinez, and Nicole M. J. Geerlings.

Best Publications

  • Oxygenic photosynthesis as a protection mechanism for cyanobacteria against iron-encrustation in environments with high Fe2+ concentrations

    Danny Ionescu;Danny Ionescu;Bettina Buchmann;Christine Heim;Stefan Häusler

  • Spatial patterns and links between microbial community composition and function in cyanobacterial mats

    Mohammad A. A. Al-Najjar;Mohammad A. A. Al-Najjar;Alban Nicolas Ramette;Michael Kühl;Michael Kühl;Waleed Hamza

  • Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in marine methane oxidation

    Jana Milucka;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Lubos Polerecky;Daniela Franzke

  • Mechanisms of damage to corals exposed to sedimentation

    Miriam Weber;Dirk de Beer;Christian Lott;Lubos Polerecky

  • Oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments with wave-driven pore water exchange

    Elimar Precht;Ulrich Franke;Lubos Polerecky;Markus Huettel

  • Look@NanoSIMS – a tool for the analysis of nanoSIMS data in environmental microbiology

    Lubos Polerecky;Birgit Adam;Jana Milucka;Niculina Musat

  • Microbial and chemical characterization of underwater fresh water springs in the Dead Sea.

    Danny Ionescu;Christian-Helge Siebert;Lubos Polerecky;Yaniv Y. Munwes

  • Surficial and deep pore water circulation governs spatial and temporal scales of nutrient recycling in intertidal sand flat sediment

    Markus Billerbeck;Ursula Werner;Lubos Polerecky;Eva Walpersdorf

  • Cable Bacteria Control Iron-Phosphorus Dynamics in Sediments of a Coastal Hypoxic Basin.

    Fatimah Sulu-Gambari;Dorina Seitaj;Filip J. R. Meysman;Regina Schauer

  • Bioturbation and bioirrigation extend the open exchange regions in permeable sediments

    N. Volkenborn;L. Polerecky;S. I. C. Hedtkamp;J. E. E van Beusekom

  • The discovery of stromatolites developing at 3570 m above sea level in a high-altitude volcanic lake Socompa, Argentinean Andes

    María E. Farías;Nicolás Rascovan;Diego M. Toneatti;Virginia H. Albarracín;Virginia H. Albarracín;Virginia H. Albarracín

  • Oscillatory porewater bioadvection in marine sediments induced by hydraulic activities of Arenicola marina

    Nils Volkenborn;Nils Volkenborn;L. Polerecky;D. S. Wethey;D. S. Wethey;S. A. Woodin;S. A. Woodin

  • Microbial carbon metabolism associated with electrogenic sulphur oxidation in coastal sediments

    Diana Vasquez-Cardenas;Jack van de Vossenberg;Lubos Polerecky;Sairah Y. Malkin;Sairah Y. Malkin

  • Intermittent bioirrigation and oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments: An experimental and modeling study of three tellinid bivalves

    Nils Volkenborn;Christof Meile;Lubos Polerecky;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Functional and structural imaging of phototrophic microbial communities and symbioses

    Michael Kühl;Lubos Polerecky

  • A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria

    Verena Salman;Rudolf Amann;Anne Christin Girnth;Lubos Polerecky

  • Mechanisms of transient nitric oxide and nitrous oxide production in a complex biofilm.

    Frank Schreiber;Birte Loeffler;Lubos Polerecky;Marcel M M Kuypers

  • Time-resolved pH/pO2 mapping with luminescent hybrid sensors.

    Claudia R. Schröder;Lubos Polerecky;Ingo Klimant

  • In situ oxygen dynamics in coral-algal interactions.

    Daniel Wangpraseurt;Daniel Wangpraseurt;Miriam Weber;Hans Røy;Lubos Polerecky

  • High spatial resolution measurement of oxygen consumption rates in permeable sediments

    Lubos Polerecky;Ulrich Franke;Ursula Werner;Björn Grunwald

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society
Filip J. R. Meysman
Filip J. R. Meysman Delft University of Technology
Michael Kühl
Michael Kühl University of Copenhagen
David S. Wethey
David S. Wethey University of South Carolina
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
Sarah A. Woodin
Sarah A. Woodin University of South Carolina
Jack J. Middelburg
Jack J. Middelburg Utrecht University
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Karsten Reise
Karsten Reise Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Markus Huettel
Markus Huettel Florida State University

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