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Marcel M. M. Kuypers

Marcel M. M. Kuypers

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
102
Citations
38776
World Ranking
331
National Ranking
21

Marcel M. M. Kuypers 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 Marcel M. M. Kuypers sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 277 publications — 83rd percentile

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

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

Marcel M. M. Kuypers 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 Marcel M. M. Kuypers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Marcel M. M. Kuypers is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research is concentrated in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Marcel M. M. Kuypers has published extensively in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, Nature, Limnology and Oceanography, and Scientific Reports.

Their recent papers illustrate focus areas in marine and microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles. Notable publications include:

  • Single cell analyses reveal contrasting life strategies of the two main nitrifiers in the ocean (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium (2021, Nature)
  • Anaerobic endosymbiont generates energy for ciliate host by denitrification (2021, Nature)
  • Sulfur cycling in oceanic oxygen minimum zones (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Diverse methylotrophic methanogenic archaea cause high methane emissions from seagrass meadows (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Collaborations are evident in the consistent co-authorship with several researchers over multiple publications. Frequent co-authors include Sten Littmann, Hannah K. Marchant, Gaute Lavik, Katharina Kitzinger, and Soeren Ahmerkamp.

Best Publications

  • The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Hannah K. Marchant;Boran Kartal

  • Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria

    Katharina F. Ettwig;Margaret K. Butler;Margaret K. Butler;Denis Le Paslier;Denis Le Paslier;Eric Pelletier;Eric Pelletier

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea

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

  • Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

    R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

  • New processes and players in the nitrogen cycle: the microbial ecology of anaerobic and archaeal ammonia oxidation.

    Christopher A Francis;J Michael Beman;Marcel M M Kuypers

  • Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation.

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Markus Schmid

  • Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

    Phyllis Lam;Gaute Lavik;Marlene M. Jensen;Jack van de Vossenberg

  • Microbial nitrogen cycling processes in oxygen minimum zones.

    Phyllis Lam;Marcel M.M. Kuypers

  • Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria.

    Cameron M. Callbeck;Cameron M. Callbeck;Gaute Lavik;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Bernhard Fuchs

  • Anammox bacteria disguised as denitrifiers: nitrate reduction to dinitrogen gas via nitrite and ammonium

    Boran Kartal;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Gaute Lavik;Jos Schalk

  • Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea

    Phyllis Lam;Marlene Mark Jensen;Gaute Lavik;Daniel F. McGinnis

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

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

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga

    Anne W. Thompson;Rachel A. Foster;Andreas Krupke;Brandon J. Carter

  • A single-cell view on the ecophysiology of anaerobic phototrophic bacteria

    Niculina Musat;Hannah Halm;Bärbel Winterholler;Peter Hoppe

  • Biomarkers for In Situ Detection of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing (Anammox) Bacteria

    Markus C. Schmid;Bart Maas;Ana Dapena;Katinka van de Pas-Schoonen

  • Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom–cyanobacterial symbioses

    Rachel A Foster;Marcel M M Kuypers;Tomas Vagner;Ryan W Paerl

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

    M. Robert Hamersley;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Jayne E. Rattray

  • Anaerobic ammonium‐oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity

    Markus C. Schmid;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Jack van de Vossenberg;Marcel M.M. Kuypers

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a tropical freshwater system (Lake Tanganyika).

    Carsten J. Schubert;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Bernhard Wehrli;Bo Thamdrup

  • Nitrogen cycling driven by organic matter export in the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone

    Tim Kalvelage;Gaute Lavik;Phyllis Lam;Sergio Contreras

  • Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

    Gaute Lavik;Torben Stührmann;Volker Brüchert;Volker Brüchert;Anja Van der Plas

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society
Timothy G. Ferdelman
Timothy G. Ferdelman Max Planck Society
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Julie LaRoche
Julie LaRoche Dalhousie University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Carsten J. Schubert
Carsten J. Schubert Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ruth A. Schmitz
Ruth A. Schmitz Kiel University
Helle Ploug
Helle Ploug University of Gothenburg
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society
Marc Strous
Marc Strous University of Calgary

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