2026 Nils Risgaard-Petersen: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	56	3632	3468	43	43	106	12036

Overview

Nils Risgaard-Petersen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and engineering disciplines. Within these broad fields, their work spans subfields including environmental chemistry, ecology, geophysics, ocean engineering, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover areas such as:

Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Recent publications by Nils Risgaard-Petersen include:

Cable bacteria reduce methane emissions from rice-vegetated soils, 2020, Nature Communications
Electrogenic sulfide oxidation mediated by cable bacteria stimulates sulfate reduction in freshwater sediments, 2020, The ISME Journal
Cable bacteria at oxygen-releasing roots of aquatic plants: a widespread and diverse plant-microbe association, 2021, New Phytologist
Oxygen consumption of individual cable bacteria, 2021, Science Advances
Denitrification by benthic foraminifera and their contribution to N-loss from a fjord environment, 2021, Biogeosciences

Nils frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

Kozo Takahashi
Christina Ravelo
Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian
Ivano W. Aiello
Hirofumi Asahi

The scientist's work appears regularly in selected publication venues such as:

OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Biogeosciences
Nature Communications
The ISME Journal

The breadth of Nils Risgaard-Petersen's work reflects a strong interdisciplinary approach, linking environmental processes with microbiological and geophysical aspects. Their contributions to understanding microbial interactions in sedimentary environments and related biogeochemical cycles are evidenced across multiple recognized scientific journals.

Best Publications

Interpretation of measured concentration profiles in sediment pore water

Peter Berg;Nils Risgaard‐Petersen;Søren Rysgaard

716
Citations
Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances

Christian Pfeffer;Steffen Larsen;Jie Song;Mingdong Dong

714
Citations
Electric currents couple spatially separated biogeochemical processes in marine sediment

Lars Peter Nielsen;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Henrik Fossing;Peter Bondo Christensen

658
Citations
Evidence for complete denitrification in a benthic foraminifer

Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Alexandra M. Langezaal;Signe Ingvardsen;Markus C. Schmid

491
Citations
Oxygen regulation of nitrification and denitrification in sediments

Søren Rysgaard;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Sloth Niels Peter;Jensen Kim

459
Citations
Denitrification and anammox activity in Arctic marine sediments

Søren Rysgaard;Ronnie Nøhr Glud;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Tage Dalsgaard

439
Citations
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

426
Citations
Application of the isotope pairing technique in sediments where anammox and denitrification coexist

Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Lars Peter Nielsen;Søren Rysgaard;Tage Dalsgaard

373
Citations
Anaerobic ammonia oxidation in a fertilized paddy soil.

Guibing Zhu;Shanyun Wang;Yu Wang;Chaoxu Wang

370
Citations
Hotspots of anaerobic ammonium oxidation at land–freshwater interfaces

Guibing Zhu;Shanyun Wang;Shanyun Wang;Weidong Wang;Yu Wang

355
Citations
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in an estuarine sediment

Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Rikke Louise Meyer;Markus Schmid;Mike S. M. Jetten

330
Citations
Widespread occurrence of nitrate storage and denitrification among Foraminifera and Gromiida.

Elisa Piña-Ochoa;Signe Høgslund;Emmanuelle Geslin;Tomas Cedhagen

314
Citations
Correlation between anammox activity and microscale distribution of nitrite in a subtropical mangrove sediment

Rikke Louise Meyer;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Diane Elizabeth Allen

253
Citations
Sulfur, iron-, and calcium cycling associated with natural electric currents running through marine sediment

Nils Risgaard-Petersen;André Revil;André Revil;Patrick Meister;Lars Peter Nielsen

247
Citations
Nitrification and Denitrification in Lake and Estuarine Sediments Measured by the 15N Dilution Technique and Isotope Pairing

Søren Rysgaard;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Lars Peter Nielsen;Niels Peter Revsbech

239
Citations
Seasonal carbon and nutrient mineralization in a high-Arctic coastal marine sediment, Young Sound, Northeast Greenland

Søren Rysgaard;Bo Thamdrup;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Henrik Fossing

225
Citations
Electric coupling between distant nitrate reduction and sulfide oxidation in marine sediment

Ugo Marzocchi;Daniela Trojan;Steffen Larsen;Rikke Louise Meyer

200
Citations
Nitrification, denitrification, and nitrate ammonification in sediments of two coastal lagoons in Southern France

Søren Rysgaard;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Niels Peter Sloth

196
Citations
Nitrogen cycling in sediments with different organic loading

NP Sloth;H. Blackburn;LS Hansen;N. Risgaard-Petersen

195
Citations
On the evolution and physiology of cable bacteria

Kasper U. Kjeldsen;Lars Schreiber;Lars Schreiber;Casper A. Thorup;Thomas Boesen

191
Citations
Competition between Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Benthic Microalgae

Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Mette H. Nicolaisen;Niels Peter Revsbech;Bente Aa Lomstein

177
Citations
Succession of cable bacteria and electric currents in marine sediment

Regina Schauer;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Kasper U Kjeldsen;Jesper J Tataru Bjerg

170
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Peter Nielsen Aarhus University

Søren Rysgaard Aarhus University

Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University

Andreas Schramm Aarhus University

Tage Dalsgaard Aarhus University

Filip J. R. Meysman Delft University of Technology

Emmanuelle Geslin University of Angers

Henrik Fossing Aarhus University

Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark

Peter Bondo Christensen Aarhus University

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