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Nils Risgaard-Petersen

Nils Risgaard-Petersen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
12036
World Ranking
3635
National Ranking
43

Nils Risgaard-Petersen 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 Nils Risgaard-Petersen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 106 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nils Risgaard-Petersen 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 Nils Risgaard-Petersen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances

    Christian Pfeffer;Steffen Larsen;Jie Song;Mingdong Dong

  • Electric currents couple spatially separated biogeochemical processes in marine sediment

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

  • Evidence for complete denitrification in a benthic foraminifer

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

  • Oxygen regulation of nitrification and denitrification in sediments

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

  • Denitrification and anammox activity in Arctic marine sediments

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Anaerobic ammonia oxidation in a fertilized paddy soil.

    Guibing Zhu;Shanyun Wang;Yu Wang;Chaoxu Wang

  • Hotspots of anaerobic ammonium oxidation at land–freshwater interfaces

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

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in an estuarine sediment

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

  • Widespread occurrence of nitrate storage and denitrification among Foraminifera and Gromiida.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Søren Rysgaard;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Niels Peter Sloth

  • Nitrogen cycling in sediments with different organic loading

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

  • On the evolution and physiology of cable bacteria

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

  • Competition between Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Benthic Microalgae

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

  • Succession of cable bacteria and electric currents in marine sediment

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Peter Nielsen
Lars Peter Nielsen Aarhus University
Søren Rysgaard
Søren Rysgaard Aarhus University
Niels Peter Revsbech
Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University
Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm Aarhus University
Tage Dalsgaard
Tage Dalsgaard Aarhus University
Filip J. R. Meysman
Filip J. R. Meysman Delft University of Technology
Emmanuelle Geslin
Emmanuelle Geslin University of Angers
Henrik Fossing
Henrik Fossing Aarhus University
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Peter Bondo Christensen
Peter Bondo Christensen Aarhus University

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