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Peter F. Dunfield

Peter F. Dunfield

University of Calgary
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
13626
World Ranking
13685
National Ranking
475

Peter F. Dunfield publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter F. Dunfield sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 133 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Peter F. Dunfield D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter F. Dunfield sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter F. Dunfield is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production

Among their recent papers are:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Ancestral Absence of Electron Transport Chains in Patescibacteria and DPANN, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Ecological and genomic analyses of candidate phylum WPS -2 bacteria in an unvegetated soil, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Sulfur and methane oxidation by a single microorganism, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs grow on diverse C3 compounds and use a homolog of particulate methane monooxygenase to oxidize acetone, 2021, The ISME Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter F. Dunfield include:

  • Andriy Sheremet
  • Angela V. Smirnova
  • Tanja Woyke
  • Chantel C. Furgason
  • Frederik Schulz

Publications are regularly found in the following venues:

  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Methane production and consumption in temperate and subarctic peat soils: Response to temperature and pH

    Peter Dunfield;Roger knowles;Rachel Dumont;Tim R. Moore

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia

    Peter F. Dunfield;Anton Yuryev;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin;Angela V. Smirnova

  • Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia.

    Huub J. M. Op den Camp;Tajul Islam;Matthew B. Stott;Harry R. Harhangi

  • Use of the T‐RFLP technique to assess spatial and temporal changes in the bacterial community structure within an agricultural soil planted with transgenic and non‐transgenic potato plants

    Thomas Lukow;Peter F Dunfield;Werner Liesack

  • Diversity and Activity of Methanotrophic Bacteria in Different Upland Soils

    Claudia Knief;André Lipski;Peter F. Dunfield

  • Methylocella Species Are Facultatively Methanotrophic

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Claudia Knief;Peter F. Dunfield

  • Kinetics of inhibition of methane oxidation by nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium in a humisol.

    P Dunfield;R Knowles

  • Methylocella silvestris sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from an acidic forest cambisol.

    Peter F. Dunfield;Valentina N. Khmelenina;Natalia E. Suzina;Yuri A. Trotsenko

  • Methyloferula stellata gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidophilic, obligately methanotrophic bacterium that possesses only a soluble methane monooxygenase.

    Alexey V. Vorobev;Mohamed Baani;Nina V. Doronina;Allyson L. Brady

  • Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia.

    Shaobin Hou;Kira S Makarova;Jimmy H W Saw;Jimmy H W Saw;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin

  • Humboldt’s spa: microbial diversity is controlled by temperature in geothermal environments

    Christine E Sharp;Allyson L Brady;Glen H Sharp;Stephen E Grasby

  • Abundance and activity of uncultured methanotrophic bacteria involved in the consumption of atmospheric methane in two forest soils.

    Steffen Kolb;Claudia Knief;Peter F. Dunfield;Ralf Conrad

  • High-affinity methane oxidation by a soil enrichment culture containing a type II methanotroph.

    Peter F. Dunfield;Werner Liesack;Thilo Henckel;Roger Knowles

  • Metagenomics of Hydrocarbon Resource Environments Indicates Aerobic Taxa and Genes to be Unexpectedly Common

    Dongshan An;Sean Caffrey;Jung Soh;Akhil Agrawal

  • Isolation of novel bacteria, including a candidate division, from geothermal soils in New Zealand

    Matthew B. Stott;Michelle A. Crowe;Bruce W. Mountain;Angela V. Smirnova

  • Response and adaptation of different methanotrophic bacteria to low methane mixing ratios

    Claudia Knief;Peter F. Dunfield

  • Molecular phylogeny of type II methane-oxidizing bacteria isolated from various environments.

    Jürgen Heyer;Valery F. Galchenko;Peter F. Dunfield

  • An overview of the occurrence of ether- and ester- linked iso -diabolic acid membrane lipids in microbial cultures of the Acidobacteria: Implications for brGDGT paleoproxies for temperature and pH

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Bärbel U. Foesel;Katharina J. Huber

  • Edaphobacter modestus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Edaphobacter aggregans sp. nov., acidobacteria isolated from alpine and forest soils.

    Isabella H. Koch;Frederic Gich;Peter F. Dunfield;Jörg Overmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Svetlana N. Dedysh
Svetlana N. Dedysh Russian Academy of Sciences
Werner Liesack
Werner Liesack Max Planck Society
Maqsudul Alam
Maqsudul Alam University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stephen E. Grasby
Stephen E. Grasby Geological Survey of Canada
Martin G. Klotz
Martin G. Klotz City University of New York
Yuri A. Trotsenko
Yuri A. Trotsenko Russian Academy of Sciences
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Huub J. M. Op den Camp
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Radboud University

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