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Philippe Van Cappellen

Philippe Van Cappellen

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Earth Science
Canada
2026
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Chemistry
Canada
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
23411
World Ranking
3588
National Ranking
88

Philippe Van Cappellen publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Van Cappellen sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 200 publications — 32nd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Philippe Van Cappellen D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Van Cappellen sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Philippe Van Cappellen is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions in several subfields including environmental chemistry, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and pollution.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics within environmental science. Key areas of study include:

  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry

Van Cappellen has contributed to a number of scientific papers across prominent journals and research venues. Some recent publications are:

  • Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Pore-scale controls on hydrological and geochemical processes in peat: Implications on interacting processes, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Global Dam-Driven Changes to Riverine N:P:Si Ratios Delivered to the Coastal Ocean, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Phosphorus binding to soil organic matter via ternary complexes with calcium, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Current State of Microplastic Pollution Research Data: Trends in Availability and Sources of Open Data, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

The scientist frequently publishes in several key venues, including:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Geochemistry

Collaboration appears frequently with a core group of co-authors who have worked with Van Cappellen on multiple papers, such as Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Stephanie Slowinski, Chris T. Parsons, Kunfu Pi, and Mahyar Shafii.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Philippe Van Cappellen was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • The ferrozine method revisited: Fe(II)/Fe(III) determination in natural waters

    E Viollier;P.W Inglett;K Hunter;A.N Roychoudhury

  • Biogeochemical Redox Processes and their Impact on Contaminant Dynamics

    Thomas Borch;Ruben Kretzschmar;Andreas Kappler;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean through submarine groundwater discharge: controls and potential impact

    Caroline P. Slomp;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Surface catalysis of uranium(VI) reduction by iron(II)

    Emmanuelle Liger;Laurent Charlet;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Degradation of natural organic matter: a thermodynamic analysis

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Douglas E. LaRowe;Philippe Van Cappellen;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • A new kinetic approach to modeling water-rock interaction: The role of nucleation, precursors, and Ostwald ripening

    Carl I. Steefel;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Cycling of iron and manganese in surface sediments; a general theory for the coupled transport and reaction of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, iron, and manganese

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  • A surface complexation model of the carbonate mineral-aqueous solution interface

    Philippe Van Cappellen;Laurent Charlet;Werner Stumm;Paul Wersin

  • Benthic phosphorus regeneration, net primary production, and ocean anoxia: A model of the coupled marine biogeochemical cycles of carbon and phosphorus

    Philippe Van Cappellen;Ellery D. Ingall

  • Influence of water column anoxia on the burial and preservation of carbon and phosphorus in marine shales

    Ellery D. Ingall;R.M. Bustin;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Structure of peat soils and implications for water storage, flow and solute transport: A review update for geochemists

    Fereidoun Rezanezhad;Jonathan S. Price;William L. Quinton;Bernd Lennartz

  • A multicomponent reactive transport model of early diagenesis: Application to redox cycling in coastal marine sediments

    Yifeng Wang;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Redox stabilization of the atmosphere and oceans by phosphorus-limited marine productivity

    Philippe Van Cappellen;Ellery D. Ingall

  • Global phosphorus retention by river damming

    Taylor Maavara;Christopher T. Parsons;Christine Ridenour;Severin Stojanovic

  • Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes: A review

    Alexander G.J. Driedger;Hans H. Dürr;Kristen Mitchell;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Kinetic modeling of microbially-driven redox chemistry of subsurface environments : coupling transport, microbial metabolism and geochemistry

    Kimberley S. Hunter;Yifeng Wang;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming.

    Taylor Maavara;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Pierre Regnier;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Relation between sedimentation rate and burial of organic phosphorus and organic carbon in marine sediments

    Ellery D Ingall;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Biogenic silica dissolution in sediments of the Southern Ocean. II. Kinetics

    Philippe Van Cappellen;Linqing Qiu

  • Microbial reduction of iron(III) oxyhydroxides: effects of mineral solubility and availability

    Steeve Bonneville;Philippe Van Cappellen;Thilo Behrends

  • Processes controlling solubility of biogenic silica and pore water build-up of silicic acid in marine sediments

    Suvasis Dixit;Philippe Van Cappellen;A.Johan van Bennekom

Frequent Co-Authors

Raoul-Marie Couture
Raoul-Marie Couture Université Laval
Christof Meile
Christof Meile University of Georgia
Pierre Regnier
Pierre Regnier Université Libre de Bruxelles
Martin Thullner
Martin Thullner Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
Paul R.D. Mason
Paul R.D. Mason Utrecht University
Nandita B. Basu
Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo
Ellery D. Ingall
Ellery D. Ingall Georgia Institute of Technology
Hans H. Dürr
Hans H. Dürr Ruhr University Bochum

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