2026 Philippe Van Cappellen: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	79	3588	3256	88	79	200	23411
Earth Science	88	309	264	7	6	265	27648

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

1556
Citations
Biogeochemical Redox Processes and their Impact on Contaminant Dynamics

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

1547
Citations
Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean through submarine groundwater discharge: controls and potential impact

Caroline P. Slomp;Philippe Van Cappellen

1063
Citations
Surface catalysis of uranium(VI) reduction by iron(II)

Emmanuelle Liger;Laurent Charlet;Philippe Van Cappellen

852
Citations
Degradation of natural organic matter: a thermodynamic analysis

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

736
Citations
A new kinetic approach to modeling water-rock interaction: The role of nucleation, precursors, and Ostwald ripening

Carl I. Steefel;Philippe Van Cappellen

699
Citations
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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689
Citations
A surface complexation model of the carbonate mineral-aqueous solution interface

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

688
Citations
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

595
Citations
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

568
Citations
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

480
Citations
A multicomponent reactive transport model of early diagenesis: Application to redox cycling in coastal marine sediments

Yifeng Wang;Philippe Van Cappellen

475
Citations
Redox stabilization of the atmosphere and oceans by phosphorus-limited marine productivity

Philippe Van Cappellen;Ellery D. Ingall

470
Citations
Global phosphorus retention by river damming

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

470
Citations
Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes: A review

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

463
Citations
Kinetic modeling of microbially-driven redox chemistry of subsurface environments : coupling transport, microbial metabolism and geochemistry

Kimberley S. Hunter;Yifeng Wang;Philippe Van Cappellen

445
Citations
Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming.

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

408
Citations
Relation between sedimentation rate and burial of organic phosphorus and organic carbon in marine sediments

Ellery D Ingall;Philippe Van Cappellen

389
Citations
Biogenic silica dissolution in sediments of the Southern Ocean. II. Kinetics

Philippe Van Cappellen;Linqing Qiu

388
Citations
Microbial reduction of iron(III) oxyhydroxides: effects of mineral solubility and availability

Steeve Bonneville;Philippe Van Cappellen;Thilo Behrends

381
Citations
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

327
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Raoul-Marie Couture Université Laval

Christof Meile University of Georgia

Pierre Regnier Université Libre de Bruxelles

Martin Thullner Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Michael D. Krom University of Haifa

Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University

Paul R.D. Mason Utrecht University

Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo

Ellery D. Ingall Georgia Institute of Technology

Hans H. Dürr Ruhr University Bochum

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