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Stephen H. Zinder

Stephen H. Zinder

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
19423
World Ranking
6277
National Ranking
2946

Stephen H. Zinder 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 Stephen H. Zinder sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 142 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen H. Zinder 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 Stephen H. Zinder sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen H. Zinder is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable work spanning several subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Building and Construction, and Atmospheric Science.

Their studies cover a range of topics, particularly in peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, space science and extraterrestrial life, and the origins and evolution of life.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • The ISME Journal
  • Astrobiology
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Collaborations are a consistent aspect of their research, with regular coauthors being:

  • Lisa Kaltenegger
  • Lígia F. Coelho
  • William Philpot
  • Jack Madden
  • M. Glória Esquível

Notable recent publications include:

  • Methanogenic archaea in peatlands, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • Linking microbial Sphagnum degradation and acetate mineralization in acidic peat bogs: from global insights to a genome-centric case study, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Color Catalogue of Life in Ice: Surface Biosignatures on Icy Worlds, 2021, Astrobiology
  • Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds, 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh, 2020, UNC Libraries

Stephen H. Zinder has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a Bacterium That Reductively Dechlorinates Tetrachloroethene to Ethene

    Xavier Maymó-Gatell;Yueh-tyng Chien;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Physiological Ecology of Methanogens

    Stephen H. Zinder

  • Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform

    Matthew T. Agler;Brian A. Wrenn;Stephen H. Zinder;Largus T. Angenent

  • The Genome of M. Acetivorans Reveals Extensive Metabolic and Physiological Diversity

    James E. Galagan;Chad Nusbaum;Alice Roy;Matthew G. Endrizzi;Matthew G. Endrizzi;Matthew G. Endrizzi

  • Genome Sequence of the PCE-Dechlorinating Bacterium Dehalococcoides ethenogenes

    Rekha Seshadri;Lorenz Adrian;Derrick E. Fouts;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi.

    Frank E. Löffler;Jun Yan;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Lorenz Adrian

  • Comparison of Butyric Acid, Ethanol, Lactic Acid, and Propionic Acid as Hydrogen Donors for the Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene

    Donna E. Fennell;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and 1, 2-dichloroethane by "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" 195.

    Xavier Maymó-Gatell;Timothy Anguish;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Non-aceticlastic methanogenesis from acetate: acetate oxidation by a thermophilic syntrophic coculture

    Stephen H. Zinder;Markus Koch

  • Reductive dechlorination of high concentrations of tetrachloroethene to ethene by an anaerobic enrichment culture in the absence of methanogenesis.

    T D DiStefano;J M Gossett;S H Zinder

  • Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 reductively dechlorinates diverse chlorinated aromatic pollutants.

    Donna E. Fennell;Ivonne Nijenhuis;Susan F. Wilson;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Hydrogen as an electron donor for dechlorination of tetrachloroethene by an anaerobic mixed culture.

    T D DiStefano;J M Gossett;S H Zinder

  • Genome sequence of the chlorinated compound–respiring bacterium Dehalococcoides species strain CBDB1

    Michael Kube;Alfred Beck;Stephen H Zinder;Heiner Kuhl

  • Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to ethene by a two-component enzyme pathway.

    Jon K. Magnuson;Robert V. Stern;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Comparative Kinetics of Hydrogen Utilization for Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene and Methanogenesis in an Anaerobic Enrichment Culture

    Concordia R. Smatlak;James M. Gossett;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dechlorination of cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride by "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes".

    Xavier Maymo-Gatell;Ivonne Nijenhuis;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Thermophilic Strain of Methanosarcina Unable to Use H(2)-CO(2) for Methanogenesis.

    Stephen H. Zinder;Robert A. Mah

  • Methanogenesis in a Thermophilic (58°C) Anaerobic Digestor: Methanothrix sp. as an Important Aceticlastic Methanogen

    S. H. Zinder;S.C. Cardwell;T. Anguish;M. Lee

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Thermophilic Bacterium Which Oxidizes Acetate in Syntrophic Association with a Methanogen and Which Grows Acetogenically on H2-CO2

    Monica J. Lee;Stephen H. Zinder

  • Reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated ethenes and halogenated ethanes by a high-rate anaerobic enrichment culture.

    Valter. Tandoi;Thomas D. DiStefano;Patrick A. Bowser;James M. Gossett

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen University of California, Berkeley
Joseph B. Yavitt
Joseph B. Yavitt Cornell University
Gary L. Andersen
Gary L. Andersen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Thomas D. Brock
Thomas D. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory

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