2026 Thomas P. Curtis: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	66	2051	1957	166	160	190	20398

Thomas P. Curtis 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 Thomas P. Curtis sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Thomas P. Curtis 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 Thomas P. Curtis sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas P. Curtis is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to pollution, molecular biology, ecology, environmental engineering, and water science and technology.

The scientist's key research themes encompass wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, membrane separation technologies, water treatment and disinfection, and membrane-based ion separation techniques.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Adeline Seak May Chua, Ben Allen, Irina Dana Ofiţeru, Per Halkjær Nielsen, and Jan Dolfing.

Their recent papers include:

MGnify: the microbiome sequence data analysis resource in 2023 (2022), published in Nucleic Acids Research
MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (2022), published in Nature Communications
Nonlinear rheological characteristics of single species bacterial biofilms (2020), published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
N-acyl-homoserine-lactones signaling as a critical control point for phosphorus entrapment by multi-species microbial aggregates (2021), published in Water Research
Global diversity and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in human wastewater treatment systems (2025), published in Nature Communications

Thomas P. Curtis frequently publishes in venues such as Nature Communications, Water Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, and Water.

Best Publications

Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure.

William T. Sloan;Mary Lunn;Stephen Woodcock;Ian M. Head

1747
Citations
Estimating prokaryotic diversity and its limits

Thomas P. Curtis;William T. Sloan;Jack W. Scannell

1527
Citations
Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

Christopher Quince;Anders Lanzén;Thomas P Curtis;Russell J Davenport

1248
Citations
The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

James I. Prosser;Brendan J. M. Bohannan;Tom P. Curtis;Richard J. Ellis

1234
Citations
Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

818
Citations
Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

774
Citations
Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial wastewater treatment community

Irina Dana Ofiteru;Mary Lunn;Thomas P Curtis;George F Wells

606
Citations
Determination of the internal chemical energy of wastewater

Elizabeth Heidrich;Thomas Curtis;Jan Dolfing

494
Citations
Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water

Thomas P. Curtis;D. Duncan Mara;Salomao A. Silva

429
Citations
Microbial landscapes: new paths to biofilm research.

Tom J. Battin;William T. Sloan;Staffan Kjelleberg;Holger Daims

417
Citations
Prokaryotic diversity and its limits: microbial community structure in nature and implications for microbial ecology

Thomas P Curtis;William T Sloan

396
Citations
Energy from algae using microbial fuel cells.

Sharon B. Velasquez-Orta;Tom P. Curtis;Bruce E. Logan

384
Citations
A single-chamber microbial fuel cell as a biosensor for wastewaters.

Mirella Di Lorenzo;Tom P. Curtis;Ian M. Head;Keith Scott

346
Citations
Performance of a pilot scale microbial electrolysis cell fed on domestic wastewater at ambient temperatures for a 12 month period.

Elizabeth S. Heidrich;Stephen R. Edwards;Jan Dolfing;Sarah E. Cotterill

345
Citations
Production of hydrogen from domestic wastewater in a pilot-scale microbial electrolysis cell.

Elizabeth Heidrich;Jan Dolfing;Keith Scott;Stephen Edwards

308
Citations
Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

Maria Dornelas;Anne Magurran;Stephen Terrence Buckland;Anne Chao

290
Citations
Exploring microbial diversity: A vast below

T. P. Curtis;W. T. Sloan

278
Citations
Photoelectrocatalytic and photocatalytic disinfection of E. coli suspensions by titanium dioxide

Paul Christensen;Thomas Curtis;Terry Egerton;Samia Kosa

270
Citations
Uncoupling of metabolism to reduce biomass production in the activated sludge process

Euan W. Low;Howard A. Chase;Michael G. Milner;Tom P. Curtis

259
Citations
Composition and diversity of ammonia-oxidising bacterial communities in wastewater treatment reactors of different design treating identical wastewater.

Arlene K. Rowan;Jason R. Snape;David Fearnside;Michael R. Barer

256
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Head Newcastle University

Keith Scott Newcastle University

Jan Dolfing Northumbria University

Duncan Mara University of Leeds

Christopher Quince University of Warwick

Paul A. Christensen Newcastle University

Cristian Picioreanu King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark

Darren J. Wilkinson Durham University

David W. Graham Newcastle University

External Links

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