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D-Index
66
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13505
World Ranking
2125
National Ranking
864

William P. Inskeep 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 William P. Inskeep sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 172 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William P. Inskeep 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 William P. Inskeep sits on this spectrum.

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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

William P. Inskeep is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work covers various subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • RNA regulation and disease

William P. Inskeep has published in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Nature Microbiology
  • Science
  • Nature
  • The ISME Journal
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements

Their recent papers include:

  • The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases, 2021, Science
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, 2023, Nature
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Sulfur cycling and host-virus interactions in Aquificales-dominated biofilms from Yellowstone's hottest ecosystems, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Draft Genome Sequence of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus WHS, a Thermophilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen from Washburn Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, USA, 2021, Microbiology Resource Announcements

Frequent co-authors in their work include Luke J. McKay, Mensur Dlakić, Silvia G. Acinas, Eric S. Boyd, and Daniel R. Colman.

Best Publications

  • Extinction Coefficients of Chlorophyll a and b in N,N-Dimethylformamide and 80% Acetone

    William P. Inskeep;Paul R. Bloom

  • Microbial population dynamics associated with crude-oil biodegradation in diverse soils.

    Natsuko Hamamura;Sarah H. Olson;David M. Ward;William P. Inskeep

  • Bacterial populations associated with the oxidation and reduction of arsenic in an unsaturated soil.

    Richard E. Macur;Colin R. Jackson;Lina M. Botero;Timothy R. Mcdermott

  • Arsenic (V)/(III) cycling in soils and natural waters: chemical and microbiological processes.

    W. P. Inskeep;T. R. McDermott;S. Fendorf;W. T. Frankenberger

  • Rapid oxidation of arsenite in a hot spring ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park.

    Heiko W. Langner;Colin R. Jackson;Timothy R. Mcdermott;William P. Inskeep

  • Microbial Reduction of Arsenate in the Presence of Ferrihydrite

    Heiko W. Langner;William P. Inskeep

  • Sorption of nonionic organic compounds in soil-water systems containing a micelle-forming surfactant.

    Shaobai. Sun;William P. Inskeep;Stephen A. Boyd

  • Microbial populations associated with the reduction and enhanced mobilization of arsenic in mine tailings

    Richard E. Macur;Jacob T. Wheeler;Timothy R. Mcdermott;William P. Inskeep

  • Detection, diversity and expression of aerobic bacterial arsenite oxidase genes.

    William P. Inskeep;Richard E. Macur;Natsuko Hamamura;Thomas P. Warelow

  • The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases

    Han Altae-Tran;Soumya Kannan;F. Esra Demircioglu;Rachel Oshiro

  • Molecular analysis of microbial community structure in an arsenite-oxidizing acidic thermal spring

    Colin R. Jackson;Heiko W. Langner;Jessica Donahoe-Christiansen;William P. Inskeep

  • Metagenomes from high-temperature chemotrophic systems reveal geochemical controls on microbial community structure and function

    William P. Inskeep;Douglas B. Rusch;Zackary J. Jay;Markus J. Herrgard

  • An evaluation of rate equations for calcite precipitation kinetics at pCO2 less than 0.01 atm and pH greater than 8

    William P. Inskeep;Paul R. Bloom

  • Global occurrence of archaeal amoA genes in terrestrial hot springs.

    Chuanlun L. Zhang;Qi Ye;Zhiyong Huang;WenJun Li

  • Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea.

    Guillaume Borrel;Panagiotis S. Adam;Panagiotis S. Adam;Luke J. McKay;Lin-Xing Chen

  • The YNP Metagenome Project: Environmental Parameters Responsible for Microbial Distribution in the Yellowstone Geothermal Ecosystem

    William P. Inskeep;Zackary J. Jay;Susannah Green Tringe;Markus Herrgard

  • Rates of Microbially Mediated Arsenate Reduction and Solubilization

    C. A. Jones;H. W. Langner;K. Anderson;T. R. McDermott

  • Inhibition of hydroxyapatite precipitation in the presence of fulvic, humic, and tannic acids

    William P. Inskeep;Jeffrey C. Silvertooth

  • Precipitation of Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate in the Presence of Organic Acids

    Paul R. Grossl;William P. Inskeep

  • Nonequilibrium Transport of Atrazine through Large Intact Soil Cores

    H. M. Gaber;W. P. Inskeep;S. D. Comfort;J. M. Wraith

  • Linking microbial oxidation of arsenic with detection and phylogenetic analysis of arsenite oxidase genes in diverse geothermal environments.

    Natsuko Hamamura;R. E. Macur;S. Korf;G. Ackerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy R. McDermott
Timothy R. McDermott Montana State University
Susannah G. Tringe
Susannah G. Tringe Joint Genome Institute
David M. Ward
David M. Ward Montana State University
Bruce W. Fouke
Bruce W. Fouke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Anna-Louise Reysenbach Portland State University
Wen-Jun Li
Wen-Jun Li Sun Yat-sen University
Matthew W. Fields
Matthew W. Fields Montana State University
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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