Ian M. Head

32.4k citations
205 papers · 17.4k · 6 hit papers · h-index 68

Impact in

  • Pollution top 0.05%
    • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
    • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
    • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 65
    • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants 36
    • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 26

Ian M. Head

204 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Ian M. Head's Hit Papers

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data 2009 · 810 citations
8100+9+18Years since publication4008001.2k

Peers

Ian M. Head
Comparison fields: 5 of 173
  • Pollution 5.5k
  • Environmental Engineering 4.1k
  • Environmental Chemistry 2.7k
  • Ecology 5.9k
  • Mechanics of Materials 2.6k
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All Works

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Showing the 20 most-cited of 205 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

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Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure
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Biological activity in the deep subsurface and the origin of heavy oil
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2003942
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Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil
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2006837
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Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data
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2009810
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Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs
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2007552
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Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms
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1998519
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Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) in microbial ecology.
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8 2005393
9 2002388
10 2007350
11 2003293
12 1993289
13 2001284
14 2011250
15 2006249
16 2001217
17 2006214
18 2009204
19 2010196
20 2011191

About Ian M. Head

Ian M. Head is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Molecular Biology and Mechanics of Materials, having authored 205 papers that have together received 17.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (65 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (53 papers), Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (36 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (36 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (26 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (25 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (5.5k citations), Environmental Engineering (4.1k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.7k citations), Ecology (5.9k citations) and Mechanics of Materials (2.6k citations). Ian M. Head has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include D. M. Jones, Steve Larter, Thomas P. Curtis, Keith Scott, Wilfred F. M. Röling, Neil Gray, William T. Sloan, Stephen Woodcock, Mary Lunn and J. R. Saunders. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Water Research and Water Science & Technology.

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