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Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Moritz Holtappels
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
40

Rising Stars Papers

1
Iron Promotes the Retention of Terrigenous Dissolved Organic Matter in Subtidal Permeable Sediments
Environmental Science & Technology|2024
21 cit.
2
Extensive Oxygen Consumption in the Intertidal Infiltration Zone of Beach Aquifers—The Impact of Seasonal Input, Filtration Efficiency, and Morphodynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences|2025
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kwamena Opoku Duartey
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
99
2
Simone Brick
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
87
3
M. Yu. Gorbunov
Samara Federal Research Scientific Center
83
4
Maria Tenkanen
Finnish Meteorological Institute
61
5
Yu Zhou
Scripps Research Institute
54
6
Felix Auer
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
50
7
Thea Bisander
Södertörn University
47
8
Toni Galloway
University of St Andrews
46
9
Francesco Romeo
University of L'Aquila
41
10
Kojo Amoako
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
38

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Underground Hydrogen Storage: Transforming Subsurface Science into Sustainable Energy Solutions
Energies|2025
32 cit.
2
Extensive Oxygen Consumption in the Intertidal Infiltration Zone of Beach Aquifers—The Impact of Seasonal Input, Filtration Efficiency, and Morphodynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences|2025
9 cit.
3
Interstitial microbial communities of coastal sediments are dominated by Nanoarchaeota
Frontiers in Microbiology|2025
7 cit.
4
Partitioning anthropogenic and natural methane emissions in Finland during 2000–2021 by combining bottom-up and top-down estimates
Atmospheric chemistry and physics|2025
6 cit.
5
Organo-mineral interactions modulate organic carbon retention and mobility in a deep subterranean estuary of a high-energy beach
Frontiers in Water|2025
6 cit.
6
Ash and Ice Aggregation in Satellite Retrieval: The 15 January 2022 Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Hydromagmatic Eruption
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres|2025
5 cit.
7
Defective endomembrane dynamics in Rab27a deficiency impairs nucleic acid sensing and cytokine secretion in immune cells
Cell Reports|2024
4 cit.
8
Methane ebullition as the dominant pathway for carbon sea-air exchange in coastal, shallow water habitats of the Baltic Sea
Biogeosciences|2025
3 cit.
9
Planktonic Pro- and Microeukaryotes of the Kuibyshev Reservoir and Its Bays During the Cyanobacterial Bloom Period
Water|2025
1 cit.
10
Biological nitrogen cycling within terrestrial hot springs: A Mars analogue system
Earth and Planetary Science Letters|2025
1 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Marc Strous
University of Calgary
99
2
Jorien E. Vonk
Utrecht University
93
3
Daniel J. Jacob
Harvard University
84
4
Miska Luoto
University of Helsinki
73
5
Gavin L. Foster
National Oceanography Centre
71
6
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Aarhus University
69
7
Qiuan Zhu
Northwest A&F University
66
8
A. J. Dolman
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
65
9
J. D. Kessler
University of Rochester
63
10
Gideon M. Henderson
University of Oxford
61

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback
Nature|2015
3.8k cit.
2
Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria
Nature|2010
1.8k cit.
3
Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations
Hydrology and earth system sciences|2011
1.8k cit.
4
The global methane budget 2000–2012
Earth system science data|2016
1.1k cit.
5
The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates
Reviews of Geophysics|2016
875 cit.
6
The Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle of Marine Sediments
Frontiers in Microbiology|2019
766 cit.
7
Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World
Reviews of Geophysics|2018
649 cit.
8
Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration
Reviews of Geophysics|2017
607 cit.
9
Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century
Nature Communications|2018
588 cit.
10
The environmental controls that govern the end product of bacterial nitrate respiration
Science|2014
545 cit.

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