Benny Chefetz

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
132 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Benny Chefetz is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benny Chefetz has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Pollution, 34 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Benny Chefetz's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (46 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (27 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (16 papers). Benny Chefetz is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (46 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (27 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (16 papers). Benny Chefetz collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Benny Chefetz's co-authors include Patrick G. Hatcher, Yona Chen, Yitzhak Hadar, Baoshan Xing, Moshe Shenker, Tamara Polubesova, Julius Ben‐Ari, Ashish P. Deshmukh, Adi Oren and Tomer Malchi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benny Chefetz

130 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Irrigation of Root Vegetables with Treated Wastewater: Evaluating Uptake of Pharmaceuticals and the Associated Human Health Risks

2014 363 citations Benny Chefetz et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture

2024 69 citations Anastasis Christou, Vasiliki G. Beretsou et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Benny Chefetz	4.2k	1.9k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	132	8.1k
Guangyao Sheng	2.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	774 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	820 0.8×	79	6.7k
Andreas Schäffer	4.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.6×	545 0.4×	568 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	241	8.9k
Ke Sun	3.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	2.6k 2.3×	523 0.5×	149	8.3k
Gijs Du Laing	4.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	229	9.6k
Manuel Arias‐Estévez	4.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	537 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	227	6.7k
Kadiyala Venkateswarlu	4.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	609 0.5×	681 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	184	8.2k
Jay Gan	6.8k 1.6×	3.9k 2.0×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	258	11.4k
Yanzheng Gao	4.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	629 0.5×	806 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	212	7.7k
Lizhong Zhu	2.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	548 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	806 0.8×	187	6.9k
Michael Komárek	4.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	621 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	164	8.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benny Chefetz

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Mordechay, Evyatar Ben, et al.. (2024). Uptake of tire-derived compounds in leafy vegetables and implications for human dietary exposure. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 12 indexed citations

Topaz, Tom, et al.. (2024). Nutrient concentration, loads and retention in a semiarid micro-estuary: The relative contribution of baseflow and flood events. The Science of The Total Environment. 931. 172805–172805. 2 indexed citations

Topaz, Tom, et al.. (2024). Exploring Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Microestuaries: Occurrence, Distribution, and Risks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 11(5). 466–471. 19 indexed citations

Christou, Anastasis, Vasiliki G. Beretsou, Iakovos C. Iakovides, et al.. (2024). Publisher Correction: Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(11). 833–833. 1 indexed citations

Christou, Anastasis, Vasiliki G. Beretsou, Iakovos C. Iakovides, et al.. (2024). Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(7). 504–521. 69 indexed citations breakdown →

Abdeen, Ziad, S. Schwartz, Vered Mordehay, et al.. (2024). Regional Water and Food Security Require Joint Israeli-Palestinian Guidelines for Wastewater Reuse and Food Safety. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 45(4). 113–124.

Zhang, Wei, Xiangyu Tang, Benny Chefetz, & Sören Thiele‐Bruhn. (2024). Size and polarity fractions of mobile organic matter from manure affect the sorption of sulfadiazine, caffeine and atenolol in soil. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 477. 135277–135277. 3 indexed citations

Sigmund, Gabriel, Hans Peter H. Arp, Thomas D. Bucheli, et al.. (2022). Sorption and Mobility of Charged Organic Compounds: How to Confront and Overcome Limitations in Their Assessment. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(8). 4702–4710. 77 indexed citations

Mordechay, Evyatar Ben, Vered Mordehay, Jorge Tarchitzky, & Benny Chefetz. (2021). Pharmaceuticals in edible crops irrigated with reclaimed wastewater: Evidence from a large survey in Israel. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 416. 126184–126184. 100 indexed citations

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Topaz, Tom, et al.. (2020). Ecological Risk Dynamics of Pharmaceuticals in Micro-Estuary Environments. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(18). 11182–11190. 36 indexed citations

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Schapira, Michael, Orly Manor, Dorit Kalo, et al.. (2020). Involuntary human exposure to carbamazepine: A cross-sectional study of correlates across the lifespan and dietary spectrum. Environment International. 143. 105951–105951. 39 indexed citations

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Young, Robert B., Amy M. McKenna, Huan Chen, et al.. (2018). Composition-Dependent Sorptive Fractionation of Anthropogenic Dissolved Organic Matter by Fe(III)-Montmorillonite. Soil Systems. 2(1). 14–14. 27 indexed citations

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Egozi, Roey, Tom Topaz, Gil Eshel, & Benny Chefetz. (2018). Pesticide load dynamics during stormwater flow events in Mediterranean coastal streams: Alexander stream case study. EGUGA. 5854. 1 indexed citations

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Topaz, Tom, Roey Egozi, Gil Eshel, & Benny Chefetz. (2017). Pesticide load dynamics during stormwater flow events in Mediterranean coastal streams: Alexander stream case study. The Science of The Total Environment. 625. 168–177. 26 indexed citations

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Fedorová, Ganna, et al.. (2016). Environmental exposure to pharmaceuticals: A new technique for trace analysis of carbamazepine and its metabolites in human urine. Environmental Pollution. 213. 308–313. 13 indexed citations

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Chefetz, Benny, et al.. (2009). Sorption of the pharmaceuticals carbamazepine and naproxen to dissolved organic matter: Role of structural fractions. Water Research. 44(3). 981–989. 105 indexed citations

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Lam, Buuan, et al.. (2006). The Role of Lipids on Sorption Characteristics of Freshwater‐ and Wastewater‐Irrigated Soils. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35(6). 2154–2161. 24 indexed citations

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Oren, Adi & Benny Chefetz. (2005). Sorption–desorption behavior of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in upstream and downstream river sediments. Chemosphere. 61(1). 19–29. 56 indexed citations

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Simpson, Myrna J., Benny Chefetz, Ashish P. Deshmukh, & Patrick G. Hatcher. (2004). Comparison of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon distributions and sedimentary organic matter characteristics in contaminated, coastal sediments from Pensacola Bay, Florida. Marine Environmental Research. 59(2). 139–163. 32 indexed citations

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Simpson, Myrna J., Benny Chefetz, & Patrick G. Hatcher. (2003). Phenanthrene Sorption to Structurally Modified Humic Acids. Journal of Environmental Quality. 32(5). 1750–1758. 72 indexed citations

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