Birgit Beck

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 767 citations indexed

About

Birgit Beck is a scholar working on Pollution, Cognitive Neuroscience and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Beck has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 767 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Pollution, 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Birgit Beck's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (5 papers), Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (3 papers). Birgit Beck is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (5 papers), Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (3 papers). Birgit Beck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Poland. Birgit Beck's co-authors include Ewa Borowska, Hansruedi Siegrist, Elisabeth Salhi, Urs von Gunten, Christa S. McArdell, M. Boehler, Marc Bourgin, Dominik Martin‐Creuzburg, Heike M. Freese and Juliane Hollender and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Beck

21 papers receiving 753 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.

  1. Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products
    2017 424 citations Marc Bourgin, Birgit Beck et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birgit Beck Germany 10 396 277 268 147 86 22 767
Florence Bonvin Switzerland 8 401 1.0× 158 0.6× 243 0.9× 72 0.5× 67 0.8× 10 628
Séverine Le Faucheur Switzerland 15 465 1.2× 540 1.9× 141 0.5× 94 0.6× 100 1.2× 35 969
Raffaella Meffe Spain 14 612 1.5× 296 1.1× 179 0.7× 151 1.0× 76 0.9× 26 883
Khadija Aboulfadl Canada 11 532 1.3× 423 1.5× 433 1.6× 135 0.9× 68 0.8× 12 1.1k
Diana C. António Italy 8 737 1.9× 450 1.6× 254 0.9× 133 0.9× 129 1.5× 10 1.1k
Miriam Biel-Maeso Spain 11 606 1.5× 302 1.1× 138 0.5× 113 0.8× 69 0.8× 14 844
Vasiliki Tsarpali Greece 14 395 1.0× 397 1.4× 75 0.3× 134 0.9× 66 0.8× 18 907
Sirpa Herve Finland 16 325 0.8× 406 1.5× 117 0.4× 95 0.6× 78 0.9× 43 819
Wenlu Zhao China 13 456 1.2× 200 0.7× 94 0.4× 153 1.0× 64 0.7× 28 745

Countries citing papers authored by Birgit Beck

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Fields of papers citing papers by Birgit Beck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Birgit Beck. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Birgit Beck. The network helps show where Birgit Beck may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Beck

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Birgit Beck. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Birgit Beck based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Birgit Beck. Birgit Beck is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cecilia, Daniele la, et al.. (2024). Tracing pesticide dynamics: High resolution offers new insights to karst groundwater quality. Water Research. 267. 122412–122412. 9 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit. (2023). Paternalism and Liberty/Autonomy as Dialectically Related Concepts. 6(2). 223–237. 1 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit, et al.. (2022). Pesticide concentrations in agricultural storm drainage inlets of a small Swiss catchment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(29). 43966–43983. 15 indexed citations
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Schreiner, Verena C., Moritz Link, Eduard Szöcs, et al.. (2020). Paradise lost? Pesticide pollution in a European region with considerable amount of traditional agriculture. Water Research. 188. 116528–116528. 39 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit, et al.. (2020). Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility. University of Twente Research Information. 4 indexed citations
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Rösch, Andrea, Birgit Beck, Juliane Hollender, et al.. (2019). Geringe Konzentrationen mit grosser Wirkung. Nachweis von Pyrethroid- und Organophosphatinsektiziden in Schweizer Bächen im pg l -1 -Bereich. 54–66. 3 indexed citations
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Bourgin, Marc, Birgit Beck, M. Boehler, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products. Water Research. 129. 486–498. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nastold, Peter, et al.. (2015). Elucidation of biotransformation of diclofenac and 4′hydroxydiclofenac during biological wastewater treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 301. 443–452. 69 indexed citations
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Gergs, René, et al.. (2015). Compound‐specific δ 13 C analyses reveal sterol metabolic constraints in an aquatic invertebrate. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 29(19). 1789–1794. 10 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit. (2014). Conceptual and Practical Problems of Moral Enhancement. Bioethics. 29(4). 233–240. 24 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit. (2013). Ein neues Menschenbild?.
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Beck, Birgit, et al.. (2011). P‐66: Wet Chemical Metallization for High‐End Flat Panel Display Manufacturing. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 42(1). 1351–1354. 1 indexed citations
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Martin‐Creuzburg, Dominik, Birgit Beck, & Heike M. Freese. (2011). Food quality of heterotrophic bacteria for Daphnia magna: evidence for a limitation by sterols. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 76(3). 592–601. 72 indexed citations
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Koletzko, Berthold, et al.. (2002). Characterisation of Infant Food Modifications in the European Union. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 46(6). 231–242. 28 indexed citations
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Schramm, K.‐W., Akbar Behechti, Birgit Beck, & A. Kettrup. (1998). Influence of an Aquatic Humic Acid on the Bioconcentration of Selected Compounds inDaphnia magna. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 41(1). 73–76. 8 indexed citations
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Schramm, K.‐W., et al.. (1996). Acute toxicities of five nitromusk compounds in Daphnia, algae and photoluminescent bacteria. Water Research. 30(10). 2247–2250. 26 indexed citations
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Schmaus, Gerhard, Birgit Beck, G. Matuschek, & A. Kettrup. (1996). Thermolyse neuartiger Kunststoffe und ökotoxikologische Bewertung. Journal of thermal analysis. 47(2). 485–491. 2 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit. (1980). Europe. Farming in the EEC, Europe's green and expensive land.. 277(7157). 51–64. 1 indexed citations
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Beck, Birgit. (1961). Experimentelle Beitr�ge zur Kenntnis der metamikten Minerale der Euxenitgruppe. Die Naturwissenschaften. 48(1). 24–25. 1 indexed citations

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