Christoph Ort

10.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Christoph Ort is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Toxicology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Ort has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Pollution, 29 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 26 papers in Toxicology. Recurrent topics in Christoph Ort's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (54 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (26 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (24 papers). Christoph Ort is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (54 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (26 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (24 papers). Christoph Ort collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and Spain. Christoph Ort's co-authors include Michael G. Lawrence, Jochen F. Mueller, Juliane Hollender, Hansruedi Siegrist, Jörg Rieckermann, Martin Krauß, Phong K. Thai, Foon Yin Lai, Urs von Gunten and Saskia Gisela Zimmermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Ort

107 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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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.

Elimination of Organic Micropollutants in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgraded with a Full-Scale Post-Ozonation Followed by Sand Filtration

2009 707 citations Christoph Ort, Heinz Singer et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis

2012 397 citations Kevin V. Thomas, Lubertus Bijlsma et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Ort

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Insights into respiratory illness at the population level through parallel analysis of pharmaceutical and viral markers in wastewater 2025 ·Nature Water ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Timothy R. Julian, Christoph Ort, Heinz Singer	1
2	Estimated transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants from wastewater are unbiased and robust to differential shedding 2025 ·Nature Communications ·David Dreifuss, Jana S. Huisman, Johannes C. Rusch, Lea Caduff, Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy, Alexander J. Devaux, (unknown), Tanja Stadler, Tamar Kohn, Christoph Ort, Niko Beerenwinkel, Timothy R. Julian	2
3	Relationship between antihistamine residues in wastewater and airborne pollen concentrations: Insights into population-scale pollinosis response 2025 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Bernard Clot, Benoît Crouzy, Peter Schmid‐Grendelmeier, Heinz Singer, Christoph Ort	1
4	A six-plex digital PCR assay for monitoring respiratory viruses in wastewater 2025 ·Nature Water ·Melissa Pitton, (unknown), Lea Caduff, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Seju Kang, (unknown), (unknown), L. Schneider, (unknown), (unknown), Timothy R. Julian, Christoph Ort	0
5	Influenza transmission dynamics quantified from RNA in wastewater in Switzerland 2024 ·Swiss Medical Weekly ·Sarah Nadeau, Alexander J. Devaux, Claudia Bagutti, Monica Alt, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Tschudin‐Sutter, (unknown), Christoph Ort, Chaoran Chen, Jana S. Huisman, Timothy R. Julian, Tanja Stadler	13
6	A key factor in monitoring cannabis consumption trends through wastewater analysis: Partitioning of THC COOH between the liquid and solid phase of influent wastewater 2024 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Daniel A. Burgard, Marina Celia Campos‐Mañas, (unknown), Félix Hernández, Christoph Ort, Tim Boogaerts, Noelia Salgueiro‐González, Sara Castiglioni, Frederic Béen, Pim de Voogt, Adrian Covaci, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Lubertus Bijlsma	3
7	Monitoring an Emergent Pathogen at Low Incidence in Wastewater Using qPCR: Mpox in Switzerland 2024 ·Food and Environmental Virology ·Timothy R. Julian, Alexander J. Devaux, (unknown), (unknown), Johannes C. Rusch, (unknown), Claudia Bagutti, Tanja Stadler, Tamar Kohn, Christoph Ort	2
8	Influent wastewater analysis to investigate emerging trends of new psychoactive substances use in Europe 2024 ·Water Research ·Noelia Salgueiro‐González, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, Tim Boogaerts, Adrian Covaci, Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, João Matias, Christoph Ort, Igor Bodı́k, Ester Heath, Katarzyna Styszko, Erik Emke, Félix Hernández, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Sara Castiglioni	17
9	Wastewater-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number of SARS-CoV-2 2022 ·Environmental Health Perspectives ·Jana S. Huisman, Jérémie Scire, Lea Caduff, Xavier Fernández-Cassi, Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy, (unknown), Andreas Scheidegger, Elyse Stachler, Alexandria B. Boehm, Bridgette Hughes, (unknown), Aaron Topol, Krista R. Wigginton, Marlene K. Wolfe, Tamar Kohn, Christoph Ort, Tanja Stadler, Timothy R. Julian	97
10	Modelling engineered nanomaterials in wet-weather discharges 2019 ·NanoImpact ·(unknown), Lena Mutzner, Christoph Ort, Rälf Kaegi, Fadri Gottschalk	7
11	Harnessing the Power of the Census: Characterizing Wastewater Treatment Plant Catchment Populations for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology 2019 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Benjamin J. Tscharke, Jake O’Brien, Christoph Ort, Sharon Grant, Cobus Gerber, Richard Bade, Phong K. Thai, Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller	72
12	How Urban Storm- and Wastewater Management Prepares for Emerging Opportunities and Threats: Digital Transformation, Ubiquitous Sensing, New Data Sources, and Beyond - A Horizon Scan 2019 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Frank Blumensaat, João P. Leitão, Christoph Ort, Jörg Rieckermann, Andreas Scheidegger, Peter A. Vanrolleghem, Kris Villez	40
13	Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009–2015) in South East Queensland, Australia 2016 ·QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) ·Foon Yin Lai, Jake O’Brien, Phong K. Thai, Wayne Hall, Gary Chan, Raimondo Bruno, Christoph Ort, Jeremy Prichard, Steve Carter, (unknown), K. Paul Kirkbride, Coral Gartner, Melissa Humphries, Jochen F. Mueller	1
14	Influence of Different Sewer Biofilms on Transformation Rates of Drugs 2016 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Ann‐Kathrin McCall, Andreas Scheidegger, Milena M. Madry, Andrea E. Steuer, David G. Weissbrodt, Peter A. Vanrolleghem, Thomas Kræmer, Eberhard Morgenroth, Christoph Ort	56
15	Critical review on the stability of illicit drugs in sewers and wastewater samples 2015 ·Water Research ·Ann‐Kathrin McCall, Richard Bade, Juliet Kinyua, Foon Yin Lai, Phong K. Thai, Adrian Covaci, Lubertus Bijlsma, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Christoph Ort	246
16	Challenges and opportunities in using wastewater analysis to measure drug use in a small prison facility 2014 ·Drug and Alcohol Review ·(unknown), Foon Yin Lai, Phong K. Thai, Christoph Ort, Raimondo Bruno, Wayne Hall, K. Paul Kirkbride, Jochen F. Mueller, Jeremy Prichard	34
17	Sewage Analyses as an Early Detection System for Diseases and Indicator of Various Public Health Aspects with a Focus on Illicit Drugs 2013 ·eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Christoph Ort, Caleb J. Banta‐Green, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, (unknown), Erik Emke, John K. Field, Coral Gartner, (unknown), Jeremy Prichard, Malcolm J. Reid, (unknown), Alexander L.N. van Nuijs	1
18	Dynamic substance flow analysis of rainfall-mobilized micropollutants 2012 ·DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) ·(unknown), Lena Mutzner, Christoph Ort	1
19	Measuring drug use patterns in Queensland through wastewater analysis 2012 ·Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks ·Jeremy Prichard, Foon Yin Lai, K. Paul Kirkbride, Raimondo Bruno, Christoph Ort, Steve Carter	17
20	Developing a Method for Site-Specific Wastewater Analysis: Implications for Prisons and Other Agencies with an Interest in Illicit Drug Use 2010 ·eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Jeremy Prichard, Christoph Ort, Raimondo Bruno, Coral Gartner, K. Paul Kirkbride, Wayne Hall, Foon Yin Lai, Steve Carter, Phong K. Thai, Jochen F. Mueller, (unknown)	3

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