Damian E. Helbling

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
91 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Damian E. Helbling is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Damian E. Helbling has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 48 papers in Pollution and 37 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Damian E. Helbling's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (43 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (32 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (24 papers). Damian E. Helbling is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (43 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (32 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (24 papers). Damian E. Helbling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Damian E. Helbling's co-authors include William R. Dichtel, Yuhan Ling, Leilei Xiao, Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, Brian J. Smith, Kathrin Fenner, Max J. Klemes, Casey Ching, Hans‐Peter E. Kohler and David R. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Damian E. Helbling

87 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Rapid removal of organic micropollutants from water by a porous β-cyclodextrin polymer

2015 1.5k citations Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, Leilei Xiao et al. profile →
Removal of GenX and Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances from Water by Amine-Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks

2018 373 citations Leilei Xiao, Yuhan Ling et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
β-Cyclodextrin Polymer Network Sequesters Perfluorooctanoic Acid at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations

2017 336 citations Leilei Xiao, Yuhan Ling et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Communicating Confidence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Identification via High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

2022 158 citations Joseph A. Charbonnet, Trever Schwichtenberg et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Damian E. Helbling United States	45	2.3k	2.1k	1.9k	1.5k	1.5k	91	6.9k
Jun Yao China	45	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	849 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	988 0.7×	275	6.7k
Jian Xu China	55	2.7k 1.2×	4.3k 2.0×	749 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	267	10.5k
Timothy J. Strathmann United States	58	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	139	10.8k
Reyes Sierra‐Álvarez United States	52	2.5k 1.1×	3.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	232	8.7k
Qingguo Huang United States	56	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.5×	195	8.6k
Nan Xu China	42	1.4k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	825 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	211	7.4k
Weiling Sun China	43	1.2k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	615 0.3×	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	148	6.0k
Kyung‐Duk Zoh South Korea	47	2.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	855 0.4×	2.5k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	156	7.5k
Mingbao Feng China	53	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	5.1k 3.4×	2.3k 1.6×	172	10.1k
Titus A.M. Msagati South Africa	41	763 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	296	7.4k

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Lin, Zhi-Wei, Subeen Kim, Aaron I. Packman, et al.. (2025). A Macroporous Cyclodextrin Monolith for Continuous Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(37). 33761–33769. 2 indexed citations

Droz, Boris, Trever Schwichtenberg, Karl Oetjen, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Comprehensive Sets of Chemical Constituents as Markers of PFAS Sources through a Nontarget Screening and Machine Learning Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(42). 22852–22865.

Powell, S. M., Hoang The Ban, Dae Won Kim, et al.. (2025). Sorption and desorption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on unmodified iron oxide and silica clay minerals. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 28(1). 330–342.

Lin, Yishan, Tao Jiang, Corey M. G. Carpenter, et al.. (2024). Long-term impact of Hurricane Maria on point-of-use drinking water quality in Puerto Rico and associated potential adverse health effects. Water Research. 265. 122213–122213. 5 indexed citations

Helbling, Damian E., et al.. (2023). Exploring the Evolution of Organofluorine-Containing Compounds during Simulated Photolithography Experiments. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(34). 12819–12828. 9 indexed citations

Ching, Casey, Zhi-Wei Lin, William R. Dichtel, & Damian E. Helbling. (2023). Evaluating the Performance of Novel Cyclodextrin Polymer Granules to Remove Perfluoroalkyl Acids (PFAAs) from Water. ACS ES&T Engineering. 3(5). 661–670. 17 indexed citations

Carpenter, Corey M. G., et al.. (2022). Target and suspect screening for biocides in drinking water resources of Honduras. H2Open Journal. 5(1). 84–97. 2 indexed citations

Helbling, Damian E., et al.. (2022). Rapid and Simultaneous Quantification of Short- and Ultrashort-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Water and Wastewater. ACS ES&T Water. 3(1). 118–128. 31 indexed citations

Wang, Ri, Zhi-Wei Lin, Max J. Klemes, et al.. (2022). A Tunable Porous β-Cyclodextrin Polymer Platform to Understand and Improve Anionic PFAS Removal. ACS Central Science. 8(5). 663–669. 80 indexed citations

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Charbonnet, Joseph A., Alix E. Rodowa, Jennifer L. Guelfo, et al.. (2021). Environmental Source Tracking of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances within a Forensic Context: Current and Future Techniques. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(11). 7237–7245. 77 indexed citations

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Ching, Casey, et al.. (2021). Evaluation, optimization, and application of three independent suspect screening workflows for the characterization of PFASs in water. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 23(10). 1554–1565. 21 indexed citations

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Ling, Yuhan, Diego Alzate, Max J. Klemes, William R. Dichtel, & Damian E. Helbling. (2020). Evaluating the effects of water matrix constituents on micropollutant removal by activated carbon and β-cyclodextrin polymer adsorbents. Water Research. 173. 115551–115551. 47 indexed citations

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Lin, Yishan, Maria Sevillano, Tao Jiang, et al.. (2020). Impact of Hurricane Maria on Drinking Water Quality in Puerto Rico. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(15). 9495–9509. 36 indexed citations

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Zumstein, Michael, Jeffrey J. Werner, & Damian E. Helbling. (2020). Exploring the Specificity of Extracellular Wastewater Peptidases to Improve the Design of Sustainable Peptide-Based Antibiotics. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(18). 11201–11209. 11 indexed citations

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Gao, Han, Corey M. G. Carpenter, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2019). Exploring co-occurrence patterns between organic micropollutants and bacterial community structure in a mixed-use watershed. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 21(5). 867–880. 28 indexed citations

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Zumstein, Michael & Damian E. Helbling. (2019). Biotransformation of antibiotics: Exploring the activity of extracellular and intracellular enzymes derived from wastewater microbial communities. Water Research. 155. 115–123. 75 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Corey M. G., et al.. (2018). Fall Creek Monitoring Station: Highly Resolved Temporal Sampling to Prioritize the Identification of Nontarget Micropollutants in a Small Stream. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(1). 77–87. 54 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Corey M. G. & Damian E. Helbling. (2018). Widespread Micropollutant Monitoring in the Hudson River Estuary Reveals Spatiotemporal Micropollutant Clusters and Their Sources. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(11). 6187–6196. 99 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Corey M. G. & Damian E. Helbling. (2017). Removal of micropollutants in biofilters: Hydrodynamic effects on biofilm assembly and functioning. Water Research. 120. 211–221. 36 indexed citations

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Ling, Yuhan, Max J. Klemes, Leilei Xiao, et al.. (2017). Benchmarking Micropollutant Removal by Activated Carbon and Porous β-Cyclodextrin Polymers under Environmentally Relevant Scenarios. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(13). 7590–7598. 123 indexed citations

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