David L. Freedman

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

David L. Freedman is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David L. Freedman has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Pollution, 36 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David L. Freedman's work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (56 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (22 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (19 papers). David L. Freedman is often cited by papers focused on Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (56 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (22 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (19 papers). David L. Freedman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Portugal. David L. Freedman's co-authors include James M. Gossett, Matthew F. Verce, Anthony S. Danko, Ricky L. Ulrich, Cindy M. Lee, Daniel R. Noguera, Ronald W. Falta, Robin L. Brigmon, Lawrence C. Murdoch and Rong Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

David L. Freedman

88 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Biological reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene to ethylene under methanogenic conditions

1989 501 citations David L. Freedman et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David L. Freedman United States	30	1.6k	789	517	472	352	92	2.5k
Lewis Semprini United States	32	2.0k 1.3×	854 1.1×	1.2k 2.4×	694 1.5×	334 0.9×	115	3.4k
C.M. Kao Taiwan	30	987 0.6×	511 0.6×	501 1.0×	522 1.1×	322 0.9×	92	2.5k
C. H. Ward United States	27	1.3k 0.8×	751 1.0×	1.0k 2.0×	513 1.1×	318 0.9×	74	2.9k
John R. Parsons Netherlands	40	2.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.4×	265 0.5×	614 1.3×	322 0.9×	136	4.7k
A. K. Haritash India	24	2.3k 1.5×	1.5k 2.0×	532 1.0×	378 0.8×	423 1.2×	75	4.4k
John S. Zogorski United States	19	645 0.4×	755 1.0×	650 1.3×	431 0.9×	102 0.3×	66	2.4k
Paul J. Squillace United States	17	679 0.4×	582 0.7×	615 1.2×	351 0.7×	116 0.3×	33	2.1k
Wenxing Wang China	40	1.1k 0.7×	2.2k 2.8×	406 0.8×	371 0.8×	112 0.3×	203	4.5k
Peijun Li China	32	1.3k 0.8×	796 1.0×	123 0.2×	435 0.9×	169 0.5×	93	3.0k
Huan Liu China	31	853 0.5×	306 0.4×	340 0.7×	386 0.8×	280 0.8×	153	2.9k

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Ferrey, Mark L., et al.. (2025). Using a ¹⁴ C ‐Assay to Assess Natural Abiotic Degradation of Chlorinated Ethenes in Aquifer Sediments. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. 45(4). 113–123. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Rong, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Passive Vapor Diffusion Samplers to Quantify Acetylene, Ethene, and Ethane in Groundwater. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. 44(3). 94–105. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Rong, et al.. (2024). Use of carbon-14 labeled trichloroethene to assess degradation potential in rock core microcosms. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177540–177540. 2 indexed citations

Freedman, David L., et al.. (2023). Identification of Formate as a Principal Soluble Product from Propanotrophic Cometabolism of 1,4-Dioxane. Environmental Engineering Science. 40(11). 506–513. 1 indexed citations

Palau, Jordi, Rong Yu, Orfan Shouakar‐Stash, et al.. (2023). Dual C–Br Isotope Fractionation Indicates Distinct Reductive Dehalogenation Mechanisms of 1,2-Dibromoethane in Dehalococcoides- and Dehalogenimonas-Containing Cultures. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(5). 1949–1958. 12 indexed citations

Mack, E. Erin, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Strategies to Remediate Mixed Wastes at an Industrial Site in Brazil. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. 43(3). 93–107. 4 indexed citations

Yu, Rong, et al.. (2021). Anaerobic Biodegradation of Chloroform and Dichloromethane with a Dehalobacter Enrichment Culture. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(4). e0197021–e0197021. 23 indexed citations

Adamson, David T., et al.. (2021). Evaluation of natural attenuation of 1,4-dioxane in groundwater using a 14C assay. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 424(Pt C). 127540–127540. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaolu, Daekyun Kim, David L. Freedman, & Tanju Karanfil. (2020). Impact of biological wastewater treatment on the reactivity of N-Nitrosodimethylamine precursors. Water Research. 186. 116315–116315. 7 indexed citations

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Freedman, David L., et al.. (2018). Aerobic biodegradation kinetics for 1,4-dioxane under metabolic and cometabolic conditions. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 350. 180–188. 53 indexed citations

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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2013). Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethene Coupled to Sulfate Reduction in Microcosms and Enrichment Cultures. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(21). 12374–12381. 12 indexed citations

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Kurtz, Harry D., et al.. (2011). Aerobic cometabolism of trichloroethene and cis-dichloroethene with benzene and chlorinated benzenes as growth substrates. Chemosphere. 84(2). 247–253. 32 indexed citations

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Kurtz, Harry D., et al.. (2011). Use of γ-hexachlorocyclohexane as a terminal electron acceptor by an anaerobic enrichment culture. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 197. 204–210. 9 indexed citations

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Kurtz, Harry D., et al.. (2009). Evaluation of strategies for anaerobic bioremediation of high concentrations of halomethanes. Water Research. 44(5). 1317–1328. 10 indexed citations

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Freedman, David L., et al.. (2005). Reductive Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene Following Abiotic Versus Biotic Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium. Bioremediation Journal. 9(2). 87–97. 7 indexed citations

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Bzdusek, Philip A., et al.. (2005). PCB Congeners and Dechlorination in Sediments of Lake Hartwell, South Carolina, Determined from Cores Collected in 1987 and 1998. Environmental Science & Technology. 40(1). 109–119. 75 indexed citations

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Jones, William, Cindy M. Lee, Arthur W. Garrison, et al.. (2003). Changes in Enantiomeric Fractions during Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of PCB132, PCB149, and Aroclor 1254 in Lake Hartwell Sediment Microcosms. Environmental Science & Technology. 37(6). 1100–1107. 41 indexed citations

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Freedman, David L., et al.. (2002). Biotransformation of explosive-grade nitrocellulose under denitrifying and sulfidogenic conditions. Waste Management. 22(3). 283–292. 34 indexed citations

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Brigmon, Robin L., et al.. (1998). Natural Attenuation of Trichloroethylene in Rhizosphere Soils at the Savannah River Site. Journal of Soil Contamination. 7(4). 433–453. 29 indexed citations

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Freedman, David L.. (1991). Experience Building a Process Migration Subsystem for UNIX.. 349–356. 8 indexed citations

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