Eckhard Worch

5.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Eckhard Worch is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Eckhard Worch has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Water Science and Technology, 21 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 18 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Eckhard Worch's work include Water Treatment and Disinfection (15 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (14 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers). Eckhard Worch is often cited by papers focused on Water Treatment and Disinfection (15 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (14 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers). Eckhard Worch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and Norway. Eckhard Worch's co-authors include Sascha Klein, Thomas P. Knepper, Hilmar Börnick, Viktor Schmalz, Thomas Dittmar, Mario Schaffer, Tobias Licha, Martin Jekel, Alexander Sperlich and Gary Amy and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Eckhard Worch

87 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in R... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2015 2012 2012 250 500 750
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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. Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in River Shore Sediments of the Rhine-Main Area in Germany
    2015 947 citations Eckhard Worch et al. profile →
  2. Adsorption Technology in Water Treatment
    2012 404 citations Eckhard Worch profile →
  3. Adsorption Technology in Water Treatment: Fundamentals, Processes, and Modeling
    2012 333 citations Eckhard Worch profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eckhard Worch Germany 28 1.8k 1.6k 1.4k 1.0k 548 89 4.2k
Michel Baudu France 39 1.5k 0.8× 2.4k 1.5× 967 0.7× 742 0.7× 661 1.2× 114 5.1k
Xueyuan Gu China 35 2.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 755 0.6× 772 0.8× 712 1.3× 115 4.6k
Lokesh P. Padhye New Zealand 37 1.7k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 757 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 914 1.7× 94 5.3k
Alicia Fernández Cirelli Argentina 29 962 0.5× 1.7k 1.1× 584 0.4× 796 0.8× 730 1.3× 141 4.0k
Amin Mojiri Japan 31 1.2k 0.7× 995 0.6× 868 0.6× 579 0.6× 355 0.6× 117 3.6k
Huilun Chen China 41 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 631 0.5× 937 0.9× 676 1.2× 157 4.8k
George A. Sorial United States 42 2.1k 1.1× 2.1k 1.4× 609 0.4× 2.0k 2.0× 494 0.9× 176 6.6k
Michael J. Angove Australia 35 901 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 711 0.5× 499 0.5× 475 0.9× 76 4.0k
Jean‐Claude Bollinger France 36 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 1.1× 596 0.4× 671 0.7× 1.1k 2.0× 137 4.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eckhard Worch

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schaffer, Mario, et al.. (2016). Sorption of organic cations onto silica surfaces over a wide concentration range of competing electrolytes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 484. 229–236. 12 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Mario, et al.. (2014). Sorption of the organic cation metoprolol on silica gel from its aqueous solution considering the competition of inorganic cations. Water Research. 54. 273–283. 25 indexed citations
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Wagner, Andrea, Brigitte Raue, Heinz‐Jürgen Brauch, Eckhard Worch, & Frank Thomas Lange. (2013). Determination of adsorbable organic fluorine from aqueous environmental samples by adsorption to polystyrene-divinylbenzene based activated carbon and combustion ion chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A. 1295. 82–89. 85 indexed citations
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Geipel, G., et al.. (2013). Investigation of uranium binding forms in selected German mineral waters. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 20(12). 8629–8635. 12 indexed citations
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Michel, Amandine, Heinz‐Jürgen Brauch, Eckhard Worch, & Frank Thomas Lange. (2012). Development of a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method for trace analysis of trisiloxane surfactants in the aqueous environment: An alternative strategy for quantification of ethoxylated surfactants. Journal of Chromatography A. 1245. 46–54. 20 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Mario, Hilmar Börnick, Karsten Nödler, Tobias Licha, & Eckhard Worch. (2012). Role of cation exchange processes on the sorption influenced transport of cationic β-blockers in aquifer sediments. Water Research. 46(17). 5472–5482. 74 indexed citations
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Börnick, Hilmar, et al.. (2009). Photoinitiated oxidation of geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol by irradiation with 254 nm and 185 nm UV light. Water Research. 43(8). 2224–2232. 130 indexed citations
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Sperlich, Alexander, et al.. (2005). Breakthrough behavior of granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) fixed-bed adsorption filters: modeling and experimental approaches. Water Research. 39(6). 1190–1198. 130 indexed citations
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Börnick, Hilmar, et al.. (2005). Sorption of phenols onto sandy aquifer material: the effect of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Water Research. 39(5). 933–941. 20 indexed citations
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Gun, Jenny, Alexander D. Modestov, Alexey Kamyshny, et al.. (2004). Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Aqueous Polysulfide Solutions. Electrochimica Acta. 146. 229–237. 1 indexed citations
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Worch, Eckhard. (2003). Modelling the solute transport under nonequilibrium conditions on the basis of mass transfer equations. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 68(1-2). 97–120. 50 indexed citations
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Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, et al.. (2003). Application of the mass transfer model for describing nonequilibrium transport of HOCs through natural geosorbents. Water Research. 37(19). 4673–4684. 14 indexed citations
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Börnick, Hilmar, Thomas Grischek, & Eckhard Worch. (2001). Determination of aromatic amines in surface waters and comparison of their behavior in HPLC and on sediment columns. Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 371(5). 607–613. 6 indexed citations
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Pietsch, Jörg, et al.. (1996). Determination of aliphatic and alicyclic amines in water by gas and liquid chromatography after derivatization by chloroformates. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 355(2). 164–173. 44 indexed citations
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Worch, Eckhard. (1989). Zur Modellierung der Adsorption von Mehrkomponentensystemen. Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica. 17(2). 207–216. 3 indexed citations
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Walther, H., et al.. (1985). Zur Elimination organischer Verbindungen durch Adsorberpolymere. Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica. 13(5). 567–581. 3 indexed citations
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